Haunted Sanatoriums (26)

26 haunted sanatoriums from around the world. Each location includes its story and GPS coordinates.

• 🏥 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.
• 🏥 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.
• 🏥 Harastølen (Luster Sanatorium) Vestland The tubercular were isolated five hundred metres above the fjord to die — and rumour holds they never found rest in the corridors now collapsing.
• 🏥 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.
• 🏥 Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum West Virginia Mental hospital operating 1864-1994 — today a museum offering tours, the location of "Paranormal Lockdown".
• 🏥 Waverly Hills Sanatorium Kentucky Through the "death tunnel" thousands of bodies were lowered in secret — and in Room 502 a voice is said to scream "Get out!". 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏥 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.
• 🏥 La Sabinosa Preventorium Catalonia The children shut in here testified to beatings and censored letters home — today the colossus is called Tarragona's cursed building.
• 🏥 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.
• 🏥 La Tablada Sanatorium Madrid Patients threw themselves from the windows in despair — and in the empty shell by the mountain pass, traces of black rites keep turning up.
• 🏥 Sierra Espuña Sanatorium Murcia A woman in white is said to walk the ruined mountain sanatorium – a sentry reportedly opened fire on the figure in the 1990s.
• 🏥 Brestovac Sanatorium Zagreb Among the ruins of the tuberculosis sanatorium on Medvednica, the sighs of actress Ljerka Šram are said to linger between the trees.
• 🏥 Vensmoen Sanatorium, Saltdal Nordland Ghost hunters call Vensmoen Norway's most haunted building — reporting knocks on a window, a blow two floors up, and toys sounding in empty corridors.
• 🏥 Pousada Serra da Estrela Serra da Estrela The sanatorium's patients rarely left again — and when the colossus became a luxury hotel, the stories moved into the corridors with it.
• 🏥 Rolling Hills Asylum New York An old poor farm where more than 1,700 people are said to have died. Many lie in unmarked graves.
• 🏥 Sandträsk sanatorium Norrbotten One of northern Sweden's largest sanatoriums, built in 1913 on the belief that nature itself could heal what was otherwise fatal.
• 🏥 Kroppefjäll Sanatorium Dalsland Two hundred consumptives a year came up the mountain for the air. Roughly one in six never left the building alive.
• 🏥 Alborgen Gävleborg A place where adventure meets the supernatural. Alborgen, located in Valbo near Gävle, is a place that has fascinated both ghost enthusiasts and adventurous visitors for years.
• 🏥 Bona Reformatory and Mental Hospital Östergötland A journey back in time. In the heart of the Östergötland countryside lies Bona, a place where time has stood still, but whose history still whispers through the abandoned buildings.
• 🏥 Ehemaliges Königsberg Sanatorium Reported haunted location in Germany.
• 🏥 Hällnäs Sanatorium — History and Ghosts Deep in the Forest Västerbotten Lost souls and mysterious events. It is said that the dead never truly left Hällnäs sanatorium. Built to treat tuberculosis patients in the 1920s, the place became the final stop for many.
• 🏥 Renwick Smallpox Hospital: the quarantine ruin New York The Gothic ruin of the Smallpox Hospital, designed by James Renwick Jr., where the city quarantined its poor.
• 🏥 The Octagon: the city's first asylum New York The octagonal tower was the entrance to New York's first municipal asylum, where Nellie Bly had herself committed in 1887.
• 🏥 Pittsburgh Job Corps Center/Leech Farm Tuberculosis Hospital and Sanitarium Pennsylvania Reported haunted location in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
• 🏥 Sanitarium Hill Wisconsin Reported haunted location in Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
• 🏥 West Mountain Sanitarium Pennsylvania Reported haunted location in Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA.

FAQ

How many haunted sanatoriums are there?

Haunted Places lists 26 haunted sanatoriums worldwide, each with its story and GPS coordinates.

What are the most famous haunted sanatoriums?

Among the most notable: Durán Sanatorium, Parnitha Sanatorium and Harastølen (Luster Sanatorium).

Where can you find haunted sanatoriums?

You'll find haunted sanatoriums in United States, Sweden, Spain, Norway, Portugal, Costa Rica (+4 more).

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