Scary and unusual things in the world. The most terrible places on earth

There are a huge number of beautiful places that every person would like to visit, but along with them there are also very creepy and scary places that are also very popular among tourists. Present to your attention 10 scariest places in the world.

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Chernobyl in Ukraine opens the top ten the scariest places on the planet. Today tourists can go to the abandoned city of Pripyat and see the exclusion zone. Thousands of people fled their homes after the Chernobyl reactor disaster. Toys abandoned in kindergartens and newspapers left on dinner tables come into view. The disaster area is now officially permitted for visits - the level of radiation is no longer dangerous. Bus tours begin in Kyiv, then tourists visit the nuclear reactor, see the sarcophagus and head to the abandoned city of Pripyat.

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Aleister Crowley is probably the most famous occultist in the world. This terrible place, replete with dark pagan frescoes, was intended to be the world capital of satanic orgies. Crowley appeared on the cover of the Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club. He founded the Abbey of Thelema, which became a free love community. Director Kenneth Unger, a follower of Crowley, made a film about the abbey, but the film later mysteriously disappeared. Now the abbey is almost completely destroyed.

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The medieval Old Town of Edinburgh has several streets with a sordid and dark past. This eerie place, where plague victims were supposed to die in the seventeenth century, became famous thanks to poltergeists. Tourists visiting this supernatural place claim that something invisible touches their hands and feet. Local residents say that this is the soul of the girl Annie, whom her parents left here in 1645. A hundred years later, a large building was built in the cul-de-sac. The dead end was opened for tourists in 2003.

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There are many myths and prejudices surrounding this colossal structure. One day, a fortune teller predicted that weapons factory heiress Sarah Winchester would be haunted all her life, so she must leave Connecticut and go west and begin building a huge house there that would last her entire life. Construction began in 1884 and did not end until Sarah's death in 1938. Now the house is inhabited by the ghosts of her madness: stairs resting on the ceiling, doors at the height of the middle of the wall, chandeliers and hooks. And even those who do not believe in ghosts claim that they saw or heard something inexplicable in this house. This house ranks seventh in our ranking of the top 10 most terrible places on the planet.

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The Parisian catacombs are ranked sixth on our list scary places on earth. All the walls of the long corridor of the catacombs are tiled with bones and skulls. Very dry air protects them from even a hint of decay. Entering these catacombs near Paris, you begin to understand why Anne Rice and Victor Hugo wrote their famous novels about these dungeons. Their length is about 187 kilometers along the entire city, and only a small part of them is accessible to visitors. It is alleged that the legendary underground police keep order in the catacombs, although legions of vampires and zombies would be more suitable for this place.

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This scary place is also known as the swamp of ghosts. It is located near New Orleans. Legend has it that it was cursed by a Voodoo queen while she was imprisoned there in the 1920s. Three small villages nearby were razed to the ground in 1915.

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Perhaps this place is one of the most mysterious places in the world. This island has gained worldwide fame thanks to the giant stone sculptures looking into the sky, as if begging for mercy. And only the stone of these statues knows who their creators were. No one on the island is familiar with the art of sculpture. No one can imagine how it was possible to make statues twenty meters high and weighing ninety tons. Among other things, the statues had to be delivered twenty kilometers from the quarry where the ancient sculptors worked.

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The black magic bazaar in Sonora opens the top three most creepy places on earth. Lots of witches sit in tiny booths and offer to rid you of poverty and adultery for just ten dollars. Every day, many Mexican and foreign tourists flock to this market, wanting to learn something about their future. There you can buy mysterious potions, snake blood and dried hummingbirds to tame luck.

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The bulk of the Japanese navy now rests at the bottom of this lagoon, southeast of the Hawaiian Islands. The entire bottom of this lagoon, explored by Jacques Cousteau in 1971, is strewn with fragments of warships sunk in 1944. This is a scary place attracts many divers, although many are wary of ship crews who remain forever at their combat posts. Fighter ships and aircraft carriers became coral reefs, and many divers who went down to explore these reefs never returned from their underwater journeys.

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The Mütter Museum of the History of Medicine ranks first in our ranking of the most terrible places on the planet. This museum was founded to educate future doctors about human anatomy and the anomalies of the human body. It features various pathologies, ancient medical instruments and biological oddities. The museum is primarily known for its extensive collection of skulls. It also contains unique exhibits, such as the body of a dead woman, which was turned into soap in the grave. Also there you can see Siamese twins sharing one liver, the skeleton of a two-headed boy and other terrible things.

For thrill-seekers, it’s not enough to jump with a parachute to get the blood flowing through their veins; they need something special: mesmerizing and frightening. These are places where an ordinary person would not want to end up; daredevils from different parts of the world strive to get into them, and voluntarily. To get a real buzz and feel the adrenaline rush, you need to visit the 10 scariest places in the world.

Museum-repository of bones (Czech Republic)

The ossuary was created by Abbot Jindřich many years ago, when he brought a bag of holy soil from Golgotha ​​and scattered it at the local cemetery. Since then, the burial place has become incredibly popular, because everyone wanted to touch the holy land, especially to be buried. During the plague in the 14th century, over 30 thousand people were buried in the cemetery.

Wars, civil clashes, epidemics - this is an incomplete list of disasters, as a result of which the cemetery grew and occupied tens of kilometers. It was decided that during new burials the old bones would be taken to the church. The Schwanzbergs bought the land and hired a woodcarver to honor and perpetuate the remains. Thus, the Museum-Storage of Bones was created, in which all the objects: coats of arms, paintings, chairs and tables, bowls are made from thousands of human remains.

Dracula's Castle (Transylvania)

Dracula's Fortress or Bran Castle was built in the Middle Ages on a cliff of the Carpathian Mountains. It is made in the Gothic style: narrow passages, stone stairs, small rooms. The huge castle evokes fear and depresses. The fortress was built with strong walls and a large number of labyrinths, used as a place to imprison criminals. Secret underground tunnels lead outside the castle. Tourists will be able to wander through the rooms of the fortress, visit creepy labyrinths and feel the spirit of the Middle Ages.

In 2005, a thematic museum dedicated to Count Dracula was created in the castle. Only here you can see antique furniture, armor and weapons collections located in the Museum of History and Art of the Middle Ages, located on the territory of the fortress.

Manchac - Haunted Swamps in Louisiana

The Manchac Swamp is located near New Orleans, Louisiana. They are known as the Haunted Swamp. Legends say that this place was cursed by a powerful witch when she was captured and taken prisoner in these same places. Since then, local residents have constantly seen the dead near the swamp.

From the swamp you can see old huge trees, their branches descend to the green-gray water, and tree roots stick out from the dirty water. It was decided to drain the swamp and cut down the tree trunks, but the idea was not implemented. Terrible hurricanes and storms began in Louisiana; several villages were carried away by the hurricane. Since then, corpses of people have been constantly found in the swamp, even though more than a hundred years have passed. Tourists do not believe in legends and book excursions to this area to solve the mystery of Manchac.

Chowchilla Cemetery

Nazca is a town in Peru that is constantly visited by hundreds of tourists. Some come to see with their own eyes the mysterious drawings left on the desert sand, others come to visit the local cemetery.

It’s creepy to watch the pits and ditches, fenced off with wooden sticks, in which corpses sit, dressed in their usual clothes. A special embalming technology made it possible to preserve the bones and avoid the stench. The last dead person was buried in the cemetery 11 centuries ago.

Mütter Museum - Medical Mysteries and Mysteries (Philadelphia)

The Museum of Medical History has collected all sorts of riddles and secrets that can shock any person:

• pathologies;
• biological unique exhibits;
• skeletons and skulls;
• bodies and bones of infants;
• ancient medical instruments and much more that will keep you awake at night.

You can visit the museum in Philadelphia, at the doctor's training center. There are exhibits here that cannot be found in other places, such as a 12.5 centimeter long human intestine. Monstrous pathologies will shock everyone: a child with 2 heads, unprecedented deformities and contortions. You need to have nerves of steel and good endurance.

Pripyat - a city without a single soul

A town that suffered from the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and was virtually destroyed. Once in Pripyat, you will find yourself in the exclusion zone. Before the accident, more than 11 thousand people lived in the city, some of them managed to leave their homes, and some were urgently sent to the nuclear power plant to put out the fire. Pripyat is an exclusion zone where essentially nothing alive remains.

In empty houses, everything remains the same as many years ago: unread newspapers, dishes, furniture and memories. In kindergartens there are dolls scattered and old beds. Tourists from all over the planet come to see these past horrors. The level of radiation has decreased several times over almost 30 years, so in protective clothing you can walk through the deserted streets of the ghost town and look at the remains of the nuclear power plant.

Gates of Hell (Turkmenistan)

The Gates of Hell is the name given to a hole in the ground on the territory of Turkmenistan. Its width is 100 meters. In 1971, a disaster occurred at a drilling station; it provoked the emergence of a huge fault in the ground and a gas leak that was dangerous to human life.

Scientists decided to burn dangerous gases, but they didn’t really succeed. The hole burns to this day, and its bright light can be seen several kilometers away. Nobody knows when this fire will end, but everyone is really looking forward to it.

Sonora Market - Ancient Magic and Witchcraft in Mexico City

Once in Mexico City, it would be a sin not to visit the local market for witchcraft and the occult. Here you can find any accessories for love spells, healing tinctures and potions:

• healing herbs;
• candles for spells;
• Voodoo dolls;
• protective amulets;
• holy water and other attributes of witches.

If you search, you can buy the blood or venom of a rattlesnake or dried hummingbird, which bring success and material wealth.

For a few dollars at the market, sorcerers will tell fortunes to anyone and tell the whole truth about life and destined destiny. Residents of Mexico believe in magic and if they fall ill with something, they first of all try to be cured with drugs and herbs obtained from a healer or witch.

Suicide Forest

The Aokigahara forest (located at the foot of Mount Fuji) is quiet, calm and at the same time gloomy and cold. According to legends, the forest was considered the habitat of ghosts and monsters. Many years ago, during epidemics and famines, residents took their loved ones to this area to die. The dark and mysterious reputation of the forest attracts people prone to suicide and takes them forever “into its arms.”

Around the forest you can see many signs asking you to come to your senses and not harm yourself or your loved ones. Residents of Japan are sure that it is impossible to enter and exit Aokigahara; the fate of the person who enters the grove is predetermined. Therefore, it is visited only by extreme tourists and rescuers.

Thelema Abbey – occultism at its finest (Sicily)

Aleister Crowley at the beginning of the twentieth century was considered the saddest occultist of all time. Hundreds of pagan frescoes can be found in his house. He became the founder of a famous abbey, and became famous for his motto: “Let everyone do what his soul and body desire.”

For beginners, there was a mandatory initiation rite; it consisted in the fact that, under the influence of drugs, a person had to stay in a room with mosaics of hell, heaven and earth. Now the building is practically destroyed, but some valuable examples of mosaics have been preserved. Therefore, lovers of esoteric science and experts in occultism can safely visit the fortress and find out how strong their nerves are.

These are the ten most terrible places on the planet; they deserve this title not only for their gloomy appearance, but also for their unique backstory. “Black” sights excite interest, make the heart beat wildly, but at the same time, they attract people from all countries and cities every day.

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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 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. 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.

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 a priceless gift from your parents. Think about them and your family. You don't have to suffer alone. Call us 22-0110."

Abandoned psychiatric hospital in Parma, Italy

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

Church of St. George, Czech Republic

The church in the Czech village of Lukova has been abandoned since 1968, when part of its roof collapsed during a funeral ceremony. Artist Jakub Hadrava populated the church with ghost sculptures, giving it a particularly sinister look.

Catacombs in Paris, France

The Catacombs are a network of winding underground tunnels and caves beneath Paris. The total length, according to various sources, is from 187 to 300 kilometers. Since the end of the 18th century, the remains of almost 6 million people have been buried in the catacombs.

Centralia, Pennsylvania, USA

Due to an underground fire that broke out 50 years ago and continues to burn to this day, the number of residents has decreased from 1,000 people (1981) to 7 people (2012). Centralia now has the smallest population in the state of Pennsylvania. Centralia served as the prototype for the creation of the city in the Silent Hill series of games and in the film based on this game.

Magic Market Akodessewa, Togo

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

Plague Island, Italy

Poveglia is one of the most famous islands of the Venetian lagoon, in northern Italy. It is said that since Roman times the island was used as a place of exile for plague patients, and 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.

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

The Norwegian psychiatric hospital, located in the small town of Lier, half an hour's drive 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.

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 named the “Gateway to Hell,” Turkmenistan's Darvaz is home to a fiery hole in the ground that has been burning continuously for over four decades, with no sign of stopping. It all started because of a worker mistake while exploring underground natural gas fields. In the end, they decided that it would be safer to burn the gas in 1971 rather than risk the people trying to get it. Darvaz is one of the most surreal landscapes on Earth.

Many years ago, hundreds of ships moored at this busy Aral Sea fishing port, but over time, the waters receded by 4 meters after Soviet engineers changed the direction of the rivers that feed this large port.

Every year, a real bird strike occurs in the Jatinga Valley, India. Migratory and local birds commit mass suicide here: just after sunset, hundreds of birds fall from the sky and crash to their death on trees and walls. Birds tend to be disorientated by the fog caused by monsoons. Birds are attracted to 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 residents (including children and women) in one day. First, they drove the men into barns and started shooting at their legs, immobilizing the people; the Nazis doused them with gasoline and burned them. The soldiers locked the women and children in the church. First, asphyxiating gas was released into the building, and then the church was set on fire.

To the west of the city of Cluj-Napoca there is an unusual forest - all the trees in it are twisted. An explanation for this phenomenon has not been found; other paranormal phenomena have been reported in the forest. A UFO was photographed here in 1968. I even call this place “the Bermuda Triangle of Romania”; people often disappear here.

It is called the creepiest 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 hall there was a dungeon (“oubliette”), into which unsuspecting guests fell through a secret door in the floor of the hall. The bottom of the dungeon was strewn with sharp stakes, on which the victims fell. According to some reports, when the castle was restored after a fire in the 20s of the last century, workers found a huge amount of bones in the “oubliette” - it took three carts to clean out the dungeon.

Construction of these houses began in 1978, they were supposed to become an attraction for tourists. But construction stopped in 1980 when the company went bankrupt. During construction, several serious accidents and suicides occurred due to the supposedly 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 of Lomé - a strange and unexpectedly welcoming place, which is distinguished from ordinary markets only by its fetishistic afterlife assortment. Mountains of cattle skulls, dried heads of monkeys, buffalos and leopards, and even human bones lie in mountains here. The stalls of traditional healers and healers are popular at the market, where terminally ill people flock in lines.

Centralia was a thriving Pennsylvania mining town whose population dropped 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 down a garbage dump. They set fire to heaps of garbage and then extinguished them. Incompletely extinguished garbage sparked an underground fire. Attempts to extinguish the fire were unsuccessful, and it still burns to this day. Unbearably harmful fumes and toxic soil force people to leave the city.

The Island of the Dolls can be called one of the creepiest attractions in Mexico. It is located in one of the areas of Mexico City, which is called Xochimilco and is known throughout the world thanks to the ancient Aztec canals - chinampas, included in the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage List. 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 dolls and then hang them on 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 settled at the beginning of the 19th century, due to the discovery of coal on it, it was just a fragment of rock. Thanks to the coal industry, the construction of houses for miners and their families began. The reef became an artificial island with a diameter of about one kilometer in perimeter, with a population of 5,300 people. By 1974, all residents left the island due to the drying up of minerals, and the city turned into a ghost town. The UNESCO World Heritage Committee included this abandoned city on the World Heritage List

Once upon a time it was planned as an advanced city where representatives of the technical intelligentsia would live: engineers, scientists, researchers. It was built around the most modern nuclear power plant at that time. But a combination of circumstances led to the worst man-made disaster in history. There was an explosion at a nuclear power plant and the release of tons of radiation dust, contaminating the earth for many kilometers around.

On the island of Luzon, in the village of Sagada, there is one of the creepiest places in the Philippines. Here you can see unusual funeral structures made of coffins placed high above the ground on the rocks. That's why this place is called the Sagada Hanging Coffins. 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.

A quarantine station, a common grave for victims of the plague and, most recently, by historical standards, a refuge for the insane - the tiny island of Poveglia, hidden from view in the Venetian Lagoon. They say that the island was twice the last refuge for thousands of patients during epidemics of the black plague, that its soil consists of 50% of the ashes of burnt corpses, that local fishermen avoid the island, fearing to discover in their nets a catch of human bones polished by the waves, that in In the 20s of the last century, horrifying experiments were carried out on mentally ill people here, that the head doctor of the psychiatric hospital eventually went crazy from his actions and committed suicide by jumping from the island bell tower, and a very mystical version suggests that Poveglia is densely populated spirits of tortured victims.

Throughout the forest you can find signs with the words: “Your life is a priceless gift from your parents. Please contact the police before you decide to die." Aokigahara Forest is located at the northwestern foot of Mount Fuji, sacred to every Japanese, on the island of Honshu, and is considered a place where ghosts from all over Japan gather. Aokigahara is a popular suicide spot among residents of Tokyo and the surrounding area. Every year, between 70 and 100 bodies are found in the forest.

Have you ever visited a place that gave you goosebumps? We found mysterious and scary places on our planet that not everyone dares to visit. See 15 of the creepiest places on earth.

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1. Muynak, Uzbekistan. There was once a busy port here. Now this place, where just a few decades ago the Aral Sea roared, has turned into a desert due to the fault of man. Now here you can only see a frightening landscape - a ship cemetery. (Photo: AP Photo/Alexander Zemlanichenko).
2. Catacombs, France. The remains of almost 6 million people still lie beneath the French capital. Also called the “French Empire of the Dead,” the 321-kilometer-long Parisian catacombs are a network of old caves and tunnels filled with skulls and bones of the dead. (Photo: AP Photo/Francois Mori)
3. Wonderland, China. China's "Wonderland" was supposed to be the largest amusement park in Asia. Unfortunately, in 1998, it was decided to abandon further construction due to rising land prices. Today, this abandoned place resembles more of a “land of horrors,” and locals call it a ghost town. (Photo: DAVID GRAY/Reuters).
4. Voodoo market, Togo. The capital of Togo has the strangest “pharmacy” in the world. Here you can find “special” medicines for every possible disease, for example, such as: dried monkey heads, elephant tails, bone bracelets and a love potion made from chameleons ground into powder. (Photo: Godong/Getty Images)
5. Hoia Baciu Forest, Romania. The mysterious forest of Transylvania has fascinated and frightened people for more than 50 years. Residents of nearby towns claim that many people have disappeared there. Those who managed to get out of it say that during their “journey” through the forest they constantly felt inner restlessness and nausea. The trees that were once straight in this forest have now, for unknown reasons, become crooked and twisted. (Photo: Mikel Martinez de Osaba/Getty Images)
6. Abandoned subway in Cincinnati, USA. In 1920, Cincinnati authorities decided to build a subway, but after 9.6 kilometers of tracks, funds ran out. To this day, abandoned tunnels under the city terrify local residents. (Photo: AP Photo/Harvey Eugene Smith)
7. Medical Museum in Philadelphia, USA. This most terrible American museum is visited by more than 142 thousand people annually. There you can see a huge collection of various parts of the human body, embryos and other anatomical rarities. Brrr! Horrible! (Photo: AP Photo/Rusty Kennedy)
8. Hill of Crosses, Lithuania. The mountain with two hundred thousand crosses is evidence of the deep faith of Lithuanian pilgrims. The custom of leaving crosses on the mountain appeared in 1931. Today, this slightly creepy mountain is a symbol of Lithuanian Catholicism and an element of national identity. (Photo: Image Broker/REX).
9. Oradour-sur-Glane, France. This small French village still bears the marks of Nazi brutality. On June 10, 1944, 642 people, including 247 children, were brutally killed: shot or burned alive. About 300 thousand tourists visit this place every year. (Photo: AP Photo).
10. Mummies in the village of Kabayan, Philippines. Many years ago, in the village of Kabayan, there was a tradition of mummifying the dead of the upper classes. With the spread of Christianity, this custom was forgotten, however, eerie caves filled with the remains of mummified people remained. (Photo: Christian Kober/Robert Harding/REX)
11. Maunsell Sea Forts, England. Designed by British engineer Munsell, these concrete platform defenses were designed to protect England's coastline during World War II. They are located in the east of the country at the mouth of the Thames and Mersey in the North Sea. On a sunny day, looking at them, it seems that they are huge, frightening metal robots. (Photo: Chris Laurens/Getty Images)
12. Varosha, Cyprus. Varosha is an abandoned city on the Cypriot coast. It was evacuated 40 years ago during a Turkish attack. The city was never repopulated. This deserted, abandoned place exudes horror. (Photo: ANDREAS MANOLIS/Reuters).
13. Jatinga Valley, India. This valley is notorious as a site of mass bird suicide. Birds from all over the world migrate there, then live there only until autumn, and then die, falling from a 700-meter cliff. (Photo: AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
14. San Zhi village, Taiwan. These summer houses, which look like flying saucers, were built in 1978 on the ruins of a cemetery. It is said that strange accidents and suicides occurred here during construction. The developer Hung Kuo Group, despite the loss of funds, decided to abandon this investment. (Photo: Philipp Chistyakov/Getty Images).
15. Chapel in the village of Czermna, Poland. The walls and ceiling of the chapel are covered with three thousand tightly packed skulls and human bones of victims of wars and epidemics. In the middle of the chapel there are two sculptures of angels with the inscriptions: “Rise from the dead” and “The day of judgment will come.” And in front of the entrance there is a statue with an inscription in three languages ​​(German, Czech and Polish): “In memory of the victims of the war, and as a warning to the living 1914.” (Photo: wikipedia commons).