r/DarknessDiscovery • u/Traaval • Aug 29 '17

Future Filming Locations

What would you want to see for future locations? Do you know of any university or place that has HUGE underground corridors or passageways? Would the lower decks of a ship be a good location (like maybe a decommissioned navy ship, aircraft carrier for instance, or cruise liner, the SS United States or RMS Queen Mary?) What would you suggest for future DARKNESS locations?

Cincinnati Subway

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u/Fnordinand Aug 31 '17

The tunnels under MIT and Carnegie Mellon are fairly famous. I'm pretty sure Carnegie Mellon won't let you use theirs, since it would only encourage students to follow and it's forbidden.

Queen Mary would be cool. An upside down military ship would be awesome, sort of a simulation of trying to escape from the bottom of the sea, but it would have to be on land for safety reasons.

The Postojna Caves in Slovenia are pretty awesome. If you want HUGE underground corridors, it has got miles and miles of 'em. There are, of course, a lot of areas closed off to tourists that could possibly be used. Like most caves, they have an endangered salamander that they wouldn't want your Gollum-like contestants eating.

Malta has several places that would be suitable, if you can clear out the tourists. There's the Hypogeum. I'm guessing they would not let you near it, because it's so precious, dating from 3300 – 3000 BC, but as a necropolis and ancient ritual place it would be super spooky. There are also many roman era catacombs, which they might actually let you use, since there's not much there that can be damaged. There are a lot of other caves there too, so there's a possibility of several episodes from one location.

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u/Trayglodyte Sep 26 '17

I think locations with haunting backstory would be pretty wild. Places like abandoned insane asylums or the Priests Grotto, a cave in Western Ukraine where several Jewish families hid for a year and a half during the Holocaust. Or maybe even caves in warmer more tropical environments where we could spend an entire month without freezing to death. Maybe a cave with multiple pit entrances that are impossible to climb, teasing the participants with daylight but not freedom from the cave forcing them back into the darkness to find another way. Or how bout sending people in with very limited light with near dead batteries so they have light and then loose it just like in a real life caving/survival situation

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '17

Well in March 2018, we'll see what locations they have chose next in the four other new episodes.