European ghost towns

[Steve H]

I know these things are really just click-bait, to get you to see loads of adverts, but this one is really rather moving. It includes Pripyat, the Russian town abandoned after the Chernobyl disaster, two English villages taken over by the army for training purposes during World War 2, and never returned, and Oradour-Sur-Glane, the French village whose inhabitants were murdered by the Nazis.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/lifestyle/travel/europe-s-eeriest-ghost-towns/ss-BB19KgLK?ocid=msedgdhp#image=1

[Owlswing]

 know these things are really just click-bait, to get you to see loads of adverts, but this one is really rather moving. It includes Pripyat, the Russian town abandoned after the Chernobyl disaster, two English villages taken over by the army for training purposes during World War 2, and never returned, and Oradour-Sur-Glane, the French village whose inhabitants were murdered by the Nazis.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/lifestyle/travel/europe-s-eeriest-ghost-towns/ss-BB19KgLK?ocid=msedgdhp#image=1

   Interesting! Spookie!

[Nearly Sane]

   Interesting! Spookie!

I've been to Oradour and it is chilling.

[Owlswing]

I've been to Oradour and it is chilling.

Many years ago, 1959 or 1961, I can't remember which, I was on an aircraft spotting trip to Hanover Air Show and the driver of our coach told us that the route he was taking back would go via a few of the French light aircraft airfields and when he slowed down to almost walking pace for no apparent reason, we asked why he told us that we were about to enter Oradour and the drivers who worked in his company always slowed to 'funeral procession pace' when they went through the village.

About half-a-dozen of the blokes on the trip were ex-Service and we got off the bus and walked through the village.

It was one of the most moving experiences I have ever had

The place has so many ghosts it is a most uncomfortable place to walk through, the presence of those murdered is palpable (or, at least, it is to those who believe in ghosts of one sort or another!).

 

   

[Nearly Sane]

Many years ago, 1959 or 1961, I can't remember which, I was on an aircraft spotting trip to Hanover Air Show and the driver of our coach told us that the route he was taking back would go via a few of the French light aircraft airfields and when he slowed down to almost walking pace for no apparent reason, we asked why he told us that we were about to enter Oradour and the drivers who worked in his company always slowed to 'funeral procession pace' when they went through the village.

About half-a-dozen of the blokes on the trip were ex-Service and we got off the bus and walked through the village.

It was one of the most moving experiences I have ever had

The place has so many ghosts it is a most uncomfortable place to walk through, the presence of those murdered is palpable (or, at least, it is to those who believe in ghosts of one sort or another!).

 

   

Even for those that don't the harrowing of the people chills. It is a blank horror mocking our humanity.