The Willies

[ZetaLuvBunny]

The Kirksley Old Main building. It's the building for the Mathematics Department now. I believe it's the oldest building on campus, and it's several stories high. I've somehow managed to not have a class in there yet in the two years I've been in college, but in the Fall I have Algebra there. Not only is it old, but the building is very hot and stuffy inside. My Big Sis had a class on the fourth floor once, and she claims it's haunted. It has tons of high steps out front and just seeing it makes me get chills.

[Dionysus]

Man there is a covered walkway that connects two of our dorm buildings. It is creeeheeeheepy! I seriously feel a presence there. Those dorms used to be a nuns home, hosipital, and an insane asylum. Of course MANY people died there.

[ksig600]

My chapter's house is very old (built in 1900) and was once owned by the leader of a lynch mob in Atlanta and member of the KKK. There is a huge oak tree on our front lawn that was the site of many hangings. The house creeps me out at night when there is no one there.

I also visited the Chi Omega house at UF where Ted Bundy murdered 2 women...

Ground Zero gives me the willies too....its so eerily quiet

[CutiePie2000]

Originally posted by honeychile
My exhusband knew Georgeann Hawkins in high school. I would imagine that there's a LOT of "Bundy" places that are spooky!

Well, the thing is, there is only 1 "side entrance" for the KAQ house and that's where she was taken from (I read 2 books on Bundy, "The Stranger Beside Me" and "The Deliberate Stranger"). So, that space is easy to "narrow" down and it is SO creepy to think that he stood on that very pavement where I was.


FWIW: UW Greek Row is beautiful. It makes me wish that I went there. RxyCrldr can vouch for that!

[CutiePie2000]

This is not the Willies, so much as just feeling heavy and sad. I visited the grounds of the concentration camp Buchenwald in former East Germany. The vibe there was one of misery and extreme sadness and gloom....it's almost like the land "holds that energy" and does not let you forget it.

[ZetaLuvBunny]

Originally posted by ksig600
My chapter's house is very old (built in 1900) and was once owned by the leader of a lynch mob in Atlanta and member of the KKK. There is a huge oak tree on our front lawn that was the site of many hangings. The house creeps me out at night when there is no one there.

That gives me the creeps just thinking about it. Any place where it's known for sure that people not only died- but were brutally murdered, is just very creepy.

I just thought of another- last Spring there was an outbreak of assaults on campus (both sexual and robberies). I used to be fairly confident that our campus is really safe, but since one of our sisters was assaulted in a parking lot on campus I panic when I'm trying to go to my car at night there.

[justamom]

I lived in a half house, half trailer welded together. It had the whole creepy Ammityville Horror thing happening. Lucid nightmares, strange smells... One afternoon, I laid down for a nap. I woke up and there SEEMED to be a hundred flies coming out of a loose light fixture. Horrid-HORRID place, but only $300.00 split by two.

The "willies" for me is like a radar system. I can look at someone and get them. If I do, along with a visceral response, I get the heck away from them!

[astroAPhi]

I absolutely hate walking on campus at night. It's dark and campus security is a joke. What's some old dude driving around on a golf cart going to do? I've had a friend ask for an escort before because she was creeped out and a security guard refused. I also hate walking through the on-campus apartments any time after dark now because it's right next to a bad neighborhood, and there's been muggings behind a certain building in the past few years. When I lived there sophomore year I drove to night classes across the street.

There's a street in my hometown that has been the scene of almost 2 identical car wrecks. The two trees that the kids hit are right next to each other, both with chunks taken out of the trees. My mom refuses to drive down that street because she gets the creeps.

[GMUBunny]

I was really creeped out when the Beltway Sniper was on the loose in Fairfax. GMU is shrouded in trees so we were all playing the moving target game.

As for getting the willies, I'm horrified of dark places. I can't do haunted houses (go ahead, call me a wuss. I don't give a sh*t), basements with minimal light or anything like that. I've never been as scared as I was at Disney World during the Alien Encounter thing in Tomorrowland. I HATE THAT!!!! Being in the dark and not knowing where that damn thing was, feeling it breathe down your neck....eww eww eww!!!

[CutiePie2000]

Originally posted by astroAPhi
I've had a friend ask for an escort before because she was creeped out and a security guard refused.

If your friend can remember the date and who the security guard was, I would make a big stink about it. Escorting women on campus is their jobs for *&^$&*'s sake! I would create waves, because that is totally unacceptable! I would write to your campus paper, write to the Chancellor of the University, write to everyone and anyone who will listen (I would even take it to the Media, quite frankly, that's how angry I felt when I read that! Grrrrrr.)

At UBC, we had a safety mini-van that left from the Main Library every 15 minutes! It was intended for women, but men were permitted to use it too (women got 1st choice priority, though).
Then the van driver would ask everyone where they were going and he would drive his route from there (and he was a total sweet-heart and would wait until he saw you enter your dorm's building, etc, before driving off)

[ajuhdg]

I'm with some of y'all about being creeped out EVERYWHERE! I'm such a darn chicken, I'm scared of everything! I hear things all the time, and I've even seen a few things.

CutiePie...you are so right about the concentration camps! I visited Dachau while living in Germany (I still technically live there) and it was just so creepily quiet. However, I got the same feeling from being inside the Neuschwanstein Castle. It was just very cold and unfriendly feeling. While in Bournemouth (the South of England) we stayed at a Hotel that was the WWII Red Cross Headquarters. The halls TOTALLY reminded me of The Shining! I gotta quit talking or I won't be able to sleep tonight!

aj

[OrigamiTulip]

Originally posted by ksig600
I also visited the Chi Omega house at UF where Ted Bundy murdered 2 women...

Actually, that was the Chi Omega house at FSU, not at UF.

[honeychile]

Originally posted by CutiePie2000
This is not the Willies, so much as just feeling heavy and sad. I visited the grounds of the concentration camp Buchenwald in former East Germany. The vibe there was one of misery and extreme sadness and gloom....it's almost like the land "holds that energy" and does not let you forget it.

This may sound strange, but I get the same feeling at a lot of War Between the States' battlefields. Sometimes, it's a horrible sadness, and other times, it's a frightening need to get away from such a place. I completely agree that the land itself "holds that energy".

[GeekyPenguin]

Platteville's campus has an enormous cemetary in the middle of campus, no joke. It is right along the main street on campus and is surrounded by dorms, the dining hall, the engineering building, and the track. The older graves (from early 1800s) don't really scare me, but I hated it when I walked to class and saw a grave being dug.

[carnation]

Originally posted by honeychile
This may sound strange, but I get the same feeling at a lot of War Between the States' battlefields. Sometimes, it's a horrible sadness, and other times, it's a frightening need to get away from such a place. I completely agree that the land itself "holds that energy".

The Alamo. And I can't even watch the movie or talk about the Alamo...maybe it's because some of my ancestors fought in that war.