If it seems to you that worse than a castle There is nothing in the world of Dracula, which means that you read a lot and travel a little. Island of dolls, cemetery of hanging coffins, forest of suicides - ELLE has selected the TOP-10 of the most terrible places in the world, visiting which can not only expand 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 ground, while others want to visit the Chauchilla cemetery. Spread out in the suburbs of Nazca, this necropolis is literally open to visitors. Imagine large pits made with sticks in which the dead sit. The amazing technology of embalming has kept the bodies - at least bones - in perfect order. Among the inhabitants of Chauchilla, there are plenty of those who can boast of magnificent hairstyles - despite the fact that the last dead man 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 atomic city, all the inhabitants of which were somehow related to the nuclear power plant. Immediately after the monstrous accident at the station, almost fifty thousand of its population was evacuated and the city turned into a monument. Rather, to the memorial. So it stands for more than thirty years empty, becoming a creepy museum under open air... 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. The locals are convinced that the higher the body of the deceased is, the faster he will be in heaven. Forcing them to bury their bodies is useless. The tradition of burying the dead in the air has existed for more than two thousand years, and the locals do not tell how and what the coffins are attached to - this is a secret.
There are many islands in the suburbs of Mexico City, the most famous is of course 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 near this island. Barrera kept her doll for himself, and from that moment the spirit of the deceased began to appear to him. To appease the spirit, Julian began to hang old dolls found in the garbage on the island. And in the end he settled on this island. In 2001, after his death (Barrera, like that same girl, drowned near the island), the enthusiasts, his relatives, continued the business. There are many 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 the Piercer because of his love for impaling his subjects. The castle, built on the edge of the abyss, is one hundred percent embodiment of the Gothic style: gloomy decoration, howling sounds (the reason for which is the chimney, which begins to buzz in strong winds). The main attraction of the castle is Dracula's bedroom with a huge bed, it is here, according to legend, that the owner preferred to drink the blood of his victims. The "house" looks very well-groomed, for which thanks to Francis Ford Coppola, who invested in the reconstruction of the castle when he was filming there his adaptation of the novel by Bram Stoker.
In the Czech village of Lukova, the Church of St. Jiri (St. George) has been standing since the 14th century. It was emptied in 1968, after a fire broke out during a funeral service and the roof collapsed. Several years ago, sculptor Yakov Khadrava, preparing for the delivery of his thesis, decided to turn the church into a platform for his experiments. And he populated the empty building with human statues, whose heads are covered with bedspreads. The sight is fascinating and scary. The teachers, by the way, were also imbued with Jacob's diploma - in this original form - accepted.
The famous Mount Fuji is known not only for itself: at its foot lies Aokigahara, a dense forest full of rocky caves. Aokigahara is incredibly quiet and very, very dark. Already in ancient times, the forest was considered a place of "residence" of monsters and ghosts. And it was here that the inhabitants brought and left their loved ones, whom they could not feed, - the ailing old people and children. Aokigahara's dark reputation attracts people who tend 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.
Not surprisingly, the "Suicide Forest" is filled to capacity with signs urging potential suicides to come to their senses. The Japanese believe that once they enter Aokigahara, they will not be able to get out of it. Therefore, only rescuers visit it, seekers to commit suicide, yes daredevils tourists.
They were buried here for four centuries in a row, until the end of the 18th century. There was little room, a lot of bodies. As a result, more than 100,000 dead people found shelter in a small area. So that there was enough space for everyone, the old tombstones were covered with earth and new ones were immediately installed. Thus, 12 layers of graves were accumulated. Over time, some layers of the sagging earth crawled out into the light of day, hitting later ones, and the cemetery looked like a crowd at rush hour on public transport.
Here it is, South American Gothic in all its glory. The Manchak Swamp is located near New Orleans and is called a swamp of ghosts. Slaves fled here from their masters, but none of them got out of here - all were eaten by giant crocodiles. The spirits of the dead and those very crocodiles are the main ingredients in the creepy Manchak menu, a place that so attracts tourists. Excursions are actively conducted through the swamp, both during the day and at night.
The chapel, built in Portugal in the 16th century, is filled with the remains of monks: in total, more than five thousand people are buried there. Bones, skulls are everywhere, wherever you look. And the inscription on the roof of the building - "Better a day of death than a birthday" - sets you in an optimistic mood.
Our world is beautiful and amazing, a lifetime is not enough to see all the beauties of the planet. However, some people like to tickle their nerves and see something scary with their own eyes. Many believe in the supernatural and otherworldly, so they visit these creepy and dangerous places shrouded in secrets.
Aptly dubbed the "Gateway to Hell," Turkmen Darvaz contains a flaming hole in the ground that has been continuously burning for over four decades with no sign of stopping. It all started because of the mistake of workers during the exploration of underground natural gas fields. In the end, they decided that it would be safer to burn this gas in 1971 than to risk people trying to get it. Darvaz is one of the most surreal landscapes on Earth.
Many years ago, hundreds of ships moored in this busy fishing port. The aral sea, but over time, the water receded by 4 meters, after Soviet engineers changed the direction of the flow of the rivers feeding this large port
Every year in the Jatinga Valley, India, there is a real "birdfall". Migratory and local birds commit mass suicide here: immediately after sunset, hundreds of birds fall from the sky and crash to death on trees and walls. Birds tend to be disoriented by fog caused by monsoons. The birds are attracted by the village lights and fly towards them, sometimes crashing into trees and walls along the way.
12. Ghost town - Oradour-sur-Glane, France
The village of Oradour turned into a ghost in 1944 - the Nazis shot and burned 642 of its inhabitants (including children and women) in one day. First, they drove the men into the sheds and started shooting at the legs, immobilizing people, the Nazis doused them with gasoline and burned them. The soldiers locked the women and children in the church. First, a suffocating gas was released into the building, and then the church was set on fire.
To the west of the city of Cluj-Napoca stretches unusual forest- all the trees in it are curved. An explanation for this phenomenon has not been found; other paranormal phenomena have also been recorded in the forest. In 1968, a UFO was photographed here. I even call this place “ Bermuda Triangle Romania ”, people often disappear here.
It is called the most eerie castle in Ireland. In the 16th century, it was home to the O'Carroll family, who fought with other Irish clans. The O'Carrolls often invited their enemies to dinner at the castle under the pretext of reconciliation, and then killed them right at the table. Under the dining room there was a dungeon ("kill"), into which unsuspecting guests fell through a secret door in the floor of the room. The bottom of the dungeon was dotted with sharp stakes, onto which the victims fell. According to some reports, when in the 1920s the castle was restored after a fire, workers found a huge amount of bones in the "kill" - it took three carts to clean up the dungeon.
The construction of these houses began in 1978, they were supposed to become a tourist attraction. But in 1980, construction was halted when the company went bankrupt. During construction, there were several serious accidents and suicides due to the allegedly disturbed spirit of the mythical Chinese dragon. As a result, the village was abandoned and soon became known as a ghost town.
Akodesseva is located in the capital of the Togolese Republic, Lome - a strange and unexpectedly welcoming place that differs from ordinary markets only by a fetishist afterlife assortment. Here lie the mountains of the skulls of cattle, the dried heads of monkeys, buffaloes and leopards, and even human bones. Popular on the market are the tents of folk healers and healers, where the terminally ill people flock in rows.
Centralia was a thriving mining town in Pennsylvania, with a population declining from 1,000 in 1981 to 12 in 2005 and 10 in 2010. The reason for this is the seemingly harmless burning of garbage in a landfill in 1962. 5 firefighters were hired by the city authorities to burn the landfill. They set fire to heaps of garbage, and then extinguished them. The garbage not completely extinguished provoked an underground fire. Attempts to extinguish the fire were unsuccessful, and it still burns to this day. Unbearably harmful fumes and poisonous earth forces people to leave the city.
Island of the Dolls can be called one of the most eerie attractions in Mexico. It is located in one of the districts of Mexico City, which is called Xochimilco and is known throughout the world thanks to the ancient canals of the Aztecs - chinampas, included in the List of the World cultural heritage UNESCO. This island is located on one of them. They say that in the middle of the last century, a little girl drowned in a canal near the island, and soon after the accident, old broken dolls, thrown into the canal, began to swim up to the island. The hermit Don Julian Santana, who lived on the island, decided that this was a sign and began to catch the dolls, and then hang them on the trees in order to protect themselves from evil and calm the spirit of the dead girl.
This island is located in the East China Sea, about 15 kilometers from the city of Nagasaki. Before the island was inhabited at the beginning of the 19th century, due to the discovery of coal on it, it was just a piece of rock. Thanks to the coal industry, the construction of houses for miners and their families began. The reef turned into artificial island with a diameter of about one kilometer in perimeter, with a population of 5300 people. By 1974, all residents left the island due to dried up fossils, and the city turned into a ghost town. The UNESCO World Heritage Committee has included this abandoned city on the World Heritage List
It was once planned as an advanced city where representatives of the technical intelligentsia would live: engineers, scientists, researchers. It was built around the most modern at that time nuclear power plant. But a coincidence of circumstances led to the worst man-made disaster in history. An explosion occurred at the nuclear power plant and the release of tons of radiation dust that polluted the earth for many kilometers around.
On the island of Luzon, in the village of Sagada, there is one of the most eerie places in the Philippines. Here you can see unusual burial structures made of coffins, placed high above the ground on the rocks. Therefore, this place has the name "Hanging coffins of Sagada". Among the indigenous population, there is a belief that the higher the body of the deceased is buried, the closer his soul will be to heaven.
A quarantine station, a common grave for victims of the plague, and more recently, by historical standards, a haven for the insane - the tiny island of Poveglia, hidden from view in the Venetian lagoon. They say that the island was twice the last haven for thousands of patients during the black plague epidemics, that its soil is 50% ashes of burnt corpses, that local fishermen bypass the island, fearing to find in their nets a catch of human bones polished by waves, which in The 20s of the last century, terrifying experiments were carried out here on mentally ill people, that the chief doctor of a psychiatric hospital ultimately went insane from his deeds and committed suicide by jumping from the island bell tower, and a very mystical version suggests that Poveglia is densely populated the spirits of tortured victims.
Throughout the forest you can find signs with the words: “Your life is an invaluable gift from your parents. Please contact the police before dying. " Aokigahara Forest is located at the northwest foot of Mount Fuji, sacred to every Japanese, on the island of Honshu, and is considered a place where ghosts from all over Japan gathered. Aokigahara is popular place suicide among residents of Tokyo and the surrounding area. From 70 to 100 bodies are found in the forest every year.
Where does almost everyone go on vacation? That's right, most people prefer big cities or resorts, with golden beaches and rustling seas.
However, there are some people for whom it is not enough to warm their bones under the hot summer sun. Fans of adrenaline and extreme sports will never choose such a boring pastime for them.
They know that in Paris you can visit not only the Eiffel Tower, but the catacombs are also famous, that the forests of Japan are full of not only beautiful sakura, and that in the Czech Republic not all houses are so beautiful.
And if you belong to people of just this type, then the next article is dedicated to you! Perhaps, after reading, hands themselves will reach for the suitcase and the phone - more likely to order a ticket.
So, the top 10 scariest places on the planet - pleasant reading!
The scariest abandoned place in Russia is littered with animal remains. The cattle and wild animals that have wandered here are dying for unknown reasons. The geologists who conducted research here stated that they had a sharp deterioration in their health - pressure drops, headache, nausea, dizziness, weakness. In this ominous place, many human corpses were found, as well as the corpses of birds and animals. 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 realizing that not every person or animal is able to do this urgently.
In the middle of the 19th century, Thomas Mutter founded the Museum of Medicine, which later became a clear example of all the most disgusting and terrible that can happen to a person.
For fourteen dollars you will not just get entrance ticket, but also the opportunity to see firsthand the most diverse anomalies, the most 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, in the process of being in the ground, became fatty);
- a tumor that was removed from the President of the States - Cleveland;
- accrete organs of twins;
- and a part of the brain that belonged to Charles Guiteau, President Garfield's assassin.
8. Danakil
This Ethiopian desert has a truly "poisonous" splendor. All those risk-takers who have visited Danakil claim to have been to Hell on Earth. And, this is not surprising, because the desert in the northern part of Ethiopia can rightfully be considered one of the creepiest places in the world.
A short walk through the unearthly expanses of Danikil will more than replace your flight to the red planet. Oxygen is almost completely absent, but the scorching air filled with stench is enough for everyone. It owes its origin to the red, boiling earth and stones that melt underfoot.
A "bonus" is the heat, about fifty degrees, a roulette on the topic "step on a volcano or not", and a unique opportunity to breathe sulfur vapor, and in huge quantities.
If you believe that there is an underworld, then the door to it is in the Karakum desert in Turkmenistan. This chilling place is a huge reservoir of natural gas measuring 70 by 60 meters and about 32 meters deep. In 1971, Soviet scientists discovered a large accumulation of underground gas. During the drilling of an exploration well, the 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 that long. The flame has been raging for a little over 40 years, and to date there is no information when it will go out.
In the Czech Republic, in the city of Kutná Hora, there is the most terrible and strange sight in Western Europe - the Church of All Saints. Once there, visitors do not leave the feeling that they are not in a church, but in a den 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, starting from the altar and ending with a chandelier with shades crowned with skulls. The prehistory of this mysterious place sends us back to 1278, when one of the monks of the monastery brought several handfuls of earth from Jerusalem and scattered it around the cemetery. Rumors about 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 bury them on two or three floors. At the beginning of the 15th century, a Gothic cathedral was built in order to free up places for fresh burials. Remains were removed from the graves, which had not been taken care of for a long time, and were stored in the tomb of this church. This process continued throughout the next century, until one half-blind monk decided to put things in order in the tomb. He bleached all the remains in a chlorine solution and carefully folded 2 central and 4 corner pyramidal structures from human remains. In 1870, the church and the monastery lands were bought by the noble Schwarzenberg family, who later changed the decor of the cathedral, turning to the skilled woodcarver Frantisek Rint. He created that interior from bones, which has survived to this day.
This huge house is notorious. After all, the inhabitants of this strange house for a long time was 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, which took the lives of thousands of people. On the advice of the medium, the inconsolable widow bought a house and began to rebuild it, the main condition was not to stop construction, otherwise she would die. The crazy construction lasted for almost 38 years. The architecture of the house is so insane that not every person can withstand 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 stairs (some of them end in the wall or abut against the ceiling), about 2,000 doors. Narrow, low corridors twist like snakes, the doors on the upper floors open outward, 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 you can easily go outside directly from the third floor or find yourself 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.
It's scary and mysterious place near New Orleans. Legend has it that at the beginning of the last century, these places were cursed. And one of the fans of the Voodoo cult, who was held captive in this area, imposed a terrible curse. Soon, a powerful hurricane that struck these places destroyed several nearby villages. Nobody began to restore these villages, the painfully ill fame appeared in these places. And people more and more often began to disappear in the area of swamps. An attempt was even made to drain these swamps, but with the start of work, a terrible hurricane struck again and destroyed the settlement of workers to the ground, there were also human casualties. The swampy area is not very attractive for walking anyway, those who get there are immediately seized with inexplicable fear, ringing in the ears, dizziness, legs become wad tree roots, dark stinking water ... Occasionally, bodies float to the surface of the swamps dead people... Even birds do not fly over this lost place. Only huge alligators dared to dwell in such a terrible place. But even knowing horror stories associated with the "swamp of ghosts" it attracts fans to get a rush of adrenaline. These daredevils want to see ghosts, restless shadows of the departed who cannot find peace because of a terrible curse. You can only move here by boat, and if someone falls out of it, he has no chance of surviving. Terrible swamps and huge alligators will forever leave the poor fellow in this ominous place.
What do we represent when the word "forest"? That's right, emerald glades, 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 already from the nickname given to this place - the forest of suicides. And if in other forests you stumble upon birds, squirrels and foxes, then in Aokigahara you will only be greeted by corpses.
Blood local residents and tourists are invariably worried about the huge number of legends associated with this lava-grown forest. Sad glory overtook him in the Middle Ages, when the hungry years drove a lot of people to madness. In despair, they began to sacrifice their relatives, bringing the weak and old people into the forest, and even leaving them there. Cries for help, 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 still take revenge on people for their suffering.
Today, Japan does not suffer from hunger, but Aokigahara's sinister role has remained and does not cease to be relevant. The attractive mysticism of the forest and its maddening silence now attract those people who have decided to commit suicide. The local police find up to a hundred bodies of the unfortunate every year.
And the beautiful and romantic Venice is also ready to present a lot of mystical, which for hundreds of years has been hidden from general curiosity. And one of the secrets of the Italian city is the island of Poveglia, or in other words, the "symbol of horror."
The history of such an ominous place begins at the dawn of the Roman Empire. During this period, the island became the last refuge for a huge number of plague victims, who were taken to Poveglia and left there to die.
Since they did not have time to bury them due to the number of the dead, the bodies were simply burnt. And it is for this reason that ominous rumors have spread that the land on the island is overrun with human ash. According to some reports, about one hundred and sixty thousand infected people died on Poveglia.
After several centuries, in 1922 it was decided to open a psychiatric hospital on the island. And it was this that intensified the oppressive and gloomy atmosphere of Poveglia several times. The patients of the hospital constantly complained of unthinkable headaches and that the ghosts of the dead came to them every night, screams and groans 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 the locals are trying their best to refute the 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 presents several atmospheric medieval streets that are hidden modern city 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 joined with it only by a line of impregnable walls.
From historical sources, we can learn that about three hundred and fifty years ago, in the seventeenth century, an epidemic of "black death" 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 a complete cessation of the plague at that time), local monks raked the streets overflowing with dead bodies and burned them outside the city limits.
After a while, the infected began to be isolated in a special infirmary.
And already the chronicles of 1645 told us that the magistrate had given an order to enclose the "plague" quarter with walls in order to try to extinguish the main focus of the epidemic.
And the owner of most of the fenced-off houses was just Mary King, and it was in her honor that the quarter was named.
Literally a hundred years after the ravaging plague sank into oblivion, a city grew up on the site of the Mary King quarter, which was not interested in the secrets of the past years.
Today, the streets of the plague city are only gloomy tunnels, the walls and ceilings of which are crowned with cords and dusty lamps. Gloomy illumination pulls from the veil of darkness the remains of the once huge stairs, which now will not lead anyone anywhere.
Over the years, rumors and legends have grown over this dead end. They say that those unfortunate people who were doomed to a long and painful death in their "stone trap" are the 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, ask 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.
From time immemorial people have striven to get vivid impressions... Strikingly, the most profound are the experiences that touch the very essence of a person. In particular, this includes the instinct of self-preservation.
Horror phenomenon
Speaking about the mysterious and mysterious places of the world, people usually mention ghosts or semi-legendary stories about the atrocities of the previous owners of certain buildings. Today we will try to highlight those that are not associated with the action of ghosts.
Even Sigmund Freud singled out a special human attraction, which he called "Thanatos". The great psychologist thus explained the desire of people for death and especially dangerous measures and types of activity.
Each reader will be able to name the most creepy place on the planet. Since some are frightened by local legends, a glance is enough for all the nightmares to come to life in the imagination. Others cannot be penetrated by anything. Therefore, we tried to select anomalous zones of various types.
There are 5 of the most creepy places associated with poltergeist, ghosts or tectonic activity. We will talk about such objects, which may not look very remarkable from the outside, but leave an indelible and deep mark for life after visiting.
Winchester House, San Jose, USA
During our virtual excursion we will consider the most scary places in the world. The sample concerns not only man-made objects, but also unexplained natural phenomena.
The first place we visit will be an extravagant mansion in the state of California. Today it houses a tourist attraction. But it used to be the home of Sarah, the widow of William Winchester. His father invented the famous rifle. He soon died, as did his son and granddaughter.
When the woman attended an audience with the medium, he gave her a message from William. According to the deceased, she should have bought a piece of land in San Jose and built a mansion there with a specific layout. It should have many rooms, traps and tricks to confuse the angry ghosts of people killed from Winchesters.
Spent all my multimillion dollar fortune to build this shelter. It has interesting points. For example, stairs to the second floor, ending in a wall, or doors without rooms. Also, this mansion is permeated through and through with the magic number 13. There are so many steps in each of the stairs, in many rooms there are so many windows, in the building there are “damn dozen” bathrooms.
In total, the estate has over one hundred and sixty rooms, forty staircases, six kitchens, but only one shower. There are also about two thousand doors, but only four hundred and fifty doorways.
We decided to start our excursion from this particular estate, as it is the most extravagant and unusual. It even starred a feature film based on the biography of Sarah Winchester.
Aokigahara forest
Probably the creepiest place on the planet is the Suicide Forest in Japan. It is originally called Aokigahara (Valley of Green Trees). This reserve is located at the foot of Mount Fuji. In principle, the landing can only be liked in a clear sunny weather... The rest of the time, she just breathes doom, dullness and meaninglessness.
Aokigahara is only slightly behind the bridge in San Francisco in the number of cases of settling accounts with life. Interestingly, the forest has long been considered the abode of evil spirits and demons. Up to the beginning of the twentieth century, poor families brought the elderly and children here to die, whom they could no longer provide with food.
Later, from about the middle of the last century, many lower and middle-level workers came here. Apparently, impressionable Japanese find the only way to escape from the "rat race" of society.
About a hundred suicides are found here every year. Recently, even unofficial squads of marauders have appeared. They comb the thickets in search of bodies and rob their pockets, take off their jewelry. Thus, the mysterious places of the planet help not only the development of tourism, but also enrich local fraudsters and thieves.
The Japanese government is funding the cleaning of the bodies. According to eyewitness accounts, the most common endings of life are drug poisoning and hanging.
Local authorities have taken a number of measures to help as many people as possible abandon the stupid decision. Along the perimeter of the forest there are signs with a call to change your mind and a helpline. Also, video cameras are directed to many paths leading into the thicket. And the attendants working in nearby establishments have already learned how to calculate potential suicides. They immediately report the information to the police.
It is noteworthy that in Japan several books and films have been released that tell about the specifics of this place. And Tsurumi's "Guide to Suicide" is often found near corpses in the forest.
Overtone bridge
The darkness of the soul is incomprehensible to another person, and even the most persistent and sane individual can go crazy in the corners of inflamed illusions. But what causes some animals to commit suicide is an interesting question.
We continue to review the world's scariest places. And next in line is the Overtown Bridge, near the Milton settlement in West Dumbartonshire. Interesting cases have been recorded here since about the middle of the twentieth century. Almost every month at least one dog jumps from the bridge into the water.
Most die immediately, and the survivors return after a while to try again.
It is noteworthy that animals live by instincts, and such deviations are not characteristic of them. That is why commissions have come here several times to investigate such an unusual anomaly.
Today there are two versions highlighting the reason. One of them was proposed by ethnographers and collectors of folklore, the second - by zoologists.
According to the first, a man with a child once came to the bridge. He declared his son a product of satanic forces and threw the baby into the water, and after a couple of days he jumped himself. Since then, it has become a tradition that the boy's ghost invites the dogs to play. Animals, because of their ability to perceive the subtle world, without suspecting anything, follow the ghost and die.
A more rational explanation was put forward by scientists, after many months of research. According to their theory, minks are to blame for everything. These rodents live along the banks of the river, and over the years these places have simply smelled of them. Dogs, focusing on the intensity of the smell, rush to chase prey and fall from the bridge into the water.
We are looking at the creepiest places in the world. And no one can fully explain their specifics, otherwise they would cease to be mysterious. So it is with the Overtone Bridge.
Even if the reason lies in burrows, why do dogs that survived a fall from fifteen meters return and rush again? These animals have a very developed memory for the places and people who hurt them.
Jatinga
Thus, it is impossible to hide from some terrestrial anomalies, even by rising high in the air. For the first time, the English tea planter and plant researcher E. Ji spoke about the unusual phenomenon. He described a strange period in late August, when large flocks of birds begin to flock into the Jatinga Valley and crash into the ground with a bang.
At first, no one believed him and considered his recordings to be fictional. But one orientologist decided to check the legend. It turned out that the tea grower was telling the truth. So Sengupta became the first scientist who recorded the unusual August "birdfall".
According to this researcher, the birds are in a kind of trance, "like somnambulists." They throw themselves at the fires and lamps of the local village. If you take an animal that has not been killed to death, it does not resist, but completely refuses food and water. It is noteworthy that after three or four days of madness, the released bird flies away as if nothing had happened.
But the creepy places in the world are often perceived ambiguously. Tourists and visiting researchers see them as an anomalous threat, while locals invent a myth to justify the event. Thus, the aborigines of this valley say that the gods rewarded them with such a "birdfall" for their righteousness. They can collect a bunch of carcasses and use them for food. It turns out a kind of analogue of "manna from heaven" for an Indian village.
Thelem Abbey, Sicily
Discussing the most terrible places in the world, we return to the creation of human hands. The next attraction that we will talk about is a one-storey house in the town of Cefalu on the island of Sicily.
It was once acquired by Aleister Crowley, one of the most famous and controversial occultists of the early twentieth century. Here he was going to create the basis for a future civilization, cleansed of Christian darkness and obscurantism.
It was within these walls that Crowley resumed satanic rituals, as well as the practice of witchcraft with the use of narcotic drugs. Thus, the initiation included the simultaneous use of marijuana with heroin and a night of reflection in a special room called the "Hall for Visions" or "Room of Nightmares." In this room, the walls are painted with dark frescoes depicting different circles of hell and heaven.
The abbey was closed after the famous British aristocrat Raoul Loveday died on its territory. Presumably, he poisoned himself with drugs mixed with cat blood. Thus ended the history of the commune living under the slogan "Do whatever is the only law."
There are many eerie abandoned places on the planet, but only attracts crowds of unofficial visitors. Fans of witchcraft and the activities of Aleister Crowley come here every year. They strive to touch the ruins in order to receive a powerful energy charge from their idol.
Devil's Cemetery. Krasnoyarsk region
There are natural scary places in Russian Federation... We'll start with a remote area in Siberia. In general, ethnologists have collected a lot of materials about the most incredible features and scary secrets that the taiga keeps. But now we will talk about what was really recorded by various groups of researchers in the form of photographs and videos, and not simple stories.
Presumably, the Devil's Cemetery appeared as a result of unusual cosmic activity associated with the fall.According to the recollections of old-timers, one day an object fell from the sky, and a rounded edge was formed in the forest. The ground turned black and smoke began to appear from it at times. In summer, no grass grows on this place, only a little moss, and in winter there is no snow.
Any animal that gets inside the damn circle dies within the next few hours. People, however, according to eyewitnesses, here experience an inexplicable feeling of melancholy, and as they approach the very edge, an irrational fear grows, gradually turning into panic.
Thus, eerie places on Earth can be not only natural, but also of cosmic origin.
Sablinskie caves
Speaking about the most creepy place on the planet, it is especially worth dwelling on. There are no bloodthirsty monsters, inexplicable and oppressive horror among visitors or satanic symbols. Just a fairly large underground natural formation. For example, the length of one of the catacombs is more than seven kilometers, and the height of the halls is up to five meters.
In Soviet times, the object was classified, since under the ground were hiding all kinds of criminal individuals who were outside the law. They called themselves dissidents. Even about ten different gangs were formed. Several people disappeared here every month and are still missing. At the same time, all the well-known "political" hiding under the ground have long since left their lost place. Today, according to official data, there is not a single "underground inhabitant" there.
The Sablinskie caves are constantly visited by extreme lovers and those who like to visit the eerie places of Russia. They are not even afraid of the facts of the frequent disappearance of curious onlookers.
Scientists see the reason for this anomaly in underground free-flowing sands and movements of the earth's crust. A group that entered one of the tunnels may in a second be buried under tons of sand. All this data is based on the stories of gang members who once lived in these caves.
Death road. Lyubertsy-Lytkarino highway
Let's talk about the mysterious places of the Moscow region. Basically, around Moscow, researchers abnormal zones there are about a dozen sections of highway with increased risk of fatal accidents.
But the section of the Lyubertsy - Lytkarino highway, near the village of Pekhorka, is considered the most unsafe. If you drive along this road, you can see many wreaths in the trees along the asphalt pavement, marking the places of death of drivers.
Most of the accidents date back to the period from 1990 to 2002. The sudden decrease in mortality after 2003 is explained by the fact that at that time the governor took over the "anomaly". As a former military general, he did not philosophize. In this section, the concrete road surface was replaced with asphalt. excellent quality and four speed bumps have been erected.
After such preventive measures, the drivers did not have the opportunity to accelerate much along the highway.
Skeptics and realists often say that scary places are mortally dangerous only for those who neglect common sense, and the locals tell a legend that this segment became the "road to death" because the cover was laid on top of an old cemetery. Here are the ghosts of the dead and take revenge on unlucky drivers who find themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Beria's house
We talked about the mysterious places of the Moscow region, in conclusion, I would like to note another strange building in the capital itself. In Soviet times, this house was perhaps the most terrible place in the area. Passers-by tried to bypass the street by the tenth road, and if it was necessary to walk along it, they crossed to the opposite side.
What is such a terrible building? House of the State Security Commissioner Lavrenty Pavlovich Beria. This man was one of the organizers of the Stalinist repressions. The building is located in Vspolny Lane. Today its premises are occupied by the Embassy of Tunisia.
According to eyewitnesses (local residents and researchers), a couple of times a month at about three o'clock in the morning you can hear ghostly sounds near the house. It is said to be the distinct noise of a powerful motor. An invisible car “drives up” to the door of the building. His doors are heard opening, a man's voice is saying something. Then the door slams and the car drives away. The whole incident takes about three minutes.
Thus, in this article, we talked about the terrible places in Russia and the world. We got acquainted with both safe objects that can interest ufologists or adolescents, and with deadly formations, which it is better not to approach.
Good luck, dear readers! Travel wisely.
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Although it happened more than 300 years ago, this place has not found any other glory. The dead end is still called " city of the dead", Bringing tourists and ordinary visitors here. Now this place belongs to the underground quarters of the city, over which there has long been 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, excursions are not conducted here, and the last service was held here more than 40 years ago.
This place gained fame not thanks to mysticism or legends, but with the help of the artist Yakub Hadrava. He populated the church with strange sculptures, thereby creating an eternal service. They settled down like the ghosts of former ministers who came to the next prayer. And it looks pretty creepy.
Afar basin
A place called the Afar Basin is located in Ethiopia. And it 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 - Dallol lava lake. Due to the location at the junction of the lithospheric plates, constant eruptions occur here. But even without them, a person quickly loses consciousness from the abundant evaporation of hydrogen sulfide. This place is terrifyingly beautiful, but dangerous for the life of every tourist.
In the future, the basin will become a new ocean, but now it is one of the favorite places for tourism.
Mountain of crosses in Latvia
Not always terrible places originally conceived as such. This also applies to the Hill of Crosses located near the city of Siauliai. The name perfectly reflects everything that you will see in this place - hundreds and thousands of crosses hugging each other. There are so many of them installed here that only a special path for passers-by is a free space.
However, this is not an old cemetery or burial ground. In fact, everything started from the old legend, according to which the one who puts a cross here will find good luck and happiness in life. As a result, so many crosses were installed here that the city that was located here earlier no longer exists.
Although it looks a little intimidating on the outside, the beauty of some of the crosses is mesmerizing. These are unique pieces of art that are regularly updated. After all, tourists who come here leave more and more crosses in the hope of an old legend.
