Would You Dare Venture To These 10 Most Creepiest Places On Earth?

Top 10 Creepiest Places On Earth!

There are some truly creepy places in the world. Whether that be a cave littered with mummies or abandoned areas due to mysterious deaths, we count down the top 10 creepiest places on Earth!

10-Kabayan

The Fire Mummies of the Philippines, also known as the Kabayan Mummies, Benguet Mummies, or Ibaloi Mummies, are a group of mummies found along the mountain slopes of Kabayan, a town in the northern part of the Philippines.

9-Pripyat

Pripyat is a ghost town in northern Ukraine, near the border with Belarus. Named after the nearby Pripyat River, Pripyat was founded on 4 February 1970, as the ninth nuclear city in the Soviet Unionto serve the nearby Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. It was officially proclaimed a city in 1979, and had grown to a population of 49,360 by the time it was evacuated, on the afternoon of April 27, 1986, the day after the Chernobyl disaster.

8-The Island of the Dolls

A two-hour canal ride from Mexico City lies Isla de las Muñecas, or the Island of the Dolls. It is the best-known chinampa, or floating garden, in Xochimilco. It belonged to a man named Julián Santana Barrera, a native of the La Asunción neighborhood. Santana Barrera was a loner, who was rarely seen in most of Xochimilco. According to the legend, Barrera discovered a little girl drowned in mysterious circumstances in the canals. He also found a doll floating nearby and, assuming it belonged to the deceased girl, hung it from a tree as a sign of respect. After this, he began to hear whispers, footsteps, and anguished wails in the darkness even though his hut—hidden deep inside the woods of Xochimilco—was miles away from civilization. Driven by fear, he spent the next fifty years hanging more and more dolls, some missing body parts, all over the island in an attempt to appease what he believed to be the drowned girl’s spirit. After Barrera’s death in 2001—his body reportedly found in the exact spot where he found the girl’s body fifty years before—the area became a popular tourist attraction where visitors bring more dolls. The locals describe it as “charmed”—not haunted—even though travelers claim the dolls whisper to them. Professional photographer Cindy Vasko visited the nightmarish island earlier this year and described it as the 'creepiest place she has ever visited'. The excursion began through maze-like canals, surrounded by lush greenery and beautiful singing birds, but soon her boat was slowed down by a swarm of lily pads and the canal fell ominously silent. She told MailOnline: 'At the end of the journey, the trajinera turned along a bend in the waterway and I was struck by a surreal vision of hundreds, maybe thousands, of dolls hanging from trees on the tiny island.' Santana Barrera died in 2001. The dolls are still on the island, accessible by boat.

 

7-Takakonuma Greenland Park 

Takakanonuma Greenland was an amusement park that opened up in the mid-70s and quickly closed down. In 1986, the park tried to open back up again after being closed down for about 10 years, but quickly failed again. Since its final closure, the park and its huge roller coasters have become overgrown by local plants and nearly completely rusted over. Still, that hasn't stopped intrepid explorers from climbing all over these rabies hazards. And for some reason, nearly every picture I've found of Takakanonuma Greenland has been in a dense fog. While some might attribute this to the local climate or the time of year these pictures were taken, I'd like to say that there's so much fog because this place is creepy as hell.

6-Gunkanjima

Hashima Island  commonly called Gunkanjima , is an abandoned island lying about 15 kilometers (9 miles) from the city of Nagasaki, in southern Japan. It is one of 505 uninhabited islands in Nagasaki Prefecture. The island's most notable features are its abandoned concrete buildings, undisturbed except by nature, and the surrounding sea wall. While the island is a symbol of the rapid industrialization of Japan, it is also a reminder of its dark history as a site of forced labor prior to and during the Second World War.

5-Mirny Diamond Mine

The Mir Mine, popularly called the Mirny Mine, is a formerly active open-pit diamond mine located in Mirny, Eastern Siberia, Russia, that at its operational peak produced over 10 million carats of diamonds per year. Some people also refer to this mine as the Navel of the Earth. With a depth of about 1,722 ft and a diameter of about 3,900 feet, the Mirny Diamond Mine holds the fourth position for depth among the world’s open pit mines. The Mirny mine also holds the title of the second largest largest excavated hole in the world (Bingham Canyon Mine is #1). The airspace over this mine is closed for flying because there have been reported incidents of helicopters being sucked in by the airflow. This phenomenon occurs because the size of the Mirny diamond mine often causes the nearby atmosphere to have drastically different temperatures and current flows.

4-Candido Godoi

Cândido Godói, a small town in Southern Brazil, has fondly been nicknamed: ‘Twin Land’. As the name suggests, a phenomenal number of twins are born in the remote town each year – 10% of pregnancies result in multiple births. That’s nearly 1,000 percent higher than the global average. Right from the elderly to young children, most of the town’s inhabitants are two-of-a-kind. Understandably, several theories have been proposed to explain this bizarre phenomenon – both scientific and outlandish in nature. While some people have blamed a mysterious ingredient lurking in the town’s water supply, most fingers point towards the Nazis. Specifically, towards Dr. Joseph Mengele (a.k.a. Angel of Death), one of Hitler’s most ruthless followers. Mengele became infamous during the war for the horrifying medical experiments he conducted on prisoners. One of his sick experiments aimed at creating the perfect Aryan race for his Fuhrer. At this time, he also became interested in discovering the specific gene quirk that produces twins – to double the birth rate of the perfect race. When the war ended, Mengele is believed to have fled to Brazil, taking cover near Cândido Godói. Many locals believe he entered the village disguised as a roaming doctor and returned several times in the 1960s, offering medical treatment to the town’s womenfolk. He often gave them mysterious potions and drugs, now believed to be a twin-inducing mix of hormones. Mengele’s influence on the town was so strong that even to this day, locals are able to recognize pictures of him.

3-Prague's Old Jewish Cemetery

The Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague – “Beth Chaim” (House of Life) – is the second oldest Jewish cemetery in Europe. About 20 000 gravestones seem to be pressed to each other and variously inclined. It is because of the lack of space in the Old Jewish Cemetery: during the centuries, the graves had to be put one on another, somewhere even in twelve layers.
One of the most visited graves in the Old Jewish Cemetery is the Rabi Jehuda Loew Ben Bezalel ´s grave. He worked and taught in Prague at the turn of the 17 th century. A legend says, that he created the famous Golem then: a monster made of clay, which stood on the Jews´ side in bad times, but later became violent and had to be destroyed. Another interesting grave is the grave of Mordechai Maisel, the mayor of the Prague Jewish Town during the same period. You can see pieces of paper with wishes written on them, weighed down by little stones at some of the graves. It is an old habit to leave it there, because it is believed, that the dead can fulfill your wish. But beware, the stone has to be brought from the place where you live. Picking up a stone from the graveyard, or even from another grave, can be seen as a disrespect by the dead.  The last person was buried in the Old Jewish Cemetery in 1787. Ever since, the Jews have been buried in the new graveyard in Prague quarter Zizkov. You can find the Prague Old Jewish Cemetery in between Brehova, Maiselova and Siroka streets, the nearest underground station is Staromestska.

2-San Zhi Resort

Sanzhi might look like an outcropping of structures from an episode of Star Trek, but the site is actually home to the remains of an abandoned tourist destination resort in the north of Taiwan. The concept behind Sanzhi was futuristic pods that would function as summer villas for the affluent who wanted retreats from the city.  It was an idea that was well received and even gained financial backing from the government. Construction began in 1978, but investment capital dried up in 1980 before the project was completed. The company went bankrupt and the project was abandoned, leaving the mostly-finished property to rot.

1-Aokigahara Forest

The locals say three types pass through: hikers, rubberneckers, and those who aren’t planning to come back out. There are signs posted telling visitors to think about it. Park rangers walk the trails, telling anyone they come across to go back Abandoned cars litter the parking lot and shoes and discarded clothes line the walkways. It’s the Sea of Trees, Aokigahara, the suicide forest at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan. Since 1971, authorities have removed upward of 100 bodies a year from the forest, making it the second-most popular suicide spot in the world, behind the Golden Gate Bridge. And that’s just the bodies that were discovered in the 14 square mile area. In the early 2000s, local government stopped reporting on the number of suicides in the forest, but it didn’t have any effect on stopping people.