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Halloween, the liveliest pagan holiday on the calendar, is here for one more year. Time, Hollywood and globalization have spread this Anglo-Saxon tradition around the world to mix with different cultures, giving rise to a party in which the supernatural, fear, death, costumes and the desire to have fun are common. denominator.
Each country celebrates Halloween in a different way, so if you have the opportunity to travel on the All Saints Bridge, we advise you to take a look at the following post since you will find there 5 disturbing destinations to spend a Halloween of death and, above all, rare.
Paris
The city of love invites us to spend a terrifying night in the catacombs of Paris on the occasion of Halloween. Those responsible have designed an activity to make us feel very afraid on the night of the dead.
The catacombs of Paris form a network of tunnels that serve as a cemetery for thousands and thousands of people. It is estimated that the mortal remains of at least six million are buried in the more than 300 kilometers of tunnels that compose them.
In the past, these tunnels were known as the Paris quarries because it was here that the limestone necessary to build a good part of the monuments of the French capital was extracted.
In the XNUMXth century it was decided to move here for public health reasons all the bones that lay in the Cemetery of the Innocents. Thus arose the catacombs.
At first glance, the catacombs of Paris are an eerie place as they are full of human bones and skulls. However, these have been placed forming very striking artistic structures.
If you are thinking of making a trip to Paris during Halloween, we advise you to visit the catacombs to make a different plan during your stay. They are located on avenida del colonel Henri Roi-Tanguy, 1. The price of general admission is 10 euros and the hours are extended on the occasion of this holiday until 20:00 p.m.
Xochimilco
The Island of the Dolls in Mexico is a spooky and haunting-looking place that is popular with tourists during Halloween.
A short walk around the island is enough to make you want to run away from there. The reason? It is full of mutilated and decapitated dolls whose remains have been scattered on the ground, achieving a macabre and creepy appearance.
The creator of the Island of the Dolls was a neighbor of the area, who one day came across the corpse of a girl who had drowned in the swamp there, by chance.
Some time later he began to hear the girl's plaintive moans and cries so, terrified, he tried to drive away the evil spirits from the area by populating the surroundings with shattered dolls.
Nowadays, every Halloween, many people decide to spend the night of the dead on the Island of the Dolls to test their courage and try to listen to the spirits that that neighbor used to talk about.
Those interested in visiting the Island of the dolls of Xochimilco can arrive by taking a ferry from the Cuemanco or Fernando Celada piers, south of Mexico City. Also, if you choose to also visit the channels, the tour can last between three and four hours.
trasmoz
On the slopes of Moncayo, a few kilometers from the Cistercian monastery of Veruela, Trasmoz is located, a town in Zaragoza famous for being the only excommunicated town in Spain.
It was the thirteenth century when the excommunication by papal order took place. There are many causes that could lead to this end, but two stand out: the fact that the Aragonese Crown granted it certain rights that placed it in a more advantageous position with respect to the rest of the municipalities and that in its castle false currency was minted that mined the Veruela income. However, a legend also circulates that says that pagan acts and covens were a constant within the castle at that time despite the tight control that the Veruela monastery exercised in the surroundings of this town.
The excommunication and the fact that the popular Spanish romantic poet Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer was inspired by Trasmoz castle for his legends about witchcraft and covens during his stay in the Veruela monastery, helped spread the town's fame as cursed.
Currently there are 80 residents registered here and they are not affected by this situation. What's more, thanks to these dark stories, hundreds of tourists visit Trasmoz every year. The town has a museum dedicated to witchcraft and every summer there is a fair dedicated to witches, magic and medicinal plants that attracts many curious people.
On the occasion of Halloween, the El Embrujo Cultural Association has recovered part of the ancient Celtic ritual of the night of the souls and every October 31 it celebrates “The light of the souls” in which neighbors and tourists participate.
San Diego
In this American city you will find what is probably the most horrifying horror house of all time. Many visitors have described this mansion as a true horror movie in real life., so if you are somewhat fearful McKamey Manor is not your place to spend this Halloween.
It may seem somewhat exaggerated to be a house of terror but if we take a look at the requirements to enter it we will better understand what the brave who dare to set foot inside can be exposed to:
Have more than 21 years
Be in good health
Sign a document that assumes responsibility for the physical consequences of fear.
I don't know about you, but the last two conditions have made me quite uneasy without even being able to visit McKamey Manor. And it is not an easy task because there is a waiting list of more than twenty thousand people. In addition, only two to four people can enter at a time so the founder of this attraction, Russ McKamey, works hard with them to make them have a Halloween they will never forget.
But what kind of horror house is McKamey Manor? Apparently one of those that cause high levels of fear and stress that forces many visitors to leave the circuit. In fact, there are very few who manage to complete it as the tour can last between four and seven hours.
Throughout the visit, demonic beings, zombies, monsters and all kinds of evil beings will appear to give staff to all the rooms of the house while the experience is recorded on video with cameras.
London
At the end of the 1888th century, the legend of Jack the Ripper was born in London when in XNUMX the first corpse of a prostitute appeared in the Whitechapel area, thus beginning a long list of crimes that spread terror in the British capital.
The police never caught him, but today hundreds of people roam the streets of the East End on his trail. The Jack the Ripper route can be done on your own or as part of a guided route that takes us back to Victorian times and offers us a deep account of what happened while visiting the places where the murders took place.
The All Saints Bridge is a great time to make a getaway to London and make a different plan for Halloween such as this route.
As a curiosity, be sure to visit The Ten Bells, an old pub founded in 1752 and located on the corner of Commercial St. and Fournier St. that used to be frequented by some of Jack's victims. Without a doubt, having a drink there must be a chilling experience.