The Creepiest Places On Earth You Can Actually Visit
Published in Entertainment at April 18th, 2017 at 5:26 AM
What better way to spend hard earned cash than travelling the world? You can broaden your horizons, chill out on a beach, visit some of the most famous cities in the world, or maybe you want to just see and feel some downright creepy crap. There are places in the world that are down right haunting to those who go there and we're going to take a look at them, you can make your own travel plans at the end.
The Kuku-kuku people of Papa New Guinea have different rituals from us Westerners. When one of our beloved dies, we bury or cremate them in fine coffins with ceremonies rich in memories. When one of them dies....
they smoke them above fires. Relatives will visit the bodies regularly and literally burst them to let fluids drain. Some of the bodies will be placed in caves, but others are propped up and displayed in their cages for the tribe to see forever.
El Conchalito beach is littered, but it isn't with the usual pieces of food wrappers you'd normally see, the beach is literally littered with skeletons. Back in 1980 the moving sands started to unearth human remains, but they were red.
Archaeologists discovered an ancient nomadic tribe used to reside their for a while and buried a lot of dead there; for some reason they would, from time to time, unearth them and paint them red, before re burying them in the sand.
Hundreds of thousands of psychotic individuals have walked the grounds of the Creedmoor Psychiatric Centre, their collective madness potent in the air. The 1970s were a rough time for the hospital, when crime infected the campus, with three rapes, 22 assaults, 52 fires, 130 burglaries, six suicides, a shooting, and a riot occurring within 20 months of each other. It was around this time that Building 25 was abandoned. Never sold off or demolished, it has been rotting on the hospital grounds since it was vacated in the early 1970s.
Other parts of the hospital are still in use, but this building has been overtaken by pigeons. They are still pretty bad at using the toilet though, this is a build of pigeon poo, not mud or dirt.
The Paris catacombs are a place of ghostly presence and a very eerie atmosphere; the walls are lined with human skulls throughout.
The catacombs themselves were originally a limestone quarry, but in 1780, flooding caused bodies for the cemeteries to spill into the Paris streets. The remains were relocated to the catacombs, where they were arranged in these ghoulish mosaics.
Osozeran, Japan, is veneered for its mystical powers. Plus, it has toxic rivers and is infested with vipers. Its literal translation is fear mountain, and houses a volcano what last erupted in 1787.
The water is full of sulphur, which gives off a horrendous eggy smell, and its killed off almost all aquatic life that lived there. There is also the chance you'll get splashed by steam and hot ash.
Muynak, Uzbekistan is home to a ship graveyard....in the middle of a desert.
Muynak was once a bustling fishing port by the Aral sea, but eh Soviet government has been diverting its waters for irrigation since the 60s and now only 10% of its water remains.
The site of WW2 devastation is in Chuuk Lagoon, a scuba divers paradise, if paradise is seeing lots of skeletons.
In 1944, the US Navy launched an attack on the Japanese that left thousands dead on both sides. Now, 70 years later, the bodies and equipment remain dormant on the sea floor for all to observe.
Jatinga, India is a quaint and probably unheard of village as its rather ordinary and plain. The difference here is that birds tend to act funny here.
For the past 100 years, birds have plunged to their deaths here. The suicides always occur between 7-10pm and only along a 1 mile stretch of land. Nobody knows why.
Actun Tinichil is an important cave discovery in Belize. On the outside it looks like a beautiful hideaway in a paradise but its somewhat sinister. Inside the cave is a collection of murdered children's skeletons.
It is thought the skeletons were a sacrifice to Chaac, the Mayan god of rain, that probably happened during a very heavy period of drought. Some of the remains, one of which is nicknamed Crystal Maiden due to its brilliance, have crystallised and sparkle.
Isla De Las Muencas gets immediate creepy scale ranking because its full of children's dolls. To add to the horror they're all hanging from trees in various states of disrepair.
The legend goes that a small girl drowned in the canals near the island, and not long after, the islands single resident found her doll floating. He spent his next years collecting dolls from anywhere to appease her spirit. That man drowned in that same canal in 2001.
Japan features a lot on this list and here we find it again. This is Takakonuma Greenland Amusement Park, although there is very little amusing about it.
It was closed in 1975 and then again in 1999. You will struggle to find it as its on no maps and is nearly always hidden by a thick fog and the surrounding forest. Just start at the Fukushima power planet and head north. You'll soon find it.
Herxheim sounds like to could be the name of Greek hero in the old mythological tales, but its actually a mass grave of corpses and skeletons....some with human bite marks. That's right, possible zombie apocalypse.
Herxheim was mysteriously abandoned about 7000 years ago, right the deaths of 500 people took place. Not only do the bones show bite marks, they've also had meat scraped of the bones and even had the marrow sucked out. Did someone feast on these people?
In Antarctica, there lay hut beneath the snow for more than 40 years before being dug out in the 50s. Its called Scott's Hut.
It was the base camp for explorer Robert Scott, the man who set out to reach the south pole in 1911 and never returned. His actual party went undiscovered for over a year. Scott is presumed to have died on 29 March 1912, or possibly one day later. The positions of the bodies in the tent when it was discovered eight months later suggested that Scott was the last of the three to die.
The hut was found perfectly preserved in the snow, ready for Scott's return. All the tools and kit is still in tact and can be visited to get a real feel for life back then.
Aokigahar Forest is a quiet and beautiful place. It sits eerily quiet sometimes and It's one of the darkest forests in the world, and because of the lack of light and closeness to Mt Fuji, its devoid of all wildlife.
It has became the final resting place of over 500 people. Its more commonly known as Suicide Forest as people have been taking their own lives there since the 50s. Since the release of a novel documenting the suicide of 2 characters, people do it so often volunteers come and remove the dead bodies.
Pripyat is a city in Ukraine that has been abandoned for decades due to the nuclear incident at Chernobyl. It was so big it housed a full sized theme park before its demise.
The city is located in what is know as the zone of alienation, the 30 km radius directly affected by the Chernobly incident over 20 years ago. Despite that, Pripyat is now open to the public.
Taking your dog for a stroll is every owners normal routine, there are places to avoid like the big dog on the corner or somewhere your dog might decide to dart, but one such place is the Overtoun bridge in Scotland which covers a 50 foot drop.
The reason to avoid it with your pooch is its a suicide hotspot for canines. Since the 60s over 600 dogs have inexplicably jumped from the bridged to their deaths and nobody knows why. Some have even climbed back up to just jump again of their own free will.
Fort Alexander is in St Petersburg and this place is awful. Its nickname is Plague Fort and its because of the heinous acts carried out inside its walls. The fort is surrounded by water and has been standing for centuries.
The reason for its ominous name is it became the site of experiments during its existence. It was an iron fortress that house a secret lab for Russian scientists studying the plague. They also released the deadly disease on occasion too. They were searching for a cure, but failed, all the while doing experiments on humans and animals.
Fengdu, in China, is known locally and City of Ghosts; but it should be called the city of insane torture. It was originally a cemetery that was away by the construction of a dam.
Now its the gateway between life and the afterlife, where demons live, according to local legend. Tourists can enjoy ornate temples and hundreds of statues depicting the very specific and graphic tortures of hell.
If you're interested in the happenings at vet school before you attend, probably best not to check out the Anderlecht vet school. Despite being closed since 1990, the contents remain inside...including pickled animal parts.
Some people who have got inside the building have reported things like animals sewn together, cows with cats legs or small mice conjoined by their sides.
In the same since the schools closure, a thick cloud of formaldehyde has formed inside so if you are going in, you better have a gas mask or you'll be taking a nap amongst the jars.
Mt Everest is probably the biggest achievement any one human being can achieve, reaching its summit. Many have succeeded but many have also failed and paid with their life. Over 200 in fact.
The problem with being so high up is you can't be brought down again. An area just below the summit is called Rainbow Valley, because of the brightly coloured down jackets on all the corpses that lay there.
Cemetery's are standard horror fodder for anyone who has watched even 1 scary movie. Fog creeping, nasty noises and fright await, so why is this one different? The Old Jewish cemetery in Prague is a little different as the bodies are layered 12 deep below the ground.
Dating from 1478, Jewish residents of Prague weren't allowed to bury their dead outside city limits. They improvised, creating layer after layer of cemeteries in the same spot. An estimated 100,000 people are buried there.
Gunkijama, Japan, is on a deserted island and its full of crumbling skyscrapers. You might remember it for being on the James Bond film Skyfall.
Its actually an abandoned Japanese coal mining facility that served as a forced labour camp during WW2. Only 10% of the island is open to the public, and its only accessible 160 days a year. If you miss the boat on day 160, you're stuck.
There are places in the world that don't quite follow our own modern way of life, so beware if you to their markets. Forget the bread or dairy aisle, because these cater to a more varied client.
In Togo, Lome's Voodoo Market is a place where animal skills are sold by the hundreds. In African voodoo tradition, it's believed that animals remains hold magical powers that can be used to protect oneself from evil and diseases.
Sedlec Ossuary is a work of art, beautifully ornate place of worship, if its human bones you like to worship. It's a chapel in Czech Republic that is decorate.
With tens of thousands of human bones taken from the people buried there over the centuries.
