The White Witch Who Still Rules Her Plantation: Rose Hall Great House and Jamaica’s Most Famous Ghost
After dark at Rose Hall Great House in Saint James Parish, Jamaica, the guides tell you not to...
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The Drug Lord’s Paradise and the Ghosts He Left Behind: Haunting of Hacienda Nápoles, Colombia
Pablo Escobar purchased Hacienda Nápoles in 1978, located 93 miles east of Medellín in Puerto...
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The Prison Where 111 People Died Before Lunch: Haunting of Carandiru Penitentiary, São Paulo, Brazil
The prison was designed in 1920 to hold prisoners under the modern principles of Brazilian...
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The Beach Where Enslaved Souls Took Their Last Step on African Soil: Haunting of Badagry’s Point of No Return, Nigeria
The path across Gberefu Island ends at the sea. Before it does, it passes a well — square, red...
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The City of Stone That the Living Abandoned but the Dead Did Not: Haunting of Great Zimbabwe Ruins
The entrance passage is narrow and deliberate, and when you step through it into the Great...
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The Slave Cells No One Wants to Sleep Near: Haunting of Stone Town’s Slave Market Prison, Zanzibar
The stairwell takes you down faster than you expected. One moment you are in the cathedral — high...
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The Palace a Sultan Demolished Out of Shame and the Ghosts Who Stayed: El Badi Palace Ruins, Marrakech, Morocco
The courtyard smells like orange blossom and old stone and something beneath those things you...
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The Castle That Has Never Once Stood Empty in 800 Years: Haunting of Muiderslot, the Netherlands
Muiderslot, a compact square castle with four round towers on the river Vecht near Amsterdam, has...
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The Children’s Home That Left Its Children Behind: Belgium’s Chateau Miranda and Europe’s Most Haunting Ruin
Chateau Miranda—also called Chateau de Noisy—stood on a forested ridge in the Belgian Ardennes...
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The Well That Goes All the Way Down: Quinta da Regaleira’s Initiation Tunnel and Sintra’s Darkest Secret, Portugal
Quinta da Regaleira in Sintra, Portugal, was not built to be a home. It was built by António...
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