Tourism for thrill-seekers is the scariest places on Earth. The most terrible places on earth (39 photos)
From time immemorial, people have sought to get vivid impressions. Surprisingly, the most profound are the experiences that affect the very essence of man. In particular, this includes the instinct of self-preservation.
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Speaking of mysterious and mysterious places world, people usually mention ghosts or semi-legendary stories about the atrocities of the former owners of certain buildings. Today we will try to highlight those that are not associated with the action of ghosts.
Even Sigmund Freud singled out a special human attraction, which he called "Thanatos". The great psychologist thus explained the desire of people for death and especially dangerous events and activities.
Each reader will be able to name the most terrible place on the planet. Since some are frightened by local legends, and a glimpse of a glance is enough to make all the nightmares come to life in the imagination. Others you can't get through. Therefore, we tried to select anomalous zones of various effects.
There are 5 most creepy places associated with poltergeist, ghosts or tectonic activity. We will talk about such objects that look outwardly, maybe not entirely remarkable, but leave an indelible and deep mark for life after visiting.
Winchester House, San Jose, USA
During our virtual tour we will review the most scary places in the world. The sample concerns not only artificial objects created by people, but also unexplained natural phenomena.
The first place we visit will be an extravagant mansion in California. Today it is a tourist attraction. But it used to be the home of Sarah, the widow of William Winchester. His father invented the famous rifle. He soon died, as did his son and granddaughter.
When the woman had an audience with the medium, he gave her a message from William. According to the deceased, she should have bought a plot of land in San Jose and built a mansion of a specific layout there. It should have many rooms, traps and tricks to confuse the angry ghosts of people killed from hard drives.
Spent her entire multi-million dollar fortune building this shelter. It has interesting moments. For example, stairs to the second floor, ending in a wall, or doors without rooms. Also, this mansion is permeated through with the magic number 13. There are so many steps in each of the stairs, in many rooms there are so many windows, in the building there are “damn dozen” bathrooms.
In total, the estate has more than one hundred and sixty rooms, forty staircases, six kitchens, but only one shower. There are also about two thousand doors, but only four hundred and fifty doorways.
We decided to start our tour from this estate, because it is the most extravagant and unusual. It even filmed a feature film based on the biography of Sarah Winchester.
Aokigahara Forest
Probably the creepiest place on the planet is the Suicide Forest in Japan. In the original it is called Aokigahara (Valley of Green Trees). This reserve is located at the foot of Mount Fuji. In principle, landing can only be liked in a clear sunny weather. The rest of the time, she simply breathes doom, dullness and meaninglessness.
Aokigahara is only slightly behind the San Francisco bridge in terms of suicides. Interestingly, the forest has long been considered the abode of evil spirits and demons. Here, until the beginning of the twentieth century, poor families brought old people and children to die, whom they could no longer provide food.
Later, from about the middle of the last century, many lower and middle-level workers were drawn here. Apparently, the impressionable Japanese find only such a way to escape from the "rat race" of society.
About a hundred suicides are found here every year. Recently, even unofficial detachments of marauders have appeared. They comb the thickets for bodies and pick their pockets, take off their jewelry. Thus, the mysterious places of the planet help not only the development of tourism, but also enrich local scammers and thieves.
The Japanese government allocates funds for the cleaning of bodies. According to eyewitnesses, the most common ways to end life are drug poisoning and hanging.
Local authorities have taken a number of measures to help the maximum number of people to abandon the stupid decision. Along the perimeter of the forest there are signs with a call to come to their senses and a helpline. Also, video cameras are directed to many paths leading to the thicket. And the attendants working in nearby institutions have already learned how to calculate potential suicides. They immediately report the information to the police.
It is noteworthy that several books and films have been published in Japan that tell about the specifics of this place. And Tsurumi's "Guide to Suicide" is often found near corpses in the forest.
Overtown Bridge
The darkness of the soul is incomprehensible to another person, and in the back streets of inflamed illusions, even the most persistent and sane individual can go crazy. But what causes some animals to commit suicide is an interesting question.
We continue to consider the most terrible places in the world. And next in line is the Overtown Bridge, near the settlement of Milton, in West Dumbartonshire. From about the middle of the twentieth century, interesting cases have been recorded here. Almost every month, at least one dog jumps off the bridge into the water.
Most die immediately, and the survivors return after a while to try again.
It is noteworthy that animals live by instincts, and such deviations are not characteristic of them. That is why commissions came here several times to investigate such an unusual anomaly.
Today there are two versions that highlight the cause. One of them was proposed by ethnographers and collectors of folklore, the second - by zoologists.
According to the first, a man with a child once came to the bridge. He declared his son a product of satanic forces and threw the baby into the water, and after a couple of days he jumped himself. Since then, it has become a tradition that the ghost of the boy invites the dogs to play. Animals, because of their ability to perceive the subtle world, without suspecting anything, follow the ghost and die.
A more rational explanation was put forward by scientists, after many months of research. According to their theory, minks are to blame. These rodents live along the banks of the river, and for many years these places simply smelled of them. Dogs, focusing on the intensity of the smell, rush to pursue their prey and fall off the bridge into the water.
We review the most creepy places in the world. And no one can fully explain their specifics, otherwise they would cease to be mysterious. Same with the Overtown Bridge.
Even if the reason lies in the burrows, why do dogs that survived a fall of fifteen meters come back and throw themselves again? After all, these animals have a very developed memory for places and people who hurt them.
Jatinga
Thus, from some terrestrial anomalies it is impossible to hide, even rising high into the air. For the first time about unusual phenomenon E. Ji, an English tea planter and researcher, spoke up. He described a strange period at the end of August, when large flocks of birds begin to flock to the valley of Jatinga and crash on the ground in a big way.
At first, no one believed him and considered his notes to be fiction. But one orientologist decided to check the legend. It turned out that the tea grower was telling the truth. So Sengupta became the first scientist to record the unusual August birdfall.
According to this researcher, the birds are in a kind of trance, "like somnambulists." They rush to the light of the fires and lamps of the local village. If you take an animal that has not broken to death, it does not resist, but completely refuses food and water. It is noteworthy that after three or four days of madness, the released bird flies away as if nothing had happened.
But the creepy places of the world are often perceived ambiguously. Tourists and visiting researchers see them as an anomalous threat, while locals invent a myth that justifies the event. So, the natives of this valley say that the gods rewarded them with such a "birdfall" for righteousness. They can collect a bunch of carcasses and use them for food. It turns out a kind of analogue of "manna from heaven" for an Indian village.
Abbey of Thelema, Sicily
Discussing the most terrible places in the world, we return to the creation of human hands. The next attraction we will talk about is a one-story house in the town of Cefalu on the island of Sicily.
It was once acquired by Aleister Crowley, one of the most famous and controversial occultists of the early twentieth century. Here he was going to create the basis for a future civilization, cleansed of Christian darkness and obscurantism.
It was within these walls that Crowley resumed satanic rituals, as well as the practice of witchcraft using narcotic drugs. So, the initiation included the simultaneous use of marijuana with heroin and a night of reflection in a special room, which was called the “Hall for Visions” or “Nightmare Room”. In this room, the walls are painted with gloomy frescoes depicting different circles of hell and paradise.
The abbey was closed after the famous British aristocrat Raoul Loveday died on its territory. Presumably, he poisoned himself with drugs mixed with cat blood. Thus ended the history of the commune, living under the slogan "Do whatever - that's the only law."
There are many creepy abandoned places on the planet, but only attracts crowds of unofficial visitors. Fans of witchcraft and the work of Aleister Crowley come here every year. They seek to touch the ruins in order to receive a powerful energy charge from their idol.
Damn Cemetery. Krasnoyarsk region
There are natural scary places in Russian Federation. We will start from a remote area in Siberia. In general, ethnologists have collected a lot of materials about the most incredible features and terrible secrets, which keeps the taiga. But now we will talk about what really happened various groups researchers in the form of photographs and videos, rather than simple stories.
Presumably, the Devil's Cemetery appeared as a result of unusual cosmic activity associated with the fall. According to the recollections of old-timers, one day an object fell from the sky, and a rounded edge formed in the forest. The ground turned black and from time to time smoke began to appear from it. In summer, no grass grows on this place, only a little moss, and in winter there is no snow.
Any animal that gets inside the damn circle dies within the next few hours. People, according to eyewitnesses, experience an inexplicable feeling of longing here, and as they approach the very edge of the forest, an irrational fear grows, gradually turning into panic.
Thus, creepy places on Earth can be not just of natural, but also of cosmic origin.
Sablinsky caves
Speaking about the most terrible place on the planet, it is especially worth stopping at There are no bloodthirsty monsters, inexplicable and oppressive horror among visitors or satanic symbols. Just a fairly large underground natural formation. For example, the length of one of the catacombs is more than seven kilometers, and the height of the halls is up to five meters.
In Soviet times, the object was classified, as all sorts of criminal individuals who were outside the law were hiding underground. They called themselves dissidents. Even about ten different gangs were formed. Every month several people disappeared here and still disappear. At the same time, all the well-known "political" who were hiding underground have long since left the dead place. Today, according to official figures, there is not a single “underground inhabitant” there.
Thrill-seekers and lovers of creepy places in Russia constantly come to the Sablinsky caves. They are not even afraid of the facts of the frequent disappearance of curious onlookers.
Scientists see the reason for this anomaly in underground loose sands and movements of the earth's crust. A group that enters one of the tunnels can be buried under tons of sand in a second. All this data is based on the stories of gang members who once lived in these caves.
Death road. Highway Lyubertsy-Lytkarino
Let's talk about the mysterious places of the Moscow region. In principle, researchers around Moscow anomalous zones there are about a dozen sections of the highway with an increased risk of fatal accidents.
But the section of the Lyubertsy - Lytkarino highway, near the village of Pekhorka, is considered the most unsafe. If you drive along this road, you can see many wreaths on the trees along the asphalt surface, marking the places where drivers died.
Most accidents date from 1990 to 2002. The sudden decrease in mortality after 2003 is explained by the fact that at that time the governor took up the “anomaly”. Being formerly a military general, he did not philosophize. In this section, the concrete pavement of the road was replaced with asphalt of excellent quality, and four speed bumps were also built.
After such preventive measures, the drivers did not have the opportunity to accelerate strongly along the highway.
Skeptics and realists often say that scary places are deadly only for those who disregard common sense and Locals tell a legend that this stretch became the “road of death” because the coating was laid on top of the old cemetery. Here are the ghosts of the dead and take revenge on unlucky drivers who find themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Beria's house
We talked about the mysterious places of the Moscow region, in conclusion, I would like to note one more thing strange building in the capital itself. In Soviet times, this house was perhaps the most terrible place in the area. Passers-by tried to bypass the street by the tenth road, and if it was necessary to go along it, they crossed to the opposite side.
What is this terrible building? House of State Security Commissioner Lavrenty Pavlovich Beria. This man was one of the organizers of the Stalinist repressions. The building is located in Vspolny Lane. Today its premises are occupied by the Tunisian embassy.
According to eyewitnesses (local residents and researchers), a couple of times a month around three in the morning you can hear ghostly sounds near the house. They say that this is a distinct noise of a powerful motor. An invisible car “drives up” to the doors of the building. You can hear its doors opening, a male voice saying something. Then the door closes and the car drives off. The whole incident takes about three minutes.
Thus, in this article we talked about the terrible places in Russia and the world. We got acquainted with both safe objects that can interest ufologists or teenagers, and deadly formations that are better not to approach.
Good luck, dear readers! Travel smart.
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Old Jewish cemetery in Prague, Czech Republic
Processions in this cemetery took place for almost four centuries (from 1439 to 1787). More than 100 thousand dead are buried on a relatively small plot of land, and the number of tombstones reaches 12,000.
cemetery workers covered the burials with earth, and new tombstones were erected in the same place. On the territory of the cemetery there are places where 12 grave tiers are located under the earth's crust. As time passed, the sagging earth opened the eyes of the living to the old tombstones, which began to shift the later ones. The view turned out not only unusual, but also creepy.
Island of abandoned dolls, Mexico
There is a very strange abandoned island in Mexico, most which is inhabited by scary dolls. It is said that in 1950, a certain hermit Julian Santana Barrera began to collect and hang dolls from wastebaskets, who in this way tried to calm the soul of a girl drowned nearby. Julian himself drowned on the island on April 17, 2001. Now there are about 1000 exhibits on the island.
Hashima Island, Japan
Hasima is a former coal miner's settlement founded in 1887. It was considered one of the most densely populated places on earth - with coastline about a kilometer its population in 1959 was 5259 people. When coal became unprofitable to mine here, the mine was closed and the island city added itself to the list of ghost towns. It happened in 1974.
Chapel of Bones, Portugal
Copella was built in the 16th century by a Franciscan monk. The chapel itself is small - only 18.6 meters long and 11 meters wide, but the bones and skulls of five thousand monks are kept here. On the roof of the chapel is the phrase "Melior est die mortis die nativitatis" ("Better the day of death than the day of birth").
Suicide Forest, Japan
Suicide Forest is the informal name for the Aokigahara Jukai forest, located on the island of Honshu in Japan and famous for its frequent suicides. Initially, the forest was associated with Japanese mythology and was traditionally represented as the abode of demons and ghosts. Now it is considered the second most popular place in the world (the championship at the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco) to settle accounts with life. At the entrance to the forest there is a poster: “Your life is a priceless gift from your parents. Think about them and about your family. You don't have to suffer alone. Call us at 22-0110."
Abandoned psychiatric hospital in Parma, Italy
Brazilian artist Herbert Baglione made an art object from a building that once housed a psychiatric hospital. He portrayed the spirit of this place. Now ghostly figures of exhausted patients roam the former hospital.
Church of St. George, Czech Republic
The church in the Czech village of Lukova has been abandoned since 1968, when part of its roof collapsed during a funeral ceremony. Artist Jakub Hadrava populated the church with ghost sculptures, giving it a particularly sinister look.
Catacombs in Paris, France
Catacombs - a network of winding underground tunnels and caves under Paris. The total length, according to various sources, is from 187 to 300 kilometers. Since the end of the 18th century, the remains of almost 6 million people have been buried in the catacombs.
City of Centralia, Pennsylvania, USA
Due to the underground fire that broke out 50 years ago, which continues to burn to this day, the population has decreased from 1,000 people (1981) to 7 people (2012). The population of Centralia is now considered the smallest in the state of Pennsylvania. Centralia served as the prototype for the creation of the city in the Silent Hill series of games and in the film based on this game.
Akodesseva Magic Market, Togo
The market of magic items and magical herbs Akodesseva is located right in the center of the city of Lome, the capital of the state of Togo in Africa. The Africans of Togo, Ghana and Nigeria still profess the voodoo religion and believe in the miraculous properties of dolls. The fetish assortment of Akodesseva is extremely exotic: here you can buy the skulls of cattle, the dried heads of monkeys, buffaloes and leopards, and many other equally “wonderful” things.
Plague Island, Italy
Poveglia is one of the most famous islands Venetian lagoon, northern Italy. It is said that since Roman times, the island has been used as a place of exile for plague patients, in connection with which up to 160,000 people were buried on it. The souls of many of the dead have allegedly turned into ghosts, with which the island is now full. The island's dismal reputation is exacerbated by tales of horrific experiments allegedly subjected to patients in a psychiatric clinic. In this regard, paranormal researchers call the island one of the most terrible places on earth.
Hill of Crosses, Lithuania
The Hill of Crosses is a hill on which many Lithuanian crosses are installed, their total number is approximately 50 thousand. Despite the resemblance, it is not a cemetery. According to popular belief, the one who leaves the cross on the Mountain will be lucky. Neither the time of the appearance of the Hill of Crosses, nor the reasons for its occurrence can be said with accuracy. To this day, this place is shrouded in secrets and legends.
Cabayan burials, Philippines
The famous fire mummies of Kabayan, dating back to 1200-1500 AD, are buried here, as well as, as they believe locals, their spirits. They were made using a complex mummification process, and are now carefully guarded, as cases of their theft are not uncommon. Why? As one of the robbers said, “he had the right to do so,” since the mummy was his great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather.
Overtown Bridge, Scotland
Old arch bridge located near the Scottish village of Milton. In the middle of the 20th century, strange things began to happen on it: dozens of dogs suddenly rushed from a 15-meter height, fell on stones and broke to death. Those that survived returned and tried again. The bridge has turned into a real "killer" of four-legged animals.
Aktun Tunichil Muknal Cave, Belize
Aktun Tunichil Muknal is a cave near the city of San Ignacio, Belize. It is an archaeological site of the Maya civilization. Located on the territory natural park Mount Tapira. One of the halls of the cave is the so-called cathedral, where the Mayans performed sacrifices, as they considered this place to be the Xibalba - the entrance to the underworld.
Leap Castle, Ireland
Leap Castle in Offaly, Ireland is considered one of the world's cursed castles. Its dark attraction is a large underground dungeon, the bottom of which is studded with sharp stakes. The dungeon was discovered during the restoration of the castle. In order to take out all the bones from it, the workers needed 4 wagons. Locals say that the castle is inhabited by many ghosts of people who died in the dungeon.
Chauchilla Cemetery, Peru
Chauchilla cemetery is located about 30 minutes from the Nazca desert plateau, on south coast Peru. The necropolis was discovered in the 1920s. According to researchers, bodies were found in the cemetery, which are about 700 years old, and the last burials were carried out here in the 9th century. Chauchilla differs from other burial sites in the special way in which people were buried. All the bodies are "squatting", and their "faces" seem to be frozen in a wide smile. The bodies are perfectly preserved thanks to Peru's dry desert climate.
Sanctuary of Tophet, Tunisia
The most infamous feature of Carthaginian religion was the sacrifice of children, mostly infants. It was forbidden to cry during the sacrifice, as it was believed that any tear, any plaintive sigh would detract from the value of the sacrifice. In 1921, archaeologists discovered a place where several rows of urns were found with the charred remains of both animals (they were sacrificed instead of people) and small children. The place was named Tophet.
Snake Island, Brazil
Queimada Grande is one of the most dangerous and famous islands our planet. On it there is only a forest, a rocky inhospitable coast up to 200 meters high and snakes. There are up to six snakes per square meter of the island. The poison of these reptiles acts instantly. The Brazilian authorities have decided to completely ban anyone from visiting this island, and locals tell chilling stories about it.
Buzludzha, Bulgaria
The largest monument in Bulgaria, located on Mount Buzludzha with a height of 1441 meters, was built in the 1980s in honor of the Bulgarian Communist Party. Its construction took almost 7 years and involved more than 6 thousand workers and experts. The interior was partly finished in marble, and the stairs were decorated with red cathedral glass. Now the memorial house has been completely looted, leaving only a concrete frame with reinforcement, similar to a destroyed alien ship.
City of the Dead, Russia
Dargavs in North Ossetia looks like a pretty village with small stone houses, but in fact it is ancient necropolis. In crypts of various types, people were buried along with all their clothes and personal belongings.
Abandoned military hospital Beelitz-Heilstetten, Germany
During the First and Second World Wars, the hospital was used by the military, and in 1916 Adolf Hitler was treated there. After World War II, the hospital ended up in the zone of Soviet occupation and became the largest Soviet hospital outside the USSR. The complex consists of 60 buildings, some of which have now been restored. Almost all abandoned buildings are closed to access. Doors and windows are securely boarded up with high boards and sheets of plywood.
Unfinished subway in Cincinnati, USA
Abandoned subway depot in Cincinnati - project built in 1884. But after the First World War and as a result of changing demographics, the need for the subway disappeared. Construction slowed down in 1925, half of the 16 km line was completed. There are now guided tours of the abandoned subway twice a year, but many people have been known to roam its tunnels alone.
Hanging coffins of Sagada, Philippines
On the island of Luzon in the village of Sagada is one of the most frightening places in the Philippines. Here you can see unusual burial structures made of coffins placed high above the ground on the rocks. There is a belief among the indigenous population that the higher the body of the deceased is buried, the closer his soul will be to heaven.
Nuclear lighthouse at Cape Aniva (Sakhalin)
The lighthouse was built with great difficulty in 1939 according to the project of the architect Miura Shinobu - it was a unique and most complex technical structure in all of Sakhalin. It ran on a diesel generator and backup batteries until the early 1990s, when it was re-equipped. Thanks to the atomic energy source, maintenance costs were minimal, but soon there were no funds left for this - the building was empty, and in 2006 the military removed two isotope installations from here that fed the lighthouse. Once it shone for 17.5 miles, but now it has been plundered and fallen into disrepair.
Eighth workshop of the Dagdiesel plant, Makhachkala
Naval weapon test station, commissioned in 1939. It is located at a distance of 2.7 km from the coast and has not been used for a long time. Construction was carried out for a long time and was complicated by difficult conditions. Unfortunately, the workshop did not serve the plant for long. The requirements for the work carried out in the workshop changed, and in April 1966 this grandiose structure was written off from the factory balance. Now this “Massiv” is abandoned and stands in the Caspian Sea, resembling an ancient monster from the shore.
Lier Sikehus Psychiatric Hospital, Norway
At the Norwegian psychiatric hospital, which is located in small town Lier, half an hour from Oslo, a dark past. Once, experiments were carried out on patients here, and for unknown reasons, four buildings of the hospital were abandoned in 1985. Equipment, beds, even magazines and personal belongings of patients remained in the abandoned buildings. At the same time, the remaining eight buildings of the hospital are still working today.
Gunkanjima Island, Japan
In fact, the island is called Hashima, nicknamed Gunkanjima, which means "cruiser island". The island was settled in 1810 when coal was found there. Within fifty years, it has become the most populated island in the world in terms of the ratio of land and the number of inhabitants on it: 5300 people with a radius of the island itself of one kilometer. By 1974, the reserves of coal and other minerals on Gankajima were finally exhausted, and people left the island. Today, visiting the island is prohibited. There are many legends about this place among the people.
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.
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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.
Lovers thrill today there are plenty of opportunities to drive blood through the veins. The simplest and affordable way- Skydiving. However, for those who do not really like sports, travel agencies offer excursions to the terrible places of our planet. To the places where ordinary people try not to get hit, daredevils go voluntarily, wanting to feel the adrenaline rush. So, let's look at the ten most terrible places on Earth, entangled in legends, myths and eyewitness accounts of the events taking place there.
1. Manchak Marshes in Louisiana
In the US state of Louisiana, near the city New Orleans, are the impenetrable Manchak swamps, also known as the "Ghost Swamps". According to legends, this place was cursed by the black witch Voodoo when she was captured in the 20th century in these places. In the middle of the swamps stand centuries-old trees with spreading branches, sometimes descending to the very water, while the roots of trees stick out of the water, crawling out like snakes. The idea to drain the swamps and cut down the trees was not successful - several small villages were swept away by a hurricane, more than one hundred people perished in the swamp, their corpses still continue to emerge, although more than 100 years have passed. Currently, the Manchak swamps attract lovers of the occult and mysteries, and excursions are organized for those who wish.
2. Mutter Museum of Medical History in Philadelphia
The Mütter Museum of Medical History contains all kinds of pathologies, biological exhibits, and ancient medical instruments. The museum is located in North America, in the training center for doctors. The main part of the exhibition is made up of skulls and skeletons, although there are also a huge number of other unique exhibits, for example, a human intestine 12.5 cm long; a person who during his lifetime suffers from ossifying fibrodysplasia (in this disease, bones form at the site of wounds and bruises); Siamese twins; a baby with two heads, various growths, curvature and other deformities.
3. Chernobyl in Ukraine
Arriving in Pripyat, you find yourself in the exclusion zone. Before that terrible 1986, about 12.5 thousand people lived here, who were urgently forced to leave their homes forever. There are still unread newspapers on the tables of the houses, in the yards, with every gust of a dead wind, the swings sway, creaking. Toys are scattered in kindergartens, and ivy, which has grown over this time, winds along the walls. Now, when the level of radiation has decreased significantly, tourists come here to walk around the nuclear power plant, see the "Sarcophagus", visit the parking lot of contaminated equipment and wander through the deserted streets of this ghost town.
4. Kostnice (Bone Museum) in the Czech Republic
The history of the creation of the Ossuary began when Abbot Jindrich in 1278 brought a handful of holy earth from Golgotha and scattered it at the local cemetery, which has since become very popular, because everyone wanted to rest in holy ground. Many burials date back to the 14th century, when more than 30,000 people were buried here during the plague. Then there were waves, popular unrest, as a result of which the cemetery grew to enormous proportions. As a result, it was decided at new burials to take out the old bones and put them in the church. When the owners of the land became the Schwanzerbergs, they hired a woodcarver to somehow immortalize the remains. As a result, the Ossuary was created, in which all objects are made of thousands of human bones.
5. Dracula's Castle in Trasylvania
Bran Castle (the real name of Dracula's castle) was built back in the Middle Ages on one of the cliffs in Carpathian mountains. The castle was made gothic style: stone stairs, narrow passages, cramped rooms - all this has a depressing effect on the psyche of a normal person. The castle still looks like it was described in famous novel"Dracula". The chimney of the castle makes howling sounds in strong winds - quite in the spirit of horror films. In one of the many rooms of the castle there is a huge bed, on which the owner of the castle supposedly sucked the blood from his victims.
6. Sonora Witch Market in Mexico City
Any tourist in Mexico City can visit the local witch market, which offers a wide selection of accessories for witchcraft (candles, herbs, Voodoo dolls, amulets, black salt, St. Ignatius water, golden sand, love potions, lotions and much more ), figurines of witches, wigs, bunches of garlic and other witch attributes. With a strong desire, you can even buy the blood of a rattlesnake or dried hummingbird to attract good luck. Here, for only 10 dollars, local witches, sitting in cramped little rooms, will save you from adultery and poverty. The Mexicans themselves believe in their witchcraft and before turning to doctors, they first try magic potions.
7. Truk Lagoon in Micronesia
Once based in the lagoon of Truk Island military base Japan, and was considered one of the most formidable, because of which the leadership of the base relaxed a little, despite the approach of the US army, which attacked the Japanese military in February 1944, catching the Japanese military by surprise. The outcome of this battle was the flooding of all available military equipment in the waters of the lagoon. Now Truk Lagoon is one of the best places for scuba diving, because here the types of old military equipment are combined with dozens of coral species and a variety of underwater world. However, not everyone dares to inspect the equipment, because there is an opportunity to meet their crew, which is still at their combat posts.
8. Torture Museum in Malta
There are enough museums in Europe that store all kinds of instruments of torture such as the "Spanish boot", guillotines and other terrible attributes, but the Maltese museum has the strongest impact on visitors. The museum is located in the capital of ancient Malta, the city of Mdina. The torture museum is located in one of the basements of the town, here are presented both real instruments of torture, such as nail pullers, a rack, a vice for squeezing the skull, and their "victims" made of wax - people with severed heads, hangmen. Scenes of these same tortures are also presented here - here is an executor pouring boiling oil into his victim with already bulging eyes; and here is the inquisitor pulling out the tongue of her victim. The hunchback - caretaker follows the brave sightseers.
9 Winchester California House
This huge mystical mansion is visited by tourists from all over the world, because a huge number of legends and mysteries are associated with it. Once upon a time, a fortuneteller told the heiress of the arms company Sarah Winchester that she would be haunted by the ghosts of people killed from hard drives and this could only be avoided if she built a house that would be impossible to complete during her lifetime. The construction of the house went on for all 38 years that Sarah lived after this prediction. Now, in 160 rooms of this huge house, the ghosts of her madness live - doors that open in the middle of the wall; stairs leading to the ceiling; hooks, candelabra, spider motifs. Slamming doors, the sound of footsteps at night, moving lights and other frightening phenomena are often heard in the house.
10. Occult Abbey of Thelema in Sicily
At the beginning of the 20th century, Aleister Crowley was considered the most vile occultist in the world. And his stone house, filled with pagan frescoes, was the center of satanic orgies. Crowley became famous for his appearance on the cover of one of the Beatles' albums. Crowley became the founder of the Abbey of Thelema, which had the motto "Do what you will". Free love flourished here. The newcomers underwent a kind of rite of passage in the "Nightmare Room", where, under the influence of drugs, they had to spend the night among the frescoes of earth, hell and heaven. After the death of a popular English dandy within the walls of the abbey, the office was closed. Currently, the abbey is overgrown with grass and almost destroyed, but a few frescoes have been preserved and esoteric lovers can visit it to tickle their nerves.
1. Mutter Museum of Medical History, Philadelphia
The Mütter Museum of Medical History is a museum of pathologies, ancient medical equipment and biological exhibits, 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.
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2. Truk Lagoon in Micronesia
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.
3. Sonora Witch Market in Mexico City, Mexico
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. Sonora Market is open every day for pilgrims from Mexico City and tourists from distant places who ride for predictions of fate and promises a better life. This is the place where the entire local population tucks in "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.
4. Easter Island, Chile
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.
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5. Manchak Marshes in Louisiana
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 that is 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.
6. Paris catacombs, France
Bones and skulls are stacked on both sides of the corridor, like stock in a warehouse - lots of stock. 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.
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.
8. Mary King's Dead End in Edinburgh
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.
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9. Occult Thelemic Abbey in Sicily
Aleister Crowley is perhaps one of the most vile occultists in the world, 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 what you will". It has become a commune of free love. Newcomers were forced to spend the night in the Nightmare Room, where they were high on heroin and marijuana and stared at the frescoes of earth, heaven, and hell. After the popular English dandy died in the abbey, the press made a scandal and forced Mussolini to cover up the sharashka. The notorious underground filmmaker Kenneth Angier unearthed the story in 1945 and made a film there, 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.
10. Chernobyl in Ukraine
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 terrible 1986, when the accident on 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 parking lots of infected vehicles. And also meet with local self-settlers, residents of the "forbidden zone".
