Tag: mysterious places
Cecil Hotel – The haunted hotel
The Cecil Hotel inspired the fifth season of the TV series "American Horror Story", but it is best known for having been the scene...
Trasmoz the cursed city
I am convinced that most people believe that curses do not exist and that they are only inventions fortified by ignorance and superstition. In...
Clown Motel – the creepy motel next to a cemetery
It almost looks like a horror movie scenario: a motel in the middle of the Nevada desert, next to a cemetery. But no, the...
The creepy London Great Smog
In 2007, the horror film "The Mist", directed by Frank Darabont and based on the story of the same name by Stephen King, was...
The Devil’s Door in Turin
In Turin, Italy, in via XX Settembre, there is an imposing palace, which currently houses the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, known as "The Devil's...
The well that turns everything into stone
Knaresborough is a small village in England of about 14,000 inhabitants. What makes it special is a well whose water turns everything into stone.
The...
The ghosts of Poveglia Island
The Poveglia Island is possibly one of the most famous mysterious places in Italy, together with the asylum of Aguscello.
Today the island is famous because...
The Devil’s score of Lucedio
The Principality of Lucedio is located in the province of Vercelli and is now a winery. During the seventeenth century, however, it seems that this...
DeFeo and Lutz, the true Amityville Horror story
In 2005 "The Amityville Horror” was released in theatres;it is a remake of the 1979’s film, which was itself inspired by the book "Amityville...
Waverly Hills, the haunted asylum
One of the most famous haunted asylums in Italy is the one of Aguscello, but even abroad there are many of them. Perhaps the torture...
The Alaska Triangle
When talking about cursed places where strange disappearances of people, ships and planes occur, our thoughts turn immediately to the Bermuda Triangle. But in the...
The true story of the pedagogical centre of Aguscello
By now everyone knows, at least by name, Aguscello and its pedagogical center, the ghost stories that haunt that place and legends that surround...