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It doesn't matter whether or not you believe in ghosts, there are some places in which none of us would want to spend a night. These places have well earned their reputations as being so creepy, tragic or mysterious (or all three) that they definitely qualify as "haunted." Places like... #6.
Aokigahara Forest
Aokigahara is a woodland at the base of Mount Fuji in Japan that makes The Blair Witch Project forest look like Winnie the Pooh's Hundred Acre Wood. It probably has something to do with all the dead bodies scattered around. What Niagara Falls is to weddings, Aokigahara is to suicide. How many suicides does it takes for a place to get that reputation? A dozen? Fifty? More than 500 fucking people have taken their own lives in Aokigahara since the 1950s. The trend has supposedly started after Seicho Matsumoto published his novel Kuroi Kaiju (Black Sea of Trees) where two of his characters commit suicide there. After that-always eager to prove they are bizarrely susceptible to suggestion-hundreds of Japanese people have hanged themselves among the countless trees of the Aokigahara forest, which is reportedly so thick that even in high noon it's not hard to find places completely surrounded by darkness.
Besides bodies and homemade nooses, the area is littered with signs displaying such uplifting messages like "Life is a precious thing! Please reconsider!" or "Think of your family!"
In the 70s, the problem got national attention and the Japanese government began doing annual sweeps of the forest in search of bodies. In 2002, they found 78. But who knows how many they missed? In all likelihood there probably is a hanged person somewhere in Aokigahara on any given day. You can see some of them here. WARNING, NSFS (Not Safe For Soul). By the way, if an entire dark forest full of hanged corpses wasn't bad enough, a few years ago some people noticed that a lot of the dead in Aokigahara probably had cash or jewelry on them. Thus began the proud Japanese tradition of Aokigahara Scavenging where people are running around the Death Forest, looking for dead guys to loot. #5.
The Overtoun Bridge
Located near Scotland's charming little village of Milton in the peaceful burgh of Dumbarton, the Overtoun Bridge is a local arch construction where no human beings have ever died in any suspicious circumstances whatsoever over the last few decades. However, during that span, for reasons we can't begin to possibly understand, hundreds and hundreds of dogs have killed themselves there. It appears that dogs have been plunging off of Overtoun since the early 60s, at a rate of one animal a month... bringing the total number today to around 600 mutts, who for some reason, decided to end it all.
And we're not talking about a series of unfortunate accidents that could have been avoided with a simple guard rail. People who actually witnessed the reported dogs willingly climbing the parapet wall and leaping to their doom with dumbass doggy grins on their faces. Whether they were crying blood remains to be confirmed. Theories on why is this happening have been all over the place, from particularly aromatic rodents to a simple stream of bizarre coincidences. We call bullshit on both seeing as--to paraphrase Ian Fleming--"Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action and over 600 is clearly the work of an ancient Sumerian demon or some shit."
To further drive the point home, it has been observed that certain dogs that jumped off the bridge and survived, fucking climbed back up and THREW THEMSELVES TO THEIR DEATHS ALL OVER AGAIN. Because the great Overtoun demon's hunger will not be appeased with tries. He demands fresh canine blood, and lots of it. #4.
Winchester Mystery House
In San Jose there is this house. It is a gigantic, sprawling 160-room complex designed like a maze, with mile-long hallways, secret passages, dead ends, doors opening to blank walls and staircases leading to the ceiling.
It's the work of Sarah Winchester, heiress to the Winchester rifle fortune. In the late 19th century, deeply saddened over the death of her husband and daughter, she visited a Boston medium who told her she was haunted by the spirits of all the victims of Winchester rifles. She needed to make peace with them by... always be building a house. As in, never stop building a house, or else she will die. What a nice thing to say to someone who has just lost her family. There is no way this could end with Sarah building a real life version of the Addams Family household.
In 1884, Winchester started construction of her new San Jose mansion, which has gone on non-stop for 38 years right until her death. Despite modern contractors taking about that much time to put in the wooden paneling in your kitchen, the Winchester mansion eventually grew so big you could, in all seriousness, get lost in it. And getting lost was the idea, the crazy twists and turns and dead ends were intended to confuse the ghosts. Sarah was kind of a jerk like that.
But pissing off vengeful spirits was just one of the many architectural choices for the mansion. The entire Winchester Mystery House was decorated with a constant spiderweb motif--which Sarah believed had some spiritual meaning--and everything from the hooks on the walls to candle holders has been arranged around the number 13, supposedly for good luck. Yeah... for someone trying to free herself from ghosts, Winchester did everything but sacrifice a baby goat to Satan to assure her house will be haunted. |
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UrbanSpaceman... "negative ions"? You mean like in salt water, or vinegar? Or the air in any proximity to a wire running a DC current?
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I'm surprised York (England) isn't here somwhere.... I don't believe in the supernatural or ghosts or anything but the place is still creepy. It holds the "record" as the most haunted City in the world with about 140 ghosts and 504 hauntings. It also holds the record for the oldest ghosts ("oldest" being how long ago the person died not his age) a whole Roman Legion that supposedly hangs out in a cellar marching towards the Minster. http://www.timetravel-britain.com/articles/history/ghosts.shtml
Dudes, I know this is a humor site but you get affected by radiation every day of your life (from day one). There's a certain level of "background radiation" that bombards earth. So yeah there's a scale of radiation, because there's "holy f**king balls my skin is melting" radiation (which will kill you), "Guys I feel sick" radiation (which by that point will kill you), and then there's doctor's x-ray radiation (which won't kill you).
Doesn't Niagara Falls also have a History of people who, sort of - "accidentally-on-purpose" - jump off the observation platform & go with the flow? Something to do with the negative ions, lulling them into a false sense of security, so they think, "Hey, it's only like that water slide at the local pooooooooooooooool!" - or something??? Or was that just something I dreamed, once? Mmmmm?
"We consider any radiation a very bad thing". You mean .... like Nevada?
as an expat living in the Czech Republic, I can say that Poltergeist has never made it over here. except, maybe, to those intrepid pirates who have not only managed to discover it, but then decided to download it. the pirates are a-plenty, but the discoverers are not. you wouldn't believe the movies that are completely unavailable here. not a single Czech I know has ever even heard of Casablanca. I can understand not having seen it, but never even heard of it? too creepy. Bogart who? was he in the SS?
Those places are creepy, but I can top all of those. The scariest place in the world is Dick Cheney's shooting range. Do not go there. If you value your life in any way, stay away.
Okay I'm retarded. It wasn't a mill, it was a water tower. (I just went through the photos, and yeah, I'm crazy.)
I live right by the house. I've been there several times -- most recently a few weeks ago because I had a friend who'd never gone. Yes, I did the entire estate tour. Yes, I went into the underground boiler room -- which was terrifying in terms of how unsafe it was back when they were running it, but... no. Not scary. I mean, there's like, a mill with old plumbing equipment. It has like, pipes and an old bathtub. And yes, I have seen the shining. The house was not the scary part, the people/things in it was the scary part. The house always looked rather lovely. It was the creepy children and dead people in bathtubs that ruined it. All the winchester mystery house has is replacement furniture (almost none of the original, though admittedly they are period pieces from the same time, they weren't hers) and a lot of really short steps, cause she had arthritis. (And yes, some stairways into nothing. But if you're afraid of a ceiling at the end of a staircase, you need therapy, because ceiling cat is not actually watching your every move.)
Ducky, shut the hell up. You've obviously never been inside the house, seeing as you're only repeating what the article said about it. You've also clearly never seen the Shining, or else you would never underestimate the horror-potential of large abandoned structures and mazes. Go inside and walk for 20 minutes and try to go back, I dare you.
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I've always wondered whether Sarah Winchester's medium was married to a building contractor... and duckyreads, I believe that was actually an ad for a German energy drink...
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As an easily frightened person, I can tell you that the Winchester Mystery House is not actually that frightening. I can't even go see horror movies. However, the Winchester House is just like -- a very old, weird house. With things in 13s, with spiderweb motifs. I grew up in the area, so maybe driving by it all the time made it somehow unimpressive? But seriously, it's just like if you got a crazy person to design a house. There are doors that open to the wrong place, and it's difficult to navigate if you don't know it well, but -- there is nothing creepy about it. And yeah, I am that girl who cried like a baby after that one stupid fake car commercial with the screaming girl inserted randomly in the middle. (You all know what I'm talking about, you jerks. Who makes that kind of freaky thing?)
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Hubcap - Yes, the Winchester House is open to the public. If you find yourself in San Jose and wanting to take a tour of it, get tickets for the nighttime flashlight tour with the "behind the scenes" or whatever they call it now tour. There's nothing quite like going into the boiler room at night with just a flashlight. Good fun.
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