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>hitch a ride with a bunch of strangers
>do some small talk
>driver and one of the other passengers happen to have lived in roughly the same area
>they both had to drive through the same small town on the regular
>pic related, Affeln, ~1000 inhabitants, Sauerland, Germany
>they both agreed it was a creepy place, gave them shivers and a bad mood every time they went through
>people staring and looking really weird
>as if telling them to just go away
I don't know anything more specific than this, but it sounded like the Innsmouth Look to me. Intriguing that they both agreed that the place was creepy, even though they didn't know each other before that day and definitely hadn't been there together.