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Since ancient times, people have considered the forest a mysterious and hostile place, they believed that dark forces and people there live more often different misfortunes await. You think these are just tales for little children? We will prove to you that in the wilderness evil still lives far: here are only ten forests where mysterious regularly occur phenomena.
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Wychwood Forest United Kingdom. Once this forest was part of the royal hunting grounds in county Oxfordshire but then the crowned persons began to go round his side, because not wanted to meet the ghost of Count Leicester’s wife, who died from neck fracture many years ago under unclear circumstances. They say that once a widower went hunting and met a dead woman. spouse. She said that in ten days they will be reunited, and, indeed, soon, a seemingly healthy man fell ill and has died. And the ghost still wanders through the thickets, and everyone, met this woman, awaits the fate of her husband. Frith wood Great Britain
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At the beginning of the XIX century in one of the mansions on the outskirts of the forest barracks for French prisoners of war captured during Napoleonic Wars. A local girl fell in love with a prisoner, but her brother and father, learning about this, killed a daring stranger. Through some time the girl was also found dead (probably she did away with with myself, unable to withstand parting with a loved one). Since then, her ghost sobbing frantically, wandering through the forest, scaring the peasants. Epping forest Great Britain
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In this forest, located east of London, there were no only mystical, but also quite real horrors: he was a haven for criminals Dick Tharpin and police killer Harry Roberts, Ronald Jebson, the child-hunter, hid his victims there. Rumor has it that the ghost of the villain Tarpin wanders through the thickets until now since though when the crew from British television tried to remove it, they did not find anything. Schwarzwald Germany
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A mysterious dense forest stretching along the banks of the Rhine, inspired the Grimm brothers: in the middle of centuries-old firs and pines, where almost no daylight penetrates, writers settled many characters of their tales. If there are children in this forest, they have tales of evil sorceresses, werewolves and good gnomes, and adults will think of ghosts, murders and black magic and probably remember the gothic novel about the necromancer Ludwig Flamenberg, published in 1794, whose action takes place just in the Black Forest. Hoia-baciu Romania
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This Transylvanian forest can terrify anyone: residents the surrounding villages say that in its center there is a large round empty space, and when you enter it, you never again will be back. And if people only get closer to him, how do they suddenly embraces a feeling of anxiety and begins to feel sick. To find out that you come to a dangerous place, simply: trees that must stand straight, literally wrapped in knots. Dow Hill Courseong, India
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Pupils of a school for boys built in West Bengal in XIX century, horrors tell: in the corridors of an old building booming steps are constantly heard and some strange sounds are heard vote. Of course, one could attribute everything to a rich fantasy youth, but the forest surrounding the school scares the locals yet more, because lumberjacks regularly meet there wandering among headless boy trees. Aokigahara Japan
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The dense forest northwest of Mount Fuji is famous one of the most creepy places on the planet. It’s easy for a tourist to go astray paths because compass hands go crazy and start it makes no sense to spin. True, geologists interpret this anomaly giant deposits of iron ore under the trees. But how to explain the fact that since 1950 in this forest more than 500 people have finished by yourself? Locals tell: every night in more the cries of the unfortunate who, after death, never found peace. Old House Woods Virginia, USA 50 acres of American forest Virginia has become a haven for a whole crowd of ghosts British soldiers and pirates dying in the vicinity of the important port city in the XVIII century. They probably can’t leave ours the world because they guard their treasure chests hidden in local soft mud.
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And in the flattering, you can often see the ruins of a burnt colonial the estate, around which the ghost of its owner often appears. But the strangest phenomenon was observed by a certain fisherman in the 19th century: off the coast appeared, and then the whole ship suddenly disappeared! Freetown-fall River State Forest Massachusetts, USA In a forest in the southeast state Massachusetts constantly observed a variety of paranormal activity: then fireballs fly over the trees, then suddenly If a UFO appears, then the locals are worried about the poltergeist. According to legend, the indigenous tribes living in this forest did not want with him to part, but the strangers forced them to sell this land.
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When leaving, the Indians left many burial grounds in the thicket, and now the souls of the dead take revenge on the living. And in the 1970s and 80s in the wilderness unknowns performed satanic human sacrifices. Isla de las Munecas Mexico Hundreds of Old Broken Puppets hang on tree branches in a forest located on a small island near the Mexican capital. 50 years ago a local resident don Julian Santana found the girl’s body in one of the channels, and nearby he found a doll and decided to hang a toy in the forest in memory about the unfortunate one. For half a century, Julian did not depart from tradition.
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In 2001, a thousandth doll would appear on the branch, but Santana drowned in the same canal. Now the inhabitants of the island they argue: some believe that dolls with torn limbs are evil, and they need to be destroyed, others, on the contrary, think that toys protect the peace of this earth.
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