Aokigahara, Japan
One of the few creepy places that you will be very likely to actually find a dead body, people wander into this forest to kill themselves. So much so, in fact, that the local authorities have to do an annual sweep of the area to clear away all the dead bodies that rack up over the year.
Waverly Hills Sanatorium
With reports of screams being heard from the halls of Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Louisville, KY, this place has some chilling history associated with it. Estimates place the death toll at this location to be over 60,000 people and the patients faced “severe” mistreatment and were put through torturous experimentation.
Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague
Think cemeteries are creepy without adding anything else to the mix? How about if I told you that the Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague is 11 cemeteries in one? Instead of finding new ground to hallow, they would just build a brand new cemetery on top of the old one. Yeah. They did that ten times.
The Catacombs of Paris
As the resting place of nearly six million bodies, the catacombs under Paris, France, is a series of underground tunnels that are literally constructed from bones and skulls. And, connected to these catacombs, is an illegally operated underground city.
No wonder the place is such a popular tourist attraction, right?
Takakonuma Greenland Park
After numerous deaths caused at the amusement park from the rides, Takakonuma Greenland Park was understandably shut down. However, the rides weren’t demolished, and nature has slowly been taking back this fog-ridden location.
Plus, can we all agree that abandoned amusement parks, for whatever reason, are just creepy as hell?
Isla de las Munecas, Mexico
Isla de las Munecas (Island of the Dolls) in Mexico is possibly where children’s nightmares come from. Story has it that a young girl drowned in a canal off the coast of the island, and the sole inhabitant, Don Julian Santana Barrera, ended up finding her doll in the water. Then another appeared. Then dolls began showing up one after the other. Barrera did the only thing any rational person could do in that situation: He hung the dolls up all over the island to pay homage to the little girl. The story ends with him dying in the very same canal that the girl reportedly died in.
Winchester Mystery House
With winding hallways and stairs that lead to nowhere, the Winchester Mystery House lives up to its name pretty well. Built by Sarah Winchester, who was the heir to the fortune built from Winchester rifles, she claimed to be haunted by the souls of everyone ever killed by the company’s weapons so they wouldn’t be able to find her in the home.
Oradour-sur-Glane, France
Figuring that people didn’t think the Nazis were crazy enough already, they invaded this French village and burned it to the ground. All of it. They then decided that they hadn’t done enough to the civilians living there, so they executed practically everyone.
Prypiat
If there is any place on Earth where there might actually be zombies or mutated monsters walking around, it’s Prypiat. As the main city by the Chernobyl nuclear power plant that had a meltdown in 1986, the once-bustling location is now an irradiated ghost town that has been untouched by outsiders for almost three decades.
As for whatever might still be residing there… That’s another story.
