Reasons why my town could be a cryptidcore town:
Already plenty of ghost stories, several of which are downtown by the waterfront alone.
My own house is 230+ years old and haunted by a little girl, there’s another house on my street that I think is around 300 years old.
Said ~300 year old house is owned by a woman who hosts a knitting club. There are constantly cars in her driveway. It’s a super old house. My sister and I are of the firm belief that she leads a knitting coven of witches.
There’s a creepy (and also super racist and misogynistic) cult that lives within walking distance of my house and also owns a store and deli downtown. They have tried to kidnap people.
Old buildings in general, just—everywhere.
Somewhere along the highway you can see an armchair sitting in the woods facing the road. No idea when, how, or why it was placed there.
The local mall is still functioning, but it’s so empty all the time that it’s practically abandoned.
Dunkins EVERYWHERE. Which is not at all abnormal for my area, but I work at one and it’s utter chaos. Things break ALL. THE. TIME. It has to be paranormal interference at this point. The dumpster out back is near a copse of trees and feels super creepy, especially at night in the pitch darkness.
There’s this one shop in the mall I went into over the summer with some friends. I had been to the mall less than a week before, and that shop had NOT been there. Then the owner started talking to us about the Johnny Depp trial like it was recent news. At that point in time it was not recent news. The next time I visited the mall that shop was in a completely different place than last time.
Seriously being in the mall late at night or very early in the morning is like a liminal space I swear to god.
There’s an antique store that used to contain a painting that gave me weird vibes and made the entire room it was in feel haunted.
When I was little I saw a crow in my front yard that to this very day I swear on my life was the size of a turkey. I never saw it again. Nobody believes me.
