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30 Very Real Places Guaranteed To Be Straight Up Haunted

By:: Cracked Writers; Brian C. Miller

December 01, 2021

30 Very Real Places Guaranteed To Be Straight Up Haunted

We don't know for sure that ghosts exist… But if they do, they definitely have chosen the places below to hang out. While these locations may be a ghost hunters' dream, we think we'll pass on visiting until a thorough exorcism is performed.

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... TELL US NOW. ATOKA SCHOOL ARTESIA, NEW MEXICO James H. tells us, There have been many reports of people hearing crying children and screams even though it's been abandoned for years. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **Tell Us Now: 15 Haunted Places Throughout The World**

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... TELL US NOW. THE WHALEY HOUSE SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA James D. tells US the house is allegedly the most haunted building in America. The house was constructed on the place where a local legendary thief was publicly executed, and the Whaley family experienced a lot of tragedy while living there. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **Tell Us Now: 15 Haunted Places Throughout The World**

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... TELL US NOW. ST CRISPIN'S HOSPITAL NORTHAMPTON, ENGLAND Maciei D. told US about the mental asylum that was built in 1976 and closed in 1995. Before it closed, it was used as a filming location for Doctor Who. Since its closing, there's been mysterious fires. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **Tell Us Now: 15 Haunted Places Throughout The World**

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... TELL US NOW. SHANGHAI TUNNELS PORTLAND, OREGON Ron L. says the secret network of underground tunnels is considered haunted, adding, People touched. Rocks being thrown. Unexplained sounds. Disembodied voices. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **Tell Us Now: 15 Haunted Places Throughout The World**

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... TELL US NOW. SATAN SCHOOL Road SHREVEPORT, LOUISIANA Ellerbe Road Ellerbe Road Gregg G. says, It's an abandoned school building in a remote area. It's rumored to be the place to commit ritual sacrifice, summoning demons, etc. I've heard personal accounts of hearing screaming inside the building, as well as what was described as 'a floating orb of energy.' The building and land is privately owned, it still stands in disarray to the very day, kept under lock and key including trespassing warnings around. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **Tell Us Now: 15 Haunted Places Throughout The World**

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... TELL US NOW. MUNGER ROAD BARTLETT, ILLINOIS SCHOOL BUS Tom I. shares, According to legend, a school bus full of children was hit by a train on Munger Road. Now if you leave your car on the tracks, the ghosts of these children will push your car to safety like a spooky towing service. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **Tell Us Now: 15 Haunted Places Throughout The World**

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... TELL US NOW. THE HOOSAC TUNNEL NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS A reader tells US the tunnel is long thought to be haunted since its construction in 1851. The construction was extremely dangerous, claiming 190 lives before its completion. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **Tell Us Now: 15 Haunted Places Throughout The World**

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... TELL US NOW. CURSED STREET CAIRO, EGYPT Yehia I. says, There is a cursed street in old Cairo. It is said that, when Mary and Baby Jesus passed through, the people there didn't give them alms/request of food and so apparently bread doesn't ferment and baking goes sideways on this street 'til this day. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **Tell Us Now: 15 Haunted Places Throughout The World**

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... TELL US NOW. BEECHWORTH ASYLUM BEECHWORTH, AUSTRALIA Benjamin F. tells US of this now-closed psychiatric hospital that is 150 years old, scary as f**k! The hospital used to be the largest in Australia, housing 1200 patients and 500 staff. The architecture is notable for including ha-ha walls, tall walls built into a trench, to prevent patients from escaping. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **Tell Us Now: 15 Haunted Places Throughout The World**

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Wotton-under-Edge, England THE HAUNTED INN The Ancient Ram Inn might look like a quaint and quirky little house, but it's believed to be home to everything that is macabre. The list of hauntings include an incubus, a succubus, the ghost of a witch who was burned at the stake, and children who were sacrificed in black magic rituals. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **16 Real Places That Will Give You Nightmares**

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Adams, Tennessee THE BELL WITCH CAVE Most caves can be pretty scary, but the legend of a dark witch who tormented the Bell family in the 19th century puts this one right up there. The witch was believed to have hidden away in the cave, making people think she left the area when she never really did. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **16 Real Places That Will Give You Nightmares**

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Venice, Italy THE HAUNTED ISLAND Poveglia Island is technically off limits to visitors, and the site was once a home to those quarantined and dying from the bubonic plague. Some believe that the soil is made up of 50% human remains. In 1922, a mental hospital was opened there, and horrible tales of a doctor brutally torturing his patients before jumping out of a bell tower are all part of its legend today. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **16 Real Places That Will Give You Nightmares**

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Cluj-Napoca, Romania THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE FOREST The twisted trees of the Hoia-Baciu forest makes it a unique but eerie site. It's also believed to be the most haunted forest in the world. There are tales of people disappearing, claims of alien abductions, and some believe there are ghosts wandering around. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **16 Real Places That Will Give You Nightmares**

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Buenos Aires, Argentina THE CITY OF THE DEAD La Recoleta Cemetery is as impressive as it is morbid, with a tragic legend of a woman who was buried alive and tried to claw her way out of her crypt. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **16 Real Places That Will Give You Nightmares**

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Parikkala, Finland THE STRANGE SCULPTURE GARDEN Around 500 concrete figures stand in the garden of the late artist Veijo Rönkkönen. Most of them are supposed self-portraits of the artist in various yoga poses, but others are quite sinister, with some even sporting real teeth. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **16 Real Places That Will Give You Nightmares**

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Kutná Hora, Czech Republic THE CHAPEL OF HUMAN BONES Back in the 13th century, people regarded the site as holy ground, and everyone wanted to be buried there when they died. When the space filled up, bodies were dug up to make more room, and the bones of more than 40,000 corpses were used to display the dead in full view. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **16 Real Places That Will Give You Nightmares**

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... TELL US NOW. MENGER HOTEL SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS MENGER HOTEL. Joshua M. says, Been around so long Babe Ruth and Teddy Roosevelt stayed there. Right next to the actual Alamo, so built on land where literal 1 1000s died in the battle. Place is creepy even in the broad daylight. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **Tell Us Now: 15 Haunted Places Throughout The World**

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... TELL US NOW. CENTRAL STATE HOSPITAL INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA Amelia В. tells US of the now-closed psychiatric hospital that used to house 2500 patients, saying, The place supposedly closed because of abuse of the patients. High schoolers will hang out in the abandoned buildings and see all kinds of creepy things, but I won't go anywhere near there. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **Tell Us Now: 15 Haunted Places Throughout The World**

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... TELL US NOW. HOVRINSKAYA HOSPITAL MOSCOW, RUSSIA One reader says, In Moscow we had an abandoned hospital which was going to be built in the 90s but the construction was stopped when the building was about 90% ready. People liked to go there (illegally of course) and make creepy photos or music videos. A couple of years ago, the city's administration finally decided to destroy it due to many accidents which happened there because the whole complex was constantly deteriorating CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **Tell Us Now: 15 Haunted Places Throughout The World**

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... TELL US NOW. MAY-STRINGER HOME BROOKSVILLE, FLORIDA Mona M. tells US of the historic house turned museum, where workers have supposedly heard a crying child, seen glowing orbs, and felt cold spots. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **Tell Us Now: 15 Haunted Places Throughout The World**

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... TELL US NOW. WINCHESTER HOUSE SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA Samantha Y. tells US of the house, built by Sarah Winchester, the widow of a firearms magnate. Since its construction in 1886, where the widow oversaw construction workers working 24 hours a day for 38 years, the house was thought to be haunted by the victims of Winchester rifles. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **Tell Us Now: 15 Haunted Places Throughout The World**

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... TELL US NOW. THE WITCH'S HAT READING, PENNSYLVANIA Justin L. tells US about the observation pavilion, which is the only remains of an old hotel, where there are lots of local legends about a creepy witch whose ghost appears if you go there at night. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **Tell Us Now: 15 Haunted Places Throughout The World**

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Kempton Park, South Africa THE HAUNTED HOSPITAL A hotspot for ghost hunters, the abandoned Kempton Park hospital has been closed since 1996, but a look inside will give you the creeps. Rumors abound of ghost babies crying in the maternity ward and a shadow of a man roaming the hallways. The fact that the hospital was shut down without any word or warning makes the place even creepier. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **16 Real Places That Will Give You Nightmares**

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Sagada, Philippines DEAD PEOPLE HANGING FROM A CLIFF In coffins, that is. Coffins they made themselves before they died. It's a nice little ritual, but also creepy to look at knowing there are corpses inside those boxes. GRACKED.COM — **Source:** **16 Real Places That Will Give You Nightmares**

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Siauliai, Lithuania THE HILL OF CROSSES The site has been bulldozed many times, and still people honor the tradition of adding thousands of crosses on this hill in remembrance, making it a place you definitely don't want to be alone at night. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **16 Real Places That Will Give You Nightmares**

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Nagoro, Japan THE VILLAGE OF THE DOLLS A local artist made it a custom to replace every person that dies in the village with a life-size replica doll. At this point there are more dolls than humans occupying the village. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **16 Real Places That Will Give You Nightmares**

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Nagasaki, Japan THE ABANDONED ISLAND Hashima Island, also known as Gunkanjima, used to be a coal mine facility but now lies abandoned like a ghost island, with crumbling buildings and remnants of the forced labor camp that thrived there during WWII. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **16 Real Places That Will Give You Nightmares**

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Coolderry, Ireland THE CASTLE OF MURDER Leap Castle is said to be the home of a whopping 19 ghosts. It has a history of clan battles and familial killings that's the stuff of nightmares. It also houses the Bloody Chapel that once had skeletons inside the walls, and it was the site of a massacre that resulted in humans being mounted on spikes. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **16 Real Places That Will Give You Nightmares**

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Palermo, Italy THE CAPUCHIN CATACOMBS Or the creepiest catacombs of them all, as the monastery is adorned with mummies dressed in fancy wear. There are around 8000 of them in these ill-lit corridors, including the embalmed corpses of children. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **16 Real Places That Will Give You Nightmares**

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Louisville, Kentucky WAVERLY HILLS SANATORIUM The sanatorium housed dying patients during the tuberculosis epidemic that swept through the US early in the 20th century. It was said that when you go to The Hill you never came back. It also has a tunnel called the body chute where they sneaked corpses out without the outside noticing. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **16 Real Places That Will Give You Nightmares**

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