Skyrim: 5 More Interesting and Spooky Dungeons You May Have Missed in The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim

Skyrim is a game of many locations. Bustling towns, quiet forests, The Elder Scrolls 5 has it all. And some of Skyrim's most iconic locations are its dungeons. Large structures, loaded with enemies, bosses, puzzles and other challenges, dungeons have long been a staple of medieval-fantasty RPGs and players are very familiar with them. Despite so many existing, some of Skyrim's dungeons are especially unique and offer a particularly exciting expirence. So today we'll be taking a look at five more of the spookiest and most interesting dungeons in The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim.

[@MrMitchbow]

It’s sad when the average person in Skyrim needs several friends and a few weeks to explore a dungeon and they often don’t even survive. Meanwhile the Dragonborn clears eight dungeons in a matter of hours with a magic fork

[@shadowstrider5033]

I mean, it's one hell of a magic fork.

[@BL4NK.F4C3]

What do you mean 8 dungeons in hours? What kind of milk drinking Imperial only clears 8 in an hour? As a proud Nord warrior I clear at least 20 in and hour.

[@kayve_2474]

You guys are clearing dungeons?

[@LeRoyBoxley434]

@@kayve_2474 LMAO

[@omegaharbmaster]

I needed this laugh lol

[@dejavu8982]

"One of the guards said he saw a mage appear out of thin air, claimed one of those Psijic monks. Man's been hitting the skooma I say."

[@drumsofthebongo1234]

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[@Ore_Keeper]

I actualy heard that the yesterday in falkreath

[@turtlegamingiliketurtle503]

I was a adventurer like you then i took an arrow to the knee she said yes best moment ever

[@trappestarrgaming3422]

As I walk by in my psijic robes

[@zjjohnson3827]

Wait hold up. This technically could imply the Psijic Monks can fast travel like us

[@Kat-eo8by]

The last time I was this early, Arvel was still swift

[@beckyfinch4011]

ha!

[@callmemaggie8024]

I think this is the best one I've seen lol

[@HandmadeGoose97]

Last time I was this early there was still a Cloud District in the game

[@JA-sn1or]

@@HandmadeGoose97 I don't get it

[@MadMan-7978]

Wow thats actually one of the funniest comments I have ever seen

[@jennrex7447]

I have a tiny detail! At Whiterun outside the potions shop there are flowers, nightshade, dragon tongue and tundra cotton. If you collect those and go inside and craft a potion with them they make fortify barter!

[@emeraldkoala2]

Oooh! That's a nice touch!

[@Redeemed.of.YHVH.thru.Christ]

Thank you! I didn’t know that! 😊

[@allbankbasalisk___2005]

Lies. I'm standing right out side and there's nothing there

[@jennrex7447]

@@allbankbasalisk___2005 then you already picked them. They don’t grow back.

[@allbankbasalisk___2005]

@@jennrex7447 are you sure it's whiterun? I looked around it and didn't even see the empty stems from where a flower was picked

[@theimmortalavenger9487]

None of these dungeons actually ever scared me until Nate narrated their stories.

[@CreoTan]

Yeah same that’s what I get for not reading any of the journals I pick up lmao

[@mattyp2032]

For a some interesting facts video: (Idk if you already covered this but it helped me a lot.) If you're swimming with a horse and you get off and get back on again in water, you can run on water with that horse and move a lot faster.

[@aaron.blakeney]

Who asked

[@mattyp2032]

HeyitsKarma I just support the channel a lot and think if he doesn't know it would be a good mention for a video. all love man 💙

[@sytagade4793]

HeyitsKarma it doesn't matter who asked

[@belland_dog8235]

@@mattyp2032 He's a baiter don't acknowledge him please

[@eddieortiz2243]

Guess. Im an og. I knew that years ago

[@rainsong7773]

During my very first play through I fell into the sightless pit on accident and had to fight my way out as a level 7 🙃 It was so traumatizing that I refuse to go back into the sightless pit to this day 😂

[@karmel5603]

Haha yeah I lost a horse down there. Man I haven't been back yet

[@1993rnicholson]

I had to rewatch this cause it never occurred to me that oh hey i should fall into that there pit you know its just an aesthetic to show how that falmer hut got there and is a strange location... 10 years later nate says yeah this is a cool location wait its a dungeon??? Damnit!

[@connormacgregor9460]

I am at level 56 and I still absolutely REFUSE to go in a dwarven ruin more than once

[@cellcube618]

I’m too much of a bitch to go in in the first place 😂

[@zoealexa1887]

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[@Sean_Last1995]

The last time I was this late the Civil War was already over. But anyway yeah hearing scratching sounds, people disapearing one by one and hearing screaming in the walls is pretty terrifying.

[@kanarokan6060]

Every dwarven ruin/dungeon filled with falmer is horror to me

[@tempestates13]

I laugh for every Falmer I've snipped in the butt/face/neck. Worse is when my boys & nephew go "shoot him in the butt!"

[@safwanshuhaib9968]

@Brandon Quist then the blacksmith realizes he's been blessed with the presence of the Dhovakiin

[@kalikar2able]

The last time I was this early, Draugrs weren't a thing. They were still called cultists.

[@spiderz5145]

Keosha Cathey XD.

[@RestlessRebel]

Or Zombies

[@metetural9140]

Don't you mean Nords?

[@ALEXANDERATTACK]

@@metetural9140 yeah ...the drugar where just called Nords, he messed up. You could say the Dragon Priests were cultist, kinda...

[@kalikar2able]

@@metetural9140 Nah. Cause in a loading screen it says the Draugrs were apart of the Dragon Cult. Except for a few which could be nords. I guess

[@selectivepontification8766]

Speaking of interesting dungeons with friendly creatures that are usually hostile, I'd like to mention Snapleg Cave. You get to rescue a Spriggan, and she'll also be friendly for the playthrough.

[@nazeem8086]

100s of locations yet you've never been to the cloud district. Do you get to the cloud district very often? Oh, what am I saying.. Of course you don’t.

[@goldenknight578]

I guess this means that Nate's next video will be a tour of the Cloud District just so that he can say he's been there.

[@ZeroSeriesMMX]

Hey, Odahviing even does tours to above the Cloud District for people. Do you get to the area beyond the Cloud District very often? Oh, what am I saying, of course you don't.

[@UserRedZero]

_Quicksaving..._

[@tbee922]

Last time I was this early... you were still walking the streets of Whiterun and I hadn't quicksaved yet

[@SomeGuy-cf2lp]

I'll have you know that theres no pussieeeeeeeeeee

[@quantemwensday]

there's that cave near whiterun that has falmer in it and turns into a very small dwemer ruin the deeper you go it's where you can find a falmer working on a dwemer centurion that is not hostel to the falmer

[@crown_clown]

That dungeon was a fucking annoyance to me. They tell you this quest on a very early level and when you want to do it the falmers will simply massacre you. Fuck that centurion too.

[@thetigersgoat]

The Potema quests were definitely my favorite side quests as well.

[@mistertaz94]

Last time I was this early the traitor Lorkhan was having his heart ripped out of his body.

[@RobinMiklica]

The last time I was this early the Reach was still held by Forsworns.

[@heresthadude1080]

Nate, in your next 10 Tiny Details vid, please call Skyrim a brobdingnagian game

[@DefaOmega]

A what now?

[@marleyfa845]

For me the spookiest dungeon definetely was Dead Men's Respite. There's no particularly creepy story behind it but this one big hall full of dead men (draugr later on) just sitting on their chairs and I would have to walk through... It just scared the hell out of me

[@AmyHoldaway27]

Oh definitely. My companion said when we went in to that throne room “I don’t like where this is going” and I was like “same man, same” because I crouched and was shooting arrows but they didn’t take damage or even were appearing as hostile but I knew they would 😬🫣

[@HopeAngel777]

I always love these vids! Keep em coming man!

[@MikeHawk04]

Another cool and little known fact is if you are playing Skyrim at around 4am in your region and decide to turn the game off, you can see your reflection in the tv and realize why your father is disappointed in you.

[@datmanydocris]

I remember my first time playing Skyrim back in 2011. I was doing the college of winterhold as my first questline and was around level 10. I was heading to Saarthal and on my way their I noticed this hole in the ground and saw that it was a cave entrance. Loving dungeon crawling I said "sure, I can put Saarthal on hold" and jumped in. It was only then that I realized I couldn't get back out, so I started pushing through to find a way out. It was then that I realized that this dungeon was absolutely swarming with Falmer that were all 2 or 3 times my current level. I can say without a doubt that my first time doing sightless pit is probably the toughest challenge I've ever done in an Elder Scrolls game... or any game for that matter.

[@leonidasangelus8079]

Another possibility me and my skyrim buddies have discussed with about the temple of Crib was that it was some sort of worshiping temple for a dwemer king, as some cultures had temples to kings (I believe south american culture were most prominent for this) meant strictly for people to place their offerings and gifts to appease a kings wishes or requests and was used as a sort of treasure vault of sorts. It seems highly plausible for the fact that, like you said, the dwemer worshiped no god. However, my buddy zeke piped up that maybe it was a temple to a forgotten snow elf god that the dwemer built for the snow eleves as part of the "refuge" deal they had with the dwemer. Both are just theories I thought youd might like to hear, but idk really.

[@doyoumakeittotheclouddistr4132]

Thats what ive been trying to figure out... there is a creation club add on that adds the sunder and wraithguard quest to it.... but i dont think thats canon since the dwemer disappeared when kagrenac used the tools on the heart of lorkhan thus making them all disappear.... and like you said the dwemer don’t believe in gods but “prefer reason and logic-vivec”. So the temple of xrib is an anomaly to me.

[@BodyByBenSLC]

I think this is why skyrim keeps on going and going. It's not the most technically impressive or graphicly amazing. It's full of great stories.

[@connormacgregor9460]

It's also the landscape scenes

[@chaoticrain1172]

I'm honestly super surprised that Hermaeus Mora's Apocethary from the Dragon Born DLC wasnt on any of your most creepiest locations lists.. it is honestly in my opinion one of the most creepiest places ever.. and also a main reason why I avoid doing most of the dragonborn DLC even after I have beaten it more than 3 times.

[@karlruhl5888]

The Dwemer altar just above the outside of the Sightless Pit location is fun, with a unique twist thrown in. When you check the inventory of the skeleton on the altar, loot all of it, and the other skeletons on the ground will resurect and attack you. After defeating them, and the skeleton that you first looted, check that skeletons inventory again. There will be a book called The Gates of Oblivion in the inventory...again. Each time you exit and enter the inventory, the book will be there for you to take. This is on my Legendary Edition copy of the game for Xbox 360. The unending copies of the book are very funny, because there are unending gates of Oblivion, too.

[@RavensaraNight]

The failed Alftand Expedition reminds me of H.P. Lovecraft's works, particularly At the Mountains of Madness.

[@phobiawitch835]

I’ve seen the Sightless Pit, and usually try to avoid it. I’m not a Falmer fan, and I’ve seen that it’s 1 Way. But, I MIGHT make an attempt at it in a playthrough someday. Either a stealth vamp with illusions, a stealth archer, or (if I’m insane) heavy armored Shield Mage.

[@briandipierro8865]

I love Melka, she's the best. "Do you like my pretty tower? :)"

[@omarkhanlilcurry]

Mr. Epic Nate, Skyrim is a game that is near and dear to me. Your narration and videos really keep me entertained. You’re an amazing presenter. Keep it up

[@nervsouly]

Haha he casually snatched Potema's skull while still fighting her with the other hand. Best disrespect ever!

[@deathbyunicorn5213]

I like the lighthouse with the Chaurus mother. I think it's frost or shiver something lighthouse

[@eldurinndottir]

Oh my Talos, I love Melka soooo much :D Have just finished her quest once again with one of my characters. It is such a pity we cannot get her as a follower!

[@geekunit177]

have you ever had Skyrim unintentionally scare you not in a jump scare way I can't tell you how many times a skeever has bitten my ankle and I almost jump out of my skin?

[@crusaderofthelowlands3750]

Y'all ready for Skyrim: Remastered: Remastered?

[@buddi3z]

me: I’m not scared at all Wolve: *say sike right now*

[@smallkksmiles4268]

*I was watching one of ur vids and my phone notified me you posted a new one* 🤣

[@aaron.blakeney]

Who asked

[@aaron.blakeney]

@Marshall Harris again who asked

[@Sirvanquish]

@@aaron.blakeney who asked you to type this

[@xx_broken_ikon_xx5585]

@@aaron.blakeney bitch quit your shit. And stop fucking with people

[@xx_broken_ikon_xx5585]

I was watching his things you can do in Skyrim

[@masondunn8386]

Has anyone used a calming spell or the Imperial ability on the party excavating the ruins? Also, that temple in the last section is probably named after its location rather than a god. The Falmer probably lack the ability to recognize gods and are just going through the motions of whorship.

[@DefaOmega]

Sorry I would have been here earlier, but I was busy hanging out in the Cloud District. Do you get there often?

[@thegreatchimp]

Regarding the Dwemer temple -wasn't there a line in one of the lore books saying "The Dwemer scorned the Daedra, preferring instead their Gods of reason and logic." I always thought this referred to science, but perhaps it is literrally saying they had their own pantheon? i.e. they did indeed build that temple themselves

[@brianmcwhorter2867]

It's not true that the Potema catacombs are only accessible after starting the quest. I got in when I was only around 2nd or 3rd level, and I hadn't even started the Wolf Skull Cave quest. What happened was: I was caught stealing in the temple, so I ran down to the cellar to hide. One of the priests came down looking for me and opened the gate to the catacombs. I can't remember if I killed the priest or not, but I ran into the catacombs to escape justice. I didn't get too far before I was killed, but as far as I went everything was exactly as it was if I had gotten there the normal way. Potema spoke to me and everything.

[@pinkwings8036]

600 hours in Skyrim and I just learn of the Sightless Pit. What a giant game, and now I need to find this dungeon!!!

[@BmgAmg]

HOW ARE YOU STILL DOING THESE?!!! You amaze me

[@bigslim6087]

I always love coming back to this vids. It reawakens my urge to play Skyrim

[@hollyhartwick3832]

The Dwemer didn’t always think the way described here. The “Temple of Zrib” could have been built before the era of Dwemer apostasy.

[@WhitShiro]

The last time I was this early is when I didn't have an arrow in my knee

[@Catras_unfairly_gorgeous_smirk]

Dude Melka is my homegirl yo! It's a bug I've encountered in a few playthroughs before. Sometimes when I talk to a friendly creature there's a chance this bug happens and this creature will start following me until they either die or somehow the bug "deactivates" and they leave on their own after a while. Recently it happened with Melka and she is definitely my favorite accidental follower. Now of course I have to listen to her rasping "do you like.... my pretty tower?" behind me every 3 seconds, but Serana's constant complaints about the weather did a good job in leveling my patience.

[@morrigankasa570]

Despite some of the cruelty of Potema, if she was fully resurrected she would be the last True Empress/Emperor and would have never submitted to the filthy Knife-Ear Thalmor. So about 40% good. Compared to the Mede Dynasty which is 15% good if that.

[@FluffySylveonBoi]

3:35 I thought they were vampires trying to kill you, but probably mistaking it for another place. Something from Dawnguard. I bet Solitude palace in real would be as big as whole city in game, and the city of Solitude as big as its ingame region.

[@lordrahl_95]

Lovin these 16-20 min videos, Ep. Great work. Huge fan.

[@koenyboy500]

I think that the lighthouse of 'Habd' is also a really creepy one if you put some nice narration in. That place just kept going and going and going. It was so infested. Everywhere. Everywhere. No shit people heard weird noises and scratching on the wall. And before they knew it, father went missing. I think.

[@bullet2266]

So anyone else notice his like to dislike ratio? It’s really good... Great job you deserve it!!

[@tanskiii]

Love your videos brother been binging them the past three days

[@austinlee4156]

I find the events and mysteries that happen within the same year as the start of this game spookier than ones that happen 100s of yrs before.

[@eriksikora2868]

I've cleared all the dungeons, and honestly, trashing a bandit camp on the back of a legendary dragon is more gratifying

[@abysmal2740]

The thumbnail looks like that Mr beast meme, I can't unsee it. Good video btw

[@williamoldaker5348]

You can "pickup" and suspend loose Salmon like other objects. Two were in a bucket in the back of Brinewater Grotto where you catch back up to Gulum-Ei. Is this new enough for honorably mention?

[@thargs9184]

I belive I read somewhere that the dwemer revered great leader almost as gods, that temple could be one dedicated to one such leader

[@sharketeer1569]

“As multiple, extremely powerful draugr will emerge from the coffins...” *Me playing on Master difficulty* : That’s a Restless Draugr...”

[@patrickmcglonejr8163]

The last time I was this early, I got enslaved by some weird priest in a mask.

[@jonathanbullock3046]

Nate, your videos always bring me joy and great information!

[@MrAngenos]

Once I had a game where the “Red eagles bane” sword was glitched and was super powerful like op. That I mopped up the wwhooooooooole map. Every crack and crevice, every mountain peak, every bog, every cave. Cleaned out. Silly mammoths 🦣

[@kosorkosm9071]

i have soo many hours on skyrim and haven't found some of those dungeons wow specially the one whit melka the hagraven

[@edgarrice]

Quilting? Now THAT's terrifying!

[@kt536]

Love your videos make me learn every time I see video especially when I see the game glitch out lol

[@Wanderingwalker-ke6mg]

Spectre: oOooOooOooOOooo! Dragonborn: FUS RO DAHHH!!

[@docop8926]

The jarl of solitudes advisor is a vampire and the whats stange is the fact that as soon as u defeat potema the she (the jarls vampire advisor) walks to her room and sleeps in her bed for the rest of the game..... Very suspicios

[@Shglugen]

Keep up the vids man. Two thumbs up!

[@midnitecro3915]

Might I suggest going around the world of Skyrim and using Calming spells to any NPC that might have more dialogue if they were not hostile. Like the cave maybe those survivors have more to say? I know you've found hidden dialogue before. Just a thought.

[@TheHornedKing_27]

This channel is so awesome I love your videos

[@Ashencrowe]

Quiltmaking? What a fine notion!

[@genericmalename6087]

I encountered the Sightless Pit at about level 12, but due to a previous (and mildly traumatic) experience with Falmer, I auto-assumed "Sightless? Falmer. Do not go in." Glad I didn't! I'm at about level 25-ish in that playthrough, but I'm not going to check out any Dwarven ruins until I'm level 30. I really want to explore them, but they are scary and I do not get along with machines both in real life and video games. Also they are usually infested with Falmer and that is basically a giant neon sign saying "NO" to me.

[@joecotten3620]

Hey Nate you ever thought about doin a most disappointing levels or maybe something along those lines

[@jhay3966]

Melka: "you'd let me out would you?" Dragonborn: "and what makes you think I would?" M: "Because you're a good orc" DB(a khajiit): "You don't see a lot of orcs pass here do you?" M: "ehh, you all look the same" man, that was hilarious

[@auggerz6996]

You should put (in the next things you didnt know you could do) the fact that you can sell the dragon scroll to Urag after finishing the colleges quest, and you have to buy it back in the quest scroll scouting.

[@ZorenSosa]

its funny i remember doing the quest wolf queen awakens but i dont remember doing the second half. i didn't know there was a dungeon under solitude!

[@andypmz07]

Last time i was this late , Uriel septim vii was attacked and killed by the mythic dawn.

[@TeaManTom]

Frostflow Lighthouse!!!

[@nyxcooper5023]

Dude that was a serious burn on the blades (not wrong tho)

[@jupiterloverofrain8175]

Last time I was this early, someone stole my sweetroll!

[@thatguyyouknow1512]

I wish someone made a mod that cleaned/restored the Nordic and Dwemer ruins so we can see what they looked like in their heyday.

[@owenroherty397]

Last time I was this early fargoth still had his ring

[@jonathonpettit9418]

You guys should make a video on the duplication glitch

[@Leto85]

I was utterly disappointed that Melka wasn't spouse material in Skyrim. I mean, most fair maidens you complete a quest for are growing a liking into you.

[@insaincaldo]

Isn't one hag raven wife enough?

[@lukaastraearose5227]

i found a falmer cave relativly near whiterun. i cant remember what it was called, but it was /very/ dark, and was only illuminated by glowing mushrooms. there was a lower level where the falmer had a chaurus hatchery. its terrifying when you cant see anything in the dark but its even more scary how theres a falmer 'settlement' so close to a hold >:x

[@Haven18]

Shimmermist Cave?

[@jonatankapral4816]

I came to check what new way to describe Skyrim has Nate found.

[@John-vx7fe]

I jumped into the sightless pit on my first play through at like level 3. That was an unpleasant couple of days of playing Dark Scrolls instead of Elder Scrolls. I did eventually make it out though.

[@imsymon9594]

You have over half a million subscribers based on one Niche audience of Skyrim and Fallout fans. Goodonya mate.

[@eddihurta7173]

Could the voice of calm make the 2 people fighting stop? the guy who went underground with his redgaurd body guard?

[@alanr2504]

Woo, another video!

[@Haven18]

I always pause these videos and just read the comments. Far more entertaining!

[@jiro6172]

If you haven’t discovered the Dawnguard and show up in armor of the opposite faction that Riften is, Dawnguard will attack you on site. Just happened to me. I reloaded a save change my clothes out of empire gear riften was stormcloaks. I’d like to add hit a bounty hunter with a clan spell stops him and you can pay the bounty and move on.

[@WolfDPain]

Don't leave the ghost blade on any display it disappears

[@koenyboy500]

I was managing my cold-gauge very poorly (Survival Mode on Special Edition), and the cold legit made me HAVE to drop down into 'The Sightless Pit'. It's good I've grown up, cause that shit would NOT have been nice. (Especially since it has a lot of resemblance to the first dungeon in the video and with the amazing narrative om that dungeom specifically, that just sounds downright horrifying).

[@prophetroll4086]

Hi Nate, love all your lists, which do you prefer, skyrim or fallout 4?

[@charleslee8505]

yeah well I'm building a khajiit build that specifically called treasure hunter basically it's any unique weapon that cannot be crafted or has a name to it is to be gathered and then tried to sell off the rest to make the most amount of money until it doesn't register anymore

[@ducc1]

Just want to point out something: Skyrim is 9 years old now and still extremely active. If Skyrim has a fanbase this loyal I can only imagine how TES 6 will turn out after a decade

[@sethmilam4835]

Last time i was this early.. i took an arrow to the knee

[@bren6415]

Could you please do a vid or in part about Hefid the Deaf and is there a story/mission about what she mentions.

[@gambeano]

I remember I fell into a pit back in 360 skyrim idk if it was the sightless pit or a different one but I got so scared that I reloaded a save 🤣