No People Here: Why I Don't Visit Abandoned Towns Anymore

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🗓️ 31 July 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

In this scary story, the narrator explores a creepy abandoned desert town that he spotted from far away. But there's much more to the run-down buildings and an old gas station. Spooky reminders from the past, like the cracked streets and an empty playground, show him what once was.
He meets an angry old man who lives nearby who warns him to leave before sunset, hinting at hidden dangers. But the dangers he speaks of.. do they have something to do with the two strange kids on the playground?
As night comes, he begins to realize why he's in the wrong place.
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0:26.8	Welcome to scary story podcast.
0:29.8	A traveler visits a mostly abandoned town and discovers its dark secrets.
0:36.8	My name is Edwin and here is a scary story.
0:48.0	Walking up to it felt like a dream, old abandoned places. The kind you imagine when you walk through campus by yourself near sunset,
0:57.0	when the professors and the rest of the students have long gone home.
1:01.0	Except this was real. It's how a nightmare begins. I had gotten used to
1:07.2	sleeping in the car after the fourth day. I was told that I could and the cheap old
1:11.8	lady had only given me $400 for the entire trip.
1:16.2	It was supposed to cover food and everything, but I knew it wouldn't.
1:20.8	Don't go telling a broke man how far a dollar can go. He knows it.
1:25.0	This was going to be good enough for a few more tanks of gas and some of the gas station hot dogs.
1:31.0	With hotels going for more than $50 around there, there was no way. Rest areas, truck stops, and places like these, where the people are gone, become my temporary stays.
1:43.9	Rushed places, loud places, or these, lonely ones out in the desert.
1:50.2	It was good to mix and match, and this time it was a turn for the lonely.
1:54.0	I shut the door behind me and out a few steps to take care of business behind one of the trees.
2:00.0	As I was turning back to the car, might happen by pure chance to see a house up across a field.
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