What is the eeriest, creepiest real life place you have ever visited

[smirkymonkey]

in your life and what was it like? Did you have an otherworldly experience?

[CincyDem]

1. Dachau... It was snowing with thunder and lightening in the early evening. eerie. n/t

[smirkymonkey]

7. Wow, that must have been intense.

I have visited many Jewish sites around Europe but never a concentration camp. I got so emotional being there. I think I would just lose it if I were to go to a concentration camp. I would like to go someday, but I know the experience will be overwhelming for me.

[rurallib]

21. our daughter went there in the summer 90 degrees plus

she said she walked through the gate and she was chilled to her bones and felt sick.

[LisaM]

2. Danvers, Massachussetts (which was Salem Village in 1692).

Nothing else has ever come close. The foundation of the house the Parris family lived in is still there, and it's like there's a veil hanging over it.

[smirkymonkey]

8. It's funny how you can feel the energy of places, isn't it.

I live in Boston and I have never been up there but have always wanted to go. I have yet to go to Salem! I still want to make at least a day trip up there but most of my friends think it's too touristy. I may have to go by myself one of these days.

[LisaM]

34. It's not the same as touristy Salem.

The historical society has a map of significant places, too. Very NON touristy, actually.

[Croney]

82. I stumbled on this info one day while attending a soccer game

in Danvers. I got bored watching the kids play and took a walk. Right next to the field was a memorial related to the witch trials. I had no idea it was the original site.

[LisaM]

86. It's amazing how you're right on the spots, too.....

I went there on purpose to see the different historical sites, but I was still struck by how much a part of the town they still are.

[fierywoman]

3. The mummies museum in Guanajuato, Mexico.

And the crypts below the alters in old Italian churches with the skeletons of the saint or cardinal or bishop dressed in worldly clothing. Do I really have to describe the feeling?

[smirkymonkey]

9. No, I think I get your drift.

[fierywoman]

20. (Thanks for the LOL!)

[Loki Liesmith]

4. Milwaukee

[sinkingfeeling]

5. Chernobyl. A giant, overgrown ghost city.

[smirkymonkey]

10. That must have been intense.

Can you describe the feelings you had when you were there or would you rather not? Just curious. It seems like such a creepy place.

[sinkingfeeling]

18. Really sad to go through abandoned school with writing still on blackboard.

There's a walkway lined with crosses for all the communities that had to evacuate and a huge monument to the first responders who died. The amusement park that was to open a day after the meltdown was the most creepy.

[Corvo Bianco]

42. Hard to believe this is real thanks for the pictures

[Zoonart]

6. The Tower of London was pretty creepy.

[smirkymonkey]

11. I have been there too and it was. So many horrible things have happened there.

However there were so many people around and it was daytime it was hard to be scared. I wonder if they do nighttime tours. I think that would be pretty creepy.

[Zoonart]

13. Yep...could feel the psychic weight

Even during the day.

[Duppers]

44. Especially imagine being in that dungeon hole.

The horrible suffering. And those very narrow, dark passages were creepy.

[JCMach1]

74. Yep, love history but made me physically sick thinking of the torture and suffering...

Didn't help that I visited a day after the 7/7 bombings in London. The place was literally a ghost town.

[Aristus]

12. Montesano, Washington.

I wrote about my experience there a couple of weeks ago on a different thread.

It's the seat of Grays Harbor County, and I lodged there while doing a clinical rotation at the county hospital in Aberdeen. The town boasts a magnificent court house. But otherwise, it's a dreary, creepy, spooky place. Perpetual gray drizzle, an all-pervasive smell of mossy decay. Mostly-deserted streets, even in the middle of the day. Rotting, tumbledown frame houses with empty-eyed windows. Behind which, one imagines hostile townies glaring out at passing strangers.

I had a hard time sleeping in the medical student guest lodge there, night after night. Wondering if some masked madman was creeping up the stairs to my room with an ax.

I was never so glad to get out of a place in my life...

[MFM008]

14. Old Western State- Lakewood

Washington in the early 80s.
It was still standing then.
Western State is western Washington's
State mental asylum.
Set next to a lake.
The beds and restraints were still in the building.
30s and 40s actress Frances Farmer was
Committed and lobotomized there.
It was said to be haunted.( find me an asylum that isnt).
It was eventually razed to the ground because it crumbled.
There is nothing but a memorial marking left.
The grounds are still intact,
old barns, many fruit trees.
And right across the street?
(New)Western State hospital sprawls.

[Aristus]

64. Old Western State was a short walk from where I went to high school.

My senior year, the yearbook committee staged a photo shoot at the ruins for a group of the 'cool kids'.

The ruins were a dangerous place. I'm glad they were finally demolished.

[MFM008]

66. My son graduated from there

I live by the gas stations.

[Siwsan]

15. A tower in Chepstow Castle (Wales)

I walked into the first one, looked around, and then headed to the opposing one. I walked in and was overcome by a horrible feeling of dread. And I was the only human, there. I made a dash for the doorway.

On a slightly less creepy but none the less creepy location, I went on a Jack the Ripper walk, in East London. Midway through the tour we stopped at the Ten Bells Pub, which is where so many of the victims drank (and likely he did, too). That was interesting creepy. Not dread filled creepy.

[smirkymonkey]

31. I think that would freak me out.

That story just horrifies me.

[Kaleva]

16. Had to do a plumbing job in a room where many of my family had been embalmed

[True Dough]

17. Pretty much any Waffle House

after midnight.

[smirkymonkey]

32. Well, even during the day it can be pretty creepy.

[violetpastille]

22. Facebook HQ

1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park

It was like a spiritual vacuum. No otherworldly experience. Just the least soulful per square foot piece of Northern California real estate I had ever encountered.

[fierywoman]

53. I had a similar experience when I found myself (lost) in the middle of the Microsoft campus

in Redmond, WA --- which strangely reminded me of being in Vatican Square (Vatican City, Rome) one Sunday morning and at the moment the Pope (the Polish one) came on to the balcony, (it was a beautiful sunny day in December) and I was clutched with fear at the power I suddenly understood that man to have.

[3catwoman3]

23. While walking thru the fields of Gettysburg, I had the distinct...

...feeling that the spirits of the soldiers who had died there were still present. It felt as if they were watching me. It was a gentle eerieness, not scary. I’ve heard others says the same thing about Gettysburg.

[nancy1942]

25. I had a similar feeling there.

Just a feeling of a presence, but not at all scary.

[smirkymonkey]

36. I remember being there as a child - maybe 6 or 7, but I didn't get a read on the place.

I would love to go back now and see what I pick up. That's very interesting. I have heard a lot of similar stories about Gettysburg.

[CatMor]

39. I too felt the soldiers spirits ...

one of my favorite places. For all the violence and death that occurred there it is now hauntingly peaceful.

[Jane Austin]

49. I had that feeling at

Shiloh. Our family was almost alone in the park as we hiked the sunken road and the (Peach?) Orchard and other mournful sites.

Truly haunting.

[geardaddy]

63. I had a similar experience there.

I was nine years old and we went to an old restaurant that still had musket ball holes in the outer wall. My family was unaffected, but I had trouble eating, because I was so freaked out.

[GeorgeGist]

24. Catacombs under Rome.

[dhol82]

26. The bone church in Rome

Built by a bunch of monks who liked to make dioramas out of the bones of their deceased members.
Totally creeped me out.

[lunasun]

46. Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini

[dhol82]

50. Still creeps me out

One of those tourist spots I don’t need to revisit.

[LeftInTX]

54. Man...that's something that I thought only existed in Mexico.

[lunasun]

92. Where in Mexico if I may ask?

[LeftInTX]

94. Mexico is obsessed with stuff like this....no particular spot

They have a lake outside Mexico City that has dolls hanging from trees. You can take a boat ride through it. (I've never been)

[lunasun]

96. The church is all real bones of monks who were part of the church not effigies or mock skulls

They dug up all the bones in the graveyard of monks and made the alters etc out of human bones
The skeletons are even on the ceiling looking down on visitors

http://www.nomadtravellers.com/visit/capuchin-crypt-bone-church-rome
And another one
http://www.nomadtravellers.com/visit/kutna-hora-bone-church-sedlec-ossuary

Xochimilco island is creepy but the scavenged discarded dolls aren't real . Yes a lot of art is death related there going way back to ancient civilizations and some of it reflecting brutal rituals

[kwassa]

81. I visited there. My first thought, too.

[smirkymonkey]

62. I was at a similar place in the Czech Republic about an hour outside of Prague.

The Sedlec Ossuary near Kutna Hora, a small Roman Catholic chapel that had been completely decorated with the bones of plague victims. There was even a huge chandelier made out of bones. It wasn't as creepy as I thought it would be, but still pretty creepy.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

27. Auschwitz.

I went there in November, 1980, on my honeymoon. Yeah, that was weird enough. My new husband is Ashkenazi Jew. (We're since divorced) All of his grandparents had come from that part of Europe, although most of the family had gotten out either well before WWI or in the 1920s. I insisted we go. He initially wasn't too keen, but I said we needed to. I think he was glad in the end that we had. I wish I had some of the photos I took that day in digital format. It had snowed before we got there, so there was a dusting of snow on everything.

I think the most poignant was a small group of flowers, not really a bouquet, at the crematorium.

There was also a hotel right at the gates of the camp, the hotel Auschwitz, I think. Have no idea if it's still there. That was creepy.

Inside the camp several different countries had taken over certain of the barracks and made memorials of them. The only one that had heat in it was the one Israel maintained. In different rooms in different barracks there were huge piles of human hair, or shoes, or empty suitcases. While it was only a fraction of what had originally passed through the camp, those piles made the point of what had happened.

I would go again. I would tell anyone going to Eastern Europe to go to at least one of the camps. We must never forget what happened then.

[3catwoman3]

28. Another unsettling and chilling experience happened in Luxembourg.

We had been walking thru the American military cemetery where Patton is buried. Pristine, and groomed to perfection, and on that cloudless day, all the white grave markers gleamed in the bright sunlight.

As we were leaving, I noticed the sign pointing to the Sandweiler German cemetery, but a short walk away from the American site. I told my husband and my sons that we should go there as well. As we walked the gravel path toward the entrance, clouds moved in and covered the sun, and the temperature dropped by several degrees.

While not untended, there was a distinctly shabby air about the place - the grass was not lush, and there were weeds. Instead of the gleaming white markers seen by in the American site, the grave markers there are look to be made of a composite type of cement and are dull and gray. Some of the graves contain as many as 4 bodies, most unidentified. There is a mass grave in the center, which contains some 5000 bodies. Nearly 11,000 are buried there.

The clouds coming in to block the sunlight was one of the most eerie moments I have ever experienced.

[PaulX2]

29. In Tukwila WA With A Ghost In The House

Not kidding.

[dawg day]

30. a former insane asylum--

There were hundreds of little iron crosses all over the grounds. When a patient died, they'd just dig a hole in the lawn. Very spooky, and also this lingering sense of injustice.

[tymorial]

33. Anawan Rock

It's the location of the last stand of King Philip's War. Metacomet had already been killed and Anawan knew he was wanted. His men were slaughtered there and he was captured and eventually beheaded in Plymouth. The place is said to be haunted like much of Rehobeth. There is a sense of dread hanging over the location

[Guppy]

35. Trump tower

[rickford66]

38. Yes. Been there. Creepy.

[stonecutter357]

37. Auburn Alabama ! RTR!

[brooklynite]

40. The Catacombe dei Cappuccini in Palermo

1200+ mummified corpses, many fully dressed:



The eeriest is the body of a girl from 1920 who has apparently not aged or decomposed:

[sagetea]

41. Wounded Knee

After leaving Standing Rock, I drove down to So. Dakota, with a friend to Wounded Knee. Maybe it was because of being at Oceti Sakowin, but, I could almost hear screams and drumming and chanting. It wasn't 'creepy' eery, but there sure was a presence. My friend that I was with, was there in '73 and he didn't think he would ever get to visit there again.


sage

[Olafjoy]

43. Mesa, Arizona

Last Friday we drove by the line for the rally for the fat fraud. Creepiest looking people. So nasty. Chill went down my spine. Also, DC January 2017, two days before women’s march. Weird, and I mean really really weird people there for ff inauguration. Huge fences and barricades around everything. Walked over to White House. Stood there and thought about how it was Prezzie O’s last night. Overheard “Thank God it is going to be white again”. Another spine chill. Knew we were in serious trouble.

[byronius]

80. I was just in Phoenix for my 40th reunion.

Creepy as hell to go back. Worried that I was going to be trapped.

A lot of bad things happened to me there. Bad cops, bad people. I know it's perception, but it's my perception.

I worked graveyard shift at the Royal Nursing Home in Mesa, in 1976 as a 16 year old. 3 people died on my shift and I had to prepare their remains for the coroner. So, I'm not so squeamish. But still.

[MrScorpio]

45. The basement of The Pentagon

I still can’t talk about it.

[red dog 1]

73. Welcome to DU!

The tour guide saying nothing about Whitman is not surprising.

My guess is that most Texans are much like that tour guide, (except for Kinky Friedman)

[nolabear]

48. The Lalaurie Mansion in New Orleans

I’m not a believer in haunts but can be spooked in spite of that. The Lalaurie Mansion was the site of such unimaginable horrors it’s hard not to be uneasy, but it also has a strange, flat quality about it, as though it doesn’t reflect the light. Hard to describe but I really dislike it.

https://www.prairieghosts.com/lalaurie.html

[byronius]

85. I've read that story before; just horrible.

[thbobby]

51. Often, it is my kitchen. /nt

[LeftInTX]

55. Right now it's my living room

It looks like a war zone. I have been doing election stuff non-stop for 3 months.
Piles of labels and push cards and junk that I've printed out.
Paper clips, markers, voting rosters, a few campaign signs, phone chargers, bags, boxes of business cards,

You should see my car. It is full of campaign signs. The passenger seat is full of stuff for canvassing.

What a mess...........

[Doreen]

52. I have been to plenty of creepy places,

however the creepiest place I have been is a house I lived in and the barn at the other end of the property. Bad things had happened in that house before we moved in and bad things happened while we lived there. At some point my mother did some historic digging and found out about things that had been done in the house. I will not talk about or describe what happened because I do not feel like being ridiculed. It is also very creepy to talk about.

[Squinch]

57. Now I'm really curious.

My sister once lived in a house where a murder had taken place. I have to say, though, it really did not have a bad psychic feel.

My brother, on the other hand, lived in a house where as far as we know nothing weird ever happened. But it had the creepiest feeling of any house I have ever been in. Also it had a lot of weird stuff, like picture hooks all over the place - like two inches from corners and six inches off the floor. They found a sealed room in the basement that was painted red on walls, floor and ceiling. In the room was a small hole in the floor that a 20 foot plum line didn't hit bottom. And there were always dead horseflies everywhere, even in the dead of winter.

[Doreen]

67. One of the families left their little boy locked up in the attic.

Now, I know some may scoff at this but there was a family who supposedly practiced devil worship. I figure if they believed in stuff like that they were probably doing bad stuff. I think there was some dead animals found in the attic also. I felt, saw, and heard things in that house. When I say felt I mean both feeling my hair raise and actual physically felt things. There were some bad things that happened to me in that house. This is giving a very general idea of that house.

[Squinch]

69. I get it. I work in 6 different locations and I love my job.

In one, I like the people I work with, I like the work, but every time I walk into the building something in me just goes dark and dejected. A number of people have told me they feel the same. There is mention online of an old African burial ground at the site, and I have to wonder if they treated it respectfully when they built. Given the age of.the.building I tend to think not.

That story about the little boy is horrible. Peace to you.

[Doreen]

70. That makes sense.

Energy does not die. It somewhat dissipates but does not completely go away.

[RHMerriman]

56. Eeriest, creepiest real life place I've ever visited?

Besides a Trump hotel?

[jpak]

58. Pensacola FL

During fire season, there was a hugh wildfire across the bay.

I was driving in a part of town I rarely visit.

At a traffic light, the smoke became too thick see across the street.

Dozens of pedestrians were lurching spasmodically though the smoke in the street.

Then, a convoy of fire trucks and police cars with lights blaring and sirens screaming arrived.

It looked like the Zombie Apocalypse.

I was spooked.

BOO!

[murielm99]

59. I found Alcatraz pretty creepy.

[OnDoutside]

60. Catacombs in Palermo.

[bif]

61. Denis Severs House, London

[skypilot]

65. Seattle.

Seriously. Went there a couple times in the early 90s and it was like Invasion of the Body Snatchers meets Children of the Corn. I could not seem to STOP encountering people who would give me weird looks and weird attitude. Put me completely off of that city. Couldn't imagine visiting there (or, God forbid, living there) during the rainy/overcast season.

[nolabear]

91. Well, we try. :)

I'm from the Mississippi Coast and New Orleans. I've lived in Seattle for thirty years. I'm still batshit crazy by about March when I haven't seen the sun since, oh, right about now. And I've come to think of myself as a big, wet dog; I'm friendly and want to know how's your mamanem and talk to every damn body and people either think I'm really irritating or open up and tell me their life story. Probably why I was a pretty good therapist here.

Seattle's funny. It's both the easiest, least stressful and the most irritating place I know. I've got some stellar friends,but even they aren't all up in my business unless I ask.

I go back to NOLA as often as I can--NOT in the summer--and it's glorious.

[The Polack MSgt]

68. A supposedly haunted tunnel in Japan -Isegemi Tunnel

My wife was my girlfriend when I went there and WOULD NOT GO THROUGH.

So obviously I never went through it either.

[Totally Tunsie]

71. Stutthof Concentration Camp, Sztutowo, Poland

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/stutthof-photographs

Visited here while on vacation in the Baltics. It was a never-to-be-forgotten experience. From the moment you enter the Death Gate, an eerie silence greets you. There is no sound emanating from the camp itself, and the reverence that envelopes the visitors compels them to speak in whispers, if at all.

You walk through the dormitories where the prisoners slept on three-high tiers of uncushioned wooden planks, and view their striped prison clothing hanging on display. From there you enter the area where prisoners relieved themselves in holes and washed in circular troughs There is a clinic that was more a torture chamber - tables with clamps to hold down the prisoners as they were administered drugs or opened for surgery without anesthesia, with pans to drain the blood. These were the areas of prisoner "care".

The real horror is the free-standing gas chamber with a door on opposing sides, no windows, a vent at the top, and benches for the prisoners to sit on as the gases were administered. From there, the bodies were taken to the crematory where brick ovens reduced the bodies to ashes.

At the edge of the property is a single rail line with a rail car that was used to transport the prisoners into the camp. There is also a modern memorial that is both beautiful and thought provoking. It is a long concrete rectangle interrupted by a glassed area running its length (almost resembling a very large fish tank). Within is a perpetual low flame throughout the length, with specimens of bones scattered along the way.

Signs and posters throughout the camp tell of what the prisoners endured. There are also logs containing the names of prisoners along with their ages and other statistics.

It was truly a sight to see and a privilege to be allowed to experience this reverent place.

[smirkymonkey]

72. It sounds horrifying.

You gave a very good and chilling description of the place.

[JCMach1]

75. Khor Virap in Armenia, climbing down into the pit where Saint Gregory the Illuminator

was imprisoned...

[byronius]

83. Okay, going to learn about this now. That's a creepy-ass photo.

Khor Virap

[JCMach1]

101. Super narrow ladder that shakes as you go down what feels

Like the mouth of hell... It's a good 30-40 feet down too...

[LeftInTX]

95. Are you Armenian?

I am!!!!

Never been there.

[JCMach1]

100. Visited when I lived in Dubai... Highly underated destination

Loved every minute... Beautiful, great food, history everywhere, great Brandy and cognac, great people...

[red dog 1]

76. The Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, CA

It was the home of Sarah Winchester, the widow of firearm magnate William Wirt Winchester.
After her husband's death, and the death of her infant daughter, a "medium" told her that "she should leave her home in New Haven, Conn. and travel West, where she must continuously build a home for herself and the spirits of the people who had fallen victim to
Winchester rifles."

In 1884, she purchased an unfinished farmhouse in the Santa Clara Valley and began building her mansion.
Carpenters were hired and worked on the house day and night.
The house contains numerous oddities such as doors and stairs that go nowhere, widows overlooking other rooms and stairs with odd-sized risers.
Many accounts attribute these oddities to her belief in ghosts.

I've been there several times.
Although the entire place is kinda creepy, the room that really "got to me" was a small room, with walls & ceiling painted blue and called The Blue Room, which was where she supposedly "communicated" with spirits.
That room really creeped me out!

[lapfog_1]

77. Easy - The Boulderado Hotel in Boulder CO on Oct 26th, 2002

They put me in or near what was room 302 or 304... which are now famous for being haunted.

I didn't see a ghost or have things moved around in the room...

but I did wake up at 3:30am to the very strong smell of cooking bacon. I mean it was so strong that I would swear the frying pan was in my room. At the time I thought it was just that the kitchen vent was somehow routed to my room... however I went into the hallway and the smell was not there... when I went down to breakfast later I asked the wait staff what time they started cooking for breakfast and they told me 6:00am is when the kitchen staff started. But then the waitress asked what room I was in... and when I told her, she turned a few shades whiter.

I do remember a great sense of unease when I was awakened at 3:30am...

Nothing else happened.

That said, I still don't believe in ghosts or even the afterlife. And I think the ghost hunter shows on the TV are mostly if not entirely contrived.

How do I know the exact date... easy... Game 6 of the 2002 World Series was on the TV the night I checked in. I was a big SF Giants Fan.

[byronius]

87. I shook Abbie Hoffman's hand in the bar of that hotel.

So it can't be all bad.

Didn't stay there overnight, though.

[lapfog_1]

88. That's awesome

And I loved the hotel...



I think this was near my room actually.



I didn't meet anyone famous or any ghosts.

[Croney]

78. Abandoned plantations along the River Road

between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. Many are restored now, and many are gone, but fifty years ago I hacked through underbrush to reach one of these Ghosts Along the Mississippi and I felt a thousand eyes on me, and heard voices whispering, "We lived here, we toiled here, we died here." I cried.

[byronius]

89. Powerful.

[nolabear]

90. Ain't that the truth.

[byronius]

79. Queen's Chamber of the Great Pyramid.

Can't go there anymore. The passage down is absurdly weird and spooky. Plus, Abu Simbel before they flooded it.

Dachau. Dachau was the worst.

No real otherworldly experience, but the feelings these places gave me were quite real -- a sense of the lives that had touched these places.

[no_hypocrisy]

84. A synagogue in Augsburg, Germany in 1979.

The rabbi let me look inside.

Totally destroyed on November 9, 1938, Kristallnacht. And congregation opted to leave the destruction as it was to show the world what happened.

[Generic Brad]

93. Eastern Pennsylvania State Penitentiary

I toured it earlier this month. It was the nation's first prison and was decommissioned in 1972. Benjamin Franklin thought prolonged solitary confinement would make people want to change their ways, but all it did was drive them mad. The ruins were bleak and sobering.

[jberryhill]

104. Try the Mutter Museum next

[Generic Brad]

106. It looks interesting

Hopefully I’ll have time to check it out next time I visit my daughter. We walked by it when I was last there.

[jberryhill]

107. Yeah, it's.... interesting.

[Totally Tunsie]

97. smirky - Just wanted to say this is a great topic!

It's been very interesting reading what's posted here, so much so that I've veered off and investigated some of the places posted just for the entertainment and learning factor.

While I've already posted about Stutthof Concentration Camp above, I wanted to also mention a secondary "eerie" location that became an interesting project.

When I was in college in Providence, RI, most of our dormitories were restored Colonial houses high on College Hill. We used to joke that when doing our laundry, we were "heading for the dungeon". It turns out we weren't too far off. Only half our cellar was being used for laundry and storage, and there were a couple of padlocked doors that, to our knowledge, were never being opened. We asked our housemother about the doors, but she had never been through them either and had no idea. Finally, she gave us permission to break off the locks to see what secrets might lie behind these doors. We had aroused her curiosity also.

Behind the doors was a long hallway of sorts, with a series of small cell-like rooms on each side - perhaps 8 in total, about 6'X6' in size. They were all built of stone, had open doorways, and each had an opening used as a window onto the hallway. The area was filthy with crumbling stone, dirt and cobwebs throughout. It was very dark as there were no windows to the outside.

Being young, curious, and out for an adventure, a bunch of us began to investigate the history of our house. We went to the RI Historical Society a few blocks away, explained our project to the curator, and were led to a map room. There were huge books of city maps, street by street, year by year, structure by structure. Through these, we were able to determine this house had been built close to 1850. Now we had the curator as a co-investigator, and with her help, figured out this house had been part of the final years of the Underground Railroad, housing fleeing slaves on their journey north to Canada. What a find and a piece of living history!

[smirkymonkey]

98. Tunsie! That is fascinating!

I would love to hear more about that. I grew up in a small Dutch upstate NY town that was also a part of the Underground Railroad. Many historic houses and buildings that are still there today. The house I grew up in was built in 1836. No ghosts, I'm afraid, but the whole town is pretty much intact the same way it was in the late 1700's-Early 1800's. Very few houses have been built since then.

[Totally Tunsie]

99. It amazes me that with the historic value of the area, these dorm houses no longer exist.

The school was then known as Bryant College, which later moved out of the city in 1971 and into their new facilities built on the donated Tupper Estate (think Tupperware) in Smithfield, RI. The old school buildings and the land were sold to the adjacent Brown University, who then expanded their east side campus. At first, Brown retained the old campus as it was, but over time they have sadly torn down these magnificent houses and built brick and concrete boredom.

I find it strange that all the small New England towns manage to fight for and maintain their historic properties, but the state capital allows a major university to plow these buildings under.

Here's a link to a photo of the house - Allen Hall:

https://digitalcommons.bryant.edu/hist_photos/149/

(My room was on the second floor, the third and fourth windows from the left.)

[Hoyt]

102. Not really creepy, but sitting alone on a Native American burial mound for hours is quite spiritual.

[sandensea]

103. The Hotel Chamberlin, Ft. Monroe, VA.

Besides the eerie feel of its long hallways, I can attest to rumors that it is in fact haunted.

Fortunately, she's a very gentle soul.

That said it was restored a decade ago, and looks as beautiful as it was said to be when the Vanderbilts built it in 1928. Definitely worth a visit if you're ever in the Hampton Roads area.

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105. My great-grandmother's house out in the country when I was four.

It was dark inside because the drapes were always pulled, it smelled funny, and there was the constant anxiety of knowing that at the end of the visit I would be expected to kiss her on the lips -- while she was chewing tobacco.