I’m in a FB conversation at the moment, where a poster is showing major reservations about camping in a forest which was the site of murders a number of years ago. The killer is now incarcerated for the rest of his life, and the bodies of those killed have of course have been interred and returned to their families.
The poster is concerned about ‘the vibes’ of staying in such a place. My opinion is that land doesn’t hold ‘vibes’, and that if the locale is otherwise pleasant, as this place is, then there shouldn’t be an issue with previous tragedies that occurred there. As I pointed out, if one were to boycott any place that had seen ‘awful’ things happen over the centuries, then there’d be bugger all places to go!
People have been murdered at every place i have ever camped.
Find me somewhere outside Antarctica where dozens of people *haven’t *been murdered sometime in the past 10, 000 years.
If there are vibes from such things, surely they would be felt everywhere. Yet oddly enough they are only felt when someone knows beforehand that the murder occurred.
I’d get “vibes” from camping somewhere I associated with horrible events. They’d come from my own mind, but they’d interfere with my enjoyment, so why not pick a place to camp where I have no such associations?
And, if there is no record of violent deaths at this site, then the murderer must have gotten away with it. It is a burden to be a sensitive, always encountering the vibes of unreported crimes.
Assuming I liked the house, I’d buy it. Plus you’d get to tell guests the story of the murders. It would give the house provenance.
I’m with the other posters: pretty much every patch of earh has been the site of murders. There have been a couple of high profile murders in Yellowstone and Shenandoah Natioanl Parks, does that mean that we should close those parks to visitors?
A forest is presumably a fairly large place. If you’re camping at the precise spot where bodies were buried, that’d be creepy. But I don’t see why such places should forever be tarred by incident(s) of violence.
American true crime aficionados will always associate Lake Sammamish in Washington state and Lake Berryessa in California with grisly crimes. People still go swimming, boating etc. there.
Eh, I’ve camped at Camp Crystal Lake a half a dozen times. Sure, that Jason guy keeps coming around waving weapons and such, but I just tell him to fuck off and he does.
I’ve slept on more battlefields than most people have visited without any issues - and I actually do believe in ghosts or something supernatural. So if I’m not creeping out I don’t think anyone should.
There was “vibes” for me. Or more like this is where two people were killed by a black bear and I’m not camping here. Out of respect, and creepiness. Overcast weather didn’t help either.
It happen at the southern most site on Bates Island, Opeongo Lake in Algonquin Park back in 1991.
I’ve been getting bad vibes because apparently the continent I live in was once inhabited by an entirely different people who were slaughtered. Now I can’t even go to brunch.
When I saw the OP, I figured you were planning a camping trip to Dachau. Or pitching a tent atop the grassy knoll in Dallas.
Several years ago on a family trip through Oregon, we spent two days at Crater Lake. We all felt a little uncomfortable hanging around on a spot where thousands of people in Klamath tribe had been happily living 8,000 years ago and suddenly VOOOOOMPH. I’m not planning any vacations in Pompeii.
For me, I guess it would depend on how much the tragedy had affected me when it was going on. If it happened ages ago or if I had not lived in the area when it happened, I probably wouldn’t mind. If I was aware of the tragedy unfolding and hearing about it on the news every night, I would probably not be able to enjoy myself camping there. It’s not about the vibes for me. It’s about the memories.
