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Top 10 Most Scary Festivals In The World
Festivals often serve to fulfill specific communal purposes, especially in regard to commemoration or thanks to the gods, goddesses, or saints. They may also provide entertainment, which was particularly important to local communities before the advent of mass-produced entertainment.
If you’re a thrill seeker and you would like to get your blood pumping then go through the following paragraphs where we have discussed the top 10 most scary festivals in the world.
1. Día de Muertos
Top 10 Most Scary Festivals In The World
The Day of the Dead is a holiday traditionally celebrated on November 1 and 2, though other days, such as October 31 or November 6, may be included depending on the locality. It is widely observed in Mexico, where it largely developed, and is also observed in other places, especially by people of Mexican heritage. Although related to the simultaneous Christian remembrances for Hallowtide, it has a much less solemn tone and is portrayed as a holiday of joyful celebration rather than mourning. The multi-day holiday involves family and friends gathering to pay respects and remember friends and family members who have died. These celebrations can take a humorous tone, as celebrants remember funny events and anecdotes about the departed.
2. Telluride Horror Show
Top 10 Most Scary Festivals In The World
The Telluride Horror Show is a film festival that takes place in the mountain resort town of Telluride, Colorado. Over a three-day weekend each mid-October, the festival exhibits horror, dark fantasy films, sci-fi films, and thriller films from around the world and attendees from all over the United States.
3. South African Horrorfest
Top 10 Most Scary Festivals In The World
The South African Horrorfest is a film festival for horror and genre films in Cape Town, South Africa. It hosts celebrities, artists, filmmakers, screenwriters, and press from the horror genre. It is the longest-running and only event of its kind in South Africa and the African continent.
The 17-year-old South African HorrorFest has built a reputation for being the only genre festival on the African continent.
4. Shocktoberfest
Top 10 Most Scary Festivals In The World
Shocktoberfest is an annual haunted event near Reading, Pennsylvania. The attractions include dark attractions, haunted houses, and a haunted hayride. It is referred to by the management of Shocktoberfest as a “haunted theme park” even though it is not a theme park in the true sense of the term.
5. The Cooper’s Hill Cheese Rolling Contest – England
Top 10 Most Scary Festivals In The World
This contest is held in Gloucester in England every year. It has seen numerous people participating in it. A big round circle of cheese is being rolled down the steep slopes of Cooper’s Hill and the participants have to tumble down the slopes in order to grab it. Whoever gets it first will be declared the winner. However, given that the slope of the hill is almost vertical, there’s been a huge number of injuries to date while participating in the contest.
6. El Colacho (Baby Jumping) – Castrillo, Spain
Top 10 Most Scary Festivals In The World
The bizarre El Colacho Festival is held in the Spanish village of Castrillo where the parents of newborn infants keep their babies in the middle of the streets in that particular village. Men wearing devil costumes jump over these little ones during this event. Although the origin of this festival is rather unknown. It is believed that this ritual is meant to get rid of any sin from the babies.
7. Onbashira – Tokyo, Japan
Top 10 Most Scary Festivals In The World
The Mihashira or Onbashira are four wooden posts or pillars that stand on the four corners of local shrines in the Lake Suwa area of Nagano Prefecture, Japan. The largest and most famous set of onbashira are those that stand on the four shrines that make up the Suwa Grand Shrine complex.
The Onbashira festival is held every 6 years in Tokyo, Japan. It is mainly intended for symbolically renewing the temples of Suwa. During the first phase of this particular event, huge trees are cut down and young men are required to drag these trees to the temple site across steep undulating terrains. While doing this arduous job, many men are required to ride tree trunks as they hurtle down the rough landscape.
8. The Takeuchi Matsuri – Japan
Top 10 Most Scary Festivals In The World
This brutal festival takes place in Japan where participants are divided into two groups and they usually fight amongst themselves with bamboo poles. In this process, they cause serious injury to their competitors. The winner is going to enjoy a rich harvest along with a prosperous year. In case you happen to be a passerby or one who is simply enjoying the festival, it is recommended to be cautious since you too might end up being injured.
9. Village Halloween Parade
Top 10 Most Scary Festivals In The World
The Village Halloween Parade is an annual holiday parade on the night of every Halloween, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City.
The Village Halloween Parade has been called “New York’s Carnival.” The parade is largely a spontaneous event as individual marchers can just show up in costume at the starting point without registering or paying anything. The parade’s signature features include its large puppets, which are animated by hundreds of volunteers. The official parade theme each year is applied to the puppets. In addition to the puppets, more than 50 marching bands participate each year. In addition, there are some commercial Halloween parade floats.
10. Yanshui Beehive Fireworks – Taiwan
Top 10 Most Scary Festivals In The World
It is quite natural that no one would like the idea of getting hit by a firework during a festival. But don’t be surprised if it happens to you while attending this celebration in Yanshui, Taiwan. A large crowd gathers in front of the platform where the rocket bottles are placed to be lit and once it is done they are going to hit individuals from every possible direction. It is very difficult to protect oneself from these rockets and many individuals have been reported to sustain serious injuries in spite of wearing fireproof clothing.
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