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Creepy Places IRL That Don't Seem Possible

Take a look at this totally creepy travel guide, and feel better about staying home!

Creepy Places IRL That Don't Seem Possible

July 25, 2020

Maybe you don't stand a chance at traveling anywhere this summer. Depressed about that? Don't be. The world is in fact filled with destinations that are absolutely terrifying and would bring you no joy whatsoever. If you find yourself fantasizing about faraway lands, stop and just be thankful that you're NOT being roped into visiting any of the following horrifically creepy places.

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THE ISLAND OF THE DOLLS WANTS YOU TO STAY AND PLAY. The legend goes that a small girl drowned in the canals near the island, and Don Julian Santana Ba — For details, read The 6 Creepiest Places on Earth (Part 2)

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DOGS KEEP THROWING THEMSELVES OFF OVERTOUN BRIDGE. They've been jumping off this brige near Scotland's charming little village of Milton since the ear — For details, read The 6 Creepiest Places on Earth

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THIS CHAPEL HAS TENS OF THOUSANDS OF HUMAN BONES. The Sedlec Ossuary was the work of Czech woodcarver Frantisek Rint, hired to organize the church's s — For details, read The 6 Creepiest Places on Earth

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TAKAKONUMA GREENLAND PARK ABRUPTLY CLOSED TWO YEARS AFTER OPENING. Local lore insists the park shut down after its rides killed visitors. Today, the J — For details, read The 7 Creepiest Places on Earth (Part 3)

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ANDERLECHT VETERINARY SCHOOL HOLDS MAD SCIENTIST SPECIMENS. Corridaen It's abandoned now, but urban explorers have reported such discoveries as the h — For details, read The 6 Creepiest Places on Earth (Part 5)

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EVERY AUTUMN, BIRDS IN JATINGA PLUNGE TO THEIR DEATH. The suicides always occur between 7 and 10 p.m. and only around a specific mile-long, 200-yard — For details, read The 7 Creepiest Places on Earth (Part 3)

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VISIT PAPUA AND WITNESS AN UNUSUAL BURIAL RITUAL. The Kuku-Kuku people hold the dead body over a fire to smoke it. They draw out the soft, easily deco — For details, read 6 Creepy Places Where Dead Bodies Just Lie Out in the Open

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THE PARIS CATACOMBS HOLD MILLIONS OF SKELETONS. In the 18th century, the city moved human remains there from cemeteries to avoid an epidemic. Though w — For details, read The 6 Creepiest Places on Earth (Part 2)

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A SHIP GRAYEYARD SITS IN THE DESERT OF UZBEKISTAN. Many years ago, hundreds of ships docked at the bustling fishing port of Muynak by the Aral Sea, bu — For details, read The 8 Creepiest Places on Earth (Part 4)

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PRIPYAT'S BEEN DECAYING SINCE THE INCIDENT AT CHERNOBYL. The city is located in the Exclusion Zone, the 30-kilometer radius affected by the nuclear m — For details, read The 6 Creepiest Places on Earth

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TOGO'S AKODESSAWA FETISH MARKET SELLS HEAPS OF SKULLS. In Western African Voodoo, animal remains magically fight evil and disease. The market's many s — For details, read The 8 Creepiest Places on Earth (Part 4)

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THOUSANDS OF CORPSES SIT IN CHUUK LAGOON, OFF NEW GUINEA. In February 1944, the US Navy launched an attack on the Japanese called Operation Hailstone. — For details, read The 8 Creepiest Places on Earth (Part 4)

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FIVE THOUSAND MINERS LIVED ON THE TINY ISLAND OF GUNKANJIMA. It was the most densely populated independent place on Earth, ever-the equivalent of plac — For details, read The 6 Creepiest Places on Earth (Part 2)

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A TEAM FOUND S00 BODIES COVERED IN BITE MARKS. This is the ancient village of Herxheim in southwest Germany. Human bones reveal where the meat was scr — For details, read The 8 Creepiest Places on Earth (Part 4)

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FENGDU IS A CHINESE GHOST TOWN, SUPPOSEDLY HOME TO DEMONS. The area used to be a Taoist graveyard but sank when a dam was built. Today, it's full of t — For details, read The 7 Creepiest Places on Earth (Part 3)

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THIS CAVE IS FILLED WITH THE BONES OF MURDERED CHILDREN. They were probably sacrifices to Chaac, the Mayan god of rain. Over hundreds of years, the bo — For details, read The 7 Creepiest Places on Earth (Part 3)

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JAPANESE MONKS CALL MOUNT OSORE THE GATEWAY TO HELL. Not only does the mountain look like the kind of wasteland you might have to trudge through to — For details, read The 6 Creepiest Places on Earth (Part 5)

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GENERATIONS OF PIGEONS HAVE POOPED IN CREEDMOOR ASYLUM. Creedmoor made a name for itself with a dysentery outbreak back in the 1940s. It avoided being — For details, read The 6 Creepiest Places on Earth (Part 5)

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ANCIENT NOMADS BURIED THEIR DEAD NEAR EL CONCHALITO BEACH. They later dug up the bodies SO they could paint them red and buried them again. It's not u — For details, read 6 Creepy Places Where Dead Bodies Just Lie Out in the Open

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THIS RUSSIAN BASE BECAME A DISEASERESEARCH CENTER. Fort Alexander messed around with cholera, tetanus, and even the bubonic plague. All the plague vic — For details, read The 6 Creepiest Places on Earth (Part 5)

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