The Most Haunted Places in the World

The Most Haunted Places in the World: 30 hand-picked locations. Each includes its story and GPS coordinates.

• 👻 Amityville Horror House (112 Ocean Avenue) New York In 1974 Ronald DeFeo Jr. murdered six family members — the following year the Lutz family fled after 28 days.
• 👻 Ancient Ram Inn Gloucestershire One of Britain’s most haunted houses — in the "Witch’s Room" a witch burned in the 1500s is said to linger. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🌾 The Devil's Mill on the Wienerberg Vienna The robber knight threw his wife into the mill well. The ground opened — and every midnight he grinds on under the devil's whip.
• 👻 Wolston Park Hospital Queensland In 1947 a patient claimed he had been forced to dig up thousands of bodies from the hospital cemetery — no one knows to this day where they went.
• 🏗️ Bell Witch Cave Tennessee The cave where the 'Bell Witch' is said to have fled in 1821 after haunting the Bell family for four years.
• 🏰 Berkeley Castle Berkeley, Gloucestershire Ever since Edward II was murdered here in 1327, the castle has echoed with his ghostly screams.
• 🕯️ Borley Rectory England, Essex 'England's most haunted house' according to Harry Price — burned in 1939, demolished in 1944, but the stories live on.
• 👻 Colônia Psychiatric Hospital (Museum of Madness) Minas Gerais Some 60,000 dead lie hidden in mass graves in the fields around the asylum — and in Barbacena their unrest is said never to have left the ground.
• 🌲 Deadmen Valley, Nahanni Northwest Territories The Dene have always avoided the valley — and when the search party reached the brothers' camp in 1908, they were still there, headless.
• 🏰 Chillingham Castle Northumberland The radiant Blue Boy cried at midnight in the Pink Room — and a renovation uncovered a child’s bones walled up in blue cloth. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏥 Durán Sanatorium Cartago On the mist-shrouded slopes of Irazú volcano, a phantom nun still drifts through the empty wards of the old tuberculosis sanatorium.
• 🌲 Bjældskovdal (the Tollund Man's bog) Midtjylland, Silkeborg The peat cutters thought they had found a murder victim. The man in the bog had lain there 2,300 years, the rope still around his neck.
• 👻 The Køge House Cross (Torvet 2) Köpenhamn 'Here raged the Køge Huskors 1608–1615' – the devil in the merchant's house triggered Denmark's largest witch trial. Fifteen women died.
• ⛏️ Daugbjerg Limestone Mines Midtjylland, Viborg Sixty metres beneath the heath lies the cave where Jens Langkniv hid — the outlaw who killed the bailiff who wanted his mother burned as a witch.
• 👻 Dragsholm Castle Sjælland, Odsherred In 1910 they broke open the old wall and found a skeleton in a sealed niche. The noblewoman Celestine had vanished around 1550. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Finderup Barn Midtjylland, Viborg On St Cecilia's night 1286 the king was found with 56 stab wounds in a barn — seven men, eight thrusts each, and no proof to this day.
• 🏰 Hammershus, Bornholm Bornholm The watchman sat on the wall to learn who built by night. By morning the wall had grown three ells around him. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Maren Splids' House, Ribe Sydjylland, Ribe The tailor Didrik vomited up a living animal that moved in his belly — and named the woman in this house as the one who had bewitched him.
• 🏰 Rosenholm Castle Østjylland, Hornslet The white lady had walked the corridors for centuries — until builders opened a tower wall and found the skeleton of a young woman inside. 🛏 Book a night here
• ⚔️ Eastern State Penitentiary Pennsylvania In the abandoned prison shadow figures flit along the cellblocks — a locksmith told of a force that seized him. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🗡️ Edinburgh Castle Edinburgh, Scotland "Britain's most besieged place" — 26 sieges in 1,100 years, today known for paranormal phenomena. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🚇 Carrer de Ponent 29 – the Vampire of the Raval Barcelona In the flat on Carrer de Ponent, police in 1912 found children's bones, bottles of fat, and a girl meant to be the next victim – the Vampire of the Raval had hunted for twenty years.
• 👻 The Vallecas Case House Madrid After teenager Estefanía's death in 1991, police filed Spain's only report acknowledging unexplained phenomena in her family's flat.
• 👻 Thorax Hospital of Terrassa Catalonia Patients died by the thousand at this Catalan tuberculosis hospital – and voices recorded in its corridors order visitors to leave.
• 🏰 Château de Tiffauges Pays de la Loire In Bluebeard's castle, children's cries are still said to echo at night — this was the lair of Gilles de Rais. 🛏 Book a night here
• ⚰️ Site of the Holy Innocents' Cemetery Paris The earth of the city's largest cemetery was said to devour a body in nine days — and Death danced with pope, emperor and king on its wall.
• ⚰️ Montparnasse Cemetery Paris In the winter of 1848 the graves were found broken open each morning, the bodies mutilated. The press named him the Vampire of Montparnasse.
• ⚔️ Site of the Montfaucon Gibbet Paris Fifty bodies hung in chains on this hill at once, for centuries. On the rue de la Grange-aux-Belles they still rattle in the night wind.
• 🔦 Tévennec Lighthouse Brittany Keeper after keeper fled the lonely rock where voices in the night screamed at them to leave.
• 👻 284 Green Street — the Enfield Poltergeist London Furniture slid across the floors, knockings answered questions and an eleven-year-old girl spoke with a dead man's voice — the Enfield council house became the world's most famous poltergeist case.

FAQ

The Most Haunted Places in the World — which places are included?

The list has 30 places, among them Amityville Horror House (112 Ocean Avenue), Ancient Ram Inn and The Devil's Mill on the Wienerberg.

Can you stay overnight at these places?

8 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 Denmark, United Kingdom, France, United States, Spain and Austria.

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