Dark clouds over Iowa and Nebraska
Taken April 2022
Iowa, in early spring
Taken April 2022
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Anonymous asked:
i live in iowa, which means we have local, mostly untended cemeteries, and at least once a year i make it a point to go round to 'my' cemetery near where my great grandfather was raised. there's a handful of modern graves from the 50's up front, but if you go behind a specific tree in the back right corner, there's civil war graves. i'm not sure why i keep going back but it feels right. it's always clean and well-kept but i've never seen another person there. am i going to get haunted?
I’d say if you’re being called back to a specific place year after year, you’re in no danger of anything that hasn’t already happened. It sounds like that cemetery already haunts you in one sense of the word, and that that isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
Anonymous asked:
ive been living in iowa since i was 4, and i have to say, some parts of the state do have an odd vibe to it. when im on my way to newton to visit family, theres a vast expanse of nothing but corn with a single billboard on a hill that says "jesus is here" thats been there ever since i moved here. ive never seen anyone except us driving down the road around there. there is a house if you drive a little farther, but its rotting from the inside out. its such an odd place and it feels a bit cursed.
This is the most peak #midwestern gothic description I’ve ever read. I’ve lived next to Iowa for most of my life and I’m not entirely sure it’s real.
Anonymous asked:
After attending a funeral in Iowa the other day, I was reminded of this really creepy running joke/myth that exists in the area I was in. So every house has one of those metal barn stars, right? It's a cult. They all pay fees every year, and in turn the leader of the cult offers protection from whatever is hiding out in the corn fields behind town. My cousin and I always joke that the secret headquarters is in this weird round building by the water tower. Nobody knows what's actually in there.
I would read this story/watch this movie in a second, it’s such a good premise! There are so many weird symbols on barns that everyone seems to have and no one remembers buying, so I wouldn’t be surprised if they mean something that everyone has long forgotten either.
top 5 in iowa?
Answered here! (For some reason, I never tagged this as Iowa, sorry!)
rachelblairy replied to your post “Top 5 places in Iowa? (I just moved here. Hoping to find places to...”
technically illinois but the john deere museum in moline - the quad cities area in general has a lot of fun events and things to do
Definitely seconded!
Anonymous asked:
Top 5 places in Iowa? (I just moved here. Hoping to find places to visit!)
I can try, but I’ve really only been through Iowa on the way to other states so if any of my followers have more advice for this anon, please share!
1) Lake Red Rock and Red Rock Dam
2) The memorial to Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, the Big Bopper at Clear Lake
3) Iowa 80 Truck Stop near Iowa City
4) Effigy Mounds National Monument
5) Principal Park, Des Moines (because I had to mention the Iowa Cubs at least once)
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after an awfully long but enjoyable hike (ft a cool forest and a friend!) i made it to The Bridge™! its so cool i live literally a ten minute walk from here hahah. its literally another reality, ESPECIALLY at that one point during sundown where the sun’s not poking through trees anymore but the sky is still somewhat lit up. you know what im talking about.
yo, its the friendly iowan raccoon dude! i recently went exploring in a local park and found a path that leads under one of my main bridges and let me tell you that was wild. the shift from forest and woods to the mere sound of cars driving over the bridge and just my sister and i's voices bouncing off the concrete underbelly of it was another dimension. climbing up to small spaces just big enough to comfortably sit under with nothing but the sound of tires was something ill be going back to.
Oooh, that’s neat! I love the weird almost-underwater feel of being alone under bridges or piers while people or cars move over you. I used to hide out under a restaurant balcony when I was a kid, where I could hear all the people above me talking and wandering around in a weirdly muffled way, and all the geese from the pond the balcony was overlooking would cluster around me (I was a weird kid but it felt safe and happy and private to me).
Anonymous asked:
Speaking of off feeling Iowa towns... Checkout Mount Ayr, Iowa. Small geographical oddity that claims to be home too one of the most haunted settler cemeteries in the state: Tedrow Cemetery. I have some blood buried out there and for decades it's always felt like the family has a curse hanging over it.
Okay I’ve been talking about doing an Iowa roadtrip for ages and I just might have to do it this summer. I’m adding this to the list of places I’ll have to check out!
i went to iowa for the first time last year, a town called Oelwein. Something about it is very...off. That's the only way I can describe it. Some of the newer subdivisions are so fake looking it feels like it's some weird fake experiment or something, it's very strange. It intrigued me so much it actually inspired the short story I'm in the middle of writing. idk if you've ever heard of it, but I think it definitely fits what your blog is about. It felt like everyone there knew something i didnt
This is amazing, I’m always so happy to hear about places with vibes that just overwhelm visitors. I haven’t been the same since I went to a few places (Haviland, Kansas; Rankin Inlet, Nunavut; Gladstone, North Dakota; Finland, Minnesota)--they just all feel so overwhelmingly strange and give off such distinct energy that absolutely inspired me.
I’m definitely noting this town for the next time I’m driving through Iowa, I love to get recs for weird-feeling-towns :)
Anonymous asked:
Diving north on i-35 from Kansas City to Des Moine through northern Missouri has mysteriously god-forsaken energy, especially when it's overcast as the light of a winter day fades. No offense intended to the people of Missouri, I'm sure they're lovely, it just has the strongest feeling of something awful having happened, in a comfortable misty sort of way. Like if you linger at night you'll get captured by spirits of the winter fields, before reaching the bright lights of Des Moines restaurants
I’ve never driven that corner of Missouri, but the lights of Des Moines have a strange energy when you’re coming from the west on I-80 too. There’s an almost melancholy aspect to them, like they remember the end of many eras.
im born and raised in iowa and i can confirm we have huge 'dont look at the cornfields' vibes.. its not exactly scary but its like the 'talk to the cryptids in your backyard' vibe, like something's chilling and hiding and watching but it wont hurt you u know. essentially iowa just has the 7-11's at 2 am or thrift store late at night vibes but all the time
I genuinely can’t express how happy reading friendly-but-strange cryptid vibes makes me. Your asks remind me of the same type of “This World is Overwhelmingly Strange but Ultimately Kind” energy as Over the Garden Wall and it’s so good!