THE world’s “most terrifying car graveyard” home to motors too dangerous to TOUCH has been left abandoned.
Multiple vehicles have been left on the boarder of the exclusion zone of the human-free Chernobyl ever since the city’s power plant infamously erupted in 1986.
AlamyMotors were abandoned around the boarder of Chernobyl’s exclusion zone[/caption]
Chernobyl power plant exploded in 1986
ShutterstockCars left are now rusted and falling apart[/caption]
GettyAn aerial view of abandoned Pripyat[/caption]
Humans inhabiting the area and the nearby town of Pripyat, built to serve the plant and house workers, were forced to flee when reactor number four exploded.
On news of the disaster, hundreds drove their cars over to the site to block in the radioactive zone, which later went on to increase the amount of cancer diagnosed.
In an attempt to prevent further contamination and damage, the vehicles were abandoned.
Locals believed keeping them on the boarder would stop equipment or belongings being brought out of the zone that might be radioactive.
Fire trucks, ambulance vans, first responder vehicles, and even tanks are left at the scene.
What remains is now a huge car graveyard which has become part of the guided tour through the radioactive grounds.
A 1,000-square-mile zone was cordoned off to prevent harmful exposure to people, and only about 1,000 residents have returned to the exclusion zone, now part of Ukraine, in the nearly four decades since they left.
The wasteland is now home to wild wolves – who have developed a ‘superpower’ following prolonged exposure to radiation.
Researchers are hoping their discovery of the exceptional genetic mutation could give humans a better chance at surviving cancer.
Pants and animals – including packs of wolves, as well as grizzly bears, bison, and elk – have reclaimed the site of the nuclear disaster, some of which seem unaffected by the high levels of radiation.
New research shows that wolves living in the exclusion zone are genetically different to those living outside of the region.
The April 1986 reactor explosion and fire killed at least 31 and spewed a huge cloud of radioactive particles into the air.
It blew across Europe and rained down over thousands of square miles.
The Chernobyl site is still protected by a large exclusion zone where people can only visit for short periods to avoid high doses of radiation.
ShutterstockRusty vehicles now sit around the site to prevent contaminated items from leaving[/caption]
GettyPripyat city has been abandoned ever since the eruption[/caption]
ShutterstockAn abandoned soviet fire truck at Chernobyl exclusion zone[/caption]