The Fortress of a Thousand Screams: Peru’s Real Felipe and the Blood of the Independence War
The dungeon of the King’s Tower at Peru’s Fortaleza Real Felipe runs long and narrow...
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The Unfinished Dream in the Malaysian Jungle: Kellie’s Castle and the Ghost of William Kellie Smith
The elevator shaft runs through the center of Kellie’s Castle like a confession. Designed to...
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The Village Everyone Left Behind: The Mystery of Al Madam’s Abandoned Ghost Town in the UAE
In the desert interior of Sharjah, about an hour’s drive east of the coast, the road runs...
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The Castle Built Over Hell: Czechia’s Houska Castle and Its Bottomless Pit
Thirty miles north of Prague, where the Bohemian forest closes around a limestone cliff, Houska...
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The Widow Who Refuses to Stay Buried: Buenos Aires’s Recoleta Cemetery and Its Most Restless Dead
The entrance to Recoleta Cemetery is through white columns and cypress trees, and beyond the gate...
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The Gray Gentleman of Quebec: Haunting of the Fairmont Chateau Frontenac, Canada’s Most Storied Hotel
On the cliff above the St. Lawrence River, at the highest point of old Quebec City, the Fairmont...
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The Empress They Murdered in the Garden: Haunting of Seoul’s Gyeongbokgung Palace
Gyeongbokgung Palace has stood in the heart of Seoul since 1395, a formal statement of Joseon...
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The City Built for the Dead: China’s Fengdu Ghost City and Its Two Thousand Years of Underworld Ritual
Ming Mountain rises from the south bank of the Yangtze at Fengdu County with a single purpose: it...
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The Lady Who Locked Herself In: Haunting of Ballygally Castle on the Antrim Coast
The castle at Ballygally has stood on its promontory above the Antrim Coast since 1625, when James...
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The Cold War’s Haunted Ear: Berlin’s Teufelsberg Listening Station and Its Ghosts of the Intelligence War
Teufelsberg — Devil’s Mountain — rises above the Grunewald forest on the western edge of...
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