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Halloween is long gone though creepy places in our world did not disappear with him. They still tickle the nerves of adrenaline lovers and scary stories, who want to see what any normal tourists run away from without looking back. So, the 10 most terrible places in the world, one more terrible than the other.

The Mütter Museum of Medical History is a museum of pathologies, antique medical equipment and biological artifacts located in the oldest medical training complex North America. Most of all, this museum is famous for its huge collection of skulls, and all kinds of unique exhibits are collected here, for example, the corpse of a woman, which turned into soap in the ground where she was buried. Here are Siamese twins with a combined liver, the skeleton of a two-headed child and other creepy exhibits.

A significant part of the Japanese naval forces now lie at the bottom of the shallow Truk Lagoon in Micronesia, southwest of Hawaii. The blue depths, surveyed by Jacques Cousteau in 1971 and littered with the wreckage of warships and aircraft carriers sunk in 1944, have become accessible to divers. Although some people are still afraid of the crews that have not left their combat posts. Ships and planes have long grown into coral reefs, but still their victims are more and more curious tourists who stick their noses where they should not.

The witches of Mexico City, sitting in cramped booths, promise a quick deliverance from poverty and adultery for 10 bucks, and tortured exotic iguanas, frogs and wild birds are hung in cages on the walls of tents for sale. The Sonora Market is open every day for pilgrims from Mexico City and tourists from distant places who travel for fortune telling and promises. a better life. This is the place where everyone local population tacked on "supernatural" gizmos, ranging from potions according to old Aztec recipes to Buddha statues. Hard-core enthusiasts might be able to buy some rattlesnake blood or dried hummingbirds here to tame their luck. But it is worth remembering that witchcraft in Mexico is no joke: the National Association of Sorcerers was involved in presidential elections in order to turn them into fair and free ones using spells.

One of the most mysterious places on earth is Easter Island, on which there are huge figures of giants carved from stone, grown into the ground under the weight of millennia. The statues look to the sky, as if guilty of some mystical crimes. And only stone giants know where the people who installed them disappeared. On Easter Island, no one else knows the secret of making and moving and installing these giant statues growing up to 21 meters and weighing up to 90 tons. But they were often moved more than 20 kilometers from the quarry where the ancient sculptors worked. Now on the island, where a powerful civilization once flourished, life is barely glimmering, and no one knows where the mysterious builders came from and where they then disappeared.

Well, except for those, of course, who read about the travels of Thor Heyerdahl as a child. For them, all these secrets - how exactly the statues were made and then placed - are no longer a secret.

Boats with tourists sailing through the swamps by the light of a torch are surrounded by ancient cypresses and long threads of moss hanging from cypress branches. The howl heard in the distance may be rou-ga-rou, the Cajun version of the werewolf.
The Manchak swamps are also known as "ghost swamps". They are located near New Orleans, and this is just a dream ready. The swamps are said to have been cursed by a voodoo queen when she was captured in the early 20th century. As a result, in the hurricane of 1915, three villages disappeared here. The peace of this bird cemetery is disturbed only by periodically floating corpses - the legacy of more than 100 years of commercial activity. In addition, alligators, which are more numerous than corpses, do not disdain fresh tourist meat.

Bones and skulls are stacked on both sides of the corridor, like goods in a warehouse - a lot of goods. The air here is dry and bears only a subtle hint of decay. There are also inscriptions, mostly from the time of the French Revolution, sending the king and nobles far away and for a long time. Once you get inside the catacombs near Paris, it becomes clear why Victor Hugo and Anne Rice wrote their famous stories about these dungeons. They stretch for about 187 kilometers under the entire city and only a small part of them is open to the public. The rest are said to be patrolled by the legendary Special Underground Police, though most likely legions of the dead do so. Or vampires. Although who will disassemble them there, in the end. There were quarries here in Roman times, and when the cemeteries of Paris overflowed, in 1785 the tunnels became what they are.

7. Winchester House, San Jose, California

The "Magic" Winchester House is a colossal structure with many prejudices associated with it. A fortune teller told Sarah Winchester, an arms company heiress, that the ghosts of those killed by Winchesters would haunt her unless she left Connecticut for the West and built a house that couldn't be finished in her entire life. Construction began in San Jose in 1884 and did not stop for 38 years until Sarah died. Now the 160 rooms of the house are inhabited by the ghosts of her madness: stairs going straight to the ceiling, doors that open in the middle of the wall, spider motifs, candelabra, hooks. Since the house was open to the public, there have been constant complaints about slamming doors, footsteps at night, moving lights, doorknobs that turn by themselves. Even if tourists do not believe in ghosts, the place blows the roof with its magnitude.

A few streets with a dark past, hidden under the medieval Old Town in Edinburgh. The place where plague victims were locked up and left to die in the 17th century is famous for poltergeists. Tourists here are touched by hands and feet by something invisible. It is believed to be the ghost of Annie, a young girl who was left there by her parents in 1645. A hundred years later, a period so loved in scary tales, a large new building was built on the site of Mary King's dead end. In 2003, the cul-de-sac was opened to tourists, attracted by tales of its supernatural spirits.
Tourists will be led down stone steps into tight, oppressive lanes.
In addition to Annie's room, an exposition of medieval life and death from the plague has been restored there. The main thing is not to stop, especially when you feel the icy breath of death.

Aleister Crowley is perhaps one of the world's most vile occultists, and this stone farmhouse, crammed with dark pagan frescoes, was once the satanic orgies capital of the world. At least that's what they thought in the 1920s.
Crowley is best known for his Marilyn Manson-type fans and the fact that he appeared on the cover of the Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Crowley founded the Abbey of Thelema, named after the utopia described in Rabelais' Gargantua, whose motto was "Do whatever you want." It became a free love commune. Newcomers were forced to spend the night in the Nightmare Room, where, high on heroin and marijuana, they stared at the frescoes of earth, heaven, and hell.After a popular English dandy died in the abbey, the press created a scandal and forced Mussolini to cover up the sharashka.The notorious underground filmmaker Kenneth Angier dug up the story in 1945 and filmed there is a film, which subsequently mysteriously disappeared.Now the abbey is dilapidated and overgrown with grass.But inside there are several frescoes that Crowley used to intimidate followers.
Esoteric tourists can wander around and tickle their nerves there.

In Ukraine, having arrived in abandoned city Pripyat, tourists enter the exclusion zone. Here, all things are thrown in a hurry and left from that very terrible 1986, when the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant forced tens of thousands of people to leave their homes forever. Apartments were opened wide open, ivy curled up on painted walls in kindergartens, scattered toys were lying about, unread newspapers were left lying on the kitchen tables. The swing, still creaking, swings in the yard under the gusts of a dead wind.

Now that the radiation level has dropped to a safe level for a short visit, the Chernobyl zone has been opened to tourists. Excursions to Chernobyl are almost the same, since movements in the exclusion zone are very limited. As a rule, tourists leave Kyiv by bus, then walk to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, go on a tour, look at the "Sarcophagus". You can wander the streets of the ghost town of Pripyat and visit the sites of the infected Vehicle. And also meet with local self-settlers, residents of the "forbidden zone".

Mount Washington's winter wonderland is deadly for the casual hiker and the willful photographer natural beauties. And insanely desirable for someone who "ordered" suicide by blowing hurricane wind into a prickly ice drift.


2. Poisonous beauty of the Danakil desert
Understand - leisure, new impressions, but not so much! we told friends packing for a vacation in the Ethiopian desert, but they did not listen to us.


The Danakil Desert in northern Ethiopia is called “Hell on Earth” by everyone who has been there. Risk and horror lovers listen to the storytellers, look at the pictures and one by one go on a deadly trip through one of the most terrible and strange landscapes on the planet.


Once you walk on the cosmic surface of Danakil - and you don’t need to fly to Mars. There is almost no oxygen to breathe over the volcanic wasteland, but there is enough burning air for everyone and everything, saturated with fetid gases, born from the earth boiling under their feet and melting stones.


Traveling through the Danakil desert is at least unhealthy. Fifty-degree heat, the risk of stepping on an awakening volcano, yawning with scarlet lava, and boiling, the risk of inhaling sulfur vapor for the rest of your life and making it short. In addition, in the Afar region, semi-savage tribes of Ethiopian citizens periodically go on the warpath for water and food. Ten-year-old boys with guns and machine guns can become another of the most terrible surprises in the world, waiting for a traveler in a place of unearthly beauty - the Danakil African desert.


3. The capital of the grandchildren of the cannibals
The main city of eastern New Guinea, the gate of the state that calls itself "Nujini", the city of Port Moresby is the most dangerous of the world's capitals. From the sea, from the sky, the New Guinean "pearl" looks quite attractive:


In fact, she is like this:


In Port Moresby live and work such helmsmen " banana republic”, as the president and ministers, but bandit brigades rule the real life of the city. For a white man, the capital of PNG is a terrible place. It's the same as to please an intellectual in prison with youngsters.


Papuans in the forest kill strangers for food, and this is due to the lack of protein in their traditional diet. Papuans in the city “wet” tourists because of laziness and unemployment. Spoiled by Australian handouts, the natives do not want to work, and if they do, it is very difficult to find a job. There is only one thing left - to go into a gang and raise funds for booze, drugs and girls, hunting for suckers. Kill in Port Moresby 3 times more often than in Moscow. The police do not care for these boys, because they are bought or intimidated. Look at their faces and never again dream of becoming a second Miklouho-Maclay, because they will eat you like Cook.




Every person burdened with housekeeping has dark corners not only in his biography, but also in his home. This is not necessarily a closet with instructive spiders to intimidate Pinocchio. In a dark corner there may be, for example, a stash - something valuable, which, unlike a person, is not afraid of darkness. There are such mega-angles in every country on every continent. No culture can live without cursed places. The scariest places on the planet compete in intensity of quiet horror, like economies, brands, or football leagues. The most terrible places attract guests - from among the philistines who are used to seeing horrors on TV. It would be boring to live without such corners of the Earth. Like in an apartment without dark corners.
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4. Forest of cultural suicides
Aokigahara is an old forest at the foot of sacred mountain Fuji. People come here not for mushrooms, not for barbecues, but to say goodbye to life. For some time now, Aokigahara has been fondly chosen by authentic Japanese suicides.






An approximate count of those who have gone into the forest forever has been conducted since the beginning of the 1950s. For half a century, Aokigahara accepted the bodies and, for a time, the souls of more than 500 volunteers. They say that the fashion came after the publication of Seiko Matsumoto's book "The Black Sea of ​​Trees", whose two characters, holding hands, went to hang themselves in this venerable forest, so mastered by shadows that even on a sunny afternoon you can easily find a terrible place wrapped in damp grave gloom.

Walking through the terrible forest of Aokigahara, the traveler will stumble upon not only corpses, skulls and nooses. And on numerous shields with inscriptions like “Life is a priceless gift! Please think again!” or “Think of your family!”


In the 1970s, the problem attracted national attention, and since then every year government units are sent to clean up the forest from "fresh" corpses. The area of ​​the tract is 35 square kilometers. During the year, from 70 to 100 newly arrived suicides "ripen" on the branches of trees.


A few years ago, marauders appeared in Aokigahara, who clean the pockets of the gallows and rip off not ropes from their necks, but gold and silver chains. They manage not to get lost. Remain humble and optimistic.


5. Beer, glass, skeletons
A cozy, civilized Czech Republic cannot be called a terrible country. The tourist here is all in a buzz - delicious beer, affordable drugs, beautiful houses, bridges and girls. And even the most, perhaps, the most terrible place Western Europe pleases the eye of the tourist, being remembered for a lifetime. This is the famous ossuary in the city of Kutna Hora.


For the inhabitants of medieval Europe, the abbey in Sedlec, a suburb of Kutná Hora, was the most fashionable and desirable cemetery. His insane popularity was due to the fact that in 1278 a certain monk brought some earth from Jerusalem, from Golgotha ​​itself, and scattered the holy soil in small handfuls over the local churchyard. Many thousands of people wished to be buried in Sedlec. The cemetery has grown greatly, they began to bury in 2-3 tiers, which is not divine. Therefore, since 1400, an unusual tomb has been operating in the abbey - a warehouse for bones removed from graves that were not cared for.


In 1870, the new, secular owners of the lands and buildings of the old monastery decided to put things in order in the ossuary and invited a local creator, a carver by the name of Rint, to do this. With a deadly sense of humor and taste inherent in true Czechs, Pan Rint created a terrible miracle from the mortal remains of 40 thousand people. He not only ordered the deposits of bones and skulls, but also built from them a massive coat of arms of the master's noble family and a magnificent chandelier with garlands. Memento mori, pani ta panove!



The spooky chapel is open to beer- and Becherovka-intoxicated visitors seven days a week.


6. Museum of horror stories - the dream of a maniac, the pride of doctors
The Mutter Museum of the History of Medicine in Philadelphia is the place where all the worst that can happen to the human body is concentrated. The museum was founded in 1858 by Dr. Thomas Dent Mutter. Admission to the Sanctuary of Medical Science is $14. The exposition presents all kinds of pathologies, ancient and unusual medical equipment, biological samples of varying degrees of nightmare. It also contains the most impressive collection American skulls.




Top positions in the Mütter Museum are occupied by such curious exhibits as a wax sculpture of a unicorn woman; a three-meter human intestine, which contained 40 pounds of the same; the body of the "soap lady" (a female corpse that turned into a fat wax in the ground); a tumor removed from US President Cleveland; fused liver of Siamese twins; a piece of the brain of Charles Guiteau - the assassin of President Garfield.





Rumor has it that at night something out of the ordinary is happening in the museum - either scary or funny.


7. Monkey for the enlightened
Drapchi Tibetan Prison, which is located on the road from Lhasa Airport to Lhasa City, is considered the most terrible penitentiary institution in the world. In Drapchi, since 1965, the evil Chinese have been meticulously rotting the recalcitrant Tibetan lamas. Here, behind the thorn, there are more monks than in any single Buddhist monastery.




The Chinese occupation authorities cynically refer to such prisons as "rehabilitation centers." In Drapchi, you can get a "stray" bullet in the forehead for the wrong look in the direction of the guard. For the slightest protest, convict monks are beaten mercilessly. One of the violators of the regime spent so long in a solitary cell that he forgot how to speak. Another has been languishing in prison for 20 years for distributing a copy of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In addition, Chinese Gulag Buddhists are forced to attend classes on scientific communism. Didn't learn the lesson - get on the chakras with a batog. Did not come to class - try bamboo porridge. Is this prospect scary?




Lyrical digression: wandering around the black Japanese forests with gallows and museums with skulls and intestines, we romantics completely forgot about such the most terrible places on the planet as workers torture chambers criminal investigation department in the district police departments. About places where a small civil war and nano-genocide are played out daily. A holy faith in justice and a neat appearance of chaste eyes saves us, romantics, from visiting such "fear" events. What up civil war, then, I remember, the most terrible, bloody and unusually stupid of them was in Rwanda. A terrible African country, where we will go today.
8. Africa is terrible, yes, yes, yes!
All Soviet children know that a nasty, bad, greedy Barmaley lives in Africa. The concentration of barmaley per square mile of tea plantations exceeds 420 individuals. In 1994, barmaley with a machete decided to reduce their own population by 900 thousand souls. That's what came out of it




Having learned from the embassy reports about the Rwandan genocide and its consequences, the white man sighed heavily and went to pacify the barmaley. Those of them whose hands were covered in blood were higher than the elbow were sent to prison. Yes, in a difficult one - the most crowded and unsanitary in the world. This incredibly scary place has a lyrical name - Gitarama.




More than 6,000 Rwandan barmaleis languish in barracks designed to hold 500 prisoners, waiting for trial for 8-10 years (!) . They are tormented by hunger, so biting off a cellmate's heel or ear is a normal phenomenon. There is nowhere to lie down, so from constant standing, the prisoners' feet rot, which doctors have to amputate without anesthesia. The floor is damp and filthy, the stench spreads for half a mile, a disgrace in the eyes of the peacekeepers metropolitan city Kigali. Every eighth barmaley dies in this prison, without waiting for the verdict - from violence or disease. And neither God nor the devil forbid a white intelligent person to get into the Guitarama ...




9. Birthplace of a Slumdog Millionaire
What does real India smell like? Incense, marijuana, grilled cremation meat? The real, not pomaded India smells of slop, sewage and waste from chemical industries. This stench is inhaled from morning to evening by benevolent and superstitious consumers of Bollywood film products, residents of the area where renting an “apartment” for a month costs no more than $4. This is Dharavi, Asia's largest nahalstroy - a slum settlement in the heart of charming, multimillion-dollar Mumbai.




The protagonist of the film "Slumdog Millionaire" comes from a "city within a city" Dharavi. Over a million Hindus and Muslims live here on 175 hectares of dirty land. Their bread is the processing of urban garbage, which is brought and brought here in tens of tons every day. The inhabitants of the terrible slums are recycling plastic, cans, glass and waste paper. Their barefoot children and wives crawl through Mumbai's dumpsters looking for something to recycle.






By 2013, Mumbai authorities intend to raze Dharavi to the ground. Where to go to the residents, those who did not have time to become millionaires? Return back to the village? It's scary to think about it.


10. Capital of ongoing violence
When the Indian wakes up and goes to collect bottles, the Somali is still sleeping in an embrace with his favorite toy - a Kalashnikov assault rifle. He sleeps lightly, shuddering and drooling black - after all, just look, land Somali pirates will come and tear him apart. In the capital of collapsed Somalia, the city of Mogadishu, violence and fear are the norm.


People of the Somali anthropological type are stately and beautiful. They often die young, taking their cruel beauty to a deserted grave. But new, future sea and city robbers are born, who do not disdain anything, just not to show themselves weak and not be left without dinner.





Those who are weary of the war are fleeing Mogadishu, but they cannot escape themselves. Over the past year, 100 thousand residents of the warring capital left the city, risking death not from a bullet, but from thirst. The UN is not even able to transfer humanitarian aid to them - it's scary, and there are no security guarantees.






How scary to live ... Fortunately, not for us.

There is a huge amount the most beautiful places that every person would like to visit, but along with them there are very creepy and scary places that are also very popular with tourists. Present to your attention 10 scariest places in the world.

Chernobyl in Ukraine opens top ten scariest places on the planet. Today, tourists can go to the abandoned city of Pripyat and see the exclusion zone. Thousands of people fled their homes after the disaster at the Chernobyl reactor. Toys abandoned in day care centers and newspapers left on dining tables come into view. The disaster area is now officially allowed to visit - the level of radiation is no longer dangerous. Bus tours start in Kyiv, then tourists visit a nuclear reactor, see a sarcophagus and head to the abandoned city of Pripyat.

Aleister Crowley is probably the most famous occultist in the world. This terrible place, replete with dark pagan frescoes, was intended to be the world capital of satanic orgies. Crowley appeared on the cover of the Beatles album Sergeant Peper's Lonely Hearts Club. He founded the Abbey of Thelema, which became a community of free love. Director Kenneth Unger, a follower of Crowley, made a film about the abbey, but the film later mysteriously disappeared. Now the abbey is almost completely destroyed.

In the medieval part of the Old Town in Edinburgh, there are several streets with a disgusting and gloomy past. This eerie place, where the victims of the plague were supposed to die in the seventeenth century, became known thanks to the poltergeist. Tourists who visit this supernatural place claim that something invisible is touching their hands and feet. Locals say that this is the soul of the girl Annie, which her parents left here in 1645. A hundred years later, a large building was built at the cul-de-sac. The dead end was opened to tourists in 2003.

There are many myths and prejudices around this colossal structure. One day, a fortune-teller predicted to arms factory heiress Sarah Winchester that ghosts would haunt her all her life, so she must leave Connecticut and go west and begin building a huge house there, which should last her whole life. Construction began in 1884 and was not completed until Sarah's death in 1938. Now the house is inhabited by the ghosts of her madness: stairs that rest against the ceiling, doors at the height of the middle of the wall, chandeliers and hooks. And even those who do not believe in ghosts claim to have seen or heard something inexplicable in this house. This house is ranked seventh in our ranking of the top 10 scariest places on the planet.

The Parisian catacombs were ranked sixth on our list. scary places on earth. All the walls of the long corridor of the catacombs are tiled with bones and skulls. The very dry air keeps them from even a hint of decay. As you enter these catacombs under Paris, you begin to understand why Anne Rice and Victor Hugo wrote their famous novels about these dungeons. Their length is about 187 kilometers along the entire city, and only a small part of them is available for visiting. It is said that the legendary underground police keep order in the catacombs, although the legions of vampires and zombies would suit this place more.

This scary place is also known as the swamp of ghosts. It is located near New Orleans. Legend has it that it was cursed by a Voodoo Queen while she was imprisoned there in the 1920s. Three small villages nearby were wiped off the face of the earth in 1915.

Perhaps this place is one of the most mysterious places in the world. This island has gained worldwide fame thanks to the giant stone statues, looking at the sky, as if begging him for mercy. And only the stone of these statues knows who their creators were. No one on the island is familiar with the art of sculpture. No one imagines how it was possible to make statues twenty meters high and weighing ninety tons. Among other things, the statues were supposed to be delivered twenty kilometers from the quarry where the ancient sculptors worked.

Opens the top three most terrible places on earth black magic bazaar in Sonora. Plenty of witches sit in tiny booths and offer to lift you out of poverty and adultery for as little as ten dollars. Numerous Mexican and foreign tourists wanting to know something about your future. There you can buy mysterious potions, snake blood and dried hummingbirds to tame good luck.

The bulk of the Japanese navy now rests at the bottom of this lagoon, southeast of Hawaiian Islands. The entire bottom of this lagoon, explored by Jacques Yves Cousteau in 1971, is littered with fragments of warships sunk in 1944. This is a scary place attracts many divers, although many are afraid of the ship's crews, who forever remain at their combat posts. Fighters and aircraft carriers coral reefs, and many divers who descended to explore these reefs never returned from their underwater travels.

The Mütter Museum of the History of Medicine ranks first in our ranking of the most terrible places on the planet. This museum was founded to educate future doctors of human anatomy and anomalies of the human body. It features various pathologies, antique medical instruments, and biological oddities. The museum is primarily known for its extensive collection of skulls. It also contains unique exhibits, such as the body of a dead woman, turned into soap in the grave. Also there you can see Siamese twins sharing one liver for two, the skeleton of a two-headed boy and other terrible things.

There are places on our planet that brave travelers avoid, curious tourists and even the coldest locals. As a rule, these are places where bloody tragedies or murders took place, or places that were “marked” by the fact that supernatural phenomena took place there. This review will focus on these terrible places. Whether it is worth visiting is up to you.

1. Hashima Island

Japan
More than 5,000 people once lived on this island. Today, Hashima is an abandoned and scary place, which is located about 15 km from the city of Nagasaki. Previously, there were coal mines on the island, near which a whole town grew up, but after the deposits were depleted, Hasima was left to fend for herself.

2. Catacombs of Paris

France
Also, this place is sometimes called the "empire of the dead." The Paris catacombs are one of the largest and scariest in the world. The underground tunnels, which stretch for more than 200 km, contain the remains of about six million people. Due to the extreme length and complexity of the catacombs, many people got lost and died in them.

3. Vrolik Museum

Netherlands
One of the creepiest museums in the world can be found at the University of Amsterdam. Named after the Dutch anatomist Willem Wrolik, the museum exhibits various parts of human bodies, embryos and dummies in alcohol, which demonstrate various aspects of embryology, pathology and anatomy. Also among the exhibits there are numerous examples of congenital malformations and medical anomalies.

4. Hill of Crosses

Lithuania
The Hill of Crosses, located about 12 km north of the city of Siauliai in northern Lithuania, is unique place pilgrimages for Catholics. It is notable for the huge number of crosses installed on it (at least 250,000 of them), crucifixes and giant statues of the Virgin Mary.

5 Suicide Forest

Japan
Aokigahara Forest, better known as the "suicide forest", is located at the base of Mount Fuji in Japan. In Japanese mythology, this place is associated with demons. Aokigahara is notable for the fact that trees grow so densely in it that the wind does not blow at all in the forest. This makes it an exceptionally quiet and creepy place. There are about 100 suicides in Aokigahara every year.

6. Chauchilla Cemetery

Peru
30 km south of the city of Nazca in southwestern Peru is Chauchilla, an ancient cemetery where many mummified human remains can be found sitting in open graves. Due to the exceptionally dry climate of the Peruvian desert, the corpses, dressed in embroidered cotton robes, are surprisingly well preserved.

7. Freeman Ranch

USA, Texas
A 1,400-hectare piece of land between San Marcos and Wimberley in Central Texas is a forensic anthropology research farm. Scattered throughout the ranch are corpses in various stages of decomposition. And what is being studied here, as you might guess, is the decomposition of human bodies under various conditions.

8. City of Pripyat

Ukraine
Pripyat is a city in northern Ukraine, next to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, which was the site of the worst accident in the history of mankind at a nuclear power plant. Its effects are still felt today. The city from which people were evacuated has been abandoned for 30 years.

9. Island of Dolls

Mexico
The Island of the Dolls, located on Lake Techuilo near Mexico City, is one of the creepiest places in Mexico. Legend has it that the only inhabitant of the island, Don Julian Santana, found the body of a drowned girl in the canal. After Santana began to be haunted by her spirit, the man decided to "appease" him with dolls and continued to do so for many years until he drowned in the same canal. Today, the island is "decorated" by hundreds of terrifying mutilated dolls with severed limbs and heads.

10. Darvaza

Turkmenistan
Also known as the "fire crater" or "gateway to hell", Darvaza is a natural gas field in Turkmenistan. While drilling an exploratory well in 1971, geologists stumbled upon underground void, due to which all the equipment fell into the ground and formed big hole filled with methane. Geologists decided to set fire to this gas so that it would burn out in a few days, but the crater, 60 meters in diameter and 20 meters deep, has been burning continuously ever since.

11. Sedlec ossuary

Czech
In Central Bohemia, in the town of Sedlec, you can find a small Roman Catholic chapel, which is famous for containing the skeletons of up to 70,000 people, whose bones were used to make decorations and furniture. Thanks to its unique frightening appearance and the atmosphere of this creepy place has been featured in several horror films.

12. Capuchin Catacombs

Italy
In the Sicilian city of Palermo, there are unique Capuchin Catacombs, famous topics that the corpses, dressed and seated like living people, are exhibited as museum exhibits. About 8000 corpses and 1252 mummies can be found in the catacombs.

13. Akodesseva Fetish Market

Togo
In the capital of Togo, the city of Lome is the world's largest market for fetishes and voodoo products. This is one of the creepiest places in Africa where you can safely buy, for example, a human skull.

14. Bran Castle

Romania
One of the most feared castles in the world is said to have been the residence of Vlad III, the cruel Romanian ruler better known as Vlad Dracula or Vlad the Impaler. It was he who inspired Bram Stoker to write his famous gothic horror novel about the vampire Dracula.

15. Mummy cave Kabayan

Philippines
This place in the Philippine province of Benguet is also known as the Caves of the Fire Mummies. It is here that some of the best preserved mummies in the world are located, which are already 4,000 years old. Before death, a person was given a very salty drink, and then the corpse was washed and placed next to the fire for up to six months in order for it to dry out.

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Our world is full of striking contrasts. It has beautiful corners, as if created by the hands of angels, and there are terrifying places that only an “adrenaline addict” dares to go to in search of a particularly thrilling experience. We present you the 10 scariest places in the world.

10 Capuchin Catacombs, Palermo, Italy

As a result, for the burial of all comers, additional corridors and rooms (cubes) had to be dug. Unlike other catacombs, the Capuchin underground cemetery contains only mummified, skeletonized and embalmed bodies. It is the largest mummy necropolis in the world.

Currently, there are about 8,000 bodies in the underground tombs of the Capuchins. The last burial took place in the 20s of the twentieth century. There are separate corridors, including for monks, for prominent people, for children under 14, and even for virgins. The corpses are more like museum pieces, they are dressed in rich outfits, and their bodies are perfectly preserved. Taking photos in one of the scariest places on Earth is prohibited, and discussions are underway to completely prohibit onlookers from entering the catacombs.

9 Aokigahara, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan

Some believe that one of the most terrible places on the planet is inhabited by demons who whisper to the poor fellows the idea of ​​losing their lives. In the Middle Ages, desperate poor people brought their old and infirm relatives to Aokigahara, leaving them to die of hunger. There is a belief that the spirits of the dead never left their last resting place and take revenge on the living for suffering.

More pragmatic people point to the high density of trees, due to which all sounds in the forest are muffled and it is easy to get lost there. Many hikers even mark their way with a ribbon or string to make it easier to find their way back later. You should not hope for a compass, it "goes crazy", since there are deposits of iron ore in this area.

8 Pripyat, Ukraine

The city of Pripyat, founded in 1970, had about 50,000 people by the time they were evacuated after the Chernobyl accident. Since that time, Pripyat has been an uninhabited city, although the buildings, furniture and all other signs of life are exactly where the previous owners left them. Textbooks are left on desks in the classrooms, rotting dolls lie in toy beds, and photographs hang on peeling walls, reminiscent of a carefree life.

Today, the most famous landmark of Pripyat is the rusty "ferris wheel" in the city's amusement park. It is unlikely that it will ever work again.

7 Vejo Rönkkönen, Parikkala, Finland

The largest composition is a group of about 200 statues arranged in various yoga postures. Although there is something unsettling about this group of sculptures (such as false teeth), they are not nearly as scary as creepy, on their own. standing statues. How do you like, for example, a statue of a nun with a toothy smile or a figure in a cloak, with black gaps instead of eye sockets, pulling long arms to the people passing by? Visit Vejo Rönkkönen's garden...if you have the desire to never sleep peacefully again.

6 Nagoro, Japan

The dolls are the work of local artist Tsukimi Ayano, who began making replicas of her neighbors after they died or left the village.

Creepy doppelgangers can be seen in different places Nagoro. Here the fisherman sits on the shore, but the elderly couple froze in eternal peace on the bench, but the puppet students filled the classroom waiting for the teacher.

Now there are about 350 dolls and less than 40 living people in Nagoro.

5 Gates to Hell, Ahal Province, Turkmenistan

The scientists decided to set fire to the crater to burn off the methane formed in the cavern, and created the Dante anomaly, which has been burning and burning for the past 46 years.

4 Bhangar Fort, Rajasthan, India

According to one of the local legends, the adept of black magic Singh fell in love with the beautiful princess Ratnavati. Knowing that the girl would not even look in his direction, the sorcerer gave the princess's servant the enchanted perfume to hand it to the princess. However, Ratnavati, having learned who gave her such a gift, broke the spirits. From the fragments of the vial, a huge stone appeared, which rolled towards Singh's house and crushed him. Before his death, the black magician cursed the inhabitants of Bhangar, promising that they would all die an unnatural death and would not be able to be reborn. A year after the death of Singh, a war broke out in which all the townspeople died.

According to another legend, the fort and its inhabitants were cursed by the hermit Baba Balatkhi, who did not want the shadow from highest building cities fell on his dwelling. As a result, all the inhabitants of Bhangar disappeared without a trace.

Now no one is allowed into the fort from dusk until dawn. It is said that those who went to this place after sunset never returned.

3 Changi Beach, Singapore

Now clean and beautiful beach- one of the places where thousands of innocent Chinese died at the hands of the Japanese during World War II. This event is known as the Suk Ching massacre (translated from Chinese - "deliverance through purification").

The massacres of the civilian population were carried out with the aim of destroying all persons pursuing an anti-Japanese policy, as well as those loyal to british empire and the Republic of China. Japan never apologized for this terrible event.

Many people hear crying and screaming while visiting Changi Beach, and at night you can supposedly see pits for burying bodies there.

2 Snake Island, Sao Paulo, Brazil

It gets its nickname from the insanely high density of golden spearhead snakes (aka bothrops). Studies have shown that, on average, there are between one and five of the most venomous snakes in the world per square meter of the island.

About 11,000 years ago, sea levels rose and separated Serpent Island from mainland Brazil. In isolation, nothing prevented snakes from being fruitful and multiplying, and adapting to changing conditions.

Since there was no ground-level prey left on the island, the snakes learned to hunt in the treetops and even catch birds in flight. Their venom is five times stronger than that of their counterparts from the mainland, it is able to kill its victim instantly, and also literally melts human flesh. Due to numerous deaths while attempting to colonize the island, the Brazilian government banned anyone (except scientists) from setting foot on the surface of Queimada Grande.

1 Paris catacombs

Somewhere in the catacombs are the remains of the famous French - the revolutionary Maximilian Robespierre, the writers Charles Perrault and Francois Rabelais, the mathematician Blaise Pascal.

During the Second World War, the headquarters of the Resistance was located in the catacombs of Paris. It is curious that only 500 meters from it was a secret Nazi bunker.

The temperature in the dark narrow passages is about 15 degrees Celsius and the cold, coupled with countless skulls, creates an atmosphere of fear and hopelessness. Despite this, in Parisian catacombs(more precisely, in the 2.5-kilometer part open to the public) there are many tourists.