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We present to your attention a list of the ten most creepy places on planet Earth. It gives me chills at the thought of being alone with myself in any of them. But there is no need to be afraid. After all, no matter how scary they may seem, they are still part of our world. It is worth noting that we made some of them like this ourselves...

Poveglia, Italy

Poveglia is a small island located in the Venetian Lagoon, in northern Italy. It is said that in the middle of the 14th century, when a plague pandemic (Black Death) was raging in Europe, the island was used as a place of exile for the sick. It is believed that up to 160,000 people were buried there, whose souls allegedly still roam the island. The creepy reputation is also aggravated by the fact that from 1922 to 1968 there was a psychiatric hospital here, in which a certain doctor allegedly experimented on patients and later committed suicide.

In 2014, the Italian government announced an auction for the 99-year lease of Poveglia. Visits to the island are 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 about 50 thousand of them here. The Hill of Crosses, despite its external similarity, is not a cemetery. According to belief, good luck will follow the one who leaves the cross here.

Varosha, Cyprus

Varosha is a ghost quarter in the southern part of the Cypriot city of Famagusta. Before the Turkish invasion in 1974, it was a modern and major tourist center in Cyprus. Its inhabitants fled and never returned after the Turkish army invaded the island in response to the country's political upheaval. Entry to Varosha is prohibited for the general public.

Charleville Castle, Ireland

Charleville is a castle made in the Gothic style. Located in County Offaly, near the River Shannon in Ireland. The castle does not have a 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 after accidentally falling down the stairs. Charleville Castle has been repeatedly explored by psychics, as well as groups involved in the study of paranormal phenomena.

Manchac Swamp, USA

The Manchac Swamp, or “Ghost Swamp” as they are also called, is 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 of slaves who once fled here in the hope of hiding from their owners emerge.

Shades Of Death Road, USA

Fifth place in the ranking of the ten creepiest places in the world is occupied by 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 occurred in its vicinity, as well as ghosts and other supernatural phenomena.

Pripyat, Ukraine

Aokigahara forest, Japan

Aokigahara or "Suicide Forest" also known as Jukai is a very dense forest, with a total area of ​​35 square kilometers, located at the northwestern foot of Mount Fuji on the Japanese island of Honshu. It is considered a 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. Every year, between 70 and 100 bodies are found in the forest. The leading methods of suicide are drug poisoning and hanging. Aokigahara Forest is also associated with Japanese mythology and is traditionally considered the habitat of demons and ghosts.

Catacombs of Paris, France

The Catacombs of Paris are a world-famous man-made network of winding tunnels beneath Paris. According to various estimates, their length varies from 187 to 300 kilometers. In essence, it is a huge underground cemetery containing the remains of about six million people. Currently considered a popular place among tourists, however, only 2 km of underground passages are open to them.

Island of the Dolls, Mexico

The Island of the Dolls is located about 18 km from Mexico City. Known primarily for old broken dolls that “decorate” tree branches. According to legend, this island is home to the ghost of a drowned girl who constantly appeared to the Mexican Julian Santana Barrera in the 1950s. Later, for unknown reasons, the man abandoned his family and went to live as a hermit on a 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 to 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.

If you think that there is nothing worse in the world than Dracula’s castle, then you read a lot and travel a little. Island of Dolls, Cemetery of Hanging Coffins, Forest of Suicides - ELLE has selected the TOP 10 most terrible places in the world, a visit to which can not only broaden your horizons, but also deprive you of sleep.

Nazca is the name of a city and desert plateau in southern Peru. The tiny city with a population of 27 thousand people is constantly teeming with tourists. Some want to look at the mysterious drawings left on the dry desert soil, others want to visit the Chowchilla cemetery. Located in the suburbs of Nazca, this necropolis is literally open to visitors. Imagine large pits lined with sticks in which the dead sit. Amazing embalming technology preserved the bodies - at least the bones - in perfect order. Among the inhabitants of Chowchilla there are many who can boast of voluminous hairstyles - despite the fact that the last dead person was buried here 11 centuries ago.

The city on the banks of the river of the same name is located two kilometers from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Until April 27, 1986, it was a rapidly developing nuclear city, all of whose residents were somehow related to the nuclear power plant. Immediately after the terrible accident at the station, almost fifty thousand of its population was evacuated and the city turned into a monument. Or rather, to a memorial. So it has stood empty for more than thirty years, becoming an eerie open-air museum. Residential buildings, a hospital, kindergartens and schools, playgrounds, a Ferris wheel - everything remains. And not a single soul.

Echo Valley in the Philippines is full of rocks. Coffins hang on them close to each other. Locals are convinced that the higher the body of the deceased is located, the faster he will be in heaven. Forcing them to bury bodies is useless. The tradition of burying the dead in the air has existed for more than two thousand years, but local residents do not tell how and what the coffins are attached to - it is a secret.

There are many islands in the suburbs of Mexico City, the most famous of course being La Isla de las Muñecas, the Island of the Dolls. In the fifties of the last century, a young man named Julian Barrera witnessed the death of a child, a girl, who drowned off this island. Barrera kept her doll for himself, and from that moment on, the spirit of the deceased began to appear to him. To appease the spirit, Julian began hanging old dolls found in trash heaps on the island. And in the end he settled on this island. In 2001, after his death (Barrera, like the same girl, drowned near the island), the business was continued by enthusiasts, his relatives. There are a lot of dolls here and together they look very creepy.

The real name of the mansion located in Transylvania is Bran, but it is known, of course, as the castle of Dracula, Count Vlad the Fourth, who received the nickname Impaler because of his love for impaling his subjects. The castle, built on the edge of an abyss, is a 100% embodiment of the Gothic style: gloomy decoration, howling sounds (caused by a chimney that begins to hum in a strong wind). The main attraction of the castle is Dracula's bedroom with a huge bed; it was here, according to legend, that the owner preferred to drink the blood of his victims. The “house” looks very well maintained, for which thanks to Francis Ford Coppola, who invested in the reconstruction of the castle when he filmed his film adaptation of Bram Stoker’s novel there.

In the Czech village of Lukova, the Church of St. George (St. George) has stood since the 14th century. It was abandoned in 1968 after a fire started during a funeral service and the roof collapsed. Several years ago, sculptor Yakov Khadrava, preparing to submit his thesis, decided to turn the church into a site for his experiments. And he populated the empty building with human statues, whose heads were covered with veils. The spectacle is fascinating and scary. The teachers, by the way, were also impressed and accepted Yakov’s diploma - in such an original form.

The famous Mount Fuji is not only famous for itself: at its foot lies Aokigahara, a dense forest full of rocky caves. Aokigahara is incredibly quiet and very, very gloomy. Already in ancient times, the forest was considered the “residence” of monsters and ghosts. And it was here that residents brought and left their loved ones whom they could not feed - frail old people and children. Aokigahara's dark reputation attracts people who are inclined to take their own lives there. Over the past 60 years, the bodies of more than five hundred suicides have been found in the forest - in this sense, Aokigahara is second only to the famous Golden Gate Bridge.

It is not surprising that the “Suicide Forest” is filled to capacity with signs urging potential suicides to come to their senses. The Japanese believe that once you enter Aokigahara, you will never be able to leave it. Therefore, only rescuers looking for those who want to commit suicide and brave tourists visit it.

People were buried here for four centuries in a row, until the end of the 18th century. There was little space, a lot of bodies. As a result, more than 100,000 dead people found refuge in a small area. To ensure there was enough space for everyone, the old tombstones were covered with earth and new ones were placed immediately. Thus, 12 layers of graves were accumulated. Over time, some layers, due to the subsidence of the earth, came out into the light of day, running over later ones, and the cemetery began to look like a rush hour crowd on public transport.

Here it is, Southern American Gothic at its finest. The Manchac Swamp is located near New Orleans and is called nothing less than the swamp of ghosts. Slaves fled here from their masters, but none of them got out of here - they were all eaten by giant crocodiles. The spirits of the dead and those same crocodiles are the main ingredients in the eerie menu of Manchac, a place that attracts tourists so much. There are active excursions around the swamp, both during the day and at night.

Built in Portugal in the 16th century, the chapel is filled with the remains of monks: in total, more than five thousand people are buried there. Bones and skulls are everywhere, wherever you look. And the inscription on the roof of the building - “Better a death day than a birthday” - puts you in an optimistic mood.

There are a lot of incredibly interesting, unusual and... Don’t forget about the mysterious, mystical, and sometimes downright creepy places, looking at which will take your breath away and fill you with sincere horror. It seems that these otherworldly landscapes have broken through to us from another world - a world of nightmares, monsters and ghosts. And despite the fact that most of the creepy places were created by nature, there are also areas that were created by the dark and scary hands of people themselves.

Below is a selection of photographs from the creepiest places on the planet.

The abandoned city of Pripyat, located in close proximity to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, where an accident occurred in 1986, killing about 10,000 people from the effects of radiation exposure. Photo: Zoltan Balogh.
Inside an abandoned Gothic-style church in Gary, Indiana. Photo: Chris Arnold.
A vast desert of barren land in San Juan County, New Mexico. The entire desert is filled with surreal landscapes created by combinations of rock formations and fossils.
"Hell's Gate" is a natural gas outlet in Derweze, Turkmenistan. In 1971, Soviet geologists discovered a gas deposit. While drilling, scientists stumbled upon a void, which led to a collapse and the release of gas. To avoid poisoning people with natural gas, it was decided to set fire to the fault site. The burning was expected to stop in a few days, but the fire is still raging. Photo: Tormod Sandtorv
Valley of the Whales (Wadi al-Hitan) is a paleontological site where the remains of ancient whales were discovered. Fossils illustrate the evolutionary process and prove that whales originally lived on land. Photo: Roland Unger.
Death Valley is a national park in California, the territory of which is the hottest and driest place in North America.
If you are afraid of heights, then the Trolltunga rock in Norway would be almost the scariest place on the planet for you. It hangs horizontally at an altitude of more than 700 meters above Lake Ringedalsvatnet and offers an enchanting view of the Hardanger Valley. There are no protective fences on the rock. Photo: TerjeN
Desert National Park in Namibia, home to a 900-year-old forest of dead trees that once grew here. The trees do not decompose due to the too dry climate of the area. Photo: Ikiwaner.
Located north of the White Desert, Egypt's Black Desert is located near the Bahariya Oasis. The desert is known for its black sand and black volcanic rocks. Photo: RolandUnge.
Deer Cave in Malu National Park is home to more than 3 million bats that live on the ceiling of the cave, at a height that in some places reaches 140 meters. The cave is located in Borneo, Malaysia. Photo: Robbie Shawn.
One of the darkest and most mysterious cemeteries on the planet is located in Sheffield, UK. Almost all the graves in the cemetery are unmarked, and local residents say that ghosts wander here from time to time, explaining that in the 19th century the cemetery was the site of frequent grave robberies.
Hashima Island in Japan was inhabited from 1887 to 1974, when coal mining took place there, providing thousands of jobs. When the amount of coal in the deposit decreased, people began to simply abandon the island, resulting in it being completely abandoned. Photo: Yaves Marchand and Romain Meffry.
The Hill of Crosses is a place of pilgrimage in northern Lithuania. Over the centuries, crosses, giant crucifixes, statues and thousands of tiny crosses have been brought here by Catholic pilgrims. The exact number of crosses is unknown, but experts estimate that 10 years ago there were about 100,000 of them. Photo: Joe Klamer.
The metro of the American city of Cincinnati is one of the largest abandoned tunnels on the planet. Construction stopped in the late 1920s, before half of the 25-kilometer line was completed. The subway tunnel is located between the central business district of Cincinnati and the suburb of Norwood. Photo: Jonathan Warren
Boiling Lake is located in the Morne-Trois-Piton National Park in Dominica. Due to a crack in the earth's crust, endless streams of gas and steam burst out, causing endless boiling of water.
More than 50 large transport ports from the Second World War are buried under the water of Truk Lagoon. Many wrecks have cargo holds full of tanks, bulldozers, railroad cars, motorcycles, torpedoes, mines, weapons and human remains. Some divers have also reported seeing ghosts among the debris at the bottom of Truk Lagoon. Photo: Adam Horwood
A man walks past a wall of skulls and bones in the catacombs of Paris. The catacombs were used to store the remains of generations of Parisians in an attempt to cope with the overcrowding of Paris's cemeteries in the late 18th century. Photo: Boris Horvath
An abandoned amusement park near Berlin, Germany. The last visitors to the park were here 13 years ago, since then it has been empty, everything around is overgrown with trees and bushes, and this deserted place looks eerie and intimidating.
Caddo Lake is located on the border of Texas and Louisiana. This creepy place is full of surreal strange plots. The lake is full of flooded trees and bushes that have been growing here for more than 400 years.
One of the caves on Phang Nga Island, which is simply teeming with bats hanging from the ceiling. Photo: Jerry Redfern
A chandelier made of bones hanging in the Sedlec crypt, Czech Republic. The crypt was built back in the 14th century, after which its walls were filled with the remains of 40 thousand people over 4 centuries.
The Crooked Forest Grove is located in northwestern Poland and is filled with hundreds of pine trees that have a strange 90-degree bend at their base. The grove was planted back in 1930. After several years of normal growth of the trees, they were pressed to the ground, using special equipment that kept the young trees close to the ground. After several years of this experiment, the trees were released and their pillars were irrevocably deformed.
An eerie, mysterious blood-red waterfall erupts from the Taylor Glacier in Antarctica. This waterfall resembles an endless stream of blood bursting out of the ground. In fact, this is water from an underground lake rich in iron. Photo: Peter Reisek.
Bran Castle, known as “Dracula's Castle,” stands among the Transylvanian mountains in Romania. This is just one of several places associated with the legend of Dracula, but it retains its mystique and attracts crowds of tourists every year. Photo: Sean Gallup.
Actun Tunichil Muknal Cave in Belize, famous for archaeological sites associated with the Mayan tribes. There are remains, ceramics and other household items here. The photograph shows the skeleton of a teenage girl, who, judging by the surroundings, was sacrificed.
A flock of vultures flies over the La Chureca landfill, the largest landfill in Central America, located in Managua, Nicaragua.
Beds and furniture were left in the psychiatric ward of the abandoned Poveglia Hospital in Venice, Italy. The entire island of Poveglia was formerly used as a quarantine for plague victims.
The Kaplica Czaszek Chapel in Czermna, Poland is decorated with 3 thousand human bones and skulls and another 20 thousand bone fragments lying below the chapel in the crypt.
Island of the Dolls, located in the Xochimilco canals south of Mexico City. It became home to hundreds of creepy dolls. The island's dolls are dedicated to the memory of a little girl who drowned in a canal many years ago.

Where does almost every person go on vacation? That's right, most people prefer big cities or resorts, with golden beaches and roaring seas.

However, there are also people for whom warming their bones under the hot summer sun is not enough. Adrenaline and extreme sports lovers will never choose such a boring pastime for them.

They are the ones who know that in Paris you can visit not only the Eiffel Tower, but also the famous catacombs, that the forests of Japan are not only full of beautiful sakura, and that in the Czech Republic not all houses are so beautiful.

And if you are one of this type of people, then the next article is dedicated to you! Perhaps, after reading, your hands will reach for your suitcase and phone - rather book a ticket.

So, the top 10 scariest places on the planet - enjoy reading!

The most terrible of the abandoned places in Russia is all littered with the remains of animals. Cattle and wild animals that wander here die for unknown reasons. Geologists who conducted research here noted a sharp deterioration in their health - pressure drops, headaches, nausea, dizziness, weakness. Many human corpses, as well as the corpses of birds and animals, were found in this ominous place. All this is explained by the fact that the air contains hydrogen sulfide, carbon disulfide and carbon dioxide, which slowly kill all living things. And even understanding that it is necessary to leave here urgently, not every person or animal is able to do this.

In the middle of the 19th century, Thomas Mütter founded a museum of medicine, which later became a clear example of all the most disgusting and terrible things that can happen to a person.

For fourteen dollars you will purchase not just an entrance ticket, but also the opportunity to see with your own eyes a wide variety of anomalies, ancient medical equipment and biological samples with varying degrees of horror.

It remains a mystery why exactly, but the most popular items are:

• wax figure of a “unicorn woman”;
• the remains of the “soap girl” (the body that became a fat wax while in the ground);
• the tumor that was removed from the President of the States - Cleveland;
• fused organs of twins;
• and part of the brain that belonged to Charles Guiteau, the assassin of President Garfield.

8. Danakil

This Ethiopian desert has a truly “poisonous” splendor. All those risk-takers who visited Danakil claim that they visited “Hell on Earth”. And this is not surprising, because the desert in northern Ethiopia can rightfully be considered one of the most terrible places in the world.

A short walk through the unearthly expanses of Danikil will more than replace your flight to the red planet. There is almost no oxygen, but there is enough scorching air filled with stench for everyone. It owes its origin to the red, boiling earth and stones that melt underfoot.

The “bonus” is the heat, about fifty degrees, a roulette on the topic “will you step on a volcano or not,” and a unique opportunity to breathe in sulfur fumes, and in huge quantities.

If you believe that there is an underworld, then the door to it is located in the Karakum Desert in Turkmenistan. This chilling place is a huge reservoir of natural gas measuring 70 by 60 meters and approximately 32 meters deep. In 1971, Soviet scientists discovered a large accumulation of underground gas. During the drilling of an exploration well, gas deposits in the pit collapsed, which provoked the appearance of a fault and a dangerous leak of gases - colorless, odorless, but poisonous and flammable. Therefore, it was decided to set fire to the gas so that it would all burn out. But no one expected it to burn for so long. The fire has been raging for just over 40 years and there is currently no information on when it will go out.

In the Czech Republic, in the city of Kutna Hora, the most terrible and strange landmark of Western Europe is located - the Church of All Saints. Once there, visitors are left with the feeling that they are not in a church, but in a lair of cannibals. The chapel is located on the territory of the cemetery and more than 40,000 human bones are stored inside the building. But the most amazing thing is that these are not just piles of bones, the interior of the chapel is decorated with human remains, from the altar to the chandelier with shades topped with skulls. The backstory of this mysterious place takes us back to 1278, when one of the monks of the monastery brought several handfuls of earth from Jerusalem and scattered it throughout the cemetery. Word of the holy land instantly spread, and many residents of central Europe sought to find their eternal peace here. The events of the next century - endless epidemics and wars - led to the fact that burials grew rapidly, so they had to be buried in two or three floors. At the beginning of the 15th century, a Gothic cathedral was built to free up space for fresh burials. The remains were removed from graves that had not been cared for for a long time and stored in the tomb of this church. This process continued throughout the next century, until one half-blind monk decided to restore order to the tomb. He bleached all the remains in a chlorine solution and carefully folded the human remains into 2 central and 4 corner pyramidal structures. In 1870, the church and monastery lands were purchased by the noble Schwarzenberg family, who subsequently changed the decor of the cathedral, turning to the skilled woodcarver Frantisek Rint. He created the interior from bones, which has survived to this day.

This huge house has a bad reputation. After all, the residents of this strange house for a long time were Sarah Winchester, surrounded by a whole family of ghosts.

The history of this terrible place began many years ago, when the charming mistress of this estate lost her beloved husband, William Winchester. A few years before this sad event, a very young daughter died in this family. All these tragic events naturally left a heavy imprint on Sarah’s psyche. The grief-stricken widow turned to a medium from Boston for help. After “communicating” with the spirit of her husband, he told Sarah about the curse that lay on their family because of the rifle that had claimed the lives of thousands of people. On the advice of a medium, the inconsolable widow bought a house and began to rebuild it, the main condition was not to stop construction, otherwise she would die. Crazy construction continued for almost 38 years. The architecture of the house is so crazy that not every person can stand being in this building for a long time. And all because Sarah tried to “confuse” the ghosts so that they would not find her. The house has more than 160 rooms, about 50 fireplaces, almost 10,000 windows, 40 staircases (some of them end in the wall or rest on the ceiling), about 2,000 doors. Narrow, low corridors twist like snakes, doors on the upper floors open outwards, there are many secret windows and doors. Therefore, it is very important for visitors to this house to be attentive and keep up with the group, otherwise they can easily go outside directly from the third floor or find themselves in the kitchen, which is located one floor below through a window in the floor. Every year thousands of tourists visit this house, although many feel unwell there, and children begin to cry. After all, according to rumors, ghosts have not left this house to this day.

This is a scary and mysterious place near New Orleans. Legend says that at the beginning of the last century these places were cursed. And a terrible curse was cast by one of the fans of the Voodoo cult, who was held captive in this area. Soon, a powerful hurricane that hit these places destroyed several nearby villages. No one began to restore these villages; these places had acquired a very bad reputation. And people began to disappear more and more often in the swamp area. An attempt was even made to drain these swamps, but as work began, a terrible hurricane struck again and destroyed the workers’ settlement to the ground, and there were casualties. The swampy area is not very attractive for walking anyway; those who get there are immediately seized by an inexplicable fear, ringing in the ears, dizziness, legs become weak... And the Manchac swamps are an eerie sight - tall gloomy trees covered with moss, protruding snags and tree roots, dark, stinking water... Occasionally, the bodies of long-dead people float to the surface of the swamps. Even birds do not fly over this disastrous place. Only huge alligators dared to live in such a terrible place. But even knowing the scary stories associated with the “swamp of ghosts”, it attracts those who like to get a dose of adrenaline. These daredevils want to see ghosts, restless shadows of the dead who cannot find peace due to a terrible curse. You can only move here by boat, and if someone falls out of it, he has no chance of survival. Terrible swamps and huge alligators will leave the poor fellow forever in this ominous place.

What do we imagine when we hear the word “forest”? That's right, emerald meadows, tall lush trees with mighty branches. Certain living creatures that may come our way.

However, Aokigahara does not fit into this rosy picture. And the reason can be understood from the nickname given to this place - the forest of suicides. And if in other forests you come across birds, squirrels and foxes, then in Aokigahara you will be greeted only by corpses.

The blood of local residents and tourists invariably excites the huge number of legends associated with this forest, which grew on lava. Its sad fame overtook it back in the Middle Ages, when years of famine drove many people to madness. In desperation, they began to sacrifice their relatives, bringing the weak and old people into the forest, and leaving them there. Cries for help and groans did not make their way through the dense thickets, and no one could help the doomed. The Japanese will tell you in a whisper that the ghosts of the unfortunate people still take revenge on people for their suffering.

Today, Japan does not suffer from famine, but the ominous role of Aokigahara has survived and continues to be relevant. The attractive mysticism of the forest and its maddening silence now attract those people who have decided to commit suicide. Local police annually find up to a hundred bodies of unfortunate people.

And beautiful and romantic Venice is also ready to present a lot of mystical things that have been hidden from general curiosity for hundreds of years. And one of the secrets of the Italian city is the island of Poveglia, or otherwise “the symbol of horror.”

The history of such an ominous place begins during the dawn of the Roman Empire. During that period, the island became the last refuge of a huge number of plague victims who were taken to Poveglia and left there to die.

Since, due to the number of dead, there was no time to bury them, the bodies were simply set on fire. And it was for this reason that ominous rumors spread that the land on the island was overflowing with human ashes. According to some reports, about one hundred and sixty thousand infected people lost their lives on Poveglia.

After several centuries, in 1922 they decided to open a psychiatric hospital on the island. And this is precisely what strengthened the oppressive and gloomy atmosphere of Poveglia several times. Patients of the hospital constantly complained of unimaginable headaches and that every night the ghosts of the dead came to them, screams and moans were constantly heard...

Poveglia was abandoned in 1968. Today, no one lives on the island, and even for tourists it is closed. This is due to the fact that local residents are trying their best to refute ominous rumors about their island.

However, although access to Poveglia is limited, rumors continue to spread, which means that the mysticism of the terrible island is still alive...

This place consists of several atmospheric medieval streets that are hidden by the modern city of Edinburgh.

The peculiarity of this area is that it is completely cut off from the main part of the capital city of Scotland, and is connected to it only by a series of impregnable walls.

From historical sources we can learn that about three hundred and fifty years ago, in the seventeenth century, the Black Death epidemic threatened the complete destruction of all of Edinburgh. In an attempt to at least stop the spread of the terrible disease (there could be no thought of stopping the plague completely), local monks raked up the streets overflowing with dead bodies and burned them outside the city limits.

After some time, the infected began to be isolated in a special infirmary.

And already the chronicles of 1645 told us that the magistrate gave an order to surround the “plague” quarter with walls in order to try to extinguish the main source of the epidemic.

And the owner of most of the fenced-off houses was Mary King, and it was in her honor that the quarter was named.

Literally a hundred years after the raging plague sank into oblivion, a city grew up on the site of Mary King’s quarter, which was not interested in the secrets of the past years.
Today, the streets of the plague city are just gloomy tunnels, the walls and ceilings of which are crowned with cords and dusty light bulbs. Gloomy lighting pulls out from the veil of darkness the remains of once huge stairs, which now will no longer lead anyone anywhere.

Over the years, this dead end has grown into many rumors and legends. It is said that those unfortunates who were doomed to a long and painful death in their “stone trap” are brave souls who visited the quarter where the plague once reigned. With their ghostly hands they desperately grab onto people and beg them for help, asking them to stay. And the most important thing for you at this moment is not to stop, not to succumb to the icy call of Death.

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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 gravestones reaches 12 thousand. Cemetery workers covered older burials with earth and erected new tombstones in the same place. On the territory of the cemetery there are places where 12 burial tiers are located under the earth's crust. As time passed, the subsided earth revealed old gravestones to the eyes of the living, who began to move later slabs. The view was not only unusual, but also creepy.

Island of Abandoned Dolls, Mexico

There is a very strange abandoned island in Mexico, most of which is inhabited by scary dolls. They say that in 1950, a certain hermit, Julian Santana Barrera, began collecting and hanging dolls from trash cans, who in this way tried to calm the soul of a girl who had drowned nearby. Julian himself drowned on the island on April 17, 2001. Now there are about 1000 exhibits on the island.

Hashima Island, Japan

Hashima is a former coal mining settlement founded in 1887. The island was considered one of the most densely populated places on earth - with a coastline of about a kilometer, its population in 1959 was 5,259 people. When coal mining here became unprofitable, the mine was closed, and the island city joined the list of ghost towns. This happened in 1974.

Chapel of Bones, Portugal

The chapel 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 written 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 unofficial name of the Aokigahara Jukai forest, located in Japan on the island of Honshu and famous for the frequent suicides committed there. The forest was originally associated with Japanese mythology and was traditionally thought to be the abode of demons and ghosts. Now it is considered the second most popular place in the world (first at the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco) to commit suicide. At the entrance to the forest there is a poster: “Your life is a priceless gift from your parents. Think about them and your family. You don't have to suffer alone. Call us 22-0110."

Abandoned psychiatric hospital in Parma, Italy

Brazilian artist Herbert Baglione created an art piece from a building that once housed a psychiatric hospital. He depicted the spirit of this place. Now ghostly figures of exhausted patients wander around 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

The Catacombs are a network of winding underground tunnels and caves beneath 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.

Centralia, Pennsylvania, USA

Due to an underground fire that broke out 50 years ago and continues to burn to this day, the number of residents has decreased from 1,000 people (1981) to 7 people (2012). Centralia now has the smallest population 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.

Magic Market Akodessewa, Togo

The Akodesseva market for magical items and witchcraft herbs is located right in the center of the city of Lome, the capital of the state of Togo in Africa. Africans of Togo, Ghana and Nigeria still practice the voodoo religion and believe in the miraculous properties of dolls. Akodesseva's fetish assortment is extremely exotic: here you can buy cattle skulls, dried heads of monkeys, buffalos and leopards and many other equally “wonderful” things.

Plague Island, Italy

Poveglia is one of the most famous islands of the Venetian Lagoon, in northern Italy. It is said that since Roman times the island was used as a place of exile for plague patients, and as a result, up to 160,000 people were buried there. The souls of many of the dead allegedly turned into ghosts, with which the island is now filled. The island's dark reputation is compounded by stories of horrific experiments allegedly carried out on psychiatric patients. In this regard, paranormal researchers call the island one of the most terrible places on earth.

Hill of Crosses, Lithuania

The Mountain of Crosses is a hill on which many Lithuanian crosses are installed, their total number is approximately 50 thousand. Despite the external resemblance, it is not a cemetery. According to popular belief, good luck will accompany those who leave a cross on the Mountain. Neither the time of the appearance of the Mountain of Crosses nor the reasons for its appearance can be said with certainty. To this day, this place is shrouded in secrets and legends.

Burials of Kabayan, Philippines

The famous fire mummies of Kabayan, dating back to 1200-1500 AD, are buried here, as well as, as local residents believe, 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 this,” since the mummy was his great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather.

The old arch bridge is 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 threw themselves from a 15-meter height, fell onto rocks and were killed. Those that survived came back and tried again. The bridge has turned into a real “killer” of four-legged animals.

Actun Tunichil Muknal is a cave near the city of San Ignacio, Belize. It is an archaeological site of the Mayan civilization. Located on the territory of the Mount Tapira Natural Park. One of the halls of the cave is the so-called cathedral, where the Mayans made sacrifices, as they considered this place to be Xibalba - the entrance to the underworld.

Leap Castle in Offaly, Ireland is considered one of the cursed castles in the world. Its gloomy 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 remove all the bones from it, the workers needed 4 carts. Local residents say that the castle is haunted by many ghosts of people who died in the dungeon.

The Chauchilla Cemetery is located about 30 minutes from the Nazca desert plateau, on the southern coast of Peru. The necropolis was discovered in the 20s of the twentieth century. According to researchers, bodies found in the cemetery are about 700 years old, and the last burials here took place in the 9th century. Chowchilla 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 were perfectly preserved thanks to the Peruvian dry desert climate.

The most notorious feature of Carthage's religion was the sacrifice of children, mainly infants. During the sacrifice it was forbidden to cry, since it was believed that any tear, any plaintive sigh would detract from the value of the sacrifice. In 1921, archaeologists discovered a site where several rows of urns were found containing the charred remains of both animals (they were sacrificed instead of people) and small children. The place was called Tophet.

Queimada Grande is one of the most dangerous and famous islands on our planet. 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. Brazilian authorities have decided to completely ban anyone from visiting the island, and locals are telling chilling stories about it.

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 decorated with marble, and the staircases were decorated with red cathedral glass. Now the monument house has been completely looted, only a concrete frame with reinforcement remains, looking like a destroyed alien ship.

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 found itself 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. The doors and windows are securely boarded up with high boards and sheets of plywood.

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 metro disappeared. Construction slowed in 1925, with half of the 16 km line completed. The abandoned subway now hosts tours twice a year, but many people are known to wander its tunnels alone.

On the island of Luzon, in the village of Sagada, there is one of the most frightening places in the Philippines. Here you can see unusual funeral 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.