The 10 most evil and horrible places in the world
Halloween is over, but the evil places in our world did not disappear with it. They are thrilling lovers of adrenaline and scary stories, who are willing to see something that ordinary tourists hurriedly run away from. So, here are 10 of the most horrible places in the world, one scarier than another.
1. Mutter Museum of Medical History in Philadelphia.
Mutter Museum of Medical History in Philadelphia: is the museum of pathology, old medical equipment and biological exhibits; The museum is located in the oldest medical school complex in North America. The museum is most famous for its giant collection of skulls; all sorts of unique display items are also gathered here, for example, the corpse of a woman who turned to soap on the ground where she was buried. Here, too, there are conjoined twins with conjoined livers, the skeleton of a two-headed child, and other spooky masterpieces.
2. Truk Lagoon in Micronesia. Much of the Japanese Navy forces are now at the bottom of the shallow Truk Lagoon in Micronesia, southwest of Hawaii. The blue depths, explored by Jacques Cousteau in 1971 and strewn with the wreckage of battleships and aircraft carriers, sunk in 1944, have opened up for divers. However, some of them are still afraid of the crews, who did not leave their battle positions. Ships and planes had long crashed into coral reefs, but still, new and overly curious tourists who looked where they shouldn’t, became their victims.
3. Sonora Witchcraft Market in Mexico City, Mexico
The witches of Mexico, sitting on narrow stalls, promise to quickly get rid of poverty and marital infidelity, and exotic iguanas, frogs and martyred wild birds are hung for sale in cages on the walls of shops. The Sonora market is open daily to pilgrims from Mexico City and tourists from far beyond who come here seeking predictions of fortune and promises of a better life. This is the place where the local population buys “supernatural” things, ranging from potions made according to ancient Aztec recipes to Buddha statues. Headstrong enthusiasts can even buy some rattlesnake blood or dried hummingbirds here to tame the luck. However, it must be remembered that witchcraft in Mexico is not a joke: the National Association of Wizards pledged in the presidential election to make it honest and free, using magic spells.
4. Easter Island, Chile
One of the most mysterious places on earth is Easter Island, with huge figures of giants carved in stone, buried in the ground under the weight of millennia. The statues look up to the sky, as if guilty of some mystical crime. Only the stone giants know where the people who installed them have disappeared. No one on Easter Island knows the secret of making, moving and installing these giant statues, 21 meters high and weighing 90 tons. Although, they were often moved more than 20 kilometers away from the open sky where the ancient sculptors worked. Today, life barely persists on the island where a mighty civilization once flourished, and no one knows where the mysterious builders came from and where they disappeared. Except of course those who have read Thor Heyerdahl as a child. For them, all these mysteries about how to make and install the statues are no longer a secret.
5. Manchac Swamps in Louisiana
Boats with tourists, floating through the swamps by torchlight, are surrounded by old cypress trees and long threads of moss hanging from the cypress branches. The howl, which sounds from afar, could be that of rou-ga-rou, the Cajun version of the werewolf.
Manchac interchanges are also called “ghost interchanges”. They are located near New Orleans and are the place that goths dream of. The swamps are said to have been cursed by a captured voodoo queen, in the early 20th century. As a result, three villages disappeared during the hurricane in the 1915 year. The rest of this bird graveyard is disturbed only by carcasses, which emerge from time to time, this is the heritage of centuries-old trading activities. On top of that, alligators, which are more numerous than carcasses, will not go out of their way to eat fresh meat from tourists.
6. Paris Catacombs, France
Bones and skulls are stacked on both sides of the aisle like merchandise in the warehouse: lots of merchandise. The air here is dry and has only a slight hint of decomposition. Here are also some signs, generally dating from the French Revolution, which are king and noble flags. After entering the catacombs below Paris, it becomes clear why Victor Hugo and Anne Rice wrote their famous stories about exactly these catacombs. They stretch for about 187 kilometers under the entire city and only an insignificant part of them is open to the public. The rest of them are said to be patrolled by special legendary underground policemen, though they are most likely patrolled by legions of corpses. gold vampires. Well, who cares! The mines existed here in Roman times, and when the cemeteries of Paris were overflowing in 1785, the tunnels were left in their current state.
7. Winchester House, San Jose, California
“Magical” Winchester House: A titanic construction with many superstitions referring to it. Sarah Winchester, the gun company heiress, has been told by a fortune teller that the ghosts of those who were killed with Winchester rifles will haunt her, unless she leaves Connecticut, moves west and builds such a house, not to be could finish. throughout her life. Construction began in San José in 1884 and did not stop for 38 years, until Sarah died. Today, the ghosts of her madness live in 160 rooms of the house: there are stairs that go straight to the ceiling, doors that open right in the middle of the wall, motifs of chandeliers, chandeliers and hooks. Since the house was opened to the public, there have been incessant complaints of doors slamming, footsteps at night, lights moving; self-revolving door handles. Although tourists do not believe in ghosts, the place is impressive due to its immensity.
8. Mary King’s cul-de-sac in Edinburgh
Several streets with a dark past are hidden under the medieval old town of Edinburgh. The place, where plague victims were locked up and left to die in the 17th century, is famous for its poltergeists. Something unknown touches the hands and feet of tourists. It is said that this is the ghost of Annie, a young girl who was left there by her parents in the year 1645. One hundred years later, like in scary fairy tales, a great new building was built on the site of King’s. Close. In 2003, the Cercado was opened for tourists, who were attracted by the stories about its supernatural spirits.
Visitors will be guided down the stone stairs into the dark and oppressive streets.
Except for Annie’s room, there is an exhibit of reconstructed medieval life and plague deaths. The main thing is: don’t stop when you feel the icy breath of death.
9. Hidden Abbey of Thelema in Sicily
Aleister Crowley: He is perhaps one of the most hateful occultists in the world, and this stone farmhouse filled with dark pagan wall paintings was once the cosmopolis of satanic orgies. At least, it was considered to be such in 1920-ies.
Crowley is known for his fans, such as Marilyn Manson and the fact that he appeared on the cover of the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’. Crowley has founded the Abbey of Thelema, named after the utopia described in Rabelais’s ‘Gargantua’, whose motto was ‘Do what thou wilt’. It became the commune of free love. The new arrivals had to spend the night in the “Nightmare Room”, where, high on heroin and marijuana, they contemplated frescoes of earth, heaven and hell. After a popular English dandy died at the Abbey, the media raised a fuss, causing Mussolini to shut down this dodgy commune. Notorious underground stage director Kenneth Anger had unearthed this story and shot a movie there, which then mysteriously disappeared. Now the Abbey is half in ruins and overgrown with grass. However, few frescoes remain inside, with the help of which Crowley intimidated his followers.
Tourists, suitable for esotericism, can walk and get excited.
10. Chernobyl in Ukraine
Tourists arriving in Ukraine, in the abandoned city of Pripyat, find themselves in the exclusion zone. Here everything is rushed in that horrible 1986, when the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant caused thousands of people to flee their homes forever. The apartments are wide open, ivy climbs the painted walls of the kindergarten, toys are scattered, and newspapers are open on the kitchen tables. The swings are still rocking in the dead wind, creaking. Now, when the radiation level is safe for short-term visits, the Chernobyl zone is open for tourists. All excursions to Chernobyl are almost the same, because movements through the exclusion zone are strictly limited. As a rule, tourists leave Kyiv by bus, and then go to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on foot, then go around it and look at the “Sarcophagus”. One could wander the streets of the ghost town of Pripyat and visit the parking lot of contaminated vehicles. It is also possible to meet the local auto-settlers, the residents of the “restricted zone”.