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Haunted

Locations associated with ghost stories, hauntings, and reported paranormal activity.

Naga Fireballs

Every October, glowing orbs are said to rise from the Mekong River along the Thailand-Laos border, drawing crowds who credit a giant mythical serpent. Scientists have proposed explanations for decades, none fully satisfying everyone who has seen it.

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Washington, United States
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Afterglow Vista
A roofless Masonic mausoleum stands in the woods of San Juan Island, where a limestone baron seated his dead family around a stone dinner table. One chair was left deliberately broken.
California, United States
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Alcatraz
The federal penitentiary on a San Francisco Bay island whose 1962 "impossible" escape was never definitively solved, layered on top of decades of guard and visitor reports of ghostly cellblock activity.
Rajasthan, India
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Bhangarh Fort
A sixteenth-century Rajasthan fort whose ruined streets, temples, and palace have become one of India's most famous haunted destinations.
Sicily, Italy
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Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo
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.
Zealand, Denmark
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Dragsholm Castle
Denmark's oldest inhabited building and, by its own count, home to about a hundred ghosts, among them a Scottish earl who died chained in its cellar and two women said to have been walled in alive for love.
Pennsylvania, United States
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Eastern State Penitentiary
A former prison in Philadelphia that operated from 1829 to 1971 and pioneered the solitary-confinement-based "Pennsylvania System" of incarceration, now a museum widely promoted as one of the most haunted sites in the United States.
Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan
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Hashima Island
An abandoned coal-mining island off Nagasaki, nicknamed Battleship Island, where industrial ruins, forced-labor history, and ghost-island atmosphere overlap.
Cluj County, Transylvania, Romania
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Hoia Baciu Forest
A Transylvanian forest outside Cluj-Napoca famous for ghost stories, UFO lore, strange sensations, and a reputation as Romania's paranormal hotspot.
Liberec Region, Czech Republic
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Houska Castle
A Gothic Czech castle wrapped in stories that it was built not to keep enemies out, but to seal something terrible underneath.

Naga Fireballs

Results · 26 mysteries

Afterglow Vista

Alcatraz

Bhangarh Fort

Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo

Dragsholm Castle

Eastern State Penitentiary

Hashima Island

Hoia Baciu Forest

Houska Castle