That you would not want to visit...http://the10mostknown.com/10-scary-places-in-the-world-you-wouldnt-like-to-visit/
Scary Places In The World
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Diwundrin
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- Nth Coast NSW Australia
We've got a 'spooky' forest, a bit South of Sydney, although it's rep is more to do with human doings and media beat up than anything tangible.
Terra may know some local stories about the place, he's from that general area.
Link to a blog's potted version of events.
http://historiesofthingstocome.blogspot.com.au/2011/10/halloween-countdown-19-belanglo-state.html
Strange the sign doesn't specify what we should be careful of.
It's not the prettiest forest around, but 'scary'? That may depend whether you know it's history or not.
Terra may know some local stories about the place, he's from that general area.
Link to a blog's potted version of events.
http://historiesofthingstocome.blogspot.com.au/2011/10/halloween-countdown-19-belanglo-state.html
Strange the sign doesn't specify what we should be careful of.
It's not the prettiest forest around, but 'scary'? That may depend whether you know it's history or not.
SifuPhil
R.I.P. With Us In Spirit Only
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- Pennsylvania, USA
The Island of Dolls is about the only place that would put a shiver down my spine - they look too much like that little flying doll in the beginning credits of "The Twilight Zone". 
The Japanese suicide forest has always intrigued me; would love to see it someday.
The Japanese suicide forest has always intrigued me; would love to see it someday.
Diwundrin
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- Nth Coast NSW Australia
Dolls give me the creeps a bit too. Think Barbarella. 
Katybug
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- Charlotte, NC
In the mountains of NC, BAT CAVE is a big tourist attraction. If you don't mind VERY small and VERY dark places with VERY low cave roofs and a gazillion bats flying over your head, this is the place for you. I waited outside while friends went in, tho it didn't take them long to come back out! I can't imagine being more frightened other than being in the bush of Australia or Africa, or a snake pit, and none of those are likely to be an option.
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That Guy
Homegrown Unknown
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- Monterey Bay
The good ol' Winchester Mystery House! Right before I left for boot camp, went out with a crazy girl and her friends. They decided we just had to break into the house! Back then, it was not guarded nor fenced. Sometime well after midnight, we crept up to it and stood there entranced. Nobody wanted anything to do with that place. It was definitely creepy. Once, while taking some visiting friends on a tour, I hung back from the group a bit to get the feeling of being alone in the place. Yikes! I couldn't catch up soon enough.
JustBonee
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- Texas Gulf Coast
In glancing at that list, it all looked pretty spooky for sure ... then I came to No. 2 - Helltown, Ohio ..??? Now, I lived in that general vicinity for years and never heard of such a place. .. Of course, things change over the years, but to have a super scary town right there.. ..strange .. So I had to check it out - and I came up with this:
http://www.prairieghosts.com/helltown.html .... Happy Halloween! ..
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..strange .. So I had to check it out - and I came up with this: http://www.prairieghosts.com/helltown.html .... Happy Halloween! ..
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Diwundrin
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- Nth Coast NSW Australia
That was a good read, thanks Bonnie. I'm a member of a couple of skeptics forums and love to see those urban legends dissected.
Funny how similar legends build in far flung places. There's a bridge south of Sydney that was reknowned for 'Fisher's Ghost'. Story went that a man named Fisher was murdered and his body thrown off the bridge back in the 1800s. It was said that he'd be seen sitting on the railings and that horses wouldn't cross the bridge.
Family lore included my great grandmother's contribution to that one. She was a midwife and often would be returning to her home in the Camden region at late hours in a buggy. She crossed that bridge many times late at night with never so much as an ear twitch from the horse.
But one night it simply wouldn't move onto the bridge.
She tried to lead it but it just wouldn't go. That horse's life must have been in dire danger because she was a woman who brooked no nonsense and from what I've heard of her the bridge would have been the safer option for the horse.
Suddenly though it just settled down and walked on as if nothing had happened. She certainly didn't see any ghost but couldn't explain what upset that horse on that particular night, it never happened again, probably luckily for the horse.
Funny how similar legends build in far flung places. There's a bridge south of Sydney that was reknowned for 'Fisher's Ghost'. Story went that a man named Fisher was murdered and his body thrown off the bridge back in the 1800s. It was said that he'd be seen sitting on the railings and that horses wouldn't cross the bridge.
Family lore included my great grandmother's contribution to that one. She was a midwife and often would be returning to her home in the Camden region at late hours in a buggy. She crossed that bridge many times late at night with never so much as an ear twitch from the horse.
But one night it simply wouldn't move onto the bridge.
She tried to lead it but it just wouldn't go. That horse's life must have been in dire danger because she was a woman who brooked no nonsense and from what I've heard of her the bridge would have been the safer option for the horse.
Suddenly though it just settled down and walked on as if nothing had happened. She certainly didn't see any ghost but couldn't explain what upset that horse on that particular night, it never happened again, probably luckily for the horse.
