What's the creepiest place you've ever been to?
>>2858384The unofficial tunnels in Gibraltar. Saw a ghost.
>>2858384Salton Sea in southeastern California.We went there to see burrowing owls and saw tons, but the area is so fucking weird.A completely dead toxic lake in the desert surrounded by volcanoes, factories, mines, and industrial farms. I've never been anywhere like it.I've also been to the Sedlec Ossuary but I was too impressed by the bone art to be creeped out.
>>2858384A few... hospital museum in Bangkok, Atom Bomb museum in Nagasaki, Cebu streets after dark, motorcycling back to my bungalow in Tat Lo, Laos down narrow ass highways dodging jank transport trucks and a thunder and lightning storm with no idea as to how much gas I had in the tank.
>>2858384Bulgaria.
>>2858384the US just shortly after 9-11. Banners and marches everywhere even in Whatcom County, Washington. It made me pee my Canadian panties.
S-21 prison in CambodiaCappuccini Catacombs in SicilyGypsy apartment blocks in Budapest
>>2858384AuschwitzIt was -15 C and covered in snowExtremely eerieI only took one picture
>>2858384Was in a sanctioned area in Haiti once. This was about 10 years ago but still>dudes walking around with machetes>locals aggressively trying to sell you shitty trinkets>knowing cannibal island is right next doornever again
>>2858384>What's the creepiest place you've ever been to?the public toilets near where i used to live when i was a studentby day they were perfectly normal as it is a normal shopping areaat night they transformed into a cottaging hangout for gays
>>2858530H-H-Hot...
>>2858384Salt Lake City airport. Felt like walking into a meat market where I was the slab on sale.
>>2858384Wooden Indian Hotel in IndianaI was exhausted driving cross-country and thought for a minute I could sleep for a few hours.Pretty sure if I stayed I would've been robbed/murdered
Backroads of western Kansas in February. Just fog and flat brown nothingness in all directions.
I've been traveling all over the world since my childhood, but the creepiest place I found is in my hometown. There's this commie block (picrel) that was supposed to be demolish long time ago, but each time crews are finding hobos living there for some reason. It went viral some time ago, so I couldn't pass.
>>2858749Inside was definitelly worth the hype.
Sex parlor in shinjuku Tokyo. Got drunk by myself, and on my way back to the hotel. Got offered a massage with a happy ending. Go to the massage place, two Chinese lady’s starts jerking me off and pressuring me into paying more for sex. I give in, and they tell me to get dress and they rush me off into another building. Go in, and it’s just rooms with a single red light lighting up the small room. With a mat on the floor. A young Thai girl walks in, I fuck her. Feel gross and take off without saying a word. Thought I was gonna get abducted and have my organs harvested or something. Just order a call girl next time.
>>2858665What, so the city is brimming full of closet cases? Not really surprising.
Some woods near my buddy’s cottage in Coburg, Ontario. Genuinely thought i was being watched.
>>28583844Chan. It doesn't get creepier than that.
Anywhere south of the mason-dixon line. I remember going there with my extended family as a kid and there was a local yokel who wanted to marry my 11 year old cousin (he was about 50). He literally said he wanted to marry her to my uncle. Everyone thought he was joking but he was so persistent it became evident he was not. All the bad shit you hear about the south is true. Absolutely insane place. Also all the food is inedibly oversalted and greasy and they don't know what a vegetable is.
Malaysia had bangladeshi scammers for my stay. Didn't respond and left the same day to china
Have not been to much of places so certainly exist worse but Budapest, Hungary. Is it just so scummy and dirty over there
>>2858384Some graveyard in japan. Had to pass through to my hostel. No street lights for 5 minutes
>>2858384Springfield Massachusetts
>>2858384My giant town hospital when they were renovating it, old electric wires, old tech scattered around and i was alone. Could be there because my mother needed something from a colleague and work there, had a really weird feeling while there
>>2858384Back alleys in Marrakech medina after 10 p.m.
>>2858464Fucking love Auschwitz. Had a great time
>>2858384Tijuana red light district but on the side streets directly adjacent not the main club streetFelt like I was in fucking Sicario walking by human dismemberment labs
>>2863856>t. Klaus, retired security guard, recently celebrated my 98th birthday
>>2863856I'm going there in 3 weeks :DDD
>>2858384"Local idol" concert in Japan.
>>2864253spill the beans
>>2858384Tallahassee
>>2864261no he'll make a mess
>>2858384The "native" side of Maui.Before you laugh, this was the actual natives-only enclaves where they REALLY dont like white people.I've been to black as night Africa in some pretty rough spots, but I never got the actual creeps how I did in Maui trying to do some stuff in those areas. I legitimately believe they were plotting to kill him. I was so sketched out I got up and fucking left in the middle of the night.
>>2869200Why did you suddenly switch to third person like you accidentally exposed this as creative writing
Visited LA recently and stayed at the Biltmore. I had some horrific nightmares all three nights and couldn't sleep. I never really dream but those were terrifying. It's a creepy place and you can just feel something is wrong
>>2859662Japan can be really spooky outside bigger cities/towns. Especially those areas where only oldies live and it's stick in 90s with abandon buildings, no street lights, etc. Worst if you can't see shit and walk straight into a banana spider. Fuckers are not always in the greens but sometimes they just hang right over sidewalks in 180cm height waiting for my face to kiss them. And then you sleep in an 80 years old motel that just waits to crush you when the next mega quake appears. And while you poop in that tiny toilet a giant huntsman is chilling right next to you. I love that country but for me its the modern cities.
>>2864253are those the ones where it's just a bunch of little girls dancing on a stage being oggled by middle aged men? I saw that in and around Fukuoka a few years ago and it made me deeply uncomfortable. >>2858384Speaking of Japan, Nagasaki in the nightime had an eerie vibe, the place was like a ghost town, and there were peculiar vagrant/criminal locals hanging around looking pretty shifty for 3am. Still a good place to visit, and it'll probably clean up a bit once the shinkansen gets there. Will probably make it into more of a tourist shithole though, which is a shame.
>>2858384Been to Oradour-sur-Glane, a village massacred during WWIIMore recently been to a (temporarily) abandoned hospital ward, probably would of felt a lot more eerie if it wasn't a break from the overcrowded wards.
>>2869391i stayed at the biltmore just before xmas. i have no idea what you're talking about. DTLA is a proper dump though.
>>2870562Idk man I'm more sensitive to the paranormal I guess >DTLA is a proper dump though.Yeah it was so much more empty than I expected. A lot of streetwalkers too
>>2858384>>2858384Dachau. The whole town feels eery, not just the camp. You can tell something horrible happened there, even without knowing the history. Felt a little like Silent Hill or The Lighthouse. The day I visited definitely influences my opinion though, it was overcast and rainy, with lots of light pouring through the clouds. Other one is the vaults under Edinburgh. I saw a faint flame about 20 metres away from me down the main hallway. Our tour guide then went on to talk about how there have been sightings of a figure holding a lantern. Spooky!
>>2871241When I visited Dachau a few years ago, it was actually a really pleasant town from the outset. Beautiful fall foliage, cutesy little street corners, but the minute you approach the Dachau site everything just kind of fades into grey. No more joy, no more hope. Just the gate and a gravel lot where your fate was sealed.
>>2869397I never had any run-ins with spiders. Just bats, centipedes, and the giant hornets. Even before the murder hornet meme, I'd heard about them. That if you happened to disturb their nest, a swarm of them could easily down a human. A couple time after solo-hiking up a mountain for a while, one buzzed by my head. It sounds like a bird. I would take that as my sign to turn around and call it a day. I already don't like wasps and bees that much.
>>2871241>>2871601That's weird, everyone was laughing and having a good time when I went. I went there expecting to be freaked out. The tourists were slavs too that were goofing around.
>>2871607>everyone was laughing and having a good time when I went.At fucking DACHAU?
>>2872211I think some of it was the tension. Some of it was kind of learning about it on the spot. It was a prison camp for a long time and never categorized as a "death camp" like say Auschwitz. Reading the placards there about the prisoners that it held were addicts, communists, and homosexuals at first was kinda surprising. Then finding out that some of the people executed were spies, and then finding out that it was turned into a U.S. Army military prison for like 20 years after the war cut down on the spooky factor for me.
>>2869397I was really caught off guard by the spider situation in Japan. It felt like every common spider there was like the biggest thing I'd ever see back in California, giant fuckers around every corner and in the bathroom
A old house near Tillamook, Oregon its on the beach went downstairs nobody was supposed to be there and TV just turned on and I booked it out of there.Forks, WA the KKK side of town and old dilapidated buildings saying like Fuck Niggers but now I wouldn't care but as an 8 year old I thought that was evil because it sounded violent.A Buddhist Stupa in Sedona, AZ, a few of these blasted out of their brain people. I was meditating there and one guy with demonic eyes tried to kill me but I just ran too fast he didn't want to deal with me. I never was Buddhist again after that.
>>2869200Like the end of road to hana?
While staying at Kinmen, Taiwan, my bnb host took me to this small abandoned hospital nearby. I went back at night because I thought it would be fun. I didn't honestly expect to get spooked but I didn't stick around long. There was a scooter parked and a light on deep in the interior. The warning signs scribbled in Chinese added to the experience.
The Outer Hebrides off the west coast of Scotland. Bleak treeless windswept islands, starkly beautiful but with a weird vibe. Same with the people who are friendly enough but poor and isolated, mostly Gaelic speakers and adherents of the Free Church, a strict Presbyterian sect that shuts down everything in the Sabbath and sings haunting Gaelic psalms in services. There’s spooky Neolithic, Iron Age, Viking era and medieval ruins around the islands with only a handful of visitors at most of them. It’s worth the long ferry ride from the mainland if that’s your sort of thing. Fun fact: Trump’s mom Mary Macleod was from Lewis. Everyone’s obsessed with every detail of his life but you rarely hear that his mother was a Gaelic speaker from a remote island in the North Atlantic.
>>2858384I've done some creepy travel in my time. Ghost tours and haunted buildings and all of that. I would say the creepiest place I've been is probably Auschwitz. Definitely an air to that place that is really suffocating. It seeps into the town itself too. Walking around and seeing abandoned buildings and graffiti everywhere. It's like the whole area is cursed.Also Edinburgh has some nice creepy vibes and good spooky stories. York too is really great.Though the only time I've ever had something spooky happen on a ghost tour is in Port Arthur, Australia.
>>2858384I've been on a few prison tours. The best was the prison in New Mexico which had that riot. I work for law enforcement so I got a special tour that the public doesn't usually get.
>>2873169>EdinburghThe creepiest thing about this place is all the dead-souled Londoners that come up for Fringe season.
>>2873192Don't forget that Edinburgh is literally built on top of a bunch of corpses.
Not a travel story but when I was 14 my mom kicked me out for the night because she thought I drank some soda we had in the garage. The garage soda was only for guests/special occasions. It was actually construction workers who drank it but whatever.I didn't have friends and had nowhere to go. I tried riding the subway and pretend to miss the last stop and sleep on the train but I chickened out. At some point I was wandering through a dodgy area that was very dimly lit because the flat I was walking under was going to be demolished. I figured I could find a dark corner to sleep there. In the dark I could hear all kinds of noises, people walking about, probably some drug using, whispering. It was the scariest moment of my life. In the end I just walked around all night. A year later my mom kicked me out again for a night and I ended up getting picked up by police walking around a train station at 4 am.
>>2873196your mom sounds like a massive cunt
>>2858384Auschwitz. It legitimately felt evil and like alive weren't the only people in the trip
I've never had more problems in any city than in Philadelphia at night. I gave a homeless guy a dollar because he said it was his birthday. Two guys walk up, put guns the homeless guys face and demand the dollar. They pistol whipped him until he dropped it.
>>2873191I used to live right near that prison. Never went on a tour but I read The Devil's Butchershop. Fascinating depraved stuff.NM in general has plenty of creepy towns with odd people. It's beautiful but there's often this air of desperation or despair. Actually it's pretty much every town in the state.Anyway, for me I'd say parts of Guatemala or Honduras were very sketchy. Juarez MX as well.
>>2874782>robbing a homeless dude for one dollarCan niggers manage to steep even lower?
I might be alone with this opinion but Medellin had an uncomfortable dark energy to me.
Not me, but my best friend grew up in rural Poland and saw people getting un-personed by cops all the time. His entire town was on edge because they never knew if they’d break some unknown rule and get carried off to be punished by the state. Apparently his town was a major hotbed for illegal Lithuanian immigrants and everyone was a suspect. For as long as I’ve known him, he says he’ll never set foot in Poland again.
Creepiest place was this dodgy side-street in Phnom Pehn where my buddy and I *may* have seen a little girl getting pimped out to some swarthy fat dude. I say may because we were both tripping on acid and didn't really trust our perception of what was going on- plus I think both of our trips' had turned introspective and self-critical and we both were kind of shaming ourselves for interpreting a something somewhat ambiguous situation as the worst possible scenario. Second creepiest was stumbling into a temple in Dehli where all the jeets were worshipping that monkey-god of theres.
I went to some places in mongolia that were the sites of battles and mass graves. you could just feel that shit in the air man, one of them was in the southern part of the country in sainshand where they found some 2k year old graves of han chinese warriors. not far from there, a place where monks hid in caves away from the stalinist purges of the 1930s (picrel on top of a mountain nearby, where men can go to make 3 wishes 3 years in a row at a temple called the energy center). the whole landscape felt like it was holding onto these memories and it permeated through the entire experience I had there.
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Honestly Japan. But it's only because they have so much horror and spirit beliefs so seeing a shrine in the forest at night reminds you of that and you get spooked.One was on an island, I was biking and found a shrine with fox figurines around it. It's not actually creepy but I guess it could be. I went up to it alone during daytime. Very cool.The other time was before this, I was a student in a private dorm, and nearby there is not much. So you walk a little bit and find an entry into the woods all gated and taped off. It's night and you are alone and it's not even far from where you live, and you wonder why it's blocked.
Chicago and NYC subways
>>2858384Wandered around East St Louis one day back when I was living in St Louis. Place looked like the aftermath of a forgotten war with the amount of ruined buildings and bullet holes in the few remaining structures.
>>2858384Having grown up in rural Appalachia Georgia, every single place I went to and all my friend's homes were in>That spooky placeSo I am fairly numb to most unusual things like scary ruins, weird old dilapidated houses and churches, weird shit in the woods like someone's home made shrine to whatever the fuck. >>2872224Also those too, the really big 2-3inch long black and yellow ones. Every August-October the spider webs would fill up the gaps between the different cables on power lines and go for miles and miles. The spidering was terrifying to new people who had no idea. They infest every single open area and it's impossible not to walk face first into a web during that time. I've seen weird lights roaming around woods, along train tracks, UFO lights, heard lots and lots of coyote howling at night, seen every kind of backwoods meth addict, and even the Mexicans around here set up corpses in black wedding gowns and place shitloads of money, cigars, and tequila at it's feet.
>>2870488>Oradour-sur-Glane>Down this road, on a summer day in 1944, the soldiers came. Nobody lives here now. They stayed only a few hours. When they had gone, a community which had lived for a thousand years was dead.https://youtu.be/0b4g4ZZNC1E?si=_3eAD4QYKKvRtSJJ&t=10
>>2858384The Navajo reservation land after a forest fire near Prescott. The sky had a dark haze, after leaving Holbrook and getting onto the two lane up where nobody lives high up where there were no plants. The haze kept me from seeing too far, there was no sense of scale with no plants and no buildings, the sun already had it's odd hue you get when you go above 6000ft and then it looked even stranger tinted by the haze of smoke high in the atmosphere. It was an endless empty expanse in this liting with my eyes playing tricks on me, possibly seeing the outlines of mesas, possibly not. At any moment it felt that a I could see the shadow of a giant stepping through the haze and into vision and I rattled along the poorly maintained two road driving into the haze.All this is because my wife decided to map our trip with fucking apple soit sent us on highways to Colorado instead of the interstates because it was shorter in distance. The drive took an extra 6 hours.
>>2878632Actually that fire was near Payson, not Prescott
>>2870488Meanwhile Germans want me to cry eternally for Dresden.
>>2878684I think that's mostly /pol/ kiddies and groypers who keep harping on Dresden, I think actual Germans aside from the occasional nationalist (read: 4chan user) realize that it was brutal but made sense at the time based on what the NSDAP had done to others, like the destruction of East Prussia as a consequence for sperging out one too many times and invading everyone
I grew up in rural Alaska and let me tell you that if you're a city-dweller who romanticizes rural living, you're a fool. There are very few things in this world that are more terrifying than crazy forest people with nothing to lose and who have been heavily indoctrinated by multiple lifetimes of inbreeding and pseudo-religious indoctrination. I was in an upper-middle-class town and we still had adults telling us multiple times per day not to go out at night alone because some psycho from the mountains might come down and either chop your head off (if you were lucky) or drag you away to his isolated nightmare dungeon (if you weren't). The place is LOUSY with cults. Nobody who's the result of generations spent in rural Alaska knows their dick from a garden snake, so they're incredibly easy to heavily manipulate if you're even the slightest bit charismatic. It wasn't just one cult either, they were separated by race (white cults, aboriginie cults), societal status (freemasons are huge there), and location (American cults are markedly different than Canadian cults, which are apparently worse). In my school we had frequent demonstrations on why you should never ever ever join a cult, nor you should you ever ever ever interact with someone in one. My grandfather was a cop and his entire generation were still patrolling the streets upwards of age 70 because the new crop of police just weren't big enough. The streets were silent and dark at night and anything could happen, so you always had to be on guard and everyone was indoors by 6:00PM at the latest, even during the summer (days didn't get that much longer there). Eventually my family got out and moved down to the mainland when the kids were grown. I wouldn't go back there if you paid me a million bucks.
>>2858792lol, you fucked some human trafficking victim
>>2878870That's just rural America. Backwoods northern Alabama is pretty similar in the amount of middle of fucking nowhere cults out in the woods. Majority of them are firmly based around taking a shitload of drugs and fucking a lot though. But sometimes they do get pretty fucked up when you have a group of people that have been very isolated and on heroine for months to years and their sense of reality is just fucking gone.
