If you’re tired of all the usual getaways — beach resorts, boring hotel rooms, theme parks — and wondering where to travel for that more thrilling, spine-tingling adventure, then it’s time to gather all of your courage, pack your bags and head over to the scariest places on earth!
These creepy locations are absolutely not meant for the fainthearted as they will not only make your hair stand on end but terrify you beyond your wits!
The Beechworth Lunatic Asylum in Australia
Here in Beechworth Lunatic Asylum, thousands of patients came in but only a few got out. Inside this mental facility, which started operating in 1867, a considerable number of cruelties occurred which include forced labor, abuse and neglect, and atrocious medical treatments and experiments. For a certain “clinical study”, patients were tied to revolving chairs and medical practitioners would spin them so fast that they would bleed from their eyes, nose, ears and mouths. With all these appalling treatments that went on for years, it is not a surprise that there are many vengeful spirits who want to hang around, making it one of the most haunted places in the world. Visitors have reported numerous sightings of not only insane patients but doctors and nurses as well.
The Aokigahara Forest in Japan
Where to travel next for that nightmare of a lifetime? To Japan, of course! This country is well-known for their awfully frightening horror movies which, more often than not, are based on actual accounts. If you’re in the mood of being part of a real horror adventure, head over to Japan’s Aokigahara Forest. Situated at the foot of Mount Fuji, this forest is well-known for its gorgeous ice caverns but only a few people grasp its malevolent side. There is something about this sea of woods that draws countless people in and take their own lives, making it Japan’s number one suicide spot and one of the scariest places on earth. To further solidify such tragic reputation, Ubasute, a practice wherein an elderly female family member was taken to a desolated place and left to die, was often practiced here. Rumours had it that electronic equipments often fail in this forest, resulting in several travellers getting lost and the forest claiming yet another prey.
The Tower of London
Next on your Where to Travel Horror List is the Tower of London. An infamous chopping block for human heads, this place is said to be one of the most haunted places on Earth. Take a twilight trip to this spooky place and you might just witness a headless Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII’s second wife walking down the halls, Sir Walter Raleigh wandering around Byward Tower or hear the screams of Guy Fawkes that would definitely scare you stiff. If you see a ghostly apparition of two young boys, that might just be Edward V and Richard of Shrewsbury, both of whom mysteriously disappeared in this once royal residence. But of all these, the most terrifying sighting you’ll ever see would probably be of Lady Margaret Pole, the 8th Countess of Salisbury who ran screaming from her executioner. The axe-wielding man, in turn, chased after her and chopped her to death will 11 blows. With blood gushing out from all of her wounds, it is said that Lady Salisbury re-enacts this horrifying scene on the night of her death anniversary.
