The Most Haunted Places in the World

The Most Haunted Places in the World: 12 hand-picked locations, ranked by how haunted they are. Each includes its story, a 1–5 scare rating and GPS coordinates.

• Belchite (Ruined Town)
  Aragón, Zaragoza · Scare 5/5
  Town wiped out in the Spanish Civil War in 1937 — Franco let the ruins stand as a monument.
• Kolmanskop
  Karas · Scare 5/5
  German diamond mining town half-buried in the desert — surreal ghost town abandoned in the 1950s.
• Borley Rectory
  England, Essex · Scare 5/5
  'England's most haunted house' according to Harry Price — burned in 1939, demolished in 1944, but the stories live on.
• Charleville Forest Castle
  Ireland, Tullamore · Scare 5/5
  Irlands mest enigmatiska gotiska revival-slott — många spöken inkl. lilla Harriet.
• Catacombe dei Cappuccini
  Palermo, Sicilien · Scare 5/5
  8,000 mummified bodies in Palermo's Capuchin catacombs.
• Bhangarh Fort
  Rajasthan, Alwar · Scare 5/5
  Indiens mest hemsökta plats — myndigheten förbjuder inträde efter solnedgången.
• West Virginia Penitentiary
  West Virginia, Moundsville · Scare 5/5
  Gotiskt fängelse där 94 män avrättades. Cellerna var så trånga att de dömdes som grym bestraffning.
• Aradale Asylum
  Victoria, Ararat · Scare 5/5
  13,000 patients died within its walls during 126 years of operation.
• Woodcroft Castle
  Cambridgeshire, Helpston · Scare 5/5
  Skrik 'NÅD, NÅD' hörs fortfarande från murarna — Dr Hudsons fantomsbelägring.
• La Noria
  Atacamaöknen · Scare 5/5
  Abandoned saltpeter mining town in the Atacama Desert — graves have been dug up and remains exposed.
• Hoia-Baciu Forest
  Cluj, Cluj-Napoca · Scare 5/5
  "Transylvania's Bermuda Triangle" — UFO photographs from 1968 and shepherds vanished according to legend.
• Catacombs of Paris
  Île-de-France, Paris · Scare 5/5
  The remains of 6 million people beneath the streets of Paris — moved there in nightly processions from 1788.

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