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The darkest places in the world (II)

If you are a fan of the spooky, in Mysterious we recommend a "little escape" to any of these places that we will describe below, you know...To feel that other kind of cold that begins in the spine and ends up freeing with a cry of anguish.Places in which Edgar Allan Poe would surely be inspired by another of his stories; scenarios where Tim Burton would enjoy as a child in Disneyland.Indeed, we return with the second part of "The darkest places in the world"...Ready? Do you carry the rosary in your hand, the holy water and a friend to hide behind? Let's go there!

OCHATE, BURGOS, SPAIN

Otxate translates from Basque as 'secret door' , a coincidence-or non-etymological that makes reference to this town abandoned and uninhabited since the nineteenth century, due to the terrible epidemics of typhus, smallpox and cholera that occurred at this time.No, there is no one left...At least, no physical.

The darkest places in the world (II)

Because experts in the world of paranormal phenomena have recorded countless strange events and apparitions, shocking psychophonies and events that have nothing to do with the world of the living.unfortunately "forever" : horrible diseases that were primed only with this area and not with nearby towns, are some of the most sinister examples.Who knows.

AMITYVILLE, SUFFOLK, USA

Surely you've seen the movie-any version-and in your mind you have that strange house whose windows resemble menacing eyes On November 13, 1974, at 03:15 a.m. (time where all the strange phenomena pass curiously) , Ronald DeFeo murdered his parents and his four siblings.what? Because strange voices from the house told him.

The darkest places in the world (II)

A year later a family bought that house at a very low price, just 29 days were those who managed to pass through those walls, they left without take neither a piece of furniture nor a piece of clothing: what happened there was simply scary, so much so that it has become the haunted house par excellence in the US

HAMPTON COURT PALACE, LONDON

It is the cursed residence par excellence in Great Britain.By the 16th century Henry VIII famous for his failed marriages, accused several of his wives of adultery and ordered them executed.

The darkest places in the world (II)

The queens Ana Bolena Catherine Howard and Jane Seymour have been walking in this palace since then...and what is worse, It is said that every 40 years a child throws himself, as hypnotized, into the lake inside the property.

MARY KING'S CLOSE, EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND

Edinburgh, Scotland, an authentic underground city under its streets, in the Mary King`s Close, an area full of stories of ghosts and murders originating in those years of plagues, plague, misery and terror.

The darkest places in the world (II)

Underground houses that served as refuge for artisans, thieves and people without recourse.Stories that trapped those walls now full of tourists eager to find the mystery.

CHERNOBIL, UKRAINE

We all remember the terrible accident nuclear incident in 1986, thousands of deaths and a legacy that still now manifests itself in unfortunate diseases that are inherited from generation to generation...all focused on that city, Chern obil, whose name still produces chills.

The darkest places in the world (II)

Today that area is the clear example of terror suspended in silence: abandoned parks where only the squeak of rusty swings is heard, schools abandoned with blackboards stuck in a lesson that never ended...and rivers of an orange color where strangely large fish swim.

CENTRALIA, PENNSYLVANIA, USA.

1962, an explosion of An underground coal mine sowed the panic in this small town in the US The population escaped in a hurry leaving their homes and cars, evacuating as they could each hospital and each trade, every corner of this place where gases and smoke they began to choke every corner and every roof of Centralia.

The darkest places in the world (II)

Today, 51 years later, the underground fire continues to boil, from the cracks of the roads ascends threads of smoke coming of that inner hell.

THE HANGING CEMETERY OF THE ISLAND OF LUZON, PHILIPPINES

In the mountains of the island of Luzon there is something overwhelming.A whole cemetery colg I walk from a limestone cliff; and it is that the population has the custom to carve its own coffin for later, and on the day of its death, to be subject in some free corner of that cliff.The reason? Being close to heaven.

The darkest places in the world (II)

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