There are on our planet, places that are frankly frightening – they seem enchanted, cursed, or they can meet supernatural beings. Many have become Ghost towns where you can walk only a leg of the brave. And there’s a reason: it is said that there is no reason bad things happen. Even curious travelers are afraid of strange music, phantoms and just oppressive atmosphere.
The most frightening places on planeteater Roanoke in North Carolina
In 1587 a group of British under the leadership of captain John white decided to settle on the island. White returned to Britain for supplies, leaving his family on the island. On his return he found the Fort in ruins and no trace of relatives or anyone of the other colonists. Only on the tree was carved the single word «of Croatoan» (the so-called Indian tribe who lived in the neighborhood). To this day, visitors claim that it is inhabited by spirits.
The island of Nauru in the Pacific ocean
Only half a century ago the population of this tiny island was the richest in the world. Locals say that the people who inhabited the island at the time, was producing natural phosphate, polluting the environment. The devastation they caused, angered the gods, and as punishment, they cursed the inhabitants and their descendants, to those always lived in poverty and misery. Today Nauru one of the poorest countries. To get a little funds the government leases most of its lands of Australia for use as a camp for temporary detention for illegal immigrants and refugees.
Castle of Montsegur in the South of France
Remote lock located on the top of a steep cliff, also known to locals as «the Synagogue of Satan.» In the 12th century the castle became the seat of the Cathars, which was proclaimed by the Catholic Church heretics. The Pope appealed to France for help in ousting members of the sect. After a 10-month siege of the castle, 200 Cathars perished at the stake, but before he managed to cast a curse on this place.
Island Povelja in Italy
Locals say: «When a wicked man dies, he wakes up on Povele». Powella located near Venice and is nicknamed «Island of death». Today there are winemakers and there are sheep. But once there were hundreds of families so influential that they controlled the island by themselves. They mowed the plague. Then the island turned into a sanatorium for leprosy patients and people with mental illness. Abandoned in 1968, it is now called «the most haunted place in Europe.» The island was sold in 2014 businessman Luigi Brugnaro, who decided to restore it, but did not disclose the reason for his decision.
Timbuktu in Mali
In 2012, the city was attacked by extremists defiled the tombs of the saints and having done the unthinkable: blowing up the door of the mosque Sidi Yahya. According to legend, the discovery of 600 year old doors will mark the end of the world. Since then, local residents point to the chaos that reigns in the world. But whether the city, this shopping Mecca, which let in strangers to themselves only 100 years ago, is cursed from the beginning? Locals claim that the city has lived under a curse for hundreds of years, from the time of the trade salt, when, say, the roads were paved with gold.
Village Angikuni, Nunavut, Canada
In November 1930, frosty winter night under a full moon, the hunter of fur-bearing animals Joe Labelle came to the village on the shore of lake Angikuni in the Northern region of Canada, hoping to find friends. Instead, he found no one. Every house had clothes, utensils and food over the dull spots. But there was not a soul, and dogs families was dead. What was even more creepy: all graves in the cemetery were opened… and empty.
Adams, Tn
Andrew Jackson once said, «I would rather face the entire might of the British army, than to meet again with the witch of the bell family!» The family home – the site of the famous apparition, which began in the 1800s, when a family named bell began to chase the evil spirit. Rumor has it that the place is cursed so far.
Isle Eileen Moore, Outer Hebrides
This tiny island off the coast of Scotland cursed since the end of December 1900, when three men serving the lighthouse mysteriously disappeared. To the island approached the ship and found one of the men. But they found a diary, which was more frightening records. Thomas Marshall, second assistant, wrote about «the strong winds, which he had not seen even once in 20 years.» He also noted that the chief lighthouse Keeper, James Ducat, was «very quiet», and a third assistant William MacArthur was crying. Later, on December 13, it was written that the storm was still raging, and all the men «prayed.» Interestingly, in the district nothing was reported about the storm, 12, 13 or 14 Dec. Finally, on 15 December it was written «the Storm stopped, the sea is calm».
The Heuer Verde, Brazil
In 1923, during the politically unstable situation in the country, about 600 residents of the village of Heuer Verde just disappeared. As the story goes, after all the inhabitants had left the only gun. It has been fired, and he was found near a note in which was written «there is no Salvation».
Stull, KS
Rumor has it that the cemetery in Stolle buried the witch. But it was not the usual witch: she had an affair with the devil, who was so fascinated by it that haunts her now. In Stolle were documented mysterious hangings, burnings, and other such things.
Mausoleum in Samarkand is the Gur-Emir mausoleum, Uzbekistan
Grave of the Turko-Mongolian conqueror Tamerlane, is also the place where he, according to historians, in 1360 killed 1% of the population of the entire planet. The inscription on his grave reads: «When I rise from the dead, the world will tremble». In the early 1940s, Soviet scientists were obsessed by the grave and exhumed Tamerlane to explore. Interestingly, several hours later Germany attacked the Soviet Union.
Shar-e-Away, Bamian, Afghanistan
Known as the «City of screams» this place was the capital of the Ghurid dynasty before the attack of the Mongols in the 12th century. Genghis Khan was especially cruel with them because the ruler fought back and killed the beloved son of Genghis Khan. Dynasty betrayed the daughter of the ruler, who according to legend gave the invaders a secret passage, hoping for a reward. But she was brutally killed, as well as all other residents. For years, the place used as a military base, but it never lived.
Centralia, PA
By 2017, this once thriving city left to live for only 7 people. The others left the city because of a fire in a coal seam that is burning slowly and steadily since 1962. These 7 residents fought hard to stay in the Ghost town, until you die. When that happens, their home will bring the government due the sovereign right of States to dispose of the property.
Kalaupapa, Hawaii
Once called «the most cursed place on earth» is a beautiful place on the coast of Molokai carries a dark imprint of the past. More than 100 years here kept leprosy patients. They have never been allowed to see family or to go somewhere. The law changed in 1969. Today, 6 patients still live on the island.
