Are You Afraid of the Dark? The Scariest Places in the World
| January 22, 2018
Pripyat
Pripyat used to be home to over 50,000 residents — that was in the 1970s though. Today, the town is completely abandoned, a casualty of the tragic disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. The roads have overgrown, the buildings are falling apart, and garbage litters the ground now. It serves as a long standing reminder of the dangers of nuclear energy and easily makes our list as one of the scariest places in the world.
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