15 Creepiest Abandoned Places On Earth

• There’s something both scary and fascinating about an abandoned building.
What was it’s original use?
And what caused it to be left dead and empty?
Here’s the top 15 creepiest abandoned places on earth.
15 - , Craco Italy • Built into a rocky hill in Southern Italy,
the town of Craco stood for over a thousand years.
Over the centuries, the 2000 or so residents survived volcanoes, plague and civil war.
• But it was the land that ultimately betrayed the town, forcing an evacuation in 1963 owing
to landslides.
Floods did further damage a decade later, by which time the residents had already moved
to nearby towns or to America.
• The buildings now sit empty on their lonely rocky outcrop, waiting to crumble.
14 - , The Beelitz Military Hospital • Hospitals are creepy enough, but what
about an abandoned hospital that once housed one Europe's most evil men?
The hospital complex in Beelitz, Germany, functioned as a sanatorium for dying tuberculosis
patients until World War One, when it was converted into a military hospital.
• A Young Adolf Hitler recovered there with a thigh wound after the Battle of the Somme,
and it continued to take in soldiers in World War Two, as Hitler was busy conquering Europe.
The austere buildings have been abandoned since the just after fall of the Berlin Wall.
13 - , Ross Island, India • In 1858, British forces in India set up
the Ross Island Penal Colony for political prisoners from India.
For nearly a century, the island held and often tortured prisoners, with hundreds dying
yearly from disease, malnutrition, or cannibal attack from local tribes.
• After being captured by the Japanese in World War Two, and serving briefly as an equally
horrific prisoner of war camp, the buildings were left to the roots and branches of the
Fiscus tree, that have since claimed the colonial houses.
12 - , South Korea Alice park • Home to Scooby-Do monsters and Batman
villains, abandoned theme parks are a treasure trove of weirdness.
• Alicepark, a Wonderland-themed English-language fairground, was only abandoned in 2011 – presumably
due to poor ticket sales.
Perhaps it was the creepy, slightly makeshift vibe that put off potential visitors and children.
Either way, the disrepair and overgrowth gives it even more character today.
11 - , Varosha, Famagusta • Until the 70s, this city in Cyprus was
a hugely popular tourist spot, as much of the rest of the island still is today.
However, in 1974, there was a Turkish invasion of Cyrpus and the island is now split between
them and the Greeks.
• The Varosha district in Famagusta has been left in place as a buffer zone by the
UN.
So, rather than just a building or two, there’s a whole abandoned quarter like a ghost-town,
forty years old.
10 - , Bokor Hill Station • At the cost of a thousand lives, the Bokor
Hill Station in Cambodia was built by colonial French forces to escape the insufferable heat
and humidity.
Intended as a hotel resort, it was abandoned twenty years later due the Khmer uprisings.
• The ruins of the hotel and casino sit on the edge of a cliff and overlook an incredible
landscape.
The hill station remains, haunted by the ghosts of Cambodia's troubled past.
9 - , Villa de Vecchi, Italy • In the mountains near Lake Como in Italy
lies an empty mansion stained with red.
Its exterior reflects its bloody reputation, with rumours of grisly murders and occult
rituals.
• The stunning architecture fell to ruin with the death of the last heir.
But a visit from famed British occultist Aleister Crowley in the 1920s has fuelled its fearful
mystique.
8 - , Quneitra, Syria • The brutal warfare between Israel and
Syria in the 60s and 70s left areas of both countries in pieces.
Quneitra was a city of 20,000 people, that was left broken and bare when it was surrendered
back to Syria's possession.
• Since that time, its flattened and destroyed houses now stand empty in the demilitarised
zone.
The buildings have been kept as propaganda of the enemy's actions by the Syrian government.
7 - , Willard Asylum USA • Originally named as The Willard Asylum
for the Chronic Insane, this centre was one of the first state-run facilities for the
mentally ill.
It was left to ruin in 1995, but reminders of its staff and patients can still be found.
• A person responsible for recovering documents in the abandoned asylum found over 400 suitcases
containing patient's possessions.
The relics give a glimpse into the lives of people who lived and died at the facility.
6 - , Hotel Del Salto Colombia • Another lonely hotel, the Hotel del Salto
sits on a cliff overlooking the Tequendama Waterfalls near Bogota in Colombia.
The regal-looking building has become overgrown by the forest and tales of phantoms and suicide
abound.
• In fact, the hotel was shut down due to the contamination of the river in the 1990s,
but when did facts ever get in the way of a good ghost story, right?
5 - , Kolmanskop • After a worker found diamonds in the sands
of Namibia, German miners flocked to the area in the early 20th century.
The diamond rush led to schools, trams and a theatre being built in the middle of the
Namib desert, forming the town of Kolmanskop.
• But the town died as quickly as it had started, with operations moving elsewhere
by 1954.
Now the buildings are overrun and eroded by the sand and the searing hot sun.
4 - , Pripyat • Pripyat town was founded in 1970 in Ukraine,
as a settlement for workers at the now-infamous Chernobyl Power Plant.
The 1986 disaster threw radioactive material all over the surrounding area, rendering the
whole town unsafe.
• Although declared uninhabitable for 20,000 years, some locals have refused to move, despite
the deaths of several workers, and the increased risk of cancer.
Perhaps they're hoping for radioactive superpowers...
3 - , Wonderland Amusement Park, Beijing • Many amusement parks have attempted to
recreate the Disney feel, and many parks full of rusting rides show that it’s not as easy
as it looks.
Japan boasts the abandoned Dreamland in Nara, but China definitely beats it for creepiness
with the similarly-titled Wonderland.
• Due to be the largest in Asia, construction on the park halted in 1998.
Now the half-built castles and walls lie amongst misty farmland reclaimed by the locals.
Truly a place where dreams go to die.
2 - , Jazirat Al Hamra • About 80km up the coast from Dubai is
a pre-oil village of the UAE.
Around 200 years ago it had a population of a few thousand and lived mainly off pearl
diving.
They were hit hard by the industrial manufacture of pearls in the 20th century and then by
the oil boom.
• But people still lived there.
That was, until the entire village mysteriously left in 1968.
Although economics is the probable reason, there are local rumours of flesh eating demons
and the village is famous for being haunted.
1 - , Centralia, Pennsylvania • Imagine a town where the ground itself
burned as hot as 500 degrees and the air was thick with lethal clouds of gas.
That would be the now abandoned Centralia, a mining town where an underground coal fire
has been raging for over fifty years.
All but ten of the residents have now left the nightmarish ghost town.
• Centralia's fire and brimstone atmosphere served as inspiration for the Silent Hill
horror video games, as one can easily imagine hellish demons emerging from the smoke.
Hey, at least they'll have free housing!

15 Creepiest Abandoned Places On Earth

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