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‏إظهار الرسائل ذات التسميات creepiest places. إظهار كافة الرسائل
الجمعة، 13 فبراير 2015
Mysterious Places : Bird Suicide Grounds of Jatinga, India

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.
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الجمعة، 5 ديسمبر 2014
Creepiest Places upon Earth : Hellingly Hospital (The Lost Asylum) , England

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 : Gunkanjim) Hashima Island(, japan


Creepiest Places upon Earth : Gunkanjima) Hashima Island(, japan




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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الاثنين، 1 ديسمبر 2014
Creepiest Places upon Earth : Isla de las Munecas (the Island of the Dolls), Mexico

Creepiest Places upon Earth : Isla de las Munecas (the Island of the Dolls), Mexico


Isla de las Munecas (the Island of the Dolls), Mexico

 

 


Island of dolls (Isla de las Muñecas) is considered one of the most creepiest places upon earth, and one of the most attraction creepy place for tourists from Mexico in particular, and from all over the world in general . island of dolls is an island in south of Mexico City, between the canals of Xochimico, it is full of  dolls in the whole island that were hanged on trees may be complete dolls, or without limps or eyes, dirty dolls and clean ones. Dolls are threatening, even in the bright light of midday, but in the dark, they are particularly disturbing. The story of dolls went back more than 60 years ago when Don Julian Santana fled form his family and went to this island. He found a little girl drowned in mysterious circumstances With her doll, he buried the girl and hanging her doll on a tree, and began to gather old dolls from the rivers by fishing them, he was still gathering dolls for more than 50 years thinking to please the girl’s soul and protecting his soul and the island form creepy and haunted dolls, Julian was apparently haunted by the spirit of the girl. Santana did not clean up the dolls or attempt to fix them, but rather put them up with missing eyes and limbs After 50 years of gathering dolls, he was found drowned in the same spot where the little girl drowned. The locals are very faithful that the Isla de las Munecas are a charmed place and After Julian’s death in 2001, it has become a tourist attraction, where visitors bring more dolls.
 Therefore tourist have been coming to the island of dolls with dolls in their hands, they have been hanging them in the island. Island of Dolls is considered today as one of the most attractive destinations to tourists from all over the world, and one of the creepiest places upon the earth.

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الأحد، 30 نوفمبر 2014
Creepiest Places upon Earth :Maunsell Forts, the United Kingdom

Creepiest Places upon Earth :Maunsell Forts, the United Kingdom


Creepiest Places upon Earth :Maunsell Forts, the United Kingdom



During the Second World War, three anti-aircraft forts were built in 1942 as an advance line of defense to protect the important shipping line from enemy ships and aircraft, And to protect the Thames Estuary or as to counter attack enemy planes that were relying on the safety of the Thames estuary and to help defend the United Kingdom in general.
These anti-aircraft tower-forts were constructed with each fort consisting of a cluster of seven stilted buildings surrounding a central command tower. They are Built on land and then transported to their watery homes, the forts were designed by Guy Maunsell, a British civil engineer and named after his name .Each 300 tonne tower was preconstructed before being towed out to sea, sunk into position and then connected to the next tower.
 Army Fort (one of these fortsJ) was badly damaged in a storm and by being struck by a ship, and was dismantled in 1959-60. In the 1960s and 70s, the remaining abandoned forts were famously taken over as pirate radio stations.
These forts are now in varying states of decay, and any attempt to enter them is ill-advised, if not illegal. They can be seen by boat or, on a clear day, from Shoeburyness East Beach.
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السبت، 29 نوفمبر 2014
Creepiest Places upon Earth : Catacombs of Paris, France

Creepiest Places upon Earth : Catacombs of Paris, France



Creepiest places upon Earth : Catacombs of Paris, France

 

Beneath Paris' City Streets, There's an Empire of Death Waiting for Tourists.
Let’s start from the beginning,
Between the 17th and 18th centuries cemeteries of Paris were getting so full that residue from decaying organic material was getting into the water supply and creating very unhealthy conditions., the number of dead bodies buried in Paris’s cemeteries and beneath its churches were so great that they began breaking through the walls of people's cellars and causing serious health concerns.
Louis XV (15) issued an edict banning all burials from occurring inside the capital, but because of Church pushback, which didn't want cemeteries disturbed or moved, nothing else was done. Louis XVI(16) , Louis XV's successor, continued the crusade, also proclaiming that all cemeteries should be moved outside of Paris. It wasn't until 1780, however, that anything was done. That year, a prolonged period of spring rain caused a wall around Les Innocents to collapse, spilling rotting corpses into a neighboring property. The city needed a better place to put its dead.
So it went to the tunnels, moving bones from the cemeteries five stories underground into Paris' former quarries. Cemeteries began to be emptied in 1786, beginning with Les Innocents. It took the city12 years  to move all the bones—from bodies numbering between 6 and 7 million—into the catacombs. Some of the oldest date back as far as the  Meovingian era, more than 1,200 years ago.
The Paris catacombs, then, are a 200-mile network of old caves, tunnels and quarries - and much of it is filled with the skulls and bones of the dead.
Despite the vast length of the tunneled, underground world, only a small section of it is open to the public. This tiny portion, known as Denfert-Rochereau Ossuary, or more popularly, "The Catacombs," has become one of the top tourist attractions in Paris.
Street names are etched into the walls to help explorers navigate their way around the underground version of the city and some groups have even been known to throw parties in the tunnels or drink wine. Visitors can also purchase audio guides, for 3 euros (about $4). The tunnels extend many more miles under the city, but it's illegal to visit most areas.
The tunnels are open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday, and cost around $11 for adults. Be sure to bring a jacket—the tunnels are chilly, with a constant temperature of 57° F.
There are, hence, more than 6million people underground. It is the reason there are few tall buildings in Paris; large foundations cannot be built because the catacombs are directly under the city's streets.
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