the world is full of amazing and mysterious places but there are some places you should never go and the reasons will make your stomach churn from a cursed Island to an eerie Hotel you'd never check out of here are some forbidden places you should never go the elephant's foot few places are as haunted as the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Northern Ukraine the catastrophic disaster of 1986 crippled the plant and made the surrounding 1600 square miles so irradiated it's been deemed uninhabitable for the next 20,000 years although radiation levels have dropped enough to visit one
part of the plant is still so dangerous it's completely off limits the maintenance Corridor below the destroyed reactor that's because it hosts a huge intensely radioactive glob of corium corium is nuclear fuel mixed with melted material from the power plant it formed during the reactor meltdown and burnt through 6 feet of concrete before reaching its current location when it was first discovered the dense radioactive glob nicknamed the elephant's foot was emitting 4.5 million chest x-rays worth of radiation every hour not that you'd last an hour just 5 minutes of exposure to it would have been
enough to prove lethal Cy over time its intensity has diminished but it still remains highly dangerous just how dangerous we can't say since 2016 that part of the power plant has been rendered utterly inaccessible to humans by the erection of a huge containment structure comprising nearly 40,000 tons of steel and concrete the new safe confinement is designed to keep all that radioactive Badness firmly in and any people firmly out and that's just fine by me Plague Island over in the Seas between Venice and Leo an area known as the Venetian Lagoon dwells a small island
with the past so stained with suffering that any contact with it has been forbidden since the late 1960s this is Paglia Island first settled back in the 7th Century the Island's population steadily grew until the late 14th century when the outbreak of War meant piglia inhabitants had to be moved to ensure their safety although the venetians won the war the island remained desolate for centuries then in 1645 five octagonal forts were built on it to defend the Venetian Lagoon only one of which survives today piglia was used for little else for over a 100 years
until it became a checkpoint for people and goods traveling to and from Venice but everything changed when the plague was discovered on two passing ships the tiny Island was converted to a quarantine Zone and in the ensuing years over 160,000 people were sent to it even if they displayed only the mildest Plague symptoms almost none of them left thousands upon thousands were cremated on piglia and it said that over half the Island's soil is made from the resulting ash oh but the dark history doesn't end there once the threat of the Black Death had passed
poglia was utilized as the location of a huge mental asylum in the early 1900s the remains of which linger hauntingly today but mental health was poorly understood back then so barbaric treatments like lobotomies and electric shock therapy were employed across the facility furthermore local Legends tell of a deranged Doctor Who worked at the hospital supposedly he sadistically experimented on his patients using crude tools like hand drills unsurprisingly most didn't survive the facility eventually closed in 1968 and the island has been abandoned ever since with all visitors strictly prohibited what imagery we do have is down
to Wy trespassers officially the island is closed because the crumbling buildings are too dangerous to the public unofficially many people believe it's one of the most haunted places on Earth home of thousands of agonized souls doomed to wander it forever so even if you could easily visit there's no way you'd catch me on a boat there you know where you should go straight down to those like And subscribe buttons that way you'll never miss out on any of my amazing content okay back to the Forbidden Mists we go gateway to Hell back in 1965 Italian
archaeologists exploring the ancient figan ruins of heropolis made a peculiar Discovery a small Stone Arch with an opening in it the opening led to a cave just big enough for one person to stand inside only it was emitting toxic fumes oh and it leads to the underworld okay that last bit's only true if you believe the ancient cities former occupants but still contemporaries thought the lethal gas must have been sent by the Greek god of the underworld Pluto and that the cave therefore led to his domain so they built a religious site called a plutonian
over it the structure was finished thousands of years ago around 100 BC and built into the wall of an open air Arena though this was all that's left today wildly though it's not the only one there's another better preserved platonian nearby leading to an almost identical cave gas and everything a temple was built at top this one and in its day it would have looked something like this the lethal gas which is actually highly concentrated carbon dioxide would pour from the cave down into the temple floor and form an asphyxiating lake at night any animals
unfortunate enough to pass through this invisible Terror would suffocate and some were even ritually thrown into it still some early priests descended into the cave and returned alive as a way to prove their divine prot protection but wait how well as you might have guessed the CO2 emitted by the cave is actually a natural phenomenon see there's a seismic fault in the earth that both sites are built over because of this there are cracks in the Rock in both caves which leak the deadly gas from the Earth's crust so rather than Divine protection the priests
probably found oxygen Pockets inside to breathe from or simply held their breath that said although it's probably not a real gateway to Hell the cave still emits its deadly payload to this day however to stop unwary tourists from stumbling to their Doom the original entrance was sealed off in 1970 and the second is flooded what a shame not ghoster coaster if you'd gone for a walk along the beach at Seaside Heights New Jersey in late 2012 you'd have seen something ghostly jutting out from the ocean the skeleton of a roller coaster but who would build
a roller coaster out in the sea well this is the star jet roller coaster and it wasn't always in the sea it was originally built to top the pier back in 2002 but when the disastrous Hurricane Sandy struck the coastline in October 2012 the pier was smashed and the entire structure thrown down into the water incredibly barely any damage was done to the roller coaster itself despite the path of Destruction left in the storms wake even so it clearly wasn't fit for riding the spooky ride was left condemned for several months and became a symbol
of the storm's horrific consequences then in May 2013 authorities finally tore the Eerie structure down once and for all which was definitely the right decision apart from the obvious dangers of having a huge hunk of Twisted Metal so close to the coast nobody wanted to be reminded of why it was there in the first place Willard Asylum old mental asylums are such a worn out horror Trope by now that it would be easy to say they've lost some of their strange Eerie mystery easy but wrong at least in the case of Willard Asylum for The
Chronic insane first opened in 1869 this now abandoned and prohibited Victorian asylum in New York has a sad but fascinating History built in a time when little was understood about mental illness many troubled people were seen as undesirables by the rest of society indeed the very first patient Mary wrote had been chained inside the cell of an Alms House a sort of community housing for 10 years prior to her arrival another patient arrived in what looked like a chicken crate barely big enough to kneel in so to many the Asylum must have felt like a
vacation home in comparison to what they were used to they were bathed clothed fed and given beds as well as simple jobs should they want to work what's more they had free rain over most of the grounds and access to a bowling alley and theater but the good times wouldn't last thousands ended up in the complex over the years and accusations of overcrowding and questionable treatment of the patients gradually increased in number as the decades dragged on the once respectable asylum's reputation crumbled around it and patients were increasingly neglected or Worse eventually in 1995 it
shut its doors for good though tours were run for a Time the now rundown institution is firmly out of bounds to the public many of the buildings have been sealed up due to safety concerns and in those that haven't Urban explorers have reported hearing ghostly Whispers or feeling strange cold spots could the spirits of the poor people who once lived here still Linger on tunnels of Terror some places in this vast world are so mysterious we still know hardly anything about them like the ER stall tunnels the what now exactly found across Europe over 2,000
of these mysterious underground tunnels exist yet there are no historic records of them whatsoever which is made weirder by how completely impractical they seem most of them are super low to the point you'd have to get on all fours to crawl through them and they're narrow too with twists and turns that mean it'd be easy to get stuck inside if you weren't careful because of this the majority have been strictly closed off to the public not that you'd catch me trying to bundle my plump white cheeks through such a tiny Gap anyway nope this is
claustrophobic as all hell the entrances are found everywhere from the kitchens of old farmhouses to churches to the middle of forests so there's not much Rhyme or Reason to them or is there historians think the tunnels probably date back to the Middle Ages and most of them are near or within settlements but none of them have exits the idea of shuffling through one of these just gets worse and worse but alas they probably aren't entrances to the bowels of Hell or some terrible place to imprison The Condemned want to know what I think they could
have been used by the locals as temporary places of Refuge from Raiders and invading armies it explained why they're utterly abs from the historical record you'd want to keep them as secret as possible wouldn't you and to do so would also mean making them small and easy to hide as possible H I think we might be on to something here end of the day though nobody knows for sure do you have any better theories let me know down in the comments runit Island if you were in a plane flying over just the right part of
the North Pacific Ocean you'd pass this strange sight you definitely wouldn't want to land though because this is runit Island and it's one of the most dangerous places in the world one of 40 islands in the remote and newi talk at runit was chosen by the US after World War 2 as a testing ground for its nuclear weaponry between 1948 and 1958 43 nuclear tests were conducted on the site amounting to some 85,000 and cubic met of Highly dangerous radioactive waste being left behind which is bad enough but that waste includes plutonium 239 which has
a Monumental halflife of 24,000 years so what do you do with it all well that huge UFO looking Circle has the answer the US government decided to gather all the sludge up and dump it into a 330t w bomb crater that had been left on the island by one of their tests then they built a huge 18in thick concrete lid over it out of sight out of mind right well not quite see they'd originally intended on lining the entire crater with concrete 2 but decided against it to save money because of this radioactive waste has
been allowed to seep out into the surrounding soil not good the entire island has been placed off limits to the public but the US Department of energy published a report in 2020 assuring there's no need to worry for at least another 20 years but settlers on neighboring islands are worried and can you blame them if the concrete Dome were to crack or crumble the consequences could be devastating for everyone on the at it's Times Like These I'm grateful I wasn't born next to a nuclear test site forsaken fortresses from museums to memorials the scars of
World War II can still be found all over the world but you'd be forgiven for thinking the site before you was of a more otherworldly nature these strange alien-like structures can be seen jutting from Britain's temps and Mery Rivers they're actually forts built during the second world war to defend the UK called the monel forts the Royal Navy operated these fortresses and used them as Vantage points to deter and Report German Air Raids as well as prevent attempts by enemy aircraft to lay mines after the war was over the forts were decommissioned and most were
abandoned but this didn't always happen immediately the now forsaken shivering Sans Fort near the temps Estuary has a rather more sorted history following its abandonment in 1958 the series of interconnected structures lay empty for several years however in 1964 eccentric English musician screaming Lord such set up a pirate radio station at the Fort before quickly growing tired of it his friend Reginal Calvert bought it from him refurbished it and reamed it Radio City always was going well until June 1965 when a rival of calverts called all Smedley sent a group of men to Radio City
under the cover of Darkness they hijacked the station and demanded 5,000 from Calvert to get it back well Calvert refused and instead visited smedley's house to try and negotiate with him only Smedley wasn't the negotiating type A scuffle ensued and tragically it ended with the loss of Calvert's life Smedley was acquitted despite this miscar of Justice the incident spurred the government to shut down offshore stations and in February 1967 Radio City went off the air for good the fort has been in a state of disrepair ever since and like the vast majority of the monsel
forts is off limits to the public due to structural issues that's my vacation plans out the window the banished Town very little remains of Dudley Town Connecticut aside from a few Stone foundations hidden amidst the dense trees if it weren't for the Myriad of signs warning trespassers to keep out you'd probably have no idea there was anything there yet the signs are there that's because the isolated area where the town used to stand is supposedly one of the most haunted places in the world let's start at the start Dudley town was first settled back in
the 1740s by well you guessed it The Dudley family and is situated in the middle of three large Hills because of this the whole place is unusually dark and rough terrain meant crops were difficult to grow even so the population steadily grew until by the mid 19th century it reached a modest peak of 26 families despite some Prosperity though the town was marred by bizarre occurrences and strange deaths a Grizzly plague swept through barely 30 years after it was first settled and that was only the beginning freak accidents became unusually common like a barn collapsing
on someone and someone else being struck by lightning on top of this one resident was convinced that strange creatures came out of the surrounding Woods at night whether the creatures were real or imagined we can't say for sure over the years an inordinate number of the towns residents were diagnosed insane in an ordinary Town any case of serious mental illness like insanity is noteworthy but in this Tiny Town of just 26 families there were three cases of insanity in less than 50 years that's super weird all of this plus the town's awkward location led to
its gradual Demise by 1901 there was almost nobody left one of the last res residence was called John broy and he suffered arguably the worst fate of them all first his wife passed away from tuberculosis then his two children ran into the forest and vanished Without a Trace things only went from bad to worse when the family home burned down in a mysterious fire then John himself fled into the Woodland never to return o that's one seriously unfortunate series of events after this the town lay abandoned and was gradually consumed by the surrounding Wilderness but
the stories lingered on giving rise to a persistent legend that the place is cursed indeed those Brave few that have dared to explore the ruins today reported seeing apparitions and feeling sudden pangs of Terror not that you're supposed to explore in 1999 the whole area was blocked off by authorities so if caught trespassing you could face a hefty fine I don't know though stories about the town are likely overblown and the Myriad of ghost sightings are impossible to prove what's more the area wasn't closed off because of Any curse but because people living nearby had
become sick and tired of all the Ghost Hunters oh the irony I have to admit though there's something undeniably odd about this ruined forsaken place the dollhouse in a village on the outskirts of Seville lies a strange abandoned house it looks creepy enough on the outside but what lies within has terrified locals so much they've avoided the place for years British Urban Explorer Ben James paid a visit in April 2023 what he found was shocking dolls dolls everywhere hanging from lights nailed to the wall almost every conceivable space was covered with creepy porcelain figures yeah
I'd have noped out of there Pronto after taking a few more snaps Ben eventually did leave but he had a lot of questions and the villagers revealed all according to them a mother had lived there with her two children but after her kids tragically passed away the woman became inconsolable and began obsessively collecting dog WS as a coping mechanism man that's actually super sad supposedly she became a recluse and was very rarely seen leading the villagers to think she'd steadily lost her sanity before passing herself in 2017 since then the house has laying abandoned and
some people even believe it's cursed with the children's Souls doomed to haunt the dolls forever Legend has it that if anybody enters the house or takes something they'll become possessed and meet a terrible fate as if anybody would want to I'll pass on the haunted porcelain dolls thanks either way it's a tale as tragic as it is creepy popel island in the middle of the Hudson River in New York there is an island so steeped in history it could have a video all to itself yet in 1969 such a huge disaster struck there that the
public were outright forbidden to ever step foot on it again the island is called pipel and for a long time it stood uninhabited deemed haunted by local Native Americans in 1901 however Scottish born Munitions dealer Francis Bannerman bought it and decided to build a castle there to store his Munitions Arsenal all in all the castle was a grand Affair and the island was tended to beautifully that all changed after Bannerman's passing in 1918 work on the island stopped and in August 1920 tragedy struck some of the shells in the Arsenal couldn't stand the heat of
the day and exploded blowing a tower and some of the island itself into the river the damage was devastating but nevertheless the Bannerman Arsenal remained on pipel until 1950 that year however tragedy struck again when a ferry boat used to ship ammunition to the island was sunk in a storm following this any remaining active shells and weaponry were relocated from pipel and the island was all but abandoned until 1968 that is when New York State bought it something they'd soon regret just one year later a further series of explosions rocked pipel in a colossal fire
tore through the castle gutting it and leaving a scalded ruin in its wake it seemed there had been active ammunition left over after all this time the damage was so brutal that the island was closed off completely seemingly for good man it's no wonder people say this place is cursed but decades later a group of passionate people set up the Bannerman Castle trust a nonprofit organization determined to reopen the island for everyone to enjoy and eventually in 2004 they succeeded does this finally spell an end to the curse only time will tell dying station take
one look at this odd structure protruding from the Caspian Sea and you'd be forgiven for thinking it's photoshopped the strange isolated building can only be reached by boat but you do not want to go near it for reasons you'll soon find out it was first built as a Soviet torpedo Factory in 1939 to Aid the war effort but wait how do you build something so far out at Sea well ingeniously Engineers first constructed a concrete base for the building to be built upon then they drilled a 60ft hole into the seafloor and filled it with
a solid mass of stones after that they transported the concrete base over and anchored it to the stones voila unfortunately the Relentless waves of the Caspian have worn this once in important building down to a shadow of its former self but why was it abandoned in the first place well as technology advanced and the waters around the building soon became too shallow to effectively test more powerful Torpedoes in so in 1966 the factory was abandoned some Brave or stupid explorers still dare to go near the crumbling sight however local rumors report that live unstable Torpedoes
are still in the in the building with tourists urged to avoid visiting unless they fancy putting themselves in grave danger yeah it's a torped no from me the doomed Island way back in 1910 Holland Island in Maryland was a thriving place to live with a buzzing community of nearly 360 people and over 70 buildings now almost every last trace of the people and Island are gone so what the heck happened well when it was first settled in the 1600s the settlers didn't consider one huge issue rather than being formed of rock Holland island is made
from clay and silt which are far softer for a long time there were no consequences but by 1914 the wind and Tide were taking their toll on the Island's west side the residents did everything they could to stop the encroaching erosion but nothing worked and most of them were forced to leave then in 1918 a furious tropical storm battered the island nearly destroying the church and prompting the remaining Islanders to get the hell out of there too slowly but surely the rest of the buildings on Holland Island collapsed into the sea all bar one yet
still people couldn't let it go in 1995 former resident Steven White purchased the island for $70,000 and spent the next 15 years trying to save it he tried everything wooden breakwaters sandbags rocks even sinking a barge near the house to break the waves but $150,000 and5 years later and nothing had been achieved to stop the water's tireless advance in 2010 Steven fell ill and sold the island to a venture capitalist group they took the last pictures of the last house on Holland Island before the 125-year-old structure finally succumbed to the tide and collapsed at present
the rising sea levels have utterly consumed what remains of the island all that's left is dangerous sunken ruins you wouldn't want to get near with a barge pole it's sad really but the lesson is clear don't build your house on a small island made of silt Hotel Del Salto standing crookedly at top a tall Cliff by a waterfall in Colombia is a century old building with a dark past this is the hotel Del Salto originally a mansion until it was converted into a hotel in 1928 from the off it was plagued by tragedy see according
to local Legend back in the 1500s native people would leap from the nearby Falls to avoid capture by Spanish forces rather than hit the bottom though they'd transform into Eagles midf fall and soar into the skies put it this way one part of the story is more likely than the other and by the time 1928 rolled around it seemed the tradition was ready for a rebirth indeed many visitors and patrons who came to spend the night never checked out by their own volition if you catch my drift because of this the building quickly became known
as haunted Hotel guests swore they saw apparitions and heard voices conversing in a strange language and one guest was apparently even driven insane which alongside the Great Depression of the 1930s really wasn't good for business by the 1900s the hotel had been closed and abandoned but its maob reputation lingered on the once illustrious Hotel would remain in disrepair until 2013 when it was renovated and turned into a museum even though guests are now permitted in the day past 5:00 p.m. access is strictly prohibited as well as the cliff Edge being incredibly dangerous the spirits that
haunt the building are said to emerge at night and on that note it's about time I check out though I will be checking back soon with a fresh new video for you which of those forbidden places would you like to most visit let me know down in the comments and thanks for watch watching [Music]
