5 Dark & Disturbing Locations from Around The World

[Music] we all enjoy a good scare whether it's from a movie a creepy pasta or a good book and it's our curiosity about the dark side of life that draws us to some of the creepiest and most macabra places around the world in this video we explore five really dark and disturbing locations that people actually pay money to visit ganong caves Malaysia the ganton caves are an intricate cave system located inside gomantong Hill in the sandakan division of sabba Malaysia the caves are a geographic Marvel featuring Limestone wall walls that reach up to 300 ft

in height however visiting the cave comes with a warning if you are squeamish about Creepy crawlies bats and an overwhelming smell of poop it is best not to enter those who have been brave enough to take a look describe it as the most disgusting Wildlife Experience they have ever had the the cave is home to more than 2 million bats and as soon as you enter and admire its beauty you are quickly overcome with the stench of guano otherwise known as bat poop the droppings form a thick layer that lines the floor if that wasn't

bad enough the cave is also crawling with cockroaches literally millions of them that crunch Under Foot as they get stepped on the walls are covered with them and they can crawl up your legs as You Follow the raised visitor path through the cave naturally the Cockroaches are attracted to the plentiful supply of poop if you get past the stench and the presence of cockroaches there is wor to come in the form of snakes scorpions large hairy spiders freshwater crabs and the notorious giant scutigera centipedes a poisonous Critter that can grow to be at least 3

in in length there are also rats that provide food for the snakes and if you dare to look up there are hundreds of wrinkled lipped freet tailed bats hanging above you as they sleep the cave is also home to swiftlets small black birds that sleep in the cave and hang from the the walls at night there are two types of swiftlets the black nest swiftlets and the edible Nest swiftlets who make nests out of their own hardened saliva these nests are an expensive delicacy in some parts of Asia and are used to make birds nest

soup we would love to know if you have visited this Cave of Horrors and whether it was as horrific as it sounds hanging coffins Philippines the cankan people of sagada mountain province in the island Lon of the Philippines treat their dead very differently to Conventional methods found in the west they don't bury the coffin 6 ft under instead they hang them from the sides of in saga's Echo Valley to visitors unaware of the tradition seeing the coffins can be quite disconcerting the unique burial ritual goes back to over 2,000 years although it is rarely practiced

nowadays the ritual started with the recipient carving out their own coffin from hollowed logs before they died if they were too well or too weak a family member would make the coffin on their behalf when the person eventually died the burial started with a gathering led by the deceased's family this was followed by days of mourning killing of livestock and preparing the body for in tment the corpse was then carried to a cave where the coffin is waiting carrying the body is beli to transfer luck blessings and talents to the family Left Behind the dead

person is then placed inside the coffin in the fetal position and bones are often broke to make it fit the coffin is then placed underneath a natural overhang on the side of the cliff either on a rock shelf or slaughtered into holes dug into the cliff side the height the coffin is placed is a reflection of the deceased status in life the cankan believed that by hanging the coffin rather than burying it gives the deceased Spirit a better chance of reaching the afterlife some of the hanging coffins are well over 100 years old and eventually

the wood begins to rot and they fall from their suspended position into the valley below hanging coffins are reserved for only the most distinguished members of the community for the rest their barrial involves being placed inside Limestone caves tucked into a crevice or stacked on top of an existing coffin again the higher they are stacked the higher the person's status in life in recent years the hanging coffins of Echo Valley have become a morbid tourist attraction would you visit Capuchin catacombs Italy the Capuchin catacombs are underground burial Crypts in palmo Sicily southern Italy and in

recent years they have become a maaba tourist attraction in the 16th century palo's Capuchin Monastery Cemetery was overflowing so the monks came up with the idea of an underground burial ground beneath the building which they dug out by hand in 1599 the mummified body of brother sylvestro of gubbio was placed in the newly excavated catacombs more bodies followed initially just deceased Friars their dehydrated corpses were placed on racks and later washed with vinegar to preserve them some of the bodies were embalmed whilst others were placed in sealed glass cases most of the bodies were dressed

in the Monk's robes however in the centuries that followed the catacombs was opened up to the wealthy public and it became a status symbol to be intuned there large donations from the relatives of the deceased maintained the Crypt and as long as contributions continued their loved on 's body could stay in their allocated place but if relatives stopped sending the money the body was put aside on a shelf until they resumed payments in 1871 brother Ricardo was the last Monk interred in the catacombs and instead it became a place the Rich and Famous were laid

to rest the last burials were in the 1930s and among the final inter was 2-year-old Rosalia Lombardo who died of Spanish Flu in 1920 her heartbroken father asked expert Ina Professor Alfredo salafia to preserve her remains he used formalin salicylic acid and zinc salts known as a Sleeping Beauty rosalia's perfectly preserved body is in a glass coffin and over the years has gained attention because her eyes appear to open and close several times a day revealing her perfectly intact blue irises today the catacombs contain about 8,000 corpses and 1,252 mummies that line the walls eily

divided according to sex and Status some bodies are better preserved than others and some are grotesquely posed to add to the creepiness a lot of the corpses are dressed in their best clothes the maab scene is a huge tourist attraction and it is said that Capuchin is the creepiest catacombs in the world clown Motel Nevada for some people the fear of clowns is very real this fear known as chorophobia is believed to be evoked by Clown's exaggerated facial makeup which may give the impression of hiding a more Sinister person underneath the colors of clown makeup

are also seen as threatening by some reminding them of death or Serious injury Additionally the combination of comical yet often unpredictable behavior of clowns can be uncomfortable and creepy after all killer clown John Wayne gassi hid behind his public facade as a clown and went on a six-year Killing Spree during which he killed at least 33 young men so it is no surprise that America's scariest accommodation is the clown motel in tonopa Nevada the motel is not hard to miss with its brightly colored facade and two 19t clown cutouts book ending the property entrance and

if you are afraid of clowns it's best you don't enter as inside it boasts the largest private collection of clown figurines and memorabilia in the world the creepy clown theme engulfs every room at the motel and it is a true nightmare for chhob guests are greeted by thousands of clowns that cover the shelves in the lobby and all the bedrooms have a clown theme if the exterior and interior of the place wasn't bad enough just a few feet away is the historic old tonopa Cemetery rumored to be haunted by the Restless Souls buried there founded

in 1901 the creepy Baron plant is the final resting place for 300 local including many of tona's pioneer residents many of whom succumbed to the mysterious 1902 tonopa plague the cause of which Still Remains a mystery also buried there a 14 miners who died in the tonapa Belmont mine fire of February the 23rd 1911 among them big Bill Murphy who died in age 28 trying to save the miners many believe the weird noises and unexplained events are due to the spirits in the cemetery either that or the clowns from the nearby hotel are playing tricks

and with Pennywise looking over you as you sleep that is a real possibility we'd love to know if any of you have ever visited this hotel sedle uary Czech Republic along a narrow streets in the suburb of kahora in the Czech Republic is a quaint but unassuming medieval Chapel called The Church of All Saints but it is not the exterior the visitors come to see it is what lurks beneath the chapel that draws them in dubbed the Church of bones in the lower chamber of this ordinary looking Chapel houses an eerie tale of mystery and

death displaying one of the most macabra collections of human bones in the world the grizzly story began in 1278 when the king of bohemia sent the abot of the SED cian Monastery to the Holy Land in Palestina when he returned Leed he brought with him a jar of holy soil from the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem where Jesus was crucified at golgatha he scattered the soil around the local Cemetery when word got out about the Holy soil people from all over started requesting to be buried in the sacred ground and soon the cemetery

was [Music] overcrowded in the 15 Century the town was expanded and to make way for the development all the bodies in the cemetery were exhumed and the skeletons were stacked in the basement of the newly built Church of All Saints and there they stayed until 1870 when a wood carver named frantisek rent was tasked with using the 40,000 human skeletons to decorate the chapel the result is spectacular but chilling one of the most remarkable pieces of the sedle osher as it is now called is the giant chamber set to incorporate every single bone in the

human body there are also Garin of skull and a coat of arms formed from the bones of the schwarzen burgers an aristocratic Czech family who once ruled over the city piles of human skulls are stack up as pillars and religious displays are arranged out of bone the gruesome site is still a respectful place of worship and all visitors are reminded of this those who have visited find the display peaceful although a bit Eerie when you consider each of those bones once belong to a human being and in life it is probably not how they expected

to end up