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The worst place in California?2024 Sep 20
Is the tiny city of Trona, California the worst place in the state? Well, according to the description on Tobias Zielony's photography book about the place, it is "possibly the worst place in America, if not the world." Enter the link, a 2019 "Anomalous Phenomena Investigation" free Wordpress site article by Cindy Nunn talking about a possibly haunted home in the town. The haunting isn't terribly interesting on the surface – it's all circumspect speculation and 'bad energy' – but keep reading until you get to the article's post-script, because this is one of those situations where the post-script overwhelms the original text.
Apparently, after posting her Trona ghost-hunting piece, Nunn received a wealth of hate for her article's description of the town's destitution (although the blog's comments do not reflect this, maybe she deleted them?), and here in the post-script she responds by citing many, many source texts which don't pull punches in their disgust with Trona, and then she's wholesome enough to ask the haters for an apology. But these quotes she finds are amazingly bleak, describing a town ignored by law enforcement, with meth usage in abundance accompanied as it always is by petty theft and assault and burned buildings. And the cherry on top is that "dominating the landscape [is] the Mosaic Company chemical plant, which spew[s] noxious white smoke into the air. There [is] a sulfur-like aroma." Ahh, paradise.
Is the tiny city of Trona, California the worst place in the state? Well, according to the description on Tobias Zielony's photography book about the place, it is "possibly the worst place in America, if not the world." Enter the link, a 2019 "Anomalous Phenomena Investigation" free Wordpress site article by Cindy Nunn talking about a possibly haunted home in the town. The haunting isn't terribly interesting on the surface – it's all circumspect speculation and 'bad energy' – but keep reading until you get to the article's post-script, because this is one of those situations where the post-script overwhelms the original text.
Apparently, after posting her Trona ghost-hunting piece, Nunn received a wealth of hate for her article's description of the town's destitution (although the blog's comments do not reflect this, maybe she deleted them?), and here in the post-script she responds by citing many, many source texts which don't pull punches in their disgust with Trona, and then she's wholesome enough to ask the haters for an apology. But these quotes she finds are amazingly bleak, describing a town ignored by law enforcement, with meth usage in abundance accompanied as it always is by petty theft and assault and burned buildings. And the cherry on top is that "dominating the landscape [is] the Mosaic Company chemical plant, which spew[s] noxious white smoke into the air. There [is] a sulfur-like aroma." Ahh, paradise.