Many of the “ghost towns” in Texas aren’t actually so – Terlingua and Barstow, for example, have enough residents to lessen the eeriness by far. It took a little digging to find a place so desolate and barren that simply driving on its streets will send chills up your spine. That place is Glenrio. There are no known residents of the town anymore, so be very alarmed if you see shadows darting around out of the corner of your eye. Oh, and all the abandoned buildings? I wouldn’t get near them if I were you…ghosts tend to make their homes in these exact structures – ones with heavy energy from forgotten memories and broken dreams that they can feed on. Check it out for yourself.
As you drive through the town’s unpaved dirt roads, the familiar sense of malaise and eeriness may start to cultivate in the pit of your stomach.
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You’ll drive past the old Juarez Diner that hasn’t seen a single patron in decades…
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…and an abandoned gas station that long ago stopped fueling any cars.
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The heaviness of broken dreams and forgotten memories will weigh you down like a sandbag…
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…and you might see shadows in your periphery, darting out of sight just as you turn to look at them.
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You’ll write it off as people, but nobody has ever seen a human being when driving through modern-day Glen Rio.
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Even if you don’t see a ghost, the silence will be so deafening that someone might as well be watching you as intently as ever.
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But, such is life in deserted towns, I suppose…or, I should say, such ISN’T life…
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Have you ever driven through Glenrio? What was your experience like?
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