Throughout the world, there have long been various objects and places that have been deemed as having a certain evil presence pervading them. It is not always clear from where this intangible aura of menace and wickedness comes. Is it ghosts? Dark magic or curses? Or is it some unseen sinister force that we can not comprehend, that permeates the world around us and pools around certain areas, infecting them with its insidious, inscrutable stain? Whatever this evil is, it can certainly be found clinging to one old shipwreck off the coast of Western Australia, about 40km north of Perth. Here lies the skeletal remains of the Alkimos, a WWII era cargo ship that from the moment of its creation was infused with a menacing force that has still not let go even as the ship’s remains slowly rot and melt away into the sea.

La Isla de la Munecas The Island of Dolls A short ways away from the bustling capital of Mexico City, within the winding canals of Xochimilco, seekers of the creepy just might find their holy grail: a small island populated entirely by decaying doll parts. “The Island of the Dolls” is the maggot-brain child of a man named Don Julian Santana Barrera who left his wife and family one day in the 1950s to settle a small piece of land on Teshuilo Lake.