I Don't Like the Sound of That Place: Difference between revisions

** For that matter, Gehenna. It was essentially a giant trash pit. It is also often used as a synonym for Hell. Indeed, its cognate in Arabic, ''Jahannam'', ''is'' the Arabic word for Hell.

** Worse, the reason that Gehenna got its infernal reputation (and the reason it was used for burning garbage) is that area was used as the "sacred" site of a very short-lived cult of Moloch during a time when the Jewish population caved in to foreign invaders and began worshipping other gods. Moloch demanded the sacrifice of children, which is a massive crime in the Judeo-Christian ethic. Once the zealots had shown the cultists the door (or the sword), they figured the place was so tainted by the acts done there that the only thing that could be done was turn it into a garbage dump for Jerusalem.

** Hell, Norway only counts for anglophones, though. Even better was the local railway goods depot, '''Hell Godsexpedition'''

** Hells Canyon, carved by the waters of the Snake River, lying below the Seven Devils Mountains. Tell me that's not ominous.

** Also Crouch End, a name which [[Stephen King]] found so creepy that he wrote a Lovecraftian short story with that title.

* Cherepovets, a Russian city. Its name means ''"(city) of the skulls"''. The historical reason for such a name choice is that the city was actually built on an old pagan shrine.

* [http://archives.delaware.gov/markers/kc/SOUTH%20MURDERKILL%20HUNDRED%20KC-26.shtml South Murderkill, Delaware].

* Pile-of-Bones, Saskatchewan. Renamed (to Regina) and made the capital of the province. Also: [[wikipedia:Head Smashed In Buffalo Jump|Head-Smashed-In Buffalo-Jump]]. Which is an interesting case of a creepy name that's also [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]].