He Booked A Stay At A Creepy Campground In Colorado, But The Location Didn't Exist

After having traveled to all 50 states, TikToker @tylers_tavern can safely say that the creepiest town he had ever been to was Cortez, Colorado.

So, he was headed to Mesa Verde, but stopped in Cortez for the night. He slept in his vehicle in a parking lot. While he was sleeping, someone started banging on his window, so he decided to move.

"The rest of the downtown looks abandoned," recalled @tylers_tavern. "The shops are all closed. They have shattered windows. It's a very weird town, so already, I'm not too fond of this."

He ended up finding a campground after driving around for a while. No one else was at the site, not a single person or trailer. He went up to the front office building and looked inside the windows, but the building also seemed to be empty.

He tried calling to see if anyone would come out to answer. As he was standing outside, watching the phone ring on the counter, someone picked up the phone, even though no one had made an appearance. He assumed there must be a double landline because a lady's voice answered.

She instructed him to go down a hill to the back of the campground and park anywhere in the grassy patch there. She also gave him the code to the bathroom and laundry room.

That night, he didn't sleep too well because he was in the middle of nowhere all by himself. The next morning, he woke up, and the place was still empty. Nobody was in the office or managing anything. Eventually, he showered, finished up his laundry, and left the site.

Six months later, he was telling a friend about the creepy campground and tried to look it up to show them, but it simply did not exist. He scrolled through his emails to search for the confirmation of his booking, but the emails were nowhere to be found.

"The only reason I know exactly where this campground was is because there was a shop in front of it that sold wooden art, like totem poles and carved stuff," said @tylers_tavern.

ekim - stock.adobe.com - illustrative purposes only - pictured above is a campfire burning in the woods

"I can find that shop, but the campground behind it does not exist on any single map."

Many TikTok users shared similar stories in the comments section about going to places that don't actually exist.

"Dad had a similar story, but in the Nevada desert between Vegas and Tonopah. Around 11 p.m., he was dozing off, pulled into a diner in the desert, and had coffee and pie before continuing to Vegas. The diner didn't exist and couldn't find it on his return," commented one user.

"My husband and I were driving through a neighboring city close to where we live. We drove past a Krispy Kreme with a line backed way out to the road, people everywhere. It was absolutely packed. The building looked super old. We are talking like 1980s Krispy Kreme that hadn't been updated since. Kept on about our drive. I went home and Googled Krispy Kreme in said town. No results," wrote another.

"Similar thing happened to me as a kid. My mom was looking for a house to buy. We found an old Victorian-style home. My brothers and I loved it so much. We went back a second time, and it was gone. Like it never existed. A tree was where it was, too," added a third.

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