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189 sites · across the archive

Pasco Sur Ghost Station

Haunted · Buenos Aires, Argentina

A perfectly preserved 1913 subway platform beneath Buenos Aires that closed in 1953 and has sat frozen in the dark ever since, glimpsed only in flashes from passing Line A trains.

Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo

Haunted · Sicily, Italy

Eight thousand mummified Sicilians hang in the corridors beneath a Palermo monastery, dressed in their own clothes. Among them is a two-year-old girl so preserved that visitors swear she opens her eyes.

Salem Witch Trials Sites

Haunted · Massachusetts, United States

The 1692-93 Massachusetts Bay trials that led to the execution of twenty people are remembered today through preserved sites across Salem, several of which are reported by visitors and locals to be haunted.

The Tree of Life

Roadside Oddity · Southern Governorate, Bahrain

A single tree stands on bare sand in the Bahraini desert with no well and no other vegetation in sight. The tourist literature calls it a 400-year-old mesquite. A dendrochronology study in the 1990s concluded it is an acacia planted in 1582, and an excavation found it is standing on top of a buried town.

Wycliffe Well

UFO · Northern Territory, Australia

A remote roadhouse in Australia's Northern Territory that billed itself as the "UFO capital of Australia" due to a long local history of reported sightings, complete with alien-themed murals and memorabilia.

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