Extraordinarily Creepy Places-A Field Guide to the World’s Cursed, Haunted, and Forgotten Places

Catacombs stacked with six million skulls. A Japanese forest silent enough to swallow a scream. A fort in Rajasthan the government has legally forbidden anyone to enter after dark. A village where one woman’s grief filled empty streets with life-sized dolls.Extraordinarily Creepy Places travels to one hundred of the world’s darkest, strangest, and most historically haunted locations - from Auschwitz to Aokigahara, from Cerro Rico’s silver mines to a Swedish vicarage that terrified generations of priests. Organized continent by continent, each entry digs past the campfire version of the story to the documented history underneath - and is honest about exactly where the two stop matching up.Guiding the whole unsettling tour is Craig Gerard Ferguson: self-described supernatural investigator, urban explorer, and unapologetically smug veteran of thirty-one years spent standing in rooms most people would rather not enter. Equal parts historian and showman, he’ll tell you which curses are real, which ones just need a better publicist, and which places deserve your silence rather than your flashlight.Equal parts travel guide, history book, and haunted-house tour led by someone who’s clearly seen too much, Extraordinarily Creepy Places is for anyone who has ever wanted to know exactly how dark the world’s darkest corners really get - and why.