Haunted Places in Spain (84)

Explore 84 haunted places in Spain — castles, hotels, churches, ruins and more. Every location includes its story and GPS coordinates.

• 👻 Belchite (Ruined Town) Aragón, Zaragoza Town wiped out in the Spanish Civil War in 1937 — Franco let the ruins stand as a monument.
• 🏯 Cortijo Jurado Andalusien, Málaga Andalusia's "haunted house" — legend of ritual murders of young women in underground passages.
• 🚇 Carrer de Ponent 29 – the Vampire of the Raval Barcelona In the flat on Carrer de Ponent, police in 1912 found children's bones, bottles of fat, and a girl meant to be the next victim – the Vampire of the Raval had hunted for twenty years.
• 👻 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.
• 👻 Thorax Hospital of Terrassa Katalonien Patients died by the thousand at this Catalan tuberculosis hospital – and voices recorded in its corridors order visitors to leave.
• 👻 Old Provincial Council of Granada Andalusien 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.
• 👻 Rocafort Metro Station Barcelona Night staff at Barcelona's most infamous metro station refuse to sit alone at the monitors – a woman in white walks the platform and dissolves into the tunnel dark.
• 🚇 The Murderous Bookseller (Fra Vicents) Barcelona The antiquarian sold his beloved books – then followed his customers through the alleys to murder them and take the books back.
• 👻 Pla de Palau – The Sea Gate Barcelona For twelve years General Moragues' severed head hung in an iron cage above the city's sea gate – and sailors learned never to look up as they passed beneath.
• 👻 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 Andalusien 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 Andalusien In 1971 a face rose out of the cement floor of María Gómez's kitchen – and new faces kept appearing for decades.
• 🏗️ La Salle School of Turón Asturien From the mining valley's abandoned school, where eight brothers were seized and shot in 1934, voices and screams are still said to echo.
• 👻 Friar's Farmhouse Andalusien At this monastic farm in Cabo de Gata, the 1928 murder that inspired Lorca's Blood Wedding took place – whispers and shadows haunt the ruins.
• 🗡️ Fort of San Cristóbal Navarra 795 prisoners broke out of the mountain fortress in 1938 — over 200 were shot down on the slopes, where walkers now speak of voices in the fog. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Minas del Horcajo Kastilien-La Mancha Around the deserted mining village, folk belief lives on about full moons, witches and wolves — and about the children found with their caps full of berries.
• 🏗️ Ochate Kastilien och León This deserted hamlet in Treviño is called Spain's cursed village – three epidemics emptied it, and the notorious Kanpora EVP recordings were captured here.
• 🏥 La Sabinosa Preventorium Katalonien The children shut in here testified to beatings and censored letters home — today the colossus is called Tarragona's cursed building.
• 👻 Toén Psychiatric Hospital Galicien The investigation groups keep coming back with tape recorders, claiming to have caught voices in the corridors where the beds still stand.
• 🏥 Agramonte Sanatorium Aragonien 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.
• 👻 Salvana Tower Katalonien This tenth-century castle ruin is nicknamed Hell's Castle – visitors describe a woman in white and a pale girl with a bullet hole in her forehead.
• 👻 La Engaña Tunnel Kantabrien Locals say the voices echo out of the mountain's mouths at night — the prisoners who bored the tunnel never saw a train pass through it.
• 👻 La Mussara Tarragona, Katalonien Abandoned Catalan village with a reputation as a place where time and space distort.
• 👻 Palacio de Linares Madrid Madrid's haunted palace — legend of a girl trapped in a secret chamber.
• 👻 Preventorio Busot Alicante Abandoned sanatorium in Alicante — tuberculosis patients died here by the thousands.
• 👻 Carrer del Call Barcelona When masons broke up a threshold in the old Jewish quarter in 1614, they found human bones laid in a pattern – a foundation sacrifice, the city whispered.
• 👻 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.
• 🗡️ Montjuïc Castle Barcelona In the fortress where anarchists were tortured in the casemates in the 1890s, visitors still hear footsteps and voices in empty corridors – the soldiers are said never to have left the moat. 🛏 Book a night here
• ⚰️ Montjuïc Cemetery Barcelona Among the hillside's hundred thousand graves hides an Egyptian pyramid of sealed secrets – and at dusk the Vampire of the Raval is said to walk from her unmarked mass grave.
• 👻 El Morrot of Montjuïc Barcelona In the dark of the new moon, the viceroy's ghost rises from coal-black earth beneath Montjuïc's cliffs and walks to the sea – still fleeing his executioners of 1640.
• ⚰️ Fossar de les Moreres Barcelona "No traitor lies in the mulberry grave" – beneath the square by Santa Maria del Mar rest the fallen of 1714, and every eleventh of September they are said to rise.
• 👻 Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona "I am an owl and go alone – if you raise it again, I will burn it again." The note in the ashes gave the opera house on La Rambla its cursed reputation. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🚇 La Boqueria Market Barcelona Beneath Europe's most famous food market lie a demolished Carmelite convent and its dead – and legend claims the bones of pogrom victims were walled into the buildings.
• 🚇 Santa Caterina Market Barcelona The market with the rippling roof stands on a demolished Dominican convent where black magic was rumoured to thrive around 1800 – and excavations found the graves still beneath.
• 👻 Monastery of Sant Cugat del Vallès Barcelona In the middle of midnight mass in 1350 the abbot was cut down at the altar – the iron rooster on the roof crowed three times, the bells rang as far as Montserrat, and no grass grows on the killers' escape path.
• 🏛️ The Montcada Street Palaces (Picasso Museum) Barcelona Across the medieval rooftops of the Picasso Museum rides a death-horseman on a skeletal steed – the vengeful ghost of the House of Montcada has never left the saddle. 🛏 Book a night here
• ⚰️ Plaça de Sant Felip Neri – Graveyard of the Hanged Barcelona The square rests upon the graveyard of the hanged – and legend tells of the youth who mocked a skull here and received a visit from its owner that same night.
• 🚇 Plaça de Ramon Berenguer el Gran – Pere Botero's Well Barcelona By the Roman wall, folk belief places a sealed ancient well leading straight down to hell – where the devil Pere Botero lays out his feasts.
• ⛪ Sagrat Cor de Jesús (Sant Martí de Provençals) Barcelona When the parish graveyard was levelled, many of the dead were left in the ground – and by neighbourhood legend the orphaned dead still crawl beneath the grass, lamenting.
• 👻 Sant Pere de les Puel·les Barcelona When Almanzor's armies stormed Barcelona in 985 the convent's nuns were slain or sold as slaves – but Abbess Madruí returned from captivity and became a saint.
• 👻 House of the Heads Andalusien 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.
• 🏯 House of the Mermaids Andalusien In this palace on the Alameda de Hércules, a family member was allegedly kept locked away for life – and guards still hear footsteps no one takes.
• 🏛️ Lercaro House Kanarieöarna Catalina Lercaro threw herself into the palace well on her wedding day – and is said still to wander Tenerife's history museum. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏚️ La Rabassada Casino Katalonien In the woods above Barcelona rot the ruins of a luxury casino with a "suicide room", where ruined gamblers withdrew to end their lives.
• 🏰 Cardona Castle Katalonien Room 712 of the castle hotel is only let on explicit request – there mourns the maiden Adalés, who died imprisoned in the tower for a forbidden love. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Castle of San Servando Kastilien-La Mancha In the Templars' castle above the Tagus, an old woman's cough sounds from empty rooms – and motion sensors tripped as the TV crew slept. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Trasmoz Castle Aragonien Spain's only excommunicated village has a castle where witches were said to hold their sabbaths – the curse from Veruela abbey was never lifted. 🛏 Book a night here
• ⚰️ La Almudena Cemetery Madrid At Western Europe's largest cemetery, the angel of death's trumpet was moved from his lips – whoever hears it sound will soon die.
• ⚰️ The Englishmen's Cemetery Galicien The sea kept giving up the cadets for weeks after the wreck — and the Coast of Death has carried its haunted reputation ever since.
• 🏗️ Santa Eulalia Colony Valencia-regionen In this abandoned nineteenth-century colony between Sax and Villena, the count drowned in the palace fountain after a night of excess – echoes of the parties are said to linger.
• 👻 Supelegor Cave Baskien In Basque mythology the goddess Mari dwells in this cave in the Itxina massif – and witches were said to gather by its mouth at night.
• 👻 Caves of Zugarramurdi Navarra In the witch caves by the Stream of Hell were held the covens that in 1610 sparked Spain's greatest witch trial – and the pyres of Logroño.
• 🚇 House of the Zaragoza Goblin Aragonien In 1934 a mocking voice spoke from the stove pipe at Gascón de Gotor 2 – police interrogated it, the area was cordoned off and The Times reported on the Zaragoza duende.
• 🚇 Tirso de Molina Metro Station Madrid Behind the tiled walls of this Madrid metro station rest the monks of a demolished monastery – and at midnight their laments are said to echo.
• 👻 Hospital of the Five Holy Wounds Andalusien Stern Sister Úrsula, who died of the plague she nursed, is still said to walk the Andalusian Parliament with her ring of keys.
• 🛎️ Hotel Corona de Aragón Aragonien After the unsolved 1979 fire that killed 83, knocking and weeping are reported from room 510 of Zaragoza's old luxury hotel. 🛏 Book a night here
• ⚔️ San Simón Island Galicien On foggy nights, whispers are said to rise from the pavilions — and the prisoners' souls never to have left the island in Vigo bay.
• 👻 Mount of Souls Kastilien och León On All Souls' Night, slain Templar knights are said to rise from their graves on this hill by Soria – the legend Bécquer made immortal.
• 🏛️ Reina Sofía Museum Madrid In the art museum that was once Madrid's General Hospital, three mummified nuns were found – and night guards still hear footsteps and moans. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🛎️ Ayala Berganza Palace Kastilien och León After the 1892 double murder, when the thieves also hanged a cat from a beam, this 15th-century Segovia palace became simply the House of Crime. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🛎️ Parador de Jaén Andalusien In room 22 of the Santa Catalina castle hotel weeps Jasmina, the woman said to have been murdered in the tower – guests have even filed complaints. 🛏 Book a night here
• ⛪ Sanctuary of La Balma Valencia-regionen Spain's "possessed" were brought to this cave church in the cliff face for exorcism – until the Church banned the rites in the 1930s.
• 🏗️ Turruncún La Rioja A late legend tells that the church floor in the deserted village cracked open — and human bones came up and were scattered among the ruins.
• 👻 Villa Winter Kanarieöarna 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.
• ⛪ Baixada de Santa Eulàlia and the Cathedral Barcelona Down this steep lane thirteen-year-old Eulàlia was rolled in a barrel full of knives – and in the cathedral where she rests, thirteen white geese keep her memory.
• 👻 Can Trilla Barcelona In the chapel of the old farmhouse in Gràcia rests the nun said to be in two places at once – and some claim she never stopped.
• 👻 Torre Baró Castle Barcelona Neighbours saw lights in the half-finished castle's window openings and a small figure on the ridge at dusk — the tower is known as the cursed castle.
• ⚰️ Poblenou Cemetery Barcelona At the Santet's niche, queueing Barcelonans leave written prayers to a dead 22-year-old – and exit to the right without looking back, while the Kiss of Death keeps watch further in.
• 👻 Palau de la Virreina Barcelona The vicereine's palace on the Rambla was built for an aged colonial grandee who died before he could enjoy it – and his young widow is said never to have moved out. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Pont del Bisbe (Bishop's Bridge) Barcelona Beneath the Gothic Quarter's famous bridge sits a skull pierced by a dagger – pull the dagger out, the legend says, and all of Barcelona comes crashing down.
• 👻 Romea Theatre Barcelona In the dressing rooms of Barcelona's oldest playhouse, actors claim to have met the diva Margarida Xirgu again and again – dead since 1969, but unwilling to leave the stage. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Bellver Castle Balearerna In the round castle-prison above Palma, the shade of Jovellanos is said to stroll the gallery – dissolving at the door of his old cell. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Xàtiva Castle Valencia-regionen In the castle dungeon sat the ill-fated Count of Urgell until darkness claimed his sight – and death caught up with him in 1433. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Las Palmas Conservatory of Music Kanarieöarna At night, piano music drifts from empty halls of the Las Palmas conservatory – students call the legless figure Lucas.
• 🏚️ Cave of Salamanca Kastilien och León In the crypt beneath a demolished church, the Devil ran a school of black magic – and the Marquis of Villena escaped, minus his shadow.
• 🏗️ Fuente del Francés Spa Kantabrien The abbot who found the spring lived in the Devil's Cave beside it — until one day he vanished without trace, and the cave kept its name.
• ⛪ San Andrés de Teixido Galicien "He who doesn't go alive goes there dead" – even the souls of the departed make the pilgrimage to this clifftop sanctuary.
• 👻 Romea Theatre Murcia A monk cursed the theatre built on his monastery's land: three fires would strike it – which is why one black seat is always left empty. 🛏 Book a night here

FAQ

How many haunted places are there in Spain?

Haunted Places lists 84 haunted locations in Spain, each with its story and GPS coordinates.

What are the most haunted places in Spain?

Among the most notable in Spain: Belchite (Ruined Town), Cortijo Jurado, Carrer de Ponent 29 – the Vampire of the Raval.

Can you stay overnight at haunted places in Spain?

Yes — 17 of the haunted places in Spain are hotels or inns you can book for an overnight stay. The rest are public sites you can visit.

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