Kunichiyan + Grave Encounter + Dead End: One of the Seven Creepiest Forbidden Places in the World

He got out of the car.

Li Dan rented a room at a nearby luxury hotel right away, then opened his computer and logged into the Horror Forum website.

People had been uploading photos of their arrivals one after another.

The most famous among them was Lance Preston, who hosted a very popular online show dedicated to searching for ghosts and paranormal events.

Some people idolized him and became his viewers, while others felt he was merely staging everything.

Li Dan had watched the horror movie Grave Encounters, which adopted a found-footage format in every sense. The beginning was indeed a bit showy, but the end felt very real, exactly like the name of the show, "Grave Encounters."

In the end, the entire team died in that hospital in Canada.

Another relatively famous figure was Hwahye, a South Korean who was, in a sense, a peer to Lance Preston.

He likewise produced a show searching for ghosts and spirits, except the location was changed to "Kunichiyan," one of the seven creepiest forbidden places in the world.

It was also a long-abandoned yet very famous psychiatric hospital in South Korea.

Only now it seemed neither of them had arrived at those places to explore ghosts and spirits yet, otherwise one probably wouldn't be able to see anyone anymore.

Li Dan kept a bit of a respectful distance from such places, because a psychiatric hospital like that was probably similar to the Haunted Manor.

There was also someone named Bill who looked like just an ordinary netizen.

Yet Li Dan knew that Bill was one of the few survivors from It back then.

Although the experiences of the others were not explicitly stated.

One could still glimpse a thing or two from their masked experiences.

After thinking for a moment.

Li Dan also prepared to post a picture, though this picture of his had a slightly mischievous sense of humor. Taking Li Dan himself as the main perspective, the Evil Spirit Wendigo was hiding in the darkness behind him, revealing a pair of eyes.

This wasn't called lying; this was called having a shared sense of immersion.

Those who came to Professor Goodman's lectures to listen basically all encountered indescribable terrifying events.

Li Dan did this precisely to create identical experiences, and then search among this group of people for suitable terror.

The website's activity level was very high.

As soon as the photo was posted, it attracted comments from a lot of people.

Woah bro, you aren't photoshopping this, are you?

No, this isn't Photoshop. Judging by the degree of fusion between those eyes and the picture, there's definitely something following him.

Holy crap, bro, are you okay right now?

I feel like this brother is probably in more danger than not; it's scarier than Japanese horror legends.

Looking at the eyes, it's a bit like a monster from Southeast Asia. You'd better find an exorcist, otherwise you're done for.

By comparison, I feel like the ghost harassing me is already very kind.

Can he make it out alive?

I suggest turning into a vampire; you might just survive. Salem Town.

Li Dan found their comments quite interesting as he read them.

In the end, there was even advice providing a method to survive—which was actually to turn oneself into a vampire, and it even provided an address.

Salem Town?

He had never heard of it. If you were going to talk about Get Out, that would be somewhat interesting.

Without replying to anyone, Li Dan continued browsing through the posts, where people were sharing their own experiences of searching for ghosts and monsters.

There were also those asking for help because they had encountered terrifying entities.

Among them was a post titled "Dead End." The poster was a woman who called herself Shaya.

She narrated that her family was fatigued during a nighttime journey and nearly got into a car accident.

In a drowsy state, Shaya decided to abandon the interstate highway she had traveled on for decades, turning instead to take a shortcut onto a narrow path she had never driven down before.

However, this turned out to be a terrible decision, because of the woman in white and the black vintage car that appeared along the road.

No matter how long she drove, she would always encounter the woman in white and the black vintage car.

The narrow path was also endless, just like a dead end.

There was also a short video at the bottom.

Li Dan clicked play. The video was filmed by Shaya, and a small boy could be seen from the lower right corner, followed by a woman in white flashing past the edge of the pitch-black road.

Soon after, a black vintage car drove slowly out of the darkness ahead, its windows pitch-black, making the people and objects inside invisible.

Then the video crackled twice and cut out directly.

Nothing much could be told from this video clip alone. Li Dan glanced at the account called Shaya; the last time she spoke had been a few months ago.

Yet because many people kept bumping the thread, its popularity remained high and it consistently ranked near the top.

The specific address of that road was not given, but the interstate highway truly existed. This post named Dead End could be considered an unsolved mystery on the forum.

Li Dan took a look at the comments.

The original poster most likely ran into a ghost wall. Judging from the posting time, she might have already been murdered.

I went to that interstate highway, and there is no narrow path at all.

Are there any church exorcists on the forum?

Don't count on exorcists; they crash and die often too.

I currently work at the church, and I can prove one thing: the mortality rate for exorcists and priests is really high, and the supply falls short of demand across all states.

Black vintage car—the ones sitting inside might be the Grim Reaper, folks.

If exorcism was a high-risk job, Li Dan felt he could get a priest or an unofficial freelance exorcist identity to make things convenient for himself.

Still, come to think of it, this dead end did look quite eerie.

Put yourself in that situation and imagine.

If he accidentally stepped into this dead end, he would mostly likely feel uneasy and terrified as well.

After reading the last comment, Li Dan closed the forum and went instead to search how to register for an unofficial identity.

The next day.

University of California.

Lecture Hall: Professor Goodman's Lecture Course.

Lecture courses belonged to the most common form of teaching in universities, especially special courses related to the paranormal like this one.

When Li Dan arrived, a good number of people were already sitting in the classroom. Looking across at a glance, there were both men and women, black people, white people, and Asians.

Quite a few among them looked quite surprised upon seeing Li Dan.

Obviously, the photo Li Dan posted yesterday was very popular and its view count had already broken ten thousand.

I looked at that post yesterday and thought this Chinese kid was a goner, but I didn't expect him to still be alive.

Anyone who meets that kind of thing and still isn't dead has at least a bit of skill.

Stay away from him, be careful of being targeted by that creepy thing.

I think that picture is completely computer-generated.

Hello, my name is Lance Preston. Are you interested in accepting an interview with me?

Some people were scared, some didn't believe it, and likewise, some took the initiative to step forward and converse.

Li Dan shook hands with Lance Preston.

"Hello, I'm temporarily not interested in accepting interviews."

"It doesn't matter, you can sit next to me and we can chat about that photo of yours." Lance showed great interest in Li Dan.

He came to attend Goodman's lecture course for the fundamental reason of boosting the ratings for his own show, "Grave Encounters."

The view count on the photo Li Dan posted was very high, and he felt he could use this as material to specially build a show. As for whether it was real or not, he had been to so many places and had never seen it, so naturally he didn't believe that stuff.

Lance even offered to pay money.

Li Dan had come for The Warrens and an unofficial identity, so naturally he couldn't agree.

However, he offered that he could sponsor Lance's show.

Consider it making preparations for Grave Encounters in advance.

On the other side, Hwahye, who had been paying attention to the two of them for a long time, likewise carried this kind of interest, hoping to fabricate a story based on Li Dan's photo.

Li Dan turned no one away and chose to sponsor him; he also held a bit of interest in Kunichiyan.

It was, after all, the rumored one of the seven creepiest forbidden places in the world.