Scariest Places on Earth

Scariest Places on Earth

1. Island of the Dead Dolls:

A young girl is said to have drowned after becoming entangled in the canal's lilies, and her body was later discovered on the Santampa Chinampas' banks. According to Santana, who claimed to have heard the girl scream, "I want my doll," he hanged up the toy he discovered next to the girl's body out of fear. After the incident, he claimed that each time he walked outside, a fresh doll was hanging from a tree. Later, he passed away near where the girl had drowned. Many people think that the girl's ghost, which still roams the island, was responsible for his death.

2. The Bell Cave:

It dates back to the 1800s, when what is now known as the Bell Witch Cave was claimed to be the home of a witch who haunted the Bell family.

In the 1800s, John Bell, a farmer, lived in Robertson County, Tennessee, with his wife and kids. John served as a deacon at the Red River Baptist Church during their 13 years of farming life. The family started encountering paranormal-like events in the summer of 1817. Family members reported seeing odd animals wandering the grounds. Others heard knocking noises late at night on the walls and doors. In addition, there were choking noises and sounds of shackles being dragged through the house. For approximately a year, the Bells were able to endure the terrifying events before they became intolerable.

James Johnson, a neighbor who had also experienced a few unusual occurrences, recommended conducting an inquiry after hearing from John about the dangers hiding in his house. The unnamed figure in the Bells' house eventually began to speak. When questioned who it was, it would respond with various identities, once claiming to be the witch of a neighbor called Kate Batts. The entity was once known as "Kate, the Bell's Witch."

3. The Hellfire Club:

Hellfire Club was a name for several exclusive clubs for high-society rakes established in Britain and Ireland in the 18th century. The name most commonly refers to Francis Dashwood's Order of the Friars of St. Francis of Wycombe.

Such clubs, rumour had it, served as the meeting places of "persons of quality" who wished to take part in what were socially perceived as immoral acts, and the members were often involved in politics. Neither the activities nor membership of the clubs are easy to ascertain. The clubs allegedly had distant ties to an elite society known only as "The Order of the Second Circle".

4. Houska Castle:

Houska Castle, and most specifically the chapel, was constructed over a large hole in the ground that is a "gateway to Hell", which is allegedly so deep that no one could see the bottom of it. Animal-human hybrids were reported to have crawled out of it, and dark-winged, otherworldly creatures flew in its vicinity.

5. Warrens Occult Museum:

In the belief community, Warren was for many years the leading voice. Their bizarre career as a ghost-hunter and demon-slayer is on display in their very own Occult Museum.

The Warrens' basement residence is where they keep their ever-growing collection of trinkets and antiques that have been tainted by evil. It has been open since 1952, when they established the New England Society for Psychic Research. The Warrens were well-liked lecturers in their era when they weren't researching well-known cases of demonic mischief like the Amityville haunting (in which the murderer claimed demonic possession as his defense) and the exorcism of the witch Bathsheba (whose case was most recently depicted in the movie "The Conjuring," which also featured a version of the museum). The Warrens amassed objects and totems during these instances that they believe to be tainted by evil and locked them up in the museum to protect them from the general public.

The eccentric collection contains everything from an alleged vampire’s coffin to a child’s tombstone used as a satanic altar. Death curses, demon masks, and psychic photographs line the museum’s walls accented by a Halloween store’s bounty of plastic props (assumedly for mood).

However, the most prevalent item seems to be the cursed Raggedy Ann doll by the name of Annabelle, which was said to have killed a man. Annabelle sits in her glass case, backlit by a haunting red light.

Unfortunately, Ed Warren passed away in 2006, but Lorraine Warren and their son still attend the museum. Whether or not one believes in the paranormal, the Warrens’ Occult Museum may be one of the preeminent chronicles of modern culture’s obsession with the supernatural. Of course, it could also be just a spooky collection of stuff in an older woman’s basement.

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