40 Places On Earth That Are So Terrifying, They Make Haunted Houses Look Like Daycare

School bathrooms. I’m dead serious about this.

Probably not the scariest on Earth, but to me as an Ohioan, the many dead and dying towns we have here can be pretty surreal. Places where manufacturing and mining jobs dried up, and most or all of the inhabitants just left.

Many still have a few people living there, often 50 or less. In these places, it can feel like you've gone back in time. There are no chain stores of any kind, only old-timey mom and pop places. Maybe a general store, a bar/diner, a post office if they're lucky, and that's it. All of the vehicles are pristine 50s and 60s models, the farm equipment may be from the 1920s or earlier. 90% of the homes and businesses are abandoned, if not more. You may also hear an accent not spoken by anyone other than these few people. I've been to tiny towns here where everyone sounded like they'd been transplanted out of Boston to some middle of nowhere Ohio town. (Due to isolation, stuff like this can happen where an area has so little exposure to other areas that they retain an accent through generations that technically shouldn't exist locally, it's kind of like a type of Founder Effect. Look up Tangier Island, Virginia for a great example.)

Visiting these places can be uncomfortable, because the few remaining residents are often downright hostile to outsiders.

Chernobyl is pretty scary.

Personally the uncontacted tribes that remain on Earrh scare the s**t out of me (while being fascinating at the same time).

The Sentinelese hate all outsiders and will try to k**l anyone within range. ~~Yet it is likely they have never discovered fire.~~ (everyone keeps making a thing of this particular note so i'm just taking it out)

Many others exist in South American jungles and have only been spotted by helicopter/occasional aerial sightings. I've always found that unknown aspect very creepy.

Edit: I am aware that, in the past, people have contacted them successfully. However, any of the most recent attempts to contact them have been met with varying degrees of hostility, which is where my own fear comes from. I'm not saying they aren't justified or have their reasons, either.

2006: Two fisherman k****d when they fell asleep in their boat and drifted too close to shore.

2018: Missionary k****d when he tried to visit and speak with them.

Hoia Baciu forest in Romania is considered to be a haunted forest, some people went missing in that forest (the shepherd who went missing with a flock of 200 sheep). Visitors of this forest also report strange feelings of nausea, anxiety and being watched.

I live in India, so jungles, in which elephants and predators live, are pretty scary. Days are pretty cool, but after twilight its scary...

The elephant's foot at Chernobyl. I am pretty sure being in the same room as that thing is lethal.

I visited a place on a tour of WW2 events around Europe that gave me absolute chills. It was in the middle of a woods, a big pit with steps cut into the side that we carefully walked down. It must've been about 20ft deep and 50ft from side to side, empty save for a single wooden post riddled with bullet holes. Horrible, but so were a lot of other places we'd been, but this one was weird. It was in the middle of a forest we'd walked through, full of birds and other wildlife, but here it was silent, completely still. No wind, no noise, nothing grew through the packed earth. It sounds stupid but it was like nature rejected it, it felt poisonous. As soon as we walked away from it all the sounds of nature started again. Freaked me out, that was 26 years ago and I've never forgotten how it made me feel.

In Hawaii, there’s a sinkhole who’s name escapes me. Nobody knows exactly how or why but sometimes, people who swim there are fine one moment before showing signs of panic and are subsequently pulled into the depths. No visible disturbances in the water are present in these cases and many times, people are fine. The locals believe a legendary water monster lives there and have therefore banned any and all swimming in this area.

Most likely, it’s a tidal whirlpool but if this is the case, there would be visible water disturbance on or near the surface and the disappearances in a smaller area of the lake, however this is not the case from what I hear.

After watching the movie The Lighthouse I would be terrified of spending one day there. Just the idea of being in a small rock in the middle of nowhere with no communication and just one small accident from death terrifies me.

The Mariana Trench.

GloDyna:
Just read on it..1960 was the First Time Man Reached The Bottom. Took till 2013 to do it again.. sheesh..7 miles deep.. looked at a few creatures.. Goblin Shark? HAHA NOPE!

Consonno (Italy) is a ghost city, consonno was called “città dei balocchi” in old time because of the “life quality” about the city, after a landslide, the city started to become a ghost town. [here the link if you want to know more](http://it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consonno)
It’s not “haunted” or maybe it is, but the city now it’s really creepy without any people living on it.

Any school at night with the lights off. Something about places that are alive with people all day can be the creepiest when you experience them alone in the dark at night.

Edit: I once got left in my old jr high building after a play. I had been playing hide and seek and s**t and when it was over my brother strait forgot to find me to go home. That stage, the auditorium, the curtains, back rooms with costumes. All that s**t in the pitch dark and silence was f*****g wild!

As an Aussie, I have to say our fire zones.

The Island of the Dolls in Mexico


Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Kentucky, USA.

The scariest places are the nearby slums, crack-house and h****n-infested areas. Nearly every major city has one or more. Latin America may have the worst ones but it’s hard to tell.

If you go there and don’t know your way around, you are going to get robbed or worse.

And if you don’t do your research first, it’s easy to find yourself in these areas without knowing. All the physical places are known and easy enough to avoid - Snake Island doesn’t move.

People have limited answers to places we can at least send a probe.

I'm not going to.

I'm nominating the molten core of the planet. Temperatures hot enough to turn liquid metal into gas, but pressures too high to allow even that so it remains liquid.

Black Mountain in Australia

Stories have persisted for years of people disappearing into the interior of the mountain ... and never coming out. Even the Aborigines shun it.

Annapurna. A mountain in Nepal where nearly 30 percent of climbers die.

There is an island in Brazil, the island has 1500m length x 500m width. It has at least 45 snakes per hectare. How scary is that?