Thread: Which real life Halloween types of scenery or locations creep you out the most?

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Dark, desolate highways at night?
Walking along dirt trails in the deep woods?
Touring abandoned houses?
Paying for gas at the run down station with the devious looking owner?
Your own backyard cloaked by the darkness and cast with shadows?

We've seen people find themselves in all of these situations and more on our favorite horror films, but what gives y'all the creepy-crawlies?

Or do you have nerves of steel?

Nerves of steel? Not me! I am afraid of the dark. Not so much inside a house or building, but outside in the dark...I am terrified. Strange that I love Halloween, huh?

Just the unknown in the dark. Generally I'm okay if I don't let my mind wander about "what could be....". But if I let it get the best of my I can really freak myself out!

Nah, not really...sometimes the dark freaks me out too, mainly because I can't see if there are any snakes or mutant spiders I'm about to step on or something. I am a TOTAL PANSY around those things!!

I hear ya, Brimstone!

Actually, desolate highways do kinda get to me sometimes. I worry about car trouble and being at the mercy of total strangers if we needed to hitch a ride or something.

Sometimes the woods make me look behind us on the trail. I feel like we're being watched...but that would never stop me from going.

When I was a child, my older sisters dared me to go into an abandoned house by myself that was less than a mile from our house. I was to go into one of the bedrooms and bring back an item to prove I had done it. To make matters worse, a documented multiple murder had taken place there when a father went beserk and killed his whole family and then hung himself in the living room 6 years before. I went in and it was so creepy I can still feel it. There was absolutely no sound - either inside or out. Nothing had been moved out of the house, but rodents and such has definitely been at the furniture and papers. The beds where the kids had been killed were still there, sans bedding, and the couch still had a very large brown stain on it, which is supposedly where he had stabbed and killed his wife. I was so freaked out, I grabbed the first thing I saw, which happened to be a plastic comb, and ran out the door as fast as I could. Thank goodness it wasn't dark! I never would have gone in at all if it had been! Anyway, it was so weird and creepy in that house that I had nightmares for weeks, and it still haunts me today. For that reason, I would have to say that there is nothing that can make my skin crawl like an abandoned house.

Whoa, Shebear! I bet your sisters wouldn't have done that. You're a brave soul!

The only thing I will say - is if someone does a good set-up...even if they weren't meaning to. Here's what I mean: Middle of summer, I was helping some people I know building a new house out in the wilderness. They had several neighbours that had a large bbq and invited us all around. Throughout the evening, people told stories about the lady who had originally owned the land. She sounded like an amazing trooper. Well - closer to her end, she started to exhibit signs of dementia - to the point that she didn't recognize her own family or neighbours. She tended to get quite angry with people - including her own family.

Her house was right next to the one we were constructing. I remember being tired and just wanting to get to sleep that night after all the work that day and left the party early. We couldn't sleep inside because it wasn't finished yet, but I could walk through the house to the open deck where my sleeping bag was to sleep out there. Honestly....I have never actually been afraid like that in my life. I LITERALLY kept my eyes down at my flashlight beam on the bare ground floor thinking "I don't want to see her!"

There have been few things that have scared me like that in life - but just the knowing of the history.....is better than the scene itself....if you know what I mean

The unknown, I can walk through the woods at night and not be afraid. However when I start pondering of what might be watching me or following me, I will go nuts. I think that this is also a great tool to have, it has saved my butt multiple times before so its something I want to keep.

Now location wise, I would say Point Lookout, MD and it just so happens to be a 15 minute car ride for me. It has all of the creepy qualities that a haunted place should have. Hundreds of sad and angry men have died there in the prison camps during the civil war. It is a peninsula so there is only one way in and one way out, and has multiple swamps. I like to go out with friends at night and it is just bone chilling, and camping there is amazing. The tent sites are over an old small pox hospital where hundreds died from the sickness. You can just feel it when you show up, the air is different. Plus, it has had a video game based off of the location, so it is my favorite because of that too.