With so many options to travel to in today’s world ranging from food to adventure, some people hope for travelling to witness some of the more paranormal places. We present you with 20 haunted places from all over the world, where you can take a visit with your friends this spooky season.
1. Bhangarh Fort, Rajasthan, India
The Bhangarh Fort is popularly said to be cursed long ago by a ‘Tantrik’ well versed in black magic, who fell in love with the Princess. This curse does not allow anyone living in the village or fort to be reborn and also the place is inhabited by ghosts due to it. No one is allowed to visit the Fort after sunset as that is when the eeriness starts to creep in.
2. Akershus Fortress, Oslo, Norway
The fortress is a Medieval castle from the 1290s. The fortress was used as a treacherous prison, where soldiers and prisoners were ill-treated with methods of torture and starvation. Thousands of prisoners were also executed here during the Nazi rule. It experiences multiple paranormal activities with the ghost of a robed woman and a dog being popular.
3. Helltown, Ohio, USA
Helltown is free to visit, there have been multiple stories surrounding Helltown. The town is filled with a history of murder and gore violence from the intention of evil, it is abandoned by most of the population and people say that now, it is a hub for cults and people to practice satanic rituals, it also consists of a Satanic church.
It is advised to not wander too much here, especially into private properties and to not make any contact with anybody present as we may not know who they are and what they want.
4. Stull Cemetery, Kansas, USA
This cemetery was erected in 1869 along with a newly made church then, a number of students’ accounts of paranormal happenings have been reported at this place since 1974. It is believed that Satan’s son was buried around here and he pays a visit every Halloween.
5. Bran Castle, Romania, Romania
Popularly known as “Dracula’s Castle”, this place may or may not have been home to a ‘vampire’. The castle was completed in 1388 and was then used as a military and commercial outpost till the 1800s. no one exactly knows what resides between the dark walls of this castle but it was once ruled by a rigorous and merciless killer, hence it being filled with blood-clogged stories.
6. Edinburgh Castle, Scotland
Like most medieval castles, Edinburgh castle also holds the ghosts of restless spirits that haunt around. There is The Grey Lady, dressed like a 16th-century noblewoman, who is usually spotted either just wandering or sweeping; a ghostly man smelling distinctly of manure and trying to push people over the castle’s battlements and a couple of more such spirits.
7. Screaming Tunnel, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada
This tunnel is said to be haunted by a girl’s ghost. As the story goes, hundreds of years back a girl is said to have come seek refuge in this tunnel from her drunken father and died in it, her soul still resides inside the tunnel. People walking this tunnel on a pitch black night with a wooden match can hear her loud screams echoing.
8. Williard Asylum, Williard, New York, USA
This asylum was closed in 1995 after 126 years of operation, hundreds of forgotten suitcases were found in the asylum attic that gave information about the patients living there. It lies abandoned now, although nature has begun to reclaim it.
Treating mental illness was a new thing when the asylum was started, but it is said that the asylum was more like a prison with the patients kept as chained and horrifying ways being used to ‘treat’ them, hence why it is haunted by them.
9. Sedlec Ossuary, Czech Republic
The Sedlec Ossuary was already a popular burial ground destination as monks used to sprinkle dirt on the cemetery from Golgotha, where the crucifixion of Jesus is said to have occurred.
A large church was built and bodies were exhumed for around 400 years to create the interior decoration of this church, entirely made of human bones ranging from chandeliers, sculptures and coat-of-arms by František Rint.
10. Poveglia, Italy
Poveglia island is now closed to visitors and is one of the most haunted places in the world. It was just an island where people were sent to die for a long time for people in Venice. It was used as a convenient dumping ground for the dead or the dying when the Bubonic Plague occurred.
Moreover, in the 1800s and 1900s, it was turned into a mental asylum where doctors carried out strange and bizarre experiments on the patients, causing lots of death and damage which was irreversible. The doctor in the 1930s, himself went mad and took his own life. All the spirits of people from even before the 1300s reside here.
Written By: Sofia Choudhary
Edited By: Nidhi Jha
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