From time immemorial, people have sought to get vivid impressions. Amazingly, the most profound are the experiences that affect the very essence of man. In particular, this includes the instinct of self-preservation.
Read on, and you will find out what the most terrible place on the planet, and which - in Russia. Get to know places where suicides of not only people, but also dogs and birds are considered commonplace.
Horror phenomenon
Speaking about the mysterious and mysterious places of the world, people usually mention ghosts or semi-legendary stories about the atrocities of the former owners of certain buildings. Today we will try to illuminate such anomalous zones that are not associated with the action of ghosts.
Even Sigmund Freud singled out a special human attraction, which he called "Thanatos." The great psychologist thus explained the desire of people to death and especially dangerous activities and activities.
Each reader will be able to name their most terrible place on the planet. Since some local legends scare some, and a glance thrown briefly enough so that all nightmares come to life in the imagination. You cannot catch others. Therefore, we tried to select anomalous zones with various effects.
You can distinguish the 5 most terrible places associated with poltergeist, ghosts or tectonic activity. We’ll talk about such objects that look externally, maybe not quite remarkable, but leave an indelible and deep trace for life after a visit.
Winchester House, San Jose, USA
During our virtual tour we will look at the most terrible places in the world. The selection concerns not only artificial objects created by people, but also unexplained natural phenomena.
The first place we visit will be an extravagant mansion in the state of California. Today it is a tourist attraction. But before, it was the home of Sarah, the widow of William Winchester. His father invented the famous rifle. He soon died, as did his son and granddaughter.
When a woman attended an audience with a medium, he gave her a message from William. According to the deceased, she should have bought a plot of land in San Jose and built there a mansion of a specific layout. It should have many rooms, traps and tricks to confuse the angry ghosts of people killed from Winchesters.
Sarah Winchester spent all her multi-million dollar fortune on building this shelter. It has interesting points. For example, stairs to the second floor ending with a wall, or doors without rooms. Also, this mansion is penetrated through with magic number 13. There are so many steps in each of the stairs, in many rooms there are so many windows, in the building there is a “damn dozen” bathrooms.
In total, the estate has more than one hundred and sixty rooms, forty staircases, six kitchens, but only one shower. There are also about two thousand doors, but only four hundred and fifty doorways.
We decided to start our tour with this estate, as it is the most extravagant and unusual. It even shot a feature film based on the biography of Sarah Winchester.
Further we will consider many more terrible places. You can see the photo of the mansion below. If you wish, it is easy to visit and enjoy a journey through the maze, built by a distraught widow.
Aokigahara Forest
Probably the most creepy place on the planet is the Suicide Forest in Japan. In the original, it is called Aokigahara (valley of green trees). This reserve is located at the foot of Mount Fuji. In principle, a landing can only be liked in clear sunny weather. The rest of the time, she simply breathes doom, dullness and meaninglessness.
Aokigahara only loses a little to the bridge in San Francisco in the number of cases of settling accounts with life. Interestingly, the forest has long been considered the abode of evil spirits and demons. Up to the beginning of the twentieth century, poor families brought here old people and children whom they could no longer provide food for.
Later, from about the middle of the last century, many lower and middle managers reached here. Apparently, the impressionable Japanese find only such a way to break out of the "rat race" of society.
About a hundred suicides are found here every year. Recently, unofficial marauder detachments have even appeared. They comb through thickets in search of bodies and wipe their pockets, take off jewelry. Thus, the mysterious places of the planet help not only the development of tourism, but also enrich the local scammers and thieves.
Japanese government allocates funds for tel. According to eyewitnesses, the most common ways to end life are drug poisoning and hanging.
Local authorities have taken a number of measures to help as many people as possible abandon a stupid decision. Along the perimeter of the forest there are signs calling for change of mind and a helpline. Also on many paths leading to the thicket, camcorders are directed. And attendants working in nearby institutions have already learned how to identify potential suicides. They immediately report the information to the police.
It is noteworthy that several books and films were published in Japan that tell about the specifics of this place. And Tsurumi's Guide to Suicide written by Tsurumi is often found near corpses in the forest.
Overtown Bridge
The darkness of the soul is incomprehensible to another person, and even the most persistent and sensible individual can go crazy in the back streets of inflamed illusions. But what makes some animals resort to suicide is an interesting question.
We continue to consider the most terrible places in the world. And the next in turn is the Overtone Bridge, near the settlement of Milton, in West Dambartonshire. Since about the middle of the twentieth century, interesting cases have been recorded here. Almost every month, at least one dog jumps into the water from the bridge.
Most die immediately, and survivors return after some time to try again.
It is noteworthy that animals live by instinct, and they are not characterized by such deviations. That is why commissions came here several times to investigate such an unusual anomaly.
Today, there are two versions that illuminate the cause. One of them was proposed by ethnographers and collectors of folklore, the second by zoologists.
According to the first, once a man with a child came to the bridge. He declared his son a creature of satanic forces and threw the baby into the water, and after a couple of days he jumped himself. Since then it has been customary that the ghost of a boy invites dogs to play. Animals, because of their ability to perceive the subtle world, suspecting nothing, follow the ghost and die.
Scientists put forward a more rational explanation after months of research. According to their theory, minks are to blame. These rodents live along the banks of the river, and for many years these places simply smelled of them. Dogs, focusing on the intensity of the smell, rush to pursue prey and fall from the bridge into the water.
We consider the most terrible places in the world. And no one can fully explain their specifics, otherwise they would cease to be mysterious. So with the Overtone Bridge.
Even if the reason lies in minks, why do dogs that survive a fall from fifteen meters come back and rush again? After all, these animals have a very developed memory for places and people who hurt them.
Jatinga
Next, we will get acquainted with another unusual territory. This time we will move to warm countries. Speaking of birds, the most terrible places in the world for them are in India.
Thus, it is impossible to hide from some earthly anomalies, even rising high in the air. For the first time, an English tea planter and plant researcher E. Gee spoke about an unusual phenomenon. He described a strange period at the end of August, when large flocks of birds began to fly into the Jating Valley and crash to the ground in a big way.
At first, no one believed him and found his notes to be fiction. But one orientologist decided to test the legend. It turned out that the tea grower was telling the truth. So Sengupta became the first scientist who recorded an unusual August "bird fall".
According to this researcher, the birds are in a kind of trance, "like somnambulist." They rush into the fires and lamps of a local village. If you take an animal that did not crash to death, it does not resist, but completely refuses food and water. It is noteworthy that after three or four days of madness, the released bird flies away as if nothing had happened.
But the terrible places of the world are often perceived ambiguously. Tourists and visiting researchers see them as an abnormal threat, while locals come up with a myth justifying the event. So, the natives of this valley say that the gods awarded them for their righteousness with such a “bird fall”. They can collect a bunch of carcasses and use them for food. It turns out a certain analogue of "manna from heaven" for the Indian village.
Telem Abbey, Sicily
Discussing the most terrible places in the world, we return to the creation of human hands. The next attraction, which we will talk about, is a one-story house in the town of Cefalu on the island of Sicily.
It was once acquired by Alistair Crowley, one of the most famous and controversial occultists of the early twentieth century. Here he was going to create the basis for a future civilization, cleansed of Christian darkness and obscurantism.
It was within these walls that Crowley resumed satanic rituals, as well as the practice of witchcraft using narcotic drugs. So, the initiation included the simultaneous reception of marijuana with heroin and a night of reflection in a special room, which was called the "Hall for Visions" or the "Room of Nightmares." In this room, the walls are painted with gloomy frescoes depicting different circles of hell and paradise.
The abbey was closed after the famous British aristocrat Raul Loveday died on its territory. Presumably, he was poisoned with drugs mixed with cat blood. Thus ended the story of a commune living under the slogan "Do anything - this is the only law."
There are many terrible abandoned places on the planet, but only this abbey attracts crowds of unofficial visitors. Every year, fans of witchcraft and the activities of Alistair Crowley come here. They strive to touch the ruins in order to receive a powerful energy charge from their idol.
Damn Cemetery. Krasnoyarsk region
There are natural scary places in the Russian Federation. We will start from a remote territory in Siberia. In general, ethnologists have collected a lot of materials about the most incredible features and terrible secrets that the taiga holds. But now we will talk about what really was recorded by various groups of researchers in the form of photographs and videos, rather than simple stories.
Presumably, the Devil's Cemetery appeared due to unusual cosmic activity associated with the fall of the Tunguska meteorite. According to the memoirs of old-timers, once an object fell from the sky, and a roundish edge formed in the forest. The earth turned black and at times smoke began to appear from it. In summer, grass does not grow on this place, only a little moss, and in winter there is no snow.
Any animal that falls inside the devil's circle will die within the next few hours. People, according to eyewitnesses, experience an inexplicable feeling of longing here, and as they approach the very edge of the forest, irrational fear builds up, gradually turning into a panic.
Thus, terrible places on Earth can be not just natural, but also of cosmic origin.
Sablinsky caves
Speaking about the most terrible place on the planet, it is especially worth stopping at the Sablinsky caves. There are no bloodthirsty monsters, inexplicable and oppressive horror among visitors or satanic symbols. Just a fairly large underground natural formation. For example, the length of one of the catacombs is more than seven kilometers, and the height of the halls is up to five meters.
In Soviet times, the object was kept secret, since all sorts of criminal persons who were illegal were hidden under the ground. They called themselves dissidents. About ten different gangs were formed. Every month, several people disappeared and still disappear. At the same time, all the famous "political", hiding underground, have long left the black spot. Today, according to official figures, there is not a single “underground resident” there.
Extreme sportsmen and lovers visit the terrible places of Russia constantly come to Sablinskie caves. They are not even afraid of the facts of the frequent disappearance of curious onlookers.
Scientists see the cause of this anomaly in the underground loose sands and movements of the earth's crust. A group entering one of the tunnels may in a second be buried under tons of sand. All these data are based on the stories of gang members who once lived in these caves.
Road of death. Highway Lyubertsy-Lytkarino
Let's talk about the mysterious places of the Moscow region. In principle, around Moscow, researchers of anomalous zones count about a dozen sections of the highway with an increased risk of fatal accidents.
But the section of the Lyubertsy-Lytkarino highway near the village of Pekhorka is considered the most unsafe. If you drive along this road, you can see many wreaths on the trees along the asphalt pavement marking the places where the drivers died.
Most accidents date from 1990 to 2002. The sudden decline in mortality after 2003 is due to the fact that at that time the governor took up the "anomaly". Being formerly a military general, he did not become philosophical. In this section, the concrete pavement of the road was replaced with excellent quality asphalt, and four speed bumps were also built.
After such preventive measures, the drivers did not have the opportunity to accelerate much along the highway.
Skeptics and realists often say that terrible places are deadly only for those who neglect common sense and climb into trouble. Locals tell the legend that the "road of death" this segment was because the coating was laid on top of the old cemetery. Here are the ghosts of the dead and take revenge on the unlucky drivers who find themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time.
House Beria
We talked about the mysterious places of the Moscow region, in conclusion, I would like to mention another strange building in the capital itself. In Soviet times, this house was perhaps the most terrible place in the area. Passers-by tried to get around the tenth road, and if it was necessary to go along it, they crossed to the opposite side.
What is such a terrible building? House of State Security Commissioner Lavrenty Pavlovich Beria. This man was one of the organizers of the Stalinist repressions. The building is located in Vspolny Lane. Today, its premises are occupied by the Embassy of Tunisia.
According to eyewitnesses (local residents and researchers), a couple of times a month at about three in the morning near the house you can hear ghostly sounds. They say that this is a distinctive noise of a powerful motor. An invisible car "drives up" to the door of the building. One can hear his doors open, a man's voice saying something. After the door slams and the car leaves. The whole incident takes about three minutes.
Thus, in this article we talked about the terrible places of Russia and the world. We got acquainted with both safe objects that can interest ufologists or adolescents, and with deadly formations, which are better not to be approached.
Good luck, dear readers! Travel wisely.