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Scary Places

BriarRose

BriarRose

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Has anyone ever visited a location that had a really bad feeling for them? For me, it has been Virginia City, Nevada, and Santa Paula, California. Since both are interesting places, I think it must be PL related. I couldn't escape fast enough. Has anyone else had this type of experience?
 
Carson City would probably have been connected with the silver boom of the 1800's. It was also the "Wild West".
 
Strasbourg, France...my plans were to stay there two days but a brief 45 minutes was almost too long...the sense I got as I approached my hotel was of tremendous forboding and uneasiness. As the train left the station I felt better every moment.
 
I've read that many people react negatively to Virginia City, so it may not be PL related. It's been one of those "boom and bust" places.
 
Marsailles, France! As soon as we arrived at Marsailles, I had this negative/bad feeling and continued until I left!


I highly doubt it's PL related though aha!
 
Usetawuz, was your reaction to Strasbourg related to a WWII life, or do you think it was something else?


Ankhe, I'm not familiar with your story, other than you were obviously Egyptian. That must be the life that was pivotal for you, but are you aware of others, in other places? It would be interesting if some people remain the same nationality in most of their lives. I think I have been American for several, but not all of them.
 
BriarRose said:
Usetawuz, was your reaction to Strasbourg related to a WWII life, or do you think it was something else?
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I believe it was from the middle ages or as late as the 1500's...something to do with religion...really bad, painful, dark images with nothing clear.


My WWII death occured in Italy in 1943...funny, three of my closest friends died with me there and one woman I met through this site did too!
 
I can't say I've ever experienced a "scary place." I have, however, met many people to whom I took an instant, irrational dislike. In a few cases, I've felt an overwhelming distrust, a sense of unease around the person in question. Then I've tried to stay as clear of them as possible.
 
I have experienced that, but only with a few people. Usually, I have "warning" dreams about the person in question, and I ignore them to my peril.
 
I usually love visiting old castles, and I always feel a good vibe around them, even the haunted ones. But when I visited Berry Pomeroy castle in Devon many years ago, as soon as I set eyes on the place, I've never wanted to put as much distance as possible between myself and one place before. I felt an intense feeling of dread, and the atmosphere there was almost tangible, and not in a good way. I was with my then partner and I said to her that I couldn't even get out of the car, and I didn't want her to either. We had hot drinks from a flask, sat there for about 5 minutes, and then left, and I couldn't get away from there quick enough. This was all before I read some of the horror stories that other people had reported about the place, which apparently has a very troubled history:


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I have, however, met many people to whom I took an instant, irrational dislike. In a few cases, I've felt an overwhelming distrust, a sense of unease around the person in question. Then I've tried to stay as clear of them as possible.
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I know that feeling very well. Maybe you and I (and some others here) were in a past life together.
 
One thing I am learning from my sometimes feeble, always well meaning, efforts to moderate on this forum, is not to always judge so quickly. Everyone has a "back story". My own has become a sort of "tragi-comedy", and most people would probably describe their own story the same way.
 
argonne1918, who knows? Maybe we were. If we were, though, I don't think it was WW1, as I have very little affinity with that period. But human history stretches back countless thousands of centuries, so it's entirely possible...
 
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I've never wanted to put as much distance as possible between myself and one place before. I felt an intense feeling of dread, and the atmosphere there was almost tangible, and not in a good way.
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ChrisR, I totally get that. My husband almost ran into another car, in attempting to get me out of Santa Paula. I wouldn't go there again for any amount of money. I'm sure it was a lovely place, as your castle appears to be!
 
BriarRose, I think you do a very good job of moderating, and I'm not aware of you coming across as judgemental. Being too hard on yourself, maybe?
 
Yes, the Clubhouse of the SFF&HC. It is where the members of the club that caused the flood stayed. Upstairs where the rooms and suites are is overwhelming at times for me. The downstairs where the dining room/kitchen is is fine.


I went into the one cottage I could feel a presence. I stood in front of the fireplace and heard GET OUT! I stayed and took some photos but didn't waste much time.
 
I understand why you would feel that way, Mama, as will others who read your posts. Do you think in your PL you knew the person who ordered you out?
 
I was thinking about that the other night, Briar Rose. It was built for the man who I had an affair with in that lifetime. It probably was his wife :laugh:


I am shocked each time I find matches in my research. For instance, the building Hayley said we worked out of at one point was an all night drug store ... in the early 1900s ... um ... yeah ... LOL


A show I saw the day after discovering that information talked about how all night businesses were set up to be fronts for prostitution houses. Last night I was given information that makes me believe another man was running girls out of his house as well and listed them in the census as "servants". There are too many girls for that.


I really feel I am being guided into this book. Compelled, even. Two days ago I realized I am at the point where it makes sense to write a young adult book about the flood and so I started that project. It is flowing quite nicely and I hope will make children think as they read it.


And ... best of all .. my daughter Hannah has now agreed to illustrate the book. YAY!
 
In my case, with Virginia City, it could be all the turmoil that happened there. I was a strong Confederate partisan in a PL. (Please no one think I sympathize with those ideals, now!) I read that Lincoln made Nevada a state, before it had enough population to join the Union. The article stated that the Comstock Load pretty much funded the Union Army. I could dislike the place for that reason. If I didn't think I was "busy" elsewhere during those years, I would think I was a "lady of the evening", who plied her trade there. I thought it at the time, about 25 years ago.
 
I think, Briar Rose, that more women that we could imagine did that to survive. There really were not many opportunities for women in those times.
 
Mama, I think the book is a wonderful idea. I sometimes read young adult books. A lot of the most creative stuff is coming out of that genre. I wonder how many authors are "channeling" Pls, and calling it fiction? Best wishes on your endeavor. Sign me up for a copy.
 
The strongest reaction I ever had to a place happened when I visited Colonial Williamsburg on a school trip as a child. We went inside the old prison there, and I had a minor meltdown. I couldn't stand to be inside the building. I felt trapped and smothered. I had to go outside and wait for my classmates.


As an adult, I've always felt that some of my male incarnations were rebellious, reckless, and even criminal at times. When I was a kid, long before the huge pirate craze of the early 2000s, all I wanted to read about was pirates and ships. This may have been something I did in a past life, and I found out as a teenager that the prison in Williamsburg once housed some of Blackbeard's crew members. Anyway, I am sure that I spent some time in a few dank, awful prisons during a few of my past lives. The reaction I had to that place when I was a child was intense. Here is a link to it if anyone is interested: http://www.history.org/almanack/places/hb/hbgaol.cfm
 
Definately the dungeons at Warwick Castle. Went there when I was about 12, and was quite excited, I wanted to see the dungeons (even though I've always been a bit squeamish and not really into that kind of 'yucky' stuff like most kids). But as soon as I got down there I had to leave. The smell, the damp walls, the equipment on display. It left me feeling very low, miserable and pretty ill for the rest of the day. Even now after 15 years, the smell of cold, damp stonework can bring back that ill, sickening feeling. No idea if its PL related, or just me picking up on the residual emotions of all the people who met such nasty ends down there.
 
Helz and Seagreen, you both described the feeling I was trying to capture perfectly. I wonder if this phenomenon happens in the general population, or if it's just people like us, who are more "aware"? i think all forum users fall in that category.
 
I think it does happen in the general population. This is what causes some people to start investigating "why?".
 
Anaesthesia, do you have any feelings about why New Orleans frightens you? I have lived there in a PL, and in this life, so I am interested.


Blueheart, I know I should be able to follow everyone's story, but sometimes I forget. Were you Egyptian, possibly entombed, or involved in the building?
 
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