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#3.
The Sedlec Ossuary
Remember when we said Aokigahara was the Niagara falls of suicide? Well, for centuries the abbot in the small Czech town of Sedlec has been the Niagara Falls for dead people, regardless of cause of death. Ever since someone sprinkled soil from the Holy Land on the local cemetery in the 13th century, people from all over Europe started demanding to be buried there and the Sedlec graveyard kept growing until 1870, when the priests decided to finally do something about all those surplus bones lying around. Something insane.
Today, the Sedlec Ossuary is a chapel famous for being decorated with tens of thousands of human bones. This macabre style of interior design was the work of Czech woodcarver Frantisek Rint who, for some reason, was hired to organize the church's extensive skeleton collection. The results were huge mounds of human remains in the four corners of the chapel, a terrifying chandelier built from every bone in the human body, and a massive skull coat of arms adorning the entrance.
We realize this is the Czech Republic and all, but it has been 27 years, surely Poltergeist was released out there already. Like, maybe last year or something? Why are they still playing with human bones as if they were Satan's Lego blocks and making them sit through Mass every single day for almost 140 years now? On the Tempting Fate scale, the only thing worse would be to start using some of the skulls as ceremonial mugs or chamber pots.
At this point, does it really surprise anyone that the church became the inspiration for Dr. Satan's lair in the Rob Zombie movie House of 1000 Corpses? #2.
San Zhi Resort
What do you get when you cross a series of abandoned, rusting, futuristic UFO-shaped buildings with a series of mysterious deaths covered up by the government? How about the ghost town-slash-tourist resort of San Zhi, located just outside Taipei and inside your worst nightmares. The exclusive San Zhi resort in Taiwan was supposed to be the destination for bored, rich folk who always wondered what it would be like to live inside an over-sized hockey puck. Construction of Pod City started around the 80s but was quickly shut down after a series of mysterious on-site fatal accidents... or it could have been due to Godzilla attacks for all we know. There is actually very little official information on San Zhi. We can't even confirm how many people died there or if they screamed something about eyeless children eating their souls. The whole thing is shrouded in secrecy.
Wait a second... abandoned resort town in the middle of nowhere, mysterious deaths, lack of any official information... where have we seen this before?
#1.
Prypiat
A whole lot of you just got deja vu looking at the above picture. Specifically, those of you who have played Call of Duty 4, as there is an entire level that takes place there. If you thought the idea of a completely silent, abandoned, radioactive city was typical video game apocalyptic fantasy, you were wrong. Prypiat is in the northern Ukraine and once housed the workers and scientists of the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant. Founded in the 70s, it held as many as 50,000 people. Then in 1986, according to a footnote in the official Soviet records, there was a small malfunction in the Chernobyl reactor, so for safety reasons the city was evacuated.
Since then, Prypiat has been desolated, its buildings decaying, the giant Ferris Wheel just standing there all alone with nobody to ride it. The city actually had an entire amusement park for the families of the Chernobyl employees. Because when you are living next to a nuclear reactor which was outdated even by 1986 Soviet standards, the only thing on your mind is bumper cars.
The city is located in what is known as the Zone of Alienation, the 30-kilometer radius directly affected by the Chernobyl "minor technical difficulty" over 20 years ago. Despite that, Prypiat is now opened to the public because the radiation levels have apparently went down significantly over the years. We guess we have a different view on radiation than the government of Ukraine. They obviously have a scale for it, while we consider any radiation a very bad thing. Aside from the inherent risk of getting bit by a radioactive snail and becoming the lamest superhero ever, there is another reason why you will never see us among the tourists occasionally visiting Prypiat.
The fucking nursery. We told you this was a place built for families and wouldn't you know it, they have a nursery, which according to certain claims is currently paved with baby shoes and abandoned dolls. So, Prypiat is basically an abandoned radioactive ghost Soviet baby amusement park.
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UrbanSpaceman... "negative ions"? You mean like in salt water, or vinegar? Or the air in any proximity to a wire running a DC current?
"there was a small malfunction in the Chernobyl reactor" ....gold, Jerry. Gold!
I'm surprised York (England) isn't here somwhere.... I don't believe in the supernatural or ghosts or anything but the place is still creepy. It holds the "record" as the most haunted City in the world with about 140 ghosts and 504 hauntings. It also holds the record for the oldest ghosts ("oldest" being how long ago the person died not his age) a whole Roman Legion that supposedly hangs out in a cellar marching towards the Minster. http://www.timetravel-britain.com/articles/history/ghosts.shtml
Dudes, I know this is a humor site but you get affected by radiation every day of your life (from day one). There's a certain level of "background radiation" that bombards earth. So yeah there's a scale of radiation, because there's "holy f**king balls my skin is melting" radiation (which will kill you), "Guys I feel sick" radiation (which by that point will kill you), and then there's doctor's x-ray radiation (which won't kill you).
Doesn't Niagara Falls also have a History of people who, sort of - "accidentally-on-purpose" - jump off the observation platform & go with the flow? Something to do with the negative ions, lulling them into a false sense of security, so they think, "Hey, it's only like that water slide at the local pooooooooooooooool!" - or something??? Or was that just something I dreamed, once? Mmmmm?
"We consider any radiation a very bad thing". You mean .... like Nevada?
as an expat living in the Czech Republic, I can say that Poltergeist has never made it over here. except, maybe, to those intrepid pirates who have not only managed to discover it, but then decided to download it. the pirates are a-plenty, but the discoverers are not. you wouldn't believe the movies that are completely unavailable here. not a single Czech I know has ever even heard of Casablanca. I can understand not having seen it, but never even heard of it? too creepy. Bogart who? was he in the SS?
Those places are creepy, but I can top all of those. The scariest place in the world is Dick Cheney's shooting range. Do not go there. If you value your life in any way, stay away.
Okay I'm retarded. It wasn't a mill, it was a water tower. (I just went through the photos, and yeah, I'm crazy.)
I live right by the house. I've been there several times -- most recently a few weeks ago because I had a friend who'd never gone. Yes, I did the entire estate tour. Yes, I went into the underground boiler room -- which was terrifying in terms of how unsafe it was back when they were running it, but... no. Not scary. I mean, there's like, a mill with old plumbing equipment. It has like, pipes and an old bathtub. And yes, I have seen the shining. The house was not the scary part, the people/things in it was the scary part. The house always looked rather lovely. It was the creepy children and dead people in bathtubs that ruined it. All the winchester mystery house has is replacement furniture (almost none of the original, though admittedly they are period pieces from the same time, they weren't hers) and a lot of really short steps, cause she had arthritis. (And yes, some stairways into nothing. But if you're afraid of a ceiling at the end of a staircase, you need therapy, because ceiling cat is not actually watching your every move.)
Ducky, shut the hell up. You've obviously never been inside the house, seeing as you're only repeating what the article said about it. You've also clearly never seen the Shining, or else you would never underestimate the horror-potential of large abandoned structures and mazes. Go inside and walk for 20 minutes and try to go back, I dare you.
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I've always wondered whether Sarah Winchester's medium was married to a building contractor... and duckyreads, I believe that was actually an ad for a German energy drink...
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As an easily frightened person, I can tell you that the Winchester Mystery House is not actually that frightening. I can't even go see horror movies. However, the Winchester House is just like -- a very old, weird house. With things in 13s, with spiderweb motifs. I grew up in the area, so maybe driving by it all the time made it somehow unimpressive? But seriously, it's just like if you got a crazy person to design a house. There are doors that open to the wrong place, and it's difficult to navigate if you don't know it well, but -- there is nothing creepy about it. And yeah, I am that girl who cried like a baby after that one stupid fake car commercial with the screaming girl inserted randomly in the middle. (You all know what I'm talking about, you jerks. Who makes that kind of freaky thing?)
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