5. Aokigahara Forest in Japan
For all that it takes, you wouldn't want to go hunting or go on a
safari in this creepy, creepy woodland. At the base of mount Fiji in Japan lies
the Aokigahara woodland. It’s known to be the home of as many as 500 suicides.
With the dead bodies scattered around, it has well earned its reputation of
being so creepy and mysterious. Suicide in Japan is a serious vice and
Aokigahara has risen to the occasion as hundreds of Japanese people have gone
there to take their own lives.
Besides bodies and homemade nooses, the area is littered with signs
displaying such uplifting messages like "Life is a precious thing! Please
reconsider!" or "Think of your family!” Ghost encounters of the
wandering dead are said to be often encountered more than just frequently as
well as many ghost photos. Recently, people found out that lots of the dead
people in Aokigahara had cash and jewelry on them and thus began the scavenging
of the dead people of this terrifying forest. As if a dark forest full of
hanged corpses wasn’t enough!
4. Stull Cemetery
This place could as well be one of the gate-ways to hell. Stull is in the
city of Kansas, the U.S. In the early 20
th century, there were two
weird happenings in this tiny town. A man after burning a farm field, found the
charred corpse of his son. The second incident occurred when a man went missing
and was later found hanged from a tree.
The Stull cemetery is so haunted that people believe it goes into the realm of
the diabolical. The devil is believed to hold court there with his worshippers.
The place is supposed to be so unholy, in fact, that some claim Pope John Paul
II refused to allow his plane to fly over eastern Kansas, on his way to an
appearance in Colorado.
3. Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, Oswiecim, Poland
This death camp was in operation from May 1940 till the Soviet soldiers
dismantled it in January 1945. An estimated 2.5 million people were killed in
gas chambers during these times. The killings took place in the underground
chambers and the bodies were carried to five crematoria ovens on an
electrically operated lift. Before cremation, gold teeth, jewelry, and other
valuables were removed from the corpses. Captured Jews, known as
“sonderkommandos” were forced to work the crematoria under SS supervision.
Today, there is an overwhelming sense of foreboding and melancholy in what
used to be Auschwitz-Birkenau; visitors have been known to break down in tears
for no apparent reason and many have to abandon their tour groups without ever
completing the tour. Visitors are struck not only by the horrific memory of the
place, but also by the effect it has on the present day: birds still refuse to
sing in the trees surrounding the death camps and there is little evidence of a
thriving natural environment anywhere nearby. The silence, as they saw, is
deafening, even after all these years. One visitor report that someone or
something tugged on her clothes and she heard a voice whispering to her but could
not make out anything but one or two words." Please and leave"! It
could as well be the most haunted place on Earth.
2. 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.
1.
Coliseum, Rome, Italy
In the pits beneath the Coliseum, gladiators waited to fight, prisoners
waited to die, and average Romans placed bets on the outcomes of myriad
competitions. Such a fabric of life can’t help but wrap itself around the
pillars and posts that make up the foundation of this ancient charnel house,
and it is no surprise that many reports of ghostly activity have been
associated with the Coliseum over the years.
Tour guides and visitors alike have
reported cold spots, being touched or pushed, hearing indiscernible words
whispered into their ears; security guards with the unenviable task of securing
the ancient edifice have reported hearing the sounds of swords clashing, of
weeping in the more remote areas, and, oddly enough most disconcerting, the
sound of ghostly animal noises such as the roars of lions and elephants.
Ghostly citizens have been seen among the seats of the Coliseum, and the sight
of a Roman soldier standing guard, silhouetted against the night sky, is a
common one.
Yes, Bollywood is pretty and we love all these dance steps and stuffs, but when you travel to India or Pakistan, the ''cutis'' is a No Bueno. In Western cultures, it interprets to the thumbs up sign but in these two countries, holding your thumb up and pushing the nail on your thumb against your front teeth, basically means ''screw you''. We haven't heard of so many Indian boxers but you never can say if you try the ''cutis'' gesture in India.
Finally, a very efficient way to land in jail in most Arab countries especially Saudi Arabia is to do the five fathers gesture which gently translates: your mother is a whore. It is known to be the rudest hand gesture in the Arab world. This sign accuses the subject's mother of having so many suitors that paternity is impossible to determine. To execute, point your left index finger at your right hand, while pursing all fingers of the right hand together. The insult is extreme and almost certain to provoke violence.
For all that it takes, you wouldn't want to go hunting or go on a
safari in this creepy, creepy woodland. At the base of mount Fiji in Japan lies
the Aokigahara woodland. It’s known to be the home of as many as 500 suicides.
With the dead bodies scattered around, it has well earned its reputation of
being so creepy and mysterious. Suicide in Japan is a serious vice and
Aokigahara has risen to the occasion as hundreds of Japanese people have gone
there to take their own lives.
This death camp was in operation from May 1940 till the Soviet soldiers
dismantled it in January 1945. An estimated 2.5 million people were killed in
gas chambers during these times. The killings took place in the underground
chambers and the bodies were carried to five crematoria ovens on an
electrically operated lift. Before cremation, gold teeth, jewelry, and other
valuables were removed from the corpses. Captured Jews, known as
“sonderkommandos” were forced to work the crematoria under SS supervision.
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.
