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The world is dangerous. Whether you're atop a mountain, in a forest, or below the sea, someone or something can strike, scream, whisper, lurk, watch, trap, twist, shatter, drown, burn, freeze, poison, chase, grab, stalk, or even kill you.
Curious about which places top people's anti-bucket lists, Reddit user Hwangster4 asked everyone on the platform to share the creepiest corners of the globe they'd never want to visit—at least not without an Iron Man suit and a battalion for backup.
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#1
Underwater caves would be pretty high up on my list, if not right up at the very top of it!
Rachel Reynolds 6 months ago
My mom was a certified cave diver and worked "rescue" diver in the 60's. Rescue is in quotations because she said 99% of the time it was just corpse retrieval.
Gavin Johnson 6 months ago
I’ve a mate who is a cave rescue diver. So he and the team voluntarily enter caves that are flooding / underwater to rescue other divers / cavers. I admire their commitment to saving lives and they are super organised and follow strict safety procedures but even so I think they’ve all got a few screws loose in their heads 😂
michelle neugebauer 5 months ago
I could hardly bear watching the film showing the divers that rescued the school boys from the cave system in Thailand. Super brave people!
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#2
Nutty Putty Cave
ShiraCheshire:
I don't understand that hobby.
Going into a spacious proven safe cave that doesn't fill with water at any point... yeah okay, not my cup of tea but I see how that's exciting for people.
But going into flooded/near flooded caves, going into caves you can easily get lost in, going into incredibly narrow caves you can easily get stuck in, going into caves that fill with water when the tide changes... why.
Gossameringue 6 months ago
I totally thought this was a closeup of some lethal carnivore's mouth...
NJ P 6 months ago
Tried spelunking once and we entered the cave system through a literal hole in the ground. After squeezing through a particular tight opening, thought about someone breaking a bone and how they would be rescued. Decided I'm too big a person to be squeezing through little spaces. Not for me but at least I tried it.
Roni Stone 6 months ago
I loved going to the caves in Kentucky as a kid. Such huge caverns! But you could not drag me into an unexplored or "undeveloped" cave anymore. Hail, no.
MEB 6 months ago
This place looks like it's aroused and wants to eat someone. Double nope for me.
She who must not be named 6 months ago
That made me chuckle more than it should have 😅
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Billo66 6 months ago (edited)
I live near a fairly famous, toured cave. I see it when I drive by, that's enough for me. Yes I have been in it and it is very cool but I can see where being underground is fun until it isn't. My little tour was well lit. Complete and total darkness is something else. Yeah, If the nukes start fallin I'll see if they have room but I'm good for now.
Lupita Nyong'heaux 5 months ago
sooooo, we just not gonna talk about the nutty putty d***o, huh? ok, then...
She who must not be named 6 months ago
The story of Nutty Putty cave always makes me feel sad. RIP John Edward Jones
Of course, the fact that there are many types of places on this list illustrates how subjective our fears can be. According to the DSM-5, specific phobias typically fall within five general categories:
- fears related to animals (spiders, dogs, insects, etc.)
- fears related to the natural environment (heights, thunder, darkness)
- fears related to blood, injury, or medical issues (injections, broken bones, falls)
- fears related to specific situations (flying, riding an elevator, driving)
- others (drowning, loud noises)
#3
The Strid at Bolton Abbey
It's a river in England that looks almost quaint but is anything but.
BrunoVI 6 months ago
The strid looks like a typical stream, just a couple of feet deep and usually much more tame than above, but is actually extremely deep. If you go into it, you will lose your sense of up, and will almost certainly get swept in powerful, hidden currents. You will die.
person (i think) 6 months ago
Is that the one that has basically a 100% mortality rate? There is an area that it is only like 2’ across…it’s tempting to jump across, but if you slip and fall in, you will be sucked down and you _will_ die. If this is not that one, then hey pandas, there is a place like that in Great Britain
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Glen Ellyn 6 months ago (edited)
It's River Wharfe and the Strid is the dangerous rapids on the river. Anyone wanting a 2-minute explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCSUmwP02T8 (edit: sp)
Kim Kermes 6 months ago
I've seen pictures of it during a drought. The sides are convoluted beyond belief. I expect people who fall in are battered to small shreds.
StrangeOne 6 months ago
Checked it out on the maps. It looks really deep. Screenshot...6c-png.jpg 
Gossameringue 6 months ago
There are some fascinating GoPro videos of its depth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot8lr_5oHE4. Sonar pegged this at about 75 meters. Effing creepy yet alluring.
Jill Waters 5 months ago
At one point it is very narrow and those choosing to jump it often dont make it and drown.
Rebecca McManus 5 months ago
I think what makes it so dangerous is that just a little bit downriver of the worst part the river widens, you have stepping stones for the children to play on and a small beach area, it's a great place for families less than 1/4 of a mile from a lethal stretch of water.
Forrest Hobbs 6 months ago
Barbara, there are some in Yorkshire whose opinions differ: https://the-yorkshireman.com/the-strid/
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#4
Not really anything scary but kinda creepy so here goes. There's a coal mining town in PA called Centralia. It's unknown how exactly it happened but the mine caught fire in 1962 and the underground of the town has been on fire to this day. Basically a ghost town with a population of like 5 people. This town also apparently is the inspiration for the game silent Hill.
S Bow 6 months ago
It's an extensive coal seam that's burning, there's essentially no current known way to extinguish it.
Raymond Core 6 months ago
If argon gas wasn't so expensive, it is heavier than and displaces oxygen. It is used in some welding processes to stop oxidation.
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liam newton-harding 6 months ago
I went there a few years ago. Still very creepy. They had knocked down all the houses to stop squatting. The c*****d roads with smoke coming up. It was snowing at the time, and looked like ash falling. There was an abandoned EMT station, and when I was in the hills above the town the siren on the station started up (in the game, and movie of Silent Hill when the siren starts the world flips) so that, and the half dozen burnt Barbie dolls impaled on a bush convinced me it was time to leave…that, and the small, pink teddy bear abandoned at the foot of the long flight of steps to the Orthodox Church that looked down on the remains of the town.
Heffalump 6 months ago
It's not unknown how it started. Just no-one wants to admit it because of the liability.
Lauren K 6 months ago
I thought the town was burning a trash pile and the coal seem caught fire from that.
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Nikole 6 months ago
Silent Hill 2 is one of the best video games ever made. I will die on this (silent) hill.
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Lupita Nyong'heaux 5 months ago
what's the name of it??? i wanna google it!
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Xenia Harley 6 months ago
I walked around there searching for an abandoned dog (she was found about a week later) and it is super creepy with a lot of hunting shacks in the woods. Really feels like you're in the middle of nowhere, when you really aren't that far from other people.
#5
This is more eerie than scary, but towns that have been flooded to make a reservoir. The idea that there are people's belongings and houses down there, at the bottom of the lake, preserved in the cold water.
tracy black 6 months ago
theres an underwater town near me and when we are low on rain you can see rooftops sticking out of the water
Forrest Hobbs 6 months ago (edited)
"Remember Tryweryn" (translating from the original Cymraeg). There are a lot of flooded valleys in Wales - homes, farms, whole communities destroyed to supply water mostly to England.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tryweryn_flooding (I'm English - but I understand why the Welsh are bitter. It wasn't just the material destruction: the places flooded were very often strongholds of Welsh language and culture. Pure coincidence - it wasn't part of any grand scheme to wipe out Cymraeg or anything, but still. 😬)
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BeesEelsAndPups 6 months ago
Aswan High Dam in Egypt. Flooded temples thousands of years old.
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Nikki Sevven 6 months ago
Quabbin Reservoir, Massachusetts, was made by drowning 4 towns: Dana, Enfield, Greenwich, and Prescott. Quabbin provides water to the greater Boston area.
JK 6 months ago
Don't forget about how Black Wall Street was burned down, and entire city, during a white riot.
Glen Ellyn 6 months ago (edited)
1921 Tulsa race ma$$acre. Another one is the Rosewood, Florida ma$$acre in 1923. What is wrong with people?? (edit to bypass censoring)
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Interestingly, the most common specific phobias in the U.S. include:
- Claustrophobia: Fear of being in constricted, confined spaces;
- Aerophobia: Fear of flying;
- Arachnophobia: Fear of spiders;
- Driving phobia: Fear of driving a car;
- Emetophobia: Fear of vomiting;
- Erythrophobia: Fear of blushing;
- Hypochondria: Fear of becoming ill;
- Zoophobia: Fear of animals;
- Aquaphobia: Fear of water;
- Acrophobia: Fear of heights;
- Blood, injury, and injection (BII) phobia: Fear of injuries involving blood;
- Escalaphobia: Fear of escalators;
- Tunnel phobia: Fear of tunnels;
And we can kind of see this list reflected in people's submissions.
#6
The very true out back of Australia. If you're traveling nobody expects to see you for up to a week, nobody expects phone calls or messages as theres no phone service. If you break down it could take a couple days until you are found by a passing car. And if they don't find you in time the dry extreme heat will k**l you, you could never pack enough water to survive as long as it takes for someone to notice you're even missing. It's unforgiving and a horrible way to die.
Not to mention that if you die the heat will decompose you in a matter of days and scavengers will scatter you meaning your family may never know.
Patsy Robins 6 months ago
NEVER LEAVE YOUR VEHICLE!!! N° 1 rule. Many people have perished after they broke down and tried to walk out. No matter how thirsty & near death you are, it’s going to accelerate if you're on foot. Plus your vehicle is likely to be found before you are.
Emilu 6 months ago
This. You have to rely on people that may be going past in a one in whatever chance. Part of the reason the movie Wolf Creek was so scary; it exploits what people do/have to do in the Aussie outback.
Load More Replies... Gossameringue 6 months ago
From "The Good Place" (American sitcom) character talking about Australia: "let's get out of this country. Everyone's either a criminal or a spider."
JayhawkJoey 6 months ago
People who travel out there/live there carry lots of spare tires. No joke.
Ghostpotato 6 months ago
Well I'd imagine they knew (and know) the land very well and like any indigenous people lived where they had access to water, shelter and food; unlike your average tourist on a roadtrip.
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ॐBoyGanesh 6 months ago (edited)
Genuinely curious: don’t modern mobile phones there have satellite emergency services? I’m in the middle of the northern Pacific, 2400 miles from the nearest continent. I lead a monthly nature hike that puts me well out of cell service. SOS emergency satellite kicks in and even displays a symbol where my “bars” should be. When it accidentally connected I was rooted to an emergency services patch center where I spoke with someone in Los Angeles, 2500 miles away whose job it was to route me & my emergency to local services. She was very nice about the accidental connection & was happy to appease my curiosity about this SOS feature. Surely this exists in Australia given it’s designed for isolated places across the planet.
Horosho Bodka 6 months ago
I am on a Search and Rescue team in California, and even here there are places with no coverage at all. Especially in mountains.
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Raymond Core 6 months ago
Anybody have an idea why "k**l" is censored? I'm seeing more and more innocuous words being censored now than when I was in gradeschool. Will seeing the actual word (I know what the word is) influence someone or offend someone or trigger someone? W**t w**ds w**l b* ce*s*r*d n**t? It sure makes reading slow down.
Zaach 6 months ago (edited)
The interior of Australia is so flat and boring that many tribes do not have words for 'left' and 'right' - they will say something like 'look over your southwest shoulder'. One scientist who immersed herself into their culture for 10 years - she woke up one day with a (she described it as a dot) that always was north; she asked the 'chief' about it and he said "of course" *Edit - without landmarks there is no way to determine left side from right side
Emilu 6 months ago
I think you mean the deserted part. Not all of Australia is flat, lol.
Load More Replies... Timbob 6 months ago
Do the people in Australia realize they don’t have to stay there anymore ? It’s no longer a United Kingdom penal colony !
#7
F*****g Snake Island.
Something crazy like 2 snakes per square metre lol.
Tucker Cahooter 6 months ago
Snake Island. Not to be confused with Snake Continent, also known as Australia
Glen Ellyn 6 months ago
It's off the coast of Brazil, so no worries for me and probably most of you here.
Rali Meyer 6 months ago
nobody allowed to go there. So, who cares? But: What do the snakes eat??
Billo66 6 months ago
They eat birds. That's why they developed such lethal venom. They would bite the bird and it would get away before the venom took affect. Now they have venom that kills them instantly.
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#8
Aside from the well known places such as various death camps, prisons and battlefields.
F*****g Poveglia island. Throughout the history it was used as quarantine zone during the plague outbreaks, there are multiple mass graves on site, supposedly it was just a dying ground for the afflicted, where at some places the very soil was purely composed of rotting plague corpses. The fun doesn't end there. Later on someone decided to build a mental asylum right on top of that, in 1922. Countless cases of observed hauntings by the patients, but nobody belived them, since they were supposedly crazy. The headmaster of the institute then later on commited s*****e by climbing the belltower and jumping down.
Samantha H 6 months ago
There was a programme about a group of TV ghost hunters who visited it, they were supposed to stay the night but were very freaked out and left after a short while.
Jrog 6 months ago
Yeah, those BS legends started from those TV shows, not the other way around.
Load More Replies... Jrog 6 months ago (edited)
Lol, no. Most of the stuff in this comment is BS: Poveglia acted as a Lazzaretto (a quarantine hospital), but it was not a "dying ground", it was a well organized and functional hospital, one of the few in the area. There is a small part of it that was used as burial ground, and incineration was occasionally used during plague bouts but the rate of death was not especially high compared to Lazzaretto Vecchio or even compared to the city at large. Attempts at using forensic analysis for archeological study were dropped because the island has no significant material of interest... The "mental asylum" is also not what the "gothic horror asylum" you may imagine. It was a -at the time- state of the art medical facility dealing with psychiatric patients as well as elderly care for people with long-term health issues.
Jrog 6 months ago
There are no recorded reports from the time of the hospital (1922–1968) mentioning paranormal activity or patient claims of hauntings. Not. A. Single. One. These stories started going around in the last couple decades, made up by travel bloggers and ghost-hunting shows. The same unreliable sources are behind the legend of the s******l doctor (that sometimes is a headmaster, sometimes a nurse): there is no record of anything remotely like that happening, and there is not even a belltower in the institute! The closest thing is the belltower of a XVII century chapel located on the island, that was not accessible from the hospital.
Load More Replies... JK 6 months ago
That is some education on history. Yeah, FCK All countries have hidden brutality.
patricia patricia 6 months ago
Of course! Civilisation is but a thin, thin, thin layer of paint, that barely covers our primate instincts. When we feel threatened we become ruthless.
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Haunted forest of Romania and in that forest: a circle where nothing grows. Anything from strange UFO sightings in there to a little girl went missing for 5 years and reappeared, when questioned, she couldn't remember anything between the time she disappeared to the time she reappeared. Even creepier is the circle. A perfect circle where no plants grow and wildlife doesnt go into either. No explanation as to why things don't grow and very strange myths and legends. Personally, I'm not someone to get wigged out on much, but everytime I think, hear or see pictures of this site, hair on the back on my neck stands up. Every time. I get weird vibes from that site just looking at it
Edit: I'm not an expert on this forest. OP asked for scary places on earth known to man. I watched a documentary on this forest. I gave my opinion what I believe to be pretty creepy at least given the stories and such and the vibes I get when I see things related to the forest. So please stop trying to "discredit" my opinion on what I think is creepy for op. The forest is interesting, and the documentary discussed a lot. Again. I'm not an expert. Have a good day guys.
Ace 6 months ago (edited)
Did a bit of searching for this, nearly all mentions of hauntings are on tourism guides, which tells you quite a lot. I did find a forest clearing - a bit of farmland in the woods by the look of it - and was amused by the picture on google maps.. https://maps.app.goo.gl/nGBF8J24bFvM9Crd8 Clipboard0...57307f.jpg 
Tom Hutcherson 5 months ago
https://romaniatourstore.com/blog/hoia-baciu-forest-mysterious-legends/#:~:text=The%20Hoia%20Baciu%20Forest%2C%20situated,inexplicable%20apparitions%20to%20UFO%20activities.
Load More Replies... Claire Collymore 6 months ago
If something is legendary it doesn’t mean it’s not true. It means that it can’t be PROVED to be true. Those two things are very different.
Load More Replies... Claire Collymore 6 months ago
You are perfectly entitled to have your say on what you think is a scary place. It sounds like a scary place to me too. Thank you for sharing with us.
patricia patricia 6 months ago
Millions of people still believe in the resurrection of a man 2000 years ago. Why do you think they'll stop believing in hauntings?
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Chrissie Anit 6 months ago
it's not perfectly round, it's just a clearing in the woods, and grass grows there. Looks rather peaceful. Poiana Rotundá.
LizzieBoredom 6 months ago (edited)
Doesn't an underground mushroom ring k**l every thing above, or is this something else I made up after mixing booze and medications?
patricia patricia 6 months ago
No, you didn't make it up. They are sometimes called "fairy rings". They don't really k**l everything inside, but they do look eerie. https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/blog/2019/08/what-is-a-fairy-ring/#:~:text=Fairy%20rings%20are%20caused%20by,circle%2C%20creating%20the%20fairy%20ring.
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Beth Wheeler 6 months ago
In Siler City, NC there's a spot like that called the devil's stomping ground. People have put healthy potted plants in it and they died overnight. People have camped there overnight with video cameras that stopped working and started working again a little while later. I can't remember the other things I've heard about it.
#10
If you are afraid of dolls/mannequins
The silent people(hiljainen kansa)-field in Finland
Its a field of mannequins facing the main road... and somebody goes and changes their clothes once in a while
Its really creepy in spring when the nights are still dark.
Sue Denham 6 months ago
I'm intrigued. Do they represent something? Is it okay to swap out an outfit if you see something you'd like?
Hippopotamuses 6 months ago
They're part of an art installation https://niittykahvila.fi/en/the-silent-people/
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patricia patricia 6 months ago
According to Atlas Obscura: "The truth is, the meaning of the art installation is a mystery. The artist refuses to give any sort of explanation for the figures, preferring the viewer use their own perception to define it. Many find the scarecrows sad or disturbing, evoking a forgotten people, and a popular theory is that they represent those lost during a brutal battle that took place nearby during the Winter War of 1939-1940 between the Finns and Soviet Russia".
Samantha H 6 months ago
There was a programme on TV where James May (Top Gear) went to Japan and visited a town (called Kakashi) all the residents were scarecrows with faces, rather creepy.
Tha Monkey 6 months ago
Awww, this was actually quite cute: https://www.fukuoka-now.com/en/kakashi-matsuri-guide/ Thank you. I've never heard of this before!
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Mabelbabel 6 months ago
There's a village like that in Japan too. It's a dying village, the population massively declined over recent years as younger people moved away for work, and then the local school closed. So one elderly lady decided to repopulate the village with mannequins and dummies, adults and children, going shopping, playing, sitting outside on the porch etc. The pictures look really creepy.
Zaach 6 months ago
Doll island just off the coast of Mexico https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fvalidnews.id%2F_next%2Fimage%3Furl%3Dhttps%3A%252F%252Fcdn.visiteliti.com%252Farticle%252F2022-09%252F08%252F9vZu35GZ4KEnjgS6HttS_1662617779.jpeg%26w%3D1920%26q%3D50&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=efbcbe916b189695a4572c8003e0c295d1371bd741d33cde994e833665b04196
JK 6 months ago (edited)
My question too what does it represent? That photo will haunt me, it represents terror and oppression and a horrible death of people. The changing of the clothes is from survivors who know the history. This place is one of horrible pain and suffering but it must never be disturbed.
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They are crosses. It is a graveyard. Do not enter or disturb it. Descendants of those buried there are honoring their dead by changing their clothing. Let them have peace.
I Need More Espresso 6 months ago
Except it's not. It's an art installation. It should still be respected but it is not a graveyard.
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Hot Tub of Despair
Scientists have discovered a 'lake' in the Gulf of Mexico. Everyone, who enters this pool at the bottom of the sea will suffer horribly.
The water in the 'lake within the sea' is about five times as salty as the water surrounding it. It also contains highly toxic concentrations of methane and hydrogen sulphide and can thus not mix with the surrounding sea.
For animals (and people) who swim into it, these toxic concentrations can be deadly. Only bacterial life, tube worms, and shrimp can survive those circumstances.
Panda McPandaface 6 months ago
We don't know, for some reason the postcards never arrive.
Load More Replies... Norm Gilmore 6 months ago (edited)
At a 1000 metres deep I doubt any people will be swimming in it anytime soon... :-) https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/rivers-oceans/hot-tub-of-despair-the-deadly-ocean-pool-that-traps-and-pickles-creatures-that-fall-in
Dee Tag 6 months ago
This was featured on Planet earth (with David Attenborough). It's a body if water within a body of water. Fascinating. Personally I think that's where Satan and his demons live. That's why no one can enter. It' looks like another dimension or portal.
#12
Catacombs of Paris.
Whackjob-KSP:
I remember the article about some kids trespassing to explore those catacombs, and they found the body of a girl that had gone missing years earlier. Apparently another group of kids had gone down there, and in all the fun missed that they were sans one. Apparently, she had blundered around, in the dark and silence, before falling down and just dying there.
Ellinor 6 months ago
If you don't know your way in and if you loose your light, then you will d!e. And anyway, it's illegal to go down there without a special permit so just don't go anyway. If the police catch you then you'll have to pay 150€, and if you used a tramway path belonging to the SNCF train company then it's 3 750 € and 6 months in jail. Not worth it.
Sean Sean 6 months ago
A pretty decent horror movie was made about the catacombs; As Above, So Below (2014).
Eric Grant 6 months ago
I have taken the tour; our guide told us that every year the police have to go searching for missing people who have sneaked in. She also told us how guards were doing their regular rounds and found a DJ & lights set-up for a party. When the guards returned, everything was already broken down and gone. Air BNB did a promotion w/the Catacombs where someone could stay overnight... the people did not make it through the night... not because of spookiness, etc., it gets really cold in there.
RU Mymudder 6 months ago
I’ve been in the catacombs outside of Rome and it would be extremely easy to get lost in there and never find your way out.
ॐBoyGanesh 6 months ago
If you run into the right people & you’ve got the right attitude, there’s a chance you can take an unofficial tour of the areas not maintained for the tourists. They’re not necessarily full of church bones like the official tour, but you’ll get to see part of underground Paris even many locals are unaware of. And it’s so expansive you’ll only be able to explore a minuscule fraction of them.
#13
Kawah Ijen Volcano
Constantly spews sulfur in gas and liquid, lit up with bright blue flames, and has a lake of acid with pH down to 0.5.
Gossameringue 6 months ago
Fantastic looking at night! https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/140130-kawah-ijen-blue-flame-volcanoes-sulfur-indonesia-pictures
#14
It depends on what you qualify as scary. Places that come to mind are the marianas trench, chernobyl and if you can count it the kola super deep bore hole in russia.
Marianas trench is so deep its impossible for humans to survive down there in any way IIRC. Yet weird baloon like fish manage to live down there.
Chernobyl is self explanatory, though the radiation has significantly declined over the years its still a very dangerous zone, especially with the radiation mutated animals like something out of fallout.
The kola super deep bore hole was a project by the soviets to try and break through the earths crust and get to the earths mantle. I think the size of it was only maybe a foot wide tunnel dug straight down. But it got to the point where their equipment couldnt operate anymore because of the extreme temperatures, something like 180 degrees celsius or some other high temperature. It was stopped with the collapse of the soviet union and the final depth was about 7.5 miles down. The scary part about it is that these f*****s literally dug a third of the way through earths crust just to see if they could/what would happen and just slapped a cover over it.
Jihana 6 months ago
I call BS on the mutated animals in the exclusion zone. There is nothing extremely mutazed running around in those woods. And do you know why. Extreme mutations don't survive for long, most of them aren't even born alive. There are extremely large fish in the lakes, but that's because noone has been fishing there for 40 years.
Panda McPandaface 6 months ago
But these are not 'extreme mutations', they are probably better described as adaptations - leaf shapes changing, small stuff.
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#15
Boesmansgat
It barely looks like much more than a pond, yet is actually hundreds of metres deep and multiple people have died there.
I read a couple of articles that, whilst fascinating, were also faintly terrifying.
Day Andie 6 months ago
Wikipedia: Boesmansgat (or Bushmansgat), also known in English as "Bushman's Hole", is a deep submerged freshwater cave (or sinkhole) in the Northern Cape province of South Africa, which has been dived to a depth of 282.6 metres (927 ft).
Lady Eowyn 6 months ago
Thank you! I'm under the weather right now and don't have the energy to google every one of these entries for a bit of explanation or at least a location.
Load More Replies... ॐBoyGanesh 6 months ago
I recently watched “Dave Not Coming Back,” a documentary on this place. It’s a decent doc if you’re at all interested in the topic.
#16
Antarctica, with temperatures that can drop down to -89C, winds up to 300+km/h, thousands of Km from the closest inhabited nation, ultra low population density which the super majority are concentrated at various camps and just a place of ice. Get lost and you're dead.
Panda McPandaface 6 months ago
Poor things are really struggling now though.
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Broad Panda 6 months ago
I have a bunch of friends who sometimes work and live there. It's fascinating, cold, and people who are there know better than to wander off.
Crystalwitch60 6 months ago
Not scary !! that’s beautiful , n I love the cold so I’d love it and the peace n quiet to
Auntriarch 6 months ago
It's on my bucket list. Though likely to remain on the list because it's eye wateringly expensive.
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#17
Mayak nuclear facility in Russia, including the nearby Lake Karachay and the Techla River.
Probably the most polluted place in the entire planet where there have been more nuclear accidents than I’d like to count and the authorities have been dumping nuclear waste into the lake for 50+ years, just converting it with concrete slowly.
They’ve also been dumping water into the river for all that time too and it’s unknown how many people living downstream might have suffered from radiation and poisoning of their water/food supplies.
Storage facilities for high level and low level waste are essentially rotting away and neglected or poorly operated, leading to repeated criticality events and explosions over its lifetime. This place has emitted more radiation into the environment than any other nuclear accident in history; including Chernobyl and Fukushima.
Forrest Hobbs 6 months ago
Hey! What about us! You forgot about the UK's Windscale fire! - 1957, one of the world's worst nuclear accidents. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windscale_fire 😬
JK 6 months ago
Three mile islandL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island_accident
Load More Replies... Jrog 6 months ago
Various incidents in the Mayak area released well over 4.4 exabecquerels over a small area. Chernobyl released about as much spread over half Europe. Fukushima was on an order of magnitude smaller, leading to significant but localized contamination. Windscale was two orders of magnitude smaller, on a very small area, and Three Miles Island was FIVE orders or magnitude smaller.
#18
The blue burrito.
In prison if you go on a hunger strike, or if you are a s*****e risk, they will wrap you up in this blue binding with your hands to your sides. Only your head poking out the top. And throw you in that tiny padded broom closet room.
And leave you wrapped up like this 24 hours a day, for as long as they want. Theyll help you eat, and go to the bathroom, but otherwise you will be completely immobilized.
That sounds worse than death.
S Bow 6 months ago
Wow, never heard of this, is it here in the US? Barbaric but not surprising.
Peeka_Mimi 6 months ago
Yep. I have been in it for having a panic attack for being arrested. I had never been arrested before. The VA, I am an Army Vet, didn't pay a bill for when l severely sprained my ankle and sought help at the nearest civilian hospital. They were supposed to pay that bill, anyway I got sued, never got served, was issued an FTA warrant. I didnt even know. I have CPTSD and don't handle enclosed spaces very well. This description barely does it justice. There's a red light and a hole in the middle of rhe cell whete you poop and pee. It was basically a large outhouse. Not even water is made available. They put you in the turtle suit and do not even give you a blanket.
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Jack Smith 6 months ago
Everything about the u.s prison system is barbaric. They're filthy and dangerous. The guards abuse prisoners and take pleasure in the inmates abusing each other. The vast majority of prisoners are poor people locked up for b.s d**g charges. Also, much like the g***g system of u.s.s.r the prisons profit off of their slave labor which incentivises unreasonably long harsh sentences. Lastly, it's a huge waste of money, the average cost of each prisoner per year is 60k. All you "tough on crime" Republicans need to stfu, put down ur tiki torch and Google a list of all the criminals trump has pardoned, gd hypocrites....🤬
Alyce 5 months ago
Not to say youre wrong, but what is the alternative? Let violent criminals, d**g pushers and thieves just go home at the end of the day? And please stop politicizing it like Biden, Obama and Clinton didnt pardon a bunch of wretched cretins because they donated money. All power structures are corrupt, but anarchy is worse
Load More Replies... Billo66 6 months ago (edited)
Haha green here. aka the turtle suit and green burrito. It's meant to humiliate you if you're acting a fool and prevent self harm if you're serious. Yes they will send you to court in one LOL. It's the equivalent of the inmates d***e cap. Edit: D.u.n.c.e?
JK 6 months ago
Yes. If you can afford a defense attorney you will not show up in a turtle. Or jail clothing.
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#19
The North Korea/South Korea border.
Less of creepiness, and more of direct danger that makes it so you will most likely die within seconds. More than likely there have been hundreds (possibly even thousands) of people that were shot or blown up in that area with their remains never retrieved.
Gossameringue 6 months ago
Yet the DMZ, because of this isolation, has one of the more varied ecosystems on the planet.
Only Me 6 months ago
I've been to the DMZ a couple of times. I waved but I don't think Kim Jong Un saw me. Otherwise nothing to see except an expanse of bushes/scrub. Not terrifying.
Emilu 6 months ago
^ This. I stepped into North Korea too! As a South Korean! And I didn’t die! The DMZ, if that’s what the OP is talking about (assumedly because I’m not sure how else aside from climbing fences etc and praying you don’t get shot you’d get from NK to SK) isn’t scary. Definitely makes you ponder, but not scary per se.
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The ocean, we know more about other planets than we do below the surface of the ocean. Their is an estimated 100 thousand to 10 million species that are undiscovered. "Point Nemo" also know as the loneliest place on earth is located in the ocean. The closest island is the Pitcairn which is still 2,700 KM (1,677 Miles) and inhabited by approximately 50 people. If you were at point nemo and the international space station were to pass over you, they would be the closest people to you. Not only is the ocean lonely and cold, it also has lots of pressure. If you were to be placed at the bottom of the Mariana Trench with no protection you would be crushed with the force of about 50 jumbo jets. Which is around 25,000,000 Pounds or 12,500 tons.
Lowrider 56 6 months ago
IIRC, only 5 to 10% of the ocean has been mapped, yet covers 75% of the Earth.
Atom Bohr 6 months ago
I believe that's increased in recent years (the initial two searches for Mh370 added a lot. But it's still only a tiny proportion
Load More Replies... Broad Panda 6 months ago
The Pitcairn Islands are f*****g creepy. A lot of incest and violence.
Nikole 6 months ago
I was curious so I went to Wikipedia… WTF. Fúcking men.
Load More Replies... Lady Eowyn 6 months ago
There is. I know, OP won't see that, but for crying out loud it's not that hard to use the right word!
Lady Eowyn 6 months ago
Aliens with any sense don't want anything to do with earth.
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School bathrooms. I’m dead serious about this.
Xenia Harley 6 months ago
OMG when I taught elementary school, for some reason those boys (ages 5-10) would always pee on the radiator in there! No matter what it was cleaned with, it smelled worse than any animal enclosure I have ever smelled. Year after year, and I taught at this school for 8 years! (I guess they would teach each other to pee on the radiator, not just one boy!)
#22
Probably not the scariest on Earth, but to me as an Ohioan, the many dead and dying towns we have here can be pretty surreal. Places where manufacturing and mining jobs dried up, and most or all of the inhabitants just left.
Many still have a few people living there, often 50 or less. In these places, it can feel like you've gone back in time. There are no chain stores of any kind, only old-timey mom and pop places. Maybe a general store, a bar/diner, a post office if they're lucky, and that's it. All of the vehicles are pristine 50s and 60s models, the farm equipment may be from the 1920s or earlier. 90% of the homes and businesses are abandoned, if not more. You may also hear an accent not spoken by anyone other than these few people. I've been to tiny towns here where everyone sounded like they'd been transplanted out of Boston to some middle of nowhere Ohio town. (Due to isolation, stuff like this can happen where an area has so little exposure to other areas that they retain an accent through generations that technically shouldn't exist locally, it's kind of like a type of Founder Effect. Look up Tangier Island, Virginia for a great example.)
Visiting these places can be uncomfortable, because the few remaining residents are often downright hostile to outsiders.
Lyone Fein 6 months ago
I like these towns. There are three within ten miles of where I live now.
nm 6 months ago
Why the hostility for the outsiders? It's presumed that in the past, when the towns were alive, these isolated people had neighbors whom with they should interact.
patricia patricia 6 months ago
For some reason, this description reminded me of the stories in "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury. My brain does make strange "connections" every now and then.
Geoffrey Scott 6 months ago
US 33 S from Columbus to the WV border at the Ohio River. Very rural, very unpopulated.
Ace 6 months ago
I know it's the wrong part of the country, but I'm gearing banjo music in my head.
Catlady6000 6 months ago
Small isolated towns anywhere in the world have banjo music playing.
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Chernobyl is pretty scary.
Jihana 6 months ago
I would have loved to go there. Professional curiosity, I'm a radio chemist, I even had several colleagues who went. But then it became a tourist attraction and now there's a war, so I missed my chance.
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Abby Rexroth 5 months ago
Yeah, let's go there and while we're at it lets go open Marie Curie's grave and say howdy to her corpse.
#24
Personally the uncontacted tribes that remain on Earrh scare the s**t out of me (while being fascinating at the same time).
The Sentinelese hate all outsiders and will try to k**l anyone within range. ~~Yet it is likely they have never discovered fire.~~ (everyone keeps making a thing of this particular note so i'm just taking it out)
Many others exist in South American jungles and have only been spotted by helicopter/occasional aerial sightings. I've always found that unknown aspect very creepy.
Edit: I am aware that, in the past, people have contacted them successfully. However, any of the most recent attempts to contact them have been met with varying degrees of hostility, which is where my own fear comes from. I'm not saying they aren't justified or have their reasons, either.
2006: Two fisherman k****d when they fell asleep in their boat and drifted too close to shore.
2018: Missionary k****d when he tried to visit and speak with them.
person (i think) 6 months ago
That missionary deserved his fate. Stop trying to convert people; leave them in peace
Mabelbabel 6 months ago
With that missionary, it was k**l or be killed. He was an idiot-he could have wiped out all of them with an infection they had no immunity too. Utter selfishness, arrogance and ignorance to deliberately try to force contact with them.
Ghostpotato 6 months ago (edited)
People attack intruders all over the world, think about how many people in the us will point a weapon at a tresspasser for example. Hell I live in Sweden and I know someone who grabbed an axe to chase some guy away from their home once! It's nothing unique to these tribes, they just happen to use more primitive weapons.
StPaul9 6 months ago
The Sentinelese are possibly one of two (the other being a tribe or two in the Amazon) who have not discovered fire. They preserve the fire caused by lightning strikes and carry it around to where needed.
Forrest Hobbs 6 months ago
Meaning that they do know about fire - I think you mean "fire making". Fire use predates modern humans.
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Ronnie Beaton 5 months ago
The best part about the 2018 missionary story, is that his mother allegedly *demanded* that the President send a US Navy carrier battle group to A: retrieve his body, and B: bomb the islands down to the bedrock. Needless to say, she was very politely and firmly told to go away and not be so stupid.
#25
Hoia Baciu forest in Romania is considered to be a haunted forest, some people went missing in that forest (the shepherd who went missing with a flock of 200 sheep). Visitors of this forest also report strange feelings of nausea, anxiety and being watched.
Panda McPandaface 6 months ago
Are there any large forests where people have not gone missing at some point?
Billo66 6 months ago
I grow Christmas trees. So far I have been successful in my adventures! :)
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UKGrandad 6 months ago (edited)
If visitors to a specific area all report the same symptoms there is likely a toxic gas escaping from beneath the ground. Nausea, anxiety (elevated heart rate) and paranoia suggest a vast subterranean build-up of methane steadily seeping up.Methane also causes reduced vision in low light conditions (like inside a forest) along with clumsiness, dizziness and memory loss, all of which may explain people losing their way. The symptoms vanish very quickly once you're out of the affected area.
Melissa Harris 6 months ago
Another cause is naturally occurring infrasound. Causes all the symptoms.
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Naturally occurring infrasound. Causes anxiety, confusion, nausea, a feeling of being watched and of impending dread.
Load More Replies... Roni Stone 6 months ago
With stories like shepherds missing with their entire large flocks, I'd be having nausea, anxiety and a feeling of being watched, too. Baaaahhhhhd vibes.
Binny Tutera 6 months ago
This, I believe, the same Romanian forest mentioned elsewhere in this thread that has an area where nothing grows.
#26
I live in India, so jungles, in which elephants and predators live, are pretty scary. Days are pretty cool, but after twilight its scary...
ॐBoyGanesh 6 months ago
I spent my first ten years living near Mudumalai National Park. Even at that young age I was aware when the news would spread that another person was lost to the jungle. I heard stories of kids eaten by tigers, tho these were probably mostly myths told to young kids from older kids to scare them. At least that’s how I remember it. My mom tells me that it was true people would get lost or go missing in the jungle or that predators didn’t necessarily stay within the confines, but there were no tigers eating children that she was aware of.
Auntriarch 6 months ago (edited)
Don't know why Hippopotamuses was downvoted, jungle the word does come from India. (Cue: yeah the Brits even steal words 😂)
#27
The elephant's foot at Chernobyl. I am pretty sure being in the same room as that thing is lethal.
Forrest Hobbs 6 months ago
Yes, but no-one's allowed near it and it's all safely contained despite Putin's recent attack on the enclosure... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant%27s_Foot_(Chernobyl) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_New_Safe_Confinement
Wild Cream 6 months ago
They call the people who live illegally in the exclusion zone “stalkers” - even in Russian/Ukrainian, they use the English word “stalker.” I thought that was interesting :) stalkers are considered pretty dangerous and have been known to rob tourists. We saw smoke from a stalker’s fire coming up from the forest about a kilometre away and avoided going that direction.
Load More Replies... Kim Kermes 6 months ago
It's so radioactive that it's not possible to get a clear photo of it.
Forrest Hobbs 6 months ago
It's possible to get a clear photo from 100 miles up in orbit. You can photograph anything you want, with appropriate equipment.
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#28
I visited a place on a tour of WW2 events around Europe that gave me absolute chills. It was in the middle of a woods, a big pit with steps cut into the side that we carefully walked down. It must've been about 20ft deep and 50ft from side to side, empty save for a single wooden post riddled with bullet holes. Horrible, but so were a lot of other places we'd been, but this one was weird. It was in the middle of a forest we'd walked through, full of birds and other wildlife, but here it was silent, completely still. No wind, no noise, nothing grew through the packed earth. It sounds stupid but it was like nature rejected it, it felt poisonous. As soon as we walked away from it all the sounds of nature started again. Freaked me out, that was 26 years ago and I've never forgotten how it made me feel.
Mabelbabel 6 months ago
It sounds like the Arnsberg Forest Massacres (Westphalia Germany).
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Wim Cossement 5 months ago
This is Tombeau du Géant in Bouillon, Belgium. AFAIK it has nothing to do with the war. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tombeau_du_G%C3%A9ant_(Belgique)
#29
In Hawaii, there’s a sinkhole who’s name escapes me. Nobody knows exactly how or why but sometimes, people who swim there are fine one moment before showing signs of panic and are subsequently pulled into the depths. No visible disturbances in the water are present in these cases and many times, people are fine. The locals believe a legendary water monster lives there and have therefore banned any and all swimming in this area.
Most likely, it’s a tidal whirlpool but if this is the case, there would be visible water disturbance on or near the surface and the disappearances in a smaller area of the lake, however this is not the case from what I hear.
Kira Okah 6 months ago
If picture and text are related, no one believes The Toilet Bowl has a monster in it - it's tidal, and the depth differences between high and low tide measures in feet, it's closed because tidal shifts in the depth have caused drownings.
goldenwood_cottage 6 months ago
When I was young and dumb I swam in the Toilet Bowl. I was also a very strong swimmer, and came out OK. Lots of young military people were there when I was, and we all jumped in. There was a line of guys helping everyone out. We went to a kegger after, work hard play hard in those days.
Load More Replies... Gossameringue 6 months ago
I wonder if it's called "The Toilet Bowl". Or is that a term given to all tidal whirlpools?
Kira Okah 6 months ago
The Toilet Bowl in this case is a specific name for a tidal pool in Hanauma Bay, Oahu, Hawaii.
Load More Replies... Verena 6 months ago
Due to the waves and currents, this is often "white water", which means a lot of air is in the water. As one cannot swim in air, the level of bouancy you are used to suddenly falls away and then you are in trouble. You sink, and then bottom currents drag you out to the sea. This is the explanation I got.
#30
After watching the movie The Lighthouse I would be terrified of spending one day there. Just the idea of being in a small rock in the middle of nowhere with no communication and just one small accident from death terrifies me.
Chonky Panda 6 months ago
Yeah, but with a much lower risk of it happening
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#31
The Mariana Trench.
GloDyna:
Just read on it..1960 was the First Time Man Reached The Bottom. Took till 2013 to do it again.. sheesh..7 miles deep.. looked at a few creatures.. Goblin Shark? HAHA NOPE!
WindySwede 6 months ago
Will still only look at the pictures from it. Not to go there 🙃
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Jane Hower 5 months ago
Did MAN make it down that far or just equipment that man made?? Cause it's too deep to survive due to crush from pressure.
#32
Consonno (Italy) is a ghost city, consonno was called “città dei balocchi” in old time because of the “life quality” about the city, after a landslide, the city started to become a ghost town. [here the link if you want to know more](http://it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consonno)
It’s not “haunted” or maybe it is, but the city now it’s really creepy without any people living on it.
Day Andie 6 months ago
Rather interesting backstory: While it was always a rural village, in 1962 some jerk-face named Mario Bagno bought the whole village, displaced the residents and tore it all down. He then built a bunch of tourist stuff that was supposed to bring in big bucks, calling it the "Las Vegas of Brianza" except he did such a crappy job that everything was shortly condemned as being unsafe. Additionally, he caused a lot of environmental damage which lead to landslides. There have been attempts to revive the area as the surrounding countryside is very scenic, but to date this hasn't happened. Just goes to show that having a lot of money doesn't mean your smart, and most people with a butt-ton of money use it to massage their ego.
#33
Any school at night with the lights off. Something about places that are alive with people all day can be the creepiest when you experience them alone in the dark at night.
Edit: I once got left in my old jr high building after a play. I had been playing hide and seek and s**t and when it was over my brother strait forgot to find me to go home. That stage, the auditorium, the curtains, back rooms with costumes. All that s**t in the pitch dark and silence was f*****g wild!
Panda McPandaface 6 months ago
Empty theatres are another place that feels odd with no-one in them, nightclubs also.
Kit Black 6 months ago
Nah cleaning empty clubs is actually very relaxing, and it's so peaceful.
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The Darkest Timeline 6 months ago
I have spent some time in schools at night with most of the lights off by myself. It is a bit creepy.
nm 6 months ago
When I was a boy I was passing by the wall of a cemetery, on my way visiting an uncle. My brain of square logic told me that I hand nothing to fear of dead persons, but of live ones.
Melissa Harris 6 months ago
Spaces meant for people when deserted become very liminal and can cause anxiety.
featherytoad 6 months ago
That's why I thought the creepiest part of The Langoliers was the completely empty airport.
Geoffrey Scott 6 months ago
Was cleaning across from the (100 yr old building) school office. There is a door, behind which is a closet inside the office. Heard something hit the floor behind me, locked door was open, first aid kit lying on the floor, 10:30 pm. Yes, I checked the office, empty.
Katie The Bug 5 months ago
Kenopsia: "The haunting quality of seeing a location typically full of people in a state of emptiness or abandonment." (One of my favorite words!)
#34
As an Aussie, I have to say our fire zones.
Kombatbunni 6 months ago
Going through an area that’s been burned out is kind of eerie and sad at the same time.
WindySwede 6 months ago
Did that here in Sweden, it was prob a speck in comparison. But still eerie!
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#35
The Island of the Dolls in Mexico
Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Kentucky, USA.
Learner Panda 6 months ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Island_of_the_Dolls and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waverly_Hills_Sanatorium
Marie BellaDonna 5 months ago
Waverly Hills is in Louisville, KY. I grew up there. In the fall, when the leaves were off the trees, we could actually see the sanatorium's tower, sitting on top of the hill, from our back yard! It was the subject of many childhood horror stories, lol.
#36
The scariest places are the nearby slums, crack-house and h****n-infested areas. Nearly every major city has one or more. Latin America may have the worst ones but it’s hard to tell.
If you go there and don’t know your way around, you are going to get robbed or worse.
And if you don’t do your research first, it’s easy to find yourself in these areas without knowing. All the physical places are known and easy enough to avoid - Snake Island doesn’t move.
Zoey Bear 6 months ago
Thank you, I was trying to figure it out and thought maybe bp is now censoring "horn"? Lol. I'm very tired.
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#37
People have limited answers to places we can at least send a probe.
I'm not going to.
I'm nominating the molten core of the planet. Temperatures hot enough to turn liquid metal into gas, but pressures too high to allow even that so it remains liquid.
#38
Black Mountain in Australia
Stories have persisted for years of people disappearing into the interior of the mountain ... and never coming out. Even the Aborigines shun it.
Day Andie 6 months ago
No mystery here. The area is very hot and rugged, in places nothing but lava rock boulders--extremely dangerous terrain to try navigate. Put that together with idiots who neglect their livestock, add stupid behavior, hubris, and alcohol, and you get dead people and animals. It's actually a sacred place to the Aborigines, and they don't shun it, they respect it. It's part of their dream-time and there are many native stories surrounding it. The mountain itself is located in Black Mountain National Park, and the Mulligan Highway lies in a low pass to the north of the majority of the lava beds. Rumors on the internet say that navigational signals are mysteriously disrupted around the mountain, but that's a bit doubtful, seeing as the Helenvale Airport is about two miles south of the highest point of the rocky part of the mountain.
Kombatbunni 6 months ago
I’ve been to Hanging Rock, didn’t really feel that different to any other rock formation around but it was cool to see it
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Annapurna. A mountain in Nepal where nearly 30 percent of climbers die.
#40
There is an island in Brazil, the island has 1500m length x 500m width. It has at least 45 snakes per hectare. How scary is that?
Hippopotamuses 6 months ago
Who's curating this list? Ilha da Queimada Grande (aka. Snake Island is already in this post)
nm 6 months ago
Queimada Grande = big fire. It owes its name to the controlled fire practices that the Brazilian Navy carried out on the island to scare away snakes, which were considered dangerous, but without the desired results.
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The Battleship Island, Hashima, a Japanese concentration camp for Koreans. Its name comes from its appearance: it's a small island completely surrounded by huge walls, in the middle of the sea, with coal mines. With the amount of Koreans forced to live there, it was one of the highest population density in the world.
You might have seen a few shots of the island (which is now abandoned) in Skyfall.
The Korean movie Battleship Island also deals with this place, I strongly recommend it!
Kiki Likes Sweets 6 months ago
Except it was never a concentration camp. Slave workers from China and Korea were used in its construction during the 30s and during the war. Its status as the highest population density was following that period when it was home to japanese miners and their families before being abandoned in 1974.
#42
Abandoned subway tracks and stations, there's no light, just total silence and rails under your feet.
#43
Shipwrecks in general. I one scuba dived next to one and the thought that hundreds of people had drowned there plus the open sea, the current and the fact that we could only see 3 meters ahead of us was terrifying. Would recommend nonetheless.
#44
I imagine just about anywhere in Syria doesn’t feel too secure these days.
#45
Hanford Nuclear Reservation. So bad the ground water leaking into the Columbia River is so f****d the DOE has it classified,.
Forrest Hobbs 6 months ago (edited)
I read about Hanford years ago in New Scientist. One proposal was to build a hydroelectric power station and use its output to vitrify the ground and trap the leaking contaminated waste before it got to the river. They have these huge open outdoor concrete tanks filled with random nuclear and chemical waste, contents not documented. One of them tended to grow a crust on the surface, which was then burst by nuclear and chemical activity below the surface - spraying who knows what into the air? So they had to build a big mixing machine to continually agitate its contents to stop a crust forming. It's really not very good at all. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanford_Site
#46
The Tiananmen masscare is basically happening again in hong kong, only secretly and is happening over thee course of months, not hours, random teenagers went missing and dead, police and pro china thugs gets to do whatever they desire, sexual a*****t from these groups at night happens regularly. It doesn't mattet if ur english or American, people even got captured inside the British embassy by the police without violent actions. Certainly one of the most horrible places in the developed world.
#47
Amazonas rain forest.
At the day there is quite beatiful.
But when you where at an place that it is dark, it is pretty hart to navigate, everything near you becames deadly.
There are frogs, who can k**l you, snakes that are dark as the darkest night there.
At the night, sometimes the chimpanse shouts and then other animals starts to shout and the noise become difficult to identify which animal it is and every deady animals went to hunt and every step you do, you can step on it.
And the darkness at night there is scary af.
You cant even see 2cm in front of you. And the lamps have difficulty to shine bright, because of the darkness.
The most scary thing is that there are hundrets of unknown animal and ca. 100 of unknown insects that may be deadly.
Good luck there to do a night trip.
Patsy Robins 6 months ago
I assume they were referring to monkeys but didn’t know the English word.
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#48
Ever walk around San Pedro Sula at night? Wouldn't suggest it.
nm 6 months ago
San Pedro Sula was the "murder capital of the world"[9] until early 2016 when Caracas, Venezuela, surpassed its homicide rate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Pedro_Sula#Crime
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One time my grandma told me about one of her cousins who explored a lot. Somewhere in the south there was a sinkhole that opened near a hill/tall mound of dirt. He went inside of it using a pulley thing, and found that it was a cave that had collapsed. He explored for a while until he saw something in the water. He screamed and got out of there as fast as he could. When his friends that where up top pulled him out he was shaking and crying. They asked him what was wrong but all he kept saying was something about there being no God, but didn't explain what he had saw. The state eventually filled the sinkhole, which usually doesn't happen, especially in the middle of nowhere. Everytime someone asked him what he saw he would say he couldn't explain.
#50
Skinwalker ranch and area in Utah. Strange livestock mutilations and whatnot.
Panda McPandaface 6 months ago
In Navajo legend a skinwalker is a magic user who can transform into an animal.
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What do you think ?
Miss Chili 6 months ago
The Killing fields and S21 in Cambodia. You can feel the pain and fear
Mike F 6 months ago
This started out pretty good but degenerated into something that reads like HS kids trying to scare each other.
Danger Muppet 6 months ago
I'm surprised Aokigahara Forest didn't make the list. There's The Valley of the Headless Men also.
Chewie Baron 6 months ago
Milton Keynes. Legend has it, there are still people driving around on the roundabouts since the day it opened. Forever doomed to never find their exit.
Catherine Spencer-Mills 5 months ago
Likely not popular, the Grand Canyon in Arizona. I'm an Arizona native and I've only been there twice. First as a child on a family trip and as an adult on another family trip. A lot of people die there. They fall off the rim or off the trail. And, they die of heatstroke and/or dehydration. More visitors so more deaths than Death Valley in California. Yeah, it's very pretty, but looking at pictures is a lot safer.
Miss Chili 6 months ago
The Killing fields and S21 in Cambodia. You can feel the pain and fear
Mike F 6 months ago
This started out pretty good but degenerated into something that reads like HS kids trying to scare each other.
Danger Muppet 6 months ago
I'm surprised Aokigahara Forest didn't make the list. There's The Valley of the Headless Men also.
Chewie Baron 6 months ago
Milton Keynes. Legend has it, there are still people driving around on the roundabouts since the day it opened. Forever doomed to never find their exit.
Catherine Spencer-Mills 5 months ago
Likely not popular, the Grand Canyon in Arizona. I'm an Arizona native and I've only been there twice. First as a child on a family trip and as an adult on another family trip. A lot of people die there. They fall off the rim or off the trail. And, they die of heatstroke and/or dehydration. More visitors so more deaths than Death Valley in California. Yeah, it's very pretty, but looking at pictures is a lot safer.
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