The Top Ten Scariest Places on Earth




Places can be very frightening...Below there is a list of the TOP TEN SCARIEST PLACES according to the website; Wintersteel. The list is a compilation of the world, not just America, so some places might be unfamiliar if you live in America.


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~*~Number 10~*~


The Campground Haunted Massacre Attraction, Fort Mill, South Carolina: The campground site is not an actual haunted place. It actually is simply a campground, but the owners make the magic happen with scaryness in everyway you could ever imagine. One of its best attractions is a witchcraft section that is suppose to be very realistic and frightening.


Although camping at the site, or any site in the world for that matter, is frightening 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.


~*~Number 9~*~


Moscow's Underground, Russia: Russia, for one thing, is one of the most frightening places immaginable... Now imagine being in a an underground network of tunnels that go 700 meters below the ground level with an astounding 15 levels total.


In the underground tunnels you can find many signs of torture and "questionable" reasons for certain items. Among the less terrible: bunkers, supply depots, giant vaults, and subway tunnels (not in use). Some Moscow men have rediscovered historic and frightening relics like a torture chamber that is mentioned as being built by someone 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 accessible to tourists legally, 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.


~*~Number 8~*~


Brissac Castle, Loire Valley, France: One of France's scariest 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 beautiful, 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 rebuilt in 1633, I believe.


It is rumored, however, that it is haunted by the ghost of Jacques de Breze's wife, Charlotte, and her lover. Both were killed, and Jacque de Breze sold the castle immediately after their sudden, unexpected deaths. Legend has it that he couldn't stand the nighttime moaning of the ghost lovers, while he slept alone.


~*~Number 7~*~


Dragsholm Slot, Horve in Sealand, Denmark: Not all phantoms are ill-tempered, and as proof you need look no further than the gray lady of Dragsholm Slot. Once a fair maiden, the gray lady haunts the halls eternally looking to do good and make sure that everything is in order, as a token of her gratitude for having a painful toothache cured right before her death.


Slightly less helpful is the white lady. Another noble maiden, she kept up a secret love affair with a commoner until the day they were both caught, and was then imprisoned inside the castle by her father. In the early 1930s, one lucky tourist managed to poke a finger hole through a piece of crumbling mortar and ended up discovering a skeleton wrapped in a dress. Needless to say, tourism is still going strong.


~*~Number 6~*~


Hacker House, Winston-Salem, North Carolina: The legend of the Hacker House goes back centuries, and it is continually evolving, as terrible 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 baffled archaeologists because there was no evidence 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 evidence of evil play came in 1821, from signed affidavits given by Continental Army soldiers claiming 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 excavated after a great fire in 1930, and they were found to be curiously 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 turned 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 don't nobody live there.


~*~Number 5~*~


Pollepel Island, Hudson River, New York: The island has a morbid history, having been strategically important during the American War of Independence. Later, in the early 1900s, the island was bought by a Scotsman, Francis Bannerman, who decided to turn it into an homage to Scotland. A firearms maker, he built a warehouse in the style of a Scottish castle, complete with crenellated towers.


But after his death in 1918, the smooth-running Scottish enclave experienced a series of disasters. Two hundred pounds of powder and shells exploded, blowing half a building onto New York City. Lightning bolts seemed to torment the flagpoles to the point of disintegration. And in a coup de grāce, a massive 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.


~*~Number 4~*~


Winchester Mystery House, San Jose, California: When Sarah Winchester's husband died in 1881, she got a case of the spooks. The gun maker's widow became convinced that she needed protection from the evil spirits of all the people killed by Winchester rifles. (Winchester Model 1873 was affectionately known as "the gun that won the West.") Her spiritual counselor advised her to find a house that would attract good spirits, but confuse evil ones.


Instead of moving, however, the widow hired a team of carpenters and craftsmen to add rooms to the Victorian mansion indefinitely. The expansion continued for 31 years until her death in 1922. After Sarah's death, the workers began hearing their names being whispered from the deserted hallways, as well as footsteps; one of them claimed to see the widow's ghost. They all decided to look for new work shortly thereafter.


~*~Number 3~*~


Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland: This magnificent castle is typically medieval, perched atop a rocky crag, giving it an amazing vista of Scottish hills. But inside the empty halls and narrow streets of Edinburgh, there are the echoes of the dead. At least, that's what has been reported. Hot spots for specters include the castle's prison cells, the South Bridge vaults and Mary's King Close, a disused street used to quarantine and eventually entomb victims of the plague.


There are also reports of ghost 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 quantitative proof.


~*~Number 2~*~


Alcatraz, San Francisco, California: Lionized in the recent action film The Rock and the classic, Escape from Alcatraz, America's most infamous prison has a concrete reputation. It stems from the likes of gunners like Al Capone and Clyde Hicks, and the fact that no one has ever escaped successfully in the 29 years that it held prisoners.


Officially opening its doors in Civil War times, the Rock was transformed into a brutal prison in 1933. Its warden, James A. Johnson told each new 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 firm believer in tough love, several prisoners died in the Hole -- cellblock D -- often from self-inflicted wounds. And that's the source of most of the reports of inexplicable crashing sounds, cell doors mysteriously closing, unearthly screams, and intense feelings of being watched.


~*~Number 1~*~


Bran Castle, Transylvania, Romania: In a remote corner of Carpathian Mountains in Romania, the tale of Count Dracula played out. The legend of the count dates back to the 15th century, and is based on Prince Vlad Tepes (Vlad, the Impaler) or Vlad Dracula (Vlad, son of the Dragon), a ruthless defender of Christianity.


The Count is best known for routing an army of 20,000 attacking Ottomans, and impaling them, rectum to sternum, in surrounding forests. In this bastion of gothic architecture it is possible to retrace the journey of Bram Stoker's vampire hunter, Jonathan Harker, along the Bargau Pass and up to Dracula's infamous Bran Castle.



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