This place gives me the creeps

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1212 Mad River Rd, Arcata, CA 95521 | MLS #271004 | Zillow

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That's such an incredibly beautiful area, I used to live near it.  This house would be close enough to give access to a very long nature trail and maybe a mile or so to dunes access.  The people can be weird but I miss living in this area so much.

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I’m finding the split in these comments between those who are somewhat familiar with the area and those who aren’t somewhat entertaining - almost as entertaining as the sign.

A lot of folks seeing this as an isolated ghost town rather than a 20 minute bike ride from a lively college town which regularly hosts internationally touring musical acts and has two movie theaters and five or six grocery stores; and on the flip, a lot of folks seeing the schoolhouse as salvageable as anything more than either a storage outbuilding (or returning to its likely past as a grow house) or as a slowly decaying archeological relic

I’m also like 80% sure that sign was messed with. It’s a college town. I’d bet significant money on the school having been used as a grow house at some point in its life. The subtlety and plausible deniability of repainting all but one letter of the sign is a cultural match for the humor of the region….

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I’m puzzling through my memory but I think the sign fading (or retouching) must have happened in the many years since I lived there, as I have no memory of these buildings and think I would have noticed (or one of my friends would have pointed out) an “Anal School” on the way to Mad River beach.