20 Locations Too Scary to Explore

‘Devil’s Hole’
20 Locations Too Scary to Explore

Remember that one stretch of woods in your hometown all the other kids were scared to go in because someone said they once saw a dead body in there? Well, places like that exist all over the world, but whereas your forest probably only contained fairly un-weird insects and only slightly weird porn, they have good reasons for staying out. Others just have deep seated myths. In some cases, nobody even remembers why we don’t go there. What matters is that we don't go there.

“My favorite story is Mt. Kailash in China,” u/horsecave told r/AskReddit. “Conspiracy theories say that it's actually a man-made pyramid from an ancient advanced race. It's only compelling because going to the top is prohibited by the Chinese government.” Also, “The lost city of Paititi is said to be in a rectangular shaped area found on Google Earth at the summit of a mountain near Cusco, but the natives are afraid to go there.” They asked, “What are some places on Earth that are still unexplored because locals fear them? And what are they afraid of?”

jener8tionx 6y ago Devil's Hole in Nevada. It also has endagered pup fish.
boringOrgy 6y ago Edited 6y ago Kholat Syakhl In Siberia. The name means Dead Mountain in Mansi, the language of the local tribe there. It's also where the infamous Dyatlov Pass incident took place.
biscuitfeathers 6y ago The bottom of the Cave of the Crystals in Mexico! The cave is naturally so hot and filled with water most of the time, it can't be fully explored. But the pictures are gorgeous from when people did go in!
czarchastic 6y ago The catacombs under Paris. There are about 150 miles of maze-like tunnels under the city. Only a small portion gets toured by the public. People have ventured deep into them and would go missing for days.
thiscouldbemassive 6y ago Most of the worlds Blue Holes are unexplored because they are fucking dangerous. They are deep underwater sinkholes, hundreds of feet deep one is over 900 feet deep that generally have a toxic layer acid part of the way down.
6y ago Edited 6y ago Recently, an ancient city was discovered in the vicinity/in the forest area in Rio Platano, Honduras. Recently, because the cartels have such a big fucking hold over it, that its simply impossible to go in there without dying or worse. So much history that could await along that river, not found because of drug lords. La Ciudad Blanca I believe it was called.
LurkerForLife420 6y ago Edited 6y ago Houska Castle was built to cover up the opening to hell a seemingly bottomless pit from which the demons of hell would crawl out at night to wreak havoc. Located in the Czech countryside. Before the castle was built to seal this entrance to hell prisoners who had been condemned to death were thrown in. Scary shit my dudes
PatmanC2000 6y ago Hades' Gate or the Gate to Hell in Denizli, Turkey. Supposedly, there's so much carbon dioxide coming out of the entrance of the ancient site that anything that gets close to it dies from asphyxiation. Scientists have determined because this cave sits along a fault line, that the carbon dioxide filled it from an opening in the Earth's crust.
BlueberryPhi 6y ago Edited 6y ago There is a wildlife park where the erosion happens both vertically AND horizontally, resulting in a maze of rocky canyons where every rock is razor sharp. Researchers sometimes go in there, but even taking a brief knee from stumbling can wind up getting you several inches of rock spike embedded into your kneecap. Edit: it's Tsingy.
LurkerForLife420 6y ago Bottomless lakes in New Mexico are what they sound like. Some of the small lakes have no bottom and feed underground rivers and streams stretching hundreds possibly thousands of miles. Trackers have been tossed in and found days later in the Gulf of Mexico. They have claimed many lives of careless swimmers and the dangerous lakes are now sealed off. I swam in the safe ones nearby but always felt kinda creeped out.
cheesy80s 6y ago Perhaps my favorite and that is closest to me is the former nuclear jet testing labs in the Dawsonville forest in Georgia. They are abandoned now. Some people have explored there, but back in the 50's, there was naked nuclear testing (no protection barrier) which means there is concern for high levels of residual radiation. That said, the bunkers still exist, rumored to be complete with furniture and other things untouched since it was abandoned.
mayaisme 6y ago The inyanga mountains in Zimbabwe. The myth is that if you climb this mountain, and make nasty/derogatory comments about the vegetation or rocks or anything you see there (e.g. you pick a fruit and comment on how bitter it tastes) you'll disappear forever. It sounds ridiculous until you learn that several people, including tourists, have disappeared in that mountain. Extensive manhunts and helicopter searches failed to find a single person, dead or alive. Locals fear the mountain, but tourists take it as a challenge, but doesn't end up good for a lot of them. The most recent
6y ago Edited 6y ago In South Africa, there is a cave system known as The cradle of mankind because the most austrailopithucus remains have been found there. People are allowed to go on guided tours of the caves. At the bottom of the main cave, there is an underground lake/water system. The SA government has banned any diving exploration of the lake. This is because, years ago, a group of divers became trapped and ran out of air.
ItsRainbowz 6y ago Edited 6y ago North Sentinel Island. Its inhabitants are one of the few, possibly one of the only peoples untouched by technology. They're also very violet and protective of their land against outsiders, attacking anyone who goes near. Local governments even decided they have jurisdiction to kill anyone who interferes with them to help preserve their pre-technology way of life, so no-one goes there except at their own risk. Because of this, it's impossible to explore the island properly, and even more unfortunately, learn about their incredible culture.
Ezra_Blair 6y ago The Darien Gap. A 100 mile gap in the pan-america highway, covering terrain that includes Panama and Columbia, but is effectively governed by neither. Most of it is marshland and with virtually no infrastructure it is a wet cesspool of tropical disease and, historically, paramilitary groups. People do live in it, in certain regions, and migrants traverse its more worn paths out of desperation, but it's virtually guaranteed to claim the lives of the careless. There is nothing of civilization or man's law there.
Ivlup90 6y ago I lived in the northern part of the Republic of Congo in a town called Impfondo. It was extremely remote. Only accessible by boat or plane. There were many villages surrounding our city that were even more remote and only accessible by a dugout canoe. One of these places was Lake Tele. The locals would talk about an animal or monster called mokele-mbembe. In Lingala, the tribal language, it meant, one who stops the flow of water. They basically thought it was a huge dinosaur that lived in the water there. They would describe it like we
dfc09 6y ago There's a huge sinkhole behind my old house in Kentucky. Kentucky is absolutely full of caves. Anyways, it has a river flowing at the bottom and through a tunnel, so there's two cave entrances that nobody in my neighborhood had the balls to go into. My mom's friend visited one day, and she's a geologist so she's huge into caves and wanted to see. I brought get there to take a look. She basically glanced at it and was like fuck no we'll die if we go in there. The current is very strong, and the rock
IndividualRooster 6y ago All throughout the world, wherever there are glaciers, there are crevasses. Massive ones. Ones nobody ever even knows exists because they're under snow, ones that look like a small hole but open up into massive chasms you could never climb out of, etc. The fear, obviously, is never coming back out. An example of a really scary place full of them is near the base of Everest from the south side: the Khumbu Icefall. It's the start of a massive glacier, and it moves fast enough that it's constantly changing. People actually do climb over the top
Hiirgon 6y ago Edited 6y ago The Tomb of the Chinese Emporer: Qin Shi Huang Di. Although we have seen images of his famous Terracotta Warriors, nobody has ever entered the tomb. Since he was the most tyrannical and violent leader in Chinese history, and because he was so powerful, there is a lot of superstition about his evil spirit and other crazy things about it. Not to mention, there is rumor of a lake of Mercury within the tomb, so it could prove dangerous to open at all. The Chinese government is not allowing the tomb to be opened
YonderlPonder 6y ago The Mississippi is big, deep, and very muddy. There are loads of dams that need maintenance, but lots of divers won't do the job. There is the hazard of being sucked into the hydroelectric dam, but another reason given is that they are scared of the catfish. The fish just need to sit there and the food goes to them and they can get huge. Sure, the Mississippi is explored, but verifying if those catfish are even there or not is next to impossible.

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