30/10/2012 16:32 | By David Whitley, contributor, MSN Travel
World's spookiest places? You decide!

Tallinn, Estonia



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Estonia’s medieval capital has more than its fair share of alleged phantoms. The Lühike Jalg Gate Tower has seen persistent sightings of monks, an executioner and a fire-breathing dog, while one street has had so many sightings that it’s called Vaimu (it means ghost in Estonian) street. Tallinn Traveller Tours runs regular ghost walks.

If you prefer to be grossed out rather than spooked out, then the Museum of Medieval Torture Instruments offers a suitably gruesome insight into the world of extracting confessions.

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I went to the skirrid inn monmouthshire (featured on most haunted many years later)  It was a grey rainy evening as my mate pulled into the car park the pub looked grey and uninviting I had a cold shiver run down my spine. When I tried to open the passenger door it would not open my mate told me to stop messing as he was getting wet, He tried to open the door from the outside but he could not open it either There is nothing for it i said i will get out the drivers side

I tried that door and you guessed it i could not get out of that side either

The car had no central locking my mate tried his key in the drivers door but it would not open I climbed out of the window and of course the door opened without a key so we could close the window and lock the car my mate never had a problem with the car locking or unlocking prior or since that incident (it seemed to me someone in the spirit world did not want me to go in that pub)

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No mention of York In Yorkshire. There are ghost walks most nights of the week.
31/10/2012 20:45
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The Salem Witch Museum is the sh*t*tiest museum in the world! I went to the States for our honeymoon and the Witch museum is just an empty shell with nasty automatons, a timeline and a gift shop; if you ever go to Salem, give it a miss, it's a total rip off!!!
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what about York capital of yorkshire where they have ghost walks most evenings

 

31/10/2012 23:54
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ghosts exist in the minds of those who tell the stories.
31/10/2012 22:33
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Crazy.  Not mention of African voodoo or mention of the Caribbean capital of voodoo Haiti.  Once the inhabitants of Haiti were terrified of voodoo used and administered by former president Papa Doc..  Its alleged he terrified and murdered over 30,000 of his own people using voodoo as a principle weapon to control them...  Its a shame MSN doesn't do their homework.  It like doing a post about WW1 and not bothering to mention the Germans were involved....  People in Haiti are still terrified of voodoo today...  You can't get spookier than people terrified of voodoo...
01/11/2012 00:29
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..so in the UK it`s Whitby and Edinburgh ! (.... a trip to Tallinn would be interesting). ~

01/11/2012 11:50
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How could you forget Japan and Thailand? Those two have some of the freakiest stories and places I've ever known.
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Well as long as the ghoulies don't mess wi' mine (goolies) that's allright. WHa ha ha ha ha Haaaarh!
08/11/2012 18:29
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I am not going on holiday to those places, I wouldn't be able to sleep at night!! :)
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I have done black magic before, if does work to an extent. There are plenty of more haunted locations than the ones stated, but, I would say it is a good start :)

 

Turin, Italy sounds interesting, would def like to go there.

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