[ SECRET POST #4276 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4276 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

As someone who grew up in a rural area in the middle of a forest, a bear is a lot less scarier than a serial killer. And I would think ghosts and paranormal stuff would be MORE likely in urban areas with more bodies.

[(Anonymous)]

Bears are awesome but they're not great at giving you directions when you're lost. There's a basic kind of terror in being cut off from civilization and not knowing how to find your way back.

Also, there's no real rule about where ghosts show up. They're ghosts.

[(Anonymous)]

But you don't get lost when you know the woods.

[(Anonymous)]

Seconding the rural upbringing: it's really not that scary. I grew up in the woods and never got lost in them because they were familiar.

Also, bonus: you get used to some weird-ass sounds out in the woods so that thing that city people think sounds like a demon? It's just an owl/fox/deer/rabbit/coyote/etc. It would have to be a truly bizarre sound for me to be scared.

[(Anonymous)]

OK, but what if you were in some woods you didn't grow up in?

Like, the protagonists in this subgenre of horror aren't usually natives of the place, right? And there's some complicated tension to unfold there (as there is in most horror genres tbh) but it's still effective as horror.

DA

[(Anonymous)]

*shrug* I've never been lost in unfamiliar woods. I grew up in a pretty isolated area and used to look at the sky to orient myself. Sunset/sunrise, the evening star, the full moon, the constellations - all very good markers for direction. And if the sky is overcast, there's the direction of the running river, or the side of the trees where the moss grows, etc.

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

I'm not saying it's not effective as horror, because of course it is. I'm just saying that as a rural person, rural-type things are way less scary to me, whereas walking alone in a city at night terrifies me.

[(Anonymous)]

The fear doesn't come from whether or not you feel familiar with the area, but from isolation, whether physical or psychological. You can feel isolated in your own house if you can't escape or no one believes you that something is wrong.

[tabaqui]

I grew up in a house on land that had held a Civil War camp/hospital, and my neighbors routinely found bullets, buttons, and other Civil War stuff in their land and the little creek that ran along the bottom of their field.

So...plenty of ghosts in the woods.

[(Anonymous)]

That sounds really cool and also like it'd be haunted as fuck.

[tabaqui]

Right?
As a kid, I spent tons of time in the woods, alone or with my siblings, and we did hear some odd stuff in the daytime and the night, that wasn't readily obvious as an animal.

And i had two really creepy moments in our house, plus the four of us loathed the basement, and going upstairs? Was terrifying, because you were 100 percent sure that there was *something* behind you.

Every friend i ever had that came over thought our basement was creepy, without me ever saying a word. And this was a finished basement, with a bathroom and living room, a bar my dad built, a workshop, office, store room, laundry and sewing area...lots of light and space but...yeah. Everybody was like 'it's so creepy down here'.