If you’re the kind of person who finds commercial haunted houses boring and instead loves traveling to macabre places, then you’d better start booking your tickets because we’ve compiled some of the creepiest and scariest places on earth. Of course, if you’re squeamish and don’t like to read about death or look at pictures of long-dead bodies, then you should probably skip ahead because this article just isn’t for you.
Category Life and Death
Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
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Beaded Skulls
Catherine Martin makes trippy skull models covered with beads in cooperation with the Huichol people of Western Mexico. Her project is appropriately entitled “Our Exquisite Corpse.” It’s only a matter of time before funeral homes make this an option. Interested?
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It’s that time of year, again. The time when kids pick out their own outfits for one night only, when candy is served as breakfast, lunch and dinner for 24 hours, when ghost stories replace Mother Goose books at bedtime. There’s nothing like Halloween, especially in New England, where some of the U.S.’s best spooky stories take place.