Its interior design features claustrophobic dungeon corridors, rusty, maze-like iron stairs, and the ghostly huddle of tortured souls, filling your ears with Slavic whispers of the terrifying experiments they were subjected to.
Vitold Muratov Walk down the lower stairs. You will somehow find yourself on the upper ones, escape impossible. Because of course there were terrifying experiments. Fort Alexander's ghastly appearance is by far the least threatening thing about it. The place has another, far more widespread name: The Plague Fort.
When the late 19th century decided to smack Russia with a sackful of pestilence, the officials took a look at Fort Alexander and decided it would make a mighty fine place for a secret laboratory where their mad scientists could poke at the disease. All those creepy corridors and cellars became the playground of old school Russian science dudes from an organization called the Institute of Experimental Medicine, and this was their typical Tuesday:. The actual point of the Plague Fort's research was to produce a vaccine, which the scientists secreted from the lymph of various huge animals such as horses and, interestingly, camels with all the lack of kindness and comfort Russian medicine could offer.
Still, the work was extremely dangerous: People on the island kept catching the disease entirely by accident, we're sure. The Plague Fort operated until , when the freshly Sovieted country took one look at that shit, decided it was too creepy for even them, and promptly shut it down.
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Don't make me do this again. Rumor has it that messed up experiments were done to patients enrolled into the hospital. Everything from lobotomization to shock treatment. The building only takes up a third of the island, so the rest of the island can be explored as well.
These architecturally sound structures are actually crypts, and this is more or less a graveyard. The people who have been there have claimed to see apparitions walking the graveyard looking for peace. There have been sounds of voices and footsteps, however with it being a graveyard, and it being outside, these noises could be any number of things. A mysterious murder happened in the hotel in that left people scratching their heads. The death of Elisa Lam is still a mystery to people, and there have been numerous stories as to how her body got there.
Elevator footage shows Elisa peering out of an elevator as if trying to hide from someone. Investigators are still confused as to the sequence of events, but have narrowed it down to a murder, instead of suicide. The Stanley hotel is famous for being the set of one of the greatest stories written by Stephen King, The Shining. There have even been ghosts captured in pictures taken at the hotel.
There are several creepy things the guests can partake in, such as a night tour of the premises where there have been a few instances of the paranormal. Many famous people play at the venue the hotel offers, and it has become a hotspot for lovers of The Shining and paranormal alike. The Kenmore Insane Asylum is one of the most haunted places in Australia. Anyone with a disability no matter how small was automatically admitted. Whether it be mental illness like something as simple as depression.
All the way to alcoholism and learning disabilities. The ethics of the asylum were very skewed. Treatments included shock treatment, and the asylum was equipped with a wet room, where they would hose down patients. It was one of the most spectacular battles of the Pacific theater.
By the end of it, thousands of soldiers on both sides were dead, their corpses forever entombed at the bottom of the Pacific. And they are still there, left untouched, just as they were nearly 70 years ago. The Mystery World And, more recently, Borderlands kills. The Chuuk is the biggest ship graveyard in the world, but obviously, it's not just ships: tanks, artillery, human remains -- there are all sorts of corpses down there.
So clearly it's a total hit with divers! Stupid, reckless, incredibly ballsy divers who are free to explore the husks of the old battleships, warplanes and the occasional skeleton, just as long as they don't try to remove any of it from its dark, watery grave. Oh, not for any paranormal reasons or anything: It's just that there's a lot of live ammunition, and most everything is covered in highly caustic aviation fluid -- which sure sounds like PC talk for "cursed" to us.
That's not just us fear-mongering, by the way: It really is kind of cursed. It's estimated that among all the machines of death at the bottom of Chuuk, there are a few million gallons of crude oil that threaten to spill out and utterly destroy the local ecosystem at any time. So no, there's no old gypsy lady pointing a chicken foot at you and shouting vile gibberish -- but let's call a spade a spade here. Or rather, let's call a mass grave of people killed in horrific ways that could one day release a black cloud of death that will destroy everything in its path "a little bit cursed.
Eazy Traveler. Located in the northern Philippines, the Kabayan Burial Caves were first discovered accidentally by a logging crew clearing a local mountain slope.
Once they checked inside, the loggers who obviously didn't listen to the audience at home shouting "Don't go in there!
Cracking open the coffins Jesus Christ, loggers -- you're just begging to be disemboweled by ancient corpses, aren't you? Nice World wmf. What did I say? Fifteen identical caves were later found nearby, presumably after the loggers "split up" and two of them started making out on top of a bloody tomb.
But hey, maybe you're jaded by this point in the article -- maybe the subaquatic skulls and cannibal graves have left your soul hardened to such pedestrian sights as creepy little wooden eggs filled with corpses.
If that's the case, maybe you should take a closer look at one of the mummies:. And maybe you could also use a little context: The Ibaloi mummify their dead because they believe that members of their tribe will "live again," so they "preserve the body for the owner to use when he comes back to life. Oh, but remember, that's not their idea of hell; that's their best case scenario. Because the Ibaloi are a terrifying people, and somebody just started raiding their damn cemeteries.
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Jens of Japan The trees here are nourished by souls. By the way, we mean that "middle of nowhere" part literally, as Takakonuma can no longer be found on any official maps. It just isn't there. In addition to willing itself off of charted Japanese territory, Takakonuma seems to occasionally will itself out of existence entirely with a thick fog that periodically rolls in and completely swallows up the park, providing excellent cover for anyone with a monster mask to Scooby-Doo the living shit out of hapless wanderers.
This is provided they can stomach the radiation, seeing as Takakonuma is located just a few dozen miles north from Fukushima, whose nuclear power plant had a spectacular meltdown earlier this year in the wake of the tsunami.
Really, it would be insulting if you came here and weren't eviscerated by ghosts. So you're taking a boat ride along the Yangtze River in China, for some reason, and you come across this, sticking out of the water:.
You've stumbled across Fengdu. It's a famous Chinese ghost town allegedly the only ghost town in the entire country with a creepy, nearly 2,year-old history. So, you climb the hill and come across a series of ancient temples.
Oh, look, it's some old statues That's not how you use a saw! You see, Fengdu is believed to be a link between this life and the afterlife, and where demons live. This is real-world Chinese hell. So, you've got your souls being tortured:. I'll go change. Another attraction is the Last Glance at Home Tower, where spirits consigned to hell could take one last look at their families.
If none of that seems quite haunted enough for you, the locals will let you know that the area used to be a Taoist graveyard So the hill with its sacred temples and nests of demons is now an island, surrounded by water and presumably the drowning cries of the outraged dead. Matsuo Kouzan in northern Japan used to be the biggest sulfur mine in the Far East, but it closed in Today, the only things that remain of it are the abandoned apartment complexes that were used by the mine's workers, cut off from the rest of the world high in the mountains.
Those abandoned buildings, however, are not what make the Matsuo mine truly creepy -- it's the fact that you can't even see them through the ghostly mist that envelops the place like an ethereal death shroud. At one time 15, people lived here. Now it's deserted. It seems that despite having been closed down, the Matsuo mine is still pretty operational, though instead of sulfur it now produces a tingling feeling of dread clawing out from deep within your immortal soul.
It has become famous among urban explorers for the ebb and flow of the mist, which is thick enough to completely conceal the entire makeshift town where the mine's workforce once lived. We're talking about a giant complex of 11 four-story buildings just totally disappearing from sight, which is pretty disconcerting when David Copperfield isn't involved.
Some people have spent up to an hour simply trying to locate the town while wandering through the mist, and towns are generally things that stand out in the middle of an empty goddamn mountaintop.
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