For decades, these dark and mysterious woods have been capturing people’s imaginations.

There is something compelling about entering the deep woods.

It offers the chance to become an explorer one daring for an opportunity to brush up against the supernatural.

Trees in forest, Wychwood Forest, Chipping Norton OX,United Kingdom

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It makes an ideal playground for mythological creatures like sorcerers, werewolves, witches, and kindhearted dwarves.

It’s enough to make your spine tingle at the slightest rustle in the leaves.

Anyone else who meets Robsart’s ghost, it is said, will swiftly encounter a similar fate.

Black Forest in Baden-Württemberg, Germany occupies over 2,000 square miles

Black Forest in Baden-Württemberg, Germany occupies over 2,000 square miles.© Santiago Urquijo / Getty Images

In this spot, the forest floor is completely barren.

Legend has it that if an object is left inside the ring overnight, it will disappear.

All the trees, said to have once stood straight, are now twisted into knots.

World’s Most Haunted Forests: Devil’s Tramping Ground

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Some believe the dolls, many of which are missing limbs, are evil.

Others believe they safeguard the island.

During the day, the woods seem harmless, but we dare you to venture there when night falls.

Pine trees enveloped in mist in the Dow Hill Forest, Kurseong, India.

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Visitors have reported seeing UFOs, poltergeists, and fireballs.

In 1880, a fisherman named Tom Pipkin supposedly went looking for the treasure and was never seen again.

His boat turned up days later with two gold Roman coins and a silver cup inside it.

Top view of a forest clearing from a drone. Aerial shot, autumn wood, heart shaped meadow

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Isla de las Muñecas

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Pavilion at Freetown-Fall River State Park, Massachusetts

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A fairy tree in Epping Forest, the cumbersome trunk and roots could provide the perfect place for a wooden doorway into a magical ‘fairy house’

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