Ten creepiest places around the globe
From Abandonment and rot to K9 suicides, here are 10 Creepiest places from around the Globe.
There are a handful of flat out terrifying places on this weird thing we call our home, and most people don’t think of places when they think about our world.
However, this does not mean these places don’t exist, and some of them could be closer to you than you may think.
So here they are, the ten creepiest places from around the globe.
Also known as the “Suicide Forest” this fourteen mile stretch of forest at the Northwest base of Mt. Fuji, Japan is home to the second most popular place to take ones life. Number one being the Golden Gate Bridge in the United States of America. Nobody knows why so many people flock to this area to never come out but the park rangers, believe it or not, literally have to drag bodies out of the forest. They have tried to reduce the rate of death by putting up signs that read “Think of your Family” and “Life is Precious.”
9. Pripyat
After the Chernobyl Nuclear explosion a city of 50,000 has evacuated and left to rot in the Ukraine. There was even an amusement park set to open a day after the accident, untouched by human fingers, and uninhabited for two decades. The Ukrainian government has allowed tourists to visit the place because of decreased radiation levels and less of a chance of radiation poisoning. However, you only have a limited amount of time because of the high levels of dangerous radiation in the area.
In a prosperous mining town nearly 43 miles northeast of Harrisburg, one day miners set fire to some trash and then it caught a line of coal. The fire went loose and eventually spread throughout the mine. The fire started in 1962 and its been burning ever since. In 1981, when the ground crumbled under a 12 year old resident, the state condemned the town of almost 3,000. Today, the town is housing a measly ten residents and they are all fighting to get back the town’s ZIP code, which was revoked in 1992. They claim the state wants rights to the estimated one billion dollars in coal. All attempts to retrieve the ZIP code have failed. Experts claim that there is enough coal to feed the fire for 250 more years.
What originally opened as Jazzland in 2000, was changed to a Six Flags New Orleans, and has been abandoned since 2005 after Hurricane Katrina. Ironically, the managers were looking into building a water park when the hurricane hit. Well, they got one. The park was abandoned after the catastrophe and is now owned by The City of New Orleans. It stands untouched and rotting. The fate of this lot is unknown but organizers would like to reopen the old park, after its repaired of course.
Oh boy! Another amusement park! In the heart of the Disney resort area of Orlando, Florida is an abandoned attraction called Disney’s Discovery Island. It can easily be seen from the Contemporary Resort and the Fort Wilderness Resort and Campground as well as on ferry trips in the lake. It was closed to the public for two reasons. One because there was a bacterial infection in the natural water that was used throughout the island that has harmful to humans. Also, a law passed by the State of Florida that prohibited use of unchlorinated natural water as a resort attraction. This is also why the nearby River Country Water Park was closed.
If you watch Ghost Adventures you already know where this is. The Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania opened in 1829 and was since abandoned after closing 142 years later in 1971. It was one of the first prisons to be designed in a revolutionary wagon wheel shape. The area was given new life after the Ghost Adventures crew visited in 2010, however it was never really abandoned. the spirits of all the prisoners killed within its walls lurk and horrify the human visitors who dare enter. Whilst in operation it housed such notorious villains one of which was the one and only Al Capone! Yeah…
Also known as “Battleship Island” because of it’s ship-like shape, is one of 505 abandoned islands off the coast of Nagasaki. about 2.5 miles northwest of the Nagasaki Peninsula, This island was once home to over 5,000 coal miners. However after when petrol replaced coal as Japan’s main power source it was abandoned. Ever since it has stood untouched by anyone other that tourists. It has even been featured in the Discovery Channel’s Life After People.
This bridge is widely used to commit suicide nearly 600 total, but, the reason it is incredibly creepy is that humans are not the ones taking their own lives! Yeah, 12-16 dogs a year flock to this bridge every year only to jump to their deaths. Yes, Dogs! Nobody knows why they do this but what we are sure of, is these dogs are determined to die because some have witnessed dogs jump, live, climb up and jump again! If you could take one thing away from this it’s don’t walk you dog on that bridge. You just might not see them again.
Another Japanese mining town. Awesome! Located in northern Japan this mining town was once home to the largest sulfur mine in the far east. After it’s closing in the 70’s the only things still standing are the large concrete residential complexes used to house the miners. What’s making this so creepy is there is a dense mist that surrounds the area at times, so dense that some tourists have taken days to find the ghost town.
The name of this place literally translates to “Island of the Dolls” from Spanish and is in swamp of former Aztec country. Just as you think, the island is filled with eerie dolls. The legend goes that a man named Don Julian Santana Barbara lived on the island and had heard that a child had drowned offshore. He had found a doll floating in the canal where she had drowned, and hung the child’s doll in the tree closest to where she drowned. Ever since he had hung doll after doll that washed up on shore, until he mysteriously drowned in the same canal. many tourists flock to this area to see the immense amount of dolls the man had hung there.
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