Click bravely: Halloween fans can expect goosebumps moments and virtual journeys to ghostly places. These websites and podcasts offer the ultimate in spooky fun and exciting entertainment.
As October 31st approaches, Halloween draws countless souls into a night full of… horrors, eerie scenarios and frightening characters. This originally American festival has now also established itself in Germany. For everyone who wants to get in the mood for this horrifying time, there are a number of cyber-spooky platforms on the World Wide Web. The following websites provide both traditional and creative content for Halloween fans with strong nerves.
Scary web tales from the digital world
Over time, short stories and legends have developed on the World Wide Web under the term 'creepypastas', which are particularly known for their terrible and often mysterious content. On platforms like Reddit, users share frightening stories and images. Spearhead horrors like Slender Man and other urban myths have their origins in these creepypastas. An anchor point for this type of horror reading is, for example, the subreddit “NoSleep”, a forum in which users share their fictional horror stories.
If you prefer to experience your horror acoustically, you can be transported into dark worlds of experience with the podcast of the same name, “NoSleep”. The popular horror podcast has been telling about invisible dangers and mysterious events for over a decade – suspense and nightmares are guaranteed here. The offering is rounded off by the podcast “Scary Stories Told in the Dark”, which is dedicated to classic horror literature and prepares well-known and new horror stories for its listeners.
Virtual excursions into oblivion
The website “Hashima-Island.co.uk” offers fans of abandoned and neglected places an interactive tour of the Japanese island of Hashima, better known as Gunkanjima. Originally densely populated and used for coal mining, the island was suddenly abandoned in the 1970s. Virtual travelers explore the island's abandoned buildings and streets, accompanied by eerie sounds that impressively highlight the destruction and history of the place.
Digital goosebumps to read and explore
Some websites offer a particularly extensive spooky experience for Halloween. The “SCP Foundation” keeps a huge archive of fabricated reports about bizarre creatures and supernatural phenomena that are supposedly protected by a hidden organization. In a hybrid of horror and science fiction, users will find reports about objects and creatures that make for spooky reading hours.
“The Lineup”, on the other hand, focuses on the horrors of reality: the site deals with topics such as true crimes, abandoned places and esoteric encounters. Thanks to a wide range of articles, videos and audio content, the site manages to create a spooky fascination with unsolved cases. The offering is complemented by the “Atlas Obscura”, which primarily presents rare travel destinations, but also lists an impressive collection of mysterious and supernatural places, including ghost towns and notorious haunted houses worldwide.
Horror and nostalgia for hearing and sight
The YouTube channel “Dark5” offers a spooky experience for the eyes and ears. This channel presents mysterious events and unsolved cases in dramatic top 5 rankings. For Halloween, 'Dark5' presents eerie themes such as 'abandoned places' or 'mysterious recordings that cannot be explained'.
Things are equally frightening at “Mortis Media”, a YouTube channel and podcast that relies on horror stories and paranormal experiences submitted by its viewers and presents them in an atmospheric way. Another highlight for fans of old times is the web archive (web.archive.org), where long-forgotten, spooky websites and forums from the early days of the Internet can be rediscovered.
Real horrors from unexpected sources
Wikipedia offers a supposedly unspectacular source of horror. Beyond the everyday entries, you will find disturbing and puzzling reports about unsolved criminal cases and horrifying events. Of particular note are the Hinterkaifeck tragedy, a murder case in Germany that was never solved, and the accident at the Dyatlov Pass, the cause of which remains a mystery to this day. Entries about famous “haunted houses” and mystical places also provide material for a spooky night.
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