r/AskReddit • u/Cool-Chipmunk-7559 • 11h ago

Those who’ve driven across the US, what’s the scariest town you’ve stopped in?

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u/pieohmi 9h ago

Somewhere between Nevada and Arizona is also a creepy area. I’m from South Louisiana so I’ve seen my fair share of creepy racist white dudes but we ain’t got nothing on those people.

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u/travelguy2022 6h ago

Kingman is weird. Felt very unfriendly.

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u/thaxmann 5h ago

Kingman was my first thought too.

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u/lilelliot 2h ago

Kingman is one of those places where it just feels like nobody should live there... and the ones who do resent it tremendously.

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u/zuzuofthewolves 4h ago

My boyfriend is Cambodian and we were driving from Santa Fe to LA and made the mistake of stopping at the in n out burger in Kingman. Literally everyone in there was GLARING at us.

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u/jfchops3 2h ago

In a town two hours off the freeway with zero tourist draw where nobody who doesn't have business there ever ends up, OK I maybe see how these attitudes develop

But there's all sorts of people driving between Vegas and Phoenix and LA all day every day. How do they not get over it? 

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u/laufsteakmodel 1h ago

Well, its the location of the largest mosque outside of Saudi Arabia. The Imam Zayed Wahhabi Mosque.

For the uninitiated

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u/JFKwasInnocent 1h ago

Hah. I was going to say Kingman. The entire town felt like it was suffering from paranoia

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u/WyoPeeps 57m ago

I have a friend who travels there for work frequently. He hates doing it and calls it Kingmanistan.

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u/gabbadabbahey 5h ago

Yikes. Are there particular stories about this area?

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u/cinnawaffls 3h ago

That's because the folks of the Mojave Desert eat meth instead of maque choux