Posted: 1/2/2026 4:10:01 PM EDT
| Every weird show deserts are always spooky living there . Do you ever get creeped out living there ? |
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Quoted: Living in a heavily wooded, sparsely populated area is significantly creepier, IMO. At least you have plenty of visibility with a desert. Our subdivision has 50 homes on 250 acres of dense forest. Adjacent plots undeveloped. I have two homes visible from my porch and none in the backyard. Ravines separate each cul de sac. Only one road in. It is absolutely spooky during new moons. |
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Quoted: Our subdivision has 50 homes on 250 acres of dense forest. Adjacent plots undeveloped. I have two homes visible from my porch and none in the backyard. Ravines separate each cul de sac. Only one road in. It is absolutely spooky during new moons. Reminds me of CCR.   Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bad Moon Rising (Official Lyric Video) |
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Quoted: Living in a heavily wooded, sparsely populated area is significantly creepier, IMO. At least you have plenty of visibility with a desert. There's different types of desert. Around here there's tons of ravines. Most scrub is 10 feet+. Your line of sight is hindered unless you're at the top of a hill. The desert in NW AZ has tons of flat land and the scrub is sparse and usually less than knee to waist high. You can see a good distance. |
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Quoted: Living in a heavily wooded, sparsely populated area is significantly creepier, IMO. At least you have plenty of visibility with a desert. Creepiest place Ive ever been was when I took a friend into Grand Rapid for some appointment. I had nothing to do so I decided to walk around. It was sometime in the fall so it was getting dark a little early. I took off walking about an hour before dark I'd guess. I made it less than a block and I began to notice none of the lawns looked well maintained. Thought that was weird. Then I started to realize there was litter everywhere. Empty bottles of booze, empty cigarette packs, all sorts of other assorterd debris. I didnt see many people out an about, but every one I did was black. I made it some more blocks away and up ahead I could see a party store that was set back off the street with a large parking lot in front of it. The parkign lot was full of all black people just standing around I guess drinking. I decided to not walk by them, because Im white and I think they'd know I wasnt from there. Most of them are probably cool, but it only takes one drunk with some bone to pick and I'd have trouble because Im sure he has friends. Anyway I walked a bit further, passed some people. I'd greet them and they'd ignore me. Like ok then, this is why people dont want to live by you, you're rude. Walked by some kids that were probably drug dealers. Just sitting on their bikes on the corners. Now the creepy part. What was mostly quiet and not a lot of people started to get busier and busier. I thought that's weird, it's getting dark. It was literally becoming more active as the sun went down. People were coming in and out of houses. Groups were gathering on porches. I decided then I should probably make my way back to my car. |
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Quoted: There's different types of desert. Around here there's tons of ravines. Most scrub is 10 feet+. Your line of sight is hindered unless you're at the top of a hill. The desert in NW AZ has tons of flat land and the scrub is sparse and usually less than knee to waist high. You can see a good distance. Having lived in the central desert north of Phoenix, in the NE AZ high desert, and in the forests leading up to the high desert plateau, you're spot on. Central desert the brush is pretty thick. It's not all that spooky but you hear wildlife rustling around sometimes. NE desert is closer to a moonscape, it redefined what I think of when I think desert. It's spooky mostly due to the lack of life, and in the winter how it gets just dead quiet. I think it's creepier due to it being in kind of an uncanny valley. Also in the spring when the winds start and all you hear is wind for days is creepy too. Forest at night makes me a lot more nervous. As mentioned above new moons in the forest can be kind of disturbing. It's one thing to hear things moving and have moonlight, it's another to have it happen in the dark. The scariest is to not hear anything, then turn on a light and find you're not alone because some critter managed to move next to you silently, or waking up in the morning and seeing cougar tracks coming right up to a window and never having known they were there. |
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Quoted: I visited a friend who lives in the desert. After dark we stood on his deck and pointed a UV flash light towards the ground below. Nearly the entire surface appeared to be moving from scorpions walking around the rocks and sand. Hope this helps. I very much don't like that at all. |
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Quoted: Living in a heavily wooded, sparsely populated area is significantly creepier, IMO. At least you have plenty of visibility with a desert. I feel naked without the warm embrace of a thick forest. The desert creeps me out with how naked and exposed you feel. |
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It's peaceful. I love the high desert. It demands respect. Once you spend enough time in an area, you become the thing that goes bump in the night. Pretty sure I've inadvertently creeped some out-of-towners out when stumbling across them on roads they don't belong on, or tracking copper-thieving tweakers by the bad alignment on their meth van. |
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Quoted: Creepiest place Ive ever been was when I took a friend into Grand Rapid for some appointment. I had nothing to do so I decided to walk around. It was sometime in the fall so it was getting dark a little early. I took off walking about an hour before dark I'd guess. I made it less than a block and I began to notice none of the lawns looked well maintained. Thought that was weird. Then I started to realize there was litter everywhere. Empty bottles of booze, empty cigarette packs, all sorts of other assorterd debris. I didnt see many people out an about, but every one I did was black. I made it some more blocks away and up ahead I could see a party store that was set back off the street with a large parking lot in front of it. The parkign lot was full of all black people just standing around I guess drinking. I decided to not walk by them, because Im white and I think they'd know I wasnt from there. Most of them are probably cool, but it only takes one drunk with some bone to pick and I'd have trouble because Im sure he has friends. Anyway I walked a bit further, passed some people. I'd greet them and they'd ignore me. Like ok then, this is why people dont want to live by you, you're rude. Walked by some kids that were probably drug dealers. Just sitting on their bikes on the corners. Now the creepy part. What was mostly quiet and not a lot of people started to get busier and busier. I thought that's weird, it's getting dark. It was literally becoming more active as the sun went down. People were coming in and out of houses. Groups were gathering on porches. I decided then I should probably make my way back to my car.  I'll pass. 
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Not bad, kinda wild living in Vegas on the edge of town, if I look towards the city on my back porch it's bright and bustling with lights. Looking off the front porch it's dark and quiet. When I want to shoot I drive 30 minutes to the desert where nobody else is, I can shoot how I want where I want at about any distance I want. Yea sometimes SxSs come down the road and l stop shooting out of courtesy (I'm not shooting across or down any roads) because I'm shooting next to the road. Night shooting before nods could get could get you a little on spooked out when it's pitch black and coyotes start singing around you but they arent singing to you so it's not really an issue. |
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I, for one, love the desert and can't imagine living anywhere else. The peace, beauty and tranquility. For years, coming out here has been my mental therapy. You can spend days out here and talk to nobody else, perfect. Attached File Attached File Attached File Attached File |
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Quoted: I, for one, love the desert and can't imagine living anywhere else. The peace, beauty and tranquility. For years, coming out here has been my mental therapy. You can spend days out here and talk to nobody else, perfect. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/45352/20240721_201926__Medium__jpg-3686767.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/45352/20241010_065309__Medium__jpg-3686768.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/45352/20250516_115556__Medium__jpg-3686769.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/45352/20251214_133630__Medium___1__jpg-3686770.JPG Beautiful country! |
Way too quiet, this is correct: Southern Evenings (Dark Screen) - 8 Hours of Cicadas & Cricket Night Sounds for Sleep & Relaxation |
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Quoted: Quoted: Creepiest place Ive ever been was when I took a friend into Grand Rapid for some appointment. I had nothing to do so I decided to walk around. It was sometime in the fall so it was getting dark a little early. I took off walking about an hour before dark I'd guess. I made it less than a block and I began to notice none of the lawns looked well maintained. Thought that was weird. Then I started to realize there was litter everywhere. Empty bottles of booze, empty cigarette packs, all sorts of other assorterd debris. I didnt see many people out an about, but every one I did was black. I made it some more blocks away and up ahead I could see a party store that was set back off the street with a large parking lot in front of it. The parkign lot was full of all black people just standing around I guess drinking. I decided to not walk by them, because Im white and I think they'd know I wasnt from there. Most of them are probably cool, but it only takes one drunk with some bone to pick and I'd have trouble because Im sure he has friends. Anyway I walked a bit further, passed some people. I'd greet them and they'd ignore me. Like ok then, this is why people dont want to live by you, you're rude. Walked by some kids that were probably drug dealers. Just sitting on their bikes on the corners. Now the creepy part. What was mostly quiet and not a lot of people started to get busier and busier. I thought that's weird, it's getting dark. It was literally becoming more active as the sun went down. People were coming in and out of houses. Groups were gathering on porches. I decided then I should probably make my way back to my car. https://media3.giphy.com/media/spfi6nabVuq5y/200.webp?cid=8dc8958cmbu6r1c7pqzbhln1q7vej10fgnbx68xigz9970uz&ep=v1_gifs_trending&rid=200.webp&ct=g I'll pass. Yea I’d much rather be alone in the middle of the woods at night than in the hood of any major city after dark. |
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Quoted: I, for one, love the desert and can't imagine living anywhere else. The peace, beauty and tranquility. For years, coming out here has been my mental therapy. You can spend days out here and talk to nobody else, perfect. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/45352/20240721_201926__Medium__jpg-3686767.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/45352/20241010_065309__Medium__jpg-3686768.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/45352/20250516_115556__Medium__jpg-3686769.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/45352/20251214_133630__Medium___1__jpg-3686770.JPG This guy gets it. Keep thinking the desert is boring and ugly everyone. |
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I used to live in Phoenix for many years. The desert is awesome, I really miss it. Not so much the close calls with buzzworms but its really not that bad. Mother Nature is always out there no matter where you live. These days Im always looking and listening for Grizzly bears and last time I checked you cant take a couple Benadryl for a bear mauling unlike scorpion stings. |
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Joe Rogan talked in a podcast about how staying at a house on the ocean freaked him out because the ocean is just right outside and goes on an on. I had honestly never considered the ocean creepy or thought anyone might feel that way. For the desert, when I was younger in college, I used to just go camp in the BLM mountain west desert in Utah for no reason. Not like with a tent or anything. I just kept guns and firewood and same canned food in my trunk and sometimes after work I'd just go to the desert instead of home and just light a fire, shoot stuff, and just reflect and watch the stars and sleep on the ground in a sleeping bag. At one point I upgraded to a cot to avoid the possibility of snakes crawling in but I never had a problem. I never felt creeped out though. |
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I spent some time in southern Utah a few years ago. Outside the tourist areas, the small towns were depressing and creepy. Everywhere seemed isolated, dry, hot, dusty, and impoverished. Even the people were dusty. Locals seemed to be all connected like they were all keeping secrets. Felt like serial killer country. I could imagine the bodies buried out in the desert. |
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Quoted: I spent some time in southern Utah a few years ago. Outside the tourist areas, the small towns were depressing and creepy. Everywhere seemed isolated, dry, hot, dusty, and impoverished. Even the people were dusty. Locals seemed to be all connected like they were all keeping secrets. Felt like serial killer country. I could imagine the bodies buried out in the desert. Sometimes we are. One ranching family an hour or two away apparently had a habit of dropping bodies down mine shafts. |
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I have a neighbor about four miles away that creeps me out cuz he runs and jumps into one of his trailers when I drive by. He might think I'm a Fed, or maybe he's an illegitimate son of Charlie Manson... Otherwise I can see several hundred acres around me so, unless someone is a reincarnated Shoshone warrior crawling through the sagebrush, I feel pretty safe. Except for the rattlesnakes... I worry more about breaking my leg and my satellite rescue thingie in the same fall. |
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Quoted: I think they're already here. Quoted: Quoted: Nice! I just told any and all liberals I know about AZ and they're gonna move there! I think they're already here. Well there goes my plans of moving to AZ you can have all those gosh darn democrats. Luckily there are absolutely NONE in FL. |
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Quoted: Every weird show deserts are always spooky living there . Do you ever get creeped out living there ? Desert is entirely unspooky. You can essentially see everything, including possible threats/predators from a long way out. Now forests? Hard pass at night, much prefer the desert. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Creepiest place Ive ever been was when I took a friend into Grand Rapid for some appointment. I had nothing to do so I decided to walk around. It was sometime in the fall so it was getting dark a little early. I took off walking about an hour before dark I'd guess. I made it less than a block and I began to notice none of the lawns looked well maintained. Thought that was weird. Then I started to realize there was litter everywhere. Empty bottles of booze, empty cigarette packs, all sorts of other assorterd debris. I didnt see many people out an about, but every one I did was black. I made it some more blocks away and up ahead I could see a party store that was set back off the street with a large parking lot in front of it. The parkign lot was full of all black people just standing around I guess drinking. I decided to not walk by them, because Im white and I think they'd know I wasnt from there. Most of them are probably cool, but it only takes one drunk with some bone to pick and I'd have trouble because Im sure he has friends. Anyway I walked a bit further, passed some people. I'd greet them and they'd ignore me. Like ok then, this is why people dont want to live by you, you're rude. Walked by some kids that were probably drug dealers. Just sitting on their bikes on the corners. Now the creepy part. What was mostly quiet and not a lot of people started to get busier and busier. I thought that's weird, it's getting dark. It was literally becoming more active as the sun went down. People were coming in and out of houses. Groups were gathering on porches. I decided then I should probably make my way back to my car. https://media3.giphy.com/media/spfi6nabVuq5y/200.webp?cid=8dc8958cmbu6r1c7pqzbhln1q7vej10fgnbx68xigz9970uz&ep=v1_gifs_trending&rid=200.webp&ct=g I'll pass. It was mostly because Im white and dress like a weirdo. Those 2 together people from the area wold recognize me as not being from around there. I told the story to somebody else and they said the way I dress might have been an advantage because I "look like somebody who doesnt give a fuck". Since then I've read that ghetto people interpret friendliness as weakness. Like lol where Im from I wave at people driving by. I say hello to people I walk by on the sidewalk because that's just what we do. 20 years ago I lived in Grand Rapids briefly and remember some guy coming up to me and asking for a smoke. I didnt smoke and was just like "I dont smoke". I guess something like that is also a way a would be robber sizes up a potential victim. |
