I Explored Six Backroads Towns Off Old, Two Lane Highways – MISSOURI

What I love about watching your channel is after 34 years of being an over the road trucker and now retired and working local here in Nashville is it reminds me of the places I used to go.

The best thing about it is that I would purposefully take back roads through small towns.

It's like going back in time.
I would look for sunny days either early in the morning to watch the sunrise in the shadows on the old abandoned buildings and old abandoned streets or watch the sunset creating shadows on the environment as I slowly drive by.

It always relaxed me and help me to sleep good that night wherever I would park in a truck stop or a rest area.

But I didn't look for cat sightings! 😽😽

Every now and then late at night I would see things that are not supposed to be seen. I think you know what I mean. I saw one twice one in Michigan and another one in ohio. And yes they are 100% real.

I remember one time I was the last truck to get loaded. The factory was closing for the night. 11pm I was the last truck to leave. As I was driving down a two lane highway heading back towards the interstate I crossed under a street light and there was the silhouette of a faded figure of an old man sitting next to me in the passenger seat in my 18-wheeler.

I can remember he was looking straight ahead and had an old beard. The signing lasted for about 2 to 3 seconds then he was gone after I entered back into the darkness of the old town.

I don't know if you and your wife have seen anything like this but the things I've seen in 34 years I could write a book.

Thanks for the videos. I'm a huge fan and always will be.
Stay safe out there and you two!

I love watching. I love road trips too. Been awhile since I’ve done it. Always amazed to see no kids out no walking and emptiness.

About the last property…With the medium income being $36,000.00 a year. How can one get approved for a home that is going to cost over a $100,000.00 ?

Have lived all over country growing up. Military. The biggest thing for me that Joe catalogs is the atrophy and decay of America..some of it is just the consequences of changing demographics for job creation. But a lot of it is the withering away of our industrial underpinning. We went from being the world's largest manufacturer to being an also ran second fiddle… Europe went through this after WW2. We started our downslide in the 70's.

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Regarding the "houses with a lot of stuff"….

This type of hoarding is largely a leftover symptom of the Great Depression, where, as you know, it was hard to find the items you needed on a day to day basis. The people who grew up then (who are now the grandparents of those living there, most likely) kept everything because "you never know when you might need it".

They had no way of anticipating how the world would change, how global manufacturing and supply chains would shift, how cheaply modern items would be made, or how this mindset would affect their kids and grandkids, but to this day they can't pass on "a good deal" even if they don't need what's being sold. They also don't value their time whatsoever, routinely buying or collecting things that need extensive repair or clean up, collecting things and filling up their houses and yards with worthless garbage over many years, just for it all to eventually be scrapped years later. Some of the items represent sentimental memories, but most are junk they picked up because "you never know when you'll need something like that" or "you don't see one of those every day".

And now their kids and grandkids do the same thing except a higher percentage of items are cheap garbage even when they were new, let alone after a few years.

So I live in Liberal Missouri. It’s kind of funny listening to this because every single house you said was abandoned people still live, including the pink house.

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Missouri and Georgia are some of the greenest prettiest states.

I live In joplin mo and liberal, Lamar, and bronaugh are all around me. There are tons of backroad towns that are forgotten.

Great videos but where's all the people

Checking in from Greenfield MO crazy hearing about all these little towns that I drive through every day

Je pense pour les maisons abandonnées il se passent des choses bizarres c'est pour cela ils ont abandonné ces lieux magnifiques (hantes ou crimes)

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Simple lovely times!

7:12 that’s my work. We’re the largest independent twine and net wrap distributor in the nation. The white building one of our warehouses. I do not believe anyone that works there lives in Sheldon, except the owners. The boot store on the corner stays busy as well.

My home state! Thank you for the trip. You weren't too far from where I was born and some of my family still lives. Miss MO

Where are the people here

The town that restricts firearms has a crime problem. I wonder why.

I traveled the past few years and I went through many states.
I was sad to see our USA be so deserted.
We were booming up to the 1990 then since 2000…small towns vanished, people concentrated around big cities.
I was telling my friends that “let’s just say…a community of people” move into a ghost town (of course buy the town) and make the ghost town alive again…the greedy people like politicians, CEO etc, these people would come in and screw the whole thing again.

I don’t believe my state of NH has any abandoned towns.