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.

I’m not saying that there are zombies in this gas station, but I’m also not not saying this gas station looks like it probably has some zombies in it.

2. This other 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.

3. The abandoned shack of horror in Charleston.

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.

4. The square window of probable ghostly apparitions in Boston.

Can’t you just imagine the specter of a woman gazing out of that window, crying over her long lost love, angry that he still hasn't returned?

5. The site of an imaginary mass murder in Cane Hill.

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.

8. This home in Madison County.

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.

9. This 1940s church in Hempstead County.

There definitely wasn’t a dimension-ripping exorcism that lead to this church being abandoned . . . right?

10. This tiny abandoned building in Little Rock.

There’s no reason to think an aging 18th century vampire is lurking in there, waiting for a fresh neck to walk by.

11. This beautiful old home in Marshall.

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

It was boarded up to keep people out instead of keeping spirits in, but can you imagine if the opposite were true?

13. The general store in the Rush ghost town . . .

. . . 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.

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