Most Evil Places in The World

Let's imagine that you were at the end of the 16th century in the Kingdom of Hungary. You're not exactly from a rich family, and so when your parents receive a letter from a great noblewoman named Elizabeth Báthory, they feel extremely honored. Your parents wonder at first what such a respected and wealthy woman could want from your peasant family, and then upon reading the letter they discover that Elizabeth cares about the poor and just wants to teach you, her son, some etiquette. Your parents, delighted with this incredible offer, send you to the great castle of Čachtice.

What you and your parents don't know is that you have just been sent to a castle that we can rightly call one of the

most

evil

places

in the

world

. 5. Čachtice Castle After hearing what happened there, you might think that nothing beats it in the realms of

evil

, but we can assure you that there have been worse

places

. Elizabeth Báthory did not have a very pleasant childhood and when she was young she was surrounded by a lot of violence. Another issue that complicated her life was the fact that she had seizures. Back then, no one knew anything about neuron malfunctions in the brain, so epileptic seizures were a bit of a mystery.

During the days of the witch hunt, if a person suffered a seizure, some holy people might have attributed it to the devil within them, but Elizabeth, being noble and all, did not suffer the terrible burden of experiencing a witch trial. One thing that doctors of that time sometimes did to try to cure seizures was to give sufferers a dose of blood from a healthy person to drink, and if that happened to Elizabeth as a child, it could absolutely explain her behavior. depraved as an adult. We are not going to tell everything that woman did in her castle, but let's say that if you had accepted that invitation you would not be receiving lessons in good manners.

You would have been tortured in the

most

despicable ways, perhaps burned, frozen, or even covered in honey and live ants. You may have also lost some parts of your body before you died, and that's why Elizabeth eventually received the nicknames "The Blood Countess" and "Countess Dracula." What happened in the castle stayed in the castle for quite some time, but many people who worked for the noblewoman knew what was happening. In fact, some of her staff helped her find the people who would become her victims. Elizabeth was eventually arrested and charged, but incredibly she was not sentenced to death.

Her punishment was having to remain confined to the castle, her true home. You could say that she got away with it considering that she had killed hundreds of young people. The exact figure is unknown, but some historians put the number at 650. That alone is mind-boggling, but if you're interested in researching what he really did to those victims, you'll no doubt agree that the castle in his hands became a evil. place. The reason we're not going to tell you what happened is because it's too gory... and... err... YouTube doesn't like that kind of stuff. 4. Camp 22 Now let's talk about the awful topic of human experimentation.

Here at Infographics Show we always like to offer you something new. While Japan's horrific wartime human experimentation in its "Unit 731" is nothing short of horrible, and all the gruesome things Nazi doctor Josef Mengele did may make you cry, let's talk about one place we haven't highlighted a lot. . Camp 22 was a place in North Korea where someone could have ended up if he had been charged with the crime of “wrong thinking.” They could also have committed any number of crimes. We only know about the prison camp because the deserters who spent time there let the cat out of the bag, so to speak.

Conditions in the prison camp were bad enough without the need for human experimentation. One deserter said that when he was in the camp, about 25 percent of the prison population died each year from hunger. The site was reportedly closed in 2012, but about 50,000 people were sent there in the 1990s. It was always a life sentence, so no one left the camp alive. Former guards and prisoners have said that guards tortured prisoners to the point that inmates were missing eyes or other parts, and some of them looked like living skeletons. The human rights violations that occurred there could fill a book, so we will focus solely on the medical experiments.

A former prisoner named Lee Soon-ok said that at one point the camp wanted to test a new poison to see how effective it was, and camp officials didn't bother with animal trials and went straight to human trials. Lee said this involved 50 women, most of whom were in Camp 22 simply for criticizing the government. They were told to eat some cabbage and also that it contained poison. If they did not eat it, these women were told that their families abroad would suffer. Lee said that shortly after the women ate the stuff, they started vomiting and all died within 20 minutes.

Other experiments included the use of gas chambers and sometimes the people who entered those chambers were entire families. The result was, of course, the death of everyone. A scientist who defected in 2015 said chemical weapons were also tested on subjects. At other times, prisoners were detained and sent to surgery, surgery they did not need, of course, and the horrific procedures were performed without any anesthesia. The really scary thing is that when prisoners were chosen for such experiments, the first thing they saw was a van driving through the prison complex. That truck would lead them to certain death.

The vehicle was nicknamed “the crow” and appeared once or twice a month where the prisoners lived. 3. Medusa's raft Here is the story of Medusa's raft. In June 1816, a French ship named Méduse left France for Africa. The short story is that she didn't get there and that's because she hit a sandbar. There were around 400 people on board, and many of them managed to get onto small boats. The people who stayed were in a big bind, so some of them quickly built a raft. 151 men and one woman boarded that raft, and the French officers on the ships said they would tow it….

They didn't do it. That's the first evil part of this story. After a few miles, they just let go of the raft and all those people were left floating in the ocean. Between the two of them they had a bag of cookies that they ate hurriedly on the first day, and about six barrels of wine. They also had some fresh water, but much of it was lost overboard when the men fought over it. As you've probably noticed by now, things went from bad to worse. Without food or water, what happened next was survival of the fittest.

On the first night alone, about 20 people died due to fighting or being swept overboard. Some accounts say that some people were simply thrown overboard. By the fourth day, of the 152 people only 67 remained. Many had died in fights, some had died of dehydration, and some had taken their own lives. Seeing what was happening they simply jumped off the raft. This is how a survivor later explained that scene: “Two young sailors and a baker were not afraid to jump into the sea, thus ending their lives. This was after saying goodbye to his friends.” By the eighth day, some of those who were weak or injured were killed, but since the fittest of the group were literally starving, they ate their victims.

This is how that survivor described one of those nights: “The unfortunate people who had been saved from death during that terrible night fell on the bodies that covered the raft, cut them into pieces or devoured them as they were.” He said that at first some men refused to eat the dead and instead feasted on cloth from clothing and hats. But when they saw that the men who had eaten the dead looked much better, they joined them, although somewhat less inhibited by the wine they had drunk. It was by sheer luck that on the 13th a ship named Argus saw the raft floating in the ocean.

We say fortunately, because the French authorities had not even sent a search party. Let us remember that those who remained on the raft at the beginning were considered less important people. That's why this story is even more horrible. As one historian once wrote: “In reality, he laid things out for what they were: the elite are saved, and what a shame if there is no more room for the rest.” That's not to say there weren't a lot of good people on the raft. Some ate their dead friends, some men were buried at sea and only out of sheer desperation did they resort to cannibalism.

On the other hand, when they saw that some men were almost half dead, instead of sharing meat or wine with them or eating it, they simply threw them overboard. For years, many people criticized men not for eating the dead, but for throwing the dying into the sea. When they were finally rescued there were 15 men still alive, although five of them would die shortly after being picked up by the Argus. What the men had gone through has become one of the most talked about horrors in human history. However, we will give you a happy ending. This is how one of the survivors described the feeling felt on the raft when the men saw the rescue ship approaching: “We hugged each other and rejoiced to a point that bordered on madness.

Tears of happiness rolled down our dry cheeks.” You can call this event a tragedy rather than an evil, but sometimes human despair can be an evil in itself. 2. The Papacy under Pope John There have been quite a few "bad popes," but perhaps the worst of all was the man who led the Christian church from 955 until his death in 964. It's not about what Pope John XII did, but what he didn't. did. do. He didn't do any good, that's for sure, and he committed a long list of crimes. This church leader is said to have shocked even the worst offenders of immorality in Rome, a man whose utter depravity seemed to have no end.

He surrounded himself with women and turned his holy house into a kind of house of ill repute. He took many lovers of his, some of whom were not exactly willing to go with him, and fornicated with them in sacred places and also in the papal palace. That Pope has been accused of desecrating the tombs of saints, of borrowing money from pilgrims to finance his bad gambling addiction, and has even been accused of blinding someone he didn't like. On one occasion he is said to have tortured and murdered a cardinal. If that's not bad enough, this man who should have been a devout Christian is said to have attempted to summon demons.

One historian wrote that he “had toasted the devil with wine.” If you're religious, you can't get more evil than that. Another historian wrote that John XII was “a thief, a murderer and an incestuous person, unworthy to represent Christ on the papal throne. “This abominable priest soiled the chair of St. Peter for nine whole years and deserved to be called the most evil of Popes.” We must keep in mind that some people who wrote bad things about this man might have had reasons to dislike him, or even dislike Catholicism, but Catholics themselves have criticized this man and so have many other historians. 1.

Wherever the witch hunts took place There were many witch hunts throughout Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries, and many innocent women were tortured and executed. These witch hunts, supposedly in the name of kindness, are right up there with the most shameful things humans have ever done to each other. There were many witch hunters, but we will see a person named Matthew Hopkins. He came from East Anglia in England and held the title of Witchfinder General. We certainly don't want to upset our East Anglia viewers, and we're not saying that your wonderful part of England is evil, but some pretty horrible things have happened there in the past.

Up to 300 suspected witches were executed in and around East Anglia after being investigated by Hopkins from 1644 to 1646. How did he know they were witches? Well, sometimes women might have been accused of being abnormal by someone who just didn't like them. Sometimes it was that simple, but often they could have had a mental illness or neurological condition that was not understood at the time. As we already said, the convulsions of some madmen were the work of the devil. There was a famous book called Malleus Maleficarum, which translates from Latin as “The Hammer of Witches,” and after the printing press was invented, many copies were sold and 30 editions were printed over a century.

Hopkins no doubt had his own copy of this book. His investigations often included hurting women and trying to get them to confess. He sometimes deprived them of sleep until they confessed. Other times he would tie them to a chair and throw them into a river. If they floatedIt meant that they were witches, since if they had been baptized they would have sunk. The problem then, of course, was trying to get the innocent woman out of the water before she drowned. Then they performed the “devil's spot” test, which consisted of pricking the woman with a pointed object in several points on her body.

Of course that hurt, but if a spot on her body seemed less painful to the woman, that meant the devil had entered her body at that spot. If the woman was bleeding and an animal licked that blood, her witchcraft was a certainty for the interrogator. There was also the tear test. This involved telling the accused the story of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. If she didn't burst into tears, she was in cahoots with the devil. Again we must tell you that some women who were accused of being witches were mentally ill or mentally retarded. That story may not have meant much to those women.

Perhaps human evil has never been more personified than in the face of Matthew Hopkins and others like him. They spread like a plague throughout Europe, North America and the rest of the

world

, and we at the Infographics Show are going to say that they were absolutely evil, if evil exists. Sources do not always agree on how many women were persecuted, but it could have been as many as a million. We must apologize for revealing those depressing facts, but we leave you with some words from the Spanish writer and philosopher George Santayana: “Those who do not learn history are condemned to repeat it.” If we can think of two shows you should watch after this, they are: "What's Hell Really Like?" and “The origin of evil: the devil.” Click one now and don't wait!