From a ghostly island with a haunted past to an underground city with hidden secrets
you won’t believe! Plus, the most disturbing house from hell ever built in the United States!
Here are 10 of the most mysterious and secret places that have ever existed!
10: Sandy Island Sandy Island is more of a ghost island. This
bizarre place was supposedly discovered in 1876 only to vanish one day like the mythical
Atlantis. When a research ship was cruising through the Coral Sea near Australia, heading
straight for where Sandy Island was supposed to be, the captain was shocked to discover
the island was gone. All scientific databases showed that the island was 15 miles(24km)
long and 3 miles(5km) wide. That's about the size of Manhattan, yet the island simply wasn’t
there. Obviously, scientists were eager to get to
the bottom of the mystery of the island that mysteriously vanished. Maria Seton with the
University of Sydney was the first to discover that something wasn’t quite right. She did
a bit of digging and discovered that the island definitely appeared on a 1908 edition of an
admiralty map, claiming to have been discovered in 1876 by a whaling ship named Velocity.
But the island was actually found and then deleted repeatedly throughout the years. It
was marked in 1982 by the US Defense Mapping Agency, but it had been deleted eight years
before in 1974 by the French. Could this be a secret island hidden by the
powers at large? Or could it just be a weird phenomenon in which the island appears and
then disappears randomly? Right now, nobody knows the truth about this bizarre place – and
scientists are at a total loss. What do you think is going on with Sandy Island?
9: Underground Antarctic Base Antarctica is already one of the most mysterious
places in the world – but now, UFO hunters are claiming there is actually a secret base
hidden on the icy continent! Using Google Earth, Internet sleuths have discovered two
secret entrances leading down into what can only be described as a mysterious underground
alien bunker. Of course, we don't have any evidence to say beyond a doubt that it's actually
aliens, but who else could have constructed such a complicated facility in such a desolate
place? It could be the military, but if the US were moving tons of supplies to the bottom
of the world, somebody probably would have noticed, right? Chances are that the mysterious
Antarctic base has been there for thousands of years, frozen and out of sight. But now,
as the ice slowly begins to melt, its entrances have been revealed. Each entrance looks big
enough for a B-52 bomber to fly through, suggesting whatever was going in and out of the base
when it was still operational was enormous.
8: St. Michael’s Mount St. Michael’s Mount is one of the most mysterious
secret islands anywhere in England. It's located just 5 miles(8km) from Penzance in Cornwall
and has been an important place since around 400 BC. Back when the Romans were around,
it was a key port for exporting tin and copper. But then in 495 AD, something magical happened.
A vision of the Archangel Michael led to a church being constructed on the rocky island
mount. So far as the legend goes, St. Michael revealed himself to a local fisherman high
up on a rocky ledge. It became one of the holiest places in the world, a place that
people today haven't even heard about. For 1500 years, this was the place of pilgrims,
who journeyed from all across Europe to see all kinds miracles performed. It wasn’t
until modern times that the island was transformed into a military fortress, then a private castle.
Today, much of the mysticism and mystery behind the island’s origins has been lost, though
pilgrims do still venture to the site from time to time.
7: The Burlington Bunker The Burlington Bunker is secreted underneath
a historic English market. It is itself an underground city that comes complete with
laundry rooms, kitchens, and even a subterranean lake. For a long time, this was one of the
most secret locations in England. It's underneath the town of Corsham, about 100 feet(30m) beneath
to be exact. It was crafted as a Cold War city, carved out of the earth using the natural
limestone caves already there. In total, it's about 35 acres.
This massive bunker was built in the 1950s and is impervious to deadly bombs, radiation,
and even poison gas. It was designed to hold 4000 government personnel in the event of
a catastrophic attack, something like a nuclear strike. There are 60 miles(97km) of road down
here in the bunker, and it was meant to be fully self-sufficient so that the 4000 people
dwelling here could do so in isolation for at least three months. After that, they would
have to resort to cannibalism! Amazingly, the Burlington Bunker was kept
secret until 2004 when it was decommissioned. Not a single civilian person knew it existed.
Do you think there’s secret bunkers like this around today? Who do you think these
bunkers are for specifically? The most intelligent minds? Whoever can afford it? Let us know
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6: The Marshall Islands The Marshall Islands aren't quite as mysterious
as they are terrifying. Believe it or not, some of these islands like Bikini Atoll in
the Pacific Ocean are significantly more radioactive than either Chernobyl or Fukushima, both of
which were literal nuclear power plants that had incredibly severe meltdowns. It's because
the United States tested radioactive weapons on the islands over 60 years ago. Researchers
recently tested the soil here and found that levels of plutonium-239 and plutonium-240
are about 1000 times higher than at Fukushima and 10 times higher than in the Chernobyl
exclusion zone! These islands might not be secret anymore, though they’re certainly
not talked about openly, but they are strictly off limits. Just spending a little bit of
time on one of these islands could turn you into a radioactive monster with extra limbs
or superpowers! When did the US decide to test weapons here?
It was actually after World War Two ended. They wanted to test more of their new nuclear
arsenal and decided to drop them on the atolls starting in 1946 and then kept it going on
for 12 years. They tested a total of 67 nuclear weapons, with the first hydrogen bomb being
dropped on Enewetak in 1951. Nobody has any idea how long these islands will be uninhabitable
for, or what kind of weird creatures might be birthed from all that radiation.
Do you think it’s possible the radiation has an affect on the marine life around the
island?
5: Knights Templar Treasure Tower There are a series of secret tunnels that
were dug out by the Knights Templar themselves. These secret tunnels were designed by the
Knights Templar to move gold without being seen to their precious treasure tower. Archaeologists
only recently discovered these mysterious tunnels underneath the city of Acre in Israel,
revealed to the public by archaeologist Dr. Albert Lin. He says the Knights used the tunnels
about 800 years ago. The archaeologists also discovered the remains of a luxurious fortress
headquarters. The building of the tunnels and the tower
go back to the Crusades and the knight who battled for gold and glory. During the Third
Crusade, they had their command center in what is today the modern city of Acre. Archaeologists
used lasers and special detecting technology to scan the earth, and this is how they uncovered
the tunnels as well as a guardhouse hidden beneath the city, likely once used to protect
the secret entrance. The tower itself is buried beneath dozens of feet of dirt and rock and
is basically impossible to excavate at this point, though at least the archaeologists
know where it is. In its glory days, the tower would have been a large fortress filled to
the brim with treasure scavenged from the knights’ conquests. It's not clear where
all of this treasure has gone since the days of the Knights Templar, or if any of it is
left in the ruins under the city where archaeologists can’t get to, or if it’s already been
scattered to the winds.
4: The H.H. Holmes Murder Hotel The infamous location of what locals in Chicago
called the Murder Castle is today an empty lot between a post office and some train tracks
on the southern side of W. 63rd Street. There is no monument, there is nothing that mentions
the horrors that went on here in the 1800s, but this is where the infamous castle stood
until the murderer H.H. Holmes was hanged in 1896 and his horrible house torn down in
1938. The house itself is the mysterious secret
place we're talking about. It is the most horrifying building that was ever constructed
anywhere in the United States of America, designed by the first American serial killer
H. H. Holmes. It's estimated that he killed about 200 people in his hellish hotel before
he got caught and was killed for his heinous crimes. He designed his hotel to be a palace
of blood. It was a maze of mysterious hidden passages, death rooms where Holmes mutilated
and tortured his victims, and special tunnels that he could use to dispose of the bodies.
There were trapdoors, fake walls, and even secret stairways, all of which he used to
kidnap his unsuspecting victims after they checked into his hotel. It was a diabolical
mansion of disturbing proportions, and a grim piece of history not many people know about.
When Holmes was hanged on May 7, 1896, eyewitnesses said it took him 15 long minutes to die.
Would you dare stay a night in the Murder Castle?
3: The Vatican Secret Archives There is no place on Earth more secret or
more mysterious than the Vatican Secret Archives. These secret archives have been locked up
tight for about 1200 years. We know that inside the archives are historical documents of things
like letters written by Michelangelo, the transcripts of the trial of the Knights Templar,
and a birchbark entreaty written by the Ojibwe tribe in Canada back in 1887. But this is
only scratching the surface. Nobody really knows what is being kept down there, and some
even say the secret archives are controlled by the Illuminati.
There are a few wild theories of what is being kept in the Vatican Secret Archives. Some
say there is proof hidden down there that extraterrestrials exist, anything from alien
skulls to the truth about the Pope working in conjunction with other worldly beings.
Some even say the Vatican is hiding the truth behind Jesus and his biological descendants
and that they know his exact lineage going all the way to today.
But unfortunately, this stuff is locked up and stashed away and chances are, we will
never know for sure what kind of secrets these guys are keeping.
What other kinds of secrets do you think the Vatican is hiding? Let us know in the comments
below.
2: The Underground City of Naours The Underground City of Naours is a mysterious
subterranean lair located just a few miles east of the village of Naours in France. It's
about 72 feet(22m) underground and filled with 300 chambers. It began life as a limestone
quarry built by the Romans in the 2nd century AD. The quarry fell out of use though and
local people began storing their goods inside the deep tunnels. As confrontations became
more and more problematic in the early Middle Ages, more and more people started hiding
in what would become an extensive underground city.
At its peak, the underground city had a population of about 3000 people. Eventually people even
began to construct wells, stables, bakeries, and chapels. They planned things extremely
well and the chimneys from the bakers’ ovens and any other fires were routed through cottages
and other existing structures above ground so no one would have any clue as to what was
going on below. Evidence also suggests that in the 9th century
AD, Viking invaders let themselves into the underground settlement and just decided to
stay there. The city remained in use until Europe became a little more stable and it
was no longer needed. The secret city was then abandoned and not rediscovered until
1887 when a man renovating his house found a mysterious hole in his wall that led down
into the city.
1: Mystery Spot The St. Ignace Mystery Spot is exactly what
the name describes. It is a mysterious place with a history that goes back to the 1950s.
Back then, some surveyors were exploring the area when they realized none of their equipment
was working. They did a few tests and realized that there was a circle roughly 300 feet(91m)
in diameter in which nothing worked. It was a bizarre and mysterious blank spot. Ever
since then, people who visit the Mystery Spot report strange happenings, like gravity not
working the way it should, tall people looking short, and a sensation of nausea.
Nobody knows why people experience such strange phenomena in such a small spot, and most scientists
believe it actually has nothing to do with the spot and has more to do with the human
brain as people try and convince themselves that something weird is going on. Either that,
or the St. Ignace Mystery Spot is actually overtop a secret Indian burial ground!
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