The most terrible place in the world. The most terrible places on the planet (53 photos)

There are cities on our planet that send chills down your spine. This dead cities, abandoned cities or simply those in which people live, but it would be better for them not to do so. They meet in different countries and on different continents. Some of them were destroyed by the elements, and some by the people themselves.

This city was founded in the 18th century, and before the start of the war, Nagorno-Karabakh flourished and developed successfully. The last Soviet census, conducted in 1989, counted 28 thousand inhabitants. There were schools and colleges in Agdam, there was a drama theater; Wine, dairy products, and canned food were produced here; There was also a tool factory here. The city was connected with the rest of the territory of the republic and the USSR by railway.

Then in 1991 the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict began. The Azerbaijani army used the city as a location for artillery in 1992-1993. Stepanakert was shelled from here. Naturally, the Armenians did not remain in debt, and in 1993 the Armenian army stormed Aghdam in order to suppress enemy artillery.

As a result of several assault attempts, it became impossible to live in the city. It is literally destroyed to the ground; the only intact building is the mosque (but Allah, apparently, did not want to intercede for the residents). Now there are no people in Agdam, the ruins of the city are overgrown with wild pomegranate trees. Residents of nearby villages sometimes visit the dead city in search of materials suitable for home construction. The entire economy of Agdam is now limited to this.

In 1841, a tavern called the Bull's Head was founded. Soon a settlement was formed around it, and in 1854 it was already considered a town. The city grew, schools, hospitals, a post office, shops and even a theater appeared in it. At first the city was called Centerville, later it was called Centralia.

The main occupation of the working population was coal mining - Pennsylvania is famous for its mines. Coal destroyed the city. In 1962, during a fire at a landfill near the city, a fire started in the mine where anthracite was mined. The fire slowly but surely spread through the coal seams. The ground was cracking and choking smoke was coming out of the cracks. The fire still cannot be extinguished.

Soon, residents began to leave the city, fearing for their lives and health. Centralia is empty. Hardly a dozen people now live in the abandoned, smoke-filled city.

The town was built to accommodate workers who worked in the oil fields. Gradually, in addition to oil shift workers, many people settled in it. The city developed rapidly, high salaries attracted more and more new residents to it. Everyone found good work, and the prospects for Neftegorsk seemed brilliant.

It all ended in 1955, when on May 25 the city was rocked by a 10-magnitude earthquake. Only a few buildings remained from the entire city; more than 2,000 people died under the ruins.

The city was never restored. In its place stands only a huge obelisk in memory of the dead.

This city on the northern shore of Taiwan was built as an ultra-modern resort. It was distinguished by its most original architecture; American officers were preparing to move into houses that looked like saucers. But investors were faced with financial problems, and the project was frozen in 1980. A few years later, an attempt was made to resuscitate him. They began to build a luxury hotel and marina in Sanji, but soon the work was completely abandoned.

Throughout construction, the company was plagued by strange misfortunes. Employees died inexplicably. A few excursionists were in a hurry to leave, declaring that they were uncomfortable in Sanji. In the end, the project was abandoned completely, and the empty city was inhabited by Taiwanese homeless people. But they didn’t take root here either. Those who “changed their place of residence” in time said that the dead were wandering around the city and people were disappearing there. Information regularly appears about the disappearance of curious people who decided to look for adventure in the dead city.

The city existed for only 16 years (1970-1986). The bulk of its population were specialists who serviced the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Life in Pripyat was excellent, the city was modern, with good infrastructure, people received high salaries.

Then there was an accident at a nuclear power plant. Within a few days the city was completely evacuated. People left in a terrible hurry: the first looters who climbed into the abandoned city found scattered toys in kindergartens, plates with leftover food on tables in apartments, and unsolved problems on blackboards in schools.

Now these same looters have taken everything possible from Pripyat: fittings, valuable household items, even doors and frames. Mature birch trees have already sprouted through the asphalt. Rusty swings creak funerally in the courtyards.

There are now excursions in Pripyat - there are people who think it’s funny to look at “Apocalypse Now”.

The worst thing about this city is that the people live in it. Dharavi is part of Mumbai, a huge city of slums. There are similar areas in many cities in Asia and South America, but Dharavi is the biggest. The impoverished poor and simply dubious elements live here. The housing here is tiny huts built from all sorts of rubbish, packing crates, and boxes. Many don’t even have this and simply spend the night on the street. As a result, at night, Dharavi looks like a battlefield littered with motionless bodies.

The local inhabitants have no work, they do not receive any help, they eat whatever they can find. Water is also a huge problem. It is almost impossible to find a toilet in the modern sense; the population uses the river flowing through the city as this.

And what’s even worse is that children are born in this nightmare. Although the situation when three generations of a family live in a booth the size of half a modest garage is considered very successful here, some children still manage to survive. In the future, they will contribute to the further growth of the city, built up with residential soda boxes.

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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 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 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 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 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, it is believed local residents, their perfume. 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. 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 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 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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

Abandoned military hospital Beelitz-Heilstetten, Germany

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 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.

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.

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 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 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-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. 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, 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 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.

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.

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.

There are places on this planet that give you goosebumps, and here we will talk about just those. They are as terrible as they are interesting.

1. Mutter Museum of Medical History in Philadelphia

The Mütter Museum of Medical History is a museum of pathologies, antique 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; all sorts of unique exhibits are collected here, for example, the corpse of a woman who turned into soap in the ground where she was buried. There are also Siamese twins with a joint liver, the skeleton of a two-headed child and other creepy exhibits.

2. Truk Lagoon in Micronesia

A significant portion of the Japanese naval force now lies at the bottom of the shallow Truk Lagoon in Micronesia, southwest of Hawaii. The blue depths, explored by Jacques Cousteau in 1971 and strewn 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 who never left their combat posts. Ships and planes have long grown into coral reefs, but still more and more overly curious tourists who stick their noses where they shouldn’t become their victims.

3. Sonora Witch Market in Mexico City, Mexico

The witches of Mexico City, sitting in cramped booths, promise quick relief from poverty and adultery for 10 bucks, and tortured exotic iguanas, frogs and wild birds are hung for sale in cages on the walls of the tents. The Sonora market is open every day for pilgrims from Mexico City and tourists from distant places who come for fortune telling and promises. better life. This is the place where the entire local population indulges in “supernatural” gizmos, ranging from potions according to ancient Aztec recipes to Buddha statues. Die-hard 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 Witchcraft was involved in the presidential elections in order to use spells to turn them into fair and free ones.

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 into the sky, as if guilty of some mystical crimes. And only the stone giants know where the people who installed them disappeared to. On Easter Island no one else knows the secret of making, moving, and installing these giant statues up to 21 meters tall and weighing up to 90 tons. But they were often moved more than 20 kilometers from the quarry where ancient sculptors worked. Now on the island, where a powerful civilization once flourished, there is barely a glimmer of life, and no one knows where the mysterious builders came from and where they then disappeared.

5. Manchac Swamp in Louisiana

Boats carrying tourists sailing through the swamps by torchlight are surrounded by ancient cypress trees and long strings of moss hanging from the cypress branches. The howl heard in the distance may be that of the rou-ga-rou, the Cajun version of the werewolf.

The Manchac Swamp is also called the “ghost swamp.” They are located near New Orleans, and it’s just a goth’s dream. It is said that the swamp was cursed by a voodoo queen when she was captured in the early 20th century. As a result, three villages disappeared here in the hurricane of 1915. The peace of this bird cemetery is disturbed only by periodically floating corpses - a legacy of commercial activity more than 100 years ago. In addition, alligators, of which there are more here than corpses, will not disdain fresh tourist meat.

6. Paris Catacombs, France

Bones and skulls are stacked on both sides of the corridor, like goods in a warehouse - a lot of goods. The air here is dry and carries only the faintest hint of decay. There are also inscriptions, mainly from the time of the Great French Revolution, sending the king and nobles far and long. Once you get inside the catacombs near Paris, it becomes clear why Victor Hugo and Anne Rice wrote their famous stories specifically 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, although it is more likely done by legions of the dead. Or vampires. Although who will sort them out there, in the end. There have been quarries here since Roman times, and when the cemeteries of Paris overflowed, the tunnels became what they are in 1785.

7. Winchester House, San Jose, California

The “Magic” Winchester House is a colossal structure with many prejudices associated with it. One fortune teller told Sarah Winchester, the heiress of a gun company, that the ghosts of those killed with Winchesters would haunt her unless she left Connecticut for the West and built such a house that it could not be completed in her lifetime. 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 haunted by the ghosts of her madness: stairs that go straight to the ceiling, doors that open in the middle of the wall, spider motifs, candelabra, hooks. Since the house was opened to the public, there have been constant complaints about slamming doors, footsteps at night, moving lights, and door handles that turn on their own. Even if tourists don’t believe in ghosts, the place is mind-blowing with its scale.

8. Mary King's Dead End in Edinburgh

Several streets with a dark past hidden beneath Edinburgh's medieval Old Town. The place where plague victims were locked up and left to die in the 17th century is famous for poltergeists. Tourists here are touched on the hands and feet by something invisible. It is believed to be the ghost of Annie, a young girl abandoned there by her parents in 1645. A hundred years later, a period so beloved in scary fairy 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, who were attracted by tales of its supernatural spirits.Tourists will be led down stone steps into cramped, depressing alleys.In addition to Annie's room, an exhibition of medieval life and deaths from the plague has been restored. The main thing is not to stop, especially when you feel the icy breath of death.

9. Occult Thelema Abbey in Sicily

Aleister Crowley is perhaps one of the world's most vile occultists, and this stone farmhouse, filled with lurid pagan frescoes, was once the satanic orgy capital of the world. At least that's what they thought in the 1920s. Crowley is known mainly for his fans like Marilyn Manson and for 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 thou wilt." It became a free love commune. Newcomers were forced to spend the night in the “Nightmare Room,” where, high on heroin and marijuana, they stared at murals of earth, heaven and hell. After a popular English dandy died in the abbey, the press created a scandal and forced Mussolini to close the sharashka. Infamous underground director Kenneth Angier unearthed the story in 1945 and made a film there that later mysteriously disappeared. Now the abbey is dilapidated and overgrown with grass. But several frescoes with which Crowley intimidated his followers were preserved inside.

10. Chernobyl in Ukraine

In Ukraine, arriving in the abandoned city of Pripyat, tourists find themselves in an exclusion zone. Here, all things are thrown in a hurry and left from that terrible year 1986, when the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant forced tens of thousands of people to leave their homes forever. Apartments are wide open, in kindergartens ivy climbs along the painted walls, toys are scattered, newspapers are left unread on the kitchen tables. The swing, still creaking, sways in the yard under the gusts of a dead wind.

Now that the radiation level has dropped to a level that is safe 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 severely limited. As a rule, tourists leave Kyiv by bus, then walk to the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, take a tour of it, and look at the “Sarcophagus”. You can wander the streets of the ghost town of Pripyat and visit the sites of the infected Vehicle. And also meet with local self-settlers, residents of the “forbidden zone”.

There are certainly creepy places all over the world.

It's even likely that most of us live near or near one of them.

This list features 10 creepy places.

They became such either because they simply look like that, or because of their connection with the dark side of life.

The most terrible places in the world

10. Manchac Swamp

Ghosts, mass graves, alligators, and scary-looking trees.

All this is present in abundance in the terrible swamp located in the American Louisiana.

The photographs depict all the horror of New Orleans and its environs.

9. Cane Hill Hospital

Cane Hill was a madhouse in Croydon, London. It remained in operation until 1991, when apparently all the patients simply abandoned it.

Some patients were transferred to other safe locations.

However, the hospital itself still exists, and most of medical devices and devices are present there.

Top scariest places

8. Ruins of Bangar

Bhangarh is an abandoned city in Rajasthan, India. The city was built in honor of the prince in memory of his military achievements.

The city is said to be the most haunted city in the country. It was created in 1573, but due to a supposed curse, it was eventually abandoned by all residents in 1783.

This place is home to such a huge number of ghosts that access to it is closed after sunset and before sunrise.

7. Centralia

In 1962, in Centralia, Pennsylvania, a group of firefighters set fire to trash in an abandoned mine to clean up the town.

Ironically, this fire reached the deeper excavations, causing the mine to catch fire. It burned for a very long time, until the streets of the city were empty forever.

Danger lurks around every corner of Centralia: toxic gases, crumbling roads and smoking ground beneath your feet.

6. Gates of Hell

The Gates of Hell is a hole in the ground in Turkmenistan, almost 100 meters wide. In 1971, an accident at a Soviet drilling station triggered the appearance of this fault and a dangerous gas leak.

Scientists realized that the best solution would be to burn these gases. But the hole has been burning ever since, and its glow is visible even from a very great distance.

There is currently no information about when the fire will end.

5. Sanctuary of Tophet

The Tophet sanctuary is located in Tunisia. It is home to the graves of thousands of children.

Historians speculate that these may have been human sacrifices during Punic times, when the site was known as Carthage.

It is possible that the children were sacrificed and then eaten due to the famine that was raging in the region at the time.

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4. Aktun Tunichil Muknal

This place is located in Belize. It is filled with Mayan skeletal remains and archaeological artifacts.

The most "fascinating resident" of the cave is a young girl who became the object of human sacrifice.

Her calcified bones shine like crystal, making the remains even more eerie.

3. Aokigahara

The place is also known as the sea of ​​trees. This is a forest near Mount Fuji in Japan.