People from time immemorial sought to get vivid impressions. Surprisingly, the most profound are the experiences that affect the very essence of man. In particular, this includes the instinct of self-preservation.
Read on and you will find out which is the creepiest place on the planet, and which is in Russia. Get to know the places where suicides of not only people, but also dogs and birds are considered commonplace.
The Phenomenon of Horror
When talking about the mysterious and mysterious places of the world, people usually mention ghosts or semi-legendary stories about the atrocities of the former owners of certain buildings. Today we will try to highlight such anomalous zones that are not associated with the action of ghosts.
Even Sigmund Freud singled out a special human attraction, which he called "Thanatos". The great psychologist thus explained the desire of people for death and especially dangerous events and activities.
Name the scariest place on the planet everyonethe reader can do his own. Since some are frightened by local legends, and a glimpse of a glance is enough to make all the nightmares come to life in the imagination. Others you can't get through. Therefore, we tried to select anomalous zones of various effects.
There are 5 most creepy places associated with poltergeist, ghosts or tectonic activity. We will talk about such objects that look outwardly, maybe not quite remarkable, but leave an indelible and deep mark for life after visiting.
Winchester House, San Jose, USA
During our virtual tour we will look at the scariest places in the world. The sample covers not only artificial objects created by people, but also unexplained natural phenomena.
The first place we visit will be an extravagant mansion in California. Today it is a tourist attraction. But it used to be the home of Sarah, the widow of William Winchester. His father invented the famous rifle. He soon died, as did his son and granddaughter.
When the woman had an audience with a medium, he gave her a message from William. According to the deceased, she should have bought a plot of land in San Jose and built a mansion of a specific layout there. It should have many rooms, traps and tricks to confuse the angry ghosts of people killed from the hard drives.
Sarah Winchester spent her entire multi-million dollar fortune building this hideout. It has interesting moments. For example, stairs to the second floor,ending in a wall, or doors without rooms. Also, this mansion is permeated through with the magic number 13. So many steps in each of the stairs, in many rooms there are so many windows, in the building there are "damn dozen" bathrooms.
In total, the estate has over one hundred and sixty rooms, forty staircases, six kitchens, but only one shower. There are also about two thousand doors, but only four hundred and fifty doorways.
We decided to start our tour from this estate, because it is the most extravagant and unusual. It even made a feature film based on the biography of Sarah Winchester.
Next, we will look at many more creepy places. You can see a photo of the mansion below. If desired, it is easy to visit it and enjoy the journey through the labyrinth built by the distraught widow.
Aokigahara Forest
Probably the creepiest place on the planet is the Suicide Forest in Japan. In the original it is called Aokigahara (Valley of Green Trees). This reserve is located at the foot of Mount Fuji. In principle, landing can only be liked in clear sunny weather. The rest of the time, she simply breathes doom, dullness and meaninglessness.
Aokigahara is only slightly behind the San Francisco Bridge in terms of suicides. Interestingly, the forest has long been considered the abode of evil spirits and demons. Here, until the early twentieth century, poor families brought old people and children to die, whom they could no longer provide food.
Later, around the middle of the last century, manylower and middle level workers. Apparently, the impressionable Japanese find only this way to escape from the "rat race" of society.
About a hundred suicides are found here every year. Recently, even unofficial detachments of marauders have appeared. They comb the thickets for bodies and pick their pockets, take off their jewelry. Thus, the mysterious places of the planet help not only the development of tourism, but also enrich local scammers and thieves.
The Japanese government allocates funds for the cleaning of bodies. According to eyewitnesses, the most common ways to end life are drug poisoning and hanging.
Local authorities have taken a number of measures to help the maximum number of people to refuse a stupid decision. Along the perimeter of the forest there are signs with a call to come to their senses and a helpline. Also, video cameras are directed to many paths leading to the thicket. And the attendants working in nearby institutions have already learned how to calculate potential suicides. They immediately report the information to the police.
It is noteworthy that several books and films about the specifics of this place have been released in Japan. And Tsurumi's "Guide to Suicide" is often found near corpses in the forest.
Overtone Bridge
The darkness of the soul is incomprehensible to another person, and in the back streets of inflamed illusions, even the most persistent and sane individual can go crazy. But what causes some animals to commit suicide is an interesting question.
We continue to considerscariest places in the world. And the next in line is Overtown Bridge, near the settlement of Milton, in West Dumbartonshire. From about the middle of the twentieth century, interesting cases have been recorded here. Almost every month, at least one dog jumps off the bridge into the water.
Most die immediately, but the survivors return after a while to try again.
It is noteworthy that animals live by instincts, and such deviations are not characteristic of them. That is why commissions came here several times to investigate such an unusual anomaly.
Today there are two versions that highlight the cause. One of them was proposed by ethnographers and collectors of folklore, the second - by zoologists.
According to the first, a man with a child once came to the bridge. He declared his son a product of satanic forces and threw the baby into the water, and after a couple of days he jumped himself. Since then, it has become a tradition that the ghost of the boy invites the dogs to play. Animals, because of their ability to perceive the subtle world, without suspecting anything, follow a ghost and die.
A more rational explanation was put forward by scientists after many months of research. According to their theory, minks are to blame. These rodents live along the banks of the river, and for many years these places simply smelled of them. Dogs, focusing on the intensity of the smell, rush to pursue their prey and fall off the bridge into the water.
We review the creepiest places in the world. And no one can fully explain their specifics, otherwise they would cease to be mysterious. Same with the Overtown Bridge.
Even if the reason lies in the burrows, why do dogs that survived a fall of fifteen meters come back and throw themselves again? After all, these animals have a very developed memory for places and people who hurt them.
Jatinga
Next, we will get acquainted with another unusual territory. This time we will move to warm countries. Speaking of birds, the scariest places in the world for them are in India.
Thus, it is impossible to hide from some terrestrial anomalies, even rising high in the air. For the first time, the English tea planter and plant researcher E. Ji spoke about an unusual phenomenon. He described a strange period at the end of August, when large flocks of birds begin to flock to the Jatinga valley and crash on the ground in a big way.
At first, no one believed him and considered his recordings to be fiction. But one orientologist decided to check the legend. It turned out that the tea grower was telling the truth. So Sengupta became the first scientist to record the unusual August birdfall.
According to this researcher, the birds are in a kind of trance, "like somnambulists." They rush to the light of the fires and lamps of the local village. If you take an animal that has not broken to death, it does not resist, but completely refuses food and water. It is noteworthy that after three or four days of madness, the released bird flies away as if nothing had happened.
But creepy places in the world are often perceived ambiguously. Tourists and visiting researchers see them as an anomalous threat, while locals invent a myth that justifies the event. So,the natives of this valley say that the gods rewarded them with such a "birdfall" for righteousness. They can collect a bunch of carcasses and use them for food. It turns out a kind of analogue of "manna from heaven" for an Indian village.
Thelema Abbey, Sicily
Discussing the most terrible places in the world, we return to the creation of human hands. The next attraction we will talk about is a one-story house in the town of Cefalu on the island of Sicily.
Once acquired by Aleister Crowley, one of the most famous and controversial occultists of the early twentieth century. Here he was going to create the basis for a future civilization, cleansed of Christian darkness and obscurantism.
It was within these walls that Crowley resumed satanic rituals, as well as the practice of witchcraft using narcotic drugs. So, the initiation included the simultaneous use of marijuana with heroin and a night of reflection in a special room, which was called the "Hall for Visions" or "Nightmare Room". In this room, the walls are painted with gloomy frescoes depicting different circles of hell and heaven.
The abbey was closed after the famous British aristocrat Raoul Loveday died on its territory. Presumably, he poisoned himself with drugs mixed with cat blood. Thus ended the history of the commune living under the slogan "Do whatever - that's the only law."
There are many creepy abandoned places on the planet, but only this abbey attracts crowds of unofficial visitors. Come here every yearadmirers of witchcraft and the activities of Aleister Crowley gather. They seek to touch the ruins in order to receive a powerful energy boost from their idol.
Damn's Cemetery. Krasnoyarsk Territory
There are natural scary places in the Russian Federation. We will start from a remote area in Siberia. In general, ethnologists have collected a lot of materials about the most incredible features and terrible secrets that the taiga keeps. But now we will talk about what really was recorded by various groups of researchers in the form of photographs and videos, and not simple stories.
Presumably the Devil's cemetery appeared as a result of unusual space activity associated with the fall of the Tunguska meteorite. According to the memoirs of the old-timers, once an object fell from the sky, and a rounded edge formed in the forest. The ground turned black and from time to time smoke began to appear from it. In summer, no grass grows on this place, only a little moss, and in winter there is no snow.
Any animal that gets inside the damn circle dies within the next few hours. People, according to eyewitnesses, experience an inexplicable feeling of longing here, and as they approach the very edge of the forest, an irrational fear grows, gradually turning into panic.
Thus, creepy places on Earth can be not just natural, but also of cosmic origin.
Sablinsky caves
Speaking of the most eerie place on the planet, it is especially worth stopping at the Sablinskiye caves. There is nobloodthirsty monsters, inexplicable and oppressive horror among visitors or satanic symbols. Just a fairly large underground natural formation. For example, the length of one of the catacombs is more than seven kilometers, and the height of the halls is up to five meters.
In Soviet times, the object was classified, as all sorts of criminal individuals who were outlaws were hiding underground. They called themselves dissidents. Even about ten different gangs were formed. Every month several people disappeared here and still disappear. At the same time, all the well-known "political" who were hiding underground have long since left the dead place. Today, according to official figures, there is not a single “underground inhabitant” there.
Sablinskiye caves are constantly visited by extreme people and lovers of creepy places in Russia. They are not even afraid of the facts of the frequent disappearance of curious onlookers. Scientists see the reason for this anomaly in the underground free-flowing sands and movements of the earth's crust. A group that enters one of the tunnels can be buried under tons of sand in a second. All this data is based on the stories of gang members who once lived in these caves.
Road of death. Highway Lyubertsy-Lytkarino
Let's talk about the mysterious places of the Moscow region. In principle, researchers of anomalous zones around Moscow count about a dozen sections of the highway with an increased risk of fatal accidents.
But the section of the Lyubertsy - Lytkarino highway, near the village of Pekhorka, is considered the most unsafe. If you drive along this road, you can see a lot ofwreaths marking the places where drivers died.
Most accidents date from 1990 to 2002. The sudden decrease in mortality after 2003 is explained by the fact that at that time the governor took up the “anomaly”. Being formerly a military general, he did not philosophize. In this section, the concrete pavement of the road was replaced with excellent quality asph alt, and four speed bumps were built.
After such preventive measures, the drivers did not have the opportunity to accelerate strongly on the highway.
Skeptics and realists often say that scary places are deadly only for those who disregard common sense and climb on the rampage. The locals tell a legend that this section became the “road of death” because the coating was laid on top of the old cemetery. Here are the ghosts of the dead and take revenge on the unlucky drivers who were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Beria's House
We talked about the mysterious places of the Moscow region, in conclusion, I would like to note one more strange building in the capital itself. In Soviet times, this house was perhaps the most terrible place in the area. Passers-by tried to bypass the street by the tenth road, and if it was necessary to go exactly along it, they crossed to the opposite side.
What is this terrible building? House of State Security Commissioner Lavrenty Pavlovich Beria. This man was one of the organizers of the Stalinist repressions. The building is located in Vspolny Lane. Today, its premises are occupied by the Tunisian embassy.
According to eyewitnesses (local residents and researchers), a couple of times a month around three in the morning you can hear ghostly sounds near the house. They say that this is a distinct noise of a powerful motor. An invisible car “drives up” to the doors of the building. You can hear its doors opening, a male voice saying something. Then the door closes and the car drives off. The whole incident takes about three minutes.
Thus, in this article we talked about the terrible places in Russia and the world. We got acquainted with both safe objects that could be of interest to ufologists or teenagers, and deadly formations that are better not to approach.
Good luck to you, dear readers! Travel smart.
