Never been to St. Louis myself - bit far from Lancashire for a weekend trip - but I've been down enough rabbit holes about Pruitt-Igoe to know that place carries something heavy.
The scale of human suffering there is hard to wrap your head around. Thousands of people crammed into those towers, the neglect, the violence, then the whole thing just demolished like it never existed. That kind of collective trauma doesn't just vanish because you flatten the buildings. If anywhere's going to hold residual energy, it's a site like that.
What I find interesting is how many accounts describe that watched feeling specifically, rather than visual phenomena or EVP. I've done a fair bit of EVP recording around old mill sites up here in Lancashire and the watched sensation is always the first thing, before you capture anything on the Zoom H5. Like something clocking you before you clock it.
Did you go alone or in a group? And was it daytime or after dark? I've noticed the watched feeling tends to be stronger in daylight at industrial or residential ruins - something about being visibly out of place, I suppose, though that's probably not the whole explanation.
Also curious whether there's any restricted access issue now. Last I read the site's partially wooded over and fenced off in sections. Getting onto these kinds of locations without clearance tends to spike your anxiety anyway, which muddies the data.
Would genuinely love to hear what others experienced there. Anyone else made the trip?