Creepy towns

[HJuniper]

My friend Jarrod and I were browsing through the faces on our highschool graduating class Facebook site. 
We went to Belle River.  Neither of us lived in Belle River so we never really pal-ed around with the locals.  We weren't snobs at all, just different from a lot of them?
Anyhow, we got to thinking about Belle River in a creepy way-- random suicides, people doing really insane things, the fact that everyone who was raised there never left.
I still get the heebie-jeebies when I have to drive through that town.  I don't know if it's some sort of emotional issues I carry on from my highschool sweetheart trauma or if the town itself is just...I don't know, bad?

Paris, Ontario is also creepy in that old-fashioned, everyone knows everyone sort of way.  They have a festival where all of the locals dress up in period attire.  It was creepy in the sense that I wanted to move there, though.

[bethoc]

It doesn't hit you when you 1st visit there.  You have to have been there for a few weeks for the newness and history to wear off but i know another place that's creepy.  Natchitoches-LA.  The town is famous for being the place where Steel Magnolias was set and filmed.  I'm from LA and I remember my mom telling me about her 2nd cousin who wrote the play about a member of our family.  I actually had the child from "Sidney" as a guest at our wedding.  Anyway.  After you visit the town of Natchitoches a few times and the charm of its visual beauty wears off it hits you-this place feels strange.  It's as if everything good has left the town and you are being watched by a hundred or so invisible pairs of eyes.  The place feels lightly unsettled and malevolent under the surface.  It will probably come as no surprise that for a town of only a few thousand there are over 20 churches or so in the quiet community.  I also would like to add that the town is built over a giant burial ground and that the Native Americans who were forced out of the area left a curse on the land.  Natchitoches is beautiful but definitely has it's share of heartache.