#3 Ilha de Queimada Grande; A.K.A. Snake Island
Now this island really didn’t steal it’s name.
Conservative estimates range from the spine tingling one snake per square meter to the “drop dead from pants shitting fear” five snakes per square meter.
Imagine 5 of those in an area smaller then your bed…
#2 Izu Islands
So there’s this chain of islands, in some far-off magical world (called Japan), and on these islands is contained unimaginable horror.
You know how right now you’re breathing air? Well depending on where you are, odds are it’s fairly standard stuff: mostly full of oxygen, carbon dioxide, nitrogen and a bunch of other shit. Ideally, it’s probably lacking in sulfur.
Not so on the Izu Islands! Thanks to some nasty volcano-related incidents, the island’s air is pumped full of delicious sulfur! The highest concentration of the gas on the entire fucking planet no less. It’s OK though because nobody lives there…
Oh wait, they totally still live there
For some reason, the island has retained most of its pre-volcano population, and since the volcano never stopped spewing eggy gas, now they live day and night with a gas mask either on their face, or at their side. In the middle of the night, air raid sirens go off because the gas levels are dangerously high and people would start to die. People live their entire lives like this.
It’s not all bad though–the residents are at least getting paid to stay there. By whom you ask? Why, science of course! Residents get a very small amount of money on the basis that science wants to see what happens to them if they spend their lives wearing gas masks and breathing in trace amounts of sulfur.
#1 Fiji
If you thought Fiji was some beautiful island paradise, you’d be wrong. Dead wrong. Dead-as-partially-devoured-children wrong. (That simile will become appropriate later, we promise.)
Fiji has something of a history behind it, history including such favorites as cannibal children, murder of children, torture of children and death-by-seasickness for children. Yes, Fiji apparently didn’t like kids that much.
A missionary who visited the island during the1840s was treated to all these things. He writes:
“Other children were taken, alive, to Bau that the boys there might learn the art of Feegeean warfare by firing arrows at them and beating them with clubs. For days they have been tearing and devouring like wolves and hyenas.”
Immediately after this picture was taken they ate the camera man, who was a baby.
Based on “6 Real Islands Way More Terrifying Than The One On ‘Lost’ ”
From http://cracked.com
Now this island really didn’t steal it’s name.
Conservative estimates range from the spine tingling one snake per square meter to the “drop dead from pants shitting fear” five snakes per square meter.
Imagine 5 of those in an area smaller then your bed…
#2 Izu Islands
So there’s this chain of islands, in some far-off magical world (called Japan), and on these islands is contained unimaginable horror.
You know how right now you’re breathing air? Well depending on where you are, odds are it’s fairly standard stuff: mostly full of oxygen, carbon dioxide, nitrogen and a bunch of other shit. Ideally, it’s probably lacking in sulfur.
Not so on the Izu Islands! Thanks to some nasty volcano-related incidents, the island’s air is pumped full of delicious sulfur! The highest concentration of the gas on the entire fucking planet no less. It’s OK though because nobody lives there…
Oh wait, they totally still live there
For some reason, the island has retained most of its pre-volcano population, and since the volcano never stopped spewing eggy gas, now they live day and night with a gas mask either on their face, or at their side. In the middle of the night, air raid sirens go off because the gas levels are dangerously high and people would start to die. People live their entire lives like this.
It’s not all bad though–the residents are at least getting paid to stay there. By whom you ask? Why, science of course! Residents get a very small amount of money on the basis that science wants to see what happens to them if they spend their lives wearing gas masks and breathing in trace amounts of sulfur.
#1 Fiji
If you thought Fiji was some beautiful island paradise, you’d be wrong. Dead wrong. Dead-as-partially-devoured-children wrong. (That simile will become appropriate later, we promise.)
Fiji has something of a history behind it, history including such favorites as cannibal children, murder of children, torture of children and death-by-seasickness for children. Yes, Fiji apparently didn’t like kids that much.
A missionary who visited the island during the1840s was treated to all these things. He writes:
“Other children were taken, alive, to Bau that the boys there might learn the art of Feegeean warfare by firing arrows at them and beating them with clubs. For days they have been tearing and devouring like wolves and hyenas.”
Immediately after this picture was taken they ate the camera man, who was a baby.
Based on “6 Real Islands Way More Terrifying Than The One On ‘Lost’ ”
From http://cracked.com
