Creepy courses to visit?

[Peter S]

I like to creep myself out. I listen to Heavy Metal and my favorite movie genre is horror so I dont mind being scared sometimes. I was thinking what courses I play that give the creeps. Mostly at twilight & when the course is empty.

The obvious is Ghost Town in Colorado.

Some of my others are 22nd street in Tampa. Lots of giant oak trees with olds man beard (moss) that hangs down. I talked myself into seeing a ghost there. May have just been moss blowing. Just then an owl buzzed my wife and I. We both jumped.

Also Springfield in Jacksonville. Throw in a park in an old part of town with large old houses. Some that look haunted. There is also a creepy river that runs through it. There was some drunk stumbling around one evening close to sunset & my wife & I said zombie and ran to the next tee. He may have been a zombie or just a drunk?

What creeps you out?

 

[brutalbrutus]

Idlewild at any time of day lol.

 

[bobmcnelly]

The ghost town course really isn't creepy at all. I've been much more creeped playing some of these mountain courses at dusk.

 

[onemilemore]

I played New Quarter Park in Williamsburg, VA early on a Sunday morning before many people were there. There was so much canopy that very little light would come through on a lot of holes, making it have a little bit of a Blair Witch vibe. Kinda cool, because out here in SoCal we just don't have that kind of tree density. Even spookier when the wind would blow through.

 

[MrGlass01]

Play any course in women's underwear! That'll work!

 

[jedeye]

Let's hear about some Jersey devils....

 

[BogeyNoMore]

Play any course in women's underwear! That'll work!

Thanks for putting that picture in my mind's eye...:wall:

 

[brutalbrutus]

Any course I see people playing with ultimate discs. Lids man they give me the creeps.

 

[Basshunter]

I would imagine playing my home course, Highlands of Conway, MA at dusk would be creepy if you had never played the course or if wildlife creeps you out. It is in the middle of nowhere, completely wooded and home to owls, hawks, bald eagles, deer, bobcat, bears, snakes, etc. very shadowy and crazy tree and rock formations.

 

[BogeyNoMore]

I would imagine playing my home course, Highlands of Conway, MA at dusk would be creepy if you had never played the course or if wildlife creeps you out. It is in the middle of nowhere, completely wooded and home to owls, hawks, bald eagles, deer, bobcat, bears, snakes, etc. very shadowy and crazy tree and rock formations.

Any course where poisonous snakes, bears, or mountain lions are seen on a regular basis might gimme the creeps.

 

[Basshunter]

Any course where poisonous snakes, bears, or mountain lions are seen on a regular basis might gimme the creeps.

I never said the snakes were poisonous, and you don't see mountain lions on a regular basis...they are too smart to be seen. The bobcats are more obvious.

Although, no joke, I did see a mountain lion about 2 weeks ago crossing the road about 2 miles from the course. Despite the fact that Massachusetts officially denies their presence here. :\

I've only seen a bear on course once, but the deer and birds of prey are regular visitors. I've never actually seen a bobcat on course, but since I've seen them in my yard and I'm only a few miles from the course, I'm sure they are there.

 

[tom12003]

Fangorn Forest

Shortly after we installed the Plantation Ruins course (2012) in Charlotte, Stan McDaniel (Disc Golf Hall-of-Famer, multiple World Champ, and one of the best course designers) reviewed it with the title Fangorn Forest (Tolkien reference) for its eerie nature--its in another world. Scattered around the course are the ruins of an 1830ish plantation including former slave quarters and other buildings (hence the name). Can't wait to get permission to do a glow round there on Halloween.

 

[tom12003]

Shortly after we installed the Plantation Ruins course (2012) in Charlotte, Stan McDaniel (Disc Golf Hall-of-Famer, multiple World Champ, and one of the best course designers) reviewed it with the title Fangorn Forest (Tolkien reference) for its eerie nature--its in another world. Scattered around the course are the ruins of an 1830ish plantation including former slave quarters and other buildings (hence the name). Can't wait to get permission to do a glow round there on Halloween.

I should have mentioned that the canopy includes a large number of big vines which makes all the fairway windows very 3-dimensional in nature.

 

[heartman]

Any time there's random cars in the woods, signs of people sleeping throughout the course, used condoms, etc. I get creeped out.

Redan and Perkerson come to mind.

Perkerson also has old stone/brick fireplaces which are kinda cool/creepy with a "ruins" feel to it like Winget.

 

[tom12003]

Any time there's random cars in the woods, signs of people sleeping throughout the course, used condoms, etc. I get creeped out.

Is this thread about creepy or disgusting. There are plenty of disgusting issues at courses, but creepy (ghostly) was what I thought of the OP's focus.

 

[Loomis]

There is a seasonal course in the mountains above Missoula, MT that is located behind a garbage dump that warns of mountain lions and bears. It also says that anyone throwing a Disc OB will be fined.

Just up the road on the other end of Montana is a course called Diamond X which is a course built on a rattlesnake farm. The tee box for the final hole is a rugged cliff that one must jump over a crevice to reach. Trip on your follow through and you're toast.

In Pensacola, Florida there is a small course that has aligator slides near the tee pads and baskets.

A man was murdered in the parking lot of a course in Omaha. Chris Boro witnessed the man get chased down and killed.

Moab has a course that is all rocks.

There is a course just outside of St. Petersburg, Russia that is... well... in Russia.

 

[Stardoggy]

Highbridge Gold when the bears around holes 8-12 are out and about. Nothing gets the blood pumping like a 400lb black bear ambling up the fairway towards you.

 

[diskey river]

Hummel hills in Omaha, there are groups of homeless albinos that live in those creepy woods! (not the scene of Boro's witnessed murder, that course is in the middle town)

 

[elevated plastic]

Aquatic Park in Berkley CA. You see very scary things in the bushes.

 

[cjsleme]

There is a new course near my house that is built over an old abandoned neighborhood called carrollton. The neighborhood was bought out by the St. Louis airport because it was too close to a runway and they destroyed all the houses but the streets remain and you can still see fences and beginnings of driveways and where the foundations of the houses were. We used to drive around the empty streets at night because it was scary. In the first picture, you can see the streets of the neighborhood, the course is on the right of the highway.