The Secret Frequency submission thread

[Dr_Ether]

How about art that pierces the Gauntlet, or acts as a Geist cenote/low place

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainmen ... 302815.stm

[DarkerDays_Mark]

That's very cool. It was just on the BBC 6 o'clock news as well . Looks utterly impenetrable on film - really rather spooky. Good find!

[Beckett]

A short list of things you guys may like.

The Lost City of Nan Madol

The Voynich Manuscript

The Dropa (Dzopa) Stones

The Kensington Runestone

The Antikythera Mechanism

The Marfa Lights (Texas)

[Beckett]

Bloody hell, I had another list and it got eaten. . .

Some of what I remember are

Bimini Road, and Atlantian modern theory

Niphilim, and how recent genetic discoveries in regard to neandrethal man are actually very closer to old legends about demonic/alien/supernatural half-breeds. (I don't want to try to tyoe it all out again if you are not interested, so let me know).

The Oak Island Pit, (Money Pit, Treasure, mystery pit, and a few other names)

Roanoke, and similar Lost colonies or civilizations

[DarkerDays_Mark]

Wow, great set of suggestions Beckett! Some of those I am familiar with, but a few are completely new to me. Those Dropa Stones look fascinating. Great stuff

[Beckett]

Yah, I've just been spending hours looking for things. Any suggestions on more places to look?

The Oak Island Pit is actually very fascinating if you haven't heard about it. . .

[Verghast]

What about the legends about how cities and towns are founded. The Romulus and Remus legend of Rome (pure werewolf fodder) as a suggestion. The town i live in apparently was built around a tree that sprung up on the spot were the christian martyr king Oswalds severed hand fell from a ravens beak after a battle. Verbenna magick or Corax revenge?

[Law]

The 6 Creepiest Places on Earth

#6. Aokigahara Forest

Aokigahara is a woodland at the base of Mount Fuji in Japan that makes The Blair Witch Project forest look like Winnie the Pooh's Hundred Acre Wood. It probably has something to do with all the dead bodies scattered around. What Niagara Falls is to weddings, Aokigahara is to suicide. More than 500 people have taken their own lives in Aokigahara since the 1950s.

#5. The Overtoun Bridge

Located near Scotland's charming little village of Milton in the peaceful burgh of Dumbarton, the Overtoun Bridge is a local arch construction where no human beings have ever died in any suspicious circumstances whatsoever over the last few decades. However, during that span, for reasons we can't begin to possibly understand, hundreds and hundreds of dogs have killed themselves there. It appears that dogs have been plunging off of Overtoun since the early 60s, at a rate of one animal a month... bringing the total number today to around 600 mutts, who for some reason, decided to end it all.

#4. Winchester Mystery House

In San Jose there is this house. It is a gigantic, sprawling 160-room complex designed like a maze, with mile-long hallways, secret passages, dead ends, doors opening to blank walls and staircases leading to the ceiling.

#3. The Sedlec Ossuary

For centuries the abbot in the small Czech town of Sedlec has been the Niagara Falls for dead people, regardless of cause of death. Ever since someone sprinkled soil from the Holy Land on the local cemetery in the 13th century, people from all over Europe started demanding to be buried there and the Sedlec graveyard kept growing until 1870, when the priests decided to finally do something about all those surplus bones lying around. Something insane.

Already featured on SF, IIRC.

#2. San Zhi Resort

What do you get when you cross a series of abandoned, rusting, futuristic UFO-shaped buildings with a series of mysterious deaths covered up by the government? How about the ghost town-slash-tourist resort of San Zhi, located just outside Taipei and inside your worst nightmares.

#1. Prypiat

If you thought the idea of a completely silent, abandoned, radioactive city was typical video game apocalyptic fantasy, you were wrong. Prypiat is in the northern Ukraine and once housed the workers and scientists of the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant. Founded in the 70s, it held as many as 50,000 people. Then in 1986, according to a footnote in the official Soviet records, there was a small malfunction in the Chernobyl reactor, so for safety reasons the city was evacuated.

[Laughing_Jack_Wilton]

I have a few different Canadian folklore and myths and actual true events that inspire aspects of games I run.

Beneath Toronto is an underground ancient river system that runs all through the city.

That is the basis for a load of myths. I'll share a few of the streetlore stories about the 'origins' and 'uses' of the water system.
1. There are entrances to this river system all over the city, if you know where to look. For a few bucks (slang for Canadian dollar) you could get into one of these rivers and make an escape from crime.
2. People (Devil Worshipers) sacrifice small animals and missing children to the few entry points where they drown.

That is just two, depending on who you talk to they get more or less weird. In the games I run I use this as a few things. In nWoD they are one of the following: entrance to the hedge, to a supernal (or other) realm, or a locus to the spirit realm. This works great and actually causes a lot of fun for players. What is under the Hedge? The answer is more Hedge, but a different kind. Water hobs and deep hobs share this space and guard entrances to the over hedge.
In UA, these are places to gain charges, summon, or the devil worshiping idea above.

Here is a very... interesting story: Manitoba Bus Incident.

A short synopsis:
A greyhound coach bus was traveling through Manitoba on the Trans-Candian route to Winnipeg from Edmonton. At 8:30 pm (20:30) a passenger sprung out of his seat. He viciously stabbed at another passenger. He then decapitated his victim. The bus was stopped and the police came to the stalemate. At 1:30 am, he tried to escape the bus out of a window and was arrested. All accounts describe his 'robotic' behavior and impassive demeanor. Some spins put it as him screaming that who he killed was 'evil' or a 'vampire'.

Hunter gone mad? Crazy Sleeper agent? Take from it what your will. There is more than one incident of this kind.

Bus violence

Recent violent incidents that have occurred on Greyhound buses:

* Dec. 24, 2007: A 27-year-old man is stabbed after an argument with another passenger on a bus near Tweed, Ont.
* Feb. 16, 2007: A group of people in their 20s attack and beat the driver of a bus in Lloydminster, Alta.
* March, 2000. A pregnant woman is attacked by a man on a bus in London, Ont. The woman suffered injuries to her arms.

This just throws us into the realm of Hunter and UA so quickly.

[Neberu]

While their validity does lie a bit in question, Animal Planet's Series "The Lost Tapes" do provide a wealth of highly creepy footage and inspiration.
http://animal.discovery.com/tv/lost-tapes/
Particularly for me was the Vampires episode. The vision of the creature skulking around that childs bedroom sent my heart into more than a small bit of palpitation. The house in general in that episode would be a ripe location for any horror themed game.

For those who can't watch the show on Television there are several full episodes on YouTube and other locations.