What is a Halloween avatar change with no gibs thread? A miserable little pile of potatoes...


What's the scariest/spookiest/most creepy place you ever visited?

As for me, it was an abandoned research facility on the very edge of Prague.
I don't know its official name (I did but I lost the link long time ago) but it was something animal related. It was located on the edge of my town in a little forested area. A dead-end road led there. I don't exactly know when it was abandoned, but my guess is either in the '80s or sometimes soon after the revolution, in very early '90s.

It was creepy even on the outside - there were several rusted remains of cages scattered in the forested area, and the whole place was really littered with animal bones. It was also really, really quiet in there, like no birds chirping and stuff.

There were several buildings. Well, some were more like shacks. One of them was a storage of chemicals and chemistry related glass stuff like vials of all kinds and other thingies. As kids do, we of course broke in there and took basically anything that seemed cool. I still have some vials in the basement. We were also really stupid and messed with bottles labeled with a skull and crossbones and stuff, but nobody died so I guess it was ok.

Main attraction was one of the larger buildings, which was like a madman's laboratory inside. There was a room with tables full of stuff like a horse skull, piles and piles of necropsy logs and other paperwork. There were shelves full of jars with crazy stuff, like horse embryos, various other animals and my favorite two headed rat (or other rodent).

Back then we were kids so these things were really scary. Nowadays I kick myself for not stealing the two headed rat and some other cool thingies. Sadly, junkies burnt the whole place down in early '00s so future generations of kids won't have a cool scary place to dare each other to visit.


Onto gibs, these should all be spooky games or at least mildly spooky-related. Quality of many games is dubious.

Abducted
BlackSoul: Extended Edition
Call of Tomsk-7
Cargo 3
Coma: Mortuary
Containment: The Zombie Puzzler
Deadlight
Deadly Premonition
Dracula Trilogy NEW
Flesh Eaters
Home
Huntsman: The Orphanage
Infect and Destroy
Kraven Manor
Motte Island
Paradigm Shift
Post Mortem
Wooden Floor
Year Walk
Zafehouse: Diaries
Zombie Bowl-o-Rama
Zombie Solitaire

Dang creating these took a lot of time. It looked so easy in my spreadsheet :'(

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Scariest place I ever visited...

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Hmm. That's a tough one. Probably a number of concentration camps/checkpoints in Germany. They were such a mix of sadness, eerie, depressing and other emotions. I'll never forget them.

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Outside. Because graphic was terrible and gameplay didn't feature save and load function.

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The Somme Battleground. Hallowed grounds where 420 000 British Commonwealth, 200 000 French and 450 000 German soldiers died in less than 5 months of yard/yard or meter/meter bitter fighting.

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I recently watched the documentary series "The Great War" by the BBC again, so I can imagine standing on that ground would feel... I don't know a word that would be appropriate.

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It is an eerie place. You can still see the many pockmarks/bom and grenade craters in the landscape, where the positions of the trenches were, some concrete bunkers. Also knowing that the courageous British Commonwealth and French soldiers walked slowly in line formation to cross nomans land into German barbed wire, pre sighted artillery and concentrated machine guns. Knowing that on the very first day of the battle of the Somme the British Commonwealth lost more than 20000 soldiers... It's very hard to control ones emotions and to not have cold shivers and tears. When you see and feel the battleground while a guide is talking about what happened and names countless numbers of dead and missing soldiers. And knowing that the Battle of the Somme ended in a stalemate with hardly any terrain shifting from one side to another at the cost of more than 1 000 000 combined casualties...

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The war was really a shameful display on the part of humanity. At least for us (Czechoslovakia) we got rid of an oppressive empire and gained independence after several hundred of years without it.
I heard farmers with fields around the former battlefields still find unexploded shells every spring, even after 100 years.

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Yes, It's like on the Flanders Battlegrounds where I live; farmers, roadworkers, contruction workers still find explosives, grenades, bombs, gas canisters and remains of the fallen.

There's a special facility here for old munitons to be neutralised and especially the mustard gas grenades.

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my room

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When I was a kid I went to a holiday scheme place, like a day club whilst parents were working or if they just wanted some free time. It was held in a school which during the rest of the year was for mentally handicapped and anger management in youth. There was a rumour that went around that a girl hung herself in the washroom and was still there. It was probably bullshit but noped most of the kids, including myself from actually using them. There was also a dilapidated caravan out back of the fields which also had a rumour, where a man had died from smoke inhalation/fire from lack of proper ventilation, again probably also bullshit but the games around seeing who would get closest to the place without running away were pretty fun.

As for a more serious answer, probably London or Paris. The history in both them is astonishing really but that goes for a lot of cities in Europe. Surviving wars, murders, revolutions, black death. Even more specific than that though, I would go with Tower of London and the Catacombs of Paris. I thought both places were kind of unsettling but perhaps the catacombs more so.

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I'm weird so the Catacombs are for me the main draw of Paris, if I ever visit.

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Ah, they're spooky but that definitely shouldn't deter anyone for a visit. :)

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A little shed outside my grand-parents' house. It was completely dark, not a single light or window, a horrible smell of oil and a hundred jump scares because of the cats always hidden there and running away by hurling themselves at me... Not really spooky, except if you're a five-year-old girl :p

Thanks and happy Halloween!

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Thanks for the picture, first time seeing that :-D

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wow, that really IS scary :)

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Nothing scares me

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-dangles a plastic spider on a string in front of Fragy-

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Don't do that

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School. Then university. Then university again, because of master's degree.

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Hm, I guess my bathroom after good horror :D

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and bump

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Why are you people not entering for Dracula Trilogy????

oh.. because I forgot to link it! case closed :(

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was about 5 or 6, was looking through a crack in my kitchen door into our hallway. all of a sudden i saw an EYE looking at me. scared the shit out of me, happened in a teeny tiny split of a second and it was gone. but damn... still not sure what happened that day since i don't believe in supernatural crap.

most recent: was home alone in the bathroom, washing my hands or some crap. then in the corner of my eye i notice something black and thin trying to touch my shoulder from behind. freaked me the fuck out. it was actually my own hair (have long hair) a strand of hair was standing on my cheek or some crap. scared of your own shadow type of deals. felt much shame ;(

i also find slowly opening doors incredibly creepy

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1) Steamgifts.
2) The mirror.
3) My toilet.
4) My ex-girlfriend's place.
5) My school (well, I'm a big man now :B ).

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Oh, I wrote here already, but well, nevermind. xD

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A nazi concentration camp in 1988.

I was living in France and there was this summer camp organized in East Germany with my school. I was 11.
It was still a communist country but the people were nice yet poor and there wasn't much to do. For us, it was mainly fun and games. We were set in a region around Berlin with many lakes and forests. We would visit Berlin. The Wall was still there. Since we were foreigners, we could cross the border between East and West Berlin.
It was surreal. It was actually fun. I don't quite remember why my parents sent me there bust it was somehow enlightening.
One day, I peeped into the girls showers. Some of them were older than me. Nice memories.

As a part of our journey, there was this old concentration camp to visit.
It was mainly empty. Our guide would explain was happened 45 years earlier in the same place.

The director of our summer camp who had come with us, a 60 year old fat bald communist, cried.

And I must admit, I'm not very comfortable right now.

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i used to work night shifts at a fairly grimey pizza place that was across the down the street from a really rough apartment complex and across the street from an abandoned amusement park. And guess who would have to walk a block down the unlighted road to take out the garbage through this environment?

creepy af, but damn good pizza.

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Once entered a very old looking, solitary building in a hospital park. It used to be locked but had been broken into by someone else before. We went in there at night with flashlights for it to be more scary. After we entered, we figured it must have been a former pathology department because there was something that looked like a postmortem room and there were rails leading down the cellar stairs from the outside. The house was also small and quite far away from the main hospital buildings. The main rooms were tiled with sinks on the walls and drains in the floor and holes in the middle, where the autopsy tables must have been attached. The scattered syringes were of a more recent origin though and we were glad nobody was wearing sandals ;)

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Once my car broke down on highway in northern Quebec in canada. So I had to stop by the side of this very small country side road and waiting for help...

There was a snow blizzard right there and the local RCMP won't be in for another 5 hours so i kept myself warm and slept in the car...

It was about 2 AM and I woke up thinking that i heard someone knocking on my windshield... Used my Iphone light and search around the car but i couldn't find anyone.. or anything...

Go back inside the car and i find a piece of blank blue sticking note on my car's stering wheel...

Needless to say.. I didn't sleep and waited another 2 hours for RCMP rescue team to arrive...

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