Culturally fascinating and deeply disturbing. The Aokigahara Forest is the most popular site for suicides in Japan, and second in the world only to San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, at a rate of 50 to 100 deaths a year. The authorities sweep for bodies only on an annual basis, as the forest sits at the base of Mt. Fuji and is too dense to patrol more frequently.
Tuesday, 18 February 2014
The Suicide Forest
Culturally fascinating and deeply disturbing. The Aokigahara Forest is the most popular site for suicides in Japan, and second in the world only to San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, at a rate of 50 to 100 deaths a year. The authorities sweep for bodies only on an annual basis, as the forest sits at the base of Mt. Fuji and is too dense to patrol more frequently.
Alcatraz, the haunted place!
Alcatraz Island is the site of the abandoned federal prison, the oldest operating lighthouse on the West Coast of the United States
The Island of the Dolls Known as “La Isla de la Muñecas”, by the Spanish,
The Island of the Dolls is perhaps the creepiest tourist attraction in Mexico. Located within an extensive network of canals, south of Mexico City, the island is a place of mystery and superstition. Almost every tree growing on the island is decorated with old, mutilated dolls that give anyone the feeling that they’re constantly being watched.
Lady Dai
a body dating from the Han dynasty who was so well-preserved that her limbs were still supple when her body was discovered.
Suicide Forest in Japan The Aokigahara Forest is the most popular site for suicides in Japan.
After the novel Kuroi Jukai was published, in which a young lover commits suicide in the forest, people started taking their own lives there at a rate of 50 to 100 deaths a year.
Aoikigahara, Japan. Also known as the forest of suicides.
Said to be one of the most haunted places in the world.green whale by castiellightworkers8 on DeviantArt
Elizabeth Short aka The Black Dahlia (circa 1940s)
Elizabeth Short (July 29, 1924 – c. January 14–15, 1947), posthumously known as the Black Dahlia, was an American woman found murdered in the Leimert Park ...
The body of a young woman was found in Leimert Park on January 15, 1947.
She was ID'd as Elizabeth Short, and she would become known as the Black Dahlia.
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Said to be one of the most haunted places in the world. green whale by castiellightworkers8 on DeviantArt
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Primus by L_Y_N_X Culturally fascinating and deeply disturbing. The Aokigahara Forest is the most popular site for suicides in J...
