Subscriber CaaC (John)+ Posted November 30, 2021 Subscriber Share Posted November 30, 2021 On 15/08/2021 at 22:55, Eco said: The Black Forest is absolutely brilliant and has miles of little touched land. Did a couple of army exercises there during my army days in Germany, loved it but eerie as fuck at night time when on guard duty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MUFC Posted November 30, 2021 Share Posted November 30, 2021 30 minutes ago, CaaC (John) said: Did a couple of army exercises there during my army days in Germany, loved it but eerie as fuck at night time when on guard duty. Haunted? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber CaaC (John)+ Posted November 30, 2021 Subscriber Share Posted November 30, 2021 13 minutes ago, MUFC said: Haunted? Just eerie, no noise and when you were standing there on guard duty around mid-night it was creepy as fuck, what made it worse was one of our army pals would creep up on you when you were half asleep and freezing your bollocks off and jump out on you and scare the fucking shite out of you. The Black Forest, Germany Hardly any sunlight breaks through the dense fir trees of the Black Forest, and the myths surrounding these woods are more fantastical than paranormal: A headless horseman riding on a great white steed, a king who kidnaps women to take them to his underwater lair where he lives among the nymphs, friendly dwarves, and lurking werewolves. Is it any wonder the Brothers Grimm set so many of their fairy tales here? https://www.cntraveler.com/gallery/haunted-forests-around-the-world Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MUFC Posted December 1, 2021 Share Posted December 1, 2021 9 hours ago, CaaC (John) said: Just eerie, no noise and when you were standing there on guard duty around mid-night it was creepy as fuck, what made it worse was one of our army pals would creep up on you when you were half asleep and freezing your bollocks off and jump out on you and scare the fucking shite out of you. The Black Forest, Germany Hardly any sunlight breaks through the dense fir trees of the Black Forest, and the myths surrounding these woods are more fantastical than paranormal: A headless horseman riding on a great white steed, a king who kidnaps women to take them to his underwater lair where he lives among the nymphs, friendly dwarves, and lurking werewolves. Is it any wonder the Brothers Grimm set so many of their fairy tales here? https://www.cntraveler.com/gallery/haunted-forests-around-the-world This sounds like kind of place. Am sure they could make a good chiller movie/series in this place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber CaaC (John)+ Posted December 1, 2021 Subscriber Share Posted December 1, 2021 3 hours ago, MUFC said: This sounds like kind of place. Am sure they could make a good chiller movie/series in this place. They have made a few, I found this one and I might watch it sometime. Two couples from a large city go on vacation to an isolated farmhouse in the Black Forest. The men discover an old TV and try to repair it, to watch football games. This is not successful. However, one after the other sees things on the TV screen, related to the other's life. One finds the driver, who drove the group at the beginning of the film to the house before the agreed pick up. He sees three corpses. Only Eva survived and was able to escape to the village. Also seen on the ghostly TV is the spirit of a child named Anne Marie, who had died some years ago on the farm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber nudge+ Posted December 1, 2021 Author Subscriber Share Posted December 1, 2021 13 hours ago, MUFC said: Haunted? Check out this: https://www.travelbook.de/orte/scary-places/schlosshotel-waldlust-das-geister-hotel-im-schwarzwald Will have to Google translate it as it's in German, but that's something you could be interested in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber CaaC (John)+ Posted December 1, 2021 Subscriber Share Posted December 1, 2021 13 hours ago, MUFC said: Haunted? 15 minutes ago, nudge said: Check out this: https://www.travelbook.de/orte/scary-places/schlosshotel-waldlust-das-geister-hotel-im-schwarzwald Will have to Google translate it as it's in German, but that's something you could be interested in. @MUFC There is a film mentioned in the link @nudge put in above and a true story Bela Kiss: Prologue, I think scenes from the film was made in the Hotel Waldhurst, like I said, there are a lot of scary movies out there to do with the Black Forrest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MUFC Posted December 1, 2021 Share Posted December 1, 2021 I want to go to the black forest at night in winter. Sit down and have a donner kebab. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rucksackfranzose Posted December 1, 2021 Share Posted December 1, 2021 1 hour ago, MUFC said: I want to go to the black forest at night in winter. Sit down and have a donner kebab. Wouldn't recommand that. Minus 20 degree Celsius are not seldom there in winter time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator Tommy Posted December 1, 2021 Moderator Share Posted December 1, 2021 1 minute ago, Rucksackfranzose said: Wouldn't recommand that. Minus 20 degree Celsius are not seldom there in winter time. That's why he's having a Döner to keep him warm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber nudge+ Posted December 1, 2021 Author Subscriber Share Posted December 1, 2021 This is Schwarzwald now. Have fun with your Döner, @MUFC 1638360218197.mp4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MUFC Posted December 1, 2021 Share Posted December 1, 2021 3 hours ago, nudge said: Check out this: https://www.travelbook.de/orte/scary-places/schlosshotel-waldlust-das-geister-hotel-im-schwarzwald Will have to Google translate it as it's in German, but that's something you could be interested in. The rich all came here, wonder why lol. Is a strange location for a hospital which is what it became after the war. I'd 100% visit that building lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber CaaC (John)+ Posted December 1, 2021 Subscriber Share Posted December 1, 2021 2 hours ago, Rucksackfranzose said: Wouldn't recommand that. Minus 20 degree Celsius are not seldom there in winter time. Aye, and it could freeze the balls off a brass monkey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azeem Posted December 8, 2021 Share Posted December 8, 2021 Pay us well to have hobbies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber Coma+ Posted December 8, 2021 Subscriber Share Posted December 8, 2021 The wife and I have come up with a plan to visit as many national parks as possible. This past summer we went to Yellowstone, Grand Teton, Badlands, and Rocky Mtn. Next year we're debating over Utah's big 5 or a California loop to see Sequoia and Yosemite. Someone on here posted about abandoned man-made areas... I'm all about that stuff. Love to explore ruins and old industrial complexes from the late 1800's-early 1900's, preferably stuff out in the middle of nowhere. Most of my free time in the colder months is spent on video games, learning foreign languages, and home improvement projects. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber CaaC (John)+ Posted December 8, 2021 Subscriber Share Posted December 8, 2021 5 hours ago, Coma said: Someone on here posted about abandoned man-made areas... I'm all about that stuff. Love to explore ruins and old industrial complexes from the late 1800's-early 1900's, preferably stuff out in the middle of nowhere. I've always wanted to visit a good old American ghost town, sleep in whatever one night and hear the wind noises and the creaking of the old wood of the buildings and play some old-time western ballads like Marty Robbins Dusty Winds. 18 of the Spookiest Ghost Towns in America Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber nudge+ Posted December 8, 2021 Author Subscriber Share Posted December 8, 2021 43 minutes ago, Coma said: Someone on here posted about abandoned man-made areas... I'm all about that stuff. Love to explore ruins and old industrial complexes from the late 1800's-early 1900's, preferably stuff out in the middle of nowhere. I love it too; did a lot of exploration like that in my teenage/young adult days. Two most memorable were an old abandoned Soviet summer camp for children, and an abandoned and closed-to-public fortification complex from 19th century, which was later used as a POW camp, a prison and an execution site during both World Wars by both sides, with over 35.000 POWs and civilians killed there. The walls there have thousands of markings with the dates, names, and last messages of people who died there. History frozen in time. Extremely eery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber Coma+ Posted December 8, 2021 Subscriber Share Posted December 8, 2021 1 hour ago, nudge said: I love it too; did a lot of exploration like that in my teenage/young adult days. Two most memorable were an old abandoned Soviet summer camp for children, and an abandoned and closed-to-public fortification complex from 19th century, which was later used as a POW camp, a prison and an execution site during both World Wars by both sides, with over 35.000 POWs and civilians killed there. The walls there have thousands of markings with the dates, names, and last messages of people who died there. History frozen in time. Extremely eery. Some of that stuff sounds pretty sobering to be honest. Not sure I could handle that. The plant that I work in is >3,000 acres and has several older developments on the property. One area in particular was the original footprint of the plant built in 1904-1905 that has since been abandoned. I have been lucky enough to explore all of that area while tracking down steam and water piping over the years. Machine shops, locker rooms, boilers...it's all still there. Crazy to think that the people working there at the time were 4 generations before me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber nudge+ Posted December 8, 2021 Author Subscriber Share Posted December 8, 2021 1 minute ago, Coma said: Some of that stuff sounds pretty sobering to be honest. Not sure I could handle that. The plant that I work in is >3,000 acres and has several older developments on the property. One area in particular was the original footprint of the plant built in 1904-1905 that has since been abandoned. I have been lucky enough to explore all of that area while tracking down steam and water piping over the years. Machine shops, locker rooms, boilers...it's all still there. Crazy to think that the people working there at the time were 4 generations before me. As someone who loves all kinds of old machinery, I'd love to see that, too. Shorpy is a brilliant website for historical images (mostly from the US and Canada), and there's a lot of photos of old mines, factories, workers, etc. Could browse it for hours... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber Coma+ Posted December 8, 2021 Subscriber Share Posted December 8, 2021 We go to the Great Smoky Mtn NP pretty regularly and there are old cabins and barns out in the woods, miles and miles from paved roadways. Even something simple like the remains of an old rock wall that pops up along a trail you're walking. It gets me thinking about who built it and how old it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber Coma+ Posted December 8, 2021 Subscriber Share Posted December 8, 2021 7 minutes ago, nudge said: As someone who loves all kinds of old machinery, I'd love to see that, too. Shorpy is a brilliant website for historical images (mostly from the US and Canada), and there's a lot of photos of old mines, factories, workers, etc. Could browse it for hours... There was an old nuclear enrichment plant called "Fernald" that is about 30 minutes from my house. There used to be a website dedicated to old pictures of that place. It was shutdown years ago and became a haz waste cleanup site but there was a period of time when you could go on tours through there. Would've loved to have seen that. I work with a couple guys who were on remediation duty there 20 years ago. The whole area has since been leveled and turned into a nature preserve . Edit to say it has its own Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernald_Feed_Materials_Production_Center Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 8, 2021 Share Posted December 8, 2021 I'm going to be getting a medication change next week to help with my mental health. I use to really like swimming, cycling, cooking. Hopefully I can do more of it soon. At the moment it's very hard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MUFC Posted December 9, 2021 Share Posted December 9, 2021 Are there any new hobbies you're looking to engage in? This may sound daft but am looking to start reading books. I used to years ago. I think it'll be more beneficial then my failed F1 career on the PS4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber Viva la FCB+ Posted December 9, 2021 Subscriber Share Posted December 9, 2021 22 hours ago, nudge said: As someone who loves all kinds of old machinery, I'd love to see that, too. Shorpy is a brilliant website for historical images (mostly from the US and Canada), and there's a lot of photos of old mines, factories, workers, etc. Could browse it for hours... Ill have to check this site out I love this kind of stuff. Reminds me I meant to post it a few years back some of the pics I took; Old train tunnels that where blasted through the mountains in the early 1900s.. unfortunately our floods have washed away the roads and walkway in its gonna cost alot and take alot of time to fix it up but heres a couple google images. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber nudge+ Posted December 9, 2021 Author Subscriber Share Posted December 9, 2021 6 minutes ago, MUFC said: Are there any new hobbies you're looking to engage in? This may sound daft but am looking to start reading books. I used to years ago. I think it'll be more beneficial then my failed F1 career on the PS4. There's nothing daft about reading books at all... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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