Places whose names send shivers down your spine by their mere mention

[Tommy_Carcetti]

This is somewhat out of nowhere, but I'm just curious as to other people's input.

There are places where a tragic or horrific occurance or occurances have taken place where all it takes is the mere mention of the place to make you shiver just out of the facts associated with it.


Just a few off the top of my head:

Danziger Bridge
Abu Gahrib
Columbine
Sandy Hook
Auschwitz

[JDPriestly]

1. True.

[RandiFan1290]

2. 107th Congress

[pkdu]

3. Parsipanny , NJ

[Sekhmets Daughter]

9. I used to work in Parsippany...how dare you?

[pkdu]

13. My sympathies! I was only there for week , but considered it the armpit of America

At least of all the parts I've visited.

[Sekhmets Daughter]

15. Oh my...

guess you never visited Port Elizabeth....

[a la izquierda]

28. +1

One can smell Elizabeth before arriving.

[NoGOPZone]

37. Strange

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/best-places/2012/snapshots/CS3456460.html

[Ian David]

30. Well, it's no Ledgewood. n/t

[Sekhmets Daughter]

35. That's for sure.

I've lived in Westfield and Long Valley...both lovely.

[markpkessinger]

69. I've never actually been to the town of Parsippany, but...

... Everytime I see the exit sign for it on the interstate, what pops into mind is one of those tall, tropical cocktails with a miniature parasol as a stirrer.

[randome]

4. 1313 Mockingbird Lane.

[bongbong]

5. GOP Convention

.

[Recursion]

6. Arrakis

[charlie and algernon]

7. Going back a bit

Andersonville
The Wilderness
Antietam
Five Forks
Dresden
Verdun

[MadrasT]

34. Fredericksburg

Shiloh
Gettysburg

the list goes on and on

[Adsos Letter]

93. Spotsylvania Courthouse

and the Bloody Angle.

Was there in May of last year.

[Surya Gayatri]

8. Dresden, Hiroshima/Nagasaki, Srebrenica, Rwanda, Darfor, and on and on and on...

[WinkyDink]

10. Lidice. Malmedy. Hiroshima. WTC. Bataan.

[Terra Alta]

11. My Lai. nt

[Sekhmets Daughter]

12. Chernobyl, Fukushima Daiichi

[rocktivity]

14. The Jersey Shore

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and The Jersey Shore.


P.S. There's a section of the northern Jersey Shore called Sandy Hook.


rocktivity

[a la izquierda]

29. Sandy Hook is 5 miles from where I grew up. Nt

[bettyellen]

77. I've got a friend named Sandy in Hoboken. Toying with changing that now.

[rocktivity]

84. Hoboken got a double dose -- from Hurricanes Irene AND Sandy

Ironic much?


rocktivity

[bettyellen]

85. And the big snowstorm a week later, just as they started working on power lines, UGH.

because the first week was generator work only.
Thank GOD our streets are paved with pizza and beer comes out our faucets!

[graham4anything]

16. Is Ralph Nader a place? His throwing 2000 to the republicans sends shivers down my spine

[Journeyman]

17. Plum Run. . .

[Suich]

18. Dealey Plaza n/t

[REP]

19. Willowbrook State School

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willowbrook_State_School

[mountain grammy]

78. I remember that, made Geraldo Rivera famous. He was good.

[Greybnk48]

112. Whitfield Insane Asylum in Mississippi

It was a snakepit far worse than Willowbrook, and Willowbrook was horrid.

[lpbk2713]

20. NOLA, Summer '05

[TwilightGardener]

21. Cleveland.

[Arugula Latte]

125. ...

[KamaAina]

22. Kalaupapa

where people with Hansen's disease (leprosy) were exiled.

[Go Vols]

23. Wounded Knee, South Dakota

[RebelOne]

40. Ditto. n/t

[jrandom421]

24. Manzanar

Mom and Dad have never forgotten that place, and made sure us kids and the grandkids never would withdraw

[sadbear]

25. Jasper, Texas

[patrice]

26. Fallujah

[lunatica]

120. I've always considered our Guernica

I will never get the images of abandoned dogs eating the dead who had chemical burns on their bloated bodies. There was a story of an American detail who's job is was to kill the dogs. Ugh!

[patrice]

128. And where were the places in Gulf I in which white phosphorous was used against the Kurds?

It seemed not to have been established whether it was us or our Iraqi surrogates who did that, since it was part of "the clean up operation" after the big stuff was over and the Kurds were fleeing what they expected to happen in their neighborhoods in the aftermath.

There was some question about who was using the white phosphorous and how they acquired it, perhaps through West Germany through the "good offices" of the USA.

[lastlib]

27. Kent State University

May 4, 1970--Never Forget

[Zoeisright]

31. Hiroshima

Chernobyl
Fukushima
Columbine

[Ian David]

32. Shades of Death Road in Blairstown, NJ. I actually got lost there in the fog one night. n/t

[Tommy_Carcetti]

33. I'll also add Rosewood to the list.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosewood_massacre

It's not too far from where my parents live now. If you drive through there, it's hard to know there was even a town there. Nothing but a clearing in the woods. It was eirie.

[Canuckistanian]

36. Nanjing

Pingfang (Unit 731)

Calcutta (Black hole of)

[CincyDem]

38. Dachau n/t

[grntuscarora]

39. Nickel Mines, PA n/t

[VOX]

41. Bataan; 10050 Cielo Drive; Ambassabor Hotel kitchen...

Manzanar; Bastogne... But clearly, the worst is Auschwitz-Birkenau.

[LeftyDemLibProgress]

42. Times Beach, Love Canal

[Mopar151]

107. Swartz Creek, MI

Stringfellow Acid Pits, L.A. Nuclear Metals, MA Hanford Reservation, WA

[Crepuscular]

43. Katyn

Katyn Forest

[Tommy_Carcetti]

44. Also, Jonestown. nt

[Brickbat]

45. Katyn. Italian Hall, Calumet. Ludlow. École Polytechnique.

[GeorgeGist]

46. Buffalo

I lived there for 3 years. I still have nightmares.

[11 Bravo]

47. A Shau Valley

It was a meat-grinder.

[Lesmoderesstupides]

48. TX, AL, MS, GA, FL, TN, KY, IN, OK, MO, SC, NC, VA, WVA, AR, KS, LA

[xxxsdesdexxx]

50. lol.

[cordelia]

126. Charming.

[KG]

49. grozny

[Avalux]

51. Three Mile Island

Scared the crap out of me as a kid living in PA, still gives me shivers to think of it....

[samsingh]

52. true

[Nye Bevan]

53. Munich (nt)

[WinkyDink]

61. Automatic shivers?

[Nye Bevan]

64. Birthplace of the Nazi Party. (nt)

[sadbear]

54. Dresden

[Still Sensible]

55. Kennebunkport? n/t

[virgogal]

56. World Trade Center

[raouldukelives]

57. Wall Street. nt

[NoPasaran]

58. Goliad

[sagat]

59. Arby's.

[Enrique]

101. lol

[madinmaryland]

60. Anyplace where Chuggo is.

C'mon fuckin guy!!

[Brother Buzz]

62. Oakland Armed Services Induction Center

[Adsos Letter]

95. The London Lodge

I spent the night there before heading over to the Induction Center.

[Brother Buzz]

97. Lucky you

I got to sleep in a greyhound bus.

[Doc_Technical]

135. Been there, done that.

n/t

[OneTenthofOnePercent]

63. I've always wanted to visit Pripyat & Chernobyl. I think it would be interesting. nt

[SayWut]

65. I had to Google these.

8213 West Summerdale Avenue. Cook County, IL. (John Wayne Gacy)

Apartment 213, 924 North 25th Street, Milwaukee (Jeffery Dahmer)

The morbid side of me is curious about what became of these residences after the crimes.
Were they shuttered, razed or left abandoned for years?
Were they sold or rented out?
I can't imagine who in their right mind would knowingly want to live there (I believe some states have laws that a realtor does not have to disclose certain aspects regarding the prior history of a dwelling unless asked).

[Mr. Mojo Risen]

76. Dahmer's building was torn down

I don't think his apartment was ever re-rented.

[Jazzgirl]

66. East St. Louis.

I know....may not seem like a big deal to anybody else but if you've been there you understand.

[Go Vols]

87. +1

[Buns_of_Fire]

67. Donner Pass. nt

[Brother Buzz]

137. Donner pass is a magical place - summer or winter

I suggest we rename it Stephens pass and relegate the nitwit dysfunctional Donner party to the footnotes.

Indian petroglyphs, Stephens-Murphy-Townsend party, Central Pacific Railroad snow sheds and China wall, Lincoln highway, Highway 40 rainbow bridge, and snow. Did I mention snow?

[Cal Carpenter]

68. Bhopal. Triangle Shirtwaist Factory.

Fukushima

Centralia, PA

Chernobyl.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

74. I had never heard of Centralia before, so I googled it.

Creepy looking place with an odd backstory.

[AverageJoe90]

70. Here's a few:

Amityville, Columbine, Guantanamo, Dachau, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Pyongyang, Jonestown, and that's about it.....

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

71. MCRD San Diego

[Atticus]

72. Wasilla nt

[coalition_unwilling]

100. IMHO, this wins the thread :) - n/t

[pinboy3niner]

104. Better than Crawford, TX?

[coalition_unwilling]

110. Touche! I stand corrected, humble sir! :) - n/t

[DearHeart]

73. All you mention plus

Bataan
Hiroshima, Nagasaki
The Arizona/Pearl Harbor
WTC
2004 Tsunami

[S_B_Jackson]

75. Tule Lake, Manzanar, Heart Mountain, Minidoka, Gila River.....

US citizens both naturalized and native-born of Japanese ancestry imprisoned for no reason other than blatant bigotry.

Wonded Knee

[riverwalker]

79. Andersonville

look it up

[Blue_In_AK]

80. Pearl Harbor

[Sparkly]

81. Crawford, Texas.

[d_r]

82. Georgia

[hack89]

83. Chuckie Cheese. nt

[bettyellen]

86. Dave and Busters!

[postulater]

88. Kilmainham gaol - Dublin

Execution of Irish patriots.

[doc03]

89. Wegee Creek n/t

[bluestater1966fgs]

90. My list

Pyongyang
Nanking (where the infamous massacre took place)
Munich (Hitler conference)
Blacksburg (Virginia Tech Massacre)
New York City (WTC attacks)

[krispos42]

91. Omaha Beach

Stalingrad
Leningrad
Gettysburg
Antietem
North Atlantic
Auschwitz
Pearl Harbor
Iwo Jima
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

[Iggo]

92. Death Valley.

Of course.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

94. Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, Oklahoma City, OK

I've been through the Memorial Museum and on the outdoor memorial. Very heavy stuff but worth going through.

I am acquainted with the widow of one of the victims through my hubby's sister. Hubby & his sister grew up in OKC.

[Mira]

96. Two off the bat

Berlin Wall Aug. 13 - 1961
I woke up, and there it was. Houses split, windows bricked, tunnels interrupted, roads blocked - families split, no pity, no mercy.

and
Dachau - I lived close to it in my youth.

[Selatius]

98. Ludlow, Colorado, site of the infamous Ludlow Massacre where two dozen people were torched to death

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Massacre

[UnrepentantLiberal]

99. Ukrainian SSR

[Tommy_Carcetti]

115. How so? nt

[UnrepentantLiberal]

116. Holodomor

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

[Tommy_Carcetti]

117. That's what I thought.

One of the lesser known yet truly horrific genocides of the 20th Century.

(I'm half Ukrainian, by the way. That's why I asked.)

[UnrepentantLiberal]

123. Horrific.

The numbers are hard to fathom.

[Buzz Clik]

102. Proctologist

[TorchTheWitch]

103. Eastern State Penitentiary

Creepiest damn place I've ever been or seen. I still can't get up the nerve to actually go inside. The outside is plenty enough to give me the major willies.

[hobbit709]

105. Biloxi, Mississippi

[2on2u]

106. It

[Robb]

108. Potsdamer Platz.

[bif]

109. Texas

[Bluenorthwest]

111. Laramie Wyoming

nt

[Tree-Hugger]

124. Just yesterday

A friend mentioned that she will be attending a wedding in Laramie. I got this instant feeling of a pit in my stomach the moment she said that name.

[SummerSnow]

113. and honorable mention..

Wasilla,Alaska
Gravesend, Brooklyn NY
K street

[JCMach1]

114. Olive Garden

[Rowdyboy]

118. Dealy Plaza, Dallas Texas

[Trailrider1951]

138. Yup, that's one

November 22, 1963 was 6 days before my 12th birthday.....I will NEVER forget.

[libodem]

119. That ranch in Texas

It starts with 'N' and ends with head? Why would anyone use a name like that?

Seriously stumped.

Signed
Clueless

[Tommy_Carcetti]

121. Edmund Pettus Bridge

[Jamastiene]

122. Westboro Baptist Church, Topeka, Kansas

How can such hatred and meanness flourish so easily?

Bath, Michigan
Specifically, the school there that was bombed in 1927.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103186662

16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama:
4 innocent children bombed and murdered due to hate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4_Little_Girls

The Trail of Tears
Wounded Knee
Auschwitz
Dachau
Columbine
Sandy Hook
Liberty University, Lynchburg, Virginia
Bob Jones University, Greenville, SC

and one that really bothers me to this day:
Imperial Foods, Hamlet, NC (where racism caused the deaths of 25 people and destroyed countless other lives, not during the civil rights era, but in 1991, because the assholes swore up and down AAs in nearby neighborhoods were stealing chicken parts and other parts to take home for dinner) My mother worked there until the month before the fire when she finally found a better job.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet_chicken_processing_plant_fire
But good luck finding any mention of the racist policy everyone who knew of the plant, worked at the plant, knew someone who worked at the plant, and locals who knew the history of the locked fire doors and why they were locked, on the Wiki page about it. That page has been sanitized to hide the truth and it still infuriates me that they are allowed to do that.

Edited to add a documentary that explains what it was like working there and on that day, for perspective:

[pinboy3niner]

127. The 'It's a Small World' ride at Disneyworld

[BainsBane]

129. Walla Walla, WA

If you had to live there, you would know.

[Deep13]

130. Nanking, Fredricksburg, Andersonville, Armenia nt

[Jamaal510]

131. YouTube comments section,

Stormfront, World Trade Center, Bay Bridge, Newsbusters, Everest College, and Urban Dictionary.

[mainer]

132. Megiddo. Where the world is supposed to end.

[graywarrior]

133. Lynn, MA

[grasswire]

134. Corregidor

My uncle was a prisoner of the Japanese from the fall until the liberation.

[mitchtv]

136. Texas, Kansas, Alabama

then TN.KY,GA, OK,AR SC, Jamaica, Caymans,
any catholic church, and on