11 scariest places in the world

1. Manchac Marsh

The gloomy atmosphere, mass graves, ferocious American alligators as well as ghostly shaped tree trunks are the characteristics that make Manchac Swamp in Louisiana known as one of the scariest places in the world.

Manchac Marsh is also known as the ghost swamp. It is associated with the legend of a mystical curse from the 1920s. Up to 3 villages and many people living in the area of ​​the ghost swamp mysteriously disappeared after a storm.

2. Abandoned asylum in England

Cane Hill is a long-abandoned asylum in Croydon, London. First opened in 1882, Cane Hill Asylum at its peak housed 2,000 mental patients. It was not until 1991 when the patients gradually decreased that this asylum was abandoned. While all the patients and staff of the asylum had left for another place, many hospital beds and medical equipment were left behind, lying around, scattered everywhere and destroyed over the years. The history and desolation of this place turn it into a creepy and spooky place.

3. Bhangarh ghost town

Bhangarh is an abandoned town in Rajasthan, India and is known as the spookiest and scariest place in this South Asian country. Legend has it that Bhangarh was originally built to commemorate a prince in Indian history in 1573. However, due to an evil curse, in the end, in 1783, this place was abandoned. The town's desolation over the years makes people in the surrounding areas not dare to come here, especially at dusk and dark.

4. Centralia Ghost Town

In 1962, a group of firefighters burned trash at an abandoned mine to clean up the town. Ironically, the fire burned fiercely, spreading deep into every corner of the abandoned mine. At the same time, the fire also spread, burning underground, beneath the town's streets. As a result, people in the town left the country in droves. Today, dangers lurk everywhere around the town of Centralia including toxic gases, cracked streets, collapses...

5. Hell's Gate

This is a natural gas pit with a diameter of about 99m, burning fiercely for the past 40 years. In 1971, during a geological exploration in the Karakum Desert, Turkmenistan, Soviet geologists drilled into an underground cave containing natural gas. Concerned that toxic gas could be released from here, geologists decided to light the hole on fire and thought that the fire would go out within a few days. However, contrary to their expectations, due to too much gas, the hole still burns to this day.

6. Sanctuary of Tophet

Discovered in Tunisia, the Shrine of Hell contains thousands of children's graves. According to conjectures of many scientists, they may have been victims of a brutal massacre. The children may even have been killed and eaten.

7. Pripyat ghost town

One of the scariest and spookiest places in the world is the Ukrainian ghost town of Pripyat. The 1986 nuclear disaster caused the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant to close and all residents in the surrounding areas to evacuate, leaving behind an area of ​​devastation and death as radiation Radiation still exists here.

8. Actun Tunichil Muknal Cave

This cave in Belize is also known as the cave of the glass skulls. Throughout the Actun Tunichil Muknal cave in Belize, many human skeletons are scattered, which archaeologists believe are victims of ancient Mayan sacrifices. There are 14 sets of remains discovered in this cave, of which the most famous is the set of remains called Crystal Maiden of a young virgin, murdered as a sacrificial offering in religious rituals. .

9. Aokigahara suicide forest, Japan

Aokigahara means Sea of ​​Trees but is also known by another name, Jukai - "Suicide Forest" because this is the place where many Japanese people commit suicide. Long rumored to be haunted by demons, the entire forest is always enveloped in a very quiet, gloomy and dark atmosphere. Every year there are dozens of cases of people coming here to commit suicide. Therefore, searchers are often sent into the woods to find the bodies of the deceased.

The exact reason why so many people choose this forest as the place to end their lives is still a mystery, but people still tell each other a story about the first person who chose the forest to die due to the influence of a certain person. Novel.

10. Chauchilla Cemetery, Peru

Buried in the desolate desert, 30km from the city of Nazca in Peru, Chauchilla cemetery makes many people chill with ghostly legends widely spread by local people surrounding the dry remains. pure white. These remains were placed in holes and in a reclining sitting position. Born around the 9th century, Chauchilla cemetery was only discovered in 1920.

11. Island of the Dolls, Mexico

Located south of Mexico City, the small island called Isla de las Munecas (Island of the Dolls) is a famous place with thousands of intact dolls hanging from trees, around houses and strung up. walkway on the island.

The story goes that, half a century ago, a man named Julian Santana Barrera living on the island discovered the body of a little girl who had drowned next to a canal. Right after that, he picked up a doll right near that location.

Located south of Mexico City, the small island called Isla de las Munecas (Island of the Dolls) is a famous place with thousands of intact dolls hanging from trees.

He thought that perhaps the doll belonged to a little girl. Barrera hung the doll on the tree as a way to show respect and comfort the soul of the unfortunate child. However, something worse happened.

Barrera was haunted by the girl's soul and began to hear whispers, plaintive screams, and strange footsteps. To appease the wandering soul, he began to collect and hang more dolls across the island until he died.

Nowadays, Doll Island has become a famous tourist destination attracting many tourists and it is rumored that the eyes of these dolls will follow visitors no matter where they go.