Top 8 creepy and strange places on the planet

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

Where is Death Road located? How many people are buried in the catacombs of Paris? If there were no terrible places on Earth, then they would have been worth creating, which is what humanity did. Today we will tell you about the most creepy and mysterious corners of our planet.

Silent Cemetery, Kansas

The place was nicknamed "one of the seven gates to Hell" thanks to an article in the University of Kansas student newspaper dating from 1974. It stated that the Devil personally appeared in this place twice a year - on Halloween and on the vernal equinox. The article made the town of Douglas a good advertisement: until now, lovers of the paranormal arrange annual raids on this quiet place in search of traces of the activity of dark forces.

Gomantun caves, Malaysia

The height of the arches of the damp caves of Borneo can reach 100 meters, which makes them a very spectacular tourist attraction. However, many people prefer to admire them only in photographs. The fact is that about 2,000,000 bats live in the caves, which daily cover the path along which visitors walk with a thick layer of guano.

Litter, in turn, attracts huge Malaysian cockroaches, which love to crawl into the legs of gaping tourists. And if cockroaches do not scare the brave visitors, then rats, crabs and long centipedes will always come to their aid!

Karni Mata Temple, India

Hindus are known for their love and sacred worship of animals, but in this case we are not talking about harmless cows. The popular temple of Karni Mata is home to 20,000 rats, which are looked after by monks.

They call them "little children" and feed them grains, milk and homemade sweets. When the time for feeding comes and rodents flock to the feeder from all corners of the temple, greedily devouring the delicacy, the Indians rejoice - for them it is a great success. But Europeans have a very tense relationship with rats since the Middle Ages, so many bypass the temple.

Winchester House Museum, California

Sarah Winchester (aka Winchester), the heiress of the "gun empire" of her famous father-in-law, according to legend, was haunted by the ghosts of people killed by firearms. When she turned to the medium, he told Sarah that she just needed to follow the instructions of the ghosts, and they would stop visiting her.

As a result, 16 carpenters were hired, who worked 24 hours a day for triple wages and erected a luxurious mansion in no time. Madame Winchester did not calm down on this, and in subsequent years she constantly completed, altered and rebuilt the structure of the house, so that in the end it turned into a huge labyrinth. In total, the house has 160 rooms, 40 bedrooms, 10,000 windows and two basements.

Death Road, Bolivia

Formerly known as El Camino de la Murte, the winding road runs along the edge of the ridge for 60 km. It was built back in the 1930s by Paraguayan prisoners and runs from the Bolivian capital La Paz to the city of Corioco.

The width of the road is a little more than three meters, while there are no protective barriers on it - this despite the fact that traffic on the road occurs in both directions. As a result, thousands of victims were killed when falling from a height of 600 meters.

Chandido Godoi, Brazil

The small Brazilian town became famous for the abundance of twins that are born every year. After a series of studies, scientists have ruled out the myth that the birth of twins is a consequence of the experimental projects of the Nazi doctor Josef Mengele.

He did make his way from Germany to Brazil in the 1960s, posing as a veterinarian and experimenting on twins. However, doctors tend to believe that the real reason lies in incest: there are 1000% more incestuous relationships in the town than the world average.

Catacombs of paris

To cope with the abundance of bodies, for which there was no longer enough space in the old cemeteries, in the 17th century the Paris authorities decided to place the dead in ancient catacombs dating back to the 13th century.

For 12 years, bones have taken up space about 5 floors below street level. Today, about 6 million people are buried in the catacombs, and the total length of the tunnels is 320 km. About one and a half kilometers of catacombs are open for visiting, in which you can see niches in the walls occupied by skulls and other bones.

Alcatraz Island Prison, California

The picturesque island in the San Francisco Bay has been used as a maximum security prison for highly dangerous prisoners since 1934. The truly creepy prison, which today has been turned into a museum, is made by the stories of its inmates.

Criminals stole weapons from guards, rioted, feigned riot, or even suicide. The characters of one of the most famous stories, the robbers John and Clarence Anglin, as well as Frank Morris, planned to escape from the island, but their bodies were never found.