10 Horrifying Prisons Locked With an Ancient Being Still Inside

Number ten: The Nameless Warden of Sedlec. In eighteen seventy-eight, Czech woodcarver František Rint stood at the threshold of a small chamber inside the Sedlec Ossuary in Kutná Hora, Bohemia, and raised his lamp into the darkness. He had spent months arranging the bones of approximately forty thousand human dead into chandeliers, garlands, and coats of arms without flinching, because that was the commission and he was a craftsman. But in this room, he did nothing. The walls were bare. Every craftsman who had come before him, for three centuries, had also entered this room and left the walls bare, and Rint, standing there in the lamplight with the cold pressing in around him, understood immediately why.