Almost any forest may seem mystical and mysterious. Thickets plunged into darkness and fog, dense thickets often keep many secrets and secrets. Our ancestors believed that forests are inhabited by various magical, and sometimes very scary, dangerous creatures for humans. Around the forests and now there are frightening and bewitching legends.
The forest has always been a danger to humans. Such green zones are scattered around the world in which you can meet wild animals in which it is easy to get lost or stumble upon a swamp, a dangerous swamp. And there are such forests on the planet about which legends compose, tell terrible and mystical stories. In many of these places it becomes alarming even on a clear sunny day, and even at night and even more so.
Which forests have the most interesting history? Which of them are associated with frightening or inexplicable events?
Hoya Bachu - a portal to another dimension
The forest called Hoya Bachu is located in Romania, it is surrounded by numerous legends. This is not surprising, because even at the first glance at this territory it becomes alarming. The fact is that the trees and shrubs in this forest look unusual: they have distorted, twisted, unusual shapes for the human eye.
Locals say that in the very center of this mysterious forest there is a completely flat round platform. Trees, grasses and shrubs encircle it, but no plants grow on the very territory of the circle. Beasts do not go there, but the birds try to go around this zone in the terrible forest of Hoya Bachu. According to legend, this place is a portal, a passage to another world, to another reality. It is said that those people who went into the thicket of the Romanian forest and found this zone never returned home. However, their bodies were not found, and scientists still can not reasonably explain such events.
Travelers - thrill seekers - are in these parts often. But rarely does anyone dare to go far into the forest. People who were in Khoya-Bachu talk about the fact that, being in this green zone, they felt acute discomfort: they began to feel nauseous, rang in their ears, their heads began to spin, chills passed through their bodies. And gradually, for everyone who lingered for a long time in a forest in Romania, there was a strong alarm, irrepressible anxiety, fear, bordering on animal horror.
Cursed Elven Forest
In California, near the beautiful city of San Diego, there is a dense and little-visited forest. This territory received a fabulous name - Elven Forest, but this place is surrounded by bad rumor. Locals try not to be here, and visitors to this forest are mainly brave tourists.
In the old days, gypsies lived on this green territory. However, in the 19th century, the local population decided to drive them away. Since the gypsies were not in a hurry to leave the territory of their own free will, many of them were killed. As a result, the Elven Forest became a burial place, and those gypsies who survived and decided to leave these places cursed the forest. Since then, this place in California is surrounded by mysterious legends.
Many of those who were in the Elven Forest, after telling that they saw ghosts. It was either a silent woman in a white robe, in the presence of which a sticky chill passed through the skin or a strange spirit with a severed head and a black ghostly horse that rode noiselessly among centuries-old trees.
The forest that screams
An amazing name was given to the area in the English county of Kent - "Screaming Forest." This forest has a very notorious reputation and is even listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the area of Great Britain, where the most ghosts live. According to data from 1989, there were more than thirteen ghosts.
This place has its name for a reason. They say that from the forest you can often hear screams, groans and pleas for help. Residents of the nearest village say that these voices belong to people who died in more often, who never found a way out of the forest.
Meetings with ghosts in Screaming Forest are told not only by those who live near this green zone. Many tourists, travelers and just visitors confirm the words of the locals.
Most often, people see the ghost of a soldier who emerges from the depths of the forest and then dissolves as soon as the last trees are behind him. Another popular cast of these places is the spirit of a colonel who hanged himself in the Screaming Forest in the distant past. Ghosts of gypsies and monks also meet here.
Dow Hill is the scariest place in India
Dow Hill is an old dense forest, near which there is a closed educational institution for boys called Dow Hill Victoria. During the holidays, the school grounds, all buildings are empty, however, local residents and occasional tourists have repeatedly told that they heard from the school children screaming, crying, stamping their feet and some kind of noise.
Forest Dow Hill has received extremely notoriety. It is the most terrible place in India, first of all, because among the trees there were quite a few murders. And often the victims were children. And it is impossible to say how many secrets the land of this forest keeps.
The path that leads from the closed school to the forest jungle is called the "Death Path." One legend says that one who walks along this path in the evening to the forest will never come back again.
Those curious who have been inside the Dow Hill forest said they saw ghosts there. Especially often flashes information about a ghostly boy with a severed head, which appears on forest paths and pursues random travelers or curious travelers.
