I am a coward. I am thirty-one years old and I still sleep with the covers over my head. I never watch horror movies. I am afraid of basements, attics, dark hallways, and anywhere with creaky wooden floors. If you’re like me and are too ‘chicken’ to explore dark places in the real world, we can explore together, from the safety of the internet. Here are 5 creepy places I wouldn’t get within 100 yards of — just in time for Halloween.
The Fragonard Museum — A former veterinary school turned small anatomical museum in Paris that features preserved, dissected cadavers over two centuries old the Fragonard Museum features the dissections of Honoré Fragonard, the school’s anatomy professor. The museum is one of the most macabre in the world. For example, Fragonard created The Horseman of the Apocalypse, based on an Albrecht Dürer print, displaying a flayed man on a flayed horse surrounded by a crowd of small foetuses riding sheep. Shortly thereafter he was committed to Charenton, France’s infamous lunatic asylum.
Aokigahara. Source: Atlas Obscura
Aokigahara — Also known as the Sea of Trees, this enormous forest lies at the base of Mt. Fuji. Every year, since 1970, police have formed chains to comb the woods to collect the bodies of those who entered to commit suicide. The trees are so dense there is no wind; due to mineral deposits compasses do not work; there is a bizarre absence of wildlife; and, yes, the suicides. There are suicide prevention signs posted all around the perimeter of the forest. I cannot imagine anywhere less enticing.
Catacombs. Source: Wikipedia
