Creepy places

Meaghan Edwards

Meaghan Edwards

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Are there any areas at your zoos that kinda (or majorly) give you the creeps? Just so that this is a little more challenging, reptile and insect collections excluded :D

The abandoned monorail tracks at the Toronto Zoo creeps me out as much as it brings back good memories. In 1994 it was closed after a serious accident (there was a more minor accident previously), although people were hurt, luckily there were no fatalities. According to this a deer was hit when it was going for a test run after the accident :( Deer get struck by vehicles all too often but if it's true, and adds to the creep factor :eek:

Some more pictures of the abandoned monorail trail/info on the accident that caused it to shut down:

[ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_Zoo_Domain_Ride]Toronto Zoo Domain Ride - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

40 Days on the Monorail - a set on Flickr

There's is a section at the Toronto Zoo that makes me feel a little creepy; it's the area where the "surplus" male Mandrills are, and I believe there's some abandoned exhibits there from when they redid the savannah. I've only been through this area on the Zoomobile but I always pick up a weird sort of vibe from it.

Unlike the incident involving the monorail, I don't believe anyone was hurt or killed in this area, but abandoned/empty exhibits/areas of the zoo tend to give me that creepy feeling so maybe that's just all part of it :P
 
Which exhibits were abandoned there? There is one in particular that gives me the creeps. Its completly grown over and I think it used as a compost site or dump site.
 
I think that used to be the Gemsbok or Gazelle exhibit; really creeps me out, too. I think Gemsbok, Gazelle, Sacred Baboon and some other species that my mind's blanked out at the moment. :P
 
It is a low fence though, I don't know if that would hold in a gazelle, gemsbok or baboon. I will take a picture the next time I go!
 
Well I figured that exhibit out, it was the old Grevys Zebra exhibit.
 
Marwell's takin house gives me the creeps, but that might just be because of the rat that ran right in front of me in there once. :P

For a similar thread, look up Haunted Zoos. :)
 
Not really a creepy zoo but around 7 years ago I went to Shaldon zoo and walked across the river from Teignmouth using the road bridge. I felt really nervous and uneasy, to the extent that I returned to Teignmouth on the foot ferry, and I hate boats.

Later I saw on the TV that the house at the top of the hill (facing the northern entrance to the bridge), had been thought to have been used for black magic rituals.
 
Maybe not a creepy zoo but still very creepy.

The Valley-Halla at the Toronto Zoo is fairly creepy too! Although it has potential and the zoo should open up more of its grounds to the public!

Valley-Halla - a set on Flickr
 
I was once taken behind the scenes in the Cincinnati polar bear exhibit. Perhaps I should not have asked (it was, maybe still is, a sensitive issue to recall by the staff) but I asked about the incident when a polar bear had torn the arm of its female keeper. It just so happened, the keeper told me, that we were standing exactly in front of the den where it had happened. As I had read a detailed account of the incident in one of my books some time before, I could not help but feel a bit dizzy and disgusted as I tried (or tried not) to visualise the incident, her loud screams and the massive animal not about to let go of what it had caught.
 
The sealion exhibit at Whipsnade Zoo (sorry, ZSL Whipsnade Zoo) is quite creepy. Formerly it was the dolphinarium. As a dolphinarium it never seemed to fit in with the ethos of Whipsnade. Today it forms an adequate enclosure for the Californian Sealions, but it was much too small for the dolphins it was originally designed for, and it's really difficult to imagine that dolphins were once displayed there (even though I have memories of seeing them there).
 
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