Haunted Places in Mexico (72)

Explore 72 haunted places in Mexico — castles, hotels, churches, ruins and more. Every location includes its story and GPS coordinates.

• 👻 Island of the Dolls Ciudad de México Thousands of mutilated dolls hang from the trees where Julián Santana tried to appease the spirit of a drowned girl.
• 👻 Avocado Alley Ciudad de México Beneath the avocado tree in Coyoacán a soldier is said to have killed a child - and both spirits linger by the alley's little shrine.
• 👻 Aramberri House Nuevo León After the 1933 double murder, the family parrot exposed the killer - and the house in Monterrey never knew peace again.
• 🏛️ House of the Zacatecana Querétaro Two murdered men are said to lie buried in the stables — the husband and the assassin the lady of Zacatecas disposed of. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 The Devil's Alley Mexico City A night watchman is heard whistling in the alley — those who answer him are said never to reach home, and the moneylender Julio died here.
• 👻 The Alley of the Dead Man Mexico City A pale man with long black hair and burning eyes stops you in the alley and confesses the crime that keeps him from resting.
• 🏯 The White House of San Ángel Mexico City Doña Guiomar died at the window waiting for don Lope — and when he finally came, a bony hand took hold of him through the grille.
• 👻 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.
• 👻 The Old Convent of La Concepción Mexico City María Gil hanged herself in the peach tree for love — and the novices watched her silhouette sway above the convent garden.
• 👻 The Devil's Cave (Cerro de la Estrella) Mexico City A stooped old man asks for help up the hill at dusk — and only at the mouth of the cave does he turn his face and show what he really is.
• 👻 Cuemanco Landing, Xochimilco Mexico City Ay, mis hijos — La Llorona is said to glide over the canal water in white, hair across her face, and the boatmen would rather turn back.
• 👻 Former Convent of Churubusco Mexico City The painter Dr. Atl lived here and called the phantom monks an everyday affair — and at dawn, cannon that fell silent in 1847 are heard.
• 👻 The Spring of La Noria (El Charro Negro) Mexico City El Charro Negro courted the washerwomen at the spring — and years later he and his bride were seen sitting on its bed.
• 🌲 Los Dínamos de Contreras Mexico City The witches are said to circle above the river valley — and from the Monk's Cave comes an old prayer nobody says any more.
• 👻 The Old Palace of the Inquisition Mexico City A woman begs the night guards for a Christian burial — and in one cell La Mulata de Córdoba is said to have sailed away on a chalked ship. 🛏 Book a night here
• ⚰️ Panteón Civil de Dolores Mexico City If you hear the boy weeping among the graves he has chosen you — and the soldier Figueroa shouts halt at anyone who touches a stone.
• 👻 The Bridge of the Cleric Mexico City A skeleton in torn priestly robes waits on the bridge — and closes its bony hands around the throat of the man who killed him.
• 🏗️ 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.
• 🏛️ Guanajuato Mummy Museum Guanajuato The mummies' twisted faces are said to belong to cholera victims - several of them, legend insists, buried alive. 🛏 Book a night here
• ⚔️ 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.
• ⚰️ Belén Cemetery Jalisco A tree grew from the vampire's staked grave, and visitors still leave toys for Nachito, the boy who died of his fear of the dark.
• ⚰️ San Cristóbal de las Casas Municipal Cemetery Chiapas Two graves in the town cemetery are said to hold a vampire and a witch — and neither of them rests in peace.
• 🛎️ Hotel Posada del Sol Ciudad de México The luxury hotel that never opened: its builder hanged himself in the chapel, and in room 103 an altar honours a dead girl. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🗡️ San Juan de Ulúa Veracruz In the fortress's dank dungeons, the witch known as the Mulata de Córdoba is said to have sailed straight out through her cell wall. 🛏 Book a night here
• ⛪ Chapel of El Carmen Sonora Veiled nuns are said to glide along Serdán street at night — and from the locked chapel comes the cry of an infant.
• 👻 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.
• 🏯 Casa del Cerro Coahuila In the garden of Torreón's 1905 hilltop mansion walks a woman in white — the daughter who died for love.
• 👻 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.
• 🏰 Chapultepec Castle Ciudad de México Empress Carlota, who lost both her mind and her husband, is said to still roam the castle halls where her piano plays by itself. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏯 Chautla Hacienda Puebla By the English fairytale castle on the lake, the dead of the Revolution are said to appear at dusk.
• ⛪ Durango Cathedral Durango Night after night, the nun Beatriz appears in the cathedral tower, still watching for the soldier who never returned.
• 👻 The Street of the Burned Woman Mexico City Doña Beatriz pressed a burning coal to her own face to end the jealousy — and a veiled woman is still said to walk this street at dusk.
• 👻 The Alley of the Toad Mexico City The witch's remedy gave the childless couple a child with a toad's face — and in the alley a croaking is still heard that comes from no animal.
• 👻 La Casa Colorada (House of La Malinche) Mexico City Neighbours in La Conchita say Malintzin's lament is heard behind the red wall — and that she is the same figure as La Llorona.
• 👻 Casa de Cortés (Coyoacán Town House) Mexico City Night guards on Plaza Hidalgo hear a child laughing and running through the empty halls — and see him in the windows over the square.
• 👻 The House of Tiles Mexico City The shadow of the murdered Andrés Suárez lingers on the staircase — and from a coffin in this house, knocking was once heard.
• 🏯 Casa Frissac Mexico City Chucho el Roto climbed the wall by night to Matilde Frissac's room — and the staff still hear footsteps on the stairs after closing.
• 👻 Cloister of Sor Juana (Former Convent of San Jerónimo) Mexico City Students say Sor Juana's statue shifts in the dark — and that the cold in the cloister walk arrives before the creaking does.
• 🚇 Azcapotzalco Park (Eréndira, the Llorona of Azcapotzalco) Mexico City Eréndira walks between the park and the cathedral weeping for José Alfredo and Mariano — her grief unsettles more than any scream.
• 👻 Fuentes Brotantes National Park, Tlalpan Mexico City La Llorona drags her wail along the old lakeshore — and an enchanted stone in the woods is said to swallow whoever sits on it.
• 🚇 Barranca del Muerto Metro Station Mexico City Fall asleep in the last carriage at the end of Line 7 and the vampire finds you — passengers wake alone in a train taken out of service.
• 🏛️ José Luis Cuevas Museum (Former Convent of Santa Inés) Mexico City A face emerged in the bronze knee of La Giganta — and the artist refused to erase the ghost from his own sculpture. 🛏 Book a night here
• ⚰️ San Fernando Cemetery Museum Mexico City The Woman in Black stands motionless among the tombs until she lets out one long scream — and Don Juan laments the fortune he lost.
• ⚰️ Xoco Cemetery Mexico City Neighbours say the lament of Senator Belisario Domínguez rises over the graves — the man who wrote the truth and was silenced for it.
• 👻 Teatro de la Ciudad Esperanza Iris Mexico City The boy with the diadem bounces his ball inside the headsets and invites technicians to play — sometimes using their own names. 🛏 Book a night here
• ⚔️ 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.
• 👻 Cuilápam Monastery Oaxaca The basilica was never finished — whatever rose by day, the Devil is said to have torn down by night.
• 👻 Former Convent of Desierto de los Leones Ciudad de México In the Carmelites' mountain monastery the monks' prayers can still be heard - and so can the tunnels where disobedient brothers were locked in darkness.
• 👻 La Contaduría Fort Nayarit On moonless nights, a monk paces the ruined fort above the old harbour of San Blas.
• 🏚️ Cholul Hacienda Yucatán A rape, a revenge killing and a suicide led witchcraft-practicing parents to curse the henequen hacienda forever.
• 🏯 Hacienda Uayamón Campeche The Maya name is read as 'the place where the spirit descends' — and guests in the stone corridors say they are rarely alone.
• 🏯 Hacienda Yaxcopoil Yucatán In the old henequen hacienda, doors open by themselves and a woman's shadow slips along the corridors.
• 🏛️ Hospicio Cabañas Jalisco The orphanage's clock of death stopped each time a child died - and at night children's laughter is still said to echo through the arcades. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Juárez Hospital (La Planchada) Ciudad de México Night patients are tended by a nurse in a perfectly ironed uniform - one who has not been on duty for a hundred years.
• 🛎️ Hotel Francés Jalisco On the third floor of Guadalajara's oldest inn, dating from 1610, an elegant gentleman, a little girl and a nun make their appearances. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 La Malinche (Matlalcueye) Tlaxcala The lady of the mountain in her blue skirt is said to lure hikers ever deeper into the mist.
• 🚇 La Popular Bridal Shop (La Pascualita) Chihuahua The bridal shop's mannequin is said to be the owner's embalmed daughter — and her eyes follow you through the glass.
• 👻 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.
• 👻 Palace of Cortés Morelos Hidden in the palace walls for four centuries: a bewitched doll with a pin driven through its head. 🛏 Book a night here
• ⚰️ English Cemetery of Real del Monte Hidalgo Every grave faces England — except the clown's — and the dead miners are said to walk in the mountain mist.
• ⚰️ La Soledad Cemetery Estado de México A mist drifts across the old execution ground, said to carry the prayers and cries of the dead.
• ⚰️ Municipal Cemetery No. 1 (Juan Soldado's Grave) Baja California At Juan Soldado's grave, the executed soldier is said to still cry out his innocence.
• 👻 Ovando Bridge Puebla At midnight the walker meets a begging woman on the bridge - her voice belongs to María del Rosario, the daughter who died for her love.
• 🏗️ 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.
• 🚇 Plaza de la Constitución (La Llorona) Ciudad de México In the 1500s the city's residents were woken by a white-clad woman shrieking 'My children!' across the Plaza Mayor - La Llorona's first haunt.
• 👻 Alley of the Kiss Guanajuato In this narrow alley a furious father killed his daughter mid-kiss - couples who kiss here are promised fifteen years of happiness.
• 👻 Calzada Fray Antonio de San Miguel Michoacán After midnight, a ghostly hand reaches out through the grille of the pink house, begging for a piece of bread.
• 👻 Café de Tacuba Mexico City Sister María del Sacramento glides through the kitchen in white — and the cooks say the mole tastes the way it does because of her.
• 👻 Hostería de Santo Domingo Mexico City A hooded Dominican friar walks between the kitchen and the bar at night — and is said to guard a treasure walled up long ago.
• 👻 Cerro del Muerto Aguascalientes The mountain lies like a fallen giant above Aguascalientes — the dead priest who never found peace.
• 👻 Janitzio Island Michoacán Every Night of the Dead, Prince Itzihuapa and the lake's twenty spectral oarsmen are said to rise from Lake Pátzcuaro to meet his beloved.

FAQ

How many haunted places are there in Mexico?

Haunted Places lists 72 haunted locations in Mexico, each with its story and GPS coordinates.

What are the most haunted places in Mexico?

Among the most notable in Mexico: Island of the Dolls, Avocado Alley and Aramberri House.

Can you stay overnight at haunted places in Mexico?

Yes — 11 of the haunted places in Mexico are hotels or inns you can book for an overnight stay. The rest are public sites you can visit.

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