Starling Travel

In honor of Halloween, I found this video about haunted forests. The next time you’re thinking of camping, here are some suggestions for an particularly interesting excursion.

The Five Places are here:

Old House Woods, Matthews County, VA, USA

• The Examiner – Mysterious legends of Old House Woods persist through the years

Cannoock Chase Woods, Staffordshire, UK

• The Huffington Post – Mystery Of Ghostly Black-Eyed Child Sightings On Cannock Chase
• The Lady of the Chase

Dering Wood near Pluckley, Kent, UK

• Wikipedia – Pluckley: Pluckley had an entry in the 1989 Guinness Book of Records for being “the most haunted village in Britain”, with 12 different ghosts reported.

Hoia Baciu Forest, Romania

• Hoia Baciu Forest – World’s Most Haunted Forest

Aokigahara Forest, Japan

• Atlas Obscura – AOKIGAHARA SUICIDE FOREST

After watching this, I think I’ll just go camping is in nice, brightly lit parking lot next to Walmart. How about you?

This article from CampsitePhotos.com gives us a collection of the most haunted campgrounds in America.

• CampsitePhotos.com – Most Haunted Campgrounds in America

I love that all of these campgrounds are in the States, so I can visit them with my own camper. In fact, they’re all in the west, so I could visit them all easily:

• Malakoff Diggins State Historic Park / Northern California
• Holcomb Valley Campground / Big Bear, California
• Beaver Creek Campground / West Yellowstone, Montana
• Crystal Lake Recreation Area – Crystal Lake Campground / Southern California
• Silver Strand State Beach / Coronado Island – San Diego, California
• Humboldt Redwoods State Park / Northern California

The next time you’re in the mood for a scare, why don’t you plan a trip to one of these campgrounds and spend the night. Even if there are no ghosts there, you’ll be guaranteed a night of a little extra vigilance.

I love this photo I found on 9GAG.

They labeled it with the caption:

If you take care of things they will last.

But, they didn’t tell us anything about the couple, who they are or the true story behind them. I tried to do a little more research, but all I can find is people linking to the 9GAG site over and over. Who are they? Where did they come from? Are they still alive today?

I DID find THIS photo, which makes the 9GAG photo look as if they had cut out the camper.

It’s pretty obvious that it’s a photoshop job, though, especially since the Airstream has a shine on it that doesn’t match the lighting in the top photo. This was the first photo that I saw of this couple and it amazed me that they would have BOTH the car and the camper. I would LOVE to hear that story, though.