As children we have heard a lot many scary ghost stories. These haunted stories still scare us in our dreams. If this is not enough to digest then let us brief you about some best haunted places on earth that would really give you that real jolt. Drowse yourself in a pure hair raising experience on most haunted places in world
Bhangarh Fort - Rajasthan, India
Bhangarh
Fort is located on
the way to Alwar and Jaipur in Rajasthan in India.
The fort was built in 1573 and remains
today a ruin of several temples, palaces, and smaller living units.
The fort city also
known as “Bhoot Bangla” or “House of Ghosts” stands completely ruined with
collapsing walls and falling boulders.
There are two
legends surrounding the mysterious spookiness of the place. One is that there
was a ‘sadhu’ called Balu Nath who resided in the fort city. He had instructed,
the then king of the palace to not to build any house so high in the premises
of the fort that it may cast its shadow on his forbidden retreat.
Another
much famous legend surrounding the area is that there was a princess to the
throne called Ratnavati, who was very beautiful. When she reached the age of
18, she got many marriage proposals. There was a ‘tantrik’ in the area who held
a strong liking for the princess and wished to marry her but since it was much
out of his league he tried to ensnare the princess through ill mean.
Waverly Hills Sanitorium- Kentucky,United States
During the
1800s and early 1900s, America was ravaged by a deadly disease known by many as
the “white death” --- tuberculosis. This terrifying and very contagious plague,
for which no cure existed, claimed entire families and sometimes entire towns.
In 1900, Louisville, Kentucky had one of the highest tuberculosis death rates
in America. Built on low, swampland, the area was the perfect breeding ground
for disease and in 1910, a hospital was constructed on a windswept hill in
southern Jefferson County that had been designed to combat the horrific
disease. The hospital quickly became overcrowded though and with donations of
money and land, a new hospital was started in 1924.
It
served as a tuberculosis hospital throughout the early to mid 20th Century, a
time when the disease was at its worst. It is believed that as many as 63,000
patients died there. The death toll as well as the supposed mistreatment
and questionable experimental procedures on patients, are all recipes
that may be behind one of the most haunted buildings in the whole of the US.
The Waverly
Hills Sanatorium has built quite the reputation over the years as more and more
people are allowed to investigate the premises. This has thrown up some
incredible evidence over the years. It has featured on shows such as Ghost
Adventures, Ghost Hunters (TAPS), and our very own Most Haunted. TAPS captured
a figure on their thermal imaging camera that seemed to be walking across the
hall. The figure was about 3ft tall, they later found out that the ghost of a
young boy named Tim has been spotted there before.
There are
vast amounts of varying reports, including full bodied apparitions, fleeting
shadows, screams from empty rooms, footsteps, sudden cold spots, and
disembodied voices among many others.
Screaming Tunnel - Niagara Falls, Ontari
The Screaming Tunnel is a small limestone tunnel, running
underneath what once was the Grand Trunk Railway lines now the Canadian National Railways, located in
the northwest corner of Niagara
Falls, Ontario, Canada. The actual location of the
attraction is just off Warner Road. Often thought to be a railway tunnel, it
was actually constructed only as a drainage tunnel so that water can be removed
from the farmlands. This water would go underneath the Grand Trunk Railway and
down to the valley below. Farmers used this tunnel to transport goods and
animals safely underneath the busy railroad above.
The tunnel,
constructed in the early 1900s, is 16 feet (4.9 m) in height and 125 feet
(38 m) long.
One night the farm house caught fire and a young girl doused in flame
screaming for help running wild.Nobody knows the story how the farm house
caught fire. She ran through the tunnel if in case she could get some help but
alas she was burnt completely and collapsed. So from that day onwards whoever
tries lighting a match in the tunnel the spirit comes out screaming and
haunting the person till dead. Check out for yourself the truth!
Manila Film Center, Philippines
The Manila
Film Center is a national building located at the southwest
end of the Cultural Center of the Philippines complex in Pasay, Philippines. The structure was designed by architect Froilan Hong
where its edifice is supported on more than nine hundred piles. which
reaches to the bed-rock about 120 feet below. The Manila Film Center served as
the main theater for the First Manila International Film Festival (MIFF)
January 18–29, 1982. The building has also been the subject of controversies
due to an accident that happened during the final stages of its construction in
1981.
If bricks could talk,
those at the Manila Film Center would have a sinister story to tell. Back in
the 1970s, Imelda Marcos wanted to stage an annual film festival that
would rival Cannes and put Manila on the international cultural map. But the
centre she commissioned for the purpose was jerry-built and a floor collapsed
in 1981, allegedly burying workers under rubble and killing many. No one knows
exactly how many (some claim around 170), because most were poor labourers from
the provinces and records were not kept of their names. Police were told to
throw a cordon round the building so the press couldn’t get to it, and work
continued round the clock. The centre was completed in 1982, some say with dead
workers still entombed inside, in time for the opening night of the Manila
International Film Festival. Imelda celebrated by walking onto the stage to
greet the audience in a black and emerald green terno (a
formal gown) thick with layer upon layer of peacock feathers that were shipped
specially from India.
The centre staged just one more film festival –
some say it was haunted and Imelda herself had it exorcized – and it soon had
to make ends meet by showing soft-porn (bomba) films for the masses. It was briefly
rehabilitated in the late 1980s when it was used as a centre for experimental
film-making, but after an earthquake hit Manila in 1990 it was abandoned. In
2001 it was partially renovated and now hosts transvestite song and dance
extravaganzas organized by Amazing Philippine Theater (t02/834-8870),
especially popular with Korean tourists.
Island of The Dolls-Xochimilco,Mexico
Just south
of Mexico City, between the canals of Xochimico you can find a small island
with a sad background which never intended to be a tourist destination. The
island is known as Isla de las Munecas (Island of the Dolls).
They’re
in the trees and on the ground, bunched together on wooden fence posts and
hanging from clotheslines like laundry left to dry. Their dead eyes stare at
you from half-empty sockets, their dirty hair hangs like cobwebs. Their skin is
scabbed and peeling away, and their plump limbs are scattered everywhere—arms
and legs strewn about haphazardly, decapitated heads impaled on stakes.
It is said
that a girl was found drowned in mysterious circumstances many years ago on
this island and that the dolls are possessed by her spirit.
Local legend
says that the dolls move their heads and arms and even opened their eyes.
Some
witnesses claim they had heard the dolls whispering to each other, while others
who were on a boat near the island said the dolls lured them to come down to
the island.