Say "hi" to the ghost: 10 creepiest attractions around the world
Updated: 2014-08-08 08:56
(chinadaily.com.cn)
Ghost Town of Pripyat, Ukraine
![]() |
Children's toys and gas masks, covered by radioactive dust, are seen on beds in an abandoned kindergarten in the ghost town of Pripyat on March 10, 2006, in Ukraine. [Photo/IC] |
Pripyat, built nearly a mile from the plant to house the Chernobyl nuclear power plant's workers, was evacuated within hours after the April 26, 1986 explosion. As Ukrainians slept on April 26, 1986, a reactor at the nuclear power station exploded in the world's worst nuclear accident. Within two months, 29 station workers and firefighters were dead.