Abandoned Haunted Places (79)

79 abandoned haunted places from around the world. Each location includes its story and GPS coordinates.

• 🏗️ Bell Witch Cave Tennessee The cave where the 'Bell Witch' is said to have fled in 1821 after haunting the Bell family for four years.
• 👻 Kolmanskop Karas German diamond mining town half-buried in the desert — surreal ghost town abandoned in the 1950s.
• 🏗️ Gonjiam Psychiatric Hospital Gyeonggi CNN named the abandoned Gonjiam asylum one of the freakiest places on earth – the 2018 demolition never silenced the legend.
• 🏗️ Poveglia Island Veneto, Venedig The plague quarantine island in the Venetian Lagoon — later a geriatric hospital, abandoned since 1968.
• 👻 Tat Tak School Yuen Long Abandoned school in Yuen Long — often considered Hong Kong's most haunted place.
• 🏗️ North Brother Island – Typhoid Mary's Prison Isle New York The burned bodies of the General Slocum washed ashore here in 1904, and Typhoid Mary was confined here for 26 years until her death – now the herons and the dead own the island.
• 🏗️ Al Madam Buried Village Sharjah In this sand-drowned desert village the jinn Umm Duwais is said to roam – a beauty with feline eyes who lures treasure hunters to their doom.
• 🏗️ Jazirat Al Hamra Ras al-Khaimah In this abandoned pearl-fishing village, jinn are said to have claimed the coral houses – and those who stay the night risk their sanity.
• 🏗️ Balestrino Ligurien Ghost village on a mountainside in Liguria — abandoned after the 1887 earthquake.
• 🏗️ Bobby Mackey's Music World Kentucky Marketed as 'America's most haunted nightclub' — demolished in December 2024.
• 👻 Consonno Lombardiet Italy's Las Vegas — a dream amusement town abandoned after a landslide in 1976.
• 🏗️ Craco Basilicata Italian ghost town abandoned after landslides — used as a film location for The Passion of the Christ and 007.
• 🏗️ Varosha Famagusta In the resort abandoned overnight in 1974, party music drifts from empty hotels — and a woman in white vanishes from her balcony.
• 🏗️ Dragon Lodge Victoria Peak Den övergivna herrgården på Peak — där byggarbetare flytt för en osynlig barngråt.
• 👻 Elizabeth Bay Karas Abandoned diamond mining town in Namibia's restricted Diamond Area — the sand is slowly swallowing it.
• 🏗️ 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.
• 🏗️ 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.
• 🏗️ 1bis Rue de Bièvre Paris The landlord chased the fortune teller out with his dog. The dog died that evening, the landlord soon after — and the lot is still empty.
• 🏗️ GP Block, Meerut Uttar Pradesh, Meerut Fyra män dricker öl kring ett ensamt ljus — och en kvinna i rött stiger upp mot taket.
• 🏗️ Hashima (Gunkanjima) Nagasaki "Slagskeppsön" — en övergiven gruvö med mörk tvångsarbetshistoria och viskningar ur tomma korridorer. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏗️ Haus Fühlingen Nordrhein-Westfalen, Köln Kölns beryktade gruselvilla, byggd på en blodåker — tre män har hängt sig i samma våning.
• 🏗️ De Monte Colony Tamil Nadu In this abandoned enclave in the heart of Chennai, the grief of the ill-fated merchant De Monte is said to linger – the houses empty since their residents fled.
• 🏗️ Mukesh Mills Maharashtra In the fire-gutted Colaba mill, unseen voices are said to warn Bollywood film crews to stay away.
• 🏗️ Inunaki-byn Fukuoka Vid infarten står en skylt: "Japans grundlag gäller inte bortom denna punkt." Paret som körde vilse mördades.
• 🏗️ The Stone Refuge at Jökulsá á Fjöllum Norðurland eystra No traveller dared sleep in this stone refuge hut – a shaggy monster the size of a yearling calf was said to rampage there at night.
• 🏗️ Galeria Antica Rom The village emptied after a run of unexplained deaths. Once a year hoofbeats return: the minstrel Senz'affanni rides in on a white horse.
• 🏗️ Kejonuma Leisure Land Miyagi, Ōsaki Byggd vid "spökkvinnans damm", där en mor som födde ett ormbarn dränkte sig och förbannade platsen.
• 🏗️ Kowloon Walled City Kowloon Jordens tätast befolkade plats — en laglös, sollös labyrint kallad "mörkrets stad".
• 🏗️ Kuldhara Rajasthan, Jaisalmer En hel by försvann över en natt 1825 — och förbannade marken så att ingen mer kan bo där.
• 👻 La Mussara Tarragona, Katalonien Abandoned Catalan village with a reputation as a place where time and space distort.
• 🏗️ Maya Kanko Hotel Hyōgo, Kobe Ett art déco-spökhotell högt på berget Maya, oåtkomligt med väg, som långsamt växer in i berget.
• 🏗️ 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.
• 🏗️ Shih Chung Branch School Penang From the halls of this abandoned school palace in George Town, a woman's screams are still said to echo – a remnant of the Japanese occupation's torture cellars.
• 🏗️ Nakagusuku Hotel ruins Okinawa, Kitanakagusuku Munkarna varnade för de heliga gravarna — bygget förbannades och investeraren blev vansinnig.
• 🏗️ Pyramiden, Svalbard Svalbard A Soviet model town emptied out in weeks in 1998 – the plates are still on the tables, and the world's northernmost bust of Lenin stares across an empty football pitch.
• 🏗️ Pentedattilo Kalabrien Ghost town in Calabria — legend of a wedding massacre in 1686.
• 👻 Pisagua Tarapacá Pinochet's concentration camp — the mass graves were not discovered until 1990.
• 🏗️ Monte Palace Hotel Azorerna In the abandoned luxury hotel above the Sete Cidades crater lakes, shadows are reported behind the windows and lights flicker with no power.
• 🏗️ Sugisawa-byn Aomori En by där en yxmördare slaktade alla — sedan utplånad ur kartorna. "Ingen garanteras komma tillbaka levande."
• 🏗️ Sathorn Unique Tower Bangkok The plot is rumoured to sit on old burial ground — and in 2014 a man was found hanged on the 43rd floor of Bangkok's Ghost Tower.
• 🏗️ Prinkipo Greek Orphanage Istanbul From Europe's largest timber building, the abandoned orphanage on Buyukada, children's voices and sobbing are said to echo in the dark.
• 🏗️ Katoli Amusement Park (site) Taichung The rails ended abruptly in mid-air — and for twenty years the legend of the derailed train and sixty dead kept the ruin alive.
• 🏗️ 300 Kim Mã Hanoi For thirty years the neighbours laid incense at the fence — the tenant who had lived there longest was never on any lease.
• 🏗️ Panam Nagar Dhaka Division (Sonargaon) In the abandoned merchant town of Panam Nagar, the spirits of wealthy traders are said to still roam their crumbling mansions.
• 🏗️ Shishentsi Ghost Village Vidin In the half-abandoned village of Shishentsi, the voices of a massacred wedding party are still said to echo in the dark.
• 🏗️ Fordlândia Pará Henry Ford's dead dream city rots in the Amazon – rusty operating tables still stand among the vines in the abandoned hospital's wards.
• 🏗️ Broby Sanatorium Skåne Broby Sanatorium – From a place of care to a haunted house and a residential area in crisis. Broby Sanatorium, located in Skåne, has long been a place that carries both tragic stories and eerie rumors.
• 🏗️ 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.
• 🏗️ 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.
• 👻 Fengmen Village Henan Abandoned village in Henan — subject of local folklore and legend. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏗️ The Old Löwenström Hospital Stockholm Abandoned hospital with a dark history. The Old Löwenström Hospital in Upplands Väsby is more than a forgotten building. Behind its worn façades and broken windows hides a story that shook Sweden — the murder of King Gustav III...
• 🏗️ Garnisonssjukhuset i Karlsborg Västra Götaland Längst ut på Vanäs udde, insvept i stilla parklandskap och milsvid utsikt över Vättern, ligger tre byggnader som bär på... Spökkartan Premium Membership Required You must be a Spökkartan Premium member to access this content. Join Now Already a member? Logga i
• 🏗️ Kangeq Nuukfjorden Greenlandic folk belief says qivittut seek out places just like this — abandoned settlements where the dead were left behind alone.
• 🏗️ Qoornoq Nuukfjorden In the fishing village forcibly emptied in 1972, qivittut — the restless spirits of the outcast — are said to prowl among the abandoned houses.
• 🏗️ Gluck Kingdom Hokkaido, Obihiro Ett övergivet tysktematiskt sagorike i Hokkaido, hemsökt sedan en dödsolycka på en åkattraktion.
• 🏗️ The Gothenburg Belt Factory — Time Stood Still Västra Götaland Closed in November 1977 and stands exactly as it was left. 1977 calendars still hang on the walls.
• 🏗️ Hachijō Royal Hotel Tokyo, Hachijōjima Ett barockpalats på "Japans Hawaii" där ormbunkar nu tränger upp genom mattor, sängar och soffor.
• 🏗️ Taman Festival Bali Bali Balinese belief says spirits move in where people move out — and offerings are still laid among the ruins of the amusement park.
• 🏗️ Celleno Ghost Village Lazio In Tuscia's abandoned clifftop village, ravaged by plague and landslides, even a pope's ghost is said to wander the ruins.
• 🏗️ The Ghost Villas of Kep Kep Khmer folk belief holds that those who die violently remain as restless spirits — which is why Kep's ruined villas are called the ghost houses.
• 👻 Macassar Waterpark (Abandoned) Western Cape Abandoned water park — a favourite of South Africa's urban explorers.
• 🏗️ Chisinau State Circus Chisinau Chisinau's decaying circus palace was built on top of the old city cemetery – and in its basements the crying of children is said to be heard.
• 🏗️ 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.
• 🏗️ Nara Dreamland Nara Det övergivna "japanska Disneyland" — ett tyst Törnrosaslott och en rostig bergochdalbana.
• 🏗️ Niigata Russian Village Niigata, Agano En övergiven rysk temapark med lökkupoler och ett krossat mammutskelett bland ruinerna.
• 🏗️ Måstad, Værøy Nordland King Maar is said to have owned unimaginably many cattle on this shelf beneath the thousand-metre wall — the village's own answer to why anyone lived in an impossible place.
• 🏗️ Nord-Fugløya, Karlsøy Troms The legend says the island was once to be towed further into the fjord — but the line broke, and Nord-Fugløya was left lying most exposed of all.
• 🏗️ Olympisches Dorf Elstal Brandenburg, Wustermark Den övergivna olympiska byn från Berlin-OS 1936 — tysta salar där historiens skuggor vilar tunga. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏗️ Abandoned Places Urban Exploring. Exploring abandoned places, or "urban exploration" (urbex), is a popular activity for the adventurous — but it is important to know what the rules are in Sweden to stay within the law.
• 👻 Skeleton Coast Rig (Abandoned Oil Rig) Skeleton Coast Abandoned oil rig on the Skeleton Coast — the coastline where ships and people have vanished for centuries.
• 🏗️ Spreepark Berlin Berlin, Plänterwald DDR:s enda nöjespark — övergiven sedan 2002, med ett pariserhjul som ännu knarrar i vinden. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏗️ Teufelsberg Berlin, Grunewald Ett berg av krigsspillror med en övergiven NSA-avlyssningsstation — kupolerna viner i vinden. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Toshimaen (Closed) Tokyo, Nerima Tokyo's classic amusement park that closed in 2020 — said to be haunted.
• 🏗️ Kayakoy Muğla Treasure hunters tore up the floors looking for the Greeks' hidden gold — and in the ghost village's empty lanes, whispers follow the visitor.
• 🏗️ Western Village Tochigi, Nikko En övergiven Vilda västern-park full av rostande animatroniska cowboyer — Westworld blivet verklighet.
• 🏗️ Wollseifen & Vogelsang Nordrhein-Westfalen, Schleiden Spökbyn vars invånare fördrevs på tre veckor — bredvid Tysklands största bevarade NS-borg.
• 🏗️ Wünsdorf (Verbotene Stadt) Brandenburg, Zossen Sovjets "förbjudna stad" — 35 000 soldater, egen järnväg till Moskva, idag en övergiven bunkerstad. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏗️ 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.
• 🏗️ Lakhpat Ghost Town Gujarat Behind seven kilometres of city wall on India's westernmost edge lies the ghost town of Lakhpat, whose fall folklore blames on a holy man's curse.

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How many abandoned haunted places are there?

Haunted Places lists 79 abandoned haunted places worldwide, each with its story and GPS coordinates.

What are the most famous abandoned haunted places?

Among the most notable: Bell Witch Cave, Kolmanskop, Gonjiam Psychiatric Hospital.

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You'll find abandoned haunted places in Japan, Italy, Spain, Germany, Indien, Sweden (+26 more).

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