Six-Hundred-Sixty-Six: The Six Creepiest Places on Earth.

Saw that my friend posted this link on Facebook; guaranteed to freak even the most stalwart of person out. I am no where near hardy, hell, I had nightmares for two weeks straight after watching Jeepers Creepers when I was in 7th grade.

Here's the link: The 6 Creepiest Places on Earth.

Now, honestly, I didn't actually find most of these places creepy or scary, just weird as fuck. However, there were two items on the list (so I guess 33.3333%...which I guess can be counted as a significant amount??) that freaked me out.

#6: Aokigahara Forest
I honestly thought that this one should have been at least #2, because talk about scaring the shit out of me. Here's the description (if you didn't feel like following/reading the link I posted above...):

"Aokigahara is a woodland at the base of Mount Fuji in Japan that makes The Blair Witch Project forest look like Winnie the Pooh's Hundred Acre Wood. It probably has something to do with all the dead bodies scattered around.

What Niagara Falls is to weddings, Aokigahara is to suicide. How many suicides does it takes for a place to get that reputation? A dozen? Fifty?

More than 500 fucking people have taken their own lives in Aokigahara since the 1950s.

The trend has supposedly started after Seicho Matsumoto published his novel Kuroi Kaiju (Black Sea of Trees) where two of his characters commit suicide there. After that-always eager to prove they are bizarrely susceptible to suggestion-hundreds of Japanese people have hanged themselves among the countless trees of the Aokigahara forest, which is reportedly so thick that even in high noon it's not hard to find places completely surrounded by darkness.

Besides bodies and homemade nooses, the area is littered with signs displaying such uplifting messages like 'Life is a precious thing! Please reconsider!' or 'Think of your family!'"

Holy fucking hell. Uhhh, can we just establish that this is so not okay? I think Japan's desirability just dropped about, hmm, 500 fucking points. Mother of pearl! If you're going to commit suicide, can you please do it someplace less creepy!! Mary, Moses, and Joseph. I LIVE in a damned forest. Yeah, guess who's NOT going outside after dusk ever again. Thanks so much Matsumoto. You're a real champ.


#3: The Sedlec Ossuary
Not so much scary as absolutely, insanely, ridiculously creepy. C.R.E.E.P.Y. Again with the description...

"Remember when we said Aokigahara was the Niagara falls of suicide? Well, for centuries the abbot in the small Czech town of Sedlec has been the Niagara Falls for dead people, regardless of cause of death. Ever since someone sprinkled soil from the Holy Land on the local cemetery in the 13th century, people from all over Europe started demanding to be buried there and the Sedlec graveyard kept growing until 1870, when the priests decided to finally do something about all those surplus bones lying around. Something insane.

Today, the Sedlec Ossuary is a chapel famous for being decorated with tens of thousands of human bones. This macabre style of interior design was the work of Czech woodcarver Frantisek Rint who, for some reason, was hired to organize the church's extensive skeleton collection. The results were huge mounds of human remains in the four corners of the chapel, a terrifying chandelier built from every bone in the human body, and a massive skull coat of arms adorning the entrance.

We realize this is the Czech Republic and all, but it has been 27 years, surely Poltergeist was released out there already. Like, maybe last year or something? Why are they still playing with human bones as if they were Satan's Lego blocks and making them sit through Mass every single day for almost 140 years now? On the Tempting Fate scale, the only thing worse would be to start using some of the skulls as ceremonial mugs or chamber pots.

At this point, does it really surprise anyone that the church became the inspiration for Dr. Satan's lair in the Rob Zombie movie House of 1000 Corpses?"

Ummm, let's insert a holy fucking hell (round two!). Christ above. That is so nasty. I mean come-on. What happened to "honor the dead"? 

"Hey Timmy, d'ya know where your father was laid to rest?" "Geeze Mom, you know I don't really know. But I did hear from Aunt Phyllis that his femur bone is supposedly part of the massive chandelier in the entryway." "Oh, Timmy, that makes me so happy I'm afraid I've become wet."

Bleck. Mother Nature, can you please, you know, strike down this archive of human remains with a magnitude 7 earthquake? Please?? Because this place is just so WRONG. Gah!