10 most terrible places. The creepiest places on earth (39 photos)
There are many places on our planet that you want to visit. However, not all of them are interesting to people because beautiful view or a fascinating story. Among them there are those that attract visitors with their unique atmosphere, shrouded in mystery and rumors. These are the places we will now talk about.
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For many people, Paris is associated only with pleasant and majestic things. This is a city that is imbued with romance and beauty, and its Eiffel Tower attracts tourists from all over the world. However, few people know that among the attractions of Paris there is another place that does not fit in with the reputation of the city of love. And these are his Catacombs.
The Catacombs of Paris are a complex system of ancient tunnels, the length of which reaches 300 kilometers. Previously 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 human remains. About 6 million people found their peace here, whose bones now adorn this frightening place. The length of the galleries is about 780 meters, which are a test for every visitor to the catacombs.
The catacombs of Paris are now open to 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.
This is a very ancient place, which has long been famous for its impassability. However, its other name, “ghost swamp,” was given to it relatively recently. According to legend, in 1915, several large villages were located near these swamps. Because of one conflict, a woman who was a follower of the Voodoo cult was held captive here. Out of anger and despair, she cursed this place forever, using her last strength. Just 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 the inhabitants of the swamps.
Whether this is true or fiction, 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 leading in the number of suicides. That is why it is not surprising that such a terrible place is located in it.
Aokigahara Jukai Forest is quite beautiful and picturesque, located on the slope of Japan's Mount Fuji. But it seems like that only until you meet the hanged man in it. However, this is not a decoration or a bad joke, but a real person who committed suicide. This is what this place, also called the Forest of Organized Suicides, is famous for.
Aokigahara Forest attracts many suicide victims from all over Japan. The reason for this is the dark glory of this place. There were legends that the forest was inhabited by demons and ghosts, which is why in ancient times Japanese families left the elderly 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 off many visitors.
A mental hospital is the last place any of us would like to end up. Although this place is not as terrible as many people think, the fear of it gnaws at many.
It is this fear that is felt by those who visit Cane Hill Hospital, located in London. There are no terrible and mystical legends, this is a regular medical facility. It is only known that in 1991, all patients and doctors suddenly left the hospital, and it itself was closed. This was done instantly, so all equipment and papers remained in place.
At first glance, there is nothing scary here, but this thought passes after the first step into the destroyed building. Everything here is literally saturated with the horror and chaos that was going on in the patients’ heads. And not everyone can withstand it.
The most terrible places in the world have always been created by man. Rumors, curses, man-made structures are their basis. However, sometimes nature contributes to this, which leads to truly terrifying consequences.
Centralia was formerly 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, spreading 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 - this is only 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 for all visitors to these places.
Poveglia Island in Italy
The small island of Poveglia, located in the Venetian Lagoon, is one of the region's main dark attractions. However, they don’t write about it in magazines or 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 just an overgrown piece of land with dilapidated buildings, legends about it will exist for a long time.
Initially, the island was a quarantine zone for travelers from distant countries. Although there were deaths here, it was more of a forty-day resort for visitors. However, everything changed after the plague epidemic swept through Europe. Poveglia became an exile for tens of thousands of patients, as well as their families and relatives. The soil here is half composed of corpse ash, and fishermen sometimes retrieve polished bones from the 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, on whom various experiments were carried out. But now it is completely abandoned, and the guards do not allow a single soul here.
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Previously, Mary King's cul-de-sac 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. Sick people 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 be immediately classified as dead; there was no hope of recovery.
Although this happened more than 300 years ago, this place has not found any other glory. The dead end is still called the “city of the dead,” bringing tourists and ordinary visitors here. Now this place belongs to the underground quarters of the city, over which it has long stood New town. This makes Mary King's Dead End 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 excursions 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 Jakub Hadrava. He populated the church with strange sculptures, thereby creating an eternal worship service. They settled down like ghosts of former ministers who had come for another prayer. And it looks pretty creepy.
Afar Basin
A place called the Afar Basin is located in Ethiopia. And it doesn't compare to the previous positions on 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 - lava lake Dallol. Due to its 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 terribly beautiful, but dangerous for the life of every tourist.
The village of Blair once stood on the site of the city. Do I need to explain that it was there that the cult horror film “The Blair Witch Project” was filmed, filmed like a video of friends wandering in a scary forest. Rewatch the video, re-read the legend about the vengeful witch and the place will seem really scary to you.
9. Louisiana, near New Orleans
Famous for its Voodoo sorcerers and their dark rituals, there is a truly creepy place. Nature itself took care of making it the most terrible in the area. It has everything - classic green swamps, mystical mists, twisted trees and mass graves. Alligators will be an unpleasant bonus. In such a place, behind every trunk, sorcerers and ghosts appear.
8. Cane Hill
Photos of the scary place at No. 8 are quite popular on the Internet and are creepy. Of course, Cane Hill is an abandoned psychiatric hospital. It was closed in the 90s and from the photo it seems that the patients got out of bed one day and left the terrible hospital forever. Medical equipment and abandoned beds remained there. The gloomy atmosphere excites the imagination.
7. Bangar.
One of the most scary places on the planet you can also call an abandoned city in India. Bangar was built in 1573 in honor of the military exploits of an Indian prince. It was densely populated and existed until the end of the 18th century. There is a legend about a terrible curse imposed on old City. It was because of him that residents fled the city. As if the legend were to be confirmed, access to the city is closed after sunset. The eerie place is believed to be infested with ghosts.
6. Hellish failure in Turkmenistan
Is not natural phenomenon. Soviet drilling stations contributed to the birth of the fiery gates of hell. A terrible mistake led to the appearance of this terrible place. A dangerous gas leak worried scientists and the best solution was to burn the gases. The rift still burns to this day. Nobody knows when the fire will subside. On the edge of the fiery pit, people seem very small. The fault can be seen from afar. Scary place.
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5. Tunisian sanctuary of Tophet
This is a huge burial place for children with stone tombstones. There are several versions of the appearance of a mass Carthaginian burial. According to one of them, children were sacrificed to the bloody gods. According to another, even more terrible, children were not only sacrificed, but also eaten to the bone during times of famine. IN general place very scary, not one of those where it’s pleasant to walk.
4. Mayan remains in Belize
The scary place is called Aktun Tunichil Muknal. It was discovered by accident and is located in a cave. It is filled with bones and various things that tell a lot about the gloomy Mayan culture. As you know, sacrifices were a common thing for them. What makes the place terrible is its one “resident” - the skeleton of a young murdered girl. Her bones shine like crystal in the light. Over the centuries spent in special conditions caves, bones became calcified.
3. Forest in Japan
Aokigahara is not a magical forest for walking, otherwise it would hardly be in the top 10 scariest places on earth. It is located near the famous Mount Fuji. “A sea of trees” - they say about this forest. And also, and this is not just talk, cleanups are carried out in the forest every year to clear it of bones. The fact is that Aokigahara is a favorite place for suicides, creepy and scary.
2. Kutna Hora
Kutná Hora is a Czech town with an eerie attraction. A terrible chapel - called the Ossuary. And the name says a lot. In 1278, the Holy Land was brought to the chapel from Jerusalem, which immediately attracted masses of pilgrims who wanted not only to pray, but also to be buried there. During the outbreak of the plague in the 14th century, about 30 thousand people came to the monastery. The bones of old burials were dug up and stored in basements to make room for new graves. In the 18th century the monastery closed and the bones were removed to give the monastery its Gothic beauty. The chandelier made of skulls and shoulder blades looks especially impressive, as well as frightening.
1. Creepy catacombs
The most terrible place on earth and also associated with death can be called a crypt in Italy. The terrible catacombs served to bury the Capuchins. It was later discovered that the special environment of the dungeon mummified the dead. This creepy place is located in the city of Palermo on the island of Sicily.
The last person to die found peace here in the 90s. Now the catacombs are open to tourists. The mummified dead do not lie, but stand along the stone walls, and seem to be looking at tourists. A very creepy place.
There are places on our planet that are avoided by brave travelers, inquisitive tourists and even the most cold-blooded local residents. As a rule, these are places where bloody tragedies or murders occurred, or places that were “marked” for the fact that supernatural phenomena occurred there. This review will focus on these scary places. Whether it’s worth visiting there is up to you to decide.
1. Hashima Island
Japan
More than 5,000 people once lived on this island. Today, Hashima is an abandoned and scary place, which is located about 15 km from the city of Nagasaki. Previously, there were coal mines on the island, near which a whole town grew up, but after the deposits were depleted, Hashima was left to fend for himself.
2. Catacombs of Paris
France
This place is also sometimes called the “empire of the dead.” The Parisian catacombs are one of the largest and most terrible in the world. The underground tunnels, which stretch for more than 200 km, contain the remains of about six million people. Due to the extreme length and complexity of the catacombs, many people got lost and died in them.
3. Vrolik Museum
Netherlands
The University of Amsterdam has one of the creepiest museums in the world. The museum, named after the Dutch anatomist Willem Vrolik, displays various parts preserved in alcohol. human bodies, embryos and casts that demonstrate various aspects of embryology, pathology and anatomy. Also among the exhibits are numerous examples of birth defects and medical anomalies.
4. Mountain of Crosses
Lithuania
The Mountain of Crosses, located approximately 12 km north of the city of Siauliai in northern Lithuania, is a unique place pilgrimages for Catholics. It is notable for the huge number of crosses installed on it (at least 250,000 of them), crucifixes and giant statues Virgin Mary.
5. Suicide Forest
Japan
Aokigahara Forest, better known as the "suicide forest", is located at the base of Mount Fuji in Japan. In Japanese mythology, this place is associated with demons. Aokigahara is notable for the fact that trees grow so densely there that no wind blows in the forest at all. This makes it an exceptionally quiet and eerie place. About 100 suicides occur in Aokigahara every year.
6. Chowchilla Cemetery
Peru
30 km south of the city of Nazca in southwestern Peru lies Chauchilla, an ancient cemetery where many mummified human remains can be found sitting in open graves. Due to the exceptionally dry climate of the Peruvian desert, the corpses, dressed in embroidered cotton robes, were surprisingly well preserved.
7. Freeman Ranch
USA, Texas
A 1,400-hectare plot of land between the cities of San Marcos and Wimberley in Central Texas is a farm where forensic anthropology research is conducted. Corpses in various stages of decomposition are scattered throughout the ranch. And what is being studied here, as you might guess, is the decomposition of human bodies under various conditions.
8. City of Pripyat
Ukraine
Pripyat is a city in northern Ukraine, next to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, where the worst nuclear power plant accident in human history occurred. Its consequences are still felt today. The city from which people were evacuated has been abandoned for 30 years.
9. Island of the Dolls
Mexico
The Island of the Dolls, located on Lake Teshuilo near Mexico City, is one of the creepiest places in Mexico. Legend has it that the only resident of the island, Don Julian Santana, found the body of a drowned girl in a canal. After Santana began to be haunted by her spirit, the man decided to “appease” him with dolls and continued to do so for many years until he himself drowned in the same canal. Today the island is “decorated” with hundreds of horrific mutilated dolls with severed limbs and heads.
10. Darvaza
Turkmenistan
Also known as the "crater of fire" or the "gateway to hell", Darvaza is a natural gas field in Turkmenistan. While drilling an exploration well in 1971, geologists stumbled upon an underground void, which caused all the equipment to fall underground and create a big hole, filled with methane. Geologists decided to set fire to this gas so that it would burn out in a few days, but the crater with a diameter of 60 and a depth of 20 meters has been continuously burning since then.
11. Sedlec Ossuary
Czech
In Central Bohemia, in the town of Sedlec, you can find a small Roman Catholic chapel, which is famous for containing the skeletons of up to 70,000 people, whose bones were used to make jewelry and furniture. Thanks to its unique frightening appearance and the atmosphere of this creepy place has been filmed in several horror films.
12. Catacombs of the Capuchins
Italy
In the Sicilian city of Palermo there are the unique Catacombs of the Capuchins, famous for the fact that in them corpses dressed and seated like living people are exhibited as museum exhibits. About 8,000 corpses and 1,252 mummies can be found in the catacombs.
13. Akodesseva fetish market
Togo
The capital of Togo, Lomé, is home to the world's largest market for fetishes and voodoo products. This is one of the creepiest places in Africa where you can safely buy, for example, a human skull.
14. Bran Castle
Romania
One of the most feared castles in the world is said to have been the residence of Vlad III, the brutal Romanian ruler better known as Vlad Dracula or Vlad the Impaler. It was he who inspired Bram Stoker to write his famous gothic horror novel about the vampire Dracula.
15. Kabayan Mummies Cave
Philippines
This place in the Philippine province of Benguet is also known as the “Fire Mummies Caves”. It is here that some of the best-preserved mummies in the world are found, dating back 4,000 years. Before death, a person was given a very salty drink, and then the corpse was washed and placed next to a fire for up to six months to dry out.
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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 people are terrified of flights of stairs or spiders. Some people faint at the thought of flying on an airplane. As a rule, all these fears are caused by some kind of psychological problems or traumas suffered in distant childhood.
But there are the most terrible places on earth, in which even the most persistent and self-confident person begins to feel uncomfortable. Often phenomena are observed there for which there is no logical explanation. Such locations will be discussed in this article. More precisely, we will discuss the Top 10 most terrible places on the planet.
Suicide Forest, Japan
At the entrance to this “wonderful” place there are numerous billboards. There are many inscriptions on them, reminding that life is the most precious thing 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, dense growth of bushes and eternal twilight. But what’s even scarier about it is that under your feet you often find ropes, scraps of clothing, and packages of potent medicines. All this was left here by those who were never destined to see the sun again.
If you go five hundred meters deep in any direction, you will almost inevitably come across a skeleton(s), or even a fresh corpse. The police annually (!), together with medical workers, search this terrible place. And every year there are 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 of some low-grade horror film... Alas, this forest is quite real. For decades, various relevant departments have been conducting investigations and studying its phenomenon, but not a single answer has been received. Why does this particular place attract people 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 for whom such a terrible place brings good profits. These are looters. There are rumors of cases where these vultures picked up valuable jewelry and wallets worth several million yen in a couple of visits. What other scariest places on earth are there?
Waverly Hills Sanatorium
As a rule, people expect relaxation and rest from hardships and worries from a sanatorium. big world. If you think the same, then you definitely shouldn’t come to the “fried chicken state,” that is, Kentucky. There are the most terrible places on earth, where a person simply feels uncomfortable, but only here you can really see... the source of your anxiety.
This sanatorium is famous for its ghosts, the images of which have been repeatedly captured on camera. This place has become famous since 1920. Tuberculosis was rampant in the United States at that time. A hospital was set up in the sanatorium. The scale of the disease was so terrifying that every half hour one of the patients died.
In order not to shock the respectable public, it was decided to use a tunnel from the hospital to the nearest one for storing the dead. railway station, from where the corpses were transported to crematoriums (the hospital’s capacity was simply not enough). Sometimes the bodies lay there for days.
Continuation of a story
This continued until 1943, when outbreaks of tuberculosis were observed less and less frequently, and great scientific minds were able to create a simple vaccine, which still helped stop many cases of the disease. The building was temporarily closed but was later converted into a nursing home. Since most of the guests were abandoned by their families, the old people were treated very rudely.
Eventually, it got to the point where the residents neighboring houses filed a lawsuit against the owners of the nursing home, after which it was closed. The building gradually deteriorated and fell into disrepair. That's when thrill-seekers began to frequent there. They looked for evidence of the paranormal and often found it. So, in room No. 502, dozens of seekers saw the ghost of a young girl.
A case is also described when in the empty and destroyed kitchen on the ground floor the sounds of footsteps were heard and the smell of wonderful freshly baked bread was heard. In short, there are more than enough oddities here.
Let's continue to discuss the most terrible places on earth.
Borley House in Essex, England
Classic haunted house. Do you want a thrill? Get this: in this house alone, 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 a team of researchers of the inexplicable settled there in 1937. They recorded dozens of ghosts and completely inexplicable phenomena. In particular, during a spiritualistic seance, someone who identified 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 and then a woman calmly emerge from the building engulfed in flames. Need I say that by that time there was no one there anymore?
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Summit of Everest
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 has not conquered. The reasons for their death are banal: a stolen oxygen cylinder (and at such a height there is literally nothing to breathe), hypothermia and hypoxia, cardiac arrest... Let's continue to discuss the most terrible places on the planet.
Death Valley, USA
The name of this place alone hints that it is not particularly 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 incidents in Death Valley 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 a road in the Valley without water is almost certain death. Cars rarely drive, there is no cell phone service. The only correct strategy in this case is to sit in the car and not leave it. Every few hours a sheriff's car drives down the road. But many “extreme seekers” decide to walk around... and die from dehydration, or even disappear completely in the hot valley.
By the way, the name is this national park received after a sad story: in 1849, a large group of settlers decided to take a “shortcut” to California by passing through the valley. They only reached the halfway point, after which they all died from dehydration. In general, all the most terrible, mysterious and unusual places in the world, upon closer examination, they lose their entire aura of mystery. But it's not always that simple...
Yeluyu Cherkechekh, Yakutia
This valley is located in Yakutia, a strange and mysterious place. Also in Soviet times In these parts there was a legend about some huge metal cauldrons. Scientists and military personnel became interested: judging by the descriptions, these “boilers” were strikingly reminiscent of parts of aircraft. But who flew in these parts and when? After all, the legends were hundreds of years old!
The Yakuts have a legend about a hunter who, one terribly cold night, decided to spend the night in a cauldron. Oddly enough, it was warm here in the severe frost. 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.
And now it’s almost the same story. Once upon a time there lived a shepherd. And then one day in the steppe he found a convenient sphere, which 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. This happened in the vicinity of Baikonur. The “stove” was part of the rocket, and it emitted a monstrous amount of noise. The shepherd died from radiation sickness. So which astronauts scattered their “rockets” across the Yakut valley? There are still no answers.
So let's continue. We haven't discussed all of the 10 creepiest places on earth yet!
Death Valley, Kamchatka
Another valley with the same “romantic” name. One day, local hunters lost their dogs, which they took with them on a hunt. After wandering for a couple of hours, people came to the slope of a ridge, where the corpses of a variety of animals lay piled up. Among them they saw their dogs.
After staying in this place for only a couple of hours, people felt severe malaise and weakness. For several months they were very sick, losing tens of kilograms in weight. During subsequent attempts to explore the Valley, about a hundred scientists died. And the casket opened simply: it turns out that in that place the exits of underground volcanic cavities open, from which many heavy, highly toxic gases emerge. Walking there without a powerful gas mask is strongly not recommended.
Mary King's Dead End, Edinburgh
When the plague raged in Scotland, the authorities of Edinburgh decided to move all the sick to a securely fenced old area so that the infection would 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 gained notoriety. Ghostly silhouettes are constantly seen on ancient streets, in local houses the temperature sometimes drops sharply for no reason, and animals are terribly afraid to enter some rooms. If you're in Scotland, visit this cul-de-sac! Despite the fact that the scariest places on planet Earth often evoke fear for some natural reason, Mary King's dead end is clearly not one of them.
Catacombs of Paris
In 1780, the glorious city of Paris was shocked by unpleasant news: the wall of the local cemetery, which separated the city of the living from cities of the dead. And then it began... When the rains finally washed away the soil, the streets of Paris were flooded with pieces of corpses, bones and scraps of old clothing. After all, people have been buried in this place for centuries!
What should I do? The only way out began 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 at least six million people were buried there!
Being in the catacombs is quite creepy: skulls are grinning on all sides, the twilight creates a strange feeling that there are many people around you... By the way, the list of “25 most terrible places on the planet”, compiled by American amateurs, puts these catacombs in seventh position.
Death Road, Borneo
Many people 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 action, but the Japanese themselves are not without sin...
For example, there is one road on the island of Borneo. It is famous for the fact that Japanese soldiers drove almost 2.5 thousand Australian and American prisoners along it. Of these, only six people survived. They were able to outlive their comrades only because they managed to escape. The Japanese soldiers tortured and starved all the rest to death.
A photograph of John Tulloch, a retired military man, is widely known. It shows ghostly silhouettes of people walking doomedly along the road. Be that as it may, this place evokes a depressing and gloomy feeling even on a bright day.
So we’ve finished looking at the Top 10 scariest places on the planet. We hope you found it terribly interesting!
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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 12,000. More ancient
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 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 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. It was considered one of the most densely populated places on earth - with coastline 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 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 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 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 Venetian lagoon, northern Italy. It is said that since Roman times the island was used as a place of exile for plague patients, and therefore up to 160,000 people were buried on it. 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 the ground.
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-great-grandfather.
Overtoun Bridge, Scotland
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 Cave, Belize
Actun Tunichil Muknal is a cave near the city of San Ignacio, Belize. Is archaeological site Mayan civilization. Located on the territory natural park Mount Tapira. 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, Ireland
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.
Chauchilla Cemetery, Peru
The Chauchilla Cemetery is located about 30 minutes from the Nazca desert plateau, on south coast 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.
Sanctuary of Tophet, Tunisia
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.
Snake Island, Brazil
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.
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 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.
City of the Dead, Russia
Dargavs in North Ossetia looks like a cute village with small stone houses, but in fact it is an ancient necropolis. People were buried in various types of crypts along with all their clothing 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 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.
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 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.
Hanging Coffins of Sagada, Philippines
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.
Nuclear lighthouse at Cape Aniva (Sakhalin)
The lighthouse was built with great difficulty in 1939 according to the design of the architect Miura Shinobu - it was a unique and most complex technical structure in all of Sakhalin. It operated on a diesel generator and battery backup until the early 1990s, when it was refurbished. Thanks to the nuclear energy source, maintenance costs were minimal, but soon there was no money left for this either - the building was empty, and in 2006 the military removed two isotope installations that powered the lighthouse from here. It once shone for 17.5 miles, but is now plundered and abandoned.
Eighth workshop of the Dagdizel plant, Makhachkala
Naval weapons testing station, commissioned in 1939. It is located 2.7 km from the coast and has not been used for a long time. Construction took 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 sheet. Now this “Array” is abandoned and stands in the Caspian Sea, resembling an ancient monster from the shore.
Psychiatric Clinic Lier Sikehus, Norway
At the Norwegian psychiatric hospital, which is located in small town Lier, half an hour from Oslo, has a dark past. Experiments on patients were once carried out here, and for unknown reasons, four hospital buildings 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 operating to this day.
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 discovered 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: 5,300 people with a radius of the island itself of one kilometer. By 1974, the reserves of coal and other minerals on Gankajima were completely exhausted, and people left the island. Today, visiting the island is prohibited. There are many legends about this place among the people.
