“It looked like the set of a Twilight Zone episode.”

Hi, I’m Crystal, a Senior Editor based in Los Angeles and creator of BuzzFeed’s “That Got Dark” newsletter.

Note: Some of these stories contain mentions of racism and sexual assault. Also, apologies if your hometown is on this list...but, maybe you agree with what these people experienced.

"Holy shit I can finally share my Powers, Oregon story! My girlfriend and I were doing a trip down the coast, and on our way back to I5 for the return trip, we went over a dirt road pass near the Rogue River and ended up driving through Powers. Same shit as you, but one of the properties we drove by on the way out had a massive Trump sign erected on 4x4s. The dam sign had three dead sheep hanging from their necks on the bottom! I’m kicking myself for not getting a picture, but after seeing that, we wanted to GTFO."

"The idyllic facade is made creepier by the fact that it's located minutes from Taholah, an impoverished reservation town that's literally sinking into the ocean. Driving through both towns is a weird contrast."

"An incredible number of shockingly brutal or very mysterious crimes for such a tiny hamlet. Most famous was the vigilante murder of Ken Rex McElroy (pictured above), but there's also Branson Perry and Bobbi Jo Stinnett just for starters."

"One of the last guys left had a doc made about him. His job is to mow the cemetery on top of the hill, and the park across the road from the old row house he lives in, which sits all by itself now because everything else on the street was torn down. I also watched an urban exploration vid of a guy going through the final mayor's house, and it was like everything left in that guy's house stopped existing after 1970."

"My history seminar class focused on writing a report on Iowa volunteer infantry regiments during the Civil War. The regiment I was assigned to research participated in the major campaigns of the Western theater, with some of its companies occasionally assigned as police garrisons in Cairo, among other locations. From their records, it seems that Cairo has a long history of racist violence and Confederate sympathies."

"Love Has Won. Docuseries on Max (pictured above) about this shit. Super weird. I can’t unsee some of it, so I’m not sure I’d recommend it. But it's wild how gullible humans can be for the most random things."

"I worked on a door-to-door sales team, and we got sent there because we happened to be all 'white' at the time. Spoiler: We weren't all 'white,' and our crew included several Latino members. Someone spoke in Spanish, and we were detained by the most overtly racist cops I have ever met and literally escorted out of town. Freaky shit."

"I worked at a sandwich shop in north Texas in my late teens/early 20s, a few hours drive from Waco. One night, just before closing, this guy pulls up in an older Camaro, all alone, no one with him, and comes in to order a sandwich. I notice he just seems a little off. Like, his eyes weren’t quite right. It was a strange feeling. He orders his food, and while it’s being made, he is fidgety and kind of mumbling to himself. To break the tension a little, I ask where he’s from, and he turns his head quickly toward me and sharply says, 'We’re from Waco.' He went out to the parking lot and proceeded to argue with himself, spiked his sandwich to the ground, and took off."

"As a Vermonter, I was scanning the thread just waiting for this one to come up."

"I stopped here as a young solo female traveler. One of those experiences I look back on and am grateful nothing bad happened. There was a dark, very sketchy vibe."

"She listened as he chatted away with sincere kindness. After the eggs were counted, it was off to the candy exchange. Her husband maybe? Giving the kids high fives and passing out heaps of candy. SS lightening bolts up both sides of his neck. Some runes on his hands, but by that time, it was apparent we were in the wrong neighborhood and it was time to go. Plastered a smile on my face, grabbed hold of a little hand, and we scooted. On the way out, signs were everywhere from conversations to dress to cars in the lot, but I had missed everything. TL;DR We crashed a Neo-Nazi Easter egg hunt in Noxon, Montana."

Note: Some responses have been edited or length and/or clarity.