Midnight is an unincorporated community located in Humphreys County, Mississippi, United States.
According to tradition, the original town site was won in a midnight poker hand, hence the name of the community.
[4] On March 24, 2023, a large and extremely destructive wedge tornado struck Midnight, causing severe damage.
Bengali explains that the clapboard houses, which were built almost one century before 2010, "rot on their cinder-block legs, tilting at crazy angles" and that Midnight's principal road is "dotted with abandoned or half-burned cabins that, older residents complain, young men disappear into to shoot dice or smoke pot as the days fade into dusk.
In the 2000 film, Where the Heart Is, starring Natalie Portman, an older couple came from Midnight to reprimand Novalee for having her baby out of wedlock.