Scariest Places on Earth
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Scariest Places on Earth – Number 1
Bran Castle, Transylvania, Romania - In a removed corner of Carpathian Mountains in Romania, the tale of Count Dracula spent. The fable of the count goes back to the 15th century, and is actually based on Prince Vlad Tepes (Vlad, the Impaler) or Vlad Dracula (Vlad, son of the Dragon), a remorseless guardian of Christianity.
The Count is best known for expelling an army of 20,000 assaultive Ottomans, and staking them, rectum to sternum, in surrounding forests. In this citadel of gothic architecture it is possible to reconstruct the journey of Bram Stoker's vampire hunter, Jonathan Harker, along the Bargau Pass and up to Dracula's notorious Bran Castle.
Scariest Places on Earth – Number 2
Alcatraz, San Francisco, California - Celebrated in the recent action films ‘The Rock’ and the classic, ‘Escape from Alcatraz’, America's most ill-famed prison house has a real repute. It comes out from the likes of gunners like Al Capone and Clyde Hicks, and the fact that no one has ever broken loose from it in the 29 years that it held prisoners.
Formally opened to the public in Civil War times, the Rock was transmuted into a unkind prison in 1933. Its warden, James A. Johnson told each fresh prisoner: "Take each day of your sentence one day at a time. Don't think how far you have to go, but how far you've come." A steadfast believer in tough love, several prisoners died in the Hole -- cellblock D -- often from self-inflicted injuries. And that's the root of most of the accounts of incomprehensible crashing sounds, cell doors enigmatically shutting, weird screams, and acute feelings of being followed.
Scariest Places on Earth – Number 3
Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland - This glorious castle is typically gothic, perched on top of a rocky crag, giving it an astonishing vista of Scottish hills. But deep down the empty halls and constricted streets of Edinburgh, there are the echoes of the dead. At least, that's what has been reported. Hot spots for ghosts include the castle's prison cells, the South Bridge vaults and Mary's King Close, a obsolete street used to insulate and finally entomb victims of the plague.
There are also reports of spooky dogs, a headless drummer, and the bodies of prisoners taken during the French seven-year war and the American War of Independence. In fact, there was such a glut of reports that in 2001, a scientific research team headed by Dr. Richard Wiseman, a psychologist from the University of Hertfordshire, set out to find quantifiable proof.
Scariest Places on Earth – Number 4
Winchester Mystery House, San Jose, California - When Sarah Winchester's husband expired in 1881, she got a case of the ghosts. The gun maker's widow became confident that she required security from the evil spirits of all the people wiped out by Winchester rifles. (Winchester Model 1873 was affectionately known as "the gun that won the West.") Her religious counselor advised her to find a house that would attract good spirits, but confuse wicked ones.
Instead of going, however, the widow employed a team of carpenters and craftsmen to make more rooms to the Victorian mansion indefinitely. The enlargement continued for 31 years until her demise in 1922. After Sarah's death, the workers began listening their names being uttered from the abandoned hallways, as well as footsteps; one of them laid claim that he saw the widow's ghost. They all determined to look for new work soon thereafter.
Scariest Places on Earth – Number 5
Pollepel Island, Hudson River, New York - The island has a ghoulish history, having been strategically significant during the American War of Independence. Later, in the early 1900s, the island was purchased by a Scotsman, Francis Bannerman, who determined to turn it into a homage to Scotland. A firearms maker, he constructed a warehouse in the style of a Scottish castle, complete with castellated towers.
But after his dying in 1918, the smooth-running Scottish enclave experienced a series of catastrophes. Two hundred pounds of powder and shells detonated, blowing half a building onto New York City. Lightning bolts seemed to torment the flagpoles to the point of annihilation. And in a coup de grâce, a monumental storm on the Hudson caused a freighter and passenger barge, the Pollepel, to explode and crash into the island. Now all that's left are the remains, and what the Dutch refer to as the Heer of Dunderberg, a fiend (and his goblins) who inhabits the Highlands and doesn't like visitors.
Scariest Places on Earth – Number 6
Hacker House, Winston-Salem, North Carolina - The fable of the Hacker House goes back centuries, and it is continually developing, as dreadful events continue to plague this ill-omened house. It rests upon a Native American mass grave, where several dozen bodies lay, aged 20-25 and deposed execution-style, but in such a way that has bewildered archaeologists because there was no proof of weapons or struggle. And indeed Cherokee lore says that the place is cursed, a place, "where the brave may not walk, as his prayers would not be answered."
Further proof of evil play came in 1821, from signed affidavits given by Continental Army soldiers laying claim to have had a gun battle with dozens of undead. A century later, the Hacker House was a hospital and laboratory. Though reports are unclear, several bodies were dug up after a great fire in 1930, and they were found to be oddly hollow.
Experimental documentation by a Dr. Johnas Hacker seemed to indicate that the hollowing was a result of the experimental medicines ingested by his patients. Rebuilt, the house was made into a funeral parlor where things went predictably unwell. Now people seem to have smartened up. It is possible to take tours of Hacker House, but nobody lives there.
Scariest Places on Earth – Number 7
Dragsholm Slot, Horve in Sealand, Denmark - Not all specters are ill-tempered, and as evidence you need look no further than the gray lady of Dragsholm Slot. Once a fair maiden, the gray lady frequents the halls everlastingly looking to do good and make sure that everything is in order, as a token of her feeling for having a painful toothache cured right before her death.
Slightly less useful is the white lady. Another noble maiden, she kept up a secret love affair with a common man until the day they were both caught, and was then jailed inside the castle by her father. In the early 1930s, one lucky tourist managed to poke a finger hole through a piece of dilapidating mortar and ended up across a skeleton enveloped in a dress. Needless to say, tourism is still going strong.
Scariest Places on Earth – Number 8
Brissac Castle, Loire Valley, France - One of France's most chilling castles, Brissac castle has seven floors of horror and over two hundred rooms. Most ceilings are painted with gold and the tapestry collection is astoundingly attractive, as is the wood-carved furniture and columns made of glass crystal. No expense was too high for this castle when it was said to have been reconstructed in 1633.
It is rumored, however, that it is frequented by the ghost of Jacques de Breze's wife, Charlotte, and her lover. Both were killed, and Jacque de Breze sold the castle directly after their sudden, unforeseen deaths. Legend has it that he couldn't stand the nighttime groaning of the ghost lovers, while he slept alone.
Scariest Places on Earth – Number 9
Moscow's Underground, Russia - Russia, for one thing, is one of the most dreadful places imaginable... Now think of being in a an belowground network of tunnels that go 700 meters below the ground level with an dumbfounding 15 levels total.
In the belowground tunnels you can find many signs of agony and "questionable" reasons for certain items. Among the less dreadful: bunkers, supply depots, giant vaults, and subway tunnels. Some Moscow men have discovered historical and scaring relics like a torture chamber that is mentioned as being built by the czar named Ivan the Terrible in the 1580s. Another odd finding is a pond that was the site of what was said to be a mass suicide. Not approachable to tourists lawfully, but if you find a "digger", you just might be able to see what many can not and what Russia probably doesn't want you to see.
Scariest Places on Earth – Number 10
The Campground Haunted Massacre Attraction, Fort Mill, South Carolina - The campground site is not a real haunted place. It in reality is merely a campground, but the proprietors make the magic happen with scaryness in everyway you could ever think. One of its best attractions is a witchery section that is purported to be very realistic and affrighting.
Although camping at the site, or any site in the world for that matter, is scaring and thrilling in some way, when werewolf sightings are mentioned and an old mental hospital is right down the street, you become a little frightened, oh hell, you would be scared out of your mind.
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