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 LiquidCougar
Location: Warwick, RI
Gender: Male
Chief of Warranty Police
 |  |  | "Scariest Places on Earth" ?
< on 10/23/2005 7:51 PM >
|  | | | I was just flipping through the channels and I came across a most familiar scene- a camcorder recording of the inside of some abandonment.
Come to find out, it's this television show called "Scariest Places on Earth". It's an hour long show where I guess they take these families, give them cameras, and have them spend all night in these old complexes. This one took place on Poveglia Island, off the coast of Venice, Italy. I guess it used to be a refuge for plague victims.
It looks pretty good, but I think it's entirely too staged. I mean, I've seen and felt some weird things while exploring before- but come on; it wouldn't be good enough to put on TV if they didn't ham it up a bit.
Anyway, I'm wondering what you guys think of it? It's on the abc family channel, and it appears there's some kind of marathon on right now 15:50 EST. It looks like it will be on through 19:00, so check it out if you get a chance.
Personally, I think it's a cool concept, but it's one of those things that may continue contributing to our hobby having a shorter life.
Pour aller hardiment où je ne suis pas censé aller.
Je suis un artiste, un explorateur, un homme gai et un ingénieur. |
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HauntedPA
    
Location: Anywhere and Everywhere
Gender: Female
What do you mean the rum is gone?!
| | Re: "Scariest Places on Earth" ?
<Reply # 1 on 10/23/2005 8:57 PM >
| | | | I don't really think the show will have any affect on UE as a whole. The places that they take these families to are open to the public. Tours are available and so on at the locations. So unless one day they end up at a place like Pennhurst or Danvers there's really no worry here.
As for the hamming it up? Oh definitely...they stage a lot of the stuff on the show. If you've ever seen MTV's FEAR it's almost identical but toned down a bit since it's on a family channel. The shows sole purpose to give the kiddies a little chill. That's about it.
I wouldn't worry about something like this having any kind of impact on the hobby. FEAR didn't do anything neither will this.
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LiquidCougar
Location: Warwick, RI
Gender: Male
Chief of Warranty Police
| | | Re: "Scariest Places on Earth" ?
<Reply # 2 on 10/23/2005 9:09 PM >
| | | | Posted by HauntedPA
The places that they take these families to are open to the public. Tours are available and so on at the locations. So unless one day they end up at a place like Pennhurst or Danvers there's really no worry here.
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You're right.. I didn't think about that.
Pour aller hardiment où je ne suis pas censé aller.
Je suis un artiste, un explorateur, un homme gai et un ingénieur. |
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Johnny Bravo
Location: more than 6 feet under (WI)
Gender: Male
| |  | Re: "Scariest Places on Earth" ?
<Reply # 3 on 10/23/2005 10:00 PM >
| | | | You can all kick me in the nuts and through stones at me now.
It would seem that JFK Prep is going to be on the "Urban Legends II" episode thats on tonight. Its 7 min. long segment about the graveyard and the curse of Oswald.
I cant help to blame myself, but it was going to happen sooner or later.
The owner of the property is having a group called S.E.W.P.R give tours of the place. S.E.W.P.R if full of it, they stole the text from my site along with a good amount of my pictures. They claim to be non profit and everything goes to a restoration fund, but thats bull, the owner is running the place as a business. At $550,000 in the hole I guess he has to try something to get his money back.
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Roland
 
Location: Baltimore, MD
Gender: Male
Proud Leader of Brandishing a Firearm on the High Seas UE
| | | Re: "Scariest Places on Earth" ?
<Reply # 4 on 10/23/2005 11:40 PM >
| | | | On the topic of Poveglia, which is in the venetian lagoon, I've read about it and it seems like it would be a pretty cool place to explore. Theres an abandoned hospital on it.
Buildings have two natural enemies- water, and bears. |
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LiquidCougar
Location: Warwick, RI
Gender: Male
Chief of Warranty Police
| | | Re: "Scariest Places on Earth" ?
<Reply # 5 on 10/24/2005 2:57 AM >
| | | | Posted by Roland
On the topic of Poveglia, which is in the venetian lagoon, I've read about it and it seems like it would be a pretty cool place to explore. Theres an abandoned hospital on it.
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Yeah, that's the place they did the show I was talking about. They didn't show a whole lot of the place except a map, and some interior footage; it doesn't appear to be vandalized in any way, either.
I thought the same thing about exploring it; only thing is, they installed infrared cameras to shoot some of the show- it wouldn't surprise me if they left them in there because of how many people are going to no doubt try and see all these "ghosts" and "spirits" the family on the show encountered for themselves.
[last edit 10/24/2005 2:59 AM by LiquidCougar - edited 1 times]
Pour aller hardiment où je ne suis pas censé aller.
Je suis un artiste, un explorateur, un homme gai et un ingénieur. |
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Porcelain Princess
Location: Westminster, Colorado
Gender: Female
Defunct
| | | Re: "Scariest Places on Earth" ?
<Reply # 6 on 10/24/2005 3:28 AM >
| | | | That one is very old. Does anyone remember Fear on MTV? That show was running when Scariest Places on Earth started. They both just stopped though. But the one of the Island of No Return, that is a really old one. I had seen they had some new ones on there. But I loved that place when I first saw it. I am going to go there one day. 
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Grozny
Location: USA
Gender: Male
| | Re: "Scariest Places on Earth" ?
<Reply # 7 on 10/24/2005 1:03 PM >
| | | | It's kind of entertaining. Too bad it's only on at Halloween.
"I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That's my dream. That's my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight... razor... and surviving." -Col. Kurtz. |
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darbycrashin
Noble Donor
Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia
Gender: Female
| | Re: "Scariest Places on Earth" ?
<Reply # 8 on 10/24/2005 6:31 PM >
| | | | scariest places on earth - is a pretty old show.. i wouldn't worry about it.. if you ignore the cheesiness it wasn't too bad.
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casperthesheet
Location: Ottawa, Ontario
Gender: Male
| | Re: "Scariest Places on Earth" ?
<Reply # 9 on 10/24/2005 11:44 PM >
|  | | | I used to watch that show on YTV (for any Canadians on the site) when I was younger. It wasn't that bad at all.
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Samurai
Vehicular Lord Rick
Location: northeastern New York
No matter where you go, there you are...
| | Re: "Scariest Places on Earth" ?
<Reply # 10 on 10/25/2005 1:54 AM >
| | | | Scariest place on earth?
Man, that's easy! Scariest place on earth is any restroom where I have made a stinky. 
I saw that show, it was kinda dorky.
Anyways.
Samurai
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El Lobo
Location: Deep In The Woods, Colorado
Gender: Male
Run Rabbit Run!
| | Re: "Scariest Places on Earth" ?
<Reply # 11 on 10/25/2005 10:22 PM >
| | | | I found the show to be very staged. I have been in alot of creepy places, seen and felt the presence of ghosts, but never anything on the level of what happens on this show! I would like to go explore some of those places they go to though! A night with two or three others in an old castle, asylym or whatever sounds like a blast!
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jukebox fuckup
Location: killadelphia
Gender: Female
| | Re: "Scariest Places on Earth" ?
<Reply # 12 on 10/26/2005 2:18 AM >
| | | | I stayed in Lido, which is evidently close to Poveglia in the Venetian lagoon.
On another note, The Scariest Places on Earth filmed at my work, Eastern State Penitentiary (easternstate.org)
“Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite." |
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Roland
Location: Baltimore, MD
Gender: Male
Proud Leader of Brandishing a Firearm on the High Seas UE
| | | Re: "Scariest Places on Earth" ?
<Reply # 13 on 10/26/2005 3:12 AM >
| | | | Posted by p0lyamor0us
On another note, The Scariest Places on Earth filmed at my work, Eastern State Penitentiary (easternstate.org)
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That sounds like a dream job. I've been meaning to go there sometime.
Buildings have two natural enemies- water, and bears. |
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keti
Moderator
Location: Providence, RI
Gender: Female
#EA98DE
| | | Re: "Scariest Places on Earth" ?
<Reply # 14 on 10/26/2005 11:39 AM >
| | | | Posted by HauntedPA
The places that they take these families to are open to the public. Tours are available and so on at the locations. So unless one day they end up at a place like Pennhurst or Danvers there's really no worry here.
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episode 3; "New England Mental Hospital" - no public tours
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jukebox fuckup
Location: killadelphia
Gender: Female
| | Re: "Scariest Places on Earth" ?
<Reply # 15 on 10/26/2005 2:22 PM >
| | | | Posted by Roland
That sounds like a dream job. I've been meaning to go there sometime.
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“Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite." |
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HauntedPA
Location: Anywhere and Everywhere
Gender: Female
What do you mean the rum is gone?!
| | Re: "Scariest Places on Earth" ?
<Reply # 16 on 10/27/2005 3:44 AM >
| | | | Posted by keti
episode 3; "New England Mental Hospital" - no public tours
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Of "Scariest Places on Earth"? or do you mean FEAR...there are a couple places that FEAR went to which were truely abandoned...doubt that ABC Family is going to do that...
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keti
Moderator
Location: Providence, RI
Gender: Female
#EA98DE
| | | Re: "Scariest Places on Earth" ?
<Reply # 17 on 10/27/2005 11:46 AM >
| | | | no no, it was scariest places. They brought Julia Solis and a bunch of other dorks who's titles were "first time-time urban explorer"
[23:38:31] <metawaffle> I'm surprised the NE forum doesn't fall off UER from the weight of thread locks
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north
Location: Paris via Montreal via Ottawa
Gender: Female
| | Re: "Scariest Places on Earth" ?
<Reply # 18 on 10/27/2005 4:46 PM >
| | | | there's a show on wtn in canada that's based out of britain called Most Haunted. If you're in for a laugh, try to find it...they take a couple of perky almost-40 blondes and a barry manilow look-alike sleazeball psychic to haunted houses and inns in england and film them sitting around all night trying to make contact with the spirits. it's hilarious.
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TheLuminousFish
Location: Home
Gender: Male
Miles Runs Down The Voodoo
| | | Re: "Scariest Places on Earth" ?
<Reply # 19 on 10/30/2005 3:37 AM >
| | | | Really pretty poorly done....but the locations look really awesome.
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