The Grand Aley Hotel

Berget Libanon · Libanon · Hotel

The building was used for detention and interrogation during the war — and screams have been said to carry from its empty halls ever since.

Local accounts hold that during the civil war years the Grand Hotel in Aley was used for detention and interrogation, and that is where the legend grows from: ever since, screams, voices and unexplained sounds are said to carry out of the empty halls after dark. Villagers prefer to avoid the ruin at night, and the hotel ranks among the most talked-about haunted buildings in the Arab world.

It was once something entirely different. The Grand Hotel was a jewel among the summer hotels of the Lebanese mountains, where Beirut society escaped the heat in the 1950s and 60s. The war left the building a stripped concrete skeleton overlooking the coast — emptied of everything but the reputation it earned in those years.

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Where is The Grand Aley Hotel located?

The Grand Aley Hotel is in Berget Libanon, Libanon.