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