Ghost cities and most scary cities you know of (crime, place, America)

[FlashM]

The real ghost city (not American though) I know of is Pripyat. The local Nuclear Power Plant burst in 1986 so the city was abandoned. And now it a real ghost city. There's even a video game called STALKER which was majorly inspired by this city.

So let's post scary cities you know of.

[BelieveInCleve]

Cairo, IL comes to mind.

[Infamous92]

I always used to be scared of Amityville, Long Island because of the Amityville Horror. Anywhere I used to be I started expecting the walls to bleed. Its not a scary town though. I have to think of some.

Pripyat looks like an abandoned East New York.

[Rachael84]

the south Bronx when it was burned out in the 70s and 80s. I vaguely remember seeing it as a little kid.

[green_mariner]

I city I would say is scary is Gary,IN. While technically not a ghost town, it does seem like the Pompeii of the Midwest
Gary travel guide - Wikitravel

[JohnDBaumgardner]

Youngstown, Ohio ... a shell of it's former self and it's historic glory days!

[Rachael84]

This is what I meant in my earlier post. Here's the south Bronx in the 80s:


YouTube - The South Bronx - All America City 1980s edition

But it's made drastic changes and has improved a lot. It looks nicer, but there's still a bit of crime. Not like it was back then though. Here it is today:


YouTube - the bronx - all america city pt2

[BelieveInCleve]

My 1st time to the South Bronx was the late 80s/early 90s and it looked really bad back then.

Only place in the US I've seen that's close to that look (dense mostly row housing many vacant and crumbling) these days is Camden, but it's not close to the density and concentration that the bronx was.

[PhillytoCincy]

Camden, NJ is bad. But E. St. Louis is the worst that I can think of.

[BergenCountyJohnny]

My favorite ghost town is Calico, CA.

Calico Ghost Town, an Old West Mining Adventure, in California

It is also the most dangerous - here is a picture of someone done run afoul of the Marshal: