Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, 10 of the most haunted places across alternate worlds.
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10:16 | #2
11:19 | Honorable Mention #1
11:49 | Honorable Mention #2
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What should really scare you is that there is no real world capital of any great nation which was not built on the graves of millions.
Spoilers for ST4
Maybe I misread but wasn't the upside down a barren hellscape before 11 sent 1 through the portal, and he shaped it to his liking? That's why Nancy's last diary entry was from season 1.
I'd nominate the Kowloon Walled City in Shadowrun.
It's a place so haunted by things which defy all explanation or categorization even in a world where magic has become an accepted fact of life that the supernatural horrors who prey on humanity are terrified of going in there.
Insect spirits, parasitic monsters so dangerous that the city of Chicago got nuked in a futile attempt to take out one of their nests, flat out refuse to have anything to do with kowloon, because they know that the things within would eat them. And yet it's inhabited by masses of people who have absolutely nowhere else to go and whose despair feeds the entities lurking just barely out of sight…
Agree with a lot of other suggestions below, Dead Marshes, Minas Morgul, Charn, The Overlook Hotel and others.
My own submissions would be the Glykon from Destiny 2 and the ship from Chains of Harrow in Warframe.
The Glykon is a little like the Event Horizon, in that you arrive after the fact. But what makes it extra creepy is the whispers, the banging behind the walls, the sudden floods of suicidal undead enemies that appear from nowhere, the plant-like thing growing inside the ship and through the bodies aboard and of course the realization of what exactly was happening on the ship and what was left.
Shadowkeep may have been the first proper bit of the cosmic horror that is the Darkness in Destiny and nothing is quite like the empty Pyramid ship with our possessed Ghost talking to us, but the Glykon is a whole new thing.
The ship in Chains of Harrow is similar. Pitched in shadows, lit only by an eerie red light, as the ghosts of the dead crew attack you and the whispers of the Void play inside your head. Add in the messages written in blood on the walls and the story of why all this is happening and it gets very chilling, very quickly.
Glad to see so many people suggesting stuff from different mediums.
Would of thought the ghoul stars from 40K would have had a mention.
Super disappointed you didn't include the Ocean House Hotel from Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines. A level so scary (based purely on atmosphere, sound, and brief visuals) that a warning and option to skip it was later patched in.
You forgot the Springfield Box Factory. I heard that a student was turned into a box there.
Bold of the Institute to be bringing up the Event Horizon
My honourable mentions go to Sevastopol station from Alien: Isolation, and pretty much every location in Horizon: Zero Dawn.
I think the audio visualizer used in this video could do with some replacing. The old version blended better into the background allowing the message of the video to be built up by it whereas the contrast the orange and reds add now takes away focus from the message with how eye catching they are
The conclusions of the Institute's hauntologists are more definitive than my own – I'm merely a hauntometrist – but since you mentioned having consulted with the Institute's ghost hunters, I would suggest New York City, specifically the Shandor Building and the resulting Gozer Incident, as another Honorable Mention. While the Ghostbusters were ultimately successful in unraveling the mystery and dealing with the issue, a big question remains: why then?
Tobin suggests in his Spirit Guide that it happened in 1984 because that year was one when, in effect, The Stars Were Right – but his research also indicates 1945 was similarly attuned, and Shandor died that year with no Gozerian arrival. It can't be that Shandor or his cult were prevented from carrying out a rite or ritual, because by the 80's no Gozer-summoning rituals were being carried out at all, but a Keymaster and Gatekeeper were chosen from the general population anyway.
Apparently, random people being demonically possessed to help some moldy Babylonian god suddenly show up and start tearing up the city (sorry: Sumerian, not Babylonian, big difference) is all ultimately just A Thing That Can Happen. The implications of that are more than a little unsettling.
I may be merely a haunting purist, but any "most haunted" list that doesn't include the place named "The Ghost Zone" is measuring something else entirely!
Aperture Science Labs (Portal) and Edwards Island (Oxenfree)
The metro of metro 2033 is pretty haunted not knowing what lies in the darkness the shadows that seem to move the mass Graves hidden behind a tunnel collapse or in a train car
Well in Star Wars "Chaos" is equal to Hell in our reality… Can't get much MORE haunted then that.. others shoulda been obvious too like whatever Stranger Thing's "Upside Down" plane of existence is, basic a Hell Dimension apparently… Or where alot of other nightmare creatures originate like whatever "It"/ Pennywise the Clown Demon comes from, or where the Cenobites from Hellraiser are from or any similar place.. then there's more recent places one might expect but not quite as bad such as I would think "King's Landing" post GOTs series would be a devestated barely inhabited an literal city of Ghosts after a hero turned tyrant used everything and everyone onsite for Dragon Fire Target Practice
Murder house
The fact that Bethesda realized the Boston setting of Fallout 4 allowed for Lovecraft content AND LEANED INTO IT still impresses the hell out of me
Well the Event Horizon answer is easy, they went into warp without the Gellar field
Shalebridge cradle from the Thief series.
My personal theory about the Upside-Down is that it’s a divergent timeline where government experiments with fungi were released and destroyed the world
Warhammer 40K the Warp. In real life – underwater the Abyssal Zone
Anyone unlucky to visit would put among haunted places former facility of Auschwitz Birkenau.
Any basement of a house in Tristram. Full of ghosts and skeletons, every one of them.
Where is the Shalebridge Cradle?
The Moon in Destiny 1 And 2
Got to be Dead Marshes of Dagorlad from MiddleEarth for me
I really like Skull Pit choice. Reminds that there are not only the well known threats of Chaos, Necrons and Tyranids, which are all horrifing enough, there are also countless unexplained things in the universe.
What about fallout 4 university point and fallout new Vegas camp search light ?😢
Have you heard of tiberium