For many people around the world, the fun of Halloween starts today with Mischief Night. Whether you’re indulging in a little mischief tonight or getting ready for trick-or-treating tomorrow, you might want to add a little spooky geography to your celebrations. Get ready for a 'Mappy Halloween' with a journey through some of the eeriest place names on the map! From Vampire Island off the coast of Australia to Devil’s Den in Pennsylvania, explore some scary-sounding haunts and spine-chilling towns that give Halloween a whole new dimension of frightful fun.
Mappy Halloween! is a crowd-sourced map of scary user-contributed place names found around the world. Off the coast of Western Australia you might want to avoid landing on Vampire Island, which apparently is uninhabited (although it may only be uninhabited by mortal beings). Other highlights on this map include a Ghost Lake in Canada, a Spooky Gulch in Utah, and a Wizard Wells in Texas.
If you know of any other spooky sounding locations then you can add them to the map by completing this short form.
The Scariest Place Names in the US
The United States is a very scary country. The Scariest Place Names in the US is an interactive map which plots some of the most frightening sounding locations across America. You've probably already heard of the towns of Hell in Michigan and Tombstone, Arizona. But have you heard of Transylvania, Louisiana and Slaughter Beach, Delaware.
You can find many, many more spooky sounding locations on the Scariest Place Names in the US. On this map thousands of different scary sounding places have been identified using colored map markers. So if you zoom in on your home you should be able to quickly find the scariest sounding locations nearby.
If you are looking for more spooky sounding locations to spend this Halloween then you should consult the 13 Spooky Halloween Haunts interactive map. This map plots the locations of some of America's most frightening place-names. It also explains how these scary places earned their spooky names.
For example there is a Dead Women Crossing in Oklahoma, which was named for the headless corpse of a young schoolteacher who was found there in 1904. If that isn't scary enough for you then why not spend the night at Murder Creek, Alabama, named for the party of loyalists robbed and murdered here during the Revolutionary War.
Haunted Places in France is an interactive mapped tour of some of the scariest place-names in France. Using this map you can plan a tour of France that you might never forget, taking in locations such as Le Puits de Neuf Morts (the Well of Nine Deaths), Le Val Sans Retour (the Valley of No Return), Le Pont du Diable (the Devil's Bridge), Pont des Vampires (the Vampire Bridge) or Les Prés des Squelettes (the Skeleton Meadows).
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