Abandoned Haunted Places (159)

159 abandoned haunted places from around the world. Each location includes its story and GPS coordinates.

• 🏗️ 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.
• ⛏️ 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.
• ⛏️ Lambi Dehar Mines Uttarakhand In the abandoned limestone quarries above Mussoorie, the coughing death rattles of thousands of miners are said to echo at night.
• 🏗️ Gonjiam Psychiatric Hospital Gyeonggi CNN named the abandoned Gonjiam asylum one of the freakiest places on earth – the 2018 demolition never silenced the legend.
• ⛏️ Gyeongsan Cobalt Mine Norra Gyeongsang Thousands of the executed rest in the abandoned cobalt mine's shafts – and for decades the area has whispered of fires, accidents and voices from the rock.
• 🏗️ North Brother Island – Typhoid Mary's Prison Isle New York The burned bodies of the General Slocum washed ashore here in 1904, and Typhoid Mary was confined here for 26 years until her death – now the herons and the dead own the island.
• 🏗️ Al Madam Buried Village Sharjah In this sand-drowned desert village the jinn Umm Duwais is said to roam – a beauty with feline eyes who lures treasure hunters to their doom.
• 🏗️ Jazirat Al Hamra Ras al-Khaimah In this abandoned pearl-fishing village, jinn are said to have claimed the coral houses – and those who stay the night risk their sanity.
• ⛏️ Cerro Rico Potosí In the silver mountain of Potosí rules El Tío – the horned lord of the underworld who demands offerings or takes lives.
• ⛏️ Bell Island Mine No. 2 Newfoundland och Labrador In the iron mines beneath Conception Bay, dead miners still roam — while the island's dreaded hag hunts the marshes above.
• 🏗️ Varosha Famagusta In the resort abandoned overnight in 1974, party music drifts from empty hotels — and a woman in white vanishes from her balcony.
• 🏗️ La Salle School of Turón Asturien From the mining valley's abandoned school, where eight brothers were seized and shot in 1934, voices and screams are still said to echo.
• ⛏️ 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.
• 🏗️ Ochate Castile and León This deserted hamlet in Treviño is called Spain's cursed village – three epidemics emptied it, and the notorious Kanpora EVP recordings were captured here.
• 🏗️ 1bis Rue de Bièvre Paris The landlord chased the fortune teller out with his dog. The dog died that evening, the landlord soon after — and the lot is still empty.
• 🏗️ De Monte Colony Tamil Nadu In this abandoned enclave in the heart of Chennai, the grief of the ill-fated merchant De Monte is said to linger – the houses empty since their residents fled.
• 🏗️ Mukesh Mills Maharashtra In the fire-gutted Colaba mill, unseen voices are said to warn Bollywood film crews to stay away.
• 🏗️ The Stone Refuge at Jökulsá á Fjöllum Norðurland eystra No traveller dared sleep in this stone refuge hut – a shaggy monster the size of a yearling calf was said to rampage there at night.
• 🏗️ Galeria Antica Rome The village emptied after a run of unexplained deaths. Once a year hoofbeats return: the minstrel Senz'affanni rides in on a white horse.
• 🏗️ Lazzaretto Nuovo Venice On the quarantine island a woman was excavated in 2006 with a brick wedged into her mouth — folk belief's cure for a so-called shroud-eater.
• 🏗️ Misnebalam Yucatán The ghost village where the boy Juliancito and a black-robed monk are said to wander the abandoned houses since the last residents fled.
• 🏗️ Shih Chung Branch School Penang From the halls of this abandoned school palace in George Town, a woman's screams are still said to echo – a remnant of the Japanese occupation's torture cellars.
• ⛏️ The King's Mine, Kongsberg Buskerud Two herding children found the silver in 1623. Three centuries later the mine had eaten 1,068 metres into the rock – and accidents came weekly.
• 🏗️ Pyramiden, Svalbard Svalbard A Soviet model town emptied out in weeks in 1998 – the plates are still on the tables, and the world's northernmost bust of Lenin stares across an empty football pitch.
• ⛏️ Poldark Mine Helston, Cornwall Ghosts haunt the chilly depths of the Poldark mine, led by a malevolent miner.
• 🏗️ Monte Palace Hotel Azorerna In the abandoned luxury hotel above the Sete Cidades crater lakes, shadows are reported behind the windows and lights flicker with no power.
• 👻 Sloss Furnaces Alabama The founder who fell into molten iron swore never to leave the furnaces — over a hundred hauntings are logged with the police. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏗️ Sathorn Unique Tower Bangkok The plot is rumoured to sit on old burial ground — and in 2014 a man was found hanged on the 43rd floor of Bangkok's Ghost Tower.
• 🏗️ Prinkipo Greek Orphanage Istanbul From Europe's largest timber building, the abandoned orphanage on Buyukada, children's voices and sobbing are said to echo in the dark.
• 🏗️ Katoli Amusement Park (site) Taichung The rails ended abruptly in mid-air — and for twenty years the legend of the derailed train and sixty dead kept the ruin alive.
• 🏗️ 300 Kim Mã Hanoi For thirty years the neighbours laid incense at the fence — the tenant who had lived there longest was never on any lease.
• 🏗️ Panam Nagar Dhaka Division (Sonargaon) In the abandoned merchant town of Panam Nagar, the spirits of wealthy traders are said to still roam their crumbling mansions.
• 🏗️ Shishentsi Ghost Village Vidin In the half-abandoned village of Shishentsi, the voices of a massacred wedding party are still said to echo in the dark.
• 🏗️ Fordlândia Pará Henry Ford's dead dream city rots in the Amazon – rusty operating tables still stand among the vines in the abandoned hospital's wards.
• 🏗️ Broby Sanatorium Skåne Broby Sanatorium – From a place of care to a haunted house and a residential area in crisis. Broby Sanatorium, located in Skåne, has long been a place that carries both tragic stories and eerie rumors.
• 🏗️ Santa Eulalia Colony Valencia In this abandoned nineteenth-century colony between Sax and Villena, the count drowned in the palace fountain after a night of excess – echoes of the parties are said to linger.
• 🏗️ Turruncún La Rioja A late legend tells that the church floor in the deserted village cracked open — and human bones came up and were scattered among the ruins.
• 🏗️ The Old Löwenström Hospital Stockholm Abandoned hospital with a dark history. The Old Löwenström Hospital in Upplands Väsby is more than a forgotten building. Behind its worn façades and broken windows hides a story that shook Sweden — the murder of King Gustav III...
• 🏗️ Kangeq Nuukfjorden Greenlandic folk belief says qivittut seek out places just like this — abandoned settlements where the dead were left behind alone.
• 🏗️ Qoornoq Nuukfjorden In the fishing village forcibly emptied in 1972, qivittut — the restless spirits of the outcast — are said to prowl among the abandoned houses.
• 🏗️ The Gothenburg Belt Factory — Time Stood Still Västra Götaland Closed in November 1977 and stands exactly as it was left. 1977 calendars still hang on the walls.
• 🏗️ Taman Festival Bali Bali Balinese belief says spirits move in where people move out — and offerings are still laid among the ruins of the amusement park.
• 🏗️ Celleno Ghost Village Lazio In Tuscia's abandoned clifftop village, ravaged by plague and landslides, even a pope's ghost is said to wander the ruins.
• 🏗️ The Ghost Villas of Kep Kep Khmer folk belief holds that those who die violently remain as restless spirits — which is why Kep's ruined villas are called the ghost houses.
• 🏗️ Chisinau State Circus Chisinau Chisinau's decaying circus palace was built on top of the old city cemetery – and in its basements the crying of children is said to be heard.
• ⛏️ El Edén Mine Zacatecas The miner Roque hid a lump of silver from his workmates - the cave-in that punished him left his face in the rock.
• 🏗️ Real de Catorce San Luis Potosí In the silver town's abandoned mine shafts appears El Jergas - the spirit who leads some miners to rich veins and others astray.
• ⛏️ The Iva Valley Mines, Enugu Enugu Wailing is said to rise from the abandoned coal shafts — twenty-one striking miners were shot dead in the valley in 1949.
• 🏗️ Måstad, Værøy Nordland King Maar is said to have owned unimaginably many cattle on this shelf beneath the thousand-metre wall — the village's own answer to why anyone lived in an impossible place.
• 🏗️ Nord-Fugløya, Karlsøy Troms The legend says the island was once to be towed further into the fjord — but the line broke, and Nord-Fugløya was left lying most exposed of all.
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• ⛏️ Blacksåsberget Hälsingland "Rich I may be, but my sister at Blaxås is richer", said the mine troll at Falun – and for three centuries the farmers of Forsa dug themselves poor on a mountain without ore.
• ⛏️ Lurberget and the Brunn Silver Mine Gästrikland Lady Lura guards the silver inside the mountain, said the legend, and an oak was planted over the shaft to hide it. In 2006 they dug – and found the tunnel.
• 🏗️ Kayakoy Muğla Treasure hunters tore up the floors looking for the Greeks' hidden gold — and in the ghost village's empty lanes, whispers follow the visitor.
• 🏗️ Dogtown Common Massachusetts The abandoned upland village was home to Tammy Younger, called queen of the witches — ox carts were said to stall of their own accord at her window.
• 🏗️ Fuente del Francés Spa Kantabrien The abbot who found the spring lived in the Devil's Cave beside it — until one day he vanished without trace, and the cave kept its name.
• 🏗️ Lakhpat Ghost Town Gujarat Behind seven kilometres of city wall on India's westernmost edge lies the ghost town of Lakhpat, whose fall folklore blames on a holy man's curse.
• ⛏️ Wieliczka Salt Mine Małopolskie Deep in the Wieliczka salt mine dwells the Skarbnik – the grey-bearded guardian spirit with a blue-flamed lamp, who warns of cave-ins but punishes the greedy.
• ⛏️ A143 - Gorleston/Beccles road; the Lily Pit - once a deep pond, now filled over and a school stands there Norfolk Reported haunted location in Gorleston, Norfolk, the UK.
• ⛏️ Area near quarry, and/or Sackmore Lane Dorset Reported haunted location in Marnhull, Dorset, the UK.
• ⛏️ Ashmore - area between Washer's Pit and Spinney's Pond Dorset Reported haunted location in Ashmore, Dorset, the UK.
• ⛏️ Balor's Pit, Caddors Hill Norfolk Reported haunted location in Lyng, Norfolk, the UK.
• ⛏️ Benthall Edge - area of former limestone pit Shropshire Reported haunted location in Benthall, Shropshire, the UK.
• ⛏️ Bilsthorpe Colliery Nottinghamshire Reported haunted location in Bilsthorpe, Nottinghamshire, the UK.
• ⛏️ Callow (or Caller) Pit Norfolk Reported haunted location in Moulton St Mary, Norfolk, the UK.
• ⛏️ Chalk pit between village and Netton Wiltshire Reported haunted location in Great Durnford, Wiltshire, the UK.
• ⛏️ Clipstone Colliery Nottinghamshire Reported haunted location in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, the UK.
• ⛏️ Coal Pit Fields, exact location not known Warwickshire Reported haunted location in Bedworth, Warwickshire, the UK.
• ⛏️ Coal Pit Lane, and roads leading to Brereton Staffordshire Reported haunted location in Brereton, Staffordshire, the UK.
• ⛏️ Colliery Nottinghamshire Reported haunted location in Warsop, Nottinghamshire, the UK.
• ⛏️ Cotgrave Colliery Nottinghamshire Reported haunted location in Cotgrave, Nottinghamshire, the UK.
• ⛏️ Dary Pit (pool at the foot of the Ercall), likely now known as Dairy Pit Shropshire Reported haunted location in Little Wenlock, Shropshire, the UK.
• ⛏️ Endless Pit (hollow in the ground) Dorset Reported haunted location in Sixpenny Handley, Dorset, the UK.
• ⛏️ Goonzion Down mine Cornwall Reported haunted location in Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, the UK.
• ⛏️ Littleburn Colliery Durham Reported haunted location in Littleburn, Durham, the UK.
• ⛏️ Magpie Mine Derbyshire Reported haunted location in Bakewell, Derbyshire, the UK.
• ⛏️ Mine (closed 1965) Derbyshire Reported haunted location in Shirland, Derbyshire, the UK.
• ⛏️ Mine - Number Three pit Derbyshire Reported haunted location in Glapwell, Derbyshire, the UK.
• ⛏️ Money-Pit, The Clumps Berkshire Reported haunted location in Little Wittenham, Berkshire, the UK.
• ⛏️ Old mine known as Wheal Sperris Cornwall Reported haunted location in Towednack, Cornwall, the UK.
• ⛏️ Old mine, Polbreen Cornwall Reported haunted location in St Agnes, Cornwall, the UK.
• ⛏️ Path between Great Narry Pit and Woodville Dorset Reported haunted location in East Stour, Dorset, the UK.
• ⛏️ Pit (no longer exists) near Kilby Avenue, and general area Leicestershire Reported haunted location in Birstall, Leicestershire, the UK.
• ⛏️ Place once known as the Groundless Pit Gloucestershire Reported haunted location in Elmore, Gloucestershire, the UK.
• ⛏️ Quarry in the area Kent Reported haunted location in Halling, Kent, the UK.
• ⛏️ Road and tunnel close to South Crofty mine Cornwall Reported haunted location in Pool, Cornwall, the UK.
• ⛏️ Salisbury Road between Durnford & Amesbury, near Chalk Pit Hill Wiltshire Reported haunted location in Durnford, Wiltshire, the UK.
• ⛏️ Sallet Hole Mine Derbyshire Reported haunted location in Stoney Middleton, Derbyshire, the UK.
• ⛏️ Shirebrook Colliery Derbyshire Reported haunted location in Shirebrook, Derbyshire, the UK.
• ⛏️ Shrieking Pit, along a lane off Hungry Hill Norfolk Reported haunted location in Northrepps, Norfolk, the UK.
• ⛏️ Silverhill colliery Nottinghamshire Reported haunted location in Teversal, Nottinghamshire, the UK.
• ⛏️ Spintow Pit Suffolk Reported haunted location in Friston, Suffolk, the UK.
• ⛏️ Swaddywell Pit Cambridgeshire Reported haunted location in Helpston (formally Helpstone), Cambridgeshire, the UK.
• ⛏️ Unknown tin mine Devon Reported haunted location in Manaton, Devon, the UK.
• ⛏️ Unnamed old mine Cumbria Reported haunted location in Whitehaven, Cumbria, the UK.
• ⛏️ Victorian farm, Quarry Flats Cumbria Reported haunted location in Cark, Cumbria, the UK.
• ⛏️ Washer's Pit Dorset Reported haunted location in Ashmore, Dorset, the UK.
• ⛏️ West Cannock Number 5 Mine Staffordshire Reported haunted location in Hednesford, Staffordshire, the UK.
• ⛏️ White Cross and Morning Pit Herefordshire Reported haunted location in Hereford, Herefordshire, the UK.
• ⛏️ Williamthorpe Colliery Derbyshire Reported haunted location in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, the UK.
• ⛏️ Cripplesease Mine Reported haunted location in the UK.
• ⛏️ Dolcoath Mine Reported haunted location in the UK.
• ⛏️ Hanging Flat Mine Reported haunted location in the UK.
• ⛏️ Hopewell Colliery Reported haunted location in the UK.
• ⛏️ Nenthead Mines Heritage Centre Reported haunted location in the UK.
• ⛏️ Shakespeare Colliery Reported haunted location in the UK.
• ⛏️ The Bear Pit Reported haunted location in the UK.
• ⛏️ 1915 Abandoned Mine West Virginia Reported haunted location in Logan County, West Virginia, USA.
• ⛏️ 22 Mine Road West Virginia Reported haunted location in Logan, West Virginia, USA.
• ⛏️ Slaughterhouse Gulch Wyoming A miner was killed by an explosion near this Wyoming gulch, with too little of him left to bury. In 1918 a timber marking party camped there.
• ⛏️ Becket Quarry Massachusetts Reported haunted location in Becket, Massachusetts, USA.
• ⛏️ big creek Kentucky Reported haunted location in Hatfield, Kentucky, USA.
• ⛏️ Calico Ghost Town California Reported haunted location in San Bernardino, California, USA.
• ⛏️ Cemetary Wyoming Reported haunted location in Gebo, Wyoming, USA.
• ⛏️ Coal Spring Kentucky Reported haunted location in Hardburly, Kentucky, USA.
• ⛏️ Darr Mine Pennsylvania On 19 December 1907, 239 men died here in one of the worst mining disasters in American history. Most of them had come from eastern Europe.
• ⛏️ Devil's Tramping Ground North Carolina Reported haunted location in Pittsboro, North Carolina, USA.
• ⛏️ devils kitchen campsite located above devils kill in the Indian Head Wilderness Area New York Reported haunted location in Catskills, New York, USA.
• ⛏️ Empire Mine Road California Reported haunted location in Antioch, California, USA.
• ⛏️ Empire Mine Road California Reported haunted location in Antioch, California, USA.
• ⛏️ Georgetown Fire Department Station 61 California Reported haunted location in Georgetown, California, USA.
• ⛏️ The old mine at Wallace Idaho A rock fall in 1890 killed seventy eight men. The miners have always said it was not an accident.
• ⛏️ graves creek Tennessee Reported haunted location in Whitwell, Tennessee, USA.
• ⛏️ Grimes Point Nevada Reported haunted location in Fallon, Nevada, USA.
• ⛏️ The Summer Kitchen Pennsylvania The painting of a woman in the cottage was glaring and frowning when they arrived. When they left a day early, she appeared to be smirking.
• ⛏️ Hunt Valley Maryland Reported haunted location in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
• ⛏️ Kiah Creek Mining Kentucky Reported haunted location in Pike County, Kentucky, USA.
• ⛏️ The restaurant at Clayton California A miner from the Black Diamond workings got into an argument in the saloon across the street in 1857. The shooting that followed sent a bullet through.
• ⛏️ Mansfield mine cave-in Michigan Reported haunted location in Crystal Falls, Michigan, USA.
• ⛏️ Milford Magneses Mine Minnesota Reported haunted location in Crosby, Minnesota, USA.
• ⛏️ Mushroom Mines Kentucky Reported haunted location in Soldier, Kentucky, USA.
• ⛏️ The dugout near the top of Poncha Pass Colorado An old dugout cabin beside a small gold mine, surrounded by a corral, on land held by the Scouts for their Rocky Mountain base.
• ⛏️ The old Copper River railroad Alaska The line ran from Cordova to the Kennecott mine and was buried when it closed. Gravestones are reported beside the road, and are not there on a second.
• ⛏️ The Pea Ridge Mine Missouri Sixteen men died in this Missouri iron mine across forty years of operation. Around eighty percent of the deposit is still in the ground.
• ⛏️ Old Pocahontas Fuel Building Virginia Reported haunted location in Horsepen, Virginia, USA.
• ⛏️ Old Quarry Jr. High School Illinois Reported haunted location in Lemont, Illinois, USA.
• ⛏️ Old Salt Mine Kansas Reported haunted location in Lyons, Kansas, USA.
• ⛏️ Old Salt Plant New York Reported haunted location in Himrod, New York, USA.
• ⛏️ Old Town San Jaun / Train Tracks California Reported haunted location in San Juan Capistrano, California, USA.
• ⛏️ Phelps Doge (used to be Cyprus) Copper Mine Arizona Reported haunted location in Miami, Arizona, USA.
• ⛏️ Recruit Training Command Illinois Reported haunted location in Great Lakes, Illinois, USA.
• ⛏️ Red Dog Hollow Kentucky Reported haunted location in Harlan, Kentucky, USA.
• ⛏️ Reners Quarry Indiana Reported haunted location in Reelsville, Indiana, USA.
• ⛏️ Rite Aid Washington Reported haunted location in Seattle, Washington, USA.
• ⛏️ San Manuel Arizona Reported haunted location in Tucson, Arizona, USA.
• ⛏️ Seldom Seen Valley Mine Pennsylvania Three out of work miners robbed a widow at Hastings, Pennsylvania and hid the money in a disused part of the mine. They were caught by talking about it in.
• ⛏️ Ski Lifts California Reported haunted location in Mount Baldy, California, USA.
• ⛏️ Split Rock Quarry New York A munitions plant exploded here on 12 July 1918, killing fifty men. Fifteen were never identified and were buried together.
• ⛏️ Stansbury Quarry Maryland Reported haunted location in Dundalk, Maryland, USA.
• ⛏️ The lights at the quarry Ohio A settler is said to have taken up with a Native woman, and his wife to have gone after them both.
• ⛏️ Stone Quarry Ohio Reported haunted location in New Philadelphia, Ohio, USA.
• ⛏️ The Fan Kentucky Reported haunted location in Hyden, Kentucky, USA.
• ⛏️ The pits at Coalgate Oklahoma The town filled with men from across Europe who came to dig coal. When the workings gave way they became strip pits, and some of them have never been.
• ⛏️ The Old Mine Shafts Montana Reported haunted location in Lyon, Montana, USA.
• ⛏️ The tracks through Rockford Michigan Two girls were sitting on the line when a train came. People walking this stretch at night report laughter and breathing.
• ⛏️ The Soda Works California Reported haunted location in Placerville, California, USA.
• ⛏️ Tilcon of ct. quarry Connecticut Reported haunted location in Wallingford, Connecticut, USA.
• ⛏️ Unionville Nevada Reported haunted location in Unionville, Nevada, USA.
• ⛏️ Windber Pennsylvania Reported haunted location in Somerset, Pennsylvania, USA.

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Haunted Places lists 159 abandoned haunted places worldwide, each with its story and GPS coordinates.

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