Michael Jackson's Haunted Amusement Park

What's creepier than an amusement park at night? How about the abandoned amusement park of a strange, lonely man--an entertainer decades past his prime--deformed by cosmetic surgery, and rocked by scandal and failure to the point of auctioning said amusement park off to the highest bidder! Is that creepy enough for you?

Okay great! Then you'd better check out these haunted nighttime photos taken inside Michael Jackson's private fantasy world, the Neverland Ranch. Geographer Jonathan Haeber of Bearings managed to get inside the private kingdom of the former King of Pop to take some eerily beautiful pictures, in color and black and white, of this Disneyland gone ghost-town. (More at his Flickr page.)

Don't you feel a little chill looking at these pictures, as if a tiny, cold hand were reaching out to grab you from the dark...?

Then slap it and say, "NO, Michael!"

Sorry, had to go there.

Inside Neverland Ranch [Bearings]
Neverland [Flickr]
[via: Circus Hour]