Last night, I made a very poor choice of watching
Most Haunted on the Travel Channel. I was watching an episode about a house in England where these kids were murdered and good Lord, it was horrible. Which got me to thinking:
What's the scariest place you've ever been?For me, it is a
pre-Civil War slaughterhouse in West Virginia (pre-Civil War enough to have been from pre-West Virginia). My friends and I used to drive by it all the time when going up to the Potomac River, finally deciding to explore it one night whilst drunk. The slaughterhouse itself is shockingly small, probably allowing enough room for one cow at a time. It's an old wooden farmhouse, and is scary enough as it is, but what's worse is that all of the grass growing around the house is dead. For a good half mile. Because of the volume of cattle and cattle byproduct (including blood) on the land all day and all night for years, the land is totally barren.
My friends and I went in with a flashlight, and found that there was a gaping hole down to a cellar below. The cellar, when we looked down, was finished with walls but empty. In the center of the cellar, directly beneath the hole, was a
blood collection well.
After about five minutes inside the slaughterhouse, we decided it would probably be wise to sprint back to the car with as much speed as humanly possible. What's so scary about the slaughterhouse isn't weird noises or anything like that; it's the lack of noise. Inside the slaughterhouse and outside on the field, it's completely silent. Because the land has been cleared out, there are no birds or cicadas or anything in the trees. It's just empty land, totally dead.
Thinking about it now still freaks me out!
What's the scariest place you've ever been?
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My High School was a rebuilt school because back in the 50's or whatever it burnt down. One day we had to make a movie for English and we decided to make a scary movie so we went to visit the Old High School up in the mountains, in the middle of the sugar cane fields. Now even tho it was in the middle of the day I decided to venture off alone and got quite scared from all the broken down walls and charred desk and chairs.
We got kicked out before anything else happened. But it was still pretty scary.
Does driving in the midst of a Tornado count? Mom, grandpa & I were on the way to Louisiana in 1999 to visit relatives & I was asleep in the back when a LOUD thunderclap woke me up & grandpa said it was a tornado storm going on & it was best we kept moving. One of the scariest & coolest moments was when the lightening light up the sky like daylight & it was dark as midnight outside, And we were on the interstate road so it was like driving into nothing.
We got through it ok, Thank God, but watching the aftermath on the news the next day was creepy.
creepy all the grass is dead!? scariest place was an incident. our septic tank backed up (gross) and i had to hold the flashlight for my dad, it was dead dark out and we heard something in the background. out of dumb curiosity i flashed the light and saw just a pile of wood. gosh scariest thing ever because the noise was right next to us.
after a shit is taken in the restroom
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This bathroom in Canada.
It's scarier that it sounds.
When I was in middle school, the summer camp I went to always used to tell super-scary stories about how the camp was once a community for the criminally insane. During weekend stayover, the camp director took us to the abandoned asylum near his house, which was the source of all the camp myths.
The place was just as creepy as you'd expect an abandoned asylum to be, and there was some sort of animal cemetery out in the woods behind it. The whole area seemed generally lonely and angry at the same time. And they called the place Sunnyside, which only added to the creepiness of the whole thing.
Needless to say I had a hard time sleeping upon returning to camp the week after.
It's a toss up between a public toilet in London, and on an Xangan site with a bunch of Wacko Jacko lovers and a differing opinion with the word paedophile in the middle (of the opinion). LOL
A psychiatric hospital surrounded by people like a X -pro football player who plucked his own eyeball out with a screwdriver , or a woman who tried to put a lit match down the hose of a gas station pump.
getting stuck with no ride, no cell phone at 2am in Southside Chicago.
i thought i was going to get mugged or raped or murdered or any combination of the 3.
i'm not really afraid of ghosts... just more afraid of criminals in southside. Maybe because I don't watch those travel channel shows, but watch local news instead.
Any of the native Iban longhouses in Sarawak, Borneo with dozens of skulls hanging up on the ceiling! Try sleeping underneath those skulls at night.
The "witches grave" on 6 mile rd. There is a tree growing out of it that is half alive and half dead.
My farmhouse, which is over 100 years old! A long time ago someone was murdered just across the road. So that plus the creepy noises old farmhouses make scares the crap outta me especially when I'm alone there at night!
I go to camps but usually it's a whole bunch of people, like at least 1000 and everyone's tents are close and it's safe.. a lot of open space. One time a group of my friends and I went to camp alone, and it was in the middle of the woods... one of the nights my friend's mom decided she wanted to go exploring and we took our flashlights to go... we didn't get far because we started hearing noises and thought it was animals and my friend grabbed the flashlight she was sharing and ran leaving me in the dark. scariest thing ever because i'm scared of the dark! I sleep with a night light, so imagine me being in the woods in the dark and hearing noises... I was screaming for my life..
I got lost in the wrong part of Hollywood. there were prostitutes, gangster looking guys, and just creeps. I was walking around with know idea were I was (intoxicated of course) just paranoid as shit every time I passed an alley, or a car past me with loud music. I've never been to anything that was haunted.. at least not yet.
public toilets in china.
our house ;)
this random abandoned hotel
I live in Houston and have been here for 12 years. There is a house not far from mine that has been bought and sold 27 times, in 12 years. The orginal owners of the home died from carbon monixide poisoning. Husband, wife and 3 kids. The second owners, the wife drowned in the pool, the husband went insane after his wife's death and killed their 2 boys as well as himself. The third owners lost all of their money during a business deal. The husband committed suicide. Shortly after, their only child was killed when a tree limb from their property crushed him while he was playing in the backyard. The wife is currently in a mental hospital. This house is beyond cursed. Every single family who has ever bought this house has had some sort of horrible thing happen to them. Those that haven't move out as quickly as possible. The house has been "swept" over 100 times. My friend is currently the Realtor for this house. She is trying to get out of her contract. Too terrified to be there, will not go inside without somebody else with her even during the day and will not even drive by the home at night.
Pig's Road.......its just a super scary road outside my town, its a dirt road, there is no winter maintenance, and I dunno. there are just a bunch of scary myths about that place and every time we go there, we hear sketchy noises. and this really sketchy fog always just like hangs in the air over the road between the treelines. its spooky. >_<
for me, it'd be the Manila Hotel, located in Manila, the capital of my country, the Philippines. Manila Hotel's a very old hotel and many people can witness ghosts wandering around the rooms and hallways
THATS SO CREEPY.
BLOOD COLLECTION WELL.
D:
I haven't really been anywhere too scarey. Theres an abandoned mental asylum a few miles near me that I want to check out. I did want in the woods near there if that counts. I was a little scarey. We found an abandoned summer camp.
i'd like to go there. sometimes i think the scariest places are whereever i'm home alone in an unfamiliar place, watching a scary movie, i'm repeatedly reminded of the church i grew up in which is haunted but i've never been scared
I havent really been anywhere too scary...Unless I really cant think of anywhere I've been. Hmm. But I do want to go somwhere and experience the thriller! :D
I forgot what its called.. but it was this really old, and beat up high school in some part I think it was Linden, NJ... something with a L. It was scarry... like damn.