If you have ever had the heebeegeebees, you are in for a real hair-raising experience when venturing through these horrific places. They will leave the hair at the back of your neck standing on end and send shivers down your spine. Check out these scary, spooky, and creepy places:
Easter Island, Chile
Owing to the dangers of environmental and cultural extinction on the Polynesian Easter Island, it was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Dutch explorer, Jacob Roggeveen, first encountered this place on Easter Sunday and so named it accordingly. This remote island is inhabited by a mere 5800 (2012) people, but that is not all that lives on the island. Easter Island is home to a series of 887 stone statues. Why were they built and what are they looking at? Do they know something we do not?
Kolmanskop, Namibia
With the discovery of gold and diamonds in South Africa during the 1860s and 1870s, came an influx of foreign hopefuls. One such example is Kolmanskop in Namibia, just north of South Africa. When a diamond was discovered in the area, German miners settled there and set up infrastructure for a town. As they exhausted the diamond sources, the town was slowly abandoned until completely empty in 1954. It is now a ghost town with the rooms of the buildings filled knee-high in desert sand. Looking at the old piano, a grimy bathtub, and a rusted sign (warning trespassers not to enter); an air of mystery lurks in the quiet halls of the sand-filled buildings.
Chernobyl, Ukraine
What once was a no man’s land after a catastrophic nuclear accident is now a tourist destination. Considered to be the worst disaster of its kind, many lives were lost and many more were evacuated. It was a battle to contain the contamination, but even today, there are after-effects such as cancer and children being born with deformities. The scary sight leaves visitors in shock, especially when seeing toys where children had left them before escaping.
Truk Lagoon, Central Pacific
During World War II Japan used the Chuuk, or Truk, Lagoon as its main base in the South Pacific. The area was devastated in the war. More recently, scuba divers came across the “Ghost Fleet of Truk Lagoon” that consisted of sunken ships, aircrafts, bombs, and tanks and other remains of war. Although this is a site of death and destruction, some marine life has adopted this as their new habitation.
Catacombs of Paris, France
The Catacombs of Paris are a crude graveyard for 6 million people in the tunnels of historical stone mines. Considered to be a museum and tourist attraction, visitors are able to wander through these caverns, breathe in the odor of death and decay, and come face to face with human skulls. If you have ever wondered why there are not that many tall buildings in Paris, it is because these catacombs lie beneath the city streets and so would collapse. It is creepy to think that when you walk down the romantic roads of Paris that you are treading on the dead.
Summary:
Horrific places gives us shivers down our spines, trigger adrenaline rushes and leave us feeling uneasy yet bemused. No matter where in the world you go, there will always be places that creep you out or scare the living daylights out of you; whether you are in Paris or Ukraine, the desert or surrounded by the Pacific Ocean.