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الأحد، 22 مارس 2015
السبت، 14 فبراير 2015
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الجمعة، 13 فبراير 2015
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Mysterious Places : Bird Suicide Grounds of Jatinga, India
Bird Suicide Grounds of Jatinga, India
Jatinga is a small
village located in Assam, a state in northeastern India, Commonly known as valley of death for birds.
that small village
of Jatinga in north of India seems like any other quiet, isolated village in
the world except for one reason…every year around the months of September and
October hundreds of birds dive to their deaths within its city limits.
During these late
monsoon months, several migratory and local birds commit mass suicide at the
village.
Just after sunset,
between 7 and 10 pm, hundreds of birds descend from the sky, plummeting to
their deaths by crashing into buildings and trees.
Locals believed that
evil spirits living in the skies were responsible for bringing down the birds,
but that isn’t true.
Various studies have been conducted to unravel
the causes behind this phenomenon. The record maintained show that 44
species have been attracted to the light sources. It has been established that
the birds are not attracted to the entire Jatinga Ridge but only to a
well-defined strip, 1.5 km long and 200 metres wide. Invariably the birds come
in only from the north and attempts at placing the lights on the southern side
of the ridge to attract the birds have failed. Another interesting fact has
been brought out is that no long distance migratory bird gets attracted to the
light traps. The victims are resident birds of the adjacent valleys and hill
slopes.
Wildlife
and bird societies in India have gone to the village to educate them about the
phenomenon in an attempt to stop the mass killings of the birds. Since then
bird deaths have decreased by forty percent. Government officials in Assam are
hoping to use the phenomenon to attract tourists to the small city, and some
work has gone into creating accommodations for visitors in Jatinga.
Jatinga is not the
only place in the world where such weird behaviour of birds is noticed. This
phenomenon is also seen in Philippines, Malaysia and another state of India
Mizoram.
الجمعة، 5 ديسمبر 2014
Creepiest Places upon Earth : Hellingly Hospital (The Lost Asylum) , England
Hellingly Hospital (The Lost Asylum),
England
Sitting on top of a hill oversight the East Sussex Countryside sits
the battered remnant of Hellingly hospital, Formerly Hellingly Asylum. If the name of this English hospital isn’t
enough to persuade you of its creepiness consider the fact that it’s not really
a hospital at all. It’s actually an insane asylum; or rather it
was an insane asylum before being abandoned several years ago. It was
built close to the small village of Hellingly, in South West England.
That East Sussex
County Asylum of Hellingly was designed by leading Victorian
architect GT Hine and built to a late Victorian design during a period of huge extension
for mental health facilities in Britain.it was built with the concept that
relaxing views and extreme isolation were beneficial to psychological cure, the asylum's remote location was to provide the
patients with a relaxed and isolated setting (ideal for rehabilitation) and to
create a world far removed from the officious eyes of daily life outside the
hospital walls.
Somehow
something went 'wrong' with the design of Hellingly, and Hine produced the
plans for a spectacularly decorated theatre, maybe something to do with the
hospital being towards the end of his career or maybe he just woke up in a
frivolous mood that day. Hellingly's main hall remains the hospital's centerpiece,
an adjoining point at which every sprawling corridor can find its way from.
Patients
& staff used to live under the same roof in the many red bricks buildings
linked by closed hallways, and offering "therapeutic" and relaxing
views on the surrounding quiet and green countryside.
The hospital,
as with most from the Victorian era, was fully self-sufficient and the
hospital's program ensured that patients from all over the site were allocated
various jobs in the hospital such as the farming, laundry work or grounds
keeping. An onsite railway station with an electric tramway provided the
hospital with additional supplies and visitors but was closed in the 1950s due
to high upkeep costs.
The
capacity of the hospital was originally deemed at 700 patients, although wards
were packed with 1,250 by 1955. The overcrowded conditions led to beds in
hallways and a general decline in the quality of care, until the Mental Health
Act of 1959.
A
medium-security unit called Ashen Hill was added in the mid-1980s; however the
main hospital campus was slowly closing. It was eventually shuttered in 1994
with the exception of Ashen Hill. A housing complex eventually replaced the
abandoned hospital around 2012.
The
Hospital today has suffered over 10 years of remissness badly; arson has
destroyed several buildings most remarkable the administration block. Vandals
have been removing all the windows; the easier to access ground floor areas
have received the brunt of these attacks.
Despite the harshness
of destruction and chaos systematically inflicted on the buildings by time and man,
but a few hidden gems tucked away in remote parts of the site still remain.
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Creepiest Places upon Earth : Gunkanjim) Hashima Island(, japan
Creepiest Places upon Earth : Gunkanjima) Hashima
Island(, japan
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Few places in
the world have a history as very very odd, or as poignant as Gunkanjima's.
Hashima Island,
commonly called Gunkanjima (meaning Battleship Island), is one among 505
uninhabited islands in the Nagasaki Prefecture about 15 kilometers (9 miles)
from Nagasaki itself. Hashima Island floats off the coast of Nagasaki in Japan,
surrounded by a concrete sea wall which gives it an armored warship appearance.
The island got
famous because of his unbelievable appearance: surrounded by a sea wall, you
will find an entire abandoned city with huge concrete buildings.
In the past Hashima Island was rich in coal, then, Mitsubishi, the owner of the mine, thought it
would be more efficient if the employees lives closer to the mines. This is how
the island was built as a city, including hospitals, schools, shops, cinemas
and even a cemetery.
In 1959, the
island was one of the most densely populated areas on earth. On the tiny island
(400 x 160 meter), more than 5000 people lived and worked.
When petrol replaced coal as Japan's main
source of fuel, Mitsubishi closed the mine, everyone left, and this island city
was abandoned, left to revert back to nature. The apartments began to crumble,
and for the first time, in the barren courtyards, green things started to grow.
Broken glass and old newspapers blew over the streets. The sea-breeze whistled
through the windows. Now, fifty years later, the island is exactly as it was
just after Mitsubishi left. A ghost town in the middle of the sea.
Everything can
be found in that abandoned city: schools, shops, an hospital, clubs, pools, a
gymnasium… It is hard to believe that it is truly real until we see it
with our own eyes.
From 1974 to
2009, the island was officially closed to all visitors, but recently the
intriguing site has been re-opened to organized tours.
Today,
Gunkanjima is a tourist attraction (sightseeing boat trips around the
island are available) and a backdrop for many films (it served as an
inspiration for the villain's lair in the 2012 film "Skyfall"), the
ultimate portrait of Japan's industrial ruins.
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