Scariest Places On Earth -Lucedio Abbey, Italy
The Lucedio abbey was founded in 1124; Renier, Marquess of Monferrato providing an extensive tract of marsh, heath and woodland known as Locez, on whose agricultural development the future prosperity of Lucedio would depend.
As the second daughter-house of La Ferté (after Tiglieto Abbey, in the Ligurian Apennines), this was one of the earliest Cistercian monasteries in Italy. Lucedio contributed in its turn to the expansion of the Cistercian Order by giving birth to three daughter-houses over the next eighty years: S. Maria di Chiaravalle della Castagnola (1147) in the Marche, Rivalta Scrivia (1180) near Tortona and Acqualunga (1204) near Pavia.


The GHI (Ghost Hunters International) team headed over to Italy to investigate a millennia-old abbey that was apparently used for some pretty heinous executions and whatnot in the name of religion, and supposedly not sanctioned by the Church at the time. Right away Brian started seeing shadows, specifically moving towards Donna. For her part, Donna said she felt like someone had grabbed her shoulder at one point and later on during the night that something had touched her arm. Barry apparently also saw some of these shadows, but nothing was caught on camera. Scariest Places On Earth
Shannon was clearly scared out of her mind, standing by herself on one side of the room essentially acting as bait — but she kept it together and Robb did a good job recognizing her for the strong effort. Unfortunately, not much else happened except at one point during the evening the entire team was in one of the rooms when they all agreed they heard someone whisper, “Go, now!” — since everyone claimed to have been silent at the time it was decided to have been paranormal in origin.

During the evidence review Robb found that piece of audio and it did appear to have the word, “Go” in it, but then it was cut off and Robb explained that after that someone had breathed directly into the microphone and nothing else was audible, but since the entire team had heard it he felt comfortable labeling it as evidence of the paranormal. This is what I would call, in not-so-technical terms, a “bad move”.

The production audio was obviously being recorded microphones elsewhere in the room and they caught the entire episode quite clearly. It might help to explain here that when this incident occurred, the entire team was trying to find a shadow that Brian had said was moving towards Donna and then backed off and moved around the perimeter of the room. To my ears the production audio seems to have clearly captured, “go… where are you?” and it in-fact sounds very much like Brian to me. It would certainly make perfect sense for him to be muttering, “Where did you go? Where are you?” under his breath at that point in time and perhaps he wasn’t muttering loug enough for anyone to hear until he got to the word, “go”. Also, as a side-point one would suspect a ghost living in an Abbey in northern Italy might not necessarily speak to intruders in english.

Now, even if that is the case I suppose it’s possible Brian himself didn’t realize he was talking under his breath but frankly his antics elsewhile during the investigation had me wishing some horrible fate befell him. He and Barry were running through a bunch of crypts which were, by all available evidence, empty but he just kept going on about his bad feelings and announced upon leaving that there was definitely something evil inside that did not like their presence. Seems like a rather cavalier attitude for an investigator supposedly approaching things from a skeptical, scientific standpoint.

A pillar that supposedly wept tears for the many tragedies that had occurred there (accused criminals were aparently strapped to it or stod in front of it while awaiting judgement) also came up completely dry (pun intended) and really there is only one piece of evidence the team turned up that wasn’t a complete joke. Their guide Paolo had told them he had stayed in a room there as a child and had heard voices during the night, so the team decided to place an audio recorder in that room. At evidence review the team got extremely excited about what they heard on the tape, and Pilgrom even edited it so the audience would have to wait until the end of the reveal to hear it.

It was one word. At least the word was in Italian. On the recording it does seem that someone clearly says, “Basta” which is Italian for “Enough” or “Stop”. I don’t believe the team really spent any time in that room or that any of them even spoke Italian (although at one point Barry attempted to communicate in some basic Latin) and “Basta” is a complex enough word (two syllables plus the “st” sound) that it would seem unlikely to have been caused by interference — still it’s exponentially less convincing than it would have been if accompied by even a single other word.

All in all, this investigation did little more than aggravate me, especially where Brian Harnois is concerned. I really wish the team would make a habit of reviewing the production crew’s footage when they have any evidence that was captured while a production crew member was nearby. It’s been done once, so it’s not impossible.

 Fog

Even if a winter fog is normal in these lands, here it is strange. All around this land there is a two foot tall level of fog while usually it’s as tall as a man or more. It’s like a floor and someone tried to justify this event with a geological explanation:  there are too many water layers here that are not so deep.

The evil presence

It’s a longer story…
It all began in the nearby Darola farm, one of the bigger of this land. 
This farm was built over the ruins of an older castle of which we can only see its clipped tower today. Not much farther from this farm, along the road to Lucedio, there is a graveyard now abandoned for many years. People say that here is where the Devil meets witches to dance and perform their rituals.  Some say you can hear singing and shouting in the middle of some scary nights.

Stumble it!