5 of the World's most creepy abandoned places.
Sit back, put on your earphones
and listen to some sinister music
as we take you on a journey through pictures and
footage of 5 of Earth's more mysterious
forsaken locations.
Picture in your mind a creepy church
Does it look like this?
If there is anywhere that looks straight out of a
horror movie, then your looking at it now!
This church is in Kansas, USA.
Of all the creepy abandoned places,
we don't think you'd want to be left alone
here for the night.
What do you think?
The dilapidated Chambre du Commerce in Atwerp,
Belgium, was reconstructed in 1872 but closed in 2004.
Even in its abandoned state it remains a splendid
example of Gothic architecture
– crumbling and rotting walls
merely adding to its haunting beauty.
Despite ambitious plans to renovate this masterpiece
into cafes, shops or a hotel
– it remains deserted of activity,
home only to pigeons and
as a venue for some bizarre post-apocalyptic scenery.
Centralia is an abandoned town in Pennyslvania, USA.
At its peak it had a population of 2500 people,
but following a mine fire its population dwindled
to just a handful clinging on.
The reasons the mine fire started are disputed,
being either landfill burning that got out of control or
dumping of hot ash into trash pit.
But what is clear is that the fire reached the coal seams
and set forth burning that led to dangerous sink holes
and deadly carbon monoxide fumes
that led to its desertion,
and it is now mostly demolished.
Centralia has been used as a model for many different
ghost towns and physical manifestations of Hell.
Including Dean Koontz's Strange Highways
and David Wellington's Vampire Zero.
Centralia was also an inspiration for
the Silent Hill video games.
On 10 June 1944, the village of Oradour-sur-Glane
in Haute-Vienne in Nazi-occupied France was destroyed,
when 642 of its inhabitants,
including women and children,
were massacred by a Nazi Waffen-SS company.
This included the SS placing an incendiary device
beside the church.
When it ignited, women and children tried to escape
through the doors and windows,
only to be met with machine-gun fire.
247 women and 205 children died in this brutal attack.
A new village was built nearby after the war,
but French president Charles de Gaulle
ordered the original maintained
as a permanent memorial and museum.
It now stands eerily silent
- a moving and disturbing reminder of the horror of war.
Bodie is a ghost town east of the Sierra Nevada
mountains in California, USA.
Bodie began as a mining camp following the
discovery of gold in 1859 by a group of prospectors.
Following the discovery in 1876 of a
profitable deposit of gold-bearing ore,
Bodie was transformed from an isolated mining camp
comprising a few prospectors, to a Wild West boomtown.
By 1879, Bodie had a population of approximately
5,000–7,000 people and around 2,000 buildings.
At its peak, 65 saloons lined Main Street,
which was a mile long.
Murders, shootouts, barroom brawls,
and stagecoach holdups were regular occurrences.
The first signs of decline appeared in 1880.
Promising mining booms in Butte, Montana; Tombstone,
Arizona; and Utah lured men away from Bodie.
The get-rich-quick, single miners,
who originally came to the town in the 1870s
moved on to these other booms, which eventually
turned Bodie into a family-oriented community.
The last mine closed in 1942.
Bodie is now an authentic
Wild West gold rush ghost town.
Interiors remain as they were left
and stocked with goods.
Littered throughout the park,
you can find small shards of china dishes,
square nails and an occasional bottle.
The roads to Bodie are usually closed in winter
due to heavy snowfall preserving the eerie isolation
of the decaying buildings that remain.
So, if you get trapped here for the night
you’ll definitely get goosebumps!
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