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Article #286: 10 most terrible and frightful places of the world

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Halloween has already passed, however the catacombs near Paris, it becomes clear
terrifying places in our world remain. why Victor Hugo and Anne Rice have
They still tickle nerves to the lovers of written the well-known histories about
adrenaline and horrible stories who want these vaults. They stretch for about 187
to see that, from what any usual tourists kilometers under the whole city and only
would run away with fear. So, here are 10 their insignificant part is open for
most horrible places of the world, one public. It is said that the others are
more terrible than other. patrolled by the legendary special
Halloween passed long ago, but underground police, though, most likely,
the terrifying places in our world have deadmen. Or, maybe, it is done by the
not disappeared together with it. They legions of vampires. Though, eventually,
still tickle nerves to the adrenaline and who will assort them there? Here there
terrible stories amateurs who wish to see were quarries even in the Romans times,
that, from what any normal tourists run and when the Parisian cemeteries
away as fast as they can. So, here are 10 overflowed, in 1785 the tunnels became
most awful places in the world, one is the same as they are now.7. Winchesters'
more terrible than another.1. The Mutter house, San Jose, CaliforniaThe "magic"
medical history museum in PhiladelphiaThe Winchesters' house is an enormous
Mutter medical history museum is the construction, to which many prejudices
museum of the pathologies, ancient are connected. One fortune-teller told
medical equipment and biological Sarah Winchester, the heiress of the
exhibits, situated in the oldest complex weapon company that ghosts of the killed
teaching doctors of the Northern America. with Winchester guns persons will pursue
This museum is well-known most of all for her if only she does not leave
the huge collection of skulls. Also here Connecticut for the West and does not
there are collections of every possible build such a house, which cannot be
unique exhibit, for example, a woman finished during all her life. The
corpse which turned into the soap in the building began in San Jose in 1884 and
ground where she was buried. Here there had not been finished for 38 years till
are the Siamese twins with the Sara died. Now there are phantoms of her
incorporated liver, a skeleton of the madness living in 160 rooms of the house:
two-headed child and other terrible the ladders stretching directly to the
exhibits.2. Lagoon "ruk in MicronesiaNow ceiling, doors which are opened in the
the significant part of the Japanese middle of the wall, spider motives,
Navies lies at the bottom of the shallow candelabra, hooks. Since the house was
lagoon "ruk in Micronesia, to the opened for visits, there are persistent
southwest from Hawaii. The dark blue complaints on the clapping doors, steps
depths explored by Jacques Cousteau in at night, moving lights, door handles
1971 and studded with the fragments of which turn by themselves. Even if
the military ships and aircraft carriers, tourists do not believe in phantoms, the
sunk in 1944, became accessible to place greatly impresses by its huge
divers. Although till now people are dimensions.8. The blind alley Mary King
rather afraid of crews which still didn't in EdinburghThere are some streets with
leave their fighting posts. The ships and the gloomy past, hidden under the
planes grew into the coral reefs long medieval Old city in Edinburgh. The
ago, but till now the new and new too place, where the plague victims of XVII
curious tourists prying where do not century were closed and left to die, is
follow, become their victims.3. The famous for poltergeists. Here something
magical market Sonora in Mexico City, invisible touch the tourists' hands and
MexicoThe witches of Mexico, sitting in feet. It is considered that it is a
small booths, for 10 dollars promise a phantom of Anny, a very young girl, whom
fast deliverance from poverty and her parents left there in 1645. One
adultery. There are tortured exotic hundred years later - the term, which is
iguanas, frogs and wild birds, hanged on so liked in the terrifying fairy tales -
the walls of tents in cages for sale. The a big new building was built there on the
market Sonora is opened every day for place of the blind alley Mary King. In
pilgrims from Mexico and tourists from 2003 the blind alley was opened for
the distant places who go for destiny tourists, who were attracted by the tales
predictions and promises of the best about its supernatural spirits.The
life. This is that place where all the sightseers will be led downwards by the
local population gets some new stone steps to the narrow oppressing
"supernatural" thingamajigs, beginning alleys.Except for Anny's room, there the
from potions of the ancient Aztec exposition of the medieval life and
formulae up to the Buddha statues. The deaths from the plague is restored. The
stubborn enthusiasts, probably, will main thing is not to stop, especially,
manage to buy here a little blood of a when you feel an icy breath of death.9.
rattlesnake or the dried hummingbird for The occult abbey "h5lema in
achieving success. But it is necessary to SicilyAleister Crowley is, perhaps, one
remember that sorcery in Mexico is not a of the meanest occultists in the world,
joke: the National association of and this stone farmer house, filled with
sorcerers was involved in the the gloomy pagan frescoes, once was the
presidential elections in order to world capital of satanic orgies. At
transform them in fair and free ones, least, it was so considered in
using invocations.4. Easter Island, 1920-s.Crowley is basically known for his
ChileOne of the most mysterious places on admirers such as Marilyn Manson and the
the earth is Easter Island, on which fact that he appeared on a cover of the
there are the huge figures of giants ''Beatles'' album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely
carved from stone, grown into the ground Hearts Club Band". Crowley founded the
under the millenniums' weight. The abbey Thelema, called in honor of Utopia,
statues look at the sky, as if guilty of described in "Gargantua" Rabelais, whose
some mystical crimes. And only the stone motto was "Do whatever you wish". It
giants know where people, who established became a commune of free love. The
them, disappeared. Nobody more knows a beginners were forced to spend the night
secret of manufacturing and moving, and in the "Room of nightmares" where they,
also placing of these huge statues with having got drugged by heroin and
the growth up to 21 meters and the weight marijuana, stared at the frescoes of the
up to 90 tons on Easter Island. In fact, Earth, Heaven and Hell. After the popular
they were quite often moved for more than English dandy died in the abbey, the
20 kilometers from the quarry where the press made an upoar and compelled
ancient sculptors worked. Now on the Mussolini to close up the mickey-mouse
Island, where once the powerful outfit. The notorious underground
civilization prospered, life hardly director Kenneth Endger in 1945 unearthed
glimmers, and nobody knows where the this history and shot a film there, which
mysterious builders were from, and where subsequently mysteriously disappeared.
then they disappeared.Well, it is known Now the abbey is dilapidated and
only to those, certainly, who read about overgrown with grass. But some frescoes,
the travels of Thor Heyerdahl in the with which Crowley intimidated the
childhood. All these mysteries - how the followers, are still kept inside.The
statues were made and then placed - tourists inclined to esotericism can
aren't any more a secret for them.5. wander and tickle their nerves there.10.
0nciak bogs in LouisianaThe boats with Chernobyl in the UkraineThe tourists get
tourists, floating through the bogs at in the zone of alienation, having arrived
light of a torch are surrounded by the in the abandoned city of Pripyat in the
ancient cypresses and long moss strings, Ukraine. Here all the things are thrown
hanging down from the cypress branches. in haste and left since that awful 1986,
The howl which is heard far away can when the accident in the Chernobyl
belong to rou-ga-rou - the Cajun version nuclear power plant forced tens thousand
of a werewolf.The 0nciak bogs are still people to leave their houses forever. The
called the "bogs of phantoms". They are apartments are wide open; the ivy is
near New-Orleans, and it is simply a twined round the painted walls in
dream of Goths. It is said that bogs were nurseries, the toys are scattered all
damned by the voodoo queen when she was over, the unread newspapers are left on
taken prisoner in the beginning of XX the kitchen tables. The swings are
century. As a result during the hurricane swinging, still creaking, under gusts of
of 1915 three small villages disappeared a dead wind in the yard.Now, when the
here. The peace of this birds' cemetery radiation level fell up to the safe
is periodically broken by the emerging enough for the short-term visit period,
corpses - the commercial activity the Chernobyl zone is opened for
heritage, more than 100-years old. tourists. The excursions to Chernobyl are
Besides, the alligators which are here practically identical to each other as
the majority, rather than corpses, are movements in the alienation zone are
not fastidious about fresh tourist meat strongly limited. As a rule, the tourists
too.6. The Parisian catacombs, FranceThe leave Kiev by bus, then go to the
bones and skulls are stacked on both Chernobyl nuclear power plant on foot,
sides of the corridor as the goods in a pass it by, look at the"Sarcophagus". It
warehouse - there are a lot of the goods. is possible to wander along the streets
The air is dry here. It bears only a thin of Pripyat city-phantom and to visit the
hint of decomposition. Also here there parking places of the contaminated
are inscriptions, basically of the Great vehicles. Also it's possible to meet the
French revolution times, cursing the king local self-settlers, the "prohibited
and noblemen. After you get inside of the zone" inhabitants.






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