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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wofano Wotanto" data-source="post: 9469589" data-attributes="member: 7044704">Spooky graveyard mandatory, preferably with a run-down, possibly abandoned church connected to it.If it's rural, an old farm with half-collapsed outbuildings, rusting machinery, and a crumbling well is a good choice.  Either surround it with disused fields going to seed, or more mysteriously have an excellent crop of corn growing despite everything else.  Cornfields are great for scares and chases and can easily conceal disturbing details like a family burial plot, perhaps with recently-dug unmarked graves.  Half-overgrown orchards are also pretty creepy.Urban areas are more likely to have to make do with abandoned buildings that maybe aren't as unoccupied as they seem from the outside.  You can get some good mileage out of making the exterior and ground floor seem pretty normal, then have the rest of the place all torn to pieces and rebuilt into chambers and passages that no sane human being would make.  Cities also have larger public buildings like museums and libraries and courthouses, which are spooky as heck outside of their normal opening hours.  Even places like hospitals can feel strange in the wee hours of the night, more so if they've been closed down.  Hard to top your average shuttered ex-police station for creep factor too, they're practically a nexus of residual human misery and oppression even at their best.</blockquote>