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Frightening Filler.

Sorry for the lack of updates for the past few days -- been busy with things that are much less fun than Halloween Cheetos and animatronic slashers. To keep things lively between now and the next post (which will be tomorrow, even if it kills me), how about a quicky spooky survey?

For you commenters: What's the scariest place you've ever been to, and what was so frightening about it? It could be anything from an abandoned penitentiary to a theme park ride.

I figured we were out of good Halloween survey topics by now, but I'm actually very curious to see your answers to this. Go!

Posted by Matt on 10/21/2009. E-mail me!

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Probably the scariest place I have ever been to was Gettysburg, PA!! Im from PA and it REALLY freaks me out how close I am to this crazy den of spirits!!!!

Chestnuts roasted by George Thomas @ 10/21/2009 6:44 PM

A haunted hayride in the woods. I remember they had fake chainsaws that would go just above your head. Traumatizing.

Chestnuts roasted by Brian @ 10/21/2009 6:44 PM

The Whaley House down in San Diego, I had numerous “unexplained” events happen to me there. The place is supposedly the most haunted house in the country.

Chestnuts roasted by El Loco Gordo @ 10/21/2009 6:45 PM

The quaint, old, and still functional hospital about two miles from my house. Had to go there for a friend at around three in the morning. There were no visible patients and I only saw a few staff but the long ominous corridors definitely provoked a good amount of fear. Then move on to the strange noises and smells usually associated with a hospital and you have Halloween II in reality.

Chestnuts roasted by Clayton @ 10/21/2009 6:45 PM

Just about every inch of Gettysburg is haunted, and there are about ten ghost tours you can take. The midnight tour of the Farnsworth house freaked me out BIGTIME!!!!

Chestnuts roasted by George Thomas @ 10/21/2009 6:46 PM

The basement where my husband’s father died… it was so cold! aye!

Chestnuts roasted by Abi @ 10/21/2009 6:48 PM

When I was in elementary school, the haunted house that was set up absolutely terrified me. There have been plenty of places since then, but I was young and not yet exposed to the world of horror films.

Chestnuts roasted by MysteryD8 @ 10/21/2009 7:01 PM

Driving through a Newark neighborhood late one night when getting lost coming back from my friend’s frat house at NJIT. It was scarier than any haunted place I’ve ever been, including Gettysburg, which is quite creepy.

Chestnuts roasted by Tryclyde @ 10/21/2009 7:06 PM

There was an old abandoned mental institution on the outskirts of my city before they tore it down. Creepy, creepy place. It was gigantic too, though they tore down the tuberculous sanitarium part before I was old enough to explore it. Still had the mental institution part up though.

This is the place, for those interested.

http://www.uer.ca/locations/show.asp?locid=20007

Chestnuts roasted by Phil G. @ 10/21/2009 7:22 PM

Unfortunately, I am a big baby so anywhere that’s dark and deserted scares the bejesus out of me. (Except the majority of the forest, interestingly enough.)

However, the mountains where I live have many creepy places and my friends have regaled me many a time with tales of them. My favorite is The Mozumdar Temple, which is buried in the middle of the forest. It’s very Indian in its design and hasn’t been used in decades from what I know. The Moonies owned it at one point. I’ve had many friends journey there in the middle of the night to find weird graffiti and stuff that looks like it was left there in a hurry. I recall one of them being threatened by a man with Rottweilers and shotgun.

http://www.mozumdar.org/images/templecolor2.jpg

A very thing odd thing to find in the middle of redneck country.

Chestnuts roasted by AIF @ 10/21/2009 7:27 PM

Valhalla Cemetery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Everything there was downright evil, and back in the day several of my best friends’ houses abutted cemetery property. From the caretakers who stared and pointed at you to the motorcycle gangs rumored to have made Valhalla their makeshift headquarters (not true), you were lucky to make out of there alive. One of my friends once tried to convince me that his cousin got a pair of nunchuks wrapped around his neck by the gang. Inherently untrue, but it added to the lore. On midnight outings we felt much safer with my buddy’s black lab Radar. Having a good dog with you can allay all fears.

Chestnuts roasted by Thorzul @ 10/21/2009 7:33 PM

I haven’t really ventured into many scary places. But basically any sufficiently dark and quiet place scares me, like the woods in the deep night.

Chestnuts roasted by PlantMonster @ 10/21/2009 7:34 PM

My own house, any house I have ever lived in since I was about 12. Things move, weird sounds, things turning on by themselves. Currently the TV in my bedroom turns itself on at different times of the day or night. It always changes itself to a different TV/Video setting and is always tuned to channel 129. Pretty freaky to get woken up by that loud static noise in the middle of the night.

Chestnuts roasted by Lindy @ 10/21/2009 7:34 PM

My grandma’s house isn’t really scary but a lot of creepy things have happened there and my family still shares many of those stories to this day. For instance, my dad told me he was sleeping by himself upstairs when he woke up to someone sitting on the edge of his bed. He said he sleepily opened his eyes and expected to see his mom or dad sitting on the bed but instead saw nothing. Obviously he was startled and froze in fear. He said his eyes were fixed on the edge of the bed and then he suddenly felt the pressure on the edge of the bed ease up, as if someone was standing up. He believes that a ghost just walked up and had a seat on the edge of his bed…then just walked away. My dad never slept upstairs again.

I’ll post a few more creepy stories later.

Chestnuts roasted by Church @ 10/21/2009 7:35 PM

I think I have a three way tie between Eastern State Penitentiary, The Mutter Museum and Savannah, GA where I saw a real ghost in the Pirate House that made me a believer ever since. I still think about that when I am alone. Insane.

Chestnuts roasted by Bill @ 10/21/2009 7:45 PM

I’ve only been to one haunted house in my life and that was enough. I was 12 and I screamed at everything that moved, basically. They had the big three slashers (Freddy, Jason, Leatherface) there, but the one creature I remember most was some guy had a catfish for a head.

Also, I prefer going into Halloween shops with someone by my side. There is just something about Halloween masks just sitting on hooks, even if the mask is something friendly/childish like Scooby-Doo, that kinda gives me the creeps.

Chestnuts roasted by King JLA @ 10/21/2009 7:46 PM

Bill, this may be a good time for you to retell that bar story of yours.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 10/21/2009 7:51 PM

I think I already spoke of this place in a recent thread, but I’ll happily mention it again for the purposes of this survey simply because of how astoundingly frightening the place was. It’s an old abandoned mental-health asylum located in Athens, Ohio lovingly dubbed “The Ridges”. The facility’s buildings have been renovated into functioning office space or some shit for Ohio University in recent years, but, back in the day, the joint was uber-creepy. It was kind of like Session 9 but without David Caruso’s steely intensity. More info here:

http://www.forgottenoh.com/Ridges/ridges.html

BTW… are there any X-E regulars who live in or around the Radcliff, Kentucky region? I only ask because I just moved there. Happy Halloween from deep within the heart of Kentuckiana.

Chestnuts roasted by The Yeti @ 10/21/2009 7:58 PM

An old hospital. One night my boyfriend, his brother and I decided to go look at a creepy, decrepit, long abandoned TB hospital that my boyfriend’s brother had told us about. The place had a really oppressive feel to it and while we were looking at it I started to feel really sick and sad.

We started to walk around the hospital to get a different view of it when I noticed something moving in the dark up ahead of us. It was a bird and its wing was either broken or otherwise damaged so that it stuck out at a weird angle as it walked towards us. The sight of that bird just topped off what was already a fairly creepy situation, especially for me, since the sickness and sadness was getting worse.

We left pretty quickly after that, and I started to feel better once we were away from the place.

Maybe it was just the power of suggestion, but what I felt seemed pretty real and scary to me.

Chestnuts roasted by DymphnaWolf @ 10/21/2009 8:15 PM

Church my grandma’s house was haunted too. A previous owner had died of a heart attack in the kitchen. Nothing super scary ever happened, but there was alot of weird stuff. The exhaust fan over the stove liked to come on by itself with nobody in the kitchen. We once woke up to potato chip crumbs all over the dining room floor when there were no potato chips anywhere in the house. There was an enclosed porch on the front of the house with an entrance from the living room and another door going outside. My grandpa was sitting out there listening to the radio and tried to come back inside and the door was locked. He had to go outside and around to the back door to get in. He asked my grandma why she had locked him out and she didn’t know what he was talking about. Another time she was in the hospital and I was staying at the house with him because he was starting to loose his eyesight. I made breakfast and drank from one of those square glasses Mcdonalds used to have with Mickey Mouse on them. I washed the dishes, put them away then I went into the living room and my grandpa went downstairs. After a little while I heard a crash but I didn’t think anything about it, I just thought he must have thrown something into the recycle box in the basement. Later when I got the dishes out for dinner, that Mcdonalds had blown itself to bits inside the closed cabinet! Not just broke into a few big chunks but literally exploded to almost dust. I still think about it every time I see that glass in an antique store.

Chestnuts roasted by ericnrosesmom @ 10/21/2009 8:19 PM

Matt, you might be aware of this already, but the “2009 HALLOWEEN COUNTDOWN” thing on the front page lists a bunch of blog posts from June, and no Halloween stuff.

Chestnuts roasted by Anonymous @ 10/21/2009 8:35 PM

An animitronic Haunted House,I try to ride it every year and have nightmares for weeks-I don’t exactly know why,lol I fear like a scaredy-cat now,

Chestnuts roasted by DarkLugiaMaster-Gir @ 10/21/2009 9:10 PM

My Grandmother has a room with weird little dolls that she has built and sells. Every time that I go into it, even now as an adult, I feel like they are going to come alive and eat my eyes.

Chestnuts roasted by Gillman @ 10/21/2009 9:11 PM

The scariest place I’ve ever been was a place in Indiana called Tunnelton (or something like that). There was a supposedly haunted train tunnel there, so a friend and I went in the middle of a pitch black dark night to walk through the train tunnel with nothing but a couple of flashlights. On the way into the tunnel we were creeped out, but didn’t see much, other than the cutout spots in the wall were you could stand if a train came. But no kidding, on the way back out, we saw a dead dog cut in half laying in the middle of the train track. Neither one of us saw it on the way in, even though we were looking everywhere, but when we saw it on the way out, we high-tailed it out of the tunnel back to the car as fast as we could. That was easily the scariest place I’ve ever been.

Chestnuts roasted by alienux @ 10/21/2009 9:14 PM

Just found a couple of links that talk about Tunnelton in Indiana:

http://www.ghostsofamerica.com/4/Indiana_Tunnelton_ghost_sightings.html

Chestnuts roasted by alienux @ 10/21/2009 9:16 PM

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