Five of the Scariest Places on Earth

From a temple crawling with rats to a lake with flesh-melting snakes some of the most disturbing, bone-chilling places on Earth have been discovered.

Glacial Lake full of Human Skeletons: 

In 1942, a forest ranger hiking near India´s Roopkund Lake, stumbled across an amazing discovery: the glacial lake was surrounded by human skeletons. When summer came and the ice melted, hundreds of more skeletons were revealed, some with flesh and hair still attached.

A 2004 expedition said that the skeletons were the remains of 200 to 300 people from the 9th century, and were divided in two groups. They where found with spears, rings, bamboo sticks and leather shoes. Short, deep cracks in the skulls suggested all of the bodies appeared to have died in the same way, from blows to the head from rounded objects, not weapons.

An Island full of Flesh-Melting Snakes:

Visiting Brazil’s Ilha da Queimada Grande is forbidden. That’s because the island, located 33km off the state of Sao Paulo, is swarming with venomous snakes (the snake’s venom can cause kidney failure, brain hemorrhaging and many other alarming ailments). This island also known as Snake Island is home to 4000 Golden Lanceheads a endangered species that got trapped in the island when rising sea levels covered up the land that connected it to the mainland,t he golden lanceheads grow to more than half a metre long and possess a fast-acting poison that melts human flesh.

Temple crawling with black rats:

A religious and tourist destination, India’s Karni Mata Temple is filled with rats. The Temple of Rats, located deep in Rajasthan’s Thar desert, houses some 20,000 black rats that are free to roam the place of worship freely. Thousands of religious pilgrims, as well as curious tourists, visit the temple every year, for the blessing of the holy rats. According to local legend, when the stepson of Hindu deity Karni Mata drowned in a pond, Karni Mata asked the death god Yama to revive him. Yama did so, but only under the condition that the stepson, and all of his caste, be reincarnated as rats.

A real-life hell on Earth:

A scientific expedition gone horribly wrong. In 1971, a group of Soviet scientists set up a drilling rig to assess what they thought was a substantial oil field in the middle of Turkmenistan’s Karakum Desert. But, the rig was a massive natural gas field, which collapsed into a crater, fearing the spread of the gas the scientists set it on fire, they hoped the gasses would burn off within a few days but instead the crater continues to burn so much that the locals have decided to call it: The door to Hell

An island of Haunted Dolls:

What were the beautiful floating gardens of Mexico have now turned into a nightmare.

According to a local legend a little girl drowned in the Xochimilco canals outside of Mexico City decades ago. Since her death dolls have been washed ashore, the island´s caretaker feeling guilty for not being able to save the little girls, started hanging the dolls in the island´s trees in her memory.

Some years after, the caretaker was found drowned in the same spot where the girl had died. Since then. the island has been receiving tourists and visitors who take their dolls and leave them in memory of the girl, some say that the dolls are being inhabited by the girl´s spirit  and have affirmed to have heard the dolls voices talking to each other.

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