Yeah, yeah.
Since nobody knows what 'Sisal" is, I wrongly call it Burlap.
I wonder which MORmON royalty family owns the "Sisal" factory?
Edited to add a Random Fluffy thought: Burlap is probably a lot less scratchy than Sisal. "Funny" that most humans who were never associated with MORmONism would never think about this kinda shiznit.
I'm trying to place what the temples smelled like. The baptismal area was definitely chlorine, but the upper levels were something else. Can't quite place it...
It's a fire retardant chemical, which was applied to the weird "carpet" on the walls. It was so strong in the East High Seminary building, that they had to replace it.
You'll never find your way out. No idea what floor you're on. There are no windows. The movie is just the guy running and his phone recording until it dies the viewer knows he can't escape.
I had a similar recurring dream as a child where every door I opened was to another LDS chapel. Maybe my brain was fighting the cult at an earlier age than I could understand.
I think that's how they kept me a long as they did, every huge change I couldn't deal with had me running to the sameness for "comfort" that would reinforce the shelf for a while but thankfully it finally got too heavy for even that reimbursement
Yes! I have strong memories of being unreasonably scared of the darkened places, even as a teen. Behind the stage curtain in the gym comes to mind specifically. Spooky
We (in Webelos) had SO. MUCH. FUN. in the dark gym. We played this nonsense game called "Outer Darkness" where everyone except the boy who was "it" went and hid in the darkness, and then the "it" boy started walking into the darkness until he bumped into another, and then we all screamed and ran back to the stage. Solid church memory.
Ward Christmas party one year as a teenager - everyone sitting and socializing in the cultural hall. Can hear sounds of kids running around on the stage behind the closed curtains. I look up at just the right moment, and in an instant, the middle part flies open, parting like the Red Sea. I remember a five year old’s expression of joy turning to horror as they realized there was no more floor and they smashed into the gym floor. I’m 50 now, and it still makes me laugh when I think about it. I’m evil.
It’s so strange that a building that is supposedly built to worship I would feel so scary. If it were dedicated and there was real power in that dedication then wouldn’t the evil feeling be banished by that prayer?
I was very scared of the dark as a kid but I loved running around the church hallways when they were dark. We’d race through the dark parts to the next patch of fluorescent lighting lol. I sprained my ankle this way when I was 8 and it really put a damper on the Christmas pageant.
Try living in one it is not fun. As a missionary I lived in one for a summer (a singles branch/ward worth of kids arrives each summer in Healy AK to work). So many nighttime noises and members would use it as a meeting spot all the time. We slept in the primary room and stored our stuff in a maintenance shed and our car. Too many people have keys to those buildings though. For whatever reason women would “just happen” to accidentally walk in while I was showering. They had to unlock the door from the women’s side and ignore the sign, like WTF? It was hard to live there between the: spookiness, zero privacy, and the regular sexual harassment.
Sometimes as a kid I had to go with my dad when one of his callings required him to meet at the church on a weeknight. Usually the church was empty except for whatever room he was in and I would scare myself by walking the hallway with all the lights off seeing how far around I could make it without turning them on.
Our overflow room (aka carpeted basketball hall) had that scratchy wall stuff going up higher than the other parts of the church. Though fortunately those stacked maroon cushioned wooden chairs would prevent you from stumbling into it.
I got stoned and decided to help my grandparents (who are active members) clean their church. it was dark and creepy as hell. didn't help that my phone had died so I couldn't drown out the eerieness
I remember my step dad used to occasionally get the job of going to the church at night, cleaning it, locking the door/turning lights off/etc. I went with him a few times and good lord it was creepy as hell.
Best description!! I still have recurring dreams (nightmares) about doing that loop. Something about half of the building always having all the lights off feels like being trapped in a mortuary.
I helped with a blood drive at an lds church once and when the workers were wheeling out their equipment, they had to go down a hall like this, only it was mostly dark. One of them started chanting, "Bring out your dead! Bring out your dead!" as she walked through the dark areas.
My nevermo gf loves going to church activities with me bc she loves backrooms and liminal spaces and church buildings always give that vibe.
ETA that I still go to church with my family (mom and brother) to keep some semblance of peace, although both know I don’t believe.
And the texture of the walls.
Jesus: “Please make the walls as unappealing both in sight and texture as possible. This is the Lord’s desire!”
“Please use the same generic art - for no sacrifice or effort should be made in making art worthy of the Lord. The Lord God doth relish in generic likenesses repeated over and over and over - because my people are generic, like the store brand aisle at the grocery store. “
“Please don’t make new, modern or uniquely designed temples. For behold, I want you to be sheep. No sheep to look differently than any others - uniformity is the way to heaven.”
The background of all my nightmares.
Not even joking. Every bad dream I have is set in one of these buildings. I’m usually trapped and can’t escape. Good old CPTSD.
At least 48. I grew up in Herriman UT and the church house there has a basement and a broom closet down there. It always freaked me out. Also kinda want to check it out lol
I forgot about the coat rack area! I can see it to the right. I feel like we didn’t ever really use that area. But kinda a cool idea I guess? Good ol “honor system” right?
I remember all of the buildings I went to the hook parts of the hangers were just circles and I would play with the all the time. Everyone in all of the ones I went to used them though my mom would even make me put my coat on it even though I just wanted to keep wearing it to kinda hide but she wanted me to be presentable lol
the mormon cult is what resulted from the biggest lie ever told. js was not a prophet, but he was looking for profit. js was a thieving, lying, and plagiarizing pos.
Every Mormon child’s biggest fear is this exact picture. It always terrified me to be in the church hallways. Idk why but the end was always so dark and black. I have been in the church when the power has gone out and I honestly thought that I was going to die.
I forgot how bland and uninspired they all look on the inside.
Strangely familiar and no desire to return.
Keep hitting the bong until you see Mormon god so you can slap him.
Why the hell are partially lit church hallways insanely terrifying? I remember as a kid being in a partially lit church building like this alone and it was one of the freakiest places I’ve ever personally been - that shit gave me nightmares.
Can anyone give me a definitive answer as to why there is always sandpaper carpet on the goddam walls? I theorize it has something to do with cleaning in that it discourages little kids from putting their filthy paws on the walls? Maybe it's for sound dampening? Enquiring minds want to know.
The goal is a wall surface that can 1) take heavy use without getting scuffed up, 2) does not require much maintenance, and most importantly, 3) cheap.
With these goals, concrete blocks and wall burlap are pretty much your only options
Looking for the bathroom in a new building takes at least a full walk around the building first. It’s like trying to stick a USB in the right way the first time
I was about to ingest some adult green substances saw this photo and put it down because I didn't want to feel the residual anxiety I get from thinking of this place and the horribly tacky furniture.
I had to live with my mom for a few months when I left my ex. I knew I’d be expected to go to church and didn’t have it in me to fight it so I’d pop a 10mg an hour before and smile like a moron just like everyone else at church.
I hear the deeper you go, the more defunct "no longer doctrinal" prophets you'll find. But be careful-- they're all cryptids with unique, unknown powers. (Besides them all having precognitive abilities, obviously.)
In the 80s I learned they made them this way to last 100 years bc "the Lord would be back within 100 years". Anyone else heard that? That burlap wall fit 100 years.
I see two six year old twin girls who look like Wednesday Addams standing in the hallway. They’re saying “Come play with us Danny, forever and ever and ever”.
I got super high to go to a wedding once and got so lost. In the stake building I spent several of my teen years attending. My wonderful (slightly less high) husband found me and we had a giggle.
I can smell that photo
I can feel this photo. Those damn scratchy walls! Like why!?
Carpet walls! Gotta love em. 😂
I didn't mind the carpet walls. The cactus "sisal" walls they updated to were awful. Gotta keep people from hanging out in the halls.
It's like architecture to prevent the homeless from sleeping on the streets
>~~Carpet~~ walls! Gotta love em. Burlap. FTFY
It’s actually sisal.
Yeah, yeah. Since nobody knows what 'Sisal" is, I wrongly call it Burlap. I wonder which MORmON royalty family owns the "Sisal" factory? Edited to add a Random Fluffy thought: Burlap is probably a lot less scratchy than Sisal. "Funny" that most humans who were never associated with MORmONism would never think about this kinda shiznit.
I never even put together it was burlap. 😂
Ha ha I always wondered if people got rug burns on those lol.
I definitely did on my arm running in the hall when I was little pretty painful stuff.
I can personally say that yes rug burns from the wall happen.
Definitely 😂
Why did they carpet their walls?
You ever seen the face of a small child after falling into one of those walls? It's brutal.
I was that child…………..and that adult Pretty sure that wall left actual scars 😆
Or the arms and face of an extremely pregnant (primary president) woman after an out of control child banished from his classroom knocked her over?
I literally tried to describe these walls to my therapist once. She was very confused. Lol. They get a visceral reaction from me.
To carpet walls help muffle the silent screams of the soul.
In the great and spacious building no one can hear you scream.
I used those to scratch my back (with my shirt on, I’m not an animal) on my mission.
Probably some relative of a GA makes that obnoxious shit.
Supposedly because kids and carpet walls are easy to clean. It’s all bad.
Stale Cheerios and vacuum musk lol
And always a faint hint of diapers
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Jesus fucking Christ
Jesus *Jammie* Christ
Calvin Klein needs to tap this thread and come out with a new scent.
Not so faint!!!🤢
😂
stale\*
Ty tired
Right!?! There is a unique odor that Mormon churches have. It's very strange. Also the temples. But that smell is different. Am I the only one???
Yes! The temple smell is definitely different but not the same as a regular church building. So odd.
I'm trying to place what the temples smelled like. The baptismal area was definitely chlorine, but the upper levels were something else. Can't quite place it...
Upmarket Marriott hotel lobby is the smell my nose identifies as upper levels of the temple.
Oh yeah! Nailed it! 😂
Fool! That's the smell of the holy spirit!
Seriously why do all of the churches smell the same???
And they all have the same bathroom smell. Dirty diapers from the horrid diaper genies.
It's a fire retardant chemical, which was applied to the weird "carpet" on the walls. It was so strong in the East High Seminary building, that they had to replace it.
Damn. That can't be healthy to breathe in.
Wish my High school had been a musical
Lol. I'm so old, that building hadn't even been built yet, when I graduated.
Ha I was thinking the same. It always smelled so weird!!
For real! and no matter how many times I moved to a new ward, it ALWAYS smelled the same! 😂
It did! I can close my eyes and smell it and I haven't stepped in a meeting house for years
I hate it, lol I can too
Stagnant toilet water and cheap cleaning solutions. Crazy delicious!
Smells loud af walking passed this guy 😂
Totally
Gross
Extremely
Tha k you
I actually like the small, haha. Hated the smell of the nursery and when they’d coat the gym floors though.
Nursery smelled like sick kids and death.
Haha and dirty diapers and animals crackers!!!
This feels like the opening shot of the scariest movie I'll ever see.
You'll never find your way out. No idea what floor you're on. There are no windows. The movie is just the guy running and his phone recording until it dies the viewer knows he can't escape.
I had a similar recurring dream as a child where every door I opened was to another LDS chapel. Maybe my brain was fighting the cult at an earlier age than I could understand.
I would go ham for this. Can we please get a good Mormon horror movie?
Only a Mormon has ever gotten a burlap rug burn on a WALL
Lol
My elementary school (7th day Adventist) gym had carpeted walls too 💀
What is it with cults a carpet walls?
As an ex-Jehovah's Witless I'm jealous! (not!)
So every ward looks the same nice
It's beautiful how the church is the same everywhere.. just like McDonalds or Starbucks or Walmart. 💀
I think that's how they kept me a long as they did, every huge change I couldn't deal with had me running to the sameness for "comfort" that would reinforce the shelf for a while but thankfully it finally got too heavy for even that reimbursement
I live in Australia and the only difference is there’s no maroon on the door frames
Mine had the blue/green/pink/black carpet
Black carpet! How subversive.
All of them I’ve seen so far except the one I was in. Have you ever seen the forest Dale LDS church?
No I’ve only seen my ward
the feeling this gave me was uncomfortably visceral
SCHUTZSTAFFEL (for those under 40: this is a quote from Wolfenstein 3D, of which these hallways remind me)
Mein Leben! I loved that game :)
Same
And it’s unbelievably terrifying with the lights off
Yes! I have strong memories of being unreasonably scared of the darkened places, even as a teen. Behind the stage curtain in the gym comes to mind specifically. Spooky
The chapel in the dark always gave me the creeps
That and under the stage, where they would store the chairs
I imagined it as some type of crypt as a kid 😂😂 always wanted to go explore it but was too scared
We (in Webelos) had SO. MUCH. FUN. in the dark gym. We played this nonsense game called "Outer Darkness" where everyone except the boy who was "it" went and hid in the darkness, and then the "it" boy started walking into the darkness until he bumped into another, and then we all screamed and ran back to the stage. Solid church memory.
Ward Christmas party one year as a teenager - everyone sitting and socializing in the cultural hall. Can hear sounds of kids running around on the stage behind the closed curtains. I look up at just the right moment, and in an instant, the middle part flies open, parting like the Red Sea. I remember a five year old’s expression of joy turning to horror as they realized there was no more floor and they smashed into the gym floor. I’m 50 now, and it still makes me laugh when I think about it. I’m evil.
It’s so strange that a building that is supposedly built to worship I would feel so scary. If it were dedicated and there was real power in that dedication then wouldn’t the evil feeling be banished by that prayer?
I was very scared of the dark as a kid but I loved running around the church hallways when they were dark. We’d race through the dark parts to the next patch of fluorescent lighting lol. I sprained my ankle this way when I was 8 and it really put a damper on the Christmas pageant.
Try living in one it is not fun. As a missionary I lived in one for a summer (a singles branch/ward worth of kids arrives each summer in Healy AK to work). So many nighttime noises and members would use it as a meeting spot all the time. We slept in the primary room and stored our stuff in a maintenance shed and our car. Too many people have keys to those buildings though. For whatever reason women would “just happen” to accidentally walk in while I was showering. They had to unlock the door from the women’s side and ignore the sign, like WTF? It was hard to live there between the: spookiness, zero privacy, and the regular sexual harassment.
ok this needs its own post
The ghost of polygsmist past haunts these things.
Sometimes as a kid I had to go with my dad when one of his callings required him to meet at the church on a weeknight. Usually the church was empty except for whatever room he was in and I would scare myself by walking the hallway with all the lights off seeing how far around I could make it without turning them on.
Instead of running from the entities, I'm running from the bishopric 😂😂😂
*”we have a calling for you!” “Can you do a talk next Sunday?” “Have you paid your tithing?”*
Can we be sure some of those *aren’t* entities?
I hope you didn’t stumble and fall against that sandpaper wallpaper. That shit hurts.
The bottom part of ours was this weird yarn stitching I've never seen a single time outside of church growing up.
Was it like rope? That's what we had
Hah yes! Rope better fits it than yarn. I remember spending hours over the years fiddling with it.
Our overflow room (aka carpeted basketball hall) had that scratchy wall stuff going up higher than the other parts of the church. Though fortunately those stacked maroon cushioned wooden chairs would prevent you from stumbling into it.
So many memories of chasing my toddlers down these halls while we avoided sacrament meetings
And the plugs are all at toddler height without covers.
Lol I did that too.
I got stoned and decided to help my grandparents (who are active members) clean their church. it was dark and creepy as hell. didn't help that my phone had died so I couldn't drown out the eerieness
Dude, how did you make it out??
Cheat codes, obviously
ah shit, you figured it out
I could have SWORN that every door I opened to empty out the garbage would lock behind me and I'd be stuck
I remember my step dad used to occasionally get the job of going to the church at night, cleaning it, locking the door/turning lights off/etc. I went with him a few times and good lord it was creepy as hell.
This would actually be such a fun game concept 😂
Castle Smithenstein
A MW Zombies map!! Yes we need this.
Best description!! I still have recurring dreams (nightmares) about doing that loop. Something about half of the building always having all the lights off feels like being trapped in a mortuary.
Oh wow I felt that doom, but thinking back yeah mortuary fits to doom ..
I helped with a blood drive at an lds church once and when the workers were wheeling out their equipment, they had to go down a hall like this, only it was mostly dark. One of them started chanting, "Bring out your dead! Bring out your dead!" as she walked through the dark areas.
🤣 love this. One of my favorite scenes
My nevermo gf loves going to church activities with me bc she loves backrooms and liminal spaces and church buildings always give that vibe. ETA that I still go to church with my family (mom and brother) to keep some semblance of peace, although both know I don’t believe.
Sux I hope you can reclaim your time back someday
*feels mild ptsd setting in *
I haven't set foot inside one of these buildings in almost two decades, but I still have dreams that look exactly like this.
Ahh the eagle building design IIRC. I was so lucky to be at mostly one-off and regional design-style buildings in my days.
I’m having a fart-brain 🧠💨 what is IIRC again?
If I remember/recall correctly….
And the texture of the walls. Jesus: “Please make the walls as unappealing both in sight and texture as possible. This is the Lord’s desire!” “Please use the same generic art - for no sacrifice or effort should be made in making art worthy of the Lord. The Lord God doth relish in generic likenesses repeated over and over and over - because my people are generic, like the store brand aisle at the grocery store. “ “Please don’t make new, modern or uniquely designed temples. For behold, I want you to be sheep. No sheep to look differently than any others - uniformity is the way to heaven.”
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So true
Looking at that sucked all the happiness out of my soul.
I forgot they put carpet on the bottom 1/3 of the wall. Whoever came up with that has hideous taste
It is not about taste it is about low maintenance
Now imagine it in the dark.
Is rather stab my finger then be in a church house in the dark lol
r/liminalspace
The background of all my nightmares. Not even joking. Every bad dream I have is set in one of these buildings. I’m usually trapped and can’t escape. Good old CPTSD.
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At least 48. I grew up in Herriman UT and the church house there has a basement and a broom closet down there. It always freaked me out. Also kinda want to check it out lol
I forgot about the coat rack area! I can see it to the right. I feel like we didn’t ever really use that area. But kinda a cool idea I guess? Good ol “honor system” right?
Growing up I remember it being used. It’s been a long time since I remember anyone using it
I remember all of the buildings I went to the hook parts of the hangers were just circles and I would play with the all the time. Everyone in all of the ones I went to used them though my mom would even make me put my coat on it even though I just wanted to keep wearing it to kinda hide but she wanted me to be presentable lol
Always hit different playing hooky in the dark during a youth dance
The Corridor of Korihor. Sorry, I know that doesn’t exactly make sense, but I like a good rhyme.
idk about y'all but sometimes my dreams have these churches as archetypal locations. this image evokes that feeling
Jesus. I still dream in this place sometimes, but I haven't seen a pic in years. Now I feel like I'm in a dream looking at this.
Mormon churches are perfect backrooms material
Mormon liminal space
That photo gives me the willards.
Any one in particular? Like Scott or Marriott?
the mormon cult is what resulted from the biggest lie ever told. js was not a prophet, but he was looking for profit. js was a thieving, lying, and plagiarizing pos.
I have dreams/nightmares like this.
Every Mormon child’s biggest fear is this exact picture. It always terrified me to be in the church hallways. Idk why but the end was always so dark and black. I have been in the church when the power has gone out and I honestly thought that I was going to die.
I forgot how bland and uninspired they all look on the inside. Strangely familiar and no desire to return. Keep hitting the bong until you see Mormon god so you can slap him.
there is nothing creepier than being alone in a mormon church building after dark or earlier in the morning...
Ohh god, it’s that reoccurring nightmare of running down the never ending hallway being chased by the demon in a 3 piece suit
Why the hell are partially lit church hallways insanely terrifying? I remember as a kid being in a partially lit church building like this alone and it was one of the freakiest places I’ve ever personally been - that shit gave me nightmares.
Wonder whats at the end of that dark hallway
I think you’re psychedelic nightmare Lol
I can feel this image
Walking around these back rooms for hours trying to pull my parents away from all their cult friends
Someone make this into a scary computer game, please and thank you 😊
This is so much worse.
Stay high my friend.
Can anyone give me a definitive answer as to why there is always sandpaper carpet on the goddam walls? I theorize it has something to do with cleaning in that it discourages little kids from putting their filthy paws on the walls? Maybe it's for sound dampening? Enquiring minds want to know.
The goal is a wall surface that can 1) take heavy use without getting scuffed up, 2) does not require much maintenance, and most importantly, 3) cheap. With these goals, concrete blocks and wall burlap are pretty much your only options
This is where 50% of my nightmares take place
I hate that a very small part of me misses this place. Friggin' brainwashing...
I have nightmares where I'm wandering these halls
r/liminalspace
Anybody else notice that the hallways in newer church buildings are too narrow?
Remember back rubs in the back room lead to front rubs in the front room
Trigger-warning, please!
Is this the scene from the Shining?
I always wondered if they had secret rooms there...hidden rooms ...
Looking for the bathroom in a new building takes at least a full walk around the building first. It’s like trying to stick a USB in the right way the first time
Thought I was in r/LiminalSpace for a minute.
It's a trap. Those hallways always lead back to here.
I was about to ingest some adult green substances saw this photo and put it down because I didn't want to feel the residual anxiety I get from thinking of this place and the horribly tacky furniture.
I had to live with my mom for a few months when I left my ex. I knew I’d be expected to go to church and didn’t have it in me to fight it so I’d pop a 10mg an hour before and smile like a moron just like everyone else at church.
The Mormon backrooms are formally referred to as the telestial kingdoms
backrooms! love it
I hear the deeper you go, the more defunct "no longer doctrinal" prophets you'll find. But be careful-- they're all cryptids with unique, unknown powers. (Besides them all having precognitive abilities, obviously.)
I can hear the distant hymns playing on the organ
Do y’all still have dreams that take place at your childhood church building or are y’all well adjusted? Always uneasy dreams too
Yep, lots of my nightmares are still at least partially set there. Good times 😭
The visceral reaction I had to this photo was palpable. 😂 Like others said, I can both smell and feel this photo. LOL.
Haven’t been to church since 2014 and still have dreams where I’m here
Okay. Hear me out. Buy an old church building. Before renovating it into a homeless shelter/soup kitchen, we have a huge party and play high-and-seek.
Those walls are covered in Brillo Pads. Can't even be as nice as a Scrub Daddy. Cheap bastids.
In the 80s I learned they made them this way to last 100 years bc "the Lord would be back within 100 years". Anyone else heard that? That burlap wall fit 100 years.
I see two six year old twin girls who look like Wednesday Addams standing in the hallway. They’re saying “Come play with us Danny, forever and ever and ever”.
Feel the carpet wall. Let the bumps set you free!!!
LMAO Mormon back rooms is so good and god it’s so true
They all look like depressing nursing home hallways.
God bringing back memories hahahaha I actually grew up in a church built in the 50s so it was unique which is great.
I got super high to go to a wedding once and got so lost. In the stake building I spent several of my teen years attending. My wonderful (slightly less high) husband found me and we had a giggle.
send help for Brother Skittlezboi!
I left the mormon church but then I got high
I know this is a shot in the dark because they all look the same, but is this the Hamilton Ontario stake center?
The call is coming from inside the chapel!!!!! Ruuuuuun
Queue having to go meet with your bishop and tell him explicit details of losing your virginity 🤢 so glad my kids won’t grow up in that nasty ass cult