My mess ups: 9:40 - I meant Fear of the Walking Dead being set in Texas not The Walking Dead. Sorry to the other Deadheads. 12:40 - I said School Spirits was set in Washington but I meant the Midnight Club. This data was correct in my spreadsheet so the percentages are alright, I just got a bit mixed up in the filming process. If you want to see the spreadsheet for yourself can find it on my patreon: www.patreon.com/kendragaylord
Someone just needs to license the Old Gods of Appalachia podcast and that's a sick supernatural interconnected anthology show featuring multiple states in the region right there!
I’ve been noticing increased appearance of Appalachian lore and culture in supernatural/spooky media topics and non-spooky topics. I think Appalachia is an American cultural goldmine that has barely been tapped into but I predict that will not be for long.
I live in one of the other countries in the world with states besides the US and now I'm trying to figure out which one is the scariest state in my country.
right? im surprised that the handling of racism in the vampire diaries got a shoutout but not what the writers of amc's interview with the vampire did to try, yknow, not making their protagonist a slave owner. and season one is partially set in new orleans!
Before Vampire Diaries there was Twilight. And before Twilight there was Interview with a Vampire (Edit: I think that I'm right about the film releases but BOY was I wrong about the book releases. Especially between Twilight and Vampire Diaries).
Genuinely shocked there isn't more spooky stuff being set in Savannah, GA. The tourism there is so big on ghosties and the buldings and neighborhoods are so perfect... with that spanish moss dangling everwhere from all the big trees and all those squares with old ass statues... plus the whole spooky old river street. Yeah, underutilized for sure.
I walked through a cemetery there in the middle of the day (it wasn’t my choice) and it was very eerie… not an evil or bad feeling but it felt like I wasn’t alone, like it felt alive
I was just about to comment this, I live 30 minutes away from Downtown Savannah and I agree 100% that Savannah would be the perfect location for a scary movie or series. And we have so many talented SCAD alumni studying film, I'm surprised they don't choose this as their location for their works after they graduate. All we have is Midnight in the garden of good and evil with the voodoo lady Minerva in the Bonaventure Cemetery for spooky vibes. 👻
Another big influence around Massachusetts is HP Lovecraft, while his stories were largely across the New England area, his extended universe has Arkham City in Massachusetts, which plays a fairly central role in a number of stories.
Texas, Tennessee, and Florida are so underrepresented in fictional horror but we lead the nation in actual horror. I can say this because I’ve lived in two of the three.
EXACTLY! like come on, the oldest and one of the most haunted cities in america is in freaking florida. the Appalachia's are right there for tennessee and everyone knows how much urban legands stem from that mountain range. and texas has a rich history, sure its big but it gives ALOT more potential than a random small town in cali.
If you want some sweet sweet Floridian horror, Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer is a great read! It's a cosmic horror that's technically set in the fictional "Area X", but... it's Florida. Vandermeer lives in FL, and you can tell he really loves it. It's a wonderful reading experience
@@ArchegoneFor movie watchers: there is a film adaptation. I've never read the book so I can't compare but I loved the movie as a person who at the time did not like movies with horror. Lots of great surreal imagery and philosophy and cosmic horror.
@@TimothyRedburn Weve also got the most serial killers per capita (last I checked) so we got that going for us I guess lol. Some of the stories my parents tell, like how my Dad pleaded with my Mom not to go out at night alone during the worst of The Green River Killer murders is pretty spooky.
It's always interesting that more horror series aren't set in Appalachia. These are some of the oldest mountains in the world (literally older than trees). That's ripe with horror potential.
Especially because of the history of supposed skinwalker sitings. I believe the mothman is also close to the Appalachias too but I amy be wrong. In my part of the Appalachias, we also used to have mountain lions, one of which was rumored to be a child-eater, and that partially led to them to being hunted down but a few still remain. Oh, and then there's the history of Union soldiers being murdered throughout various parts of the Virginian Appalachians and their bodies being hidden in unmarked graves, so that has the makings of a cool horror series too.
@EllaLuve Mothman is in the heart of Appalachia. Also yes, the mountain lions are wild and their vocalizations sound like women screaming - great source material for a bunch of folk to start worrying about something more sinister.
as a lifelong mainer, maine is honestly super spooky. we have the 4th most miles of coastline in the us, we're the most densely wooded state, & there's a portion of the state literally called the Hundred Mile Wilderness, so honestly..... it makes sense stephen king felt kinda freaked. would like to see other spooky coastal stuff though, a la The Lighthouse so we can maintain our spooky streak
I appreciate your parameters to ensure that you didn't die during this project. However, I'm really interested in the most haunted state based solely on the shows where they travel a lot. I feel like x-files alone would be fun to dissect. I know what I'm doing the next time I have a spare 3 weeks.
I have been watching X-Files and that would be so interesting! I wouldn't be surprised if someone on a fan site somewhere has already pulled this data.
I get why it didn't happen here, but my first thought for a solution to the travel show issue was to weigh it by the percent of the show (by episode count, not minutes, im not a complete madman) that takes place in that state
The Appalachian Mountains at the border of Tennessee and North Carolina, where I grew up, have a lot of horror storytelling potential. Surprisingly, so does Ohio, especially the rust belt cities like Cleveland (which has the highest number of serial killers per capita in the United States), and Youngstown.
It seems to me that, in addition to largely avoiding the issue of slavery in the south, there is not much want to deal with what that time period means for the Midwest as shown. Dealing with the indigenous genocide, and the Chinese exclusion act, is not something most big studios want to bring attention to. Not to mention, The Railways! I personally would love to see something where the ghosts of railroad workers who who were killed for striking while building the railway, get to haunt the beejeezius out of some railroad barons.
Strongly agreed! Also, not a show, but if you'd like to read an excellent short story that uses the systemic violence of U.S. railway history as a scaffolding element for some of its supernatural themes in a really thoughtful way, look up "The Tomato Thief" by Ursula Vernon. It's got train gods whose priests are descended from laborers whose blood and sweat fell on the tracks when they were built.
Woah...you combined two of my favorite interests (hyperfixations), United States' map and data statistics, and Supernatural TV. The creature inside of me is bouncing off the walls in joy.
I will never get enough of your little quips that make me chuckle. thank you Kendra, you're just a gem. I also find it necessary to tell you that I recently went on a road trip with my 5yo cousin, during which I discovered just how much she likes water towers. I discovered this by getting my eardrums blown out every. single. time she saw a "WATER TOWER!!!" Do you have any idea how many water towers are in rural Texas? yeah, please pray for my ears.
This is the work break video I didn’t know I needed. Spreadsheets, Sims references, we got it all. “What We Do in the Shadows” taking the approach of vampires being immigrants from older countries is totally a workable premise. If US history isn’t enough, characters could settle anywhere and bring their own baggage. But I’m sure there’s plenty to dig into for all these underrepresented states.
I know this video wasn't about Lockwood & Co., but wanted to say I was so disappointed when it got cancelled. I'm British/English and thought it presented a ghost-based post-apocalyptic UK that seemed to make complete sense... There were just so many good things about it. We can't have nice things, can we?!
I think about Lockwood & Co all the time. The setting it created just got me thinking about what a world with ghosts might look like. Would it increase social services because you want less people to be suffering during their life and death, reducing their likelihood to haunt. I was so invested in the world it created. And then it was gone :(
@@kendragaylord your point is interesting as in the book series Stroud notes the poverty caused by The Problem and makes insightful commentary on the economics of his world, in particular the harm caused to working class children. SPOILER FOR THE BOOKS The later volumes also dig into the ability of the rich to exploit a national disaster to increase power and wealth. I know this video isn't about books at all but your comment on economics triggered my fascination with the money and politics of that works 😅
@@kendragaylord I don't think it would increase social services. The economic devastation caused by onset of the Problem would kill trust in the government. The public expense of setting up public-sphere defenses against Visitors would be extremely unpopular (especially since people can evade the worst of the danger by simply staying at home overnight), and I think most people would favor privatization of the anti-Ghost industry instead, preferring to contract out to private businesses the matter of keeping their own homes safe. It would reflect the backlash against LBJ's Great Society programs amidst the social crisis of the 1970s, and which in our history led to the mass-privatization and gutting of government welfare programs. Many people would engage in victim-blaming and rail against the prospect of paying for defenses for the homeless and poor. I suspect Stroud is pretty on the money in expecting a Gilded-Age style of socioeconomic transformation, at least in Britain. While some countries with high social cohesion and less affected economies might be able to muster the will to carry social welfare programs through the storm, the economic crisis would probably in most countries lead to the hollowing out and privatization of public institutions except the band-aid ones like law-enforcement and prisons. Due to the risks of sharing walls with potential ghosts, people would probably be even more against public housing projects, leading to defunding and even worse exodus to single-family households resembling White Flight in America and the sale and deterioration of Britain's Council Housing in the seventies and eighties. I personally agree with the scholars Kemeny and Castle that support for social spending is generally (with some exceptions) linked to the prevalence of homeownership, so I think this flight to single-family forms of tenure would just turbocharge the privatization process already underway from the other causes mentioned. As for the matter of child Agents, I think this too would be generally pushed into the private sphere, albeit with substantial governmental subsidies and legislation protecting agencies from lawsuits provided certain regulations be followed. It would be electoral suicide for politicians to assume responsibility for *children* employed as Agents, and they would be all too happy to offload that moral expense to private enterprises like Fittes, Rotwell, Tendy's, Bunchurch, and Lockwood & Co. That said, I do not believe that Agents would be treated as expendable in Stroud's world, since they require considerable training, Talent, and constitution for the job, and companies competing for talent would try to avoid the bad publicity from losing children much. The real economic exploitation within the ghost-fighting industry in the books takes place among the Night Watch, who hail from the lowest rungs of society and don't have the leverage to get better conditions, hence their minimal armament and training. With the economic crisis brought on by the Problem, there would be plenty of recruits and desperate families for that high-risk low-income job.
it was the first show in a while i genuinely liked and was willing to spend hours upon hours on. the last one was anne with an e, you can probably guess how that one ended 😃
As the director of an archive, I was very satisfied with this video. Also? As a Kentuckian, I want a horror show set here! 😂😂 As always, you did such an awesome job with this video.
i literally live in nebraska and hearing you namedrop it for a potential horror destination literally caught me so off guard. i WILL make it terrifying if it's the only thing i ever do. king already got me started with children of the corn
I immediately thought of Children of the Corn too. I lived for a time in western Nebraska. It would be a great setting for a supernatural / horror story. Limestone buttes like Scotts Bluff looming above windblown prairies, the mazes of deep, mysterious gullies in the Badlands, ghost stories of pioneers who died along the Oregon Trail, the Sand Hills, creepy abandoned farmhouses.... I think it's tailor made for the genre!
I was a mormon missionary in Scottsdale AZ and when I was in Cave Creek Stephanie Meyer was the young womans president. She told us about how her parents had a vacation home in Washinton and that she was inspired by her trips to move Bella to Washington. She based Bella on herself during her teen years. She was pretty cool and really beautiful.
Wait, I had read that she had never been to Washington before reading the first book. I am so curious which is real! This is very interesting tea, thank you!
@kendragaylord That's interesting, her brother told me the same thing about visiting Washington when they were young. When the last movie came out, she invited the entire church to Phoenix to have a private red carpet-premiere. The invitations were the last book that was cut into to make it into a box where she put the invitations inside. A few members showed them to me when I visited them. Her brother is still my FB friend, I can message him about it.
@@oreotookie From what I know they didn't have their house in Forks and she just picked that location. It's like how she's from Cave Creek AZ where as Bella is from Phoenix.
@@ZayaMillisyeah, even the western half of WA is big; and with having to navigate around the Puget Sound, it’s not like “oh, we’ll just hop over from Olympia to Sequim today.” There’s a surprising amount of wilderness area but the urban zones are really congested, too. You can live your entire life there and only know about the certain iconic locations by reputation (and Forks had a certain reputation before Twilight-most teens from there couldn’t wait to get out of it. 😂)
this was genuinely, facinatingly clever. every single line, direction of thought felt hand picked for this absurdist yet still grounded journey you took me on. one of the smartest videos i think i've seen on the platform!
Lockwood and Co. is such a fun book series. And the show was actually a pretty good adaptation l was so sad it didn't get to continue. Also, this is absolutely my favourite comfort channel. Thank you!
I’m having a terrible migraine day and YT recommended this video to me. What a lifesaver. Perfect content, delivered in a way that was entertaining, and with a soothing voice. Thank you. This was medicine today.
I misread the title and thought it was a deep dive of Supernatural's houses architecture. Would also love to see that. Thanks for sharing your video with us!
as someone who loves obsessively categorizing media and horror, making a spreadsheet for something like this is something i have absolutely thought about, and im delighted that this landed in my yt recommended. really good
Had this video in my recommended and clicked on it bc I watched Supernatural 5x in a row and woah. Great video and also, you have the most soothing voice.
Holy crap first video if yours I’ve seen and I feel like I just met a potential new best friend! Yaaaaay! Of Nancy Pearl’s four doorways to literature “sense of place” or the setting, is my favorite. Washington State is nice and spooky. I love it. Having a big film industry next door doesn’t hurt though! I noticed a lot of Xfiles is filmed in the PNW, plus Once Upon a Time, and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Practical Magic… lots of shows/movies that are set in New England
Mainer here - It’s also worth pointing out that in addition to having Stephen King, Maine also is the most forested state in the nation (almost 90% of the state is forest). With the amount of dark forests and odd noises you hear outside at night, it’s no wonder Maine’s environment has inspired so many works of horror. Loved your video!
The other reason Washington/PNW is a popular setting for supernatural horror is because the region is rich with its own mythology, intermingled with a lot of native mythology and mythologies brought from other cultures(Mexican and Norwegian as examples), heck we even have national parks named after Bigfoot encounters! It runs deep and dark, like our forests
Long time horror head here - don't feel like Teen Wolf is a lesser gateway to our favourite genre. Remember, as kids, we saw things that scared us, but we were attracted to it. For me, it was pictures of monsters from mythology in books and the evil queen turning into a big black dragon in Cinderella with green flames and shit. 🤣 This was really cool, thank you for making it.
I get so excited when you post a new video! You really have a knack for choosing unique topics and as a fellow Washingtonian, I appreciate the PNW shout-outs!
I think we really need to see more fantasy-horror shows & films that deal with America's past. With slavery and colonial period and also with the pre-colonial period and with the indigenous side of things. There IS a lot of rich history, culture, and mythology in this land, but for so long it has been relegated to the offensive "Indian burial ground" trope and other stereotypes. What about the Iroquois confederacy or the Anishinaabe Council Fires or the Mississippian Civilization, what about the Ancestral Puebloans and the Salish peoples? Basque whalers in Newfoundland in the 1500s, Spanish colonial Texas, the Métis people. There is so much to explore
I absolutely adore the content on this channel. I cannot quite put into words what the theme or connecting interests are but from your architectural videos to the history ones to this, it’s just all so lovely. You are lovey my dear. ❤❤❤ Don’t stop.
Awesome video! It'd be cool to see a sequel to this where you compare those urban legends books they put out for each state and rank them based on # of creatures, level absurdity, most haunted, etc.
This is so rad. It wasn’t mentioned but I feel like a lotta stuff is set in Pennsylvania for a mix of the same reasons as Maine (people from there) and Massachusetts (Lotta history) plus there’s mountains and remote towns and big cities etc. If I had to guess is it top 10??
WA-native here, "crushing it in the supernatural-show department," ha! You said, Kendra! WA crushes it. Crushed by lowering clouds, rising damp. We could try to blame Ted Bundy, the Green River Killer, or even David Lynch, but never forget Kolchak.
This video made me unreasonably happy as a supernatural TV fan who was a teenager in the 00s. We were primed for this content. Delighted that you too are a Teen Wolf girlie! That show gave me so much life just when I needed it - and their worldbuilding was pretty good too.
Texas does have a ton of supernatural books, though many are on the romance side of things. There's soooo many writers who've waxed poetic about a state with enough sun to wipe out all trace of romantic spookiness. Our spookiness is all twisted mesquite, scorching blue skies along endless roads and the curious charged heaviness of high humidity, among like fifty other climate phenomenons.
I’m glad you acknowledged the quaint roots of a lot of people’s introduction to horror and how that’s nothing to be ashamed of. Many people my age and younger’s intro to horror is stuff like Five Nights at Freddy’s and Minecraft or Roblox horror maps
I love tma (the Magnus archives) it's a British podcast ugh it's so good because all the horror stuff I watch going up has been the kid friendly stuff so listing to a podcast had help me
i loved this so much, but what sent me over the edge to sub to you, was throwing in the names of the occult sims pack worlds, because i've BEEN saying that moonwood mill is the mostest perfectest name for a town with werewolves, and i'm still astonished that the sims team came up with it, and i love that you added that reference
I'm disappointed that New Jersey didn't get mentioned, mostly because I lived there for 20 years. Now that I think about it, I don't remember much from the supernatural genre being set there, except for Friday the 13th and a couple of X-Files episodes. But while living there, I greatly enjoyed *Weird NJ,* a wonderful magazine dedicated to creepy NJ folklore, of which there turns out to be plenty. If anyone wants to make a scary movie or TV show set in the state, that magazine could be an awesome source of inspiration.
Omg please make a video on the cool victorian houses in Washington, or even just port townsend. I always get enchanted by the buildings in places like port townsend, and want to know more!!! Please educate me!!!
I am watching from Houston as I slowly melt like that of a fleshy snowman as we approach day 4 without electricity and air conditioning. I am currently charging my phone at the closest whataburger to my house that has power (btw you should make a video about how the Whataburger app is saving Houston rn) and as soon as I saw the notification for your video, I just had to watch. Great video as always, your channel's gonna be huge some day I just know it!
My mess ups:
9:40 - I meant Fear of the Walking Dead being set in Texas not The Walking Dead. Sorry to the other Deadheads.
12:40 - I said School Spirits was set in Washington but I meant the Midnight Club.
This data was correct in my spreadsheet so the percentages are alright, I just got a bit mixed up in the filming process. If you want to see the spreadsheet for yourself can find it on my patreon: www.patreon.com/kendragaylord
A girl from TN, here. The Appalachia has so much scary movie potential.
Someone just needs to license the Old Gods of Appalachia podcast and that's a sick supernatural interconnected anthology show featuring multiple states in the region right there!
@@arielhansen4344 I was thinking that. Except I love listening to it so much more than I would watching it!
TN is a scary movie.
I’m from southeastern Ohio, still technically Appalachia, and “the Devil All the Time” on Netflix is set in southeast Ohio and West Virginia.
I’ve been noticing increased appearance of Appalachian lore and culture in supernatural/spooky media topics and non-spooky topics. I think Appalachia is an American cultural goldmine that has barely been tapped into but I predict that will not be for long.
im not American so when i read the title i was like “scariest state? maybe catatonic. love a dreamlike state.”
nah. It's definitely plasma, maybe liquid.
@@serebii666 plasma sounds kinda like ectoplasm which is Real spooky so it gets my vote
lol!!😂
This has such great energy
I live in one of the other countries in the world with states besides the US and now I'm trying to figure out which one is the scariest state in my country.
I'm so glad you exist
screaming 😭 the purest compliment and i second it
Me too!!
Same!
Honestly I am so grateful
Right?? Where else can I find such a specific niche youtuber with informative but almost irrelevant subjects and good jokes? Where???
Strange that Southern Gothic is underrepresented. Where's New Orleans?
right? im surprised that the handling of racism in the vampire diaries got a shoutout but not what the writers of amc's interview with the vampire did to try, yknow, not making their protagonist a slave owner. and season one is partially set in new orleans!
True Blood is in Louisiana and The Originals in New Orleans.
I’m surprised its not higher on the list
@@bennyandthetops yes, IWTV (2022) is a jem! I also liked the Fright Krewe cartoon which finally tried to show voodoo loas with some respect.
Before Vampire Diaries there was Twilight. And before Twilight there was Interview with a Vampire
(Edit: I think that I'm right about the film releases but BOY was I wrong about the book releases. Especially between Twilight and Vampire Diaries).
As a native Floridian. It makes me so much upset there’s so much potential.
Math, data, poetry, and the supernatural - you sure know how to treat a girl!
"They can be filmed anywhere in the world" -- arguably making Vancouver the spookiest place in North America.
Genuinely shocked there isn't more spooky stuff being set in Savannah, GA. The tourism there is so big on ghosties and the buldings and neighborhoods are so perfect... with that spanish moss dangling everwhere from all the big trees and all those squares with old ass statues... plus the whole spooky old river street. Yeah, underutilized for sure.
I know right. I live in AL, but you're right. I was disappointed that the tv show First Kill didn't do much with Savannah as its setting.
Yes!
I walked through a cemetery there in the middle of the day (it wasn’t my choice) and it was very eerie… not an evil or bad feeling but it felt like I wasn’t alone, like it felt alive
I was just about to comment this, I live 30 minutes away from Downtown Savannah and I agree 100% that Savannah would be the perfect location for a scary movie or series. And we have so many talented SCAD alumni studying film, I'm surprised they don't choose this as their location for their works after they graduate. All we have is Midnight in the garden of good and evil with the voodoo lady Minerva in the Bonaventure Cemetery for spooky vibes. 👻
A perfect Scadvannah horror flick ripped from real life: people ignoring the warnings about the Spanish moss and being eaten by chiggers.
Another big influence around Massachusetts is HP Lovecraft, while his stories were largely across the New England area, his extended universe has Arkham City in Massachusetts, which plays a fairly central role in a number of stories.
Checking to make sure someone had already noted this. Also Lovecraft was big on 'gambrel roofs'.
Also big connections to Poe
Texas, Tennessee, and Florida are so underrepresented in fictional horror but we lead the nation in actual horror. I can say this because I’ve lived in two of the three.
Sadly, brother Mike here is telling no lies.
EXACTLY!
like come on, the oldest and one of the most haunted cities in america is in freaking florida. the Appalachia's are right there for tennessee and everyone knows how much urban legands stem from that mountain range. and texas has a rich history, sure its big but it gives ALOT more potential than a random small town in cali.
If you want some sweet sweet Floridian horror, Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer is a great read! It's a cosmic horror that's technically set in the fictional "Area X", but... it's Florida. Vandermeer lives in FL, and you can tell he really loves it. It's a wonderful reading experience
@@ArchegoneFor movie watchers: there is a film adaptation. I've never read the book so I can't compare but I loved the movie as a person who at the time did not like movies with horror. Lots of great surreal imagery and philosophy and cosmic horror.
@@mchjsosdeif you liked the movie please read the book. Its to good
Being 11 in washington state during the twlight years has made me a lifelong fan and I'm okay with that.
If our state becomes famous for something besides coffee, grunge, and apples I'm happy with horror setting.
@@TimothyRedburn Weve also got the most serial killers per capita (last I checked) so we got that going for us I guess lol.
Some of the stories my parents tell, like how my Dad pleaded with my Mom not to go out at night alone during the worst of The Green River Killer murders is pretty spooky.
girl i wasnt just in washington i was in makah county lmao it was inescapable
@@TimothyRedburn
It's always interesting that more horror series aren't set in Appalachia. These are some of the oldest mountains in the world (literally older than trees). That's ripe with horror potential.
Especially because of the history of supposed skinwalker sitings. I believe the mothman is also close to the Appalachias too but I amy be wrong. In my part of the Appalachias, we also used to have mountain lions, one of which was rumored to be a child-eater, and that partially led to them to being hunted down but a few still remain. Oh, and then there's the history of Union soldiers being murdered throughout various parts of the Virginian Appalachians and their bodies being hidden in unmarked graves, so that has the makings of a cool horror series too.
Old gods of Appalachia is great if you're looking for an audio series about horror in Appalachia!
@EllaLuve Mothman is in the heart of Appalachia. Also yes, the mountain lions are wild and their vocalizations sound like women screaming - great source material for a bunch of folk to start worrying about something more sinister.
@@Kakiryn love that series!
@@Kakiryn I was hoping someone would bring Old Gods up. It's such a good show
Every Nashville native would watch a show about vampires feeding on the bachelorette parties; how do you know us so well?
as a lifelong mainer, maine is honestly super spooky. we have the 4th most miles of coastline in the us, we're the most densely wooded state, & there's a portion of the state literally called the Hundred Mile Wilderness, so honestly..... it makes sense stephen king felt kinda freaked. would like to see other spooky coastal stuff though, a la The Lighthouse so we can maintain our spooky streak
"the fans are out there, there are 10's of us" i laughed outloud. also yeah teen wolf really was the best. also, you're the best.
love the town name slam poetry session in the middle
Nothing gets me more excited than spreadsheets about pop culture!
I appreciate your parameters to ensure that you didn't die during this project. However, I'm really interested in the most haunted state based solely on the shows where they travel a lot. I feel like x-files alone would be fun to dissect. I know what I'm doing the next time I have a spare 3 weeks.
I have been watching X-Files and that would be so interesting! I wouldn't be surprised if someone on a fan site somewhere has already pulled this data.
@@kendragaylord good point! The search begins.
twin peaks and x files would put washington a lot further up lol
I get why it didn't happen here, but my first thought for a solution to the travel show issue was to weigh it by the percent of the show (by episode count, not minutes, im not a complete madman) that takes place in that state
Without fail, whatever Kendra wants to spend 30-40 minutes taking about is exactly what I want to listen to.
an advert interrupted the slam poetry, which was a crime
Thank you for letting me know. I am going to try and change this!
Gurl, Hollywood better be watching because you're giving out the BEST ideas for future shows.
i've never been this excited for a spreadsheet to drop. wtf??!!
The Appalachian Mountains at the border of Tennessee and North Carolina, where I grew up, have a lot of horror storytelling potential. Surprisingly, so does Ohio, especially the rust belt cities like Cleveland (which has the highest number of serial killers per capita in the United States), and Youngstown.
It seems to me that, in addition to largely avoiding the issue of slavery in the south, there is not much want to deal with what that time period means for the Midwest as shown. Dealing with the indigenous genocide, and the Chinese exclusion act, is not something most big studios want to bring attention to. Not to mention, The Railways! I personally would love to see something where the ghosts of railroad workers who who were killed for striking while building the railway, get to haunt the beejeezius out of some railroad barons.
Yes to everything said above.
Strongly agreed! Also, not a show, but if you'd like to read an excellent short story that uses the systemic violence of U.S. railway history as a scaffolding element for some of its supernatural themes in a really thoughtful way, look up "The Tomato Thief" by Ursula Vernon. It's got train gods whose priests are descended from laborers whose blood and sweat fell on the tracks when they were built.
As someone from the Midwest, it's not something our history classes want to bring attention to either
Thankyou for not saturating your videos with music and bleeps and boops for the chronically overwhelmed
"Or else I might haunt this Google sheet with a Google sheet over my head."
I'm so obsessed with you omg 😭💕
".......unless you're Vampire Diaries" 🤣
Woah...you combined two of my favorite interests (hyperfixations), United States' map and data statistics, and Supernatural TV. The creature inside of me is bouncing off the walls in joy.
I will never get enough of your little quips that make me chuckle. thank you Kendra, you're just a gem.
I also find it necessary to tell you that I recently went on a road trip with my 5yo cousin, during which I discovered just how much she likes water towers. I discovered this by getting my eardrums blown out every. single. time she saw a "WATER TOWER!!!" Do you have any idea how many water towers are in rural Texas? yeah, please pray for my ears.
Ear protection might be necessary. Now I want to take a water tower roadtrip!
@@kendragaylordWelp, Texas would love to have you.
Have you introduced your cousin to water tower demolition videos?
They’re kind of hilarious and kind of spooky.
This is the work break video I didn’t know I needed. Spreadsheets, Sims references, we got it all.
“What We Do in the Shadows” taking the approach of vampires being immigrants from older countries is totally a workable premise. If US history isn’t enough, characters could settle anywhere and bring their own baggage. But I’m sure there’s plenty to dig into for all these underrepresented states.
I know this video wasn't about Lockwood & Co., but wanted to say I was so disappointed when it got cancelled. I'm British/English and thought it presented a ghost-based post-apocalyptic UK that seemed to make complete sense... There were just so many good things about it. We can't have nice things, can we?!
I think about Lockwood & Co all the time. The setting it created just got me thinking about what a world with ghosts might look like. Would it increase social services because you want less people to be suffering during their life and death, reducing their likelihood to haunt. I was so invested in the world it created. And then it was gone :(
@@kendragaylord your point is interesting as in the book series Stroud notes the poverty caused by The Problem and makes insightful commentary on the economics of his world, in particular the harm caused to working class children.
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The later volumes also dig into the ability of the rich to exploit a national disaster to increase power and wealth. I know this video isn't about books at all but your comment on economics triggered my fascination with the money and politics of that works 😅
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@@kendragaylord I don't think it would increase social services. The economic devastation caused by onset of the Problem would kill trust in the government. The public expense of setting up public-sphere defenses against Visitors would be extremely unpopular (especially since people can evade the worst of the danger by simply staying at home overnight), and I think most people would favor privatization of the anti-Ghost industry instead, preferring to contract out to private businesses the matter of keeping their own homes safe. It would reflect the backlash against LBJ's Great Society programs amidst the social crisis of the 1970s, and which in our history led to the mass-privatization and gutting of government welfare programs. Many people would engage in victim-blaming and rail against the prospect of paying for defenses for the homeless and poor. I suspect Stroud is pretty on the money in expecting a Gilded-Age style of socioeconomic transformation, at least in Britain.
While some countries with high social cohesion and less affected economies might be able to muster the will to carry social welfare programs through the storm, the economic crisis would probably in most countries lead to the hollowing out and privatization of public institutions except the band-aid ones like law-enforcement and prisons. Due to the risks of sharing walls with potential ghosts, people would probably be even more against public housing projects, leading to defunding and even worse exodus to single-family households resembling White Flight in America and the sale and deterioration of Britain's Council Housing in the seventies and eighties. I personally agree with the scholars Kemeny and Castle that support for social spending is generally (with some exceptions) linked to the prevalence of homeownership, so I think this flight to single-family forms of tenure would just turbocharge the privatization process already underway from the other causes mentioned.
As for the matter of child Agents, I think this too would be generally pushed into the private sphere, albeit with substantial governmental subsidies and legislation protecting agencies from lawsuits provided certain regulations be followed. It would be electoral suicide for politicians to assume responsibility for *children* employed as Agents, and they would be all too happy to offload that moral expense to private enterprises like Fittes, Rotwell, Tendy's, Bunchurch, and Lockwood & Co. That said, I do not believe that Agents would be treated as expendable in Stroud's world, since they require considerable training, Talent, and constitution for the job, and companies competing for talent would try to avoid the bad publicity from losing children much. The real economic exploitation within the ghost-fighting industry in the books takes place among the Night Watch, who hail from the lowest rungs of society and don't have the leverage to get better conditions, hence their minimal armament and training. With the economic crisis brought on by the Problem, there would be plenty of recruits and desperate families for that high-risk low-income job.
My 3 yr old loves your voice! Whenever I watch one of your videos he’s comes over to listen 😊 He doesn’t do that with any other videos I watch
This is so sweet!
lockwood & co not being renewed was genuinely crazy 🥲
it was the first show in a while i genuinely liked and was willing to spend hours upon hours on. the last one was anne with an e, you can probably guess how that one ended 😃
That was when I decided to cancel Netflix. Tried of the best shows getting cancelled.
As the director of an archive, I was very satisfied with this video. Also? As a Kentuckian, I want a horror show set here! 😂😂
As always, you did such an awesome job with this video.
Australia has states - What about Queensland with H2O, Mako Mermaids, and Bureau of Magical Things!
I feel bad I didn't make this list international with so much good mermaid content.
Of course, by the metric, Mexico also has states. I'm sure there's interesting stuff there, even if it's a random Day of the Dead themed telenovela.
I love H20 and Mako Mermaids. Definitely top comfort shows for me
i literally live in nebraska and hearing you namedrop it for a potential horror destination literally caught me so off guard. i WILL make it terrifying if it's the only thing i ever do. king already got me started with children of the corn
I immediately thought of Children of the Corn too. I lived for a time in western Nebraska. It would be a great setting for a supernatural / horror story. Limestone buttes like Scotts Bluff looming above windblown prairies, the mazes of deep, mysterious gullies in the Badlands, ghost stories of pioneers who died along the Oregon Trail, the Sand Hills, creepy abandoned farmhouses.... I think it's tailor made for the genre!
"don't stop until people shudder when you mention Nebraska" Ethel Cain is doing her part!!
I was a mormon missionary in Scottsdale AZ and when I was in Cave Creek Stephanie Meyer was the young womans president. She told us about how her parents had a vacation home in Washinton and that she was inspired by her trips to move Bella to Washington. She based Bella on herself during her teen years. She was pretty cool and really beautiful.
Wait, I had read that she had never been to Washington before reading the first book. I am so curious which is real! This is very interesting tea, thank you!
@kendragaylord That's interesting, her brother told me the same thing about visiting Washington when they were young. When the last movie came out, she invited the entire church to Phoenix to have a private red carpet-premiere. The invitations were the last book that was cut into to make it into a box where she put the invitations inside. A few members showed them to me when I visited them. Her brother is still my FB friend, I can message him about it.
I had heard that she had never been to where it took place (Forks) not that she had never been to Washington.
@@oreotookie From what I know they didn't have their house in Forks and she just picked that location. It's like how she's from Cave Creek AZ where as Bella is from Phoenix.
@@ZayaMillisyeah, even the western half of WA is big; and with having to navigate around the Puget Sound, it’s not like “oh, we’ll just hop over from Olympia to Sequim today.” There’s a surprising amount of wilderness area but the urban zones are really congested, too. You can live your entire life there and only know about the certain iconic locations by reputation (and Forks had a certain reputation before Twilight-most teens from there couldn’t wait to get out of it. 😂)
this was genuinely, facinatingly clever. every single line, direction of thought felt hand picked for this absurdist yet still grounded journey you took me on. one of the smartest videos i think i've seen on the platform!
Lockwood and Co. is such a fun book series. And the show was actually a pretty good adaptation l was so sad it didn't get to continue. Also, this is absolutely my favourite comfort channel. Thank you!
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I’m having a terrible migraine day and YT recommended this video to me. What a lifesaver. Perfect content, delivered in a way that was entertaining, and with a soothing voice. Thank you. This was medicine today.
I misread the title and thought it was a deep dive of Supernatural's houses architecture. Would also love to see that. Thanks for sharing your video with us!
as someone who loves obsessively categorizing media and horror, making a spreadsheet for something like this is something i have absolutely thought about, and im delighted that this landed in my yt recommended. really good
getting access to this spreadsheet is the cherry on top of being a patreon member.
Had this video in my recommended and clicked on it bc I watched Supernatural 5x in a row and woah. Great video and also, you have the most soothing voice.
Holy crap first video if yours I’ve seen and I feel like I just met a potential new best friend! Yaaaaay!
Of Nancy Pearl’s four doorways to literature “sense of place” or the setting, is my favorite.
Washington State is nice and spooky. I love it. Having a big film industry next door doesn’t hurt though! I noticed a lot of Xfiles is filmed in the PNW, plus Once Upon a Time, and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Practical Magic… lots of shows/movies that are set in New England
You’re my favorite niche TH-camr
The guy on the wing of the Wright Brothers plane was William Shatner.
Great video! Really enjoyed it. ❤
Mainer here - It’s also worth pointing out that in addition to having Stephen King, Maine also is the most forested state in the nation (almost 90% of the state is forest). With the amount of dark forests and odd noises you hear outside at night, it’s no wonder Maine’s environment has inspired so many works of horror. Loved your video!
The concept for this video could NOT be more tailored to my interests. Well done. I appreciate how much work this must've taken!
The other reason Washington/PNW is a popular setting for supernatural horror is because the region is rich with its own mythology, intermingled with a lot of native mythology and mythologies brought from other cultures(Mexican and Norwegian as examples), heck we even have national parks named after Bigfoot encounters! It runs deep and dark, like our forests
Long time horror head here - don't feel like Teen Wolf is a lesser gateway to our favourite genre. Remember, as kids, we saw things that scared us, but we were attracted to it. For me, it was pictures of monsters from mythology in books and the evil queen turning into a big black dragon in Cinderella with green flames and shit. 🤣 This was really cool, thank you for making it.
I thought this was about the show Supernatural, but then I realized that show had over 300 episodes.
Keep being you, Kendra, this is great!
Port Townsend actually is a really pretty town if you ever get the chance!! But yes there is a haunted castle there on the hill its really neat
I get so excited when you post a new video! You really have a knack for choosing unique topics and as a fellow Washingtonian, I appreciate the PNW shout-outs!
No horror set in North Carolina is a huge misstep. The setting Kill Devil Hills is literally right there
There's another spreadsheet?? YES YES YES. Unironically pumped for this.
I just binged watched all of your videos this channel is everything I’ve ever wanted. 😭
I think we really need to see more fantasy-horror shows & films that deal with America's past. With slavery and colonial period and also with the pre-colonial period and with the indigenous side of things. There IS a lot of rich history, culture, and mythology in this land, but for so long it has been relegated to the offensive "Indian burial ground" trope and other stereotypes. What about the Iroquois confederacy or the Anishinaabe Council Fires or the Mississippian Civilization, what about the Ancestral Puebloans and the Salish peoples? Basque whalers in Newfoundland in the 1500s, Spanish colonial Texas, the Métis people. There is so much to explore
That was really fun and unique, definitely worth the work. Great job!
I absolutely adore the content on this channel. I cannot quite put into words what the theme or connecting interests are but from your architectural videos to the history ones to this, it’s just all so lovely. You are lovey my dear. ❤❤❤ Don’t stop.
Awesome video! It'd be cool to see a sequel to this where you compare those urban legends books they put out for each state and rank them based on # of creatures, level absurdity, most haunted, etc.
This might be one of my favorite videos I’ve ever seen
This is so rad. It wasn’t mentioned but I feel like a lotta stuff is set in Pennsylvania for a mix of the same reasons as Maine (people from there) and Massachusetts (Lotta history) plus there’s mountains and remote towns and big cities etc. If I had to guess is it top 10??
babe wake up, new Kendra vid dropped
WA-native here, "crushing it in the supernatural-show department," ha!
You said, Kendra!
WA crushes it.
Crushed by lowering clouds, rising damp.
We could try to blame Ted Bundy, the Green River Killer, or even David Lynch, but never forget Kolchak.
'WA could try to blame Ted Bundy, the Green River Killer, or even David Lynch, but never forget Kolchak.'
Dear Kendra, I love your videos! You have the best and most absurd ideas for research and data collection. THANK YOU
Now THIS is an interesting data set
North Carolina has a lot of spooky stuff going on… so shocked there aren’t more set here!
Always producing the videos I never knew I needed in my life. Absolutely brilliant
love ur dedication to data analysis queen ❤️
This video made me unreasonably happy as a supernatural TV fan who was a teenager in the 00s. We were primed for this content. Delighted that you too are a Teen Wolf girlie! That show gave me so much life just when I needed it - and their worldbuilding was pretty good too.
I love your videos both for their astounding cleverness and the fact that I learn so much about things I had no idea I was interested in.
I really enjoy when you analyze things like this that nobody else thinks of doing. It's so interesting!
Texas does have a ton of supernatural books, though many are on the romance side of things. There's soooo many writers who've waxed poetic about a state with enough sun to wipe out all trace of romantic spookiness. Our spookiness is all twisted mesquite, scorching blue skies along endless roads and the curious charged heaviness of high humidity, among like fifty other climate phenomenons.
You are my favourite youtuber! Such a fresh perspective everytime.
I’m glad you acknowledged the quaint roots of a lot of people’s introduction to horror and how that’s nothing to be ashamed of. Many people my age and younger’s intro to horror is stuff like Five Nights at Freddy’s and Minecraft or Roblox horror maps
Glad to find another California-Skeptic, Subscribed.
I love tma (the Magnus archives) it's a British podcast ugh it's so good because all the horror stuff I watch going up has been the kid friendly stuff so listing to a podcast had help me
i loved this so much, but what sent me over the edge to sub to you, was throwing in the names of the occult sims pack worlds, because i've BEEN saying that moonwood mill is the mostest perfectest name for a town with werewolves, and i'm still astonished that the sims team came up with it, and i love that you added that reference
Hey you! I found your channel last night, and let me tell you I am addicted! Its because you have a superb way of presenting. Long may you continue.
I really loved the Lost Room. Was glad to see it in your data set
how did you clock me with nebraska at 16:26 it actually scared me lmao
I enjoy most the random sims drops, I must admit! Thanks so much for this fascinating spread sheet
Twin Peaks music gets me every time
the slam poetry section 😭👏
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I'm disappointed that New Jersey didn't get mentioned, mostly because I lived there for 20 years. Now that I think about it, I don't remember much from the supernatural genre being set there, except for Friday the 13th and a couple of X-Files episodes. But while living there, I greatly enjoyed *Weird NJ,* a wonderful magazine dedicated to creepy NJ folklore, of which there turns out to be plenty. If anyone wants to make a scary movie or TV show set in the state, that magazine could be an awesome source of inspiration.
Omg please make a video on the cool victorian houses in Washington, or even just port townsend. I always get enchanted by the buildings in places like port townsend, and want to know more!!! Please educate me!!!
I am watching from Houston as I slowly melt like that of a fleshy snowman as we approach day 4 without electricity and air conditioning. I am currently charging my phone at the closest whataburger to my house that has power (btw you should make a video about how the Whataburger app is saving Houston rn) and as soon as I saw the notification for your video, I just had to watch. Great video as always, your channel's gonna be huge some day I just know it!
Every video you make is a banger, thankyou!
I love the Teen Wolf love in this video
Solid. Very cool video. And WA my home is scary, no matter where we may roam.
Loved Dead Boy Detectives!
every one of your video slaps!! your content is always accurate, cheeky, and interesting and then you do slam poetry? sold.
I cared deeply about all of this, thank you for this! Subscribed!
I don't watch much TV, and even less of this genre, but boy do I love data! Fantastic video :)
I jumped when you said "Elk Grove" cause that's a literal city in Sacramento County, CA...it's a real place in several states.
I live in Salem and I’m not surprised at all that there are a ton of supernatural/horror shows that take place in Mass, it gets spooky here
Greendale deserves a special mention by connection to two (or three?) supernatural shows and having a community college with the most hilarious flag
These videos are always fantastic! What a treat!