Dubrovnik is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Europe. It was added to the UNESCO list of World Heritage sites because of its old architecture that was beautifully preserved. Despite being one of the most prominent destinations just 1.5 nautical miles away from the city lies an island called Daksa.
Daksa is uninhabited and locals mostly stay away from the island. They believe that the island is haunted and for a good reason too.
During 1944, soon after WW2 there was widespread distrust between the people. The Nazi state was taken down but the ideology was still prevalent. People were hiding to protect themselves. Mainly in Europe people were being tried on suspicion of being Nazi collaborators. Many people were imprisoned and killed. However, this led to even the innocents being wrongly accused.
According to the reports, on Oct 18, 1944 Partisan forces entered the city of Dubrovnik and started rounding people whom they suspected of assisting the Nazis in some way or other. The true number is not exactly known but it is believed that they rounded about 300 people. From those people they singled out around 35-40 people and took them to the Daksa Island and killed them without any trial. Among those people was the mayor of the city and the priest. People were warned that if they try to go and find their family members on the island, they would meet the same fate. So for the next 50-60 years the bodies of these people were left on the island.
In 2009, the remains of 6 people were discovered by someone and they informed the authorities who did extensive research and found the remains of forty-eight more people. The number of bodies found is still highly debatable as it is now believed that more than 35 people were massacred because many more remains have been found. The bodies were given a proper burial in 2010.
The island has an eerie atmosphere with locals avoiding the island and warning others to do the same thing. People who have visited the island feel that the island radiates the negativity of the bad things that happened there. Most of those who visit the island are travellers who want to explore the place. The paranormal experiences are relatively few as people rarely visit the island. People have visited the island on small ships or big boats. The crew of the ship always try to stay far from the island. Locals always warn others to not go on the island because they believe its cursed and angry spirits roam the island. They have allegedly heard terrible moans and screams from the island. A person who visited the island found scratch marks on their back while exploring the place.
The island is up for sale for around two million euros but nobody has shown any interest in buying the island and it is widely believed that it’s the angry spirits that are stopping the sale of the island.
Centralia, PA – the whole town and interstate was removed in 1962* to accommodate an enormous underground coal mine fire that’s still burning today. The whole neighborhood grid (weirdly, I don’t remember if there’s houses still or not?) and highway is still there, and there’s still smoke coming up through cracks in the street. The whole dystopian vibe that always accompanies an abandoned town + wondering if I’d fall through a hole in the street into some literal hellscape below was plenty for me. Walked around for an hour or so and then hightailed it out of there.
*edit after re-reading Wikipedia article: fire started in 1962, town mostly relocated in 1983 after kids started falling into sinkholes, rest of the re-location via eminent domain in 1992.
Edit 2: jesus fucking christ yes, this town was the inspiration for Silent Hill.
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My grandparents had a big farm when I was growing up and all of the grandkids would help work it over the summer when we were out of school. Anytime we saw a rabbit we were supposed to get it with the hoe or grab the shotgun. I was around 12 or so when I saw a little rabbit in the beans and I didn’t want my grandfather to see it so I tried to chase it off. Followed it into the brush on the land and for whatever reason I just kept following it because usually I’d lose sight of them pretty quickly once they hit the brush. Kept following it until found what was clearly an old barn ruin. These are pretty normal to happen upon where I’m from and they’re fun to look around inside, so I went in. It was weirdly kept up really well with antique tools in great shape and fresh hay. I worried had crossed into our neighbors’ property so high-tailed it out of there. I asked my grandfather about it and he said our land went way far past what had described, and I couldn’t have left our land in the short amount of time was gone, so he followed me out there and we couldn’t find it. I checked every summer I worked there and never found it again. Not creepy but it always drove me crazy where that stupid barn went.
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There’s this old abandoned hotel a couple hours away from me. It’s not like a modern hotel, but like an old Victorian house that was turned into a B&B. It’s totally boarded up, big fence around it with barbed wire. Apparently it’s pretty damn haunted.
In high school me and some friends went to go check it out. It’s in the middle of this a circular road, not a roundabout but you can go around several times before feeding back onto the main road. It takes about ninety seconds to go around this circle. Anyway, the first time we drive through all the shades on the windows are drawn. We drive around again, only half of the shades are drawn. The next time we drive by all the shades are open. We drove around one last time and all the shades were drawn again. We freaked out and drove the hell out of there.
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In the interior of BC I spent a lot of time exploring in the truck. Found loads of abandoned buildings and cabins but the coolest place that a friend showed me was an abandoned hippie commune deep in the forest. There were some crazy house designs, one looked like an ark, one was a ~40ft teepee clad with aluminum.
The place was clearly built by people who had very little building experience, but lots of creativity and motivation. There was a lot of weird stuff found on the property, and I even found a bike that was stolen off me the year prior.
Was driving through Illinois to get to Chicago about a decade ago with a group of friends and we stopped at a Taco Bell. The first thing we noticed was that the workers were acting very odd. Everything they said was monotone and rehearsed. After sitting in this fairly busy restaurant for a bit, we kind of all just looked at each other at the same time as we realized that none of the conversations happening around us made any sense. The people were speaking, and it was English, but the sentences weren’t logical. They were just saying words at each other. We didn’t say much about it until we got outside, at which point we all freaked out and confirmed each others’ experiences at once, and got the fuck out of there. We jokingly refer to that place as the “NPC Training Center” since the people didn’t seem to be real, or they were learning how to be human or something. Still freaks me out.
Edit: yes, I believe the orders were all correct, which I
guess just ups the creepy factor
Edit 2: we were young and actually pretty straight edge at
the time, none of us were high or anything.
Edit 3: the best I can remember about the weird conversations was that they were stringing several prepositions in a row with no real sentence structure, forced laughter and nodding, stuff like that. Like they were mimicking how humans talk. Think of those “what English sounds like to a non-speaker” videos on YouTube, but EVERYBODY was doing it all around us.
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A couple years ago a buddy and I got turned around on a side road in rural north Missouri. I had no service for GPS and it was pouring rain so I headed south toward my destination hoping to run into a main highway. We ended up coming into the town of Skidmore MO. It’s a tiny town in the middle of nothing but there’s something dark about that place. Infamously in the 80s a man known as the town bully was killed in broad daylight in the middle of town there. Not one person spoke up about who killed him and it’s never been solved despite many witnesses. There’s also been disappearances, and a brutal crime a few years ago involving a baby being cut out of a woman’s womb. Keep in mind this is a town of only 270 people. As we drove down the main drag several people gave us a blank but intimidating stare, completely unnerving. Once we got out of the town my buddy mentioned he’d had a sense of impending doom or danger as we drove through, weirdly enough I’d been feeling the same way. I’d never had a such a persistent gut feeling of danger like that before. We agreed to never ever fucking go through Skidmore again. There’s something seriously evil about that town, it shouldn’t exist.
r/hey_there_kitty_cat
Not just one, but there’s a whole lot of places in rural NZ that will scare the shit out of someone who isn’t used to it. Hell even some of my Kiwi friends would sometimes be like fuck no l’m not hiking out there with you guys, good luck. If had to choose one, we were doing a 5 day hike, had pretty good maps and directions. Now there’s a lot of nationally funded huts throughout the island, very well marked. We found this one random hut that was definitely not on the maps, with a bunch of older guys just hammered partying inside. And this was way out of where these guys could’ve just walked up from town to party in for the afternoon. No gear whatsoever, just the craziest looking 60+ guys hammered in this random unmarked cabin. When we came back by later the place was absolutely empty and musty, so they packed up their trash and stuff but it still seemed all gross and dirty. We were all kind of baffled, did we actualy meet all these crazy hillbilly old men partying in the middle of nowhere? They obviously weren’t going up there to clean it up, and where the hell did this cabin even come from just in the middle of these mountains? And how did they just randomly hike up there with cases of beer and booze and speakers?
r/NamesJeffrey
Not creepy, just weird to me. A music store seemed to just show up in my town. I’d lived here three years and never saw it. Went in, and the guy had one bass guitar in the store. Me, being a bassist, played it and fell in love. Bought it, and then the next week when was in town, the store was totally empty, and looked like it hasn’t been open in a long time.
Got a new bass out of it though, so I’m cool with it being a spooky ghost store.
r/seersucker.
In the 7th grade I had a friend that lived near a beach on a bay of lake Michigan. One day in early May it reached 70 degrees, nearly unheard of for that time of year in northern Wisconsin. My two friends, including the beach friend, excitedly rode our bikes down to the beach to maybe dip our toes in, expecting still frigid waters, and then “tan” for the rest of the afternoon. The water, though, was surprisingly warm. Like bathwater warm. In this particular area of the bay the water was shallow for about a half mile out, and we joyously splashed around, wading deeper and deeper until we were about chest deep. As we dunked each other and swam with abandon I started to feel sick. Bad headache, nausea, wobbly. Just then, my other two friends mentioned that they also felt sick. We headed back to shore, nearly crawling by the time we got out. The three of us collapsed under a tree and fell asleep for 2ish hours. When we woke up we talked about how weird it was. I dipped my toe back in the water and it was freezing cold. To this day have no idea what was in there. I do know that there is a chemical plant in town that used to manufacture things like agent orange, and that their practices were known to be less that environmentally conscious. I have never touched that water since.
Yawata no yabushirazu is a small patch of forest located Ichikawa city of the Chiba prefecture. While the place itself might seem harmless at first glance, it would surely get your attention as the forest seems out of place between the tall buildings.
The forest is famous all over the country as a forbidden forest. People are forbidden to even set foot inside the forest and it has been fenced by a stone wall to prevent people from entering inside the forest. While Aokigahara takes all the limelight of being the most haunted forest in Japan, people who know stories about this forest regard this as an equally haunted place. The name is described as a maze-like thicket without any end or exit. This however does not mean that the forest is so large that you can get lost, the forest is literally a small patch and it is impossible to get lost inside the forest but it is believed that whoever sets foot inside the forest their soul gets spirited away and they can never return from there as it is a sacred place and those who dare enter the forest will face the divine wrath.
This theory can’t be put to the test now as nobody is allowed to enter the forest or maybe we don’t even know people might have entered the forest but they didn’t survive to tell the tale. This legend has been passed down since the Edo period and people still firmly believe in this. People often dare themselves to go inside the forest but there isn’t a single report of anyone going inside the forest and coming out alive.
Some people blame this supernatural activity on a fox spirit-deity, while some claim that the forest is haunted by the vengeful ghost of some ancient samurai lord who was killed at this place. Some people even believe that there is a poisonous gas inside the forest responsible for this.
Although you cannot enter the forest, a shrine has been dedicated to the gates of the forest and one can stop to pray on the gates. Japan is a curious country with many legends and this perfect blend of the present without damaging anything from its past is what makes japan one of the best countries.
The Aokigahara forest is located in the northwestern flank of Japan’s Mount Fuji. It has been a popular tourist destination for years.
The forest has a historical reputation as a home to “yurei”, ghouls of the dead in Japanese mythology. In recent years Aokigahara has been tainted by the name of ” Suicide forest” because of the large number of suicides happening there throughout the year.
Every year more and more bodies are found there. In 2003, 105 bodies were found in the forest. In 2010, police recorded more than 200 people having attempted suicide in the forest that year. Suicides are said to increase during March, the end of fiscal year in Japan. The increasing number of suicides has led the officials to place signs at the forest’s entry urging people of suicidal nature to seek help.
Moreover, a lot of people believe that in old times when there were famines, people used to take the oldest members of their family and leave them in the forest to die. Although many believe this to be a hoax and an urban legend that has gained popularity over time because of the internet. The paranormal activities are sometimes attributed to these events as well because the forest is ancient.
The traditional belief was that if the bodies of the dead were not cleared immediately, their souls would linger there forever. People travelling in the forest often find clothing and sometimes even a body. Due to the vastness of the forests, people who enter the forests carry a string along tape so that they can find their way back out. It’s very easy to get lost in the forest and gps and mobile phones do not work properly inside the forest. Many times these tapes have been purposefully cut off by someone and due to that people have got lost there.
People have reported hearing blood curdling screams while wandering in the forests. A reporter heard a scream from somewhere in the forest, he went to investigate the source of sound but found a dead body which looked like it had been there for a long time and could not be the source of the sound. There have been alleged ghost sightings and people have seen white figures drifting in between the trees. People have found curses and sometimes they feel they are being followed. The atmosphere inside the forest is in itself very eerie. Trees grow in twisted turning shapes and the roots are spread all around the floor making movement difficult, these trees are closely knit and packed blocking any kind of air and sound making the forest eerily silent where you can even hear your breath. People often have difficulty breathing and they fall sick during their visit to the forest.
Aokigahara has seen a fair share of death and paranormal. It is believed that the forest is one of the most if not the most haunted places in the world. However, this does not stop people from entering the forests. It still attracts a lot of tourists, travellers, youtubers and paranoramal fanatics hoping to get a glimpse of the paranoramal.
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