Scariest Places on Earth

The Scariest places of the world

This article will lead you to 33 of the scariest and haunted places of the world, and you are definitely going to get frightened after reading about their past. So prepare yourself for the scariest ride of your life.
You may encounter a few words in the article which might need an explanation. Don’t worry about that, simply jump to the last of the article, where all of them are well elaborated


Name             -     Island of the Dolls or Xochimilco
Type               -     Man-made Island
Place              -     Mexico
Famous for   -     Don Julio Santana Barrera was the owner of this island who sold the fruits and vegetables planted in his territory. He believed that the spirit of the little girl, who drowned in the canal several decades ago, came to meet him. For this reason he started collecting remains of the dolls and hung them everywhere on the island. He died in 2001 at the same spot in where the little girl died.
Cases            -     Few believe that the ghosts of the little girl and Julio still roam on the island.


Name             -     Paris Catacombs
Type               -     Underground Ossuaries*
Place              -     Paris, France 
Famous for   -     This place serves as a museum of the skeletal remains of about 6 million people.  Going through a pathway built with millions of human bones is something I would never do.


Name             -     Aokigahara
Type               -     Forest
Place              -     Northwest base of Mount Fuji, Japan
Famous for   -     Absolutely no wildlife, making the forest exceptionally quiet. And an average 100 suicides per year in the forest.
Stories          -     In Japanese Mythology, the forest is associated with Demons


Name             -     Edinburgh Castle
Type               -     Historic Fortress
Built in           -     12th century
Place              -     Edinburgh Scottland   
Famous for   -     Thousands of deaths caused in number of battles within the walls of this haunting castle. It is also famous for the 340 million year old volcano on which this castle is built.
Stories          -     It is said that screams and shadows of the ghosts of thousands of soilders can still be felt at various places.


Name             -     The Tower of London
Type               -     Castle
Built in           -     11th century A.D.
Place              -     London, England
Famous for   -     Uncountable deaths in murders, executions and tortures for over 1000 years
Stories           -     There have been a large number of ghost sightings around the tower one after the other.


Name             -     Castle of Good Hope
Type               -     Castle
Architecture -     Star Fort
Built in           -     17th century
Place              -     Cape Town, South Africa  
Famous for   -     There were windowless cells in the castle which were used as the torture chambers. During the winter floods, water rose at an alarming rate and thus, the prisoners chained inside were drowned in large numbers.
Stories          -     There are the stories of Ghost Guards whose foot steps are often heard.


Name             -     Eastern State Penitentiary
Type               -     Prison
Architecture -     Gothic Revival*
Built in           -     1829
Place              -     Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Famous for   -     It was the first prison to provide solitary confinement, which drew its inmates to complete madness and suicide.
Stories          -     Screams and footsteps in the corridors and cells are often heard and the penitentiary which now serves as a museum is considered haunted by the people.


Name             -     Waverly Hills Sanatorium
Type               -     Hospital
Built in           -     1910
Place              -     Southwestern Louisville, Kentucky, United States                     
Famous for   -     Hundreds of deaths that occurred in the epidemic caused by tuberculosis, also known as the ‘White Death’ at that time. Most of the patients who died during the treatment and experiments, were taken out of the hospital through an enclosed tunnel, known as body chute.


Name             -     Monte Cristo Homestead
Type               -     House
Built in           -     1885
Place              -     Junee, New South Wales, Australia
Famous for   -     4 deaths in accidents and murders inside the property and imprisonment of a mentally impaired man for about 40 years inside the Dairy in the property.
Stories          -     it is considered as Australia’s most haunted building because of various ghost sightings, strange lights and scary sounds.


Name             -     Pripyat
Type               -     City
Place              -     Ukraine  
Famous for   -     Chernobyl Disaster (Nuclear Disaster), which resulted in the complete evacuation of the city.


Name             -     The Death Railway
Type               -     Railway
Built in           -     1943
Place              -     Kanchanaburi, Thailand
Famous for   -     About 250000 forced labors and prisoners were used to build this 415 km long railway, of which 100000 labors died during the project.


Name             -     Pandle Hill
Type               -     Hill
Place              -     Lancashire, England
Famous for   -     The stories of the twelve women who lived on the hill. These women were considered witches and were accused of killing 10 people. During the trial of these witches, one died and 10 were found guilty and hanged. One was declared innocent.


Name             -     Eyam
Type               -     Village
Place              -     Derbyshire, England
Famous for   -     1665 plague. When the village was affected with the disease, people of the village decided to cut themselves from the rest of the world and remained in complete isolation, in order to prevent it from spreading.


Name             -     Dead men’s Island
Type               -     Island
Place              -     British Columbia  
Famous for   -     John Morton, who discovered the island in 1862, found hundreds of red cedar boxes, hanging from the tree branches. He found that these boxes contained the skeletons of the human beings, who died in the battles between the enemy tribes. the native people used the island as a tree burial ground.


Name             -     Poveglia Island
Type               -     Island
Place              -     Italy
Famous for   -     During the 1629-1631 plague, when about 80000 people died, the island was used as the dumping ground of the dead bodies. Even alive people, who showed mere symptoms of the disease were thrown on the island to wait for their deaths, or were burned alive to prevent the disease from spreading.



Name             -     Tuol Sleng
Type               -     High school turned Security prison
Place              -     Phnom Penh, Combodia
Famous for   -     About 20000 deaths from 1975 to 1979, when it was used as the security prision and most of the prisoners kept in were trialed to death. Even the families of the activists were brought to the prison to be killed. Out of 17000 prisoners, only 12 survivors were recorded in 1979, after the exposure of the place.



Name             -     The North Yungas Road
Type               -     Road
Built in           -     1930
Place              -     Yungas, Bolivia   
Famous for   -     This road built by the Paraguayan prisoners is only 3 meter wide and is the world’s most dangerous road, having a toll of about 200 to 300 deaths every year. Elevation, Fog and sharp cuts and loose granular tracks increase the danger of the road to its maximum.


Name             -     The Overtoun Bridge
Type               -     Bridge
Built in           -     1895
Place              -     Milton, Scotland
Famous for   -     More than 50 dogs have mysteriously jumped to death from this bridge.


Name             -     Chateau Miranda
Type               -     Castle
Built in           -     1866
Place              -     Belgium
Famous for   -     It is and abandoned old building and is considered ghostly by many people.


Name             -     Hashima Island
Type               -     Island
Place              -     Japan
Famous for   -     The people left the at once, without much preparation, leaving behind their furniture, television sets and even books on the tables of the schools and everything else which is of common use for the people. Because of this, the atmosphere of the island falsely suggests that something bad happened and everyone just vanished out of the island.
Name             -     Bhangarh Fort
Type               -     Fort
Built in           -     1613
Place              -     Bhangarh, Rajasthan, India
Famous for   -     It is Believed that a magician named ‘Scindia’ lived inside the fort who cursed Bhangarh to be destroyed.


Name             -     Wicklow Gaol
Type               -     Prison
Built in           -     1702
Place              -     Ireland
Famous for   -     It is also known as the Gates of Hell because of its history in which there have been number of tortures and deaths of the prison inmates. Today it is considered as the most haunted place of Ireland.


Name             -     Beechworth hospital
Type               -     Mental Asylum
Built in           -     1867
Place              -     Beechworth, Victoria, Australia
Famous for   -     Being an old mental asylum, many inhuman ways of treatments have been carried out in the history of this Asylum, which has resulted in about 3000 deaths within the walls.


Name             -     Mary King’s Close
Built in           -     17th century
Place              -     Edinburgh, Scotland
Famous for   -     various murders and plague victims who were left abandoned in the property to die.


Name             -     Duran Sanatorium
Type               -     Hospital cum asylum
Built in           -     1915
Place              -     Cartago, Costa Rica
Famous for   -     Being isolated remains of a huge building, people feel various paranormal activities inside it. Also its history of being used as a tuberculosis hospital before the cure was found and also as a mental asylum, it is generally associated with the evil.


Name             -     Queen Mary Hotel
Type               -     Ship
Built in           -     1930
Place              -     Long Beach, California, United States
Famous for   -     It is considered one of the most haunted places of America because of various drowning events and deaths.


Name             -     The old Vicarage
Type               -     Old House
Built in           -     1876
Place              -     Borgavattnet, Northern Sweden
Famous for   -     Various creepy ghost stories about the old house.


Name             -     Ancient Ram Inn
Type               -     Pub
Built in           -     1145
Place              -     Gloucestershire, England
Famous for   -     Being so old, there are various ghost stories associated to the property and is considered haunted


Name             -     Banff Spring Hotel
Type               -     Luxury Hotel
Built in           -     19th century
Place              -     Alberta, Canada
Famous for   -     It is said a woman died on her wedding date in her wedding gown on the staircase of the hotel and her ghost dwells inside the hotel and is often seen.


Name             -     Fort George
Type               -     Fort
Built in           -     1796
Place              -     Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada
Famous for   -     The building witnessed some of the bloodiest battles in 1812 wars.


Name             -     Lawang Sewu
Built in           -     1919
Place              -     Pemuda Street, Semarang, Indonasia
Famous for   -     This building has about 600 windows and around 1000 doors and a scary basement. All these features make it a scary place to visit.


Name             -     Old Changi Hospital
Type               -     Military base turned Hospital
Built in           -     1935
Place              -     Changi, Singapore
Famous for   -     in the years of Japanese Occupation, the building was used as a prison camp and also as also as a torture house. A large number of people died inside the building in those years.


*Ossuaries: An Ossuary is a place or box used for finally keeping the remains of a dead human being.
*Gothic Revival: It is an architectural style which is similar to no classic revivals in United States and is inspired from medieval architecture.

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