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Space is full of bizarre and even scary phenomena, from stars that suck the life out of their own kind to giant black holes that are billions of times larger and more massive than our Sun. Below are the scariest things in outer space.

The planet is a ghost

Many astronomers said that the huge planet Fomalhaut B had sunk into oblivion, but apparently it is alive again.

Back in 2008, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope announced the discovery of a huge planet orbiting the very bright star Fomalhaut, located just 25 light-years from Earth. Other researchers later questioned this discovery, saying that the scientists had actually discovered the giant dust cloud being imaged.

However, according to the latest data obtained from Hubble, the planet is being discovered again and again. Other experts are carefully studying the system surrounding the star, so the zombie planet may be buried more than once before a final verdict is made on this issue.

Zombie stars

Some stars literally come back to life in brutal and dramatic ways. Astronomers classify these zombie stars as Type Ia supernovae, which produce huge and powerful explosions that send the stars' "guts" out into the universe.

Type Ia supernovae explode from binary systems that consist of at least one white dwarf—a tiny, superdense star that has stopped undergoing nuclear fusion. White dwarfs are "dead", but in this form they cannot remain in the binary system.

They can return to life, albeit briefly, in a giant supernova explosion, sucking the life out of their companion star or by merging with it.

Stars are vampires

Just like the vampires from fiction, some stars manage to stay young by sucking the life force out of hapless victims. These vampire stars are known as "blue stragglers," and they "look" much younger than the neighbors with whom they were formed.

When they explode, the temperature is much higher and the color is “much bluer.” Scientists believe this is the case because they are sucking huge amounts of hydrogen from nearby stars.

Giant black holes

Black holes may seem like the stuff of science fiction - they are extremely dense, and their gravity is so strong that even light cannot escape if it gets close enough to them.

But these are very real objects that are quite common throughout the Universe. In fact, astronomers believe that supermassive black holes are at the center of most, if not all galaxies, including our Milky Way. Supermassive black holes are mind-boggling in size. Scientists recently discovered two black holes, each with the mass of 10 billion of our Suns.

Incomprehensible cosmic blackness

If you are afraid of the dark, then being in deep space is definitely not for you. It is a place of “utter blackness,” far removed from the comforting lights of home. Outer space is black, according to scientists, because it is empty.

Despite trillions of stars scattered throughout space, many molecules are at great distances from each other to interact and scatter.

Spiders and witch's brooms

The skies are populated with witches, glowing skulls and all-seeing eyes, in fact you can imagine any object. We see all of these forms in a diffuse collection of glowing gas and dust called nebulae that are scattered throughout the Universe.

The visual images that appear before us are examples of a special phenomenon in which the human brain recognizes the shapes of random images.

Killer asteroids

The phenomena listed in the previous paragraph may be creepy or take an abstract form, but they do not pose a threat to humanity. The same cannot be said about large asteroids that fly close to Earth.

Experts say that an asteroid 1 kilometer wide has the power to destroy our planet upon impact. And even an asteroid as small as 40 meters in size can cause serious harm if it hits a populated area.

The influence of an asteroid is one of the factors that affects life on Earth. It is likely that 65 million years ago it was an asteroid 10 kilometers in size that destroyed the dinosaurs. Fortunately for us, scientists are scanning celestial rocks, and there are ways to redirect dangerous space rocks away from Earth, if, of course, the danger is detected in time.

Active sun

The sun gives us life, but our star is not always so good. It experiences serious storms from time to time, which can have a potentially destructive effect on radio communications, satellite navigation and power grids.

Recently, such solar flares have been observed especially often, because the sun has entered its particularly active phase of the 11-year cycle. Researchers expect solar activity to peak in 2013.

Frozen reflection in the mirror

There is a belief that mirrors can be used as a portal for otherworldly forces wishing to enter our world. This is why it is believed that a broken mirror leads to bad luck, as evil spirits pass into our world. In addition, people often tell stories about seeing someone else’s reflection or a double in the mirror. So, an unusual event occurred in one Japanese family. In the video, a little girl is playing by the chest of drawers. The video was filmed by one of the family members. For a moment, the girl turns to face her relative, but the reflection in the mirror does not turn with the girl and continues to look at her.

Ghost Girl

In this video, a man with a camera walks around his house looking for strange crying. He opens the door to the room, but finds nothing. Then he hears a sound from behind another door. The shot captured a girl standing in the dark and looking straight into the lens. The operator gets scared and abruptly closes the door, at which point the video is interrupted.

Strange sounds across the Earth in 2012

In 2012, there were cases all over the planet where people reported strange noises. Around the same time, videos began to appear on the Internet in which these phenomena were recorded. The first of them was filmed in Canada. A terrible sound, similar to a roar or scream, was recorded on video. The same videos were later posted by users from Finland, Ukraine, Russia and Central America. It is still unclear what it was.

Fallen Angel

In the video, a group of tourists wanders through the forest at night. Suddenly they hear strange sounds. On the way they come across a large number of feathers, and then a person. The cameras focus on the unknown person's face. He turns around and looks straight into the frame. Because of his appearance and the feathers found, the unknown was nicknamed the Fallen Angel. But more pragmatic users believe that it was an ordinary tramp.

Demon hands

The video begins with an audio recording in which the voice of a terrified man can be heard. He tries to turn on the flashlight. A few minutes later, when he succeeds, green hands appear in the frame - they crawl out of the walls and ceiling. They appear all over the room. At one moment the flashlight goes out, and when it lights up again, the man sees in front of him a strange figure consisting of hundreds of arms. The figure rushes towards the camera and lets out a terrifying roar. The man backs away and the video cuts out. It later turned out that the video was created using a computer program. However, before the video was declared fake, it managed to scare millions of users.

Great white shark

Not far from Sydney there is a suburb called Manly - a popular diving spot. On June 11, 2014, a group of friends took turns jumping from a cliff into the water. Terry Tufferson filmed everything. At one point, his friend shouted that there was a shark near him. Terry swam underwater and saw the predator. The footage shows how the shark swam very close to Terry. After the video was released, many doubted the authenticity of the recording. The young man himself did not give any comments.

Meeting on the road

This story took place in Australia. The car's dash cam captured a confrontation with a man who likely intended to steal the car. The man was driving home with his wife around 1 am when at one point a hooded man stood in the road. He stood motionless. After some time, the driver decided to go around the man, but he began to move in the direction of the car and let out a heart-rending scream. The driver and his wife got scared and stepped on the gas. After returning home, the couple contacted the police. The search returned no results.

Scary creature on the way

In this video, the driver is driving along a dirt road. He points the camera at a strange white figure, approaches and sees something terrible. This creature is dressed all in white, with black long hair on the head. Limping, it begins to approach the frightened driver. He began to drive back and scream in horror. Towards the end of the video, the creature turns away from the headlights. But the driver turns the light on him again, and the creature emits strange screams. The man was forced to back out. At this point the video ends.

The defeat at Stalingrad was the heaviest blow for Germany during the entire war. The most severe trials awaited the Germans at the final stage of the battle: hungry and exhausted, constantly attacked by Soviet artillery and aircraft, they longed to escape from this nightmare.

Stalingrad hell

The successfully developing offensive against Stalingrad by the fall of 1942 turned into a real disaster for the German troops. “We attack every day. If we manage to occupy 20 meters in the morning, in the evening the Russians throw us back,” recalled Corporal Walter Oppermann. Another soldier, Heinrich Malchus, wrote that out of 140 soldiers in his unit, after two weeks of fighting, only 16 people could hold weapons.
Even before the encirclement, at least a thousand wounded were transported daily from Stalingrad to the German rear, the dead were no longer counted. The Germans were reminded of the latter from loudspeakers. After 7 metronome beats, the voice of the Soviet announcer in pure German reported that every 7 seconds there was one less German soldier at Stalingrad, after which the sounds of a funeral march were heard.
Real dramas played out near the evacuation points, where the lucky ones were determined among the wounded who could go home. Seized by animal passions, the Germans furiously beat and trampled each other, just to squeeze into the departing plane. Even machine gun fire from the field gendarmerie was powerless to stop this chaos.

The four-engine giants of the Focke-Wulf could not cope with the influx of fugitives. One of the overcrowded planes collapsed right in front of the crowd gathered at the airfield. However, this did not stop those waiting for the next flight from starting another fight for saving seats.
It became especially difficult when an encirclement ring closed around the 6th Army of Friedrich Paulus. From constant cold, hunger and shelling, the Wehrmacht soldiers, according to one of the soldiers, began to grow dull, losing the ability to adequately perceive what was happening. Every day, walking around their positions, German officers found dozens of frozen corpses.
On the penultimate day of the battle, February 1, 1943, artillery shelling of the Wehrmacht positions intensified many times over. On average, there were about 370 Soviet guns per square kilometer of German troops. According to the Germans, in this barrage of fire the soldiers were simply torn to pieces.

Useless packages

Despite Goering’s self-confident statements that the Luftwaffe is capable of delivering at least 700 tons of cargo to Stalingrad every day, real calculations showed that it would be possible to transport best case scenario half of this volume, and then only under favorable factors.
In fact, Paulus's army received daily from 40 to 200 tons of cargo out of the 600 required. In addition, the Germans fighting at Stalingrad complained about the strange policy of the suppliers: often, instead of food, ammunition, medicine and warm clothing, they were given propaganda leaflets, spices, candy and even condoms.

General Kurt Zeitzler, who was in Berlin, decided to show solidarity with the encircled troops and reduced his daily ration to the norm of Paulus’s soldiers. In two weeks he lost 12 kg. However, Hitler ordered the action to be stopped immediately, as it had a depressing effect on those around him.
Major General Hans Dörr estimated that Luftwaffe losses in 6th Army supply operations amounted to 488 aircraft and about 1,000 aircrew, the worst German air disaster since the Battle of Britain.

Hunger is not a thing

On the eve of Christmas 1942, 6th Army pathologist Hans Girgenson became interested in the mysterious epidemic that was mowing down German soldiers left and right. They died like flies for no apparent reason. After autopsying several bodies, the doctor confidently stated that chronic malnutrition led to death.
Since the second half of December, several dozen soldiers were dying of hunger every day. Death often occurred immediately after eating, which consisted of empty soup with a small amount of horse meat and a piece of stale bread. The diagnosis of such a strange death was surprising - “nutritional shock”. In the diary of non-commissioned officer Joseph Schaffstein we read: “Today I found a piece of old moldy bread. It was a real treat. We eat only once when food is handed out to us, and then we fast for 24 hours.”

The Germans who were trapped in the cauldron were partly lucky, since the Romanian army was surrounded by them. cavalry division. At first, the norm of horse meat was 200 grams per day per person, but soon the horses ran out and the hungry fighters switched to smaller animals.
“Yesterday we received vodka. At this time we were just cutting up the dog, and the vodka came in very handy. In total, four dogs have already been slaughtered, and the comrades still cannot eat enough. Once I shot a magpie and cooked it,” lines from a letter from soldier Otto Sechtig.
In some respects, the Soviet troops helped the Germans trapped in the cauldron by sending them cats equipped with propaganda leaflets for propaganda purposes. Such a gift turned out to be very convenient for Christmas. On December 26, the Germans had a real feast - they treated themselves to “boiled cat meat.”

"Lousy" threat

German documents indicate that the number of those out of action due to illness was many times greater than the number of losses due to wounds. Poor diet, hypothermia and unsanitary conditions are the main factors of illness in the ranks of the Wehrmacht near Stalingrad. The most common diseases that decimated the Germans were hepatitis, dysentery and typhoid.
The carrier of the most terrible of the listed diseases - typhus - were lice that literally ate German soldiers. “Lice are like Russians: you kill one, and ten new ones appear in its place,” a German lieutenant wrote in his diary.

And there is no life in captivity

Of the 91 thousand German soldiers captured by the Soviets, only 5 thousand remained alive. The highest mortality rate was among the rank and file - 95%, junior officers decreased by 55%, generals - only by 5%. The German side blamed the Russians for everything, claiming that the unbearable living conditions in Soviet prisoner of war camps led to such a large number of losses.
Historian Alexey Isaev notes that the decisive factor in the poor survival rate of the prisoners was the months the Germans spent in the cauldron, when the Wehrmacht soldiers were seriously damaged by cold, cold and disease. The high concentration of prisoners in the camps provoked a new round of epidemics, which finished off most of the exhausted warriors.

However, the struggle for life continued even in prison. NKVD officers guarding high-ranking prisoners noted how often they “squabbled” with each other in order to win a place for themselves under the stingy camp sun. One day, the guards had to witness a serious fight between the German and Romanian generals, which, given their position, was unlikely to reveal the winner.

The most terrible things that were captured on camera.

Frozen reflection in the mirror

There is a belief that mirrors can be used as a portal for otherworldly forces wishing to enter our world. This is why it is believed that a broken mirror leads to bad luck, as evil spirits pass into our world. In addition, people often tell stories about seeing someone else’s reflection or a double in the mirror.

So, an unusual event occurred in one Japanese family. In the video, a little girl is playing by the chest of drawers. The video was filmed by one of the family members. For a moment, the girl turns to face her relative, but the reflection in the mirror does not turn with the girl and continues to look at her.

Ghost Girl

In this video, a man with a camera walks around his house looking for strange crying. He opens the door to the room, but finds nothing. Then he hears a sound from behind another door.

The shot captured a girl standing in the dark and looking straight into the lens. The operator gets scared and abruptly closes the door, at which point the video is interrupted.

Strange sounds across the Earth in 2012

In 2012, there were cases all over the planet where people reported strange noises. Around the same time, videos began to appear on the Internet in which these phenomena were recorded. The first of them was filmed in Canada.

A terrible sound, similar to a roar or scream, was recorded on video. The same videos were later posted by users from Finland, Ukraine, Russia and Central America. It is still unclear what it was.

Fallen Angel

In the video, a group of tourists wanders through the forest at night. Suddenly they hear strange sounds. On the way they come across a large number of feathers, and then a person. The cameras focus on the unknown person's face. He turns around and looks straight into the frame.

Because of his appearance and the feathers found, the unknown was nicknamed the Fallen Angel. But more pragmatic users believe that it was an ordinary tramp.

Demon hands

The video begins with an audio recording in which the voice of a terrified man can be heard. He tries to turn on the flashlight. A few minutes later, when he succeeds, green hands appear in the frame - they crawl out of the walls and ceiling. They appear all over the room.

At one moment the flashlight goes out, and when it lights up again, the man sees in front of him a strange figure consisting of hundreds of arms. The figure rushes towards the camera and lets out a terrifying roar. The man backs away and the video cuts out. It later turned out that the video was created using a computer program.

However, before the video was declared fake, it managed to scare millions of users.

Great white shark

Not far from Sydney there is a suburb called Manly - a popular diving spot. On June 11, 2014, a group of friends took turns jumping from a cliff into the water. Terry Tufferson filmed everything. At one point, his friend shouted that there was a shark near him. Terry swam underwater and saw the predator.

The footage shows how the shark swam very close to Terry. After the video was released, many doubted the authenticity of the recording. The young man himself did not give any comments.

Meeting on the road

This story took place in Australia. The car's dash cam captured a confrontation with a man who likely intended to steal the car. The man was driving home with his wife around 1 am when at one point a hooded man stood in the road.

He stood motionless. After some time, the driver decided to go around the man, but he began to move in the direction of the car and let out a heart-rending scream. The driver and his wife got scared and stepped on the gas. After returning home, the couple contacted the police. The search returned no results.

Scary creature on the way

In this video, the driver is driving along a dirt road. He points the camera at a strange white figure, approaches and sees something terrible. This creature is dressed all in white, with long black hair on its head. Limping, it begins to approach the frightened driver.

He began to drive back and scream in horror. Towards the end of the video, the creature turns away from the headlights. But the driver turns the light on him again, and the creature emits strange screams. The man was forced to back out. At this point the video ends.

If you think that there is nothing worse in the world than Dracula’s castle, then you read a lot and travel a little. Island of Dolls, Cemetery of Hanging Coffins, Forest of Suicides - ELLE has selected the TOP 10 most terrible places in the world, a visit to which can not only broaden your horizons, but also deprive you of sleep.

Nazca is the name of a city and desert plateau in southern Peru. The tiny city with a population of 27 thousand people is constantly teeming with tourists. Some want to look at the mysterious drawings left on the dry desert soil, others want to visit the Chowchilla cemetery. Located in the suburbs of Nazca, this necropolis is literally open to visitors. Imagine large pits lined with sticks in which the dead sit. Amazing embalming technology preserved the bodies - at least the bones - in perfect order. Among the inhabitants of Chowchilla there are many who can boast of voluminous hairstyles - despite the fact that the last dead person was buried here 11 centuries ago.

The city on the banks of the river of the same name is located two kilometers from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Until April 27, 1986, it was a rapidly developing nuclear city, all of whose residents were somehow related to the nuclear power plant. Immediately after the terrible accident at the station, almost fifty thousand of its population was evacuated and the city turned into a monument. Or rather, to a memorial. So it has stood empty for more than thirty years, becoming an eerie open-air museum. Residential buildings, a hospital, kindergartens and schools, playgrounds, a Ferris wheel - everything remains. And not a single soul.

Echo Valley in the Philippines is full of rocks. Coffins hang on them close to each other. Locals are convinced that the higher the body of the deceased is located, the faster he will be in heaven. Forcing them to bury bodies is useless. The tradition of burying the dead in the air has existed for more than two thousand years, but local residents do not tell how and what the coffins are attached to - it is a secret.

There are many islands in the suburbs of Mexico City, the most famous of course being La Isla de las Muñecas, the Island of the Dolls. In the fifties of the last century, a young man named Julian Barrera witnessed the death of a child, a girl, who drowned off this island. Barrera kept her doll for himself, and from that moment on, the spirit of the deceased began to appear to him. To appease the spirit, Julian began hanging old dolls found in trash heaps on the island. And in the end he settled on this island. In 2001, after his death (Barrera, like the same girl, drowned near the island), the business was continued by enthusiasts, his relatives. There are a lot of dolls here and together they look very creepy.

The real name of the mansion located in Transylvania is Bran, but it is known, of course, as the castle of Dracula, Count Vlad the Fourth, who received the nickname Impaler because of his love for impaling his subjects. The castle, built on the edge of an abyss, is a 100% embodiment of the Gothic style: gloomy decoration, howling sounds (caused by a chimney that begins to hum in a strong wind). The main attraction of the castle is Dracula's bedroom with a huge bed; it was here, according to legend, that the owner preferred to drink the blood of his victims. The “house” looks very well maintained, for which thanks to Francis Ford Coppola, who invested in the reconstruction of the castle when he filmed his film adaptation of Bram Stoker’s novel there.

In the Czech village of Lukova, the Church of St. George (St. George) has stood since the 14th century. It was abandoned in 1968 after a fire started during a funeral service and the roof collapsed. Several years ago, sculptor Yakov Khadrava, preparing to submit his thesis, decided to turn the church into a site for his experiments. And he populated the empty building with human statues, whose heads were covered with veils. The spectacle is fascinating and scary. The teachers, by the way, were also impressed and accepted Yakov’s diploma - in such an original form.

The famous Mount Fuji is not only famous for itself: at its foot lies Aokigahara, a dense forest full of rocky caves. Aokigahara is incredibly quiet and very, very gloomy. Already in ancient times, the forest was considered the “residence” of monsters and ghosts. And it was here that residents brought and left their loved ones whom they could not feed - frail old people and children. Aokigahara's dark reputation attracts people who are inclined to take their own lives there. Over the past 60 years, the bodies of more than five hundred suicides have been found in the forest - in this sense, Aokigahara is second only to the famous Golden Gate Bridge.

It is not surprising that the “Suicide Forest” is filled to capacity with signs urging potential suicides to come to their senses. The Japanese believe that once you enter Aokigahara, you will never be able to leave it. Therefore, only rescuers looking for those who want to commit suicide and brave tourists visit it.

People were buried here for four centuries in a row, until the end of the 18th century. There was little space, a lot of bodies. As a result, more than 100,000 dead people found refuge in a small area. To ensure there was enough space for everyone, the old tombstones were covered with earth and new ones were placed immediately. Thus, 12 layers of graves were accumulated. Over time, some layers, due to the subsidence of the earth, came out into the light of day, running over later ones, and the cemetery began to look like a rush hour crowd on public transport.

Here it is, Southern American Gothic at its finest. The Manchac Swamp is located near New Orleans and is called nothing less than the swamp of ghosts. Slaves fled here from their masters, but none of them got out of here - they were all eaten by giant crocodiles. The spirits of the dead and those same crocodiles are the main ingredients in the eerie menu of Manchac, a place that attracts tourists so much. There are active excursions around the swamp, both during the day and at night.

Built in Portugal in the 16th century, the chapel is filled with the remains of monks: in total, more than five thousand people are buried there. Bones and skulls are everywhere, wherever you look. And the inscription on the roof of the building - “Better a death day than a birthday” - puts you in an optimistic mood.