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Creepiest place you have ever been?
- Niagara Falls. Very lovely and awe inspiring place, I did enjoy my time there. However, it has an incredibly high rate of suicide (5,000 deaths overall, including accidents and daredevils. Over 20+ suicide attempts every year) There is something always unsettling to me when it comes to suicide and places that have a tragically high rate of it. Those massive falls are eerie on their own.
- Terezin (Theresienstadt) Concentration, Ghetto and Transit Camp, Czech Republic. Again, amazing experience, especially since I was part of a tour, but quite something. Formally an 18th fortress, turned prison for political and military prisoners, turned ghetto and camp and transit area heading to the direction of places like Auschwitz. There is a lot to say about it; From the man who assassinated Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo that sparked WWI was imprisoned there (I went inside his actual cell!) all the way to the execution sights, actual cold room where bodies were placed and crematorium, and everything in between. Terezin is also still a working and living town today, with inhabitants whose family ancestors lived there before the war and understandably didn't want to leave. Walking around the town was still eerie however, as there were other buildings like former underground prison cells, SS headquarters, old brewery that turned into a disinfecting station, Children's Barracks with 4,000 pieces of their art hung up. All the restaurants, hotels, tons of other abandoned history have links to them. It is definitely not a "normal" town. Let's just say it isn't necessarily stunningly beautiful in appearance either.
-Last but not least, an abandoned insane asylum in Quebec!
I have also been to prisons and bone chapels, and while fascinating and somber didn't click in with the "Creepy" ness of above.
Creepiest place you have ever been?
- Niagara Falls. Very lovely and awe inspiring place, I did enjoy my time there. However, it has an incredibly high rate of suicide (5,000 deaths overall, including accidents and daredevils. Over 20+ suicide attempts every year) There is something always unsettling to me when it comes to suicide and places that have a tragically high rate of it. Those massive falls are eerie on their own.
- Terezin (Theresienstadt) Concentration, Ghetto and Transit Camp, Czech Republic. Again, amazing experience, especially since I was part of a tour, but quite something. Formally an 18th fortress, turned prison for political and military prisoners, turned ghetto and camp and transit area heading to the direction of places like Auschwitz. There is a lot to say about it; From the man who assassinated Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo that sparked WWI was imprisoned there (I went inside his actual cell!) all the way to the execution sights, actual cold room where bodies were placed and crematorium, and everything in between. Terezin is also still a working and living town today, with inhabitants whose family ancestors lived there before the war and understandably didn't want to leave. Walking around the town was still eerie however, as there were other buildings like former underground prison cells, SS headquarters, old brewery that turned into a disinfecting station, Children's Barracks with 4,000 pieces of their art hung up. All the restaurants, hotels, tons of other abandoned history have links to them. It is definitely not a "normal" town. Let's just say it isn't necessarily stunningly beautiful in appearance either.
-Last but not least, an abandoned insane asylum in Quebec!
I have also been to prisons and bone chapels, and while fascinating and somber didn't click in with the "Creepy" ness of above.
