Haunted Prisons (143)

143 haunted prisons from around the world. Each location includes its story and GPS coordinates.

• ⚔️ 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
• ⚔️ Cornmarket (The Black Dog Prison) Dublin In the winter of 1788 a black-bristled thing walked upright through the lanes by Christ Church. Dubliners called the beast the Dolocher.
• ⚔️ Coiba Island Penal Colony Veraguas On the infamous prison island, rusty cell doors slam shut on their own and screams rise out of the empty jungle.
• ⚔️ The Prison of Anemas Istanbul In the forty pits the walls were too narrow to climb — the dungeon carries the name of the man who was nearly blinded here.
• ⚔️ West Virginia Penitentiary West Virginia Built on an Adena burial mound — 94 executions and the notorious “Shadow Man”. 🛏 Book a night here
• ⚔️ Alcatraz California Cell 14D is ten degrees colder than the rest, and cold spots move through the block in human form. 🛏 Book a night here
• ⚔️ Bodmin Jail Bodmin, Cornwall Built in 1779. The ghosts of executed prisoners haunt the crumbling interior.
• ⚔️ Ottawa Jail Hostel Ontario In the hostel inside Ottawa's old jail, hanged assassin Patrick Whelan is said to appear at the foot of guests' beds.
• ⚔️ The Conciergerie Paris In the cell where the queen awaited the scaffold, a woman in white is said to sit perfectly still — and dissolve the moment anyone approaches.
• ⚔️ Crumlin Road Gaol Northern Ireland Seventeen men were hanged in the Belfast prison and buried nameless within its walls — in the tunnel beneath the road their footsteps are said to echo still.
• ⚔️ Spike Island Cork In the windowless punishment cells the whispering is said never to have stopped — over a thousand convicts died on the island in the famine years.
• ⚔️ Wicklow Gaol Wicklow In the prison once nicknamed "the gates of hell", footsteps, slamming cell doors and the babble of children can still be heard from inmates who were never set free.
• ⚔️ Dagshai Central Jail Himachal Pradesh The Irish mutineer James Daly was shot in the prison yard in 1920 — and in the dark cells, someone stands close behind the visitor.
• ⚔️ Seodaemun Prison Seoul By the gallows at Seodaemun the condemned clung to the poplar and wept – its twin inside the wall is said to have refused to grow from all the sorrow it drank.
• ⚔️ The Kara Prison Fès-Meknès The prison was designed by a captive promised his freedom if he built something no one could escape — thousands were swallowed by the dark.
• ⚔️ Lecumberri Palace Ciudad de México Through the Black Palace's corridors walks the prisoner Jacinto, who took the blame for his wife's crime and hanged himself when she never came.
• ⚔️ The Prison Gate (Gevangenpoort) Zuid-Holland In this medieval prison a man in a black hooded cloak is seen – and cell doors strapped shut stand open at dawn.
• ⚔️ Napier Prison Hawke's Bay In New Zealand's oldest prison, executed murderer Roland Edwards is said to still walk the walls he never left.
• ⚔️ Ohio State Reformatory Ohio The film location for The Shawshank Redemption, and one of the most haunted prisons in the world. 🛏 Book a night here
• ⚔️ Old Charleston Jail South Carolina A jail where pirates and Lavinia Fisher awaited the gallows. She is said to haunt it still.
• ⚔️ The Torture House in Gdańsk Pomorskie In Gdańsk's old torture house, two executed prisoners are said to appear as white figures with nooses around their necks.
• ⚔️ Yedikule Fortress Istanbul In Yedikule's prison towers the young sultan Osman II was strangled — and from the bloody well the laments of the executed are said to rise.
• ⚔️ Green Island Oasis Villa Prison Taitung län Those who died with no one to claim them were buried nameless in the 'thirteenth squadron' — and voices carry around the burial field.
• ⚔️ Zindan Prison, Bukhara Buchara Prisoners were lowered into the pit among scorpions and lice bred to eat human flesh — and the cold down there does not belong to the climate.
• ⚔️ 9 of Sweden's Most Haunted Places Experience Sweden's eeriest stories! From rectories with weeping women to mental hospitals where time seems to have stood still — Sweden is full of places with both dark secrets and restless spirits.
• ⚔️ Fannie Bay Gaol Northern Territory After the 1952 double hanging, neither prisoners nor guards would stay in the building after dark — and the gallows with its trapdoor still stand.
• ⚔️ San Simón Island Galicia On foggy nights, whispers are said to rise from the pavilions — and the prisoners' souls never to have left the island in Vigo bay.
• ⚔️ Château d'If Provence In the island prison off Marseille, the spirit of the sorcerer Alberto del Campo is said to answer those who call at his death cell.
• ⚔️ The Citadel and Prison of Acre Norra distriktet Night guards are said to avoid parts of the citadel after dark — prisoners were hanged in the gallows room, and the voices have not stopped.
• ⚔️ Landskrona Citadel and the Angel-Maker Skåne Landskrona Citadel, on the Öresund coast in Skåne, is one of northern Europe's best-preserved 16th-century fortresses. The building has been both a defensive stronghold and a prison, and its history is filled with both drama and tragedy...
• ⚔️ Gävle County Cell Prison Gävleborg The old prison in Gävle, once one of Sweden's most modern institutions, carries a dark and dramatic history. And perhaps something more. Visitors and staff at what is now the Swedish Prison Museum have reported strange phenomena.
• ⚔️ Grmožur Skadarsjön Legend says snakes were released on the prison island to guard it better than walls — and they bred until the rock crawled with them.
• ⚔️ Centro de las Artes (Old State Penitentiary) San Luis Potosí In the panopticon's watchtower stands a guard who never realised the prisoners are long gone.
• ⚔️ Blackhill (or Brockhill) Women's Prison, on the grounds of Hewell Grange Worcestershire Reported haunted location in Redditch, Worcestershire, the UK.
• ⚔️ Bodmin Jail (no longer a prison) Cornwall Reported haunted location in Bodmin, Cornwall, the UK.
• ⚔️ Debtors Prison Yorkshire Reported haunted location in York, Yorkshire, the UK.
• ⚔️ Durham Prison Durham Reported haunted location in Durham, Durham, the UK.
• ⚔️ Erlestoke Prison and village Wiltshire Reported haunted location in Erlestoke, Wiltshire, the UK.
• ⚔️ Exeter prison Devon Reported haunted location in Exeter, Devon, the UK.
• ⚔️ Former site of Newgate Prison London Reported haunted location in EC4, London, the UK.
• ⚔️ HMP Low Newton Prison Durham Reported haunted location in Durham, Durham, the UK.
• ⚔️ HMP Shepton Mallet (former prison) Somerset Reported haunted location in Shepton Mallet, Somerset, the UK.
• ⚔️ Lancaster Castle (prison, closed 2011) Lancashire Reported haunted location in Lancaster, Lancashire, the UK.
• ⚔️ Lollards Prison London Reported haunted location in SE1, London, the UK.
• ⚔️ Northallerton Prison (no longer operational) Yorkshire Reported haunted location in Northallerton, Yorkshire, the UK.
• ⚔️ Old Bury Gaol (possibly) Suffolk Reported haunted location in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, the UK.
• ⚔️ Old Courthouse and Jail Leicestershire Reported haunted location in Leicester, Leicestershire, the UK.
• ⚔️ Prison Devon Reported haunted location in Dartmoor, Devon, the UK.
• ⚔️ Stocken Hall Farm (now part of an open prison?) Rutland Reported haunted location in Stretton, Rutland, the UK.
• ⚔️ Wandsworth Prison London Reported haunted location in SW18, London, the UK.
• ⚔️ Barlinnie Prison Reported haunted location in the UK.
• ⚔️ Beaumaris Gaol Reported haunted location in the UK.
• ⚔️ Dartmoor Prison Reported haunted location in the UK.
• ⚔️ Gloucester Prison Reported haunted location in the UK.
• ⚔️ Hexham Old Gaol Reported haunted location in the UK.
• ⚔️ HM Prison Erlestoke Reported haunted location in the UK.
• ⚔️ HM Prison Hull Reported haunted location in the UK.
• ⚔️ HM Prison Stafford Reported haunted location in the UK.
• ⚔️ Inveraray Jail Reported haunted location in the UK.
• ⚔️ Jedburgh Castle Jail And Museum Reported haunted location in the UK.
• ⚔️ Littledean Jail Reported haunted location in the UK.
• ⚔️ Pevensey Court House Museum and Gaol Reported haunted location in the UK.
• ⚔️ Ruthin Gaol Reported haunted location in the UK.
• ⚔️ Site of Southgate Prison Reported haunted location in the UK.
• ⚔️ The Old Gaol Reported haunted location in the UK.
• ⚔️ Abandoned York Prison/George St. Pennsylvania Reported haunted location in York, Pennsylvania, USA.
• ⚔️ Andersonville Prison Georgia Reported haunted location in Andersonville, Georgia, USA.
• ⚔️ Arizona State Prison Complex Death House Arizona Reported haunted location in Florence, Arizona, USA.
• ⚔️ Ash Street Jail Massachusetts Reported haunted location in New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA.
• ⚔️ ASP Cellblock 3 Arizona Reported haunted location in Florence, Arizona, USA.
• ⚔️ Bastille California Reported haunted location in Hanford, California, USA.
• ⚔️ Bayou La Batre Jail Alabama Reported haunted location in Bayou La Batre, Alabama, USA.
• ⚔️ bluff springs Tennessee Reported haunted location in LaFollette, Tennessee, USA.
• ⚔️ Burlington County Prison New Jersey Reported haunted location in Burlington, New Jersey, USA.
• ⚔️ Camp Security Pennsylvania British prisoners taken at Saratoga and Yorktown were held here. Walk the trail into the woods and you can still find shot on the ground.
• ⚔️ Chino Hills California Reported haunted location in Chino, California, USA.
• ⚔️ City Jail Virginia Reported haunted location in Norfolk, Virginia, USA.
• ⚔️ Clarksville border Indiana Reported haunted location in Jeffersonville, Indiana, USA.
• ⚔️ Clarksville Indiana Reported haunted location in Clark County, Indiana, USA.
• ⚔️ Cochise County Courthouse Arizona The old county jail is on the top floor of this 1931 Art Deco building. Cigar smoke is smelled in the Division Two judge's chambers.
• ⚔️ The old jail Indiana The retired jail is run as a Halloween attraction. The people who work there in the off season are the ones with the accounts.
• ⚔️ Community Building Texas Reported haunted location in Montgomery, Texas, USA.
• ⚔️ County Jail Ohio Reported haunted location in Medina, Ohio, USA.
• ⚔️ County Jail Ohio Reported haunted location in Paulding, Ohio, USA.
• ⚔️ Court House North Carolina Reported haunted location in Sparta, North Carolina, USA.
• ⚔️ Devil's Turnaround Georgia Large objects are thrown if you set them down. People come back with bruises and marks, and the account says that prayer only makes it worse.
• ⚔️ Diana of the Dunes Indiana Fishermen on the Indiana dunes reported a woman swimming alone in the lake around 1915. Her real name was Alice Mable Gray.
• ⚔️ Fisher County Jail Texas Reported haunted location in Roby, Texas, USA.
• ⚔️ Former Deer Island Prison Massachusetts Reported haunted location in Winthrop, Massachusetts, USA.
• ⚔️ Georgia Diagnostic & Classification Prison Georgia Reported haunted location in Jackson, Georgia, USA.
• ⚔️ Historic Burlington County Prison Museum New Jersey Reported haunted location in Mt. Holly, New Jersey, USA.
• ⚔️ Hutch Kentucky Reported haunted location in Bell County, Kentucky, USA.
• ⚔️ Iowa State Penitentiary Iowa Reported haunted location in Fort Madison, Iowa, USA.
• ⚔️ Jail Cell Illinois Reported haunted location in Galesburg, Illinois, USA.
• ⚔️ Jail Cell Kansas Reported haunted location in Ellis, Kansas, USA.
• ⚔️ Leon County Jail Florida Reported haunted location in Tallahassee, Florida, USA.
• ⚔️ Lewisburg courthouse West Virginia Reported haunted location in Lewisburg, West Virginia, USA.
• ⚔️ Lockhart County Court and Jail House Texas Reported haunted location in Lockhart, Texas, USA.
• ⚔️ Maine state prison Maine Reported haunted location in Warren, Maine, USA.
• ⚔️ Mansfield Prison Ohio Reported haunted location in Mansfield, Ohio, USA.
• ⚔️ Margarita's Mexican Restaurant New Hampshire Reported haunted location in Concord, New Hampshire, USA.
• ⚔️ Marion Country Club Ohio Reported haunted location in Marion, Ohio, USA.
• ⚔️ OLD Courthouse building Florida Reported haunted location in Brooksville, Florida, USA.
• ⚔️ Old Federal Prison on Market Illinois Reported haunted location in Bloomington, Illinois, USA.
• ⚔️ OLD GOVERNMENT JAIL North Dakota Reported haunted location in Fort Yates, North Dakota, USA.
• ⚔️ The old Hancock County retirement home Ohio Now a work release centre attached to the county jail. Maintenance staff, officers, secretaries and residents all describe the same old man in coveralls.
• ⚔️ Old Jackson County Jail Missouri Reported haunted location in Independence, Missouri, USA.
• ⚔️ Old Jail Alabama Reported haunted location in Rockford, Alabama, USA.
• ⚔️ Old Lake County Jail Indiana Reported haunted location in Crown Point, Indiana, USA.
• ⚔️ The Old Montana Prison Montana The last prisoners left around 1980. The gallows room and the hole are where the reports concentrate.
• ⚔️ Old Newgate Prison Connecticut Reported haunted location in East Granby, Connecticut, USA.
• ⚔️ Old Prison Utah Reported haunted location in Park City, Utah, USA.
• ⚔️ Old State Office Building Kentucky Reported haunted location in Frankfort, Kentucky, USA.
• ⚔️ Old State Penitentiary Idaho Reported haunted location in Boise, Idaho, USA.
• ⚔️ Old Townley Jail House Alabama Reported haunted location in Townley, Alabama, USA.
• ⚔️ Oliver’s Restaurant Tennessee Reported haunted location in Gallatin, Tennessee, USA.
• ⚔️ Pickens County Museum South Carolina Reported haunted location in Pickens, South Carolina, USA.
• ⚔️ Porter County Indiana Reported haunted location in Porter, Indiana, USA.
• ⚔️ Prison Museum Colorado Reported haunted location in Cañon City, Colorado, USA.
• ⚔️ Refugio County Court House Texas Reported haunted location in Refugio, Texas, USA.
• ⚔️ Rhode Island Prison Rhode Island Reported haunted location in Cranston, Rhode Island, USA.
• ⚔️ The place on River Falls Road Alabama Down the road past the boat ramp, along a field, there is a track. Local people say it leads to a building where people were held.
• ⚔️ Rock Rd/ Old Tory Prison Connecticut Reported haunted location in Burlington, Connecticut, USA.
• ⚔️ Roseville Prison Ohio Reported haunted location in Roseville, Ohio, USA.
• ⚔️ Salem Jail Massachusetts Reported haunted location in Salem, Massachusetts, USA.
• ⚔️ The White Lady of Spring Canyon Utah The canyon above Helper holds several ghost towns. Latuda and Standardville were coal camps, and the stone houses, the shops and the jail are still there.
• ⚔️ Moundsville West Virginia It was among the most violent prisons in the country, condemned and closed in 1995. It now sells itself as the most haunted site on the east coast.
• ⚔️ Stillwater Prison Minnesota Reported haunted location in Bayport, Minnesota, USA.
• ⚔️ The brig at Farragut Idaho More than three hundred thousand servicemen passed through this Idaho naval base. The brig is the only original building left standing.
• ⚔️ The Bunkers Pennsylvania Reported haunted location in Elimsport, Pennsylvania, USA.
• ⚔️ The Gold Museum Georgia Reported haunted location in Dahlonega, Georgia, USA.
• ⚔️ The Old Colgate Factory Kentucky Reported haunted location in Louisville, Kentucky, USA.
• ⚔️ The Old Jail House Texas Reported haunted location in Richmond, Texas, USA.
• ⚔️ The Old Jail Louisiana Reported haunted location in West Shreveport, Louisiana, USA.
• ⚔️ The Old Prison Pennsylvania Reported haunted location in Mason Town, Pennsylvania, USA.
• ⚔️ Washington Terrace Utah The town was built in the 1940s as a camp for Italian prisoners of war. Some of the original buildings were converted into houses that people live in.
• ⚔️ Tipton Correctional Center Missouri Reported haunted location in Tipton, Missouri, USA.
• ⚔️ Wallkill Correctional Facility New York Reported haunted location in Wallkill, New York, USA.
• ⚔️ Warren Judicial Courthouse Ohio Reported haunted location in Warren, Ohio, USA.
• ⚔️ Western State/WKCC Oklahoma Reported haunted location in Fort Supply, Oklahoma, USA.
• ⚔️ Wyoming Territorial Prison Wyoming Reported haunted location in Laramie, Wyoming, USA.
• ⚔️ Youth Prison California Reported haunted location in Ione, California, USA.
• ⚔️ Yuma Territorial Prison State Historic Park Arizona Reported haunted location in Yuma, Arizona, USA.

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How many haunted prisons are there?

Haunted Places lists 143 haunted prisons worldwide, each with its story and GPS coordinates.

What are the most famous haunted prisons?

Among the most notable: Eastern State Penitentiary, Cornmarket (The Black Dog Prison) and Coiba Island Penal Colony.

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