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Top 10 places of interest where bodies have been found

We are well on our way to this whole “human” experiment now, and the first phase, the age of explorers, is ending. We have mapped each strip of land with a certain level of detail and are investigating the secrets of ancient civilizations. The virgin nature is more and more touched, by more and more people, turning nature into reference points. As more people flock to these landmarks each year, the difference between settling a region and domesticating it becomes increasingly obvious. Sometimes the land fights back and people die. Sometimes people just fight each other and people die. Either way, after 300,000 years of settlement, there are a lot of dead humans in a lot of really interesting places. Here are ten of those landmarks, places of natural or man-made wonders, and an abundance of corpses in any case.

10. The Catacombs of Paris

What do you do when you run one of the largest metropolises in the world and find that you have accumulated 2,000 years of bodies within its borders with nowhere to put them? We have all been there. And also the French government. In the 1700s, Paris was two millennia old and some 6,000,000 people had lived and died within its borders. Their cemeteries were overflowing and to make more space, skeletons were being exhumed and stacked on the cemetery walls. The (literal) turning point came when sections of the wall around Paris’s largest cemetery, Les Innocents, collapsed and bones and bodies were spilled through the streets of Paris. The solution: empty tunnels and quarries under the city. Six million bodies were placed in these tunnels, and now their bones line the walls in neat piles or, in some places, ornate sculptures. It is a magnificent and gruesome display of death, and about a mile is open for public exploration. The rest have been declared unsafe and off-limits, but a quick YouTube search will show how many cavers and ghost hunters ignore that restriction.

9.Pompeii

The ancient Roman city of Pompeii was a rich community. Rich Romans frequented its elegant thermal baths and brothels, artists filled the city with grand statues and frescoes, and its (apparently) idyllic location between the Italian Tyrrhenian Sea and Mount Vesuvius made it a commercial center and tourist destination. All of that changed in the fall of AD 79. when Vesuvius was revealed to be an active volcano and erupted for two days in a row. It started with 18 hours of pumice rain – clouds of rock dust spewed by the volcano that blanketed Pompeii and the surrounding region in a dark, suffocating haze. Fortunately, this stage was relatively slow and visible, allowing most of the city’s 20,000 residents to flee to safety.
For the 1,200 who remained in the city for whatever reason, a series of rapid ejections of hot ash sealed their fate. Most interestingly, many of them left gaps in the ash that allowed archaeologists to create casts of their bodies. These revealed the final locations and positions of the citizens, so we know, for example, which people crowded in at the end, who tried to flee the city, and which, in at least one case, simply sat in a tavern, having a final drink.

8. The Golden Gate Bridge

The fact that “Suicides at the Golden Gate Bridge” is its own Wikipedia article speaks volumes. The iconic bridge that spans the San Francisco Bay is famous for attracting jumpers. It has been called a suicide magnet, the world’s number one suicide destination and the world’s deadliest bridge. And his reputation comes mainly from officially documented cases. The official jumper statistics do not represent the actual number of suicide attempts because, in its more than 80 years of existence, it is believed that many people jumped without witnesses. Not counted thousands have died from jumping off the bridge, either from the impact of the landing, the inability to swim to shore and / or hypothermia from the icy waters of the bay. Perhaps the creepiest detail of the whole phenomenon is that since many jumpers did it in secret, from time to time unknown bodies in various states of decomposition make their way ashore around San Francisco Bay and neighboring areas. Grim discoveries are frequent and the bridge has earned an almost sinister reputation along with its tourist appeal.

7.Niagara Falls

Alright, let’s go ahead and get these unfortunate jumpers out of the way at once. Niagara Falls is a truly impressive natural wonder, drawing thousands of people to its majestic torrential waters. Most are tourists, naturalists, or part of destination weddings, but two other groups visit the falls and both have little chance of returning. The first is suicidal. Estimates of the number of people who have sought death by jumping over falls vary enormously, but the majority has hovered around 4,000 in the last century. The other group that makes constant pilgrimages to the falls to find their end are the daredevils. Going down the falls, with or without a barrel, is one of the most daring feats in the world. Unfortunately, about a quarter of those who try the trick die trying. Approximately 20 to 30 people die each year crossing the falls in one of two ways, making Niagara Falls a bleak end of the eastern continental US along the Golden Gate Bridge of the West Coast.

6.Death Road, Bolivia

North Yungas Road is a 69 km highway that winds through Bolivia, winding between cliffs and jungles. Its width varies drastically and the lanes are dubious and constantly changing. Due to inclement local weather, its location alongside steep peaks and gorges, and its unreliable composition, the road is often beset by heavy rain, thick fog, sudden waterfalls, landslides, and fallen rocks. Most estimates state that 200-300 people die on the road every year, most likely to fall off the side. The history and reputation of the road earned it the title “Road of Death”. Such dubious acclaim drew thrill seekers, most attempting to bike its treacherous length, which only added to its death toll. Fortunately, much of the road has been modernized in recent years, hopefully turning Death Road into Just-Bored-to-Death Road.

5.Mount Everest

Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the world and possibly its most famous natural landmark. This has made it the… well, Mount Everest of mountaineering. It’s no secret that many have perished trying to peak (or any base halfway through). More than 300 climbers and guides have died on the way to some level of the mountain. What is most remarkable, and scariest, is the current fate of all those bodies. Several expeditions have been organized to remove bodies from parts of the road, but they have been hampered because:
The mountain fights corpse retrievers in the same way that it fights climbers;
Many families of climbers have fought against recovery, citing the wishes of their deceased to stay on the mountain.
Furthermore, in recent years, climate change has melted the previously perennial layer of snow, revealing lost bodies and further filling the road to death, even between expeditions. Even more macabre, the best-known bodies are now landmarks in themselves; It is not uncommon for climbers to plan their progress by reaching one of their dead predecessors at a certain point in time. More information: Cueva de Botas Verdes.

4.Mont Blanc

Every mountain is inevitably in the shadow of Everest, many of them literally. But in terms of human death, Mont Blanc is much higher than its Himalayan brother. Compared to the death toll on Mont Blanc, now estimated at around 10,000, the 300 on Everest seem like child’s play. So why is Everest so famous around the world and not Mont Blanc? There are many reasons, but perhaps the most ironic, because Blanc is easier. Nobody heads to Everest unprepared, it is to be expected, but Mont Blanc, one of the Alps and shared between France and Italy, is considered more of a tourist destination than an existential challenge. A pleasant gondola ride takes aspiring climbers the first 9,000 feet of the total 20,000 feet of the mountain. The rest is advertised as a “long walk” to the summit. This attracts about 25,000 hikers each year and, statistically speaking, inevitably makes Mont Blanc the deadliest mountain in the world. Corpses are discovered there … frequently.

3.Herxheim

Yes, Herxheim sounds like a realm Thor would visit, and really, we can’t say for sure that he didn’t. If he did, even his mighty thunder could feel a chill run down his spine. Herxheim is an approximately 7,000-year-old archaeological site discovered in southwestern Germany in 1996. And yes, corpses were found, this time in a series of mass graves. Estimates of bones and bone fragments put the death toll in Herxheim at more than 1,000. However, the “how many” is less unusual than the “why”. Short answer: we don’t know, but there is evidence to suggest a number of disturbing answers. The site was occupied by the first humans for hundreds of years. The deliberate shape and pattern of the tombs suggests that the mass graves were planned in advance and slowly dug over decades. This, combined with the fact that the bones come from all over Central Europe, suggests that the site was some kind of necropolis, a place for the dying to make one last pilgrimage before burial. But the city is more sinister than quiet. Hundreds of skulls were carefully split in half, tongues removed from their necks, and long bones split in half and marrow removed, suggesting a truly massive cannibal enterprise.

2.The Suicide Forest

A place that practically defines the word “infamy”, Aokigahara is a forest in the shadow of Mt. Fuji, Japan, which has become widely known as the Suicide Forest. Upon entering the forest, visitors are greeted with a sign that roughly reads: “Think silently once more of your parents, siblings, or children. Please don’t suffer alone, and first, reach out. “The sign exists for a good reason.

The forest has acquired an almost mythical reputation as a domain of ghosts, an evil forest with sinister intentions and, above all, one of the most popular places in the world to commit suicide. There is no exact suicide count inside the forest for the same reason that many choose to end their lives there: inside, one is exceptionally isolated and alone. Police have estimated hundreds of suicides within the forest in any given year, but the exact total will never be known.

1st. Bartholomew Church

The Church of St. Bartholomew in Kudowa, Poland, is nicknamed the Skull Church. From the outside, it looks modest; its relatively small and mute face makes it look like any other small ancient chapel in Europe. But inside, it is far from simple. No, you are forced to assume many things when you see what it contains. Its floor, walls and ceiling are covered or partially composed of thousands of human skeletons. There are few surfaces in the entire building that are not completely covered by human bones. The 3,000 skeletons that line its surfaces are neatly stacked in places and in other places arranged in sculptures and ornate patterns. The icing on this ice cream of death is that the basement also has its own bones. Another value of 21,000 humans. I guess it’s more full ice cream than cherry.