Haunted Houses (1547)

1547 haunted houses from around the world. Each location 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.
• 👻 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.
• 👻 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.
• 👻 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.
• 👻 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.
• 👻 Loftus Hall Wexford During a card game one stormy night the mysterious guest dropped a card — and Anne Tottenham saw cloven hooves where his feet should have been.
• 👻 Lizzie Borden House Massachusetts The site of the 1892 axe double murder — today a B&B where guests can sleep in the murder rooms. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Bahay na Pula San Ildefonso, Bulacan Weeping and footsteps are said to carry from the red house's windows — echoes of the hundred women held captive there in 1944.
• 👻 Sava Savanović's Watermill Västra Serbien In the watermill at Zarožje the vampire Sava Savanović drank the millers' blood – villagers still avoid the place after dark.
• 👻 Bredsätter Ångermanland A glow that keeps returning to the hall, and a crying that sounds like a newborn – in Ångermanland they call it the skväk, and it rises where a child has been done away with.
• 👻 The Strandgren Farm at Täftbyn Västerbotten The district called it "the ghost castle". The old man in the grey coat and long full beard had been dead for years when the tenant met him by the jetty at night.
• 👻 The Conjuring House Rhode Island
• 👻 Minxiong Ghost House (Liu Family Mansion) Chiayi län In the banyan-strangled Liu mansion a maid is said to have thrown herself into the well – and in 1949 a soldier fired wildly at a ghost and hit his own comrade.
• 👻 Villisca Axe Murder House Iowa Eight people — six of them children — were axed to death in their sleep in 1912. The murder is still unsolved. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 The House at the Skull Vienna The rake ordered a skull to send its mistress to him by night. She came — and only a priest who happened to be present kept her from taking him.
• 👻 Prisap Livno In the 'house of horror' outside Livno no lodger has lasted more than a few days – at night come knockings and the crying of children.
• 👻 Todorovo Una-Sana The 'house of evil spirits' in Todorovo is said to stand on an old burial ground – night-time screams keep the villagers away.
• 👻 The Cursed House of Musachevo Sofia-området The house in the village of Musachevo was built on an old Turkish burial ground – and the family who moved in died one by one.
• 👻 Blickling Hall Blickling, Norfolk The ghost of Anne Boleyn returns headless in a carriage on every anniversary of her death.
• 👻 The Esther Cox House, Amherst Nova Scotia Around 18-year-old Esther Cox, Canada's most infamous poltergeist erupted in 1878 — with threats carved into the wall above her bed.
• 👻 Chavenage House Tetbury, Gloucestershire A chilling tale of a phantom hearse that runs the blood cold of every visitor to Chavenage House.
• 👻 The Jinsong Ghost Building (劲松鬼楼) Beijing In the new Jinsong housing estate in 1984, quarrels and furniture-moving sounded outside the doors at night – but every opened door found the stairwell empty.
• 👻 The Zhongyin Building, Shenzhen Shenzhen, Guangdong Shenzhen's blood-red tower is said to be painted to keep the spirits of an old execution ground in — or out.
• 👻 No. 33 Xiaoshihu Hutong Beijing In this old princely courtyard near Xidan, restless voices are said to chant poetry and play strings in the night.
• 👻 The Conjuring House Rhode Island The 1736 farmhouse that inspired the horror film The Conjuring, and the haunting of the Perron family. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 House At the Golden Well (Karlova) Prague Two headless Spaniards walk the house at midnight, and the maid Lubomira still leans out over the well full of gold.
• 👻 Old Provincial Council of Granada Andalusia Typewriters typing by themselves and shadows rising from the basement made this Granada office Spain's most famous workplace poltergeist.
• 👻 Carrer de la Flor de Lliri Barcelona On the lane of the lily flower stood the inn where guests never woke – the bed was rigged to swallow them in their sleep.
• 👻 3 Calle Antonio Grilo Madrid Madrileños call the stairwell the city's cursed house — three generations of murder have stacked up behind the same door in Malasaña.
• 👻 Casa Cervantes Andalusia From the well of this 16th-century palace, the faceless man is said to rise – the drowned soul whose features had to be veiled in the grave.
• 👻 House of the Bélmez Faces Andalusia In 1971 a face rose out of the cement floor of María Gómez's kitchen – and new faces kept appearing for decades.
• 👻 1 Avenue Frochot Paris A chambermaid was beaten to death with a poker on the stairs. The murder was never solved — and the shrill screams never explained.
• 👻 Cideville Parsonage Normandy A shepherd's curse set the parsonage thundering with hammer blows in 1850 — a court ruled the phenomena were never explained.
• 👻 Athenodorus' Haunted House in Plaka Attica The philosopher rented the house nobody dared take. At night the gaunt old man in fetters came and beckoned him out into the courtyard.
• 👻 The Athanasopoulos House (Oikia Athanasopoulou) Attica On Charokopou Street the builder Dimitris is heard at night begging two women for his life — the same words, in the same order, every time.
• 👻 Villa Kazouli Attica In the villa where the SS set up torture chambers, victims' screams are still said to sound through the windows at night.
• 👻 Ham House Petersham, Surrey The sleeping beauty of country houses, little changed since the seventeenth century.
• 👻 Teréz körút 5 Budapest Amália Leirer lay dead in her flat for two months. At a séance she named her own killer — a dismissed waiter. The police laughed — until the trail proved true.
• 👻 Bonacaud Bungalow Kerala In an abandoned tea estate high in the Western Ghats, a lady in white is said to drift through the bungalow where the owner's children died in a single night.
• 👻 Palace of the Hanged Man, Porta Nolana Naples A headless soldier walks up and down the stairwell. Sometimes the head rolls ahead of him, sometimes it dangles in a window.
• 👻 Doctor Tromba's House, Via del Governo Vecchio 57 Rome On 11 May 1861 mattresses, plates and cutlery flew out of Doctor Tromba's house — and dissolved in mid-air before reaching the street.
• 👻 Villa De Vecchi Lombardy In the abandoned 'Red House' of Valsassina, a smashed piano is said to play 19th-century music at night.
• 👻 Villa Magnoni Emilia-Romagna The witch of Cona is said to have shouted her curse from the villa's window – and three of the youths who heard it died that same night.
• 👻 Yeongdeok Haunted House Norra Gyeongsang By the coast road at Jangsa Beach stands the house where a loose-haired woman is said to descend the stairs – the owner fainted and fled to America.
• 👻 Aramberri House Nuevo León After the 1933 double murder, the family parrot exposed the killer - and the house in Monterrey never knew peace again.
• 👻 The House of Don Juan Manuel Mexico City At eleven at night a tall figure in a black cloak asks you the time — and thanks you for the answer before the dagger falls.
• 👻 The House of the Hanged Mexico City Figures hang from the first-floor balcony that nobody put there — and a woman leads a small girl down the corridor.
• 👻 Villa Nabila Johor In this abandoned villa above Danga Bay, the heiress Nabila is said to have been sealed into a wall – and her ghost still guards the house.
• 👻 Laperal White House Baguio, Benguet On the steps of Baguio's white Victorian mansion, a little girl sometimes appears – motionless, on the third step.
• 👻 The tenement at Nowogrodzka 14 Warsaw The actress Maria Wisnowska never left her house on Nowogrodzka. Tenants say she still enjoys the occasional small prank.
• 👻 Pluckley Kent Guinness World Records named the village the most haunted in England. 12-16 different ghosts in an area of less than two square kilometres.
• 👻 Raynham Hall Fakenham, Norfolk Home of the Brown Lady, Dorothy Walpole, whose ghost was photographed in 1936.
• 👻 Sallie House Kansas A girl died during surgery before the anaesthetic took hold — her spirit is said to scratch men until they bleed. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Sandford Orcas Manor Sherborne, Dorset Beautiful Sandford Orcas Manor has long been considered one of the most haunted houses in the country.
• 👻 Springhill Moneymore, Northern Ireland Olivia Conyngham tried to stop her husband's suicide in 1816, and her ghost haunts the blue room.
• 👻 Hammam El Dheb (Bala'a Sbaya) Tunis In the bathhouse known as the Maiden Swallower, a red jinn is said to have dragged young women into the basin – no women have bathed here for 400 years.
• 👻 Jinxin Building Taipei Hundreds of ancestral tablets stand ranked on the sixth floor, wall to wall with the tenants — and the lifts move by themselves.
• 👻 Lin Kai-jun Mansion Keelung In the mining magnate's baroque villa by Keelung harbour, a dancer with a half-burned face is said to appear at the windows, wrapped in a green glow.
• 👻 Pickman House Massachusetts A small girl stands at the second-floor window and is gone when you look again — and children's voices are heard inside the empty house after dark.
• 👻 The 727 Trần Hưng Đạo Building Ho Chi Minh City In Saigon's most infamous apartment block, four young girls are said to have been entombed to keep the building standing.
• 👻 The Prenn Pass Ghost Villa Đà Lạt, Lâm Đồng In the French hillside villa by Prenn Pass, a young woman who leapt to her death is said to walk the rooms still.
• 👻 Woodchester Mansion Nympsfield, Gloucestershire The haunted shell of a house abandoned by its builders, left to its memories and its ghosts.
• 👻 14 West 10th Street, "The House of Death" New York This 1856 brownstone row house is known locally as The House of Death, and it is one of New York's most notorious buildings.
• 👻 The Adelphi Theatre Westminster, London The Adelphi Theatre is haunted by the ghost of the Victorian actor William Terriss.
• 👻 The Jumeirah Devil House Dubai A family who moved into the seven-bedroom villa reported over a dozen ghost sightings before giving up and fleeing.
• 👻 Palace of the Beasts Buenos Aires In the gargoyle-clad palace of Villa del Parque, the bride Lucía is said to still dance her interrupted wedding waltz.
• 👻 The Basilisk House Vienna A basilisk hatched from a rooster's egg by a toad lurked in the well — until a baker's boy was lowered with a mirror and let its own gaze kill it.
• 👻 Athelhampton House Puddletown, Dorset A ghostly grey lady, a phantom duellist and a spectral ape, and those are only some of them.
• 👻 Den Noodt Gods Haunted House (Bruges) Flandern – West-Vlaanderen (Brygge) A monk and a young nun vanished without a trace from this convent house on Spanjaardstraat – locals have called it 'the Ghost House' ever since.
• 👻 Blackwell House: The Farm That Gave the Island Its Name New York Blackwell House is one of the oldest surviving farmhouses in New York, built around 1796 by the Blackwell family who owned the island and gave it its old name.
• 👻 Little Castle of Rua Apa São Paulo In the little castle on Rua Apa a mother and her two sons were shot dead – and to this day no one knows by whom.
• 👻 House of the Horseman of Jaraguá Goiás In the gold-rush town of Jaraguá a dead husband still rides home at night – his spurs jingling through the rooms of the house on Rua das Flores.
• 👻 Dalnavert Manitoba In the premier's Victorian home, footsteps sound from the floor above — with the scent of flowers that are not there.
• 👻 Deane House Alberta In the old police superintendent's house in Calgary, a disconnected telephone rings — and a piano plays by itself.
• 👻 Hamilton House Manitoba In physician T.G. Hamilton's home, a ghost laboratory of cameras captured 'ectoplasm' at séances for twelve years.
• 👻 Prince House, Heritage Park Alberta In the turreted mansion's second-floor window appears a woman in white, cradling an infant.
• 👻 Clouds Hill Bovington, Dorset The ghost of T.E. Lawrence keeps his promise: nothing takes him from Clouds Hill.
• 👻 Cotehele Saltash, Cornwall A Tudor house with a distinctly otherworldly atmosphere that the ghosts simply must return to.
• 👻 Faust House Prague Through the roof of Prague's Faust House the devil is said to have dragged Doctor Faust to hell – and the hole could never be bricked up.
• 👻 House At the Three Little Violins Prague At full moon skeletons play violin in the old workshop house — and some swear it is Paganini himself holding the bow.
• 👻 Geistervilla am Burgberg in Verden Reported haunted location in Germany.
• 👻 Köln Haus Fühlingen Reported haunted location in Germany.
• 👻 Eaton Place Belgravia, London June 1893: the ghost of Admiral Tryon appeared at the exact hour of his death.
• 👻 The Roushdy Building Alexandria In Alexandria's infamous ghost house, blood was said to seep from the sinks – while a dead construction worker watched over his final project.
• 👻 The Zamalek Ghost Villa Kairo Murdered merchant Morino Shekoreel is said to still wander the villa with his little lamp – whistling melodies no one else remembers.
• 👻 Carrer dels Mirallers 7 Barcelona On the fourth floor of the mirror-makers' lane, the national poet Verdaguer conducted exorcisms in the 1890s – the possessed were led up the stairs while neighbours listened through the walls.
• 👻 House of the Demon (Gràcia) Barcelona The devil faces on the facade are the receipt, say the neighbours in Gràcia – here a ruined businessman pledged his soul in 1892 and won the lottery.
• 👻 The Haunted House of Gràcia Barcelona In February 1935, journalists, photographers and an armed guard besieged a ground-floor flat in Gràcia – to catch the imp hurling crockery through the rooms.
• 👻 House of the Heads Andalusia One head beneath each of the seven arches — that is how the Lara infantes were shown to their father, and the alley bears the name still.
• 👻 House of the Dolls Extremadura In the village of the emperor's blue-painted brothel hunts the legendary Serrana de la Vera – the mountain woman who loved men, then killed them.
• 👻 Villa Winter Canary Islands The caretaker who lived alone in the house calls it the house of horror — and tells of sounds in the cellar vaults he could never explain.
• 👻 Övergivna villor vid Kronbergsstranden Nyland Reported haunted location in Helsingfors, Nyland, Finland.
• 👻 Maison Seube (Toulouse) Occitanie The neo-Gothic house on allées Paul Feuga frightened 1980s Toulouse with unexplained lights in its empty windows.
• 👻 Franklin Castle Ohio The most haunted house in Ohio. Human bones in a closet and a family weighed down by death.
• 👻 Franklin Castle Ohio Ohio’s most haunted house — where the banker Tiedemann saw several of his family die, and crying is said to seep from the walls. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Gardette-LePrete House, "The Sultan's Palace", 716 Dauphine Street Louisiana This house from 1836 is one of the most photographed in the Vieux Carré, known for its beautiful Spanish style wrought iron balconies.
• 👻 Green Street, Sunbury-on-Thames — the girl they called Monica London A Victorian girl locked away by her family and erased from their history now stands at the bedside at night.
• 👻 Gjøvik Farm On a farm just outside Gjøvik, stories unfold that could come straight from a horror film. This farm, the subject of many paranormal investigations, is known for its recurring unexplained events and rumours of welcoming — but also restless — spirits...
• 👻 The House at Agras 22 (To spiti tis odou Agras 22) Attica The king's Master of Horse lived here. Trespassers describe lights coming on in empty rooms and shadows stepping into their path.
• 👻 Gina Bachauer's House (Oikia Tzinas Bachauer) Attica The piano in the empty Chalandri house still plays, neighbours say — and a woman in black moves slowly through the overgrown garden.
• 👻 Sofia Laskaridou's House (Oikia Sofias Laskaridou) Attica Periklis rode into the sea and shot himself in 1910. In the house on Laskaridou Street the painter Sofia is still heard calling his name.
• 👻 Athanasia's House in Thiseio (To fantasma tou Thiseiou) Attica Behind Thiseio station stands a house where weeping is heard. The neighbourhood calls her Athanasia and says she never got her wedding.
• 👻 The Red House (Longos Mansion) Centralmakedonien Thessaloniki's red merchant palace is wrapped in the city's most stubborn rumours — a family curse and vampire-like beings at night.
• 👻 The Marble Bride, Thököly út 61 Budapest The marble bride still leans from the balcony watching for the front. Legend says her husband walled up the door behind her. Look closely: the figure has no legs at all.
• 👻 Puskin utca 19 Budapest György Gschwindt sought the elixir of eternal life in his laboratory. The evening he was to reveal the recipe, he was found dead. Nobody ever saw the recipe.
• 👻 Rozgonyi Piroska utca 7 Budapest A chalk-white man in turn-of-the-century dress stood in the window on Google Street View. The next time the car passed, he was gone. Neighbours say he is still living there.
• 👻 14 Úri Street Budapest (Borgkvarteren) Every 20th of August two skeletal figures chained together are said to descend the staircase – and in 1943 two chained skeletons were found in a well beneath the house.
• 👻 Hull House Illinois Thousands crowded in to see the devil baby in the attic, and a White Lady walks here still.
• 👻 Gedung Setan (The Devil's Building) Östra Java Amid old Chinese graves stands this "Devil's Building" from the VOC era – where a Dutch woman who took her own life is still said to appear.
• 👻 Rumah Kentang (The Potato House) Västra Java At night, a sudden smell of boiled potatoes is said to betray the Dutch child who was once boiled alive in the cooking pot.
• 👻 Charleville Mansion Himachal Pradesh In this Victorian villa among Shimla's cedar woods, a British officer who died in unclear circumstances is said never to have moved out.
• 👻 Hastings House West Bengal Governor-General Warren Hastings is said to return by horse-drawn carriage, hunting for his lost papers.
• 👻 Mullingar House Uttarakhand In Mussoorie's oldest house, built in 1825, Captain Young – the hill town's Irish founder – is said to still ride across the grounds under a full moon.
• 👻 The Kelardasht Ghost House Mazandaran The hilltop villa is said to have been raised in a single night – with no two matching windows, a mysterious iron cage and sounds no one can explain.
• 👻 Höfði House Reykjavík The White Lady Sólborg haunted Höfði so persistently that the British ambassador persuaded the Foreign Office to sell the house.
• 👻 Tintoretto's House (Casa del Tintoretto) Venice A witch coaxed Marietta into hiding stolen hosts under the water trough. The animals knelt — and Tintoretto beat her until she turned into a cat.
• 👻 The Irbid Jinn House Irbid After a tragedy in the 1990s, word spread that jinn had claimed the house – and for thirty years no one has dared live there.
• 👻 King John's Lodge Axbridge, Somerset A phantom white lady and a ghostly cat are the spirits you may meet at King John's Hunting Lodge.
• 👻 Lanhydrock Bodmin, Cornwall Built in 1630, Lanhydrock has known tragedy — and several ghosts are said to haunt its interior.
• 👻 Lewtrenchard Manor Okehampton, Devon A seventeenth century hotel with ample time to acquire a resident spirit.
• 👻 Lissan House Cookstown, Northern Ireland A house four hundred years old, where generations of the Staples family return as ghosts.
• 👻 General's House Central Province An English lady, found dead in one of the rooms under unexplained circumstances, is said to haunt the general's old hill-country residence.
• 👻 Lydiard House Swindon, Wiltshire A grey headless figure, a weeping woman and a phantom cavalier, and those are only three.
• 👻 The Red Mill, Chisinau Chisinau In the windows of Chisinau's Red Mill glimmers a white female silhouette – the girl said to have been walled in when the mill was built.
• 👻 The Secretariat (Ministers' Building) Yangon In the red colonial colossus where Aung San was assassinated in 1947, footsteps and cries are still said to echo down empty corridors.
• 👻 Montpelier Square Knightsbridge, London A phantom lady led a clergyman to a house so that he could hear her husband's confession.
• 👻 House of the Witches (Río de Janeiro Building) Ciudad de México In the building crowned by a witch's-hat roof lived the shaman Pachita, whose spirit surgeries are said to have left an uncanny presence behind.
• 👻 House of the One Who Killed the Beast Puebla The huntsmen carved on this doorway commemorate the beast that devoured children in sixteenth-century Puebla.
• 👻 The Keyhole House — The Arthur Lowell Plaque Västra Götaland A mysterious plaque claims the American astronomer Arthur Lowell haunts the house. A modern urban legend.
• 👻 Cumberland College Otago At the Dunedin student hall — once a nurses' home — the Grey Lady frightened residents so badly in 2012 that the university called in a chaplain and a Maori elder.
• 👻 Owlpen Manor Dursley, Gloucestershire The sorrowful spectre of Queen Margaret of Anjou returns to mourn her son.
• 👻 Herrera Mansion Tiaong, Quezon In Tiaong's oldest stone house, headless Japanese soldiers are said to walk the stairs since the occupation.
• 👻 Pirates Alley & Faulkner House Books Louisiana The narrow cobbled alley is called Pirates Alley, but no evidence says pirates were ever here. William Faulkner, however, was.
• 👻 Riddle House Florida A former funeral chapel where Joseph hanged himself in the attic — and is now said to attack men. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Igumnov House Moscow In the fairy-tale mansion on Bolshaya Yakimanka, merchant Igumnov's unfaithful mistress is said to have been walled up alive – her white figure still glimpsed at the windows.
• 👻 House of the Queen of Spades Saint Petersburg Princess Golitsyna – Pushkin's Queen of Spades – is said to still wag her finger at the windows on Malaya Morskaya, granting whoever sees her three years to live.
• 👻 Saltram House Plymouth, Devon A murdered maid and a child, only two of the earthbound spirits you may meet.
• 👻 Matilda House Punggol Punggol's last old bungalow is said to be protected by a guardian female spirit – rumour has it the excavators broke down every time demolition was due to begin.
• 👻 Shute Barton Manor Axminster, Devon A grey lady walks an eternal path through the imposing Shute Barton Manor.
• 👻 Ghosts at the Closed Care Home in Hammarstrand Jämtland In the small village of Hammarstrand stands a closed care home that has long been the subject of rumours and stories of supernatural events.
• 👻 Chiang Mai University Dormitory Chiang Mai In women's dormitory number seven, the sound 'pok... pok...' is said to betray the student dragging herself down the corridor.
• 👻 The Dakota New York The luxury building where John Lennon was murdered in 1980. His figure is said to be seen at the entrance.
• 👻 Torre Abbey Torquay, Devon The ghost of a tragic Spanish lady haunts the oldest building in Torquay.
• 👻 Cemil Molla Mansion Istanbul In the decaying pasha's mansion on Nakkastepe hill, a long-haired woman is said to appear in mirrors and play the piano at night.
• 👻 Sadullah Pasha Yali Istanbul For decades Necibe Hanim waited in a pink dress for her dead pasha — and in pink she is still said to drift through the mansion's halls.
• 👻 Trerice Newquay, Cornwall An Elizabethan manor house where former residents are said to return as ghosts.
• 👻 Triangle Shirtwaist-fabriken (Brown Building) New York On 25 March 1911 the exits were locked when fire broke out. 146 died, at least 62 by jumping onto the street below.
• 👻 Pine Garden (Songyuan Villa) Hualien län In the Japanese military headquarters among the pines, kamikaze pilots are said to have drunk the emperor's farewell cup – and on some nights marching boots and Japanese army songs are still heard.
• 👻 12 Gay Street – The Phantom in the Top Hat New York In the mayor's old speakeasy house on crooked Gay Street, a figure in evening dress and top hat walks through walls – and the puppeteer who lived there heard footsteps that never ceased.
• 👻 Poe Cottage – Where Virginia Died New York In the little white cottage in the Bronx, Poe's young wife Virginia died of consumption wrapped in his old army coat – visitors see a woman in white in the chamber where the bed still stands.
• 👻 John Balch House Massachusetts Eighteen-year-old David Balch lay ill in the chamber and said figures at the foot of his bed were tormenting him — two years before the Salem trials.
• 👻 Jabesh Sweet House Massachusetts Harry Maine's ghost is said to have haunted the Water Street house until the town's ministers were finally called in to pray him out.
• 👻 Col. Nathaniel Wade House Massachusetts A man in colonial dress stands at the bedside holding a wreath, and is gone before the sleeper can sit up.
• 👻 Polly Dole–John Updike House Massachusetts Three figures share the house: a woman in white upstairs, a Revolutionary soldier on the stairs, and a girl in a Victorian dress.
• 👻 Daisy de Melker's House, Turffontein Gauteng At around six in the evening, a pale hand is said to draw back the curtain in poisoner Daisy de Melker's old house in Turffontein.
• 👻 Curzon Hall Dhaka Division In the century-old university corridors, the voices of dead students are said to echo at night.
• 👻 Ana Maria do Couto Mansion Mato Grosso From the old house in Cuiabá a dead woman's voice rose at night – the town spoke of ghostly screams, but the truth turned out to be even more heartbreaking.
• 👻 Castelinho do Alto da Bronze Rio Grande do Sul In the miniature castle in central Porto Alegre, a jealous politician kept his young mistress prisoner on the third floor – her weeping is still said to be heard behind the Gothic windows.
• 👻 Spiesshof Basel-Stadt In the Renaissance palace on Heuberg, heretic David Joris is said to walk again – the man burned at the stake only after his death.
• 👻 The Tegel Haunting Berlin "For there are ghosts in Tegel" – the 1797 poltergeist in the chief forester's house grew so notorious that Goethe wrote it into Faust. The riddle was never solved.
• 👻 Rataskaevu 16, Tallinn Harjumaa On the top floor of Tallinn's most famous haunted house, the Devil himself is said to have thrown a wedding one night – the servant who peeked did not survive.
• 👻 Las Palmas Conservatory of Music Canary Islands At night, piano music drifts from empty halls of the Las Palmas conservatory – students call the legless figure Lucas.
• 👻 House of Nicolas Flamel Paris The alchemist died in 1418 — but the grave was opened empty, and long after, people swore they had met him strolling calmly in the quarter.
• 👻 First Storey Building, Badagry Lagos Footsteps sound and figures appear on the empty upper floor — this is where Bishop Crowther translated the Bible into Yoruba.
• 👻 A Voz do Operário Lisbon Tobacco worker Custódio Gomes, who founded the workers' newspaper in 1879, is said to still raise the stage curtains at night.
• 👻 Kusovnikov House, Myasnitskaya 17 Moscow Miserly old Kusovnikov is said to still shuffle along Myasnitskaya in a shabby coat, asking passers-by: "Where is my money?"
• 👻 The Haunted Mansion of Bakirkoy Istanbul The old timber house on Incirli Street is said to vanish into thin air for a few seconds — then stand there again.
• 👻 Perili Kosk (The Haunted Mansion) Istanbul The brick mansion on the Bosphorus stood half-finished for eighty years — and spirits were said to have moved into its empty floors.
• 👻 The Hendrick I. Lott House – Farmhouse with the Hidden Closet New York Behind a false closet under the attic stairs, freedom-seekers escaping slavery were hidden, and archaeologists found spirit bundles laid beneath the floor – the Lott family, it's said, never moved out.
• 👻 Shoreborne Wilson–Samuel Appleton House Massachusetts Sarah Appleton has never moved out, say the people who live here — rocking chairs start up, lamps switch on, someone moves about upstairs.
• 👻 Pittamiglio Castle Montevideo Staircases end in walls and the rooms have no windows — and visitors say the alchemist follows them through the passages.
• 👻 Mårten Skinnare's House Östergötland The medieval stone house where a merchant founded a hospital for the poor and for pilgrims in 1519 — the cradle of Swedish psychiatric care.
• 👻 33 Wollich Common (house no longer standing) London Reported haunted location in SE18, London, the UK.
• 👻 A small brick house called Red House Essex Reported haunted location in Shoeburyness, Essex, the UK.
• 👻 A Water Company House in Lower Crescent Essex Reported haunted location in Linford, Essex, the UK.
• 👻 Acton Burnell house Shropshire Reported haunted location in Acton Burnell, Shropshire, the UK.
• 👻 Alfreton House Derbyshire Reported haunted location in Alfreton, Derbyshire, the UK.
• 👻 All over the village Kent Reported haunted location in Shipbourne, Kent, the UK.
• 👻 All over the village Wiltshire Reported haunted location in Ford, Wiltshire, the UK.
• 👻 All over village Cheshire Reported haunted location in Daresbury, Cheshire, the UK.
• 👻 All over village Hampshire Reported haunted location in Buriton, Hampshire, the UK.
• 👻 All over village Northumberland Reported haunted location in Hedley, Northumberland, the UK.
• 👻 All over village Staffordshire Reported haunted location in Dilhorne, Staffordshire, the UK.
• 👻 Ambroth House (no longer standing?) Cumbria Reported haunted location in Keswick, Cumbria, the UK.
• 👻 Amwellbury House Hertfordshire Reported haunted location in Ware, Hertfordshire, the UK.
• 👻 An old farmhouse at Courts End Essex Reported haunted location in Dengie Peninsula, Essex, the UK.
• 👻 Anne's Cottage Hampshire Reported haunted location in Holybourne, Hampshire, the UK.
• 👻 Antony House Cornwall Reported haunted location in Torpoint, Cornwall, the UK.
• 👻 Approaching the village from Wilsley Pound Kent Reported haunted location in Sissinghurst, Kent, the UK.
• 👻 Appuldurcombe House Isle of Wight Reported haunted location in Wroxall, Isle of Wight, the UK.
• 👻 Archway House Nottinghamshire Reported haunted location in Clipstone, Nottinghamshire, the UK.
• 👻 Area around Cobb House (no longer standing) Oxfordshire Reported haunted location in Adderbury, Oxfordshire, the UK.
• 👻 Area around cottage, no longer standing Lincolnshire Reported haunted location in Knaith, Lincolnshire, the UK.
• 👻 Area around Lupton House Devon Reported haunted location in Brixham, Devon, the UK.
• 👻 Area around the Roman Villa Dorset Reported haunted location in Hinton St Mary, Dorset, the UK.
• 👻 Area around village Shropshire Reported haunted location in Kinlet, Shropshire, the UK.
• 👻 Area between village and All Cannings Wiltshire Reported haunted location in Allington, Wiltshire, the UK.
• 👻 Area between village and Axford Wiltshire Reported haunted location in Ramsbury, Wiltshire, the UK.
• 👻 Area between village and Chapman's Barrows, locally known as Pixie Rocks Devon Reported haunted location in Challacombe, Devon, the UK.
• 👻 Area between village and Grayingham Lincolnshire Reported haunted location in Hemswell, Lincolnshire, the UK.

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