The Weirdest Small Towns In The United States
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ก.ค. 2023
- A post on Medium in May 2016 attempted to tackle a seemingly unanswerable question: what's the weirdest town in America? To do this, Lyman Stone used 20 different variables, including what percentage of each city's population was foreign-born, married, working, in the armed forces, etc. He then compared that data to national averages. What he found was that San Jose, CA, is the most bizarre town in the US. But though it may be demographically weird, San Jose doesn't hold a candle to these weird small towns in the United States.
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I remember growing up in Kansas City, one of the local radio stations would call Hell, Michigan in either the middle of summer or dead of winter to see if it was, in fact, hotter or colder than Hell that day
Thank you
I appreciate little slices of Life
Great short story 😊
Lemme guess...KY102 FM?
@@islandlivin808 yes!
I lived in KC Missouri. Never heard of place.
WELC9ME TO THE RED KINGDOM!
"Where did you go to college?"
"Damnation University."
"That must be in Hell?"
"Yes, Michigan."
Strangest thing about my hometown of Loomis CA is that its name has been changed over 3 times, and the man who founded it ran the entire town. He was everything from the post man to the train conductor haha
That’s awesome lol 😂
Didn’t know that, I live in Rocklin. Thanks for the info
@@strengthsignal awesome how much of a small world it is! Have a good day!
@@Luv_U_Maddie wow I live in loomis such a small town to see others on this not even big video talking about loomis
@@jaydenayers4129 it's awesome ain't it!?
I’ve once met someone from Hell Michigan. She joked that she was born in hell. Which is accurate
Unless she was born at home, she couldn't have been born there. There's no hospital in Hell, Michigan.
Now now... Hell Mi is actually a quite pleasant place... the rest of Southeast Mi on the otherhand IS pretty much hell.
0:01 Everyone should go on road trips, even just to see what else is in your country in person.
I'm 25 mins away from Centralia, Pennsylvania and i wanted to add that a few years back they covered the old route 61 highway with dirt. The town is still burning and you can find a natural fire vent at the bottom of the town.
Somebody asks you where are you from and you say from Hell...Michigan !
Natural fire vent? Sounds like a living hell town unfit for human or animal cohabitation !! 🥶 how did the state let them get away with the name for the town?? 🥶
That must be harrowing. The ground could give way during that process.
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It reminds me of the movie Nothing but trouble. I know it was based off that town but when I watched it as a kid Idk that.
Aww.... As a teen I got a postcard that said "Go to Hell! Michigan." All that was on the back was a cute drawing of a bunny and an address. It was one of my friends from summer camp! He'd opened his address book from the last day of camp, picked a random friend's address, and sent me a post card. We became pen pals, then best friends, and we'll be celebrating our 15th wedding anniversary this fall. Hell Michigan will always have a special place in my heart.
I can't explain how much I enjoy this. It's so freaking cool! Of course, it's on one of my favorite history channels ❤️
agreed, the Weird.... channels are the best, wish they would expand from just History and Food to other stuff
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I went to Centralia in college. It was quite an eerie experience.
Can't believe Centralia was mentioned, first no less! I lived in Scranton at the time the town was in the news and people having to leave. Just the idea it was burning was mind-blowing. Great video!
Whenever Hell gets an ice storm.
Hell has frozen over.
Every single year, Hell freezes over!!
I grew up in San Francisco, and one of my childhood memories was family trips to Colma at least once a month to visit all our dead relatives. We’d clean up headstones, put in fresh flowers, burn fake money (for spending in the afterlife), leave oranges on the headstones (for eating in the afterlife), and bow three times to honor our ancestors. Then we’d eat lunch at the nearby Taco Bell and then spend the afternoon at Serramonte shopping center. What a great childhood! 😂 I always thought it was odd that Colma was composed of mostly graves and never knew why, so thanks for the info!
@@frisconative94133, well, the residents can't complain about noisy neighbors! 🤣
Love this so much. There are some weird places here in Australian too, but so many rude and odd place names 😂
Wish you could do a piece on Australia’s ‘Big Things’.
Do you enjoy watching Bella fiori? She does true crime historical videos from Australia mainly.
@@DanielleSnyder No I haven’t, but will definitely take a look. Thanks 😊
@@vonkurtz8437 , perhaps one of the strangest towns, that is, if this video was actually an episode of strange towns that were all over the world, is that the town from your country that has a weird name, Coober Pedy, is almost all completely underground, and not because of its residents being weird and quirky, or because the place is a mining town, but because said mining town is also in the middle of a desert, and it also has triple digit (Fahrenheit) temperatures for quite a bit of the year.
I've visited one of Australia's "Big Things" - the World's Largest Rolling Pin in Wodonga, Vic. The big surprise, after entering the small restaurant by walking under the rolling pin, was finding out that PASTIES are a "thing" in Australia. I'm used to having to go to or near the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to get pasties, and I surely didn't expect to find them on the other side of the world, though of course their origins are British.
Hey! I have actually been to Hell and back! I have a friend who used to live there!
Thank you for this video! 😀💐
Whittier Alaska… *Sometimes you wanna go where everybody knows your name*
Thaaats Whittier
And your address
Touché
@@katroyal6309the moon
Monowi Nebraska:
"One is the loneliest number that you'll ever doooo" 🎶
We came across a small town in Southern Ohio in the early 80's called Mudville, population 11, Mayor was Ben Lemay. His place was the trailer on the hill under a big ole' oak tree...
Is that where the legendary baseball player, The Mighty Casey, played?
I went to Tangier, Virginia during my tenure in the Chesapeake Conservation Corps. The residents were very friendly. Mostly all descendants of the Pruitt and Crockett families
100 years ago, San Francisco dug up all their dead and sent the bodies to Colma, paved over the old cemeteries, and smashed the gravestones to use as paving stones. Also 100 years ago, San Francisco passed a law making it illegal to “practice necromancy” without a license.
…I want to know what happened.
My biological mother is buried in Colma-and grandparents as well.
@@sudcciv6443^
I have been to Hell, MI but I haven't been there since summer 2006. I like to visit weird places and Hell seemed pretty normal to me.
Try Accident, MD or Boring, OR. Both exist.
Yea it's not really even a town. It's just a couple themed restaurants and a shop on a country road. Nice little spot but not anything that remarkable. The Potowatomi trail that encircles Hell is worth the visit though.
@@gnarstypow There was a lot of people when I went there but that was on 6/6/06. I got a shirt because I couldn't miss that opportunity.
If Hell seems normal, you'll probably get through life just fine.
Visit Accident, MD; Toad Suck, AR; and Normal, IL.
There was one in Pasadena MD that had a town for just little ppl. Small houses included. I was really hoping you were going to cover that 😂😂
I'd heard that the actor who played Tattoo on the original Fantastic (sic) Island wanted to help little people by making an apartment building designed especially For little people like himself. I'd heard he even was going to make sure his tenants never had to pay for rent if they couldn't because he Knew how hard life can be sometimes for little people.
...it was gonna be called *Stay Free Mini-Pads!!*
Yep. I'm going STRAIGHT to Hell for That one.
🤣🤣🤣@@hereticpariah6_66
Was not expecting the punch line
I used to live in the Dirty Dena and I didn't even know that.
30 years in the dena and this is the first im hearing of it. are you sure ??? any other info ? i thought the only cool thing we had was the Wishing rock, maybe Dobbins island.
@@KevinWindsor1971 low key i dont think it's true. im pretty in tune with the history and have never heard of this
I lived in Michigan my entire life. Only place in the world where you can go to Hell in the morning and Paradise in the afternoon. 😂
I like the sound of the “Mid Atlantic” accent. Something strangely soothing in that old timey sound. Where I live, we are considered neutral or accent-less in my state. We don’t have the stereotypical twang
Where do you live, No Twang? 😁
I don’t have an accent, but my brother does. People can never guess where I’m from. -Virginia Beach
@0:14 I love the show Twin Peaks! (David Lynch responded to me three times on Facebook also).
When we went on that Pacific Northwest Road Trip, we stopped by the towns the show was filmed and also at the cafe of the series.
It was called the Twede's cafe, and I had a Twin Peak's meal (cherry pie and coffee).
Fun fact. Naalehu, Hawaii (Big Island) is the most southern town in the US. Hawaii in fact is the most southern state in the US. 🤙🏽
I grew up in the Imperial Valley-home of SLAB CITY! Its population "grows"to over 2,000 in the winter when the "snowbirds" overrun the place for the winter! Nice to see place from my "home region" on this list!
Awww im from the imperial valley too! ❤
Any good climbing around there?
@@Nuttyirishman85 Besides "Salvation Mountain", no.
@@Juicy_shydoll Which par
@@sudcciv6443 looks like some good climbing off 20th street.
PERFECT!!!!!! Awesome narrator and ... fun!!!
Now I can't get 'Holiday Road' out of my head.
There's also a little town on the Outer Banks called Duck, NC, that has miles of beachfront but if you want to stay there, you have to rent a house or cottage (no hotels, apparently).
A+ video!
Awesome topic, and great ideas for places to travel to!
@5:26 The same roommate that went to the Pacific Northwest Road Trip with me also was really into Into The Wild.
He read the book, watched the film, and listened to the soundtrack all the time.
He also was inspired to try to bicycle across the state of Nebraska after that.
great video!
Agree
Love this video!😊
Im in the UK and i live about 15 minutes from a village called Shitterton, and yes it is pronounced
💩 er ton 🤣🤣🤣
I love being from Michigan, because we are the only citizens of the United States, who can get away with telling someone to go to H__l, and not be swearing
You are a 🐐for the Sabonis reference. Didn’t know you watched hoops🙌🏽 I love the channel even more now.
0:01 "On The Road" by Jack Kerouac is my favorite road trip book, it is such a classic.
It was in Modern Library's 1998 list of The 100 Best English-language novels of the 20th Century.
It was also chosen as Time Magazine's "100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005." (wikipedia).
Sabula Iowa is an island in the middle of the Mississippi River. Prior to the building of the locks and dams in the upper Mississippi River it was a part of Jackson County Iowa but with the locks and dams it became an island that is accessible by a causeway and a bridge between there and the rest of Iowa.
Better yet, Carter Lake IA is on the other side of the Missouri River, surrounded by Omaha - on land.
I'm from Hazleton, Pennsylvania, the town with the highest altitude in the state. Keychains inscribed with "Hazleton, the Highest City" are a popular souvenirs. Further south, in the Amish Country, there are two neighboring villages called Intercourse and Bird in Hand. They are perfectly charming villages, but it costs the state a lot of money to keep replacing the highway direction signs as they get stolen.
I’ve been near Intercourse, Pa. but I’ve never gone… as it were, all the way there.
There is a Hazleton, Wyoming. High up in the Big Horn mountains.
Intercourse and Bird in Hand aren't far from Blue Ball, either - and there's some great food down there.
I always assumed that Bradford was the highest-up town in Pennsylvania, because they often have the coldest temperatures.
@0:21 The Weird History video "Living in Slab City" was awesome!
You mentioned three weird towns in Florida but forgot Cassadaga, the "Psychic Capital of the World" missed opportunity
Vernon aka Nub City
@2:34 I look forward to the video store making a comeback, it is such a great experience!
That was a very strong tradition of the 80s and 90s.
0:14 That would be a great place to hang out!
It reminds me when we used to hang out in abandoned buildings for fun.
This is really good 👍
I use to travel to Gibsonton,Fl every year back in the 2000’s for the annual amusement convention where we would pick out a new ride food trailer or a game trailer for the carnival I worked for, for over 10 yrs.
Now I’m about an hour and a half west from Slab City and it definitely has changed since the 90’s when my folks use to take us to Salton Sea/Salton City. Salvation Mountain was where we would drop off used paint cans for the guy & his massive project.
I live 55.7 miles away from Hell Michigan
I'm saving this video so I can add the places to my bucket list!
Eating ANOTHER Weird History meal!
This time eating HAMBURGER HELPER LASAGNA (from the Weird History Food video "The White-Gloved History of Hamburger Helper") with parmesan cheese and cafe con leche...while watching this Weird History video!
Have it ever freeze over ?
Every year. It's Michigan.
such a fun channel . love the voice
I can confirm that Hell does freeze over every winter.
I live about 40 minutes away from Casey, IL. Such a fun place to visit!!!
0:12 Much of this video reminds me of the new-age classic book "Another Roadside Attraction" by Tom Robbins.
We read that (and two other Tom Robbins books) for my Introduction to Fiction class in college at Doane University.
About ten years after that, Tom Robbins came Doane and gave a presentation that was open to alumni, it was awesome.
Wyoming Hunters are often open to opportunities to expand there Horizons. 🎤
7:05 Damn...U...university! What a concept! It truly has a highway to the town too!
I have two "fake university" t-shirts. The other is from Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories. Three guesses what the abridged name for the "university" is. (BIG FAT HINT: The town is often shortened to one syllable.) First two guesses don't count. (I also have the Damn U sweatshirt!)
Shucks. We didn't make the list. Truth or Consequences, NM. How many towns would change their extremely pleasant and completely accurate name of Hot Springs to the name of a 1950's game show in order to get on TV? I wish they would have left it alone, personally. T or C is how we call it. Can even address mail to T or C.
I like turtles
Climax , MI has a nice way to bid goodbye to visitors. Signs on the edge of town say "Thanks for visiting, come again"
@1:12 The people in Centralia probably love Billy Joel's song "We Didn't Start The Fire."
The weirdest thing about my hometown is that although we are the largest city in our state, there are still out-of-towners who think we don't wear shoes.
What city?
I'm from Pittsburgh and what you're describing sounds like what my NYC friends think of me
@@FryJonesOh goodness. Haha My upstate NY relatives are part of this group as well. 😂 I have never been to Pittsburgh but I'm sure it's just as silly to say about your city.
@@marcoabreo6506Louisville
Where are you no shoes? ☺️
I can't believe you didn't mention Santa Claus Indiana, where every day is Christmas.
Or Christmas Florida where people mail their packages to get the postmark.
@2:45 Nick Johnson, from the TH-cam channel Nick Johnson, goes to places and analyzes them.
He went to Monowi, Nebraska for part of a Nebraska trip and hung out there.
Beautiful scenery and forest❤😊
Arkham, Mass. Strange happenings at the local University are always an excellent diversion.
"try that in a small town" is going through my mind as I watch
That’s 100% why he posted this
Smh
Try WHAT exactly, in a small town?
I don’t even like country but that’s a good song. Sends exactly the right message.
@@twiztid79listen to the song, it explains very clearly what you shouldn't try to do and the consequences of said actions if you do try.
My hometown was originally named Deer Lick, MI, later changed after 5 years during the mid 19th century. Thankfully!
Our county in Ohio is Licking. Next city over is Blacklick. Deer tongues. That's what all the licking is about. 😂
In April 2020, amidst the early part of the pandemic, the property's current owners (only 5 residents as of 2020) in Centralia made the decision to cover over the graffiti highway section of old Route 61. Several mounds of dirt were laid over the area, thus ending a decades-long fascination with the desolate stretch of road.
They wanted no tourist intrusion during the lockdown.
Lock down to stay away from each other... go where no one's at. Makes sense.
I just don't get why they still want to live in a city that's literally on fire 🔥
I live near Centralia. The road was covered because of ATV traffic. They were having parties & littering .
@8:34 An Appalachian Trail journey is a classic trip, I would love to go there and do that!
Season 4 of Timeline when?
It’s a tourist town, but Uranus, Missouri is pretty weird.
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There should be a HAZ-MAT gear tour of Centralia, PA.
I'm like a few hours outside of Hell, Michigan and its funny seeing all the articles about a town that is not that big
Been to Hell, Michigan as well as Hollywood Fl, Paris, Nevada, and Texas, Kentucky. Missed Intercourse, Pa.
I hope everyone reading this comment has a stellar day! ❤ you deserve it ❤
So do you! How sweet of you to think of others and brighten our day! ❤
It's night in India as I'm reading this but thanks for this kind message. Much appreciated 🙏
Same to you! 🌝
0:20 idk if i wanna say "Jesus come on my body"...
A Sabonis reference 😂 I am dying hahahaha
I live near Hell, Grand Cayman. Mostly unremarkable.
This was so great. I love miscellaneous information 😂
Hell, Michigan is actually really tiny. My father in law performs there almost daily and their annual hearse fest is really fun.
The towns are spectacular wonderful places to visit. My great information for today. Have a great fabulous wonderful day.
Really there’s still VHS stores ,unbelievable
My eldest daughter got married here last year on Friday the 13th. She has a fascination with the macabre.
@0:20 Candyland was inducted in the Toy Hall of Fame in 2005, that's a very cool game!
You should do
Uranus, MO
Tangier is an amazing place to visit. Catch the ferry in Onancock, VA.
PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE! GIVE US AN UPDATE ON SEASON 4 OF THE TIMELINE SERIES!
@2:02 That would be such a unique experience!
Talk about an awesome guest roommate experience, I would love to live with someone that lives there!
Well, this is something. Interesting topic.
A few years ago I bicycled from here in Minneapolis to the bustling town of Tightwad, MO (population 63....maybe). Nice people.
My hometown has squirrel statues everywhere because of all the squirrels in the area - I heard it was because of an experiment at a local college gone wrong, the squirrel subjects broke out and multiplied - now Olean is "Squirrel City"
And Brevard NC is home to white squirrels. I wasn't lucky enough to see any when I visited there, but I understand that is the dominant population there.
Come to Chapmanville, WV sometime. Everyone claims to be Christian, but they're actually all witches behind closed doors.
IDK WHICH TOWN, BUT FINALLY, A GREAT VIDEO! DO ONE ON THE TRUE WEIRD HISTORY OF THE NEPHILIM.
Very cool to see somewhere near me that I've been to made this list
The Mine Fire is burning east of Centralia now and is heading for Big Mine Run and Girardville (aka Gun Town). I live in Aristes, PA, and grew up here. St. Ignatius' Cemetery sits on solid bedrock.
When I was younger, I was homeless in the bay area, and I used to sleep in the cemetery in Colma. One night I woke up to someone saying "Police!" It was 2 cops and after they wanted to see if I was okay, the one cop was like you have to move and can't sleep here and he was like I wouldn't want to be sleeping in a cemetery at 3 in the morning. Go somewhere less spooky please. I wasn't spooked 😂
I was homeless for a while myself and honestly a cemetery seems like a good, quiet place to sleep where you wouldn't have to worry about anyone messing with you because who is going in a cemetery overnight? 🤷
A video on creepy small towns in America profiled a town called Auburn, West Virginia. The place looks creepy as hell.
My hometown has the first recorded case of spontaneous human combustion in the US. Portsmouth RI
My hometown which is placed in Tx, 30mins outside of Fort Worth. The town of Roanoke is known for being a one light town and having the most diversity of foods for a small town.
You totally missed Vernon Florida, aka Nub City. It deserves its own episode.
Not to mention the barely single lane train tunnel you have to drive through on a schedule and if you in town after that last scheduled drive through, you stuck in town until morning.
I live just a few miles from Hell, which is in beautiful rural Michigan. Anytime one of my friends visit, we spend a few hours in Hell. I like to say that I take my friends to Hell and back!
Oh, and every winter… Hell freezes over! 😂
Hell, Michigan is also a popular place for people to send their divorce papers from, the only store is also the post office. Tiny town, blink and you miss it.