The Sketchiest American Cities You Rarely Hear About
What do you think of when you imagine "scary American city?"
Published 1 year ago in Wow
What do you think of when you imagine a "scary American city?" Chances are you are thinking of big name places like Detroit.
But the truth is that America has countless sketchy cities that we never hear much about. And here are the absolute worst offenders.
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I visited Denver, and while I quite enjoyed Denver proper & downtown, the motel I stayed at in Aurora (which is I guess a satellite town that got swallowed by Denver) was some shockingly sketchy stuff lol. Sign on the door telling guests to keep their rooms locked at all times. Signs of multiple previous break-ins. Cages on the windows and counters of the liquor store and gas station across the street. Rusty old cars with 20” chrome rims rolling around the block constantly. Good times
2
Lebanon, MO is currently investigating a guy who could be linked to the "Springfield 3" (3 missing women in the 90s) someone tipped off the FBI saying he is killing people and when they busted in he was laughing eating a human sandwich, and said he fed his neighbor ribs and so far they found 18 peoples remains around his property. Also after they started investigating the suspects house burnt down to nothing?? AFTER he and the trucker were arrested?!
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Maryvale, AZ. It’s a neighborhood/“urban village” of Phoenix. Used to be nice— my mom grew up there in the 70s— until they found a huge chemical waste dump that was raising cancer rates in the area through the roof. The “affluent households” (read: white people) fled in droves, and now Scaryvale is just… blighted. It’s not the kind of neighborhood you want to be in after dark. My grandma stayed in the neighborhood until her last few years, moved out when someone broke into her house on Thanksgiving. I get such a sense of sadness driving through it.
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Saginaw, MI is one of the strangest cities in America because in the central part of the city near the water treatment plant and Oakley Street you have some of the worst, most dangerous, urban blight on the planet, literally the murder capital of the country at one point. But then you drive more than twenty minutes in any direction and you are in cornfields with no houses around for miles. I feel like most people think of Michigan they think of urban decay in areas like Detroit, Flint, or Saginaw, but most people don’t realize the vast majority of Michigan is fields, forests, and farms.
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Peoria, IL I hear all the time how back in the day the town was a hotspot for companies who were trying to find a market for their product and services. The town even has a slogan, if it plays in Peoria it plays anywhere, because of how diverse a market it used to be. Now it's just a couple of manufacturing companies and your standard slew of retail and small businesses, but what I think makes it Worthy of being here is the fact that with barely over 100,000 people in it, we are consistently in the top 10 cities in the US for murder and crime.
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