Thought this might make an interesting thread, inspired by the pizza lan thread.
What is the scariest place or places you have ever been? It can be a funny story, a ghost story or somewhere where you felt your life was in danger.
One of the creepiest places I have ever been was an empty cinema - that was really freaky. Me and my friends watched a film at the midnight showing so we were the last people to leave the cinema. When we got back to the car, I realised I had left my scarf in there, so I ran back to find that they had closed the place up and a man was locking the door. He allowed me to go in an retrieve my scarf and said he would wait for me at the door.
There is something horrible about being in a usually busy place that is dead silent and dark. I went up the escalators to the screens and I was instantly fearful and the long black corridors. That was nothing to being in the cinema screen itself, which was pitch black and I only had my phone light to guide me. To make matters worse, my scarf was right in the middle. It may sound lame, but I was terrified
This picture sort of gets accross what it was like - pitch black, quiet and nobody around:
Once I grabbed my scarf I pretty much sprinted all the way back to the entrance and the man laughed agreeing how horrible the place was when you were there by yourself.
In terms of being frightened for my safety, my trip to Naples was pretty horrible:
However, the winner for the absolute most horrible place I have ever been is hands down the catacombs in Palermo, Sicily. I think it's right that I emphasise that I had no idea what I was getting myself into, I just overheard someone say there were catacombs to visit and I didn't understand that it would be anything more than some interesting religious thing. Oh how wrong I was!
I paid my entrance fee to Egor on the front door (that should have given me a clue...) and proceeded down a set of stairs by myself until I reached the catacombs. I got there and was just dumbstruck. It was a display of thousands of preserved / rotting dead bodies of all ages, including children and babies
I ended up slowly walking around this place by myself. There was nobody else there.
Warning - Photos below are creepy and if you don't want to see images of dead people then don't look at them.
That place made me feel dead inside for about a week. Not somewhere to go on a date that's for sure.
What about you guys?
What is the scariest place or places you have ever been? It can be a funny story, a ghost story or somewhere where you felt your life was in danger.
One of the creepiest places I have ever been was an empty cinema - that was really freaky. Me and my friends watched a film at the midnight showing so we were the last people to leave the cinema. When we got back to the car, I realised I had left my scarf in there, so I ran back to find that they had closed the place up and a man was locking the door. He allowed me to go in an retrieve my scarf and said he would wait for me at the door.
There is something horrible about being in a usually busy place that is dead silent and dark. I went up the escalators to the screens and I was instantly fearful and the long black corridors. That was nothing to being in the cinema screen itself, which was pitch black and I only had my phone light to guide me. To make matters worse, my scarf was right in the middle. It may sound lame, but I was terrified
This picture sort of gets accross what it was like - pitch black, quiet and nobody around:
Once I grabbed my scarf I pretty much sprinted all the way back to the entrance and the man laughed agreeing how horrible the place was when you were there by yourself.
In terms of being frightened for my safety, my trip to Naples was pretty horrible:
I went travelling around Italty and I found Naples terrifying.
As soon as I got off the train someone through a bottle at me and groups of men were shouting at me to come over to them, my tourist nature given away by my large backpack.
I eventually found my way to the circumsuvienna (sp?) metro line and got on, befriending an Italian teenager for my own comfort. Within 3 stops there were people dealing drugs in my carriage and eventually a large gang got on. My Italian chum whispered at me not to look at them, and then eventually told me they were planning to mug me
He whispered to run off the train at my stop as the doors were closing and not stop running until I got home. He got off a few stops before me and true enough several members of the gang were staring at me and one of them had a chain!
I ran off the train and sprinted all the way to the hostel on which point I collapsed to the group and pretty much kissed the floor for thanks of safety
Bear in mind, this was me getting into central Naples at night by myself - very vulnerable.
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Oh and don't get the night train from Naples to Sicily. I bought a ticket only to find someone people who had their bags stolen from them at that train by being gassed unconcious and their bags removed from them by knife
However, the winner for the absolute most horrible place I have ever been is hands down the catacombs in Palermo, Sicily. I think it's right that I emphasise that I had no idea what I was getting myself into, I just overheard someone say there were catacombs to visit and I didn't understand that it would be anything more than some interesting religious thing. Oh how wrong I was!
I paid my entrance fee to Egor on the front door (that should have given me a clue...) and proceeded down a set of stairs by myself until I reached the catacombs. I got there and was just dumbstruck. It was a display of thousands of preserved / rotting dead bodies of all ages, including children and babies
I ended up slowly walking around this place by myself. There was nobody else there.
Warning - Photos below are creepy and if you don't want to see images of dead people then don't look at them.
That place made me feel dead inside for about a week. Not somewhere to go on a date that's for sure.
What about you guys?
