The scariest places in the world. Thrill-Seekers Tourism - The Scariest Places on Earth

We present to your attention a list of the ten most terrible places on planet Earth. Frost on the skin from one thought to stay in any of them alone with himself. But you don't have to be afraid. After all, no matter how terrible they may seem, they are still part of our world. It is worth noting that we made some of them ourselves ...

Poveglia, Italy

Poveglia - small island, located in the Venetian Lagoon, in northern Italy. They say that in the middle of the XIV century, when a plague pandemic (Black Death) raged in Europe, the island was used as a place of exile for the sick. It is assumed that up to 160,000 people were buried on it, whose souls supposedly still roam the island. Also aggravating the terrible reputation is the fact that from 1922 to 1968 there was a psychiatric hospital in which a certain doctor allegedly experimented on patients, and later committed suicide.

In 2014, the Italian government announced an auction for a 99-year lease on Poveglia. Visiting the island is strictly limited.

Hill of Crosses, Lithuania

The Hill of Crosses is a shrine, a place of pilgrimage, located 12 kilometers from the city of Siauliai, Lithuania. It is a small hill on which Lithuanian crosses are installed. The exact number of crucifixes is unknown, but it is estimated that there are supposedly about 50,000 of them here. The Hill of Crosses, despite its external similarity, is not a cemetery. According to the belief, the one who leaves the cross here will be pursued by good luck.

Varosha, Cyprus

Varosha is a ghost town in the southern part of the Cypriot city of Famagusta. Before Turkish invasion in 1974 it was modern and basic tourist center In Cyprus. Its inhabitants fled and did not return after the Turkish army invaded the island in response to a political upheaval in the country. The general public is not allowed to enter Varosha.

Charleville Castle, Ireland

Charleville - a castle made in gothic style. Located in County Offaly, near the River Shannon in Ireland. The castle has a not very good reputation and is famous for the ghosts that live in it. The most famous is the ghost of a girl named Harriet, who died here by accidentally falling down the stairs. Charleville Castle has been repeatedly investigated by psychics, as well as groups involved in the study of the paranormal.

Manchak swamps, USA

The Manchak Marshes, also known as the Ghost Marshes, are located in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. According to legend, this place was cursed by a voodoo queen after she was captured at the beginning of the 20th century. Quite large alligators live here and only, occasionally, the remains of bodies that once fled here in the hope of hiding from the owners emerge.

Shades Of Death Road, USA

Fifth place in the ranking of the ten most terrible places in the world is Shades Of Death Road - a seven-mile (11.2 km) road in the center of Warren County, New Jersey, USA. It is the subject of numerous local legends. The road has been linked to unsolved murders that have taken place in its vicinity, as well as to ghosts and other supernatural phenomena.

Pripyat, Ukraine

Aokigahara forest, Japan

Aokigahara or "Suicide Forest" is also known as Jukai - a very dense forest, with total area 35 square kilometers, located at the northwestern foot of Mount Fuji on Japanese island Honshu. Counts popular place for suicide, or rather, the second most popular in the world, after one of the most beautiful bridges - the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. Between 70 and 100 bodies are found in the forest every year. According to the method of suicide, drug poisoning and hanging are leading. Also, the Aokigahara forest is associated with Japanese mythology and is traditionally considered the habitat of demons and ghosts.

Catacombs of Paris, France

The catacombs of Paris are the world famous artificial network of winding tunnels under Paris. According to various estimates, their length varies from 187 to 300 kilometers. In fact, this is a huge underground cemetery that stores the remains of about six million people. It is currently considered a popular place among tourists, but only 2 km of underground passages are open to them.

Island of the Dolls, Mexico

Island of the Dolls is located about 18 km from the city of Mexico City. Known primarily for old broken dolls that "decorate" tree branches. According to legend, the island is haunted by the ghost of a drowned girl, who in the 1950s constantly appeared to the Mexican Julian Santana Barrera. Later, for unknown reasons, the man left his family and went to live as a hermit on Mysterious Island. He claimed that he looked for dolls in landfills, fished them out of canals and hung them on trees to appease evil spirits, as well as make peace with the ghost of a dead girl. He also stated that supposedly at night, the dolls come to life and walk around the island. Julian drowned in April 2001, his body was found in one of the canals on the island.

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For many people, Paris is associated only with pleasant and majestic things. This is a city that is saturated with romance and beauty, and its Eiffel Tower attracts tourists from all over the world. However, few people know that among the sights of Paris there is one more place that does not fit in with the reputation of the city of love. And this is his Catacombs.

The catacombs of Paris are a complex system of ancient tunnels, the length of which reaches 300 kilometers. Formerly ordinary quarries, the tunnels are huge labyrinths that are more than three hundred years old. Over the years, the catacombs were used in different ways, but in 1786 the Ossuary was founded here. Wide corridors hundreds of meters long, the walls of which are covered with the remains of people. About 6 million people found their rest here, whose bones now adorn this frightening place. The length of the galleries is about 780 meters, which is a test for every visitor to the catacombs.

Now the catacombs of Paris are open for tourism. Although only 2.5 kilometers of tunnels are accessible to visitors, this area covers the most interesting places. The rest of the catacombs are abandoned or used for other purposes.

More detailed information about the Parisian catacombs in our article.

Manchak swamps in Louisiana

This is very ancient place, which has long been famous for its obstruction. However, its other name, "ghost swamps", was given to him relatively recently. According to legend, in 1915 several large villages were located near these swamps. Because of one conflict, a woman was held captive here, who was a follower of the Voodoo cult. Out of malice and desperation, she cursed this place forever, using her last strength. Literally a few days later, a terrible storm came to the swamps, which destroyed the villages and their inhabitants. Since then, only twisted trees have become inhabitants of the swamps.

True or fiction, but people have repeatedly disappeared in the swamps, and birds do not fly over them at all. There are only rumors that werewolves appear here at night and the souls of the dead periodically rise.

Japan is one of the countries with the highest number of suicides. That is why it is not surprising that such a terrible place is located in it.

The Aokigahara Jukai forest is quite beautiful and picturesque, located on the slope of the Japanese Mount Fuji. But it seems so only until you meet the gallows in it. However, this is not a decoration or an unsuccessful joke, but the most real man who committed suicide. This is what this place is known for, also called the Forest of Organized Suicides.

The Aokigahara Forest attracts many suicide bombers from all over Japan. The reason for this is the dark glory of this place. There were legends that demons and ghosts lived in the forest, which is why in ancient times Japanese families left old people and children here in the hope of their quick death.

Every year, about 100 people end their lives in the forest. This makes it a very popular tourist destination, although its fame puts many visitors off.

Mental hospital - last place that each of us would like to be in. Although this place is not as terrible as many people think, the fear of it gnaws at many.

It is this fear that those who visit the Cane Hill Hospital in London feel. No terrible and mystical legends are associated with it, it is a common medical institution. It is only known that in 1991 all the patients and doctors suddenly left the hospital, and the hospital itself was closed. This was done instantly, so all the equipment and papers remained in place.

At first glance, there is nothing terrible here, but this thought passes after the first step into the ruined building. Everything here is literally saturated with the horror and chaos that was going on in the minds of patients. And not everyone can handle it.

The most terrible places in the world have always been created by man. Rumors, curses man-made structures is their basis. However, sometimes nature contributes to this, which leads to really horrifying consequences.

Centralia used to be a beautiful town in Pennsylvania, USA. But one day, a group of firefighters decided to quickly get rid of debris in an old coal mine to clean it up. Who thought that the fire could go further, spilling over into the coal tunnels. As a result, the entire mine, located under the city, was on fire. Tongues of flame, geysers of poisonous gas, sudden collapses of roads and buildings - these are just a small part of what can be found in this city.

The fire has been burning here for more than 50 years, creating a danger to all visitors to these places.

Poveglia island in Italy

The small island of Poveglia, nestled in the Venetian Lagoon, is one of the region's top dark attractions. However, they do not write about it in magazines and do not discuss it on the streets, because this place is the dark past of Italy. Outwardly looking like an ordinary island, Poveglia is a haven for tens and hundreds of thousands of souls. Although now it is only an overgrown piece of land with dilapidated buildings, legends about it will exist for a long time to come.

Initially, the island was a quarantine zone for travelers from distant lands. Although there were deaths here, it was more of a forty-day visitor's resort. However, everything changed after the plague epidemic swept through Europe. Poveglia became a reference for tens of thousands of patients, as well as their families and relatives. The soil here is half cadaveric ash, and fishermen sometimes get polished bones from coastal waters.

In addition, the "Gates of Hell", as the island is also called, in the last century became a haven for mentally ill visitors, who were subjected to various experiments. But now it is completely abandoned, and the guards do not let a single soul in here.

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Previously, Mary King's Dead End was one of the busiest places in the city. It is located in Edinburgh, but today they try not to remember it. Like the island mentioned earlier, this place was transformed with the arrival of the plague. Patients from all over the city were brought here, as a result of which the quarter turned into a quarantine zone. When people were brought here, they could immediately be considered dead, there was no hope for recovery.

Although it happened more than 300 years ago, this place has not found other glory. The dead end is still called the "city of the dead", bringing here tourists and ordinary visitors. Now this place belongs to the underground quarters of the city, over which has long been standing New town. This makes Dead End Mary King even more creepy.

Church of St. George

Inconspicuous at first glance, this church is one of the main attractions of the Czech Republic. It is located in the village of Lukovo and has long been abandoned. Despite its fame, there are no guided tours here, and the last service was held here more than 40 years ago.

This place gained fame not thanks to mysticism or legends, but with the help of the artist Yakub Hadrava. He populated the church with strange sculptures, thereby creating an eternal worship. They settled down like the ghosts of former ministers who came to the next prayer. And it looks pretty creepy.

Afar basin

A place called the Afar Basin is located in Ethiopia. And it does not compare with the previous positions in this list. There is a really high risk to life here, because in the hollow a person can crash, suffocate or burn alive. And at the same time, it constantly attracts tourists.

The Afar basin consists of a desert, a salt lake and a river. In addition, the hottest place on earth is located here - the lava lake Dallol. Due to the location at the junction of lithospheric plates, constant eruptions occur here. But even without them, a person quickly loses consciousness from the abundant evaporation of hydrogen sulfide. This place is terrifyingly beautiful, but dangerous for the life of every tourist.

How do people see their summer rest? For most tourists, the ultimate dream is a light breeze and a golden beach near warm sea, others dream of the boundless beauties of alpine meadows and amazing beautiful waterfalls, some do not imagine their vacation without adrenaline, in search of which they go to the mountains or conquer stormy rivers.

It is for such people that horror tourism was created. Visiting the scariest places in the world, or as they are now called "horror tours", has become one of the most popular requests in travel companies. Such trips tickle the nerves of travelers, diluting everyday life with adrenaline.

1. Winchester House (San Jose, USA)
The huge Winchester mansion, built in San Jose, has 160 rooms and 40 stairs.

One night, the ghost of her late husband appeared to her, he told her bad news: since a huge fortune was made on human bones, the entire Winchester family is now cursed, and the ghosts will take revenge on them. You can appease them only by starting construction big estate. But there is one condition, as soon as the knocking of hammers subsides, the mistress of the house will die. Sarah Winchester immediately began construction.

All floors were entwined with a web of stairs leading to nowhere - thus frightened Mrs. Winchester tried to get rid of the ghosts chasing her.

The estate grew faster every day, construction did not stop for a moment and lasted more than 38 years!

Today, the Winchesters' home is open to tourists. However, you should not fight off the group, as you can instantly get lost in the labyrinths of rooms and corridors, in which, according to rumors, ghosts are waiting for their victims.

2. Museum of Torture in Mdina (Malta)

Nowadays, life in the town has practically stopped, there are practically no people on the streets of Mdina.

In the museum, visitors can see wax figure with bulging eyes in pain, at the moment when the executors pour hot oil down his throat. The scene of pulling out the tongue was also shown to tourists.

The hunchback caretaker relentlessly follows the brave sightseers - this adds color to the creepy place.

3. Manchak Swamps (USA, Louisiana)

Excursions to the swamps for tourists, to heighten fear, arrange at night. Travelers ride through the swamp on an Indian canoe, and only a torch illuminates their path. The only inhabitants of the swamps are huge alligators.

Periodically, from the depths of the swamps, a terrible and drawn-out howl is heard, belonging, according to local legend, to the terrible werewolf "rougarou". The Manchak swamps are also called the “ghost swamp”. This place, located near New Orleans, attracts Goths and other lovers thrill.

According to legend, the Manchak swamps were cursed by a voodoo queen who was captured here at the beginning of the 20th century. They say that it was she who sent a hurricane to the local lands, which swept here in 1915, destroyed to the ground and covered three villages with an impregnable swamp. Beneath the muddy slush is a graveyard of hundreds of people and pets that periodically float to the surface. The corpses become food for the local alligators, who also keep a close eye on tourists passing by in boats.

4. Pripyat (Ukraine)

On central avenues the city you can see scraps of newspapers dated 1986, the wind whistles through the broken windows of hospitals, kindergartens and schools.

Not far away, in the city park, a huge Ferris wheel creaks softly, and on the overgrown autodrome there are rusty cars that have not had time to ride their little passengers.

By the way, in the bypass channel, cooling Chernobyl nuclear power plant, live huge mutant catfish, which the station workers feed with bread.

Despite the dead landscape, abandoned houses and increased background radiation, more and more tourists from all over the world want to see this city frozen in time with their own eyes.

5. Catacombs of Paris (France)

Completes the list of the most terrible tourist places of the world is a gloomy underground labyrinth located in the catacombs of Paris.

6. Cemetery Gothic Church in Sedlec (Kostnice v Sedlci, Česko)
The Czech Republic has small town- Kutna Hora. In the 13th century it was a large shopping mall country, but the plague came to the city. About 30,000 people died within a year and the city turned into a huge cemetery.

But there was not enough land in the cemetery, so they began to dig out the old bones, and then transfer them to the local church, and make new burials in the vacated territory.

In the 18th century, the monastic lands, together with the empty monastery, were bought by the Schwarzenberg family. They hired František Rint, who was a woodcarver, to whiten the bones of the dead with bleach, and then, from the resulting material, he built the Schwarzenberg coat of arms, church vases, decorations and a huge chandelier for the church.

According to rough estimates, about 40,000 skeletons have been collected in the church.

The area around the church is used as a cemetery to this day.

7. Romanian Bran Castle (Castelul Bran)

The gothic silhouette of the castle terrified the locals thanks to the terrible legends about Prince Vlad IV, who is better known as Vlad Dracula.

Local guides love to talk about the fact that after the death of Vlad Dracula turned into a vampire. And every night, when the clock in the castle starts to strike twelve, he rises from the coffin and goes for another victim, which becomes a young and beautiful girl. Vlad bites into her neck and drinks blood. In addition, according to legend, the count can transform into a bat, wolf or rat. Moreover, he can subjugate the mind of a person - the victim does not resist him, and then, if he remains alive, he completely forgets about what happened.

Bran Castle was restored in 1992 by American director Francis Ford Coppola, who filmed his sensational film Dracula there.

8. Melbourne Old Gaol (Old Melbourne Gaol)

The guides tell horror stories about the former inhabitants of the prison and about the ghosts that roam the dark corridors of the museum at night, in addition, tourists can even look at photographs that depict “rebellious souls”.

The most famous "mask of death" is the death mask of the felon and murderer Edward "Ned" Kelly.

9. Centralia (America, Pennsylvania).
Deep in the bowels of the earth, right under the small settlement of Centralia, a fire has been raging for 46 years, spreading through the coal mines.

The culprits of the fire, according to legend, are ... firefighters who planned to burn the accumulated mountain of garbage in an abandoned mine.

Today, only a few people live in Centralia, earning their living in a kind of "tourist business".

10. Municipality of Hallstatt (Austria)

The city is on the list world heritage UNESCO and has been popular for over 3000 years for its salt mines. But, there is one nuance - there is very little space for living in the city, both for living people and for the dead, since the settlement is territorially limited by a lake on one side and rocks on the other.

10 years after the burial of the bones from the graves local residents removed from the ground, and then bleached and painted.

After this ritual, the bones are transferred to the local chapel for storage, and the next burial is carried out in the vacated place.

Fear is a completely natural emotion of a person who is faced with something unusual and frightening. Some people are horrified by seemingly ordinary things and phenomena. Some are terrified of flights of stairs or spiders. Some people faint at the thought of flying in an airplane. As a rule, all these fears are caused by some psychological problems or traumas suffered in early childhood.

But there are the most scary places on earth, in which even the most persistent and self-confident person begins to feel uncomfortable. Often there are phenomena for which there is no logical explanation. These locations will be discussed in this article. More precisely, we will discuss the Top 10 scariest places on the planet.

Suicide Forest, Japan

There are numerous shields at the entrance to this "wonderful" place. There are many inscriptions on them, reminding that life is the most precious thing that every person has. Promising, isn't it? And it's true: this area is included in the "19 most creepy and scary places on earth" according to English paranormal researchers.

This forest is very, very strange. Creepy, twisted trees, thick undergrowth of shrubs and eternal twilight. But even more terrible in it is that ropes, scraps of clothing, packages from under potent drugs often come across under your feet. All this was left here by those who are never destined to see the sun.

If you go five hundred meters deep in any direction, then you will almost inevitably come across a skeleton (skeletons), and even a fresh corpse. The police annually (!), Together with the workers medical services, ransacking this terrible place. And every year - at least a couple of hundred remains of varying degrees of preservation. It is not surprising that the most terrible places on earth (top ratings are compiled annually) have had this “cute” forest in their ranks for decades.

You might think that this is a description for some low-grade horror movie ... Alas, this forest is quite real. For decades, various relevant departments have been investigating and studying its phenomenon, but not a single answer has been received. Why does this particular place attract people who are contemplating suicide? If you think that only local bones are scattered in the forest, then you are mistaken. People come here from all over Japan!

However, there are those to whom such a terrible place brings a good profit. These are marauders. There are rumors of cases when these vultures collected valuable jewelry and wallets worth several million yen in a couple of visits. What are the scariest places on earth?

Waverly Hills Sanitarium

As a rule, people expect relaxation and rest from hardships and worries from a sanatorium. big world. If you think the same way, then you definitely shouldn’t come to the “fried chicken state”, that is, Kentucky. There are some of the scariest places on earth where a person just feels uncomfortable, only here you can really see ... the source of your anxiety.

This sanatorium is famous for ghosts, the images of which were repeatedly captured on camera. This place has become famous since 1920. Tuberculosis was rampant in the United States at that time. A hospital was organized in the sanatorium. The scale of the disease was so horrendous that every half an hour one of the patients died.

In order not to shock the venerable public, it was decided to use a tunnel from the hospital to the nearest hospital for storing the dead. railway station, from where the corpses were taken to the crematorium (the capacity of the hospital was simply not enough). Sometimes the bodies lay there for days.

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This continued until 1943, when outbreaks of tuberculosis were observed less and less, and great scientific minds were able to create a simple vaccine that still helped to stop many cases of the disease. The building was temporarily closed, but then it was turned into a nursing home. Since most of the guests were refused by their families, the old people were treated very rudely.

In the end, it came to the point that the residents of neighboring houses filed a lawsuit against the owners of the nursing home, after which it was closed. The building gradually dilapidated, fell into disrepair. It was then that thrill-seekers often came there. They looked for evidence of the existence of the paranormal and often found them. So, in ward number 502, dozens of seekers saw the ghost of a young girl.

A case is also described when the sounds of footsteps were heard in the empty and destroyed kitchen on the ground floor and the smell of fine freshly baked bread was heard. In a word, there are more than enough oddities here.

We continue to discuss the most terrible places on earth.

"Borley House" in Essex, England

Classic haunted house. Do you want thrills? Get it: only in this house, in the period from 1930 to 1935, more than two thousand (!) Cases of poltergeist manifestations were officially registered. This is difficult to fake, even if you really want to.

The house changed owners many times, until in 1937 a team of researchers of the inexplicable settled there. They recorded dozens of ghosts and completely unexplained phenomena. In particular, during a séance, someone, identifying himself as the previous owner of the house, said that in 1939 the building would burn down. And so it happened. Firefighters saw a man calmly walk out of the building, followed by a woman. Do I need to say that by that time there was no one there?

What are the scariest places on the planet?

Everest summit

What comes to mind when you say the word "Everest"? Surely associations will be associated with snow-white snow, with a peak proudly breaking through the clouds ... But professional climbers, with some fatigue and indifference, can say that at least a hundred or two corpses lie on the top of this mountain.

These are all those to whom the mountain did not submit. The reasons for their death are banal: a stolen oxygen cylinder (and there is literally nothing to breathe at such a height), hypothermia and hypoxia, cardiac arrest... Let's continue discussing the most terrible places on the planet.

Death Valley, USA

The name of this place alone hints that you cannot call it especially hospitable. "Death Valley" is a desert area located in the Mojave Desert. It is considered one of the hottest places on the planet: the temperature in these parts sometimes exceeds +55 degrees Celsius. Death in such conditions without water occurs within two to three hours. Despite this, the Valley is a national park, included in the list of "40 most beautiful places on the ground".

In general, there is nothing paranormal here. Rather, all the incidents in the Valley of Death occur for the most banal reason - human stupidity. Despite constant warnings, there are plenty of originals who travel to these parts without a supply of water and in old cars whose engines overheat instantly.

Why is it so dangerous here?

Standing on the road in the Valley without water is almost certain death. Cars rarely drive cellular communication No. The only true strategy in this case is to sit in the car and not leave it. Once every few hours, a sheriff's car passes along the road. That's just many "extreme" decide to walk around ... and die of dehydration, or even completely disappear in a hot valley.

By the way, this name is national park received after a sad story: in 1849 large group settlers decided to "cut the way" to California, passing through the valley. They got only half way, after which they all died of dehydration. In general, all the most terrible, mysterious and unusual places in the world, upon closer examination, they lose all their halo of mystery. But it's not always so easy...

Iluyu Cherkechekh, Yakutia

This valley is located in Yakutia, a strange and mysterious place. Even in Soviet times, there was a legend about some huge metal boilers in these parts. Scientists and the military became interested: judging by the descriptions, these "boilers" strikingly resembled parts of aircraft. That's just who and when flew in these parts? After all, the legends were not one hundred years old!

The Yakuts have legends about a hunter who, one terribly cold night, decided to spend the night in a cauldron. Oddly enough, but in the bitter cold it was warm here. The brave hunter did not see any spirits and slept well. Only a few days after his return, he began to get very sick, his hair and teeth fell out, the surface of his body became covered with ulcers, and he soon died.

Now it's almost the same story. There lived a shepherd. And then one day in the steppe he found a convenient sphere, which, as he believed, could be used as a stove. He lived with her for a couple of weeks, after which he died with the same symptoms that were observed in the Yakut hunter. It happened in the vicinity of Baikonur. The “stove” was part of a rocket, and it radiated monstrously. The shepherd died of radiation sickness. So which astronauts scattered their “rockets” across the Yakut valley? So far there are no answers.

So let's continue. We have not yet discussed all the 10 creepiest places on earth!

Death Valley, Kamchatka

Another valley with the same "romantic" name. Once, local hunters lost their dogs, which they took with them on a hunt. After wandering for a couple of hours, people went to the slope of the ridge, where the corpses of various animals lay side by side. Among them they saw their dogs.

After staying in this place for only a couple of hours, people felt very unwell and weak. For several months they were very sick, losing ten kilograms in weight. In subsequent attempts to explore the Valley, about a hundred scientists died. And the casket was opened simply: it turns out that exits of underground volcanic cavities open in that place, from which a lot of heavy, highly toxic gases come out. Walking there without a powerful gas mask is strongly discouraged.

Dead End Mary King, Edinburgh

When the plague raged in Scotland, the authorities of Edinburgh decided to relocate all the sick to a securely fenced old district so that the infection does not spread. In principle, they succeeded and the number of cases of plague gradually began to decline.

But Mary King's cul-de-sac, named after a little girl who died here, soon fell into disrepute. On old streets they constantly see ghostly silhouettes, in local houses sometimes for no reason the temperature drops sharply, and animals are terribly afraid to enter some rooms. If you are in Scotland, visit this dead end! Despite the fact that the most terrible places on planet Earth often cause fear for some natural reason, Mary King's dead end is clearly not one of them.

Catacombs of Paris

In 1780 glorious city Paris was shocked by bad news: the wall of the local cemetery collapsed, which separated the city of the living from cities of the dead. And then it began ... When the rains finally eroded the soil, the Parisian streets were flooded with pieces of corpses, bones and scraps of old clothes. After all, people have been buried in this place for centuries!

How to be? The only way out was the collection of mortal remains, their washing and storage in the old city catacombs. The amount of work was monstrous: when modern researchers roughly counted the number of bones, it turned out that there were at least six million people laid there!

Being in the catacombs is quite creepy: skulls are grinning from all sides, the twilight creates a strange feeling that there are a lot of people around you ... By the way, the list of "25 most terrible places on the planet" compiled american amateurs, puts these catacombs in seventh position.

Death Road, Borneo

Many still consider the Japanese to be nice people, on whose heads the Americans dropped atomic bombs for no reason at all. Of course, we will not discuss the ethical side of the US act, but the Japanese themselves are not without sin ...

For example, there is one road on the island of Borneo. It is known for the fact that Japanese soldiers drove almost 2.5 thousand Australian and American prisoners along it. Of these, only six survived. They were only able to outlive their comrades because they managed to escape. All the rest of the Japanese soldiers were tortured and starved to death.

The photograph of John Tulloch, a retired military man, is widely known. It shows the ghostly silhouettes of people doomedly walking along the road. Be that as it may, this place, even on a bright day, causes an oppressive and gloomy feeling.

So we finished looking at the Top 10 scariest places on the planet. We hope you had a lot of fun!

10 - Swamp Manchak

The paranormal swamp is located in American Louisiana, not far from New Orleans. Ghosts and werewolves live here, frightening landscapes and predatory animals surround the swamp. This area is often referred to as "ghost swamps" and cannot be crossed without a boat.

Here people mysteriously disappear. There is a legend that speaks of a curse that was inflicted by a witch several decades ago.

In the photos you can see what these terrible swamps with blue-black water look like. There have been repeated attempts to drain this area, but this has never been done. Each time a powerful hurricane broke all plans and destroyed the settlements of the workers and the people themselves.

9 – Cane Hill Hospital

Cane Hill was a lunatic asylum in Croydon, London. The hospital worked exactly until 1991. Then, at one point, all the patients and doctors left the facility. The strange thing is that it all happened suddenly, and what caused it is unknown.

Some patients were transferred to other hospitals, some returned home, some ran away, and some simply disappeared. The mysterious and quick closure of the hospital was the reason for the horror of this place.

The hospital building still exists today. Inside, you can see abandoned old equipment, medical supplies, wards with patient beds, documents and everything else that was left after the sudden devastation.

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8 — Ruins of Bangar

India, Rajasthan, the abandoned city of Bangar. The place was erected by the prince, in memory of his military achievements.

Rumor has it that this place is the largest concentration of ghosts in India. the city was built back in 1573, but because of a mystical curse in 1783, all the inhabitants left there.

Bangar, or rather what is left of it, is so filled with ghosts and other evil spirits that the authorities are forced to close it after sunset and before sunrise.

7 - Centralia

1962, Centralia, Pennsylvania, the city is being cleaned up and several firefighters, while in an old mine, set fire to a pile of garbage.

But the worst happened, the fire spread much further and eventually the mine ignited. The fire lasted a long time, so long that the streets of Centralia were deserted forever.

Today Centralia is not the best place for tourism. You run the risk of being poisoned by poisonous gases, getting trapped in collapsing roads or smoking earth.

6 - Gates of Hell

The Gates of Hell is a huge hole in the ground in Turkmenistan, its width is almost 100 meters. This Paranormal Activity was provoked back in 1971, after an accident at one of the Soviet drilling stations. Then a dangerous fault was formed, from which poisonous gases flowed.

Scientists decided to burn dangerous gases and thus get rid of the problem, but something went wrong. From the moment the gases were set on fire, the fire continues to this day. Its lights are visible from afar. The locals called it the "Gates of Hell" phenomena.

No one knows when the flame will go out and the fire will be stopped.

5 - Shrine of Tophet

In Tunisia, there is the Sanctuary of Tophet. This place is home to the graves of thousands of children.

Scientists suggest that these are sacrifices that took place in Punic times. Then this place was called Carthage.

Then famine reigned here, so there are all prerequisites to assume that the children sacrificed were eaten.

The scariest places on earth

4 - Aktun Tunichil Muknal

In Belize, there is a cave that is full of artifacts and skeletons of the Mayan tribe.

One of the most amazing elements of this place was a young girl who was sacrificed a long time ago.

Even more fear catches up with her bones, shining like crystal from calcination.

3 - Aokigahara

Japanese forest, which is located at the foot of Mount Fuji. This place is also called the sea of ​​trees.

The whole horror of this forest is that it is considered the most popular for suicides.

Every year, a special group of people is sent there to clear the forest of corpses.