Braley Pond Campground, a small campground by the picturesque Braley Pond in Augusta County, Virginia, has been considered one of the most anomalous places in the United States for several decades.
This tiny piece of sushi with several places for bonfires and tents attracts suicides and murderers like a magnet, and ordinary vacationers constantly report about mysterious flying balls, ghostly voices of children coming from the forest and other anomalous phenomena.
During the day it is a quiet and beautiful place where it is good to relax with children, fish or go hiking along the surrounding hiking trails. There are mountain bike paths, a paddock with horses to ride, and nice wooden bridges are thrown across an overgrown pond.
All in all a great place to stay.
Until you find out that bodies of people are regularly found here, who either kill themselves, or someone kills them. And this happens so abnormally often for such a place that researchers of anomalous phenomena are sure that there was some mysticism here.
Among ordinary cases, the murder of 19-year-old Christopher Kennedy, which occurred in May 2003, stands out. Members of the gang attacked Christopher, brutally stabbed him, and threw his body into a pond. But even without that, in this shallow pond from time to time they find the bodies of the killed, and some have remained unidentified.
More often than not, vacationers here are faced with a sudden and nauseating sensation of pure fear. It comes out of nowhere and falls with all its strength on any person who until then was just sitting fishing or relaxing by the fire. However, during this attack, a feeling of disorientation also occurs.
Another scary phenomenon is children's voices or children's laughter. For example, it is constantly heard by fans of cycling along the trails around the camp, and when tourists try to go in the direction from which laughter or voices come from, they go further and further, as if trying to lead people into the thicket.
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In addition, there were reports of flickering shadow figures and glowing balls flying at night.
In the pond, in which the bodies of the dead are now and then found. something is constantly splashing in size much larger than any fish, but it is impossible to see this object, people just hear these strong splashes.
At the same time, they also feel a very strong oppressive feeling, and some said that they suddenly had a desire to go into the water, as if something was forcing them to do it.
In some cases, people have described this pressure and coercion as "a bundle of worms in the brain that control their actions."
In 2006, an enthusiast from the Shenandoah Valley Paranormal Society came here to explore this strange place. And being in this place, as well as the probable observation of all the oddities described above, so strongly influenced him that he himself, shortly after his arrival, committed suicide.
Another anomalous researcher named Shi Willis came here in 2003 with a group of "ghost hunters". And according to her, before she had time to get out of the car, a terrible feeling of fear came over her, which came from some external source.
And when Willis, along with her "hunters" approached the pond, then all people began to physically vomit and vomit from the same terrible fear. After that, none of them could work here.
Of course, not all tourists are visited here like that, so vacationers continue to come here even now. But even they, for the most part, have already heard about the strangeness of this camp, they simply considered themselves not believing in such things or very brave.