there are places in this world that are simply mysterious like the entire
country of Luxembourg why does Luxembourg exist it's too small
to serve any real purpose it's a mystery that has baffled great minds for
generations and is still no closer to being solved but believe it or not
some places are even more mysterious than Luxembourg for example this place
there are many names for this place and I'm not going to try to pronounce any of
them no one knows for certain when it was built or who by but it's thought to
be the remnant of a long lost civilization if she were in a different
country it would be a major tourist attraction but this is remote Saudi Arabia
a place where superstition still has an iron grip on society and so people are
reluctant to even go near it fearing it is protected by an ancient
curse this is the story of a mysterious site and of a terrible curse said to
plague it
deep in the Arabian desert can be found a strange ruin for most of its history
the site has been forgotten by the outside world, left us a decaying relic
of a culture and no longer exists worn down by centuries of sandstorms it's
been difficult for historians to learn literally anything about it they believe
it was once a large city which explains the scale of its surviving monuments of
which many exist for such monuments to be built here the area must have been
very important to those who built them little is known for sure local tradition
tells a very dark story of this place according to it the area was once home
to a great city built by a notorious warrior tribe. Those who called it home
were especially cruel, known to destroy nearby communities and subjugate their
inhabitants for the slaves captured during these attacks of a nightmare was
only beginning for generations they lived a life of oppression and hedonism
worshipping strange gods who endorsed their cruelty but their exploitative way
of life did not go unnoticed eventually God decided to step in! Legend told he
would send them one final warning in the form of a camel it was a sacred camel
one that by taking care of would demonstrate their submission to God but
instead of caring for the camel they immediately killed it now that's not the
most funny story I've ever heard of a camel dying but he ranks pretty highly
however God had no sense of humor about it and cursed the entire city in short
time earthquakes and violent storms reduced the area's population to zero
since that day more than a thousand years ago the area has been seen as a
place of darkness for centuries it was left abandoned most people refusing to
step foot there. Folklore tells that anyone who did return to his place would suffer
some kind of tragedy Be they ancient Roman settlers or medieval Ottoman
occupiers for a long time the Ottomans had a fort here to help keep the peace
there are so many stories of officers stationed there dying mysterious deaths
or suffering financial ruin with the fall of their empire
fort was abandoned but still stories were told of strange happenings on the
site today she has seen in the exact same way with even some historians too
scared to go there many believe her site is haunted but if you visit the ruins on
a quiet night you can still hear the cry of a sacred camel killed all those years
ago even now so little is known about the history of this place and this lack
of knowledge only adds to the mystery so while in recent years the Saudi government
has tried to promote the site as a tourist attraction it is still seen as
cursed I'll be honest I made this video entirely for the thumbnail... it's a good one.