When it comes to creepy, abandoned amusement parks are in a league of their own. There is just something undeniably offputting about when a place famous for children’s laughter and fun-filled screams stands silent.
In Ukraine, an abandoned amusement park a little under 100 miles north of Kyiv has become an object of fascination because it never opened as a result of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986, Knewz.com has learned.
Because the park never opened, Pripyat oozes the feeling of a potential future that never came to pass.
Pripyat amusement park is only a few miles away from the Chernobyl nuclear reactors, meaning it still has high radiation levels, particularly near the Ferris wheel.
However, the area is deemed relatively safe with proper safety precautions, such as wearing protective clothing and staying on the concrete. For context, tours are common inside the 18.6-mile exclusion zone surrounding the nuclear reactors.
It attracts adventurous travelers who are curious to witness the strange fallout of the most devastating nuclear disaster in history.
The amusement park’s extreme stillness also makes it the perfect setting for video games, the most famous of which is Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.
It was also the birthplace of an evil vampire in a television show called “The Strain.”
One persistent rumor about Pripyat is that it actually opened after the Chernobyl plant had begun to melt down.
While unproven, the whisper is that authorities were desperate to keep a sense of calm in the nearby communities, which were unaware that the plant was imploding at the time.
They are said to have rushed the opening of the park and opened it for a short time on April 27, 1986. The Chernobyl reactor meltdown started on April 16.
However, this rumor has not been confirmed, and residents interviewed in the decades since cannot recall if Pripyat ever opened.
Knewz.com recently covered other Chernobyl-related news related to the nuclear fallout in the region.
Mutant wolves thriving in the aftermath of the world’s worst nuclear disaster could help revolutionize cancer treatment methods.
Researchers say gray wolves in an abandoned and highly radioactive part of Ukraine are warding off the disease in a way that resembles radiation therapy in cancer patients, Knewz.com reported in February.
The researchers found that the Chernobyl wolves endured radiation levels exceeding safety limits for humans by more than six times, yet they exhibited immune system changes akin to cancer patients undergoing radiation therapy.
And in an expanse of Northern Ukraine abandoned by humans after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, some animals are also defying the odds of survival, thriving despite high levels of radiation riddling the land.
Among these resilient creatures is a species of frog that has withstood the toxic radioactivity by changing the color of its skin from green to black, Knewz.com also reported in February.
A research team determined it was likely this change occurred to shield the animals from radioactivity, noting the darkest frogs were found in areas closest to where the explosion occurred.
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