There are many reasons for deciding not to go to a certain place. Would you like to visit a spooky place full of mystery? In this article, you can learn about 10 of the most terrifying places in the world and their background stories.
1. The city of Pripyat, Ukraine
On April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded as a result of an experiment, releasing large amounts of dangerous radioactive elements into the air. As a result of this accident, about 30 people died and many people died of cancer after a long time due to the effects of the chemicals released.
The nearest town to the accident was Pripyat, which was 3 km away from the accident site. There were 15 primary schools, a hospital, 25 shops and 10 gymnasiums, including parks, cinema halls and factories. But the explosion made all this radioactive and then the city was abandoned. It is said that visiting this crumbling city is not for the faint of heart due to its eerie desolation.
2. Japan’s Suicide Forest “Eyokigahara”
The forest that depicts the suicide incidents seen in many Hollywood movies is real. The attention increased about this forest located near Mount Fuji in Japan
Due to a video released online by Logan Paul. Paul has a YouTube channel with over 15 million viewers.
In the video added to the channel, Paul and his friends are seen standing near the body of a person who committed suicide in the Eokigahara forest, saying mocking words and teasing them. This was disliked by many people and later Paul has removed the video expressing his regret. For years, the Japanese authorities have been trying to keep this place as little known as possible so that it does not become a tourist attraction. The aim of this is to reduce the number of people who come here to commit suicide every year.
3. Tunnel Tomb in Italy
There are more than 8000 mummies buried in this tunnel tomb since the 16th century. Despite how old these bodies are, they are still in very good condition and this tunnel tomb is a great tourist attraction.
There is a separate room for the mummies of the priests. Similarly, there are separate rooms for highly educated persons, for women, for virgins and for small children.
The oldest corpse is that of Silvestro da Gubbio, a Catholic priest who died in 1599, and another unique corpse is that of Rosalia Lombardo, a two-year-old girl who died in 1920. Her body is still in very good condition and she is known as “Sleeping Beauty”.
4. Mexico’s Island of the Dolls
Julian Santana Barrera, who lived alone in an unknown forest in Mexico, found the body of a little girl and her doll in a stream. Barrera took the doll and hung it on a tree nearby, and later, during the night, he began to hear footsteps and moans of great pain.
After this incident, he continued to hang the dolls on trees to please her spirit.
As time passed, this area became a tourist attraction. Years after Barrera’s death, travelers still report hearing screams at night and feeling someone follow them.
5. Heilstatten Hospital, Billets, Germany
Built in 1898, Heilstattn Hospital has approximately 60 buildings. During the period from 1898 to 1930, treatment was provided here for the patients who contracted tuberculosis, which was a deadly disease at that time.
Later it became a military hospital where soldiers who suffered accidents during the First World War and the Second World War were treated. Adolf Hitler, a young soldier who was temporarily blinded by a British gas attack at that time, also received treatment from this hospital.
6. “Manicomio di colorno” mental hospital in Italy
“Manicomio di colorno”, an old Italian insane asylum that could treat 6000 patients, had been a home for mentally ill people for about 100 years. A patient who went to this hospital did not get a chance to leave it again. The walls of the hospital can still be seen scratched by a patient who has been confined for more than a decade. This hospital was closed in 1978 due to harsh treatment methods.
7. Church of the Ossuary in Sedlec- Czechoslovakia
This small Roman Catholic church in Sedlec is a huge tourist attraction. The interior is decorated with 70,000 human bones.
In the year 1278, the King of Bohemia sends the head priest of this church to Jerusalem. When he returned, he brought the pot with “holy soil” and all the people who lived around wanted to bury their bodies in this church ground after they died. The bones of people who were buried in this way remained there for centuries
In 1870, a woodcarver named Frantisek Rint was invited to arrange these bones in a proper order. The interior of the church was decorated like this after that.
8. Military Hospital, Cambridge
Opened on July 18, 1879, this was a military hospital that treated wounded soldiers during the First World War. This is also the hospital where plastic surgery was performed for the first time in Britain. Even after the Second World War, ordinary citizens were allowed to receive treatment from this hospital and it was closed on February 2, 1996 because of the high cost of maintenance, which was an old large building.
9. Burning coal mine in Pennsylvania
The city is connected to a system of tunnels full of coal that has been burning continuously for 53 years. Only four nearby cemeteries are in good condition in this area.
10. Hanging coffins in the Philippines
Hanging coffins has been a practice for millions of years in many parts of the world. The Igorot people of the northern Philippines bury their bodies in hanging coffins after they die. It is said that the taller the coffins are hung, the easier it is for them to approach the old spirits.
