If you were a ghost where would you HAUNT

My first choice would be someplace where a lot of black people hang out. You know how black folk are about spooky shit.

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House of a family friend, especially the library and the billiards room in it. The smell of wall to wall carpeting, alcohol, and felt forever....
 
If I was a ghost i would haunt a post office or an airport.
Airport could be good hauntin', especially if you had the ability to move small items like boarding passes, make the lights flicker, or if you get strong enough at your ghost powers that you could do mind stuff like confusing someone into getting lost in the hallways. I bet the Denver airport would give you a leg up on eldritch abilities, and if not it's at least aesthetic.

Post office could either be really good or really bad. Some of them are old, they're a liminal space, you could make someone see spiders crawling up their arm when they reached into their PO box. But a lot of post offices are closed at night, which is the best time for haunting.

Bathrooms.

No-homo but I just want to see how I measure up, and also give dudes the chills while they’re trying to pee.
Anywhere with mirrors is great for that "appear behind someone but then vanish when they turn around" trick.


If I got to pick a place to haunt, I think I'd go with an abandoned building. If there are ghosts out there, the abandoned hospitals and asylums are probably pretty crowded already, so I'd choose a factory. Lots of metal stuff to rattle, in or near town so local kids sneak in there to screw and underage drink. Probably homeless people, and you could haunt them or just leave them alone and let them camp in your haunt spot like a noncompeting species. Urbexers or stoned teens run across a hobo camp, they say "oh, those noises were just homeless people," and that's when you break out the real ghost stuff. Or you could use a homeless person to drive your victims into a better part of the facility to haunt; out of the frying pan, into the fryer.

An abandoned factory is likely to be multi-story, the better to divide the party, with sturdy stairs to get to upper stories. This is important: you can have a really creepy-looking 1800s abandoned house to haunt, but if the stairs are rotted in or they even look dubious, you're not going to get the gang splitting up or going upstairs.

Missile silo would be good for the same reasons, but I don't think it would get as much casual foot traffic. I guess the decision depends how busy you want to stay in your afterlife. It's probably like a ghost hole-in-one, to scare a YouTube urban explorer into falling off of a ladder into a flooded shaft with rebar at the bottom, and even better if their GoPro is recording their dying moments and then fills the rest of the memory card with just a long, motionless shot as the flashlight peters out. Or orbs; are people still doing orbs?

I also would want to find out if killing someone in your haunted area makes them stay there as a ghost themself, because that would be really awkward.
 
I also would want to find out if killing someone in your haunted area makes them stay there as a ghost themself, because that would be really awkward.
Yeah, I can see that being just a tad awkward.

“What the hell was that all about? Are you some kind of medieval dark spirit who lusts for the souls of the innocent as a way to punish the world or something?”

“Uh….no my names Aunt Carol and I was just really bored…..do you like puzzles?”

“I…..I had a family…..”

“Soooooooo more of a board game guy than?”
 
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“What the hell was that all about? Are you some kind of medieval dark spirit who lusts for the souls of the innocent as a way to punish the world or something?”

“Uh….no my names Aunt Carol and I was just really bored…..do you like puzzles?”

“I…..I had a family…..”

“Soooooooo more of a board game guy than?”
Exactly! And yeah, the better ghosts have their tragic stories of love and betrayal, and their visually striking period costumes. Odds are I'm rocking up in a ghost T-shirt, frantically trying to make up a cool reason I'm trapped on this earthly plane in order to impress the new ghost. They're going to figure that one out less than a week into eternity.

A game store, now that you mention it, could be a good place to haunt. Lots of little things you could nudge around, lots of nearsighted people. It wouldn't be one of those scary hauntings but you could have fun ruining people's dice rolls. If they figured out you were there, there's the off-chance that the nerds could put their heads together and free you, or at least be the kind of people to have an actual seance. That'd be fun for everyone.
 
I'd go for a high mountain pass. Good opportunities to spook passers-by and if I'm stuck hanging out somewhere for eternity, I'd like it to be in the mountains. Otherwise one of those 19th century garden cemeteries might be nice. Pleasant landscaping and I'd probably have some ghost pals and goth pals.
 
one of those kooky tim burton houses where a very cute 90s goth girl lives i guess. we'd become friends and she can feed me ghost treats

that'S NOT HOW LIFE WORKS!!!!!!!! WE DONT GET THOSE THINGS!!!!!!

an abortion clinic would be pretty funny

you know how people say sometimes ghosts look like they belong to the period they died in? wouldnt it be really creepy if aborted baby ghosts just looked like some kind of horrific nightmare entity because they haven't developed a body yet, so they are just projecting Elemental Fear

this one girl I dated a long time ago said she thought "orbs" were abortion ghosts and I just stared at her blankly and said they are fucking dust particles you silly bitch
 
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