Have you ever known a place to be "truly evil?"?

A place can’t be evil in the sense that the place holds and maintains mal-intent. A place does not have a conscious, nor can achieve anything without operation of something powering it. A place may have been built with evil intentions (torture chamber) or serve evil purposes, and in this sense, yes a place can be “evil.”

Is that really insightful? Not really. But that’s all there is to it. Without accepting the supernatural, this is the best answer I can provide.

Yeah, the last place I worked.

I can’t explain it,but I have felt that kind of feeling before about certain places.

Oh, the reason I believe this is because seven people died of cancer and some supervisors that broke the law, got promotions and raises, while other good people lost their jobs.

Can’t say that I know or heard of such a place.

Only one that can fit this description is Bermuda Triangle. [ maybe it’s okay by you too ]

Well, some places are haunted. In a spiritual sense, that may answer your question.

@Hibernate, that’s a highly questionable claim. I have never heard of any place having been proven to be haunted. It would be humongous news if it were.

People can be evil, as they are sentient beings capable of consciously carrying out evil acts. Places and objects have no volition of their own and are therefore incapable of being evil. As @ninwa said, evil acts can be committed in places, but there is no quantifiable evil “energy” that is left behind as a result of this act. You can feel “bad” in a place, but that is likely a psychological affect of being aware of what happened there, not a direct reaction to the state of the locale itself.

The whole idea of “evil” is kind of nebulous and subjective in the first place anyway.

I give this thread three hours tops before Godwin’s Law takes effect in some form.

@ninwa Not haunted just evil.

When I visited Auschwitz I felt evil all around me. It’s one of the most sad places ever.

Elementary School. I do not want to talk about it.

I believe nobody can be affected by evil, as long as you have God! Yes people are evil, and there is evil in this world all over. Demons and evil spirits. The only reason why a place would be evil is if something really bad happened there, and there were bad people that lived there that did bad things. Like being a sexual predator, and liking kids, that is evil! So people have evil and they bring that evil in a house, and that place is evil. I believe it! Cause I have been there. I am not going into detail, but people that have done bad to others possess a evilness about them.

Evil is an attribute that people can have but not places. Likewise, there are other attributes that places can have that people cannot: e.g. rich in fossil fuels.

In my opinion (I’m not a psychology buff), evil with regards to places and other non-sentient beings comes more from the ideas and thoughts you attach to it. And also a strong tendancy for humans to remember about the negative events of life.
For example I agree with @KatetheGreat when she mentioned Auschwitz, I myself, have visited Dachau concentration camp in Munich and throughout the entire visit I could not shake the feeling of wanting to turn and bolt right out of the entrance. Never have I had an urge so strong. Needless to say but I think we can all understand why such a place may have such a strong response, the thoughts and knowledge of such horrificly significant historic events were going through my mind and I was therefore unable to maintain any form of objectivity. The place felt like evil and suffering. This is an extreme example but the same idea can be applied to high school if that was bad for you, the work place or anywhere you can make strong negative associations.

@saraaaaaa I used to live in Germany, I used to live very close to Bergen-Belsen and have been to many places such as Auschwitz and Dachau

I currently live in the area The Yorkshire Ripper killed was active.

Do I live in evil places or do I live where evil men do evil deeds?

Places don’t behave in any way, people do.

@RareDenver I whole heartedly agree, the association is what causes the belief of evil, and the same can be said for Paris being a ‘romantic’ city or the area of my city to be considered a ‘rough’ area.

@saraaaaaa I suppose it depends on what your belief of ‘evil’ is at the end of the day. We all believe that the holocaust was evil I assume.

@saraaaaaa I would hope we all agree The Yorkshire Ripper is evil

It get’s more difficult when we look at individuals far from our personal experiences

@RareDenver agreed on the examples you mentioned without the shadow of a doubt. My personal belief of evil is action with purposeful malicious intent.

@saraaaaaa I guess we’ll have to wait on what the news brings us

Have you ever BEEN to Fresno?

I’m sure I had some sort of point to make up there but I can’t remember writing any of that (damn you sweet alcohol the imbiber of wisdom and thief of memories)