My city scares the hell out of me

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I live in Houston, TX. Whenever I start to drive toward some really nice parts of Houston like the Medical Center (we're not talking the ghettos here), I just start to get these sensations of Absolute Evil. It's like Houston is some kind of portal into Hell. I get the same feeling when I head west into the most developed, gentrified areas of Houston like West University, Bellaire, River Oaks, Tanglewood, Hunter's Creek Village and Sugarland. It's not just 'uneasiness' that I feel; it's more like fear for my existence. I even tried living in Tanglewood for a year or so and the whole time I lived there I was constantly struggling with how creepy it felt to be living there, and I had to move the hell out of there. The crime rate is not bad in these places, and everybody living there seems totally content and happy. But living there and visiting those areas I just feel like I'm in a 50s horror movie, like "Invasion of the Body Snatchers." It's HORRIBLE!!!!!

Other parts of Houston don't feel 'Evil,' like Montrose, the Heights, parts of the Museum District and Midtown. These places have more of a 'real' vibe and are perfectly fine as far as I'm concerned. I could live here in Montrose for years without any problem.

I have lived on both coasts as well as in New Mexico, and I have never felt frightened this way anywhere else so this is very specific to Houston, TX. Anybody else out there feel like Houston, TX is some kind of portal into Hell?

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  • Avant-Garde
    10 years ago

    Perhaps, you should move?

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  • norm
    12 years ago

    I have seen some documentaries about Houston.

    Apparently, Hurricane Katrina made some permanent population changes.

    Houston's loss is New Orleans' gain

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  • SwimBikeRun
    13 years ago

    The only thing that I can think of that relates to hell is the heat. I swear I walk out of my apartment and have instant swamp ass.

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  • chunkybongo
    14 years ago

    Bets, I would probably agree with you except I grew up in Houston, TX, and the areas that don't scare the hell out of me have just as many EMFs if not more of them, since they are closer to the center of town.

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  • youizkrazy
    14 years ago

    thats weird. the country scares me but i love the city

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  • Bets_35
    14 years ago

    this might sound weird to you but there is a thing called electro magnetic field, (EMF) and if you are exposed to this in a high level then it can cause a sense f dread, paranoia, chlostrophobia and uneasy sick feelings. your hometown could have a lot of EMF in its surrounding area things like telephone masts and electricity towers give it off. :) just something to be aware of x

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    • [Old Memory]
      11 years ago

      i've heard of a emf gang but not what your saying about them

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    • blaster
      12 years ago

      Yep and there's gonna be sooo many fucked up brain sells over the ext few decades from all of that shit . Average thought strains have no idea just what's floating around in there environment now.
      For this reason I just hate mobile anything , the whole internet thing , the millions of tv channels and phone companies.
      If you see a map of their coverage , every country , any advanced anyway , are literally covered in every square inch now with electric fields of all kinds . We literally live inside a microwave oven and it's only the beginning.
      Not to say it isn't spooky living around there for other reasons but I'm just saying you bring up a huge point for all of us now and I just wish they'd rip the lot down , disconnect it all and invent somem else, wipe the slate totally clean and start over.

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    • Jen118584
      14 years ago

      This is true Bets! It's thought that some people are more sensitive to EMF's than others. I think I am. The electrical box in my apartment is right on the outside of my bathroom, and whenever I'm in my bathroom I feel paranoid as hell. And I felt that way before I read about the possible effects of EMF's.

      This is actually used by a lot of paranormal investigators to debunk people's beliefs that there is a haunting. A lot of people think that they use the EMF sensor to detect ghosts, but they're actually using it to detect abnormal levels of electromagnetic activity that could be causing hallucinations, paranoia, etc.

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  • cpe2204
    14 years ago

    wait- I never felt that way in West U or River Oaks. though.

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    • chunkybongo
      14 years ago

      West U and River Oaks aren't as bad as areas farther west outside the loop, but they have many of the same characteristics (homogeneity, abnormally pristine environment, a forced sense of enclosure, a fabricated sense of security, etc) and I begin to feel uneasy as I proceed westward and pass through these districts. I mean this.

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  • cpe2204
    14 years ago

    Houston suburbs tend to do that to people. I know, I lived there for several years and rarely left the inner loop.

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  • HoMiiE
    14 years ago

    OMGGGGGGGGGG I HAVE FAMILY THAT LIVES OUT IN TANGLEWOOD AND I SWEAR ON EVERYTHING WHEN I COME OUT THERE TO VISIT THEM IS LIKE I FEEL AS IF SOMETHIN BAD IS GOIN TO HAPPEN TO ME... I WOULD HAVE NEVER EXPECTED ANYONE TO FEEL THE SAME WAY I DO ABOUT THAT AREA, THANKS FOR YOUR POST!!!!

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