It’s a good thing you have to read this with the lights on, but wait, you could try just a flashlight, if you dare. We get your adrenaline flowing by taking you to The World’s Scariest Places. Prepare for the frightful as we look past rusty iron gates and through creaking old doors. Inside lurk the spirits of not-so-dearly-departed ax victims, wronged women, levitating children and all sorts of things that go bump and boo in the night. You will explore the dim halls of an abandoned insane asylum where thousands met slow downward spirals or death row at Alcatraz where voices still linger. Pitch a tent in a macabre suicide forest or watch your back in a Southern plantation where a triple-murderess won't stay dead. Descend into catacombs filled with lifelike mummies or stroll through a cemetery that hosts eerie rituals. And be sure to visit the real-life locations of your favorite horror movies and even browse the nastiest gift shops you've ever seen. Be sure to order your copies of The World’s Scariest Places – it’s a scream..
WORLD’S SCARIEST PLACES • HAUNTED, CREEPY, ABANDONED
FEARSOME & FRIGHTENING
WHERE GHOSTS ROAM • You can pull up the castle drawbridge or lock the hotel door—but these spirits will drift right in and stay as long as they want.
EDINBURGH CASTLE • The spirits of the doomed echo through this much-besieged fortress and prison.
RAYNHAM HALL • The Brown Lady glides through the stately corridors of this English manor.
HIMEJI CASTLE • A fortress of beauty and strength protected by magic tiles is haunted by a phantom.
ST. AUGUSTINE LIGHTHOUSE • Specters scream, smoke and laugh in this colorful old tower.
WHALEY HOUSE • The chandelier swings and the shadow spirits dance in this historic San Diego home.
ANCIENT RAM INN • Really bad vibrations and some nasty phantoms haunt this 12th-century building in Gloucestershire.
CHÂTEAU DE BRISSAC • A murdered wife sighs from the afterlife in her luxurious castle home.
FAIRMONT BANFF SPRINGS HOTEL • A tragic bride returns for the wedding day she never got to enjoy.
THE FORBIDDEN CITY • A faceless woman and strange beasts emerge after dark in Beijing’s palace.
DRAGSHOLM CASTLE • A randy nobleman spent his final years in chains after one risky romance too many.
LARNACH CASTLE • A tragic past brings the spirits to this rich man’s palace.
CASTLE OF GOOD HOPE • The country’s oldest building pulsates with paranormal activity with a military twist.
MOOSHAM CASTLE • Witches, werewolves and executions bring the spirits of the damned to this medieval fortress.
MORE HAUNTED PLACES • From a floating hotel where the sheets fly off the bed, to the castle where a beheading went horribly wrong.
DARK HISTORY • Best whispered in private, these tales of passion, pain and death never end happily ever after.
ČACHTICE CASTLE • A Hungarian countess goes down as history’s worst female serial killer for atrocities within these walls.
PREDJAMA CASTLE • A ne’er-do-well lord suffers a violent, ignoble death in the lavatory.
LEAP CASTLE • Bones from impaled prisoners litter an underground dungeon.
BHANGARH FORT • Did a curse reduce this grand complex of temples and mansions to ruins?
PORT ARTHUR • The most brutal 19th-century penal colony is the backdrop for a modern massacre.
WINCHESTER MYSTERY HOUSE • Did guilt over her husband’s guns drive a widow to a DIY project that spun out of control?
CAVE OF THE CRYSTAL SEPULCHRE • Ancient Maya bones sparkle deep in the remote cavern.
BARNSTABLE OLD JAIL • A doomed pirate captain’s young lover haunts a colonial America lockup.
LALAURIE MANSION • A sadistic New Orleans...