Tell us about the Creepiest place you've explored.

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Tell us in a couple of paragraphs the creepiest place you've ever explored.

Mine was the bottom of a old barn, one of many I'd been in, but this one, had been empty for a long time, according to the number of spider webs hanging around. There had to be thousands of old webs hanging from the ceiling. Spiders nor webs bother me, but being in this old barn basement.......scared the life outta me.    :wow:

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Looking forward to reading your creepy spots.
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First of all, I am no experienced explorer, I have been to only a few places, and being a simple farm-boy have never been to any large structures other than a few abandoned buildings nearby. 

However, I recently attended a trip to Europe to visit all the airfields that my great-uncles' fighter squadron had flown from during the Second World War. During this trip we made a tour of the recently (two years) closed French Air Force base in Metz, France. An officer from the French Air Force gave us an all-access tour of the base, which had no active buildings, giving the whole place a very sad and neglected feeling. One stop involved the infamous Fort Saint Privat, which was used as the first stronghold for the advancing German army during World War Two, and was described by Hitler as the "fortress of the Reich" after the German military was pushed to the defensive. The Fort was the last stand for the Germans during the bloody Battle of Metz in November of 1944, and it was heavily defended with mortars, machine guns and artillery. While the airbase was captured during the battle for Metz, the Fort remained uncaptured until all ammunition, water and food was exhausted, which forced the surrender of 22 officers and 488 men. 

We had originally thought that the Fort would be off-limits, so you can imagine our surprise when the officer opened the enormous gates and beckoned us in. A friend and I took advantage of this and travelled as far as we could inside the bowels of the Fort, getting seriously separated from rest of the group in the process. I had stupidly forgot any flashlight, so one light helped both of us navigate up stairways, through rooms and down hallways as dark as night. We eventually must have discovered what was the ammunition magazine, as there were racks for shells, dumb waiters and a few shell casings scattered on the floor. It was eerily silent, but was just so interesting we could not stop exploring. German writing, Swastikas and pictures carved into the stone made the Fort seem even more creepy then before, and we would randomly hit spots that were ice cold. The writing had dates from around the time of the battle, and there were even small memorials for those who died within the fort, with the phrase "Der Mann kann fallen, die Fahne denies" ("The man may fall, but the flag remains") written above them. The forest surrounding the Fort, with trees growing around the opening, added to the eeriness of the place. It is one of the greatest memories that I will have, and we spent about half an hour wandering through the Fort before we eventually ran into the group, which oddly did not seem to notice our absence. 

Hopefully I will be able to return to Europe some day, and revisit this great relic from the past.