Yeah, I know, Halloween was a couple months ago. Call me Slowpoke.
I was questing in Ashenvale today and got to listen to the creepy forest ambiance after a while of not hearing it. It brought me back to my early days in vanilla, playing in Darkshore and hearing that pained wolf howl sound and REALLY not liking it. It really drove home that feeling that there was something very, very wrong in that forest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr7VTrBluq0 for reference.
What are the things that spook you out in WoW?
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The sounds in NAXX! Listen to it on thaddius room! Hear woman and children scream in pain:(
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I missed the old WPL / EPL boarder area before Cata update, where a little ghost girl would randomly spawn and follow you for a few seconds, if your character turned to look at her she vanish. And you could slightly hear her raspy giggle just before she appear if you turned music down and had the ambient sounds up and had speakers almost to full.
Gave a good ol F.E.A.R. vibe
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Aww man, I never experienced that. I’ll have to remember it if I ever get that far in Classic.
Black Rock Depths dungeon area back in vanilla used to creep me out with the sounds of prisoners wailing and the laughter of the guys torturing them.
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I don’t know if you ever noticed, but right when you walked in the doors…they had those prisoners inside the cave walls wailing away [one on each side of the entrance leading into the main area]. creepy
The hike up to Scarlet Monestary where you have dead bodies hanging from trees all up that hill.
What makes it creepy is that it is perpetually dark and quiet in Tirisfal Glades and not many players walk to those dungeons so it’s pleasantly eery.
I personally like creepy, eery things as opposed to overt horror and gore. Things that make you feel like you’re alone in your apartment / bedroom at night, in complete darkness, listening to a creepy pasta story or watching a creepy movie are what I prefer to outright blood and guts. 
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The Crypt in Deadwind Pass.
There is a large body of water you can swim under. There is hanged corpses under there with a ton of unsettling noises in the background.
There is not much there in Vanilla so i was always interested in that place.
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“Our poor little village is dead.
All the people have gone stiff or fled.
There is no more noise…
…except me and my toys…
…just like all the dark birdies said!”
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Speaking of Deadwind Pass.
Back when I first started in vanilla, my mother bought a Brady Games WoW Master Guide (second edition) for me which went up to patch 1.11 or 1.12 I think (Naxx was included). I read that book like crazy, before I even got to lvl 10, I basically knew everything about the guide (also got the TBC version later on). It had a lot of details about races, classes, abilities, talents, starter quests, dungeon details, profession details, BG details, general tips and tricks there and there, etc, many still applicable even today in Classic. Inside it, there was a section with detailled maps of every zone in the game, with names for every camp and every type of mob you could find in them.
Every zone, except Deadwind Pass. That zone was never mentionned in the guide.
I played a Horde character, and when I wanted to explore the Swamp of Sorrow for the first time and Stonard, I started in Stranglethorn and went through Duskwood. I never knew about Deadwind Pass, so I was surprised by a creepy, empty gray zone with zero music and hanged people on the sides. Then on the way, I saw a skull-level Sky Shadow, a weird looking bird that killed me pretty quickly. Since I was playing on french servers back then, they were called “Ombre céleste” which translates to “Celestial Shadow”, which made the bird creepier in my mind. Since the path through Deadwind Pass was so short and that I never knew about its existence, I was wondering what the hell I just went through. And later on, there was Karazhan and the upside-down sinners inside the crypt.
Thinking back, this kinda highlights to me how little spookiness there is nowadays in the game. Drustvar felt like it was intended to be creepy, but there’s just something about the atmosphere and tone that makes it feel like Halloween instead. Just going back to the Eastern Plaguelands in vanilla made the difference pretty clear.
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Fel Reaver wasn’t spooky. it was down right terrifying. So many scrambling to avoid after hearing the horn blast to run into mobs that eat you up, or to just be suddenly stepped on and never know until it walked past your corpse.
Rogues to this day wish they had Fel Reaver’s level of stealth when he was still relevant.
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The tauren rogues were trained by fel reavers confirmed?!
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Camp fire stories is what they were called. If you like that, you may be interested in the Missing 411 books and they’re on YT also.
Plus, those are true stories.
Well gnoll tents are made out of human skin stitched together. If you zoom in on them, you can see faces stretched out like canvas (texas chainsaw massacre style)