Visit 15 locations so creepy that even the bravest will have the hairs on the back of their necks when they arrive.
It’s not the “fake” ghost houses in the Halloween festival, but the following places that really make people’s hairs stand up.
The Sedlec Ossuary Church in the Czech Republic is a unique human skeleton church decorated with more than 40,000 human skeletons of rather creepy origin.
In the years 1278, when the plague broke out in Europe, many sick people went to the sacred land of Sedlec before dying, wishing for peace.
In 1870, Frantisek Rindt, a local woodcarver, was commissioned to decorate the church with these skeletons. Frantisek Rindt’s results are not only impressive but also creepy.
The Rockland Psychiatric Center is located in Orangeburg, New York, USA. It was built in the 1930s. At its peak, there were up to 9,000 inpatients here.
However, today it is abandoned. The remaining traces are dilapidated rooms with broken and old items.
This creepy cliff full of coffins in Sagada, the Philippines can make those who see it scared to death. This is a traditional burial practice of the people of the Igorot tribe. They believe that coffins are hung on steep cliffs so that the deceased can be closer to God and their ancestors.
The Capuchin catacombs located under a monastery in the city of Palermo, Italy currently have about 8,000 mummies. The air in the catacombs was always cold and damp, and the space always smelled of rotting material. To be able to place the mummy here, the relatives of the dead must pay for the preservation and placement. To be laid to rest in this crypt is considered an honor for the deceased.
The town of Pripyat in Ukraine used to be a very bustling town, but since the terrible nuclear disaster that happened in 1986, it has turned into a dead town, devastated to the point of horror. The current scene looks like the setting in a post-apocalyptic horror movie.
Beelitz-Heilstätten Hospital used to be the place to treat Nazi leader Hitler. Up to now, most of the hospital’s area with areas such as operating rooms, psychiatric treatment rooms… has been abandoned. The scene here is so dilapidated that even the hard-core shudders.
The Mexican state of Guanajuato has a very special museum – the mummy museum – which exhibits mummies unearthed in a local cemetery in the early 19th century. These are mummies of people who died in a wave. Cholera epidemic broke out in 1833. Here, the corpses are preserved in the most natural way, some corpses have also rotted.
The Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague is one of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in Europe. According to Jewish law, grave relocation was strictly forbidden, so it was the only place where Jews were buried at the time. This explains why many tombs here are built on top of each other, in some places the remains are stacked up to 12 layers.
A charm market called Akodessewa Fetish located in the heart of Togo’s capital Lome, West Africa, sells a variety of animal parts, mainly heads, tails, animal skins and dried animal legs. This is a place dedicated to the purchase and sale of materials that sorcerers use to create spells, sacrifices, and cures. Not only selling creepy items, but the market itself looks very creepy, mysterious and covered with dust and desert sand.
Aokigahara located at the foot of the mountain of Fuji Japan is a creepy forest, dubbed the forest of suicide. There are hundreds of suicides here every year. There are many rumors about this forest, some believe that Aokigahara is related to the devil. The devil in the forest has made anyone who comes here feel depressed and want to commit suicide.
However, another theory is that underground steel mines in the forest disabled the compass, leaving many people lost in the forest unable to find their way out.
Domantai hill in the Republic of Lithuania, famous for more than 200,000 crosses of different shapes, sizes and materials. This is a sacred destination for devotees. People put up crosses to pray for peace.
St George’s Church in the village of Lukova, Czech Republic was once believed to have been cursed when its roof collapsed during a funeral in 1968. Since then, attendance has been sparse and the church has been gradually abandoned. abandoned, ruined, rotten.
When the church was on the verge of being closed, a local artist decided to find a way to “save” it by decorating the church with dozens of frozen ghost figures, posing horribly in the clothes. ragged white robe. Thanks to this gruesome shape, the church attracts many tourists, and the proceeds are used to repair the church.
The town of Kolmanskop in southern Namibia was once a vibrant town with more than 1,000 people, most of them migrant workers. In 1908, during the diamond rush, thousands of people gathered here with the desire to change their luck. However, the Namid desert swept it all away, leaving the ruined town of Kolmanskop.
Chauchilla is an ancient cemetery located in the desert southeast of the city of Nasca, Peru. Here, the mummies of Aboriginal people of the Ica-Chincha culture dating back to 1,000 BC are buried with many gold jewelry and pottery.
Francistown Synagogue is not for the faint of heart, because it was built from 5,000 human skeletons. In particular, the western hall and the walls to the column system are all built with shin bones, arms, shoulder blades, hip bones… making anyone who walks in here feel a chill down their spines.