13 Abandoned Buildings In Arkansas That Could Easily Be From Horror Films
By J.B. VanDyke|Published October 17, 2016
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J.B. VanDyke
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J.B. Weisenfels has lived in rural Arkansas for three decades. She is a writer, a mom, and a graduate student. She is also an avid collector of tacky fish whatnots, slightly chipped teapots, and other old things. In her spare time she enjoys driving to the nearest creek to sit a while. If you were to visit her, she'd try to feed you cornbread.
Abandoned buildings don’t creep me out, and they might not creep you out either, but let us stretch our imaginations for the length of this post. It’s October, everybody’s favorite time for the creepy and macabre, and we might as well embrace it. Let’s try to reimagine these buildings in a darker light—even in the total absence of light. Let’s let serial killers and ghostly apparitions run around in our minds for a little bit. Hollywood has delighted and terrified us for decades with movie plots based around creepy old buildings; in this post we’ll look at photos of eerie buildings from all over the Natural State, and imagine them as those intrepid screenwriters might.
1. This abandoned service station in White County.
No one has ever been tortured in this oddly placed, lonely chair right in the middle of the room. You’re just imagining that it looks like the spirit of a former victim is leaning back in the chair ever so slightly.
I’m not saying a transient axe murderer lives here only during the full moon. But I am saying that if my band of unlikely heroes and I need to shelter for the night, I’d prefer to stay in that group of trees in the distance.
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4. The square window of probable ghostly apparitions in Boston.
Scene: Nice family tucked into adorable old farm house, fast asleep. A dark shadow lurks outside their window and creeps slowly across the outer wall of their peaceful home . . .
6. The last standing tower of Oklahoma Row at Beaver Lake.
Just imagine if the ghosts of the tourists who once stayed in this hotel at Monte Ne finally came back to visit consequences on the vandals who desecrated their favorite tower.
7. The hallway of this abandoned hospital hiding in rural Arkansas . . .
. . . definitely just shows a plain old light from this earthly realm we live in and has nothing to do with a ghastly nurse holding a bright light, searching for a long lost patient.
This house is completely uninhabited. And no one is going to chase you with a chainsaw if you go in alone, at night, while no one else is around to hear your screams.
It definitely wasn’t the site of a grisly murder, but man does it look like a good setting for a movie about the haunting of the people who buy it to fix it up.
12. The old general office of the Rock Island Line in Little Rock
. . . really is just a cool old abandoned building, but if you’re writing a screenplay about heavy steps on an old wooden floor that only appear one night per year when the moon is dark and the chill is just settling in the air, you couldn’t find a better setting for your pitch.
To read the true stories behind the most abandoned places in Arkansas, click here. For a haunted road trip you shouldn’t miss, try this one. If you’re wondering about true stories that are way creepier than anything you can imagine, read these.
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