• From abandoned towns to underground vaults of death
• These are 20 of the most terrifying and creepy places in the world that you likely
won't want to visit 20 - Aokigahara Forest,
• Located at the base of Mt Fuji, it's commonly referred to as the Suicide Forest
• Since the 1950s Japanese folk have arrived here in droves simply to kill themselves,
nothing but bones and camp remnants remaining • Nobody really knows why they do it, but
maybe it's one tradition that should, itself, die
19 - The Body Farm, • This is a human-made place of terror
• At the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, an outdoors research facility exists dedicated
to piling up dead bodies all over the place • The reason: murder re-enactments - crime
scene investigators plop down a dead body and murder situations are recreated so as
to get as realistic depiction as possible to help with investigations
• A lot of people donate bodies simply to help out
18 - The Door to Hell, • In 1971, a team of Soviet geologists were
drilling a hole in the ground looking for gas and oil, when they stumbled upon a dangerous
230 foot chasm filled with methane gas • Unwittingly, they tried to eliminate the
gas with fire, and 40 years later that hole is still burning
• For some reason spiders love cuddling up next to this hole, likely so they can worship
their lord Satan from his hallowed doorway 17 - The Kabayan Mummy Caves,
• In the Philippines there are a series of caves, inside these cave are thousands
of pods, inside these pods are dead bodies, mummies to be more precise
• The Kabayan mummies are easily the best preserved on Earth, and there are so many
of these things, inside so many caves that it'd be easy to get lost in here
• Lost alongside endless mummies, frozen in their death positions forevermore
16 - Helltown, • It was once a town full of people, but
in the 70s there was a government buyout and everyone was forced to evict
• Originally, all the houses were supposed to be torn down but that never happened, instead
the towns are populated by boarded up houses and burnt up ones, used as fire department
practice for actual house fires • There's a drop off on Stanford Road with
a dead end, and they call it End of the World 15 - Centralia, the Underground Furnace,
• It was once a busy mining town in Eastern Pennsylvania, with stores, hotels and saloons
• Abandoned mines were used as landfills • In 1962, a group of miners began burning
a large chunk of the landfill, unfortunately it was on top of some flammable coal, and
suddenly the fire spread to all areas of the mine
• For 7 years it burnt - people tried to stop it but failed, the carbon menoxide started
spilling to above ground • Eventually the people were evacuated and
Centralia left to burn, and it still does to this day, a deep, underground furnace that
will not be doused 14 - Jatinga, the Valley of Death for Birds,
• It's around 9km south of Haflong town in the Dima Hasao district of Assam
• Jatinga is deceptively beautiful, flowers blooming, colourful orchides, but it masks
a strange phenomenon • Ever year, around August through November,
at 7 - 10pm, at a precise one mile strip of land, birds fly here to die
• Just like Aokigahara forest, it's a mystery why this happens, but it turned into a tourist
attraction because of it 13 - Catacombs of Paris,
• In the 17th and 18th centuries, the cemeteries in Paris were mounting up to insane numbers
• So much in fact that decaying flesh dripped into the countries water supply
• So they decided to instead build catacombs and dungeons filled with bodies, skulls mounted,
bones as the foundation, there are approx 6 million bodies and climbing
• There's also a non-tourist area full of bodies extending for miles beneath Paris
12 - Candido Godoi, • This is a town in Brazil that produces
excessive amounts of twin births • The cause is only speculated at, but the
story goes a Nazi doctor Josef Mengele performed twin experiments in Auschwitz to increase
the Aryan population, and he continued this experiments in Candido Godoi
• Historians, however, believe the twin epidemic to be caused by inbreeding, but it
does make you wonder 11 - The "Isla de las Munecas" or: Island
of the Dolls, • It gets its name for obvious reasons - dirty,
deformed dolls are littered everywhere, tied to trees, some decapitated others scattered
on the ground • Each and every doll was put there by one
man, a hermit named Julian Santana Barrera, and the story goes he found the dead body
of a little girl, and so he tied her doll to a tree in remembrance
• He kept collecting dolls, decorating the island, appeasing the spirit of the dead girl
until, in 2001, he died, and the theories suggest he committed suicide from insanity
10 - The Chernobyl Amusement Park, • One the 26th of April 1986, the worst
ever nuclear disaster happened at the Nuclear Power Plant in Chernobyl, irradiating countries
in all directions • A lot of Chernobyl was evacuated, and
sites like this amusement park are casualties • It was actually scheduled to open the
day before the incident happened, but instead it's an overgrown park, forever frozen in
1986 • Instead of children's laughter, there's
nothing but an eerie silence 9 - Winchester Mystery House,
• A place in North Carolina, weirdly constructed, corridors leading nowhere, staircases that
seem to go up endlessly, and a creepy unnatural vibe
• Sarah Winchester oversaw the construction, and insisted up round-the-clock supervision
• She claims to have been haunted by a group known as the Winchester rifles, gun fanatics
• But then she died, work on the building stopped, and now it's a tourist attraction
8 - San Zhi Resort, the Martian Pods, • It was originally meant to be a get-away
resort town outside Taipei, Taiwan • However, there were a series of mysterious
deaths that halted construction, and the pods were abandoned
• Today they stand there, decaying, a creepy monument to 70s quirky exterior design
7 - Hellingly Hospital, • It was an insane asylum from the early
1900s • For 90 years the staff labotomized and
electrocuted patients until, in 1994, the building was ultimately abandoned
• The building was never knocked down, and even today it's still a creepy place, like
straight out of a movie, a monument to insanity and torture
6 - Matuso Ghost Mine, or "Silent Hill", • Northern Japan, a town that once housed
the largest sulfur mine in the Far East • They closed up in the 70s, and residents
decided to abandon the town, leaving it to ruin
• This wouldn't be too bad alone, but a dense mist forever surrounds the area, and
people tell stories about figures moving around in the mist, giant figures
5 - Maunsell Sea Forts, the Silent Guardians, • These forts were constructed to protect
England from Nazi invasion during World War 2
• While they no longer serve their purpose, they serve as creepy monuments to war, long
abandoned but always on the horizon 4 - The Overturn Bridge, Suicide Leap,
• This Scotland bridge has seen hundreds of men and women plummet to their deaths
• Likewise, though tragic, for some reason dogs do the same - around 15 dogs a year jump
to their death • There is no known reason for this phenomenon
3 - The Sedlec Ossuary, The Church of Bones, • A long time ago, soil below this Czech
Republic ossuary was sprinkled with holy water • Since then thousands of people have claimed
this tiny building as their final resting place
• So priests decided to make use of the bodies - and incorporate them into the building
• Today it's a church entirely FILLED with human bones
2 - The Jewish Cemetery, • A lot of people die - but it's the Jewish
cemetery in Prague that takes this to a whole new level
• Each time the cemetery gets full, they just build another one on top
• And they didn't do this just once or twice, they've built new cemeteries on top of each
other ELEVEN times • And there will continue to be new layers
until people decide to stop dying 1 - Gunkanjima,
• Translated, this place is Battleship Island, and it used to house a mining facility
• After it shut down, the towns populace abandoned Battleship Island leaving behind
decaying buildings and complexes • This is a famous area since it was featured
on the History Channels "Life After People"