Most people stay away from places that they feel are the slightest bit unsettling, unnerving, or creepy. It makes complete sense—if your gut is telling you that some sort of danger might be lurking in there, it’s better to listen to it and be safe than sorry. However, those who like spooky experiences seek out such locations on purpose, and if they’re lucky enough, they get to live to tell the stories (muahaha).
Many of them you’ll be able to find below, all you have to do is scroll down. But before you do, be warned that you might need to sleep with the lights on after reading these stories.
#1
Operating room for brain surgery.
It’s freezing cold, they wheel you up to this stainless steel bed with a cage you put your head in. They tighten down clamps on your head so it can’t move. Then knock you out.
You wake up multiple times over a 4.5 hour surgery, semi conscious, eyes closed but you can say “I hear you guys”, or snap your fingers and hold a finger up like “waiter”, and the anesthesiologist hits you with a dose.
After they’re done, they poke a giant needle (ice pick) into different facial muscles to make sure they didn’t break anything. Poking it into a muscle causes a subconscious flinching and they look at the muscle group flinching to make sure each category is still rigged up. I had a bunch of scabs and taped cotton balls across my face and scalp. Then they seal up your skull and sign off on it.
They use reciprocating saws and similar power tools to carpenters, it’s morbid, terrifying, cold. But it can give you your life back. I spent 2 nights in the hospital and was driving to work 7 days later feeling like a million bucks.
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#2
I went to a rest stop at 1am outside Springfield Illinois a few years back. Went to the restroom and there was blood everywhere. It looked like something got slaughtered. I have never high tailed it out of somewhere so quickly beforehand.
Update: So a bit of context. This occurred at a reststop along hwy 55 outside of Springfield. This was a very old reststop (not a gas station). It happened in Oct (maybe Nov) of 2014. Pretty close to Halloween.
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#3
In high school my friends and I would go up to the local abandoned state mental hospital to explore. The rooms were mostly creepy from the state of decay they were in. There was a lot of graffiti, with things like “666” and bands names (Tool, Marilyn Manson) spray painted on the walls. The graffiti wasn’t creepy, just markings from other teenagers. Sometimes we would find bullet casings scattered on the floor.
However, the creepiest area I saw were the underground tunnels. A security guard “caught” us on the property and told us to come back in a half hour after the Statie did their rounds. We met up with him and he took us down into the tunnels that staff would have used to travel between buildings. I just remember how dark it was and he was the only one with a flashlight, as that cell phones at this time were Nokia bricks.
The other creepy part was when he drove us around the property in his Dodge Caravan that had his cat in it. Dry cat food was all over the floor.
16 year old me was really stupid, hahaha. Even though nothing bad happened it always sounds like the makings of a horror movie.
Edit: This was at Metropolitan State Hospital (Met State) in Waltham, MA. Like many other old hospitals it was torn down and turned into condos. Only an administrative building still exists.
There is a little cemetery (Metfern) in the woods nearby where you can find the gravestones of the patients. They are only marked with C’s and P’s (Catholic/Protestant) and their patient numbers. I like to stop by every now and then to pay my respects. I have noticed that someone comes by, I assume on religious holidays, and leaves a flower on every grave.
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#4
Back during Vietnam my unit got hit hard in the jungle. We split and one group went to help find the VC who attacked us, we stayed behind to evacuate the wounded. The 4 able bodies were supposed to hop on with the injured and go. We load up and one chopper doesn’t make it back so we 4 can’t load we would be grossly over weight. Its late sun is low pilot says he will drop these guys and come back for us. So we divvy up ammo from the wounded and squat in a open field. 20 minutes goes by then a hour, two hours its now pitch black and were seated in a grassy field. We spent the whole night looking at every stick and leaf thst twitched, you could feel the tension. We sat in a star back to back with our rifles pointed out. We knew we couldn’t repel the attack but we decided to take as many as we could before being over run, if over run we would pull grenades and do everyone and the VC for 25 feet in every direction. The tension was thick, sunrise we heard the Huey come. On the way back he had a hydraulics issue they worked all night to fix it so we could get flown out ASAP. All 4 dust offs had issues and took bullets so that is why the other one didnt return the first time. That field of grass was extremely spooky even if it was just in our minds.
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#5
The solitary confinement cells at Alcatraz – which is a pretty creepy place all on its own. But those cells are like the Heart of Darkness. There are four or five of them just off the library, all the cell doors open onto a windowless hallway, so it’s dark leading to dark.
I went in there on my own and I swear something evil was squatting in the corner waiting for me leave my soul unattended. 10/10 for creepy, will not go back.
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#6
The crypt (I think that’s what it was) of a church in Bayeux, France. I was there on a school trip and we could choose whether to go to this historically old church, or see the Bayeux tapestry. I chose the church. IIRC they had just found the crypt a couple of years before.
So I was down there by myself, taking pictures, and after a couple of minutes I started feeling downright nauseous. Like, “I’m going to get sick right here” nauseous. Went upstairs to get some air, and the feeling went away instantly. Creeped me out, and when I went down with the group afterwards I felt totally fine.
Edit: I was wrong about the crypt. The cathedral was built in the 11th century, but the crypt was only rediscovered in 1412. Here is a photo of the crypt (not mine) but it definitely was not all lit up when I went lol it was very dark.
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#7
My neighbor has an old cemetery in her wooded backyard. I saw it one time when I was really young and from then on we either played in the street or in my backyard. Never found out who was buried there, but I know for sure it wasn’t anyone she was related to.
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#8
Serious? the gas chamber in mauthausen concentration camp. its a deeply truly horrifying experience.
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#9
An abandoned mental institution in NJ. My friend brought us there and we wandered the grounds and went in a few buildings, including the morgue. The offices still had patient files and the pediatric area still had kids artwork. It had been abandoned for about eight years at that point. It was really creepy and also really sad.
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#10
I was on a family vacation to Atlanta, about 1972. We went to visit some cousins of my grandmothers. Twin sisters, never married, in their 80’s. The house was in a rundown neighbourhood. From the street you’d think it was abandoned. Overgrown yard, part of the roof caved in, boarded up windows. Inside, it was all antiques, and furniture from the 30’s and 40’s, slowly deteriorating, and it looked as though they hadn’t dusted in years. Wallpaper pealing, old portraits half fallen. Looking up to the second floor from the stairs, just cobwebs and collapsed ceilings. They said they hadn’t been up their in years. And definitely rat noises. They both looked and lived like ghosts, and seemed half mad, very civil and proper but off. As an 8 year old, I was terrified, especially when one of them joked and said “You should leave him here. He can live with us”. I burst into tears, and we left.
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#11
My own attic when I was 8. Shut the lights off on your way out and sprint down the steps like the ceiling is collapsing behind you. Whoever says childhood is fun and beautiful is wrong, it’s terrifying.
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#12
St Paul’s catacombs in Malta. Husband and I found a passage haphazardly taped off and decided to explore a little bit further. It got pitch black pretty fast so we tore back to the public area. I can’t even imagine how badly that could have ended.
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#13
Not me, but my mom. When she was young she would have night terrors almost every night that people were chasing her. When this would happen, her dream self would always run to a tiny door to get away from whatever was chasing her. This door was never anywhere specific in the dreams, and every time she would go in, the dream would end or she would wake up, so she never knew what was behind it, she just knew it was a safe spot to get out of the dream.
When she was pregnant with me and house hunting with my father, they were touring a house that supposedly gave her an eerie feeling the minute they walked in, but she couldn’t quite put her finger on what was throwing her off. Eventually they got to looking at the attic. When she went up there, the first thing she noticed was a tiny door identical to the one in her childhood dream. Her safe place. She never knew what was behind that door as a kid, and she still doesn’t to this day. She immediately decided this was not the house for her.
I’m not sure why she never looked behind the door, but I know for sure if I was in her shoes, I would have.
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#14
When I was a kid, we lived in my dad’s old house, from when he was a kid. It was one of the oldest houses in town, & had been there since the 1800’s, but had been redone a few times. The house had three bedrooms…a master that used to be a screened in porch, a regular room, & a room off to the side that was barely big enough for a twin bed. When my dad was about 11, his older brother died of heart failure, & they had his coffin put in that room, for the viewing. When my grandfather died about 10 years later, his was put there too. When I was born, my grandmother offered the house to my parents, as she’d gotten remarried, so they took it for $30 a month. That room always creeped me out for some reason growing up, & I didn’t like going in there. When I was older, & renting the house from my grandma myself, that’s when my dad told me about the viewings. Still was a creepy room & I kept only things I didn’t use on a regular basis in there!!
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#15
In a B&B in the Isle of Skye in Scotland.
It was right next to a nursing home that was suspiciously silent.
It was right above the sea at October and it was very windy and cold.
The B&B owner was a very old lady with TON of porcelain figures in the house.
The room she rented as a B&B was in the top floor of her house.
It was very creepy. We just went in to see the room out of respect to the lady and got the hell out from there.
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#16
It was a bright and sunny Saturday morning. We were driving around to check out this house for rent in another neighborhood. As we entered the subdivision, everything became eerie, like it all felt wrong. The sun disappeared behind heavy clouds and we stopped seeing kids play in the street. In fact, the whole neighborhood looked empty. Save for one lady tending a food stand in front where house. Oh and an empty lot with a dozen turkeys. They were all huddled up together under the shade of a tree. Waiting for rain perhaps? We booked it after looking at the house.
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#17
A room converted from the previous morgue in a hospital about 135 years old.
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#18
A trophy room…
Why is it creepy?
Because it had 10 portraits of the people who earned the trophies… the kind of portraits where if you looked at the picture the eyes always looked at you directly… no matter if you were moving or not… their gaze followed you :/
It was late, I was alone… and it was pitch silent…
edit” btw this was in the late ’90s, the portraits were in black and white, and everyone in the pictures were deceased.
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