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We love watching horror movies, but what if those scary things came to life? Well, here are some places that may have some elements of scary movies.
5. The Catacombs of Paris
The Catacombs of Paris are an underground cemetery in Paris, France and are a popular tourist attraction. The bones began accumulating in the catacombs in 1786, just as momentum for the Revolution was building in Paris. Land was scarce and the city’s cemeteries were severely overcrowded. The government decided to reclaim the large plots of land that had been used for cemeteries. They slowly relocated the remains of those buried in the cemeteries to the empty limestone quarries, whose tunnels were on the outskirts of town at that time. Most of the buildings in Paris are made of limestone and so these quarries were fairly vast! The process of disinterring the bones from the cemeteries, moving them into the quarries, and arranging them in orderly piles according to type of bone (no skeletons are complete, instead you can see large stacks of leg bones, skulls and other types of bones) took several decades. No attempt was made to identify or separate individual bodies; instead each set of bones was marked with a plaque noting the cemetery they came from and the year they were moved. By the time the relocation was finished in 1860, an estimated five to six million skeletons had been moved from the cemeteries to the catacombs.
4. Poveglia Island
Poveglia Island is a small island near Venice in Italy. The history of this island is as intriguing as it is freaky; the island is believed to be haunted and no tourists are allowed to go there. Those ghost hunters that have been allowed have left the island terrified. When the plague hit Italy the island was the place where dead bodies and those suffering from plague were dumped. Centuries after that a mad doctor built a hospital and used people for experiments and in many cases tortured his patients. This hospital still stands there. With all those tragic events it is no wonder that the Poveglia Island is considered one of the scariest places on Earth.
3. Aokigahara Forest
Aokigahara is a woodland at the base of Mount Fuji in Japan that makes The Blair Witch Project forest look like Winnie the Pooh's Hundred Acre Wood. It probably has something to do with all the dead bodies scattered around.
What Niagara Falls is to weddings, Aokigahara is to suicide. How many suicides does it takes for a place to get that reputation? A dozen? Fifty?
More than 500people have taken their own lives in Aokigahara since the 1950s.
The trend has supposedly started after Seicho Matsumoto published his novel Kuroi Kaiju (Black Sea of Trees) where two of his characters commit suicide there. After that-always eager to prove they are bizarrely susceptible to suggestion-hundreds of Japanese people have hanged themselves among the countless trees of the Aokigahara forest, which is reportedly so thick that even in high noon it's not hard to find places completely surrounded by darkness.
2. Fort Riley
Located on the north bank of Kansas River, Fort Riley was established in the fall of 1852 and remains an active military facility today. It had a crucial role in patrolling the Santa Fe Trail and the surroundings against Indian attacks. The famous general Custer was stationed here.
Another interesting thing about Fort Riley are its many reports of haunting. Practically every part of the compound has its own ghost stories. From the Artillery Parade Field, where a woman all wrapped in chains can be noticed, to the hospital, where the alarm continues to sound even though it was disconnected by the fire marshal, or the stables where an old-fashioned dressed gentleman rides his horse then disappears, it’s all a big horror story
1. The Catacombs of Rome
The Catacombs of Rome, Italy are ancient catacombs, underground burials near Rome. Millions of Christians were buried in these narrow tunnels underneath the Italian capital. The bodies were not put into coffins but their bones used as piece of art to form different sculptures. The archway throughout the catacombs is built from leg bones and skulls are placed atop each other.
Just like the Catacombs in Paris, those in Rome attract millions of tourists. Local authorities believe that some of these tourists actually take pieces of the bodies with them. Locals believe that paranormal activity intensified after most of the bodies started disappearing. Some people report stories of odd lights and strange whispering. They believe that the spirits have been angered as they don’t like being displaced.
5. The Catacombs of Paris
The Catacombs of Paris are an underground cemetery in Paris, France and are a popular tourist attraction. The bones began accumulating in the catacombs in 1786, just as momentum for the Revolution was building in Paris. Land was scarce and the city’s cemeteries were severely overcrowded. The government decided to reclaim the large plots of land that had been used for cemeteries. They slowly relocated the remains of those buried in the cemeteries to the empty limestone quarries, whose tunnels were on the outskirts of town at that time. Most of the buildings in Paris are made of limestone and so these quarries were fairly vast! The process of disinterring the bones from the cemeteries, moving them into the quarries, and arranging them in orderly piles according to type of bone (no skeletons are complete, instead you can see large stacks of leg bones, skulls and other types of bones) took several decades. No attempt was made to identify or separate individual bodies; instead each set of bones was marked with a plaque noting the cemetery they came from and the year they were moved. By the time the relocation was finished in 1860, an estimated five to six million skeletons had been moved from the cemeteries to the catacombs.
4. Poveglia Island
Poveglia Island is a small island near Venice in Italy. The history of this island is as intriguing as it is freaky; the island is believed to be haunted and no tourists are allowed to go there. Those ghost hunters that have been allowed have left the island terrified. When the plague hit Italy the island was the place where dead bodies and those suffering from plague were dumped. Centuries after that a mad doctor built a hospital and used people for experiments and in many cases tortured his patients. This hospital still stands there. With all those tragic events it is no wonder that the Poveglia Island is considered one of the scariest places on Earth.
3. Aokigahara Forest
Aokigahara is a woodland at the base of Mount Fuji in Japan that makes The Blair Witch Project forest look like Winnie the Pooh's Hundred Acre Wood. It probably has something to do with all the dead bodies scattered around.
What Niagara Falls is to weddings, Aokigahara is to suicide. How many suicides does it takes for a place to get that reputation? A dozen? Fifty?
More than 500people have taken their own lives in Aokigahara since the 1950s.
The trend has supposedly started after Seicho Matsumoto published his novel Kuroi Kaiju (Black Sea of Trees) where two of his characters commit suicide there. After that-always eager to prove they are bizarrely susceptible to suggestion-hundreds of Japanese people have hanged themselves among the countless trees of the Aokigahara forest, which is reportedly so thick that even in high noon it's not hard to find places completely surrounded by darkness.
2. Fort Riley
Located on the north bank of Kansas River, Fort Riley was established in the fall of 1852 and remains an active military facility today. It had a crucial role in patrolling the Santa Fe Trail and the surroundings against Indian attacks. The famous general Custer was stationed here.
Another interesting thing about Fort Riley are its many reports of haunting. Practically every part of the compound has its own ghost stories. From the Artillery Parade Field, where a woman all wrapped in chains can be noticed, to the hospital, where the alarm continues to sound even though it was disconnected by the fire marshal, or the stables where an old-fashioned dressed gentleman rides his horse then disappears, it’s all a big horror story
1. The Catacombs of Rome
The Catacombs of Rome, Italy are ancient catacombs, underground burials near Rome. Millions of Christians were buried in these narrow tunnels underneath the Italian capital. The bodies were not put into coffins but their bones used as piece of art to form different sculptures. The archway throughout the catacombs is built from leg bones and skulls are placed atop each other.
Just like the Catacombs in Paris, those in Rome attract millions of tourists. Local authorities believe that some of these tourists actually take pieces of the bodies with them. Locals believe that paranormal activity intensified after most of the bodies started disappearing. Some people report stories of odd lights and strange whispering. They believe that the spirits have been angered as they don’t like being displaced.
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