Top 10 Scariest Archaeological Discoveries Ever

History is a scary place. For this list, we’ll be looking at the most terrifying and disturbing archaeological finds ever made. Our countdown includes The Pit of Bones, Vampire Graves, Australia’s “Murder Island”, and more! Which of these freaks you out the most? Let us know in the comments!

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[WatchMojo]

Which of these freaks you out the most? Let us know in the comments!

[kay-dc]

All fun and games till archaeologists find who let the dogs out

[Cultivation]

Wait wtf? I would like to hear more about the mummies in England. That sounds bizarre. Some of the body parts were 100 years older than others!?

[sasamichan]

some of these would make interesting movies. I would like to see what a good script writer could do with a knife arm man.

[keatonshoffit]

Poor dear, she's slowly breaking down to tears. 7:34 8:06 😢

[jasontoddman]

A better analogy for the Beacon Island massacres than Lord of the Flies would have been the Pitcairn island massacre in 1792. The Pitcairn island massacre was an actual event involving a clash between mutineers of the Bounty and the Tahitian men they'd brought with them from Tahiti and tried to treat as slaves. There were many more deaths involved than in Lord of the Flies (a merely fictional event besides), including those of many of the mutineers (including the most famous real-life mutineer of all, Fletcher Christian). There were far fewer deaths than at Beacon Island, but there were far fewer people involved to begin with.

[TSierra]

This is a really interesting video. Happy new year WatchMojo!

[jetstream]

Back then a hundred years you could probably just kill someone and then their neighbours would just think that they moved out of town

[zyourzgrandzmaz]

The black sarcophagus filled with bodies and sludge is one of the most cursed thins on earth 100%

[pirateraider]

I might be able to explain the Frankenstein bodies. After they died their bodies were disassembled for easy transport, then reassembled for burial. The guys working there just lost track of a few body parts and substituted them with whatever they had lying around. Happens all the time.

[hanifhalimi]

why must this nasal guy be talking in all of the videos that im interested in?

[djquinn]

A woman’s body with a man’s head? What was their pronoun?

[St.Linguini_of_Pesto]

So the man mentioned at 1:52 had discovered the Necronomicon & fought a demon, which infected his arm and he replaced with a knife.
I'm betting his name was Ash, and he was an employee of S-Mart.
"Shop smart, shop S-Mart"

[SenorRusty]

I thought forsure they would mention the discovery in Peru that had numerous dead children ranging in all ages. Each child was killed along with a child animal. The sacrifices were believed to have been caused by the local natives that were experiencing worse than usual rains and storms (which was also evident in the grave sites due to the soil evidence) They sacrificed the children of both humans and animals in the hopes that the rain would stop. Later investigations realized that the rains were most likely caused by what we now call the El Niño weather path. Its horrible to think they sacrificed such innocent beings because of something we now know is normal.

[PhantomBones]

You ever think some of these finds are just people from the past finding morbid ways to screw with us? Not to make fun, but more of a curiosity.

[seandelap]

If you dig up a thousand year old graves you're bound to be scared by it

[JBDude]

Top 3 (In my opinion):
1. Australia's murder island
2. The sacrificial pits of Shimao
3. Ashkelon's unwanted babies
I was completely shocked hearing the discovery of the murder island in Australia and its story because the survivors were killed on that island, given its name, leaving a bunch of skeleton parts island. The thing is I live Australia, which would up the scariness of its discovery.

[toaolisi]

Maybe someone reattached the wrong limbs to the Frankenstein Mummies after they're deaths? There's no way of knowing if this was done to them before or after their deaths.

[exoz]

a wise monster once sang "Put that thing back where it came from, or so help me~"

[aidendelpino]

CE is for losers. AD and BC is where it's at