The Haunted Places cases readers rated highest and believed most — the jury's all-time picks.
Dead malls are their own kind of haunted. Not the horror-movie kind, just the sad kind -- all that hope for the future frozen mid-sentence. …
165 Upvote · 66% of readers believe this story
Three of us do backcountry urbex, which mostly means we hunt down forgotten structures deep in public forest -- old fire lookouts, ranger sh…
160 Upvote · 67% of readers believe this story
County Road 6 runs nineteen miles between where I live and where I worked, and for most of that distance there is nothing but fields and a t…
158 Upvote · 67% of readers believe this story
There is a forgotten graveyard in the woods behind my hometown, and I only know about it because I got lost looking for a fishing spot as a …
152 Upvote · 67% of readers believe this story
The Ashford dye works has been dead since the early eighties, a huge brick carcass on the river with most of its windows gone. Urbex folks i…
147 Upvote · 66% of readers believe this story
The Blackpine Cutoff is a dirt road that runs six miles through thick forest and shaves a good twenty minutes off the highway route between …
143 Upvote · 67% of readers believe this story
The county let a small group of us into the old Ridgeway hospital before the demolition crews came. It had been shut since the nineties, and…
141 Upvote · 69% of readers believe this story
Miller Lane is a stub of dirt road that turns off the county highway and runs maybe half a mile straight back to a single abandoned farmhous…
138 Upvote · 68% of readers believe this story
The road I take home from my sister's place cuts through eleven miles of state forest, two lanes, no shoulder, pines pressing in on both sid…
134 Upvote · 68% of readers believe this story
The Hollow Pines loop is a trail I know the way you know a song. Four point two miles, one big climb, a footbridge over a creek, back to the…
129 Upvote · 69% of readers believe this story
