People On The Internet Shared 50 Photos Of The Creepiest Corridors They’ve Ever Seen (New Pics)
Interview With ExpertIf you’re a fan of horror movies and video games like us (hi!), then you probably know how much of an impact you can have on the audience with just a single shot of a simple hallway. With the right lighting and decor, you can turn the atmosphere of pretty much any mundane liminal space into something that practically oozes malice and danger.
Our team at Bored Panda has compiled a list of photos of some of the scariest, creepiest, and most sinister-looking corridors ever to exist. Grab your flashlight and flask of holy water, put on your hard hat, and scroll down to start your fear-filled adventure. (…did we just see something skitter in the shadows of that doorway there? Nah, it must’ve been just our imagination...)
We got in touch with Glenn Geher, Ph.D., a professor of Psychology at the State University of New York at New Paltz and a published author, for his thoughts on fear from an evolutionary perspective. You'll find the insights he shared with us below!
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The Hallway Outside Of My Apartment
The house was perfect, they said. No ghosts or anything, they said
The hallway outside my apartment was like this once due to a power outage (luckily the rest of the building, including the units, had power).
There should be lights in the hallway at all times. How can you see if you have to take garbage to the bin or something.
Someone who’s scared of hallways probably has deeper and darker underlying fears than drab or dull interior decorations. For example, they might have bathophobia. As per Choosing Therapy, this phobia is a fear of depth, including areas of deep water, cliffs, railings, bridges, long hallways, tunnels, caves, and wells.
Alternatively, being scared in corridors could be related to stenophobia, a fear of narrow things or places.
Or the hallways themselves might not be the main issue, but the dark. The fear of dark is widely known as nyctophobia, as well as scotophobia or lygophobia. Cleveland Clinic notes that around 45% of children might have an unusually strong fear of some kind. The fear of the dark is one of the most common phobias among kids aged 6 to 12.
Tunnel At My University
When you first start to realize that the vitamin you took this morning was actually a tab of Orange Sunshine.
Eastern State Penitentiary
During Halloween they turn it in to a haunted house that people can pay to walk through. Pretty fun if you like that kind of thing. :)
Al Capone was there for a while. He heard the voices of the people he had offed. Either that or the syphilis was kicking in
If you're in the Philadelphia area, this is definitely worth a visit.
"The human fear response is one of the best-understood psychological adaptations that has been researched over the years. Generally, we tend to be fearful of stimuli that may have the capacity to adversely affect our capacity for survival and/or reproduction," Dr. Geher explained to Bored Panda.
For instance, a dark, dank hallway filled with spiders may pose various threats to people. "Spiders themselves can offer lethal bites, for example. Also, spaces that seem unhygienic may well be unhygienic and may well have vermin and other forms of vectors of disease," the professor said.
"Across our evolutionary history, we evolved fears of these kinds of stimuli as such fears helped to keep our ancestors safe."
My Dad's Life As A Security Guard
Hope he's got a decent torch. And a back up torch. And a big dog. And a gun. And a change of underwear.
I suspect, in real life this hallway is not as dark as this photo suggests. The OP (or whoever who took this photo) intentionally reduced the brightness for this desired effect.
Oooh, reminds me of this story from my favourite podcast. It's called "Night shift " or sth. (Podcast is this guy narrating stories re paranormal experiences of his listeners. It's called "Scary: A Paranormal Podcast".
Strong Danger Vibes In This Bar's Basement
given the pictures are from happy people in the bar, i dont think thats creepy
But iT's CrEePy! It's a tradition obviously, and people who are not in on the tradition will find something "creepy" in anything. Especially if they can post it on the internet.
Load More Replies...They must have a photo booth there. Don't know why they're still popular.
There's probably an FBI website seeking help with identification.
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I would like to rollerblade in that thing for miles 😊
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one segment for a family, should enough for thousand of homeless
I bet many homeless take shelter there. It must be noisy AF during the day, though...
Load More Replies...In my hometown police once dicovered that a homeless person made a home inside a highway bridge. He/ she had a living room, bedroom and tapped electrics. He/ she also stored stolen stuff there, like coffeemachines and an electric scooter. There was nobody at home when the police invaded. I don’t know if they ever discovered who made a home there.
That’s both awesome and infuriating. A country that can’t feed and house its people is a failed state.
Load More Replies...I don't like that it's tilted.. maybe the photo itself tilted, but even so - it looks like it will fall.
Long bridges need to have the ability to twist and flex to safely absorb the stresses put on them by both traffic and the environment (high winds, slight shifting of the ground, etc) otherwise they very quickly fail. Tall buildings have the same flexibility built into them.
Load More Replies...Dr. Geher noted that even though our evolved fears can help us survive, they can also become problematic.
"Someone may be afraid of a hallway, for instance, that they have to go through to get to their office, as an example. Even if the hallway truly is creepy, it would behoove that person to get over that fear," he told Bored Panda.
"There are various forms of therapy that have been shown to help with a variety of fears—someone with a crippling fear of this kind of stimulus may well benefit from therapy sessions with a highly trained professional."
Vernon Park Mall, Kinston, North Carolina. This Old Mercury Vapor-Illuminated Hallway Is Basically The Matrix. I Adjusted Nothing With The Color
Mercury vapour lamps don't look that green to the human eye. Colour perception is strange, an artifact of our eyes (most human eyes have three different colour receptors, "cones", each of which sees a small slice of the visible spectrum, and the brain puts it all together to give us the sensation of colour). Cameras never record exactly what a human eye would perceive. If a camera recorded the scene above, then the photo needs adjusting to match human perception, if the intent is to give an impression of what a person would see.
The color in *all photos* is adjusted. The only question is how. In this case it was adjusted by setting the white balance to daylight. Our brains are generally very good at compensating for stuff like this, and it wouldn't look nearly that green if you saw it in real life. Here's a photo of white snow in shade with the color balance adjusted for shade and for daylight. Most people tend not to notice the bluish cast of snow if they haven't been made aware of it. Untitled-6...3a68a5.jpg
I’m A Flight Attendant And I’ve Been Trying To Get A Good Shot Of This Place For A While. I Give You, The IAH Underground Walkway Between Terminals. I Hate It Here
Creepy AF. Possibly the low ceiling or just the complete conformity. I think a few pictures would have made all the difference, weirdly.
Perfect for bikes or skateboards or something? Roller blades? Idk what the cool kids are doing any more.
What Comes To Your Mind?
If you look closely it looks like a person at the end
Load More Replies...Most of us have probably heard of the fight or flight response, right? Well, not so fast there! The reality is slightly more nuanced and complex than popular culture and hearsay might have you believe.
In fact, some researchers argue that there are a total of four main ways that human beings respond to stress and threats. These are the well-known fight and flight (which are very decisive actions), as well as freeze, and fawn.
The fight response happens when someone feels that they can overpower the threat in a direct fight.
According to WebMD, some of the signs of a fight response include intense anger, grinding teeth, a tight jaw, the urge to punch or kick someone or something, crying in anger, and a burning or knotted sensation in your stomach.
A Quiet Hospital
I Heard A Loud Noise Down The Hallway
With back flat against the wall and looking in both direcitons too
Load More Replies...Motion-sensor lights freak me out so much if I'm alone. My brain constantly whispering to me "What if one turns on now? Like all the way over there? Or, or, what if you turn the corner and one's already on, on the other side of the hall where you know you haven't gone tonight? Hmm? What about if it turns on now? How about now?" And then one turns OFF because I haven't been in that part of the building for a few minutes, and I FREAK. Sigh
Who Installed These Horrific Lights Here?
Question is... After being installed who allowed them to be left there?
I think the question is... before being installed, who ran the electrical wires there?
Load More Replies...On the flip side, a flight response centers on the belief that you can avoid danger by running away.
Your body gets flooded with adrenaline so that you can sprint away from any threats, for example, all of those nightmarish creatures crawling or glitching their way across the hallway.
The signs of the flight response to threats include feeling fidgety, a restless body, constantly moving your legs or arms, and dilated and darting eyes.
Endless Corridor Some 50 Meters Below The Surface
Does a service tunnel really qualify as a corridor? I'm thinking in the sense of a corridor being somewhere that people regularly walk, whereas this is clearly just a shaft for carrying pipework and cables and the occasional maintainable crew. It isn't creepy, just functional.
My Dad Sent Me This. Italian Liminal Space At Its Finest
Thought this was bread I've been watching too much laurenzside
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Meanwhile, freeze and fawn instincts are very different. A freeze response has you stuck in one place when your body, instincts, and mind don’t believe that fighting or fleeing is going to work.
If you’re feeling a sense of dread, have pale skin, your heart’s pounding really quickly, and you feel stiff, heavy, cold, or numb, then you’re likely stuck in a freeze response.
This Liminal Tunnel Where I Work
Middle Of The Day In My Apartment. I Can’t See What’s Hiding At The End Of The Hallway
Turn the (ceiling) light on, maybe? If you use an LED bulb, it won't cost much to leave it on whenever you're home.
I think mirror reflecting daylight at the end would help it.
Load More Replies...It's a cat. Or Tom, a former pirate with a peg leg and a talkative parrot who's studying for a PhD in philosophy of science and speaks fluent Kyrgyz. Could be either.
I Work In Security At A Warehouse, We Have A Few Of These Fire Escape Tunnels That I Have To Check For Stashed Merchandise. Always Gives Me The Creeps
Fawning is the most social and verbal of all the four responses to stress and threats. Some of the main signs of a fawn response include over-agreement with somebody and trying to be overly helpful.
There’s an overwhelming sense that your primary concern is making someone else happy. In grounded terms, this would mean that you try to be excessively friendly with the source of the danger, instead of fighting them, running away, or freezing like a deer in the headlights.
Battleships Make Good Liminal Space Photos
Those hatches are much larger than in many (even many modern) warships. Though I don't see any *actual* hatches - maybe hidden to the side...
Load More Replies...It's to stop water from flowing between compartments.
Load More Replies...This is from a museum ship, right? USS Lexington? New Jersey? Missouri?
I actually really love this one. In a good way, not a scary one. It's really quite beautiful.
Where Am I?
The giant round hay bales are a dead giveaway.
Load More Replies...Didnt I see this pic in a Grand Tours show where they ended up in a tunnel with subs?
my guess would be in a barn, behind a camera or is this aomething like the waldo books?
Started A New Job Recently
80s carpet! Looks like it goes up and down a lot? What sort of crazy building is this?
Probably because the rooms above aren't - I'm saying stadium or theatre or lecture room seats above.
Load More Replies...WebMD notes that fawning can be an indication that someone has had a very troubled childhood, e.g., they were neglected or rejected. Fawning is a way to soothe the threat in order to survive.
People who are prone to respond to stress by fawning are usually overly dependent on others’ opinions, have little to no boundaries, are vulnerable to narcissists, have barely any identity, and are generally easy to control or manipulate.
In Between Two Industrial Buildings. This Path Leads To A Fire Escape
my guess would have been its the halway behind the door Trueman leaves at the end of the movie
That's less scary than some of the others. Maybe because of the visible sky?
And as the walls start closing into each other, a voice screams out " Die Mr Bond! Die!!"
This Hallway
This one is real: https://www.cokolivokoli.cz/36339-zamek-hradek-u-nechanic/
This one is kind of cool. In a Guillermo Del Toro's haunted house kind of way.
This place is absolutely beautiful, I looked at all of the pics on the website of this castle.
I'm Always Afraid Of Corridors Like This At Abandoned Sites
it might be a job - I don't know, some sort of evaluation of if it's worth trying to fix or if it should just be razed.
Load More Replies...Your body’s responses to stress and threats are useful if they genuinely help you avoid any danger to your health, welfare, and life. However, if these responses get triggered over simple, non-threatening, mundane situations, then you’re in a pickle.
Chronic stress is utterly horrible for your health. If you get freaked out by random hallways all the time, you’re only doing damage to your body, mind, and probably even relationships.
This Is A Section Of The Tunnels Under The State Mental Hospital Where I Work
And as a mental hospital, noises from above would freak tf out of someone.
My Job Is To Inspect Every Single One Of These Cars, Night Time Hits Differently
Scary Hotel I'm Staying At
I think the "different door handles" is just an illusion because the doors on the right are also recessed and the angle hides the rest of the handle mechanism.
as a kid, spread my arms between narrow corridors and hallways to climb around. this looks like a place I did that once...
This looks like a real photo, but I can't understand why the doors on the left would be different from the doors on the right. Aren't they usually all the same?
One might be a door to a room, the other might be a store cupboard.
Load More Replies...There are lots of ways to handle stress, from meditation and exercise to speaking to a therapist and even relying on medication. In your day-to-day life, when you suddenly feel threatened in a generally safe place, you could try focusing on your environment or reciting a song, poem, or affirmation in your mind.
You could also do mental calculations, visualize yourself overcoming your fears, focus on your breathing, or remind yourself that you are—in fact—safe.
Found Myself Lost In A Home Improvement Store. Most Of The Demo Doors Don’t Actually Open
They put signs at Home Depot and Rona, just in case... How awful is that?
Load More Replies...I'm A Night Shift Security Guard In A Hospital. I Hope You Enjoy Some Pictures I Took, While At Work
Is it the ones that try to get out, or the ones that try to get in, gives you the most problems?
Abandoned Hospital's Hallway In Greece
The places I'd love to see, but know I'd freak out if I were in them
Which of these photos of hallways sincerely creeped you out the most, dear Pandas? Which ones would you hate to walk down and why? On the flip side, which of these corridors would you not mind?
What’s the scariest hallway that you’ve ever personally seen? Let us know what you think in the comments. Oh, and we hope any corridors you walk down today are well-lit and definitely not haunted.
Uncanny Hallway
Nah, lurid colours like that are typical of holiday resorts, usually in the Mediterranean, and/or focusing on families rather than adults only. The colour patches help drunks identify where their room is even when they can't focus properly.
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This Underground Tunnel At Work, Which Blasts 80s Music
Thank you for that. It was my book & movie obsession in high school.
Load More Replies...Bring in a bong and a bean chair, some Ho-Hos and a drink, and you're all set.
The glass blocks on the left show light so definitely not underground. So many BS pics on this thread.
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I Found This Hallway While Exploring On A Ferry I Was Taking
This one looks like it was photoshopped to be darker (and add a handprint).
I've seen the handprint stickers on doors before (not usually on glass though) - they indicate 'push' rather than writing it. You see them in airports, ferries and other places that have people from various countries using them, since most people understand the symbol more easily.
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The Ridiculously Long Hallway At The Camp I’m Staying At
It’s likely a work camp. I did some work in northern Canada and stayed in a place like this. It was for oil and gas workers working on remote sites that are too far to commute from home.
My first thought was a 'camp' at a college, a lot of colleges host summer camps for variety of groups, but I have never seen a dorm with such a long hallway, so work camp also makes sense
Load More Replies...Yeah, even Danish prisons aren't this nice. This is the kind of weird industrial look you get from mass accommodation. Some universities would have dormitories looking like this I bet.
My First Liminal Hallway
Apartment entrances in a space colony in a computer game.
Load More Replies...Yes, this is a movie theater. I do not see what is so special or spooky about this.
A Walk To My Room Feels Odd In The Middle Of The Night
This School Hallway At Night
I imagine schools are very creepy when they are empty. Airports too. I remember watching the Langoliers, and when they materialized in an empty airport, I thought that was the creepiest part of the movie.
If it's in the US it needs more hiding spots to hide from the inevitable school shooter...
It's pointing ahead to where one is, like exit signs with arrows.
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What are those racks of? They're not movable but they're completely wrapped so you can't reach what's inside. I don't get this one.
Hotel I Stayed At
It Was A 5-Minute Walk To My Room At The Mexican Resort. The Whole Way Looked Like This
Doors on the left look too narrow. None of the doors have door knobs. Why are all the doors several inches above the floor? Zero matches on reverse image search. 56% likelihood of being AI according to AI detector. Something seems off to me.
This one is well-known. Barcelo Maya Riviera. I love me some Barcelo hotels. Especially when they’re adults only.
What's with the really narrow doors being a step up from the floor and not having doorknobs?
Load More Replies...Ok, found a pic on trip advisor! large-hallways.jpg
Barcelo Maya. It’s open aired to the ocean & gardens. This pic just happened to be shot at night, but it’s tropically & romantically lit outside of this view.
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Dorm From The 50s
As a resident assistant at my school, I had to walk calls on nights and weekends in buildings that were built between 1910 and 1930. Some of the hallways were very narrow and poorly lit, and it was always a bit of an unnerving, although interesting, experience. Compared to some of the places featured in this BP post, though, it was much less scary!
This is an example of utilitarian architecture, not Brutalism. These US dorms were designed to "store" human beings as cost-effectively as possible. It’s worse than Brutalism, which – even if you dislike it – has an aesthetic goal and philosophy. This utilitarian approach purposefully ignores visual and community needs or attention to detail, to save money on students.
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My Parents' Hotel Hallway
Red and black is not the best combination when it comes to long hallways.
I Work In The Building With The Longest Hallway In America
Hallway At A Resort I Am Staying At
According to discussion on the original post, it's Port Royal Resort and this bit is public.
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An Incredibly Long Underground Tunnel
Looks like the tunnel that's goes under the road at Emory University connecting the hospital to the doctors offices
Instrument Practice Rooms At A College
They are. With acoustic tiles and thick doors. Otherwise the sound would be unbearable and everyone would interfere with everyone else.
Load More Replies...I’ve Been Walking Down This Hallway For 6 Hours With No Exit
This is the underground tunnel system at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador
Wouldn't be so bad were it full of Newfoundlands and Labradors. Why is it soooo long?
Load More Replies...Not if they just walk up and down the bit in the picture. It would explain why they haven't encountered an exit.
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This Hotel Hallway Looks Like The Backrooms
Change the ugly carpet to something decent and it would make a huge difference.
Go To Gate
I love going through this tunnel to concourse c! Plays endless but soothing loops of Rhapsody in Blue (the United theme) by composer William Kraft. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbsONsWGAUs
Walk Over Water
Looks like an excellent way to get mould, and stagnant water. The filtration and recirculation system necessary to prevent that can't be cheap. If you want to do steps like these, put them near an outdoor swimming pool.
Lagomar Museum on Lanzarote Island in the Canary Islands. Used to be actor Omar Sharif's house. https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g187477-d1799408-Reviews-Lagomar_Museum-Lanzarote_Canary_Islands.html
The Bathroom At A Thai Place
I know, right? Bathrooms have toilets in them.
Load More Replies...Looks like a hospital hallway outside the bathroom (door on the immediate right). Wood rails are wheelchair and gurney bumpers.
Walmart Bakery After Close
This Is The Hallway To My Dentist's Office
The Bathroom Hallway In The Mall Where I Work Is Creepier Than It Should Be
BS. We can all make hallways look "scarier" with phone pics. Just because it's behind shops doesn't make it creepy.
This Cheap Hotel I'm Staying At For The Night
Carnation City Mall (Alliance, Ohio)
Hallway In An Abandoned Asylum
Isn't the clue in the word "abandoned"? As in "nobody (or at least nobody formally responsible) cares anymore". So no - lots of them aren't locked. Or the windows are broken.
Load More Replies...I Work At Night, And I Always Feel Like Someone Is Hiding In The Rooms
Why Is Union Tunnel So Scary?
Because they bury the corpses of tunnel photographers under the floor.
Hallway Of A Hotel I Went To In Coventry
Really Scary Hotel I'm Staying At
Managed To Go Inside Phoenix's Metro Center Again. Wandered The Hallways Behind The Food Court And Shops
Dark Hallway In An Abandoned Building
This Abandoned Mall
Old Mills At Night Are Beautifully Lonely
A Shortcut
It's A Very Old Hotel In Detroit. There Were Barely Any People In The Whole Place
The Phone Rang But Nobody Was Calling
Just A Long Hallway
What Can I Do In This Long Hallway To Liven It Up?
Hang some pics on the wall on the left, change the paint color from white.
Photo rails at different heights along the walls so you can switch them up often.
Does This Count As Liminal Or No?
I think the concept is more about spaces that coexist with the ones you normally encounter. This also implies that the public don't usually see them, whereas this is a corridor in a multiplex cinema and doesn't really qualify. It's a nice photo though.
I like my house because it has no liminal spaces. You walk through rooms to get to other rooms. It's different and weird and contractors get lost trying to find their way, but I love it. Hallways are boring and sometimes creepy.
I have a family member who is married to someone in real estate and they have moved many many times (selling at a profit each time) she was bragging about one of the houses they had built for not having any hallways, everything just kind of opens on the living room.
Load More Replies...I like my house because it has no liminal spaces. You walk through rooms to get to other rooms. It's different and weird and contractors get lost trying to find their way, but I love it. Hallways are boring and sometimes creepy.
I have a family member who is married to someone in real estate and they have moved many many times (selling at a profit each time) she was bragging about one of the houses they had built for not having any hallways, everything just kind of opens on the living room.
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