Locations associated with ghost stories, hauntings, and reported paranormal activity.
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.
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.
A Hindu Cambodian temple built in reinforced concrete on the desert road out of Cairo between 1907 and 1911, for the Belgian industrialist who was building Heliopolis around it. It stood empty from the 1950s, collected stories about a woman falling from the balcony, and was raided by police in 1997.
A sixteenth-century Rajasthan fort whose ruined streets, temples, and palace have become one of India's most famous haunted destinations.
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.
The bell over the gate was cast in Amsterdam in 1697 and walled up after a soldier hanged himself with its rope. Guards on night duty still report hearing it. The governor who died in his chair on April 23, 1729, is said to have been cursed that morning by one of seven men he had sent to the gallows.
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.
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.
About 5,259 people lived here in 1959, which made it the most densely populated place on earth. Mitsubishi closed the mine in January 1974 and the last residents were gone by April. In July 2021 the World Heritage Committee recorded its deep regret that Japan had not told the full history of the Koreans made to work here.
