This Halloween, forget about pumpkins or haunted houses, and try the thrill of real, creepy locations like in horror movies, from ancient cemeteries, abandoned hospitals, churches built entirely of bones to suicide forests...
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| The ancient Chauchilla cemetery in Peru is home to many spooky legends involving white skeletons placed in pits and sitting with their backs against the walls. |
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| The Capela dos Ossos church in Portugal was built with more than 5,000 monks' skeletons, with two nearly intact skeletons – one adult and one child – hanging on the wall. |
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| Sedlec Cathedral in the Czech Republic is decorated with more than 40,000 human skeletons, forming chandeliers, holy chalices... enough to make anyone who dares to enter shudder. |
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| Rockland Mental Hospital in Orangeburg, New York, USA, built in the 1930s, with 9,000 patients at its peak, is now abandoned, haunted by the objects left behind, such as brightly colored children's toys among the cold gray walls. |
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| The Capuchin Catacombs in Palermo, Italy, lined with 16th-century mummies. |
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| A mummified child at El Museo de las Momias, Guanajuato, Mexico – which holds the bodies of many people who died from the cholera epidemic in 1833. |
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| The ancient Jewish cemetery in Prague, dating from 1478, is packed with 12 layers of 12,000 graves and 10,000 bodies buried deep underground. |
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| St. George's Church in the Czech Republic lost its roof during a funeral in 1968. Artist Jakub Hadrava adds to the haunting effect of the ruined church with plaster statues covered in white shawls. |
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| A bathroom at the West Virginia prison in the US, where about 100 executions took place until 1995, is now open to visitors. |
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