From haunted castles to creepy hospitals and other creepy places, this Halloween’s haunted attractions will send chills up your spine. Be ready for the jangle of keys at Poveglia or visit Harry Houdini’s final resting place! These haunted places will leave your hair standing on end!
Read on to uncover some of the world’s most haunted locations, from an Irish medieval castle to the mental hospital that featured in ‘Amityville Horror’ films.
1. Akershus Castle in Norway
Although Akershus Castle in Oslo may appear beautiful at first glance, its long and torturous history as a prison and place where executions took place has left a scarred landscape that workers believe to be haunted by ghostly spirits of those who died inside and they claim hearing ghostly screams and chain noises at night.
Another creepy tale surrounding the castle involves its legendary dog burial ground. In medieval times, it was customary for builders to embed live dogs underground as part of construction sites as they believed that doing so would keep potential enemies away from attacking it.
Pyramiden, Norway’s Arctic Circle village, is another location where ghosts may linger after death. Locals refer to the hotel with picturesque turrets and an “artwork within an artwork” appearance as the Fairytale Hotel; Cecilie Widding Garman died at this hotel while laboring and was eventually pushed out of her room and died before leaving it permanently.
2. La Recoleta Cemetery in Buenos Aires
If you love haunted locations, La Recoleta Cemetery should definitely make it on your bucket list. Nestled within the center of Buenos Aires and famous for both its beauty and tragedy, La Recoleta Cemetery stands as an unforgettable destination.
On a 13-acre plot of land that is laid out like a city with streets and tree-lined avenues, hundreds of intricate tombs and mausoleums stand as monuments spanning architecture from Neoclassicism, Art Nouveau and even temples and towers – creating an exquisite display that offers something for every taste and budget.
Notable residents include past presidents, military leaders and literary and sporting celebrities – among them are Rufina Cambaceres who suffered a seizure before she was put into an artificial coma and later buried alive in 1902. After hearing screams coming from her grave site workers discovered scratch marks inside of her coffin which indicated someone inside had attempted suicide before they found an open grave with scratch marks inside it containing scratched-marks inside of it – she died despite efforts at rescue efforts being undertaken against her death.
Alleno was a former grave worker who took his own life after saving enough for an impressive tomb in the cemetery. Many believe his ghost still haunts mausoleums and visitors have even heard the distinctive jingling of keys echoing down its alleyways.
3. Gladesville Mental Hospital in Sydney
While Sydney is well-known for its gorgeous beaches, world-class restaurants, and thriving arts scene during the daytime hours, once night falls the city takes on a whole different personality – home to numerous haunted locations that will send chills up your spine and leave you feeling as though someone is watching you!
Gladesville Mental Hospital, also known as Tarban Creek Lunatic Asylum, is considered to be one of Sydney’s most haunted locations. Built over hundreds of unmarked graves containing patients buried there when their families declined to collect them after death, many remain there today as victims who haunt their former surroundings.
The asylum has become a hot spot for ghost hunters, and there have been reports of unexplained spirits roaming its halls and tunnels. Most frequently sighted is an unseen woman crying in one of the tunnels – possibly associated with an 1895 train accident that struck nearby miner who may still haunt the asylum today.
4. Kings Park Psychiatric Facility in New York
Trespassers who enter its grounds claim to have witnessed ghost-like figures, disembodied screams, and doors opening and closing themselves on their own. Urban explorers love exploring abandoned buildings like this one as a source of great photographic documentation of their experiences there.
Kings Park State Hospital was initially constructed as the Kings County Lunatic Asylum on Long Island to alleviate overcrowding at Brooklyn’s original asylum. While its initial plan included having patients work farm related activities, more risky treatments such as frontal lobotomies and electroshock therapy soon replaced this plan. After World War II patient numbers skyrocketed reaching 9,303 by 1954 but soon after this more aggressive techniques like frontal lobotomies were phased out in favor of medications like Thorazine which allowed patients to live outside psychiatric facilities reducing need and closing of large hospitals like Kings Park State Hospital by 1996.
