These Creepy Places Will Scare The Hell Out Of You!

#1. Kabayan

Kabayan is a collection of man made caves in The Philippines. Each cave is filled with mummies. Kabayan mummies are some of the best preserved on earth, and Kabayan is overflowing with them. And there are so many caves that it's easy to get lostamong thousands of mummiesthat look spry enough to leap right out of their pods.

#2. The Island of the Dolls

Isla de las Munecas, or Island of the Dolls, is so called because it is littered with hundreds of dolls tied to its trees, hung from branches and scattered along its floor. What makes this even more disturbing is that all of this was done by one man, a hermit named Julian Santana Barrera, who according to legend discovered the remains of a young girl who had drowned off shore. Julian found her doll floating in the water nearby, and in memory of her tied it to a tree. He then began to decorate the island with more dolls he found in tips and the nearby canal, which he believed was appeasing the spirit of the dead girl he found. Julian died in 2001, with the prevailing theory behind his death being that he committed suicide after being driven insane. However, the Island of the Dolls is still accessible by boat.

#3. Candido Godoi

Candido Godoi is a town in Brazil with an extraordinarily high number of twins. The cause of this isn't known, but many have speculated that Nazi doctor Josef Mengele, who had performed "twin experiments" in Auschwitz in order to increase the Aryan population, had continued these experiments in Candido Godoi after he had fled to South America following the collapse of the Nazi regime. However, many historians dispute this theory and claim that the town's high twin rate is due to excessive inbreeding.

#4. Aokigahara Forest

Aokigahara is Japan's suicide forest. Walk through it and you run serious risk of stumbling into a dead body. So many people have "visited" Aokigahara Forest that park rangers have put up signs that say "life is precious" and "think of your family." Park rangers still have to make regular trips into the forest to collect what bodies they can find. Sometimes, inquisitive tourists stumble upon the sites.

#5. Pripyat

Evacuated a few days after the Chernobyl disaster, Pripyat was once home to 50,000 people but now it stands completely abandoned. Hospitals, theme parks and playgrounds are desolate landmarks from a society forced to leave their lives behind them, and due to radiation it remained completely uninhabited for over two decades. However, the Ukrainian government has now begun to allow tourists to visit the city due to a decrease in the possibility of radiation poisoning.

#6. Winchester Mystery House

The Winchester Mystery House in Northern California was constructed under the supervision of Sarah Winchester, who insisted upon around-the-clock development on the property. As such, the house is actually more of a huge, winding mansion, filled with corridors that lead nowhere, staircases that seem to go upwards endlessly and other odd features. It is said that Sarah believed she was being haunted by the spirits of those who had been called by Winchester rifles (her deceased husband was gun magnate William Winchester), who ordered her to keep working on the house. Following her death construction work on the property immediately stopped, and it is now a tourist attraction.

#7. Bird Suicide Grounds of Jatinga

The small village of Jatinga in northern India seems like any other quiet, isolated village in the world except for one thingevery year around the months of September and October hundreds of birds dive to their deaths within its city limits. To make things even stranger the incidents only happen in the evening between 7pm and 10pm across a roughly mile long strip of land. The village has even taken steps to capitalize on the phenomenon by setting up "bird watching tours" around area.

#8. The Body Farm

Located in the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, The Body Farm is an outdoors research facility in which hundreds of dead bodies in various states of decomposition are scattered. These bodies are used by crime scene investigators to reenact murder scenarios in the most realistic way possible, and are donated by those who wish to help catch murderers from beyond the grave.

#9. Hellingly Hospital

Hellingly Hospital in East Sussex, England is a real life insane asylum straight out of a horror movie. It opened in 1903 and lobotomized and electrocuted it's patients for 90 years until it was finally shut down. The building has been abandoned since 1994. Every year, a few photographers are brave enough to visit Hellingly Hospital. The pictures are right out a nightmare.

#10. Matsuo Ghost Mine

Located in northern Japan, this was once the largest sulfur mine in the Far East. After closing in the 70âÂ€²s however, it was abandoned and the only thing remaining are the large residential complexes that used to house all of the workers. What makes this place so creepy though is the heavy mist that constantly shrouds the area. It's so heavy in fact that some people have reported taking days to find the place.

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