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These 19 Tourist Horror Stories Will Make You Afraid To Travel

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Saw a dead woman on a train platform in Varanasi, India. She was covered in a very sheer cloth and it was clear that rigor mortis had set in, so who knows how long she had been there. All the locals acted like it was perfectly normal. No one batted an eye and they all just stood there waiting for their train. When i told one of the men that worked on the platform that there was a dead woman there, he looked at me like he could NOT be bothered to care.

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Went to use one of those free standing, self cleaning bathrooms in Paris. I didn’t know you had to let the doors close and let it run its wash cycle after every use. I went in immediately after someone walked out and got sprayed by dozens of jets loaded with water and blue cleaning fluid.

15.

Went on a 3 week holiday with my SO to Brazil and was robbed after 2 days by 4 guys with knives in broad daylight on the Copacabana. We had nothing on us but a few Real (about $10). People who saw it happen did nothing and it ruined the rest of our vacation because of fear it could happen again. Such a shame for such a beautiful country.

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Many years ago on the way to UK we had a brief stopover in Dubai. I was around 9 years old, first time flying and really suffering air sickness. We debark the plane and the heat hits me hard. I stumble from the steps to the tarmac and proceed to vomit foamy water inches away from the toes of a security guy armed with a machine gun. I was scared witless and couldn’t move. My family apologized profusely and dragged me onto a waiting bus. Granted this fellow didn’t change expression or even move from my sad puddle, but damn, we were green travelers and had never seen guns before let alone potentially pissed off a gun owner. I still cringe when I remember the look in his eyes and my mothers white face.

Written by Laura McNairy

Laura is a freelance writer for TFLN. She likes to write about what she knows best — dating, sex, and being awkward, but usually in the opposite order. She is the Assistant Editor and videographer for Peach Fuzz, a sex-positive nudie magazine in ATX.