Haunted Woods and Forests

Haunted Woods and Forests: 30 hand-picked locations. Each includes its story and GPS coordinates.

• 🏥 Parnitha Sanatorium Attica In the basement that held the morgue, the souls of the dead are said to gather at night — and the cold down there does not belong to the season.
• 🏚️ Malcha Mahal Delhi Guards and visitors speak of voices and footsteps in the hunting lodge where the prince of Oudh died alone — few dare go near after dark.
• 🏚️ Numahigashi Round Schoolhouse Hokkaido Deep in the mining forest, the circular school rots away, where children's voices are said to echo through the abandoned stairwell.
• 🛣️ SSS Curve Okinawa Beyond the triple S-curve above Fuchaku lies the old training ground of the shamans — where not even the island's own spirit-seers dare to go.
• 🏗️ Gonjiam Psychiatric Hospital Gyeonggi CNN named the abandoned Gonjiam asylum one of the freakiest places on earth – the 2018 demolition never silenced the legend.
• 🏥 Mont'Alto Sanatorium Porto 350 patients were crammed into a building with 50 beds — in the wrecked corridors the neglected are said to walk still.
• 🏰 Woodcroft Castle Helpston, Cambridgeshire Cries of mercy, mercy are still heard from the walls, the phantom siege of Dr Hudson.
• 🏚️ The Metal Owlet of Rauhenstein Lower Austria The bell founder was forced to cast the bell that would toll at his own son's death. Ever since, the death bell tolls by itself.
• 🏥 Joseph Lemaire Sanatorium (Tombeek) Flandern – Vlaams-Brabant (Overijse) In the abandoned sanatorium's white-tiled corridors, doors slam and footsteps carry on — the tuberculosis patients are said never to have left.
• 🏚️ The Hermitage Ruins, Ancaster Ontario Among the mansion ruins of Dundas Valley walks coachman William Black, who hanged himself when denied his beloved.
• 🌲 The Kindel Woods near Schildow Brandenburg "If you helped hunt, you can help carry" – the hunchback on the Kindel bridge handed the night walker a parcel and fell backwards into the water. Inside the parcel lay a human leg.
• 🏛️ Herlufsholm, Næstved Sjælland, Næstved She appeared to the priest the night before his journey and struck the table leg — and in the hidden compartment lay the deed that saved the school.
• 🌲 The Robbers' Den, Rold Forest Nordjylland, Rebild Cords strung across the road, silver bells ringing in the dark — and in the hollow below waited men who had already escaped the gallows.
• ⛏️ Minas del Horcajo Kastilien-La Mancha Around the deserted mining village, folk belief lives on about full moons, witches and wolves — and about the children found with their caps full of berries.
• 🏥 Agramonte Sanatorium Aragon Women and children were treated at this abandoned tuberculosis sanatorium in the Moncayo forests – and a recorded voice allegedly ordered a TV crew to leave.
• ⛪ Mortemer Abbey Normandy On full-moon nights the Empress Matilda appears in the abbey ruins — her gloves reveal whether she brings fortune or death.
• 🏰 Château de Rambouillet and the Headless Coachman Paris In 1770 a wealthy burgher looked up at the box and saw his coachman beheaded — hands still gripping the reins as the carriage rolled on. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🛣️ Shooter's Hill London On the most feared climb of the old Dover Road, robbers rotted in gibbet cages — and a woman in white is still said to be searching for the rest of herself.
• 🌲 White Webbs, Enfield Chase — the Gunpowder Plot's hiding place London The house was pulled down in 1790, but its doorway and fireplace were built into the pub across the lane — where a little girl in a white dress runs through the kitchens.
• 👻 The Red Rock at Tahitótfalu Pest The woodsman Mihók lost his son to the war and his mind with him. Axe in hand, he still meets hikers at dusk. Villagers say he never left the woods.
• 🛣️ Delhi Cantonment Delhi On the dark cantonment roads, a woman in a white sari is said to ask for a lift – and chase those who refuse.
• 🌲 Sanjay Van Delhi Among Sufi tombs and banyan trees in Delhi's city forest, a white-clad woman is said to appear – then vanish into thin air.
• 🏚️ Minsden Chapel Hitchin, Hertfordshire The crumbling remains of a fourteenth century chapel, haunted by a phantom monk.
• 🌲 Los Dínamos de Contreras Mexico City The witches are said to circle above the river valley — and from the Monk's Cave comes an old prayer nobody says any more.
• 🗡️ Fredriksten Fortress, Halden Østfold The White Lady drifts over the grass without touching the ground, turns at the forest edge and waves — she has done so in Halden for two hundred years. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Dikemark Hospital Oslo Night visitors to the pavilion called The Castle hear footsteps in empty corridors and doors slamming — and the sense of being watched from the blind windows.
• 👻 Gaustad Hospital Oslo Behind the handsome brick facades they cut into brains without anaesthesia — and at night, hospital beds are still said to rattle in the corridors.
• 🌲 Raniban Forest Bagmati (Kathmandu) In the Queen's Forest above Kathmandu a woman is heard weeping among the trees – the echo of a crime that never stopped haunting the place.
• 👻 Seacliff Lunatic Asylum Otago Thirty-seven women burned to death behind locked doors in Ward 5 — the woods above the ruins are now called the Enchanted Forest.
• 👻 Laperal White House Baguio, Benguet On the steps of Baguio's white Victorian mansion, a little girl sometimes appears – motionless, on the third step.

FAQ

Haunted Woods and Forests — which places are included?

The list has 30 places, among them Parnitha Sanatorium, Malcha Mahal and Numahigashi Round Schoolhouse.

Can you stay overnight at these places?

2 of the places on the list are hotels or inns where you can book a night. The rest are places you can visit.

Where are these places?

You will find them in United Kingdom, India, Norway, Japan, Denmark and Spain.

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