Top 10 most haunted places in the world

We base our criteria of most hunted place in the world on some of the spookiest places on the planet that are famed as being, well, not entirely populated by the living! From old prisons to abandoned asylums to creepy old houses etc.


1. Myrtles Plantation, USA

Many of the ghost there are said to be pre-civil war slaves who died brutally in the plantation. One of America’s most haunted sites, this plantation is rumored to be built on a Native American burial ground and is home to at least 12 different ghosts. Total of 10 murders have occurred in the plantation. The ghost of a former slave in a green turban has been sighted, as well as a haunted mirror which supposedly holds the ghosts of Sara Woodruff and her children who previously lived in the house.

It is believed that William Winter, who was reportedly shot on the front porch. His ghost, writhing in agony from the gunshot wound, has been sighted crawling up the stairs and disappearing into thin air (said by an eye witness).


2. Poveglia, Italy

According to histry, the island was used in the early 20th century as an insane asylum where doctors performed strange experiments on victims.In Poveglia in 1348 the Bubonic Plague arrived – this island became an exile for those who had the symptoms and they were more or less sent to die there.

It is said that 50% of the soil is human ash, due to the amount of people who were burned there, and the chimes of the bell can still be heard when visiting the island according to the locals. Even Ghost hunters claim this spot is a hotbed of paranormal activity.


3. Bhangarh Fort, India

Bhangarh Fort is a small city Two hundred miles from Delhi and made up of temples, gates and palaces at the foot of a mountain before being abandoned around 1783. According to histry, there are two stories that explain why Bhangarh Fort is a hunted place.

Firstly, a sorcerer who was in love with the Princess of Bhangarh cast a curse on the area after being rejected by a local princess. Secondly, a curse from a holy man who forbade the height of the buildings to be taller than his own. When one building cast a shadow over his own house, he is said to have cursed the entire town.

Today, it is said that anyone who enters the city at night will never come out again.


4. Ancient Ram Inn, Wotton-under-Edge, England

Ancient Ram Inn is one of the oldest in the western world. It is believed to have once been a pagan burial ground where children were sacrificed, and boasts that it is haunted by more than 20 spirits, including ghost children, a pagan high priestess, and an incubus.

Locals are used to the sight of guests fleeing from visions of a little girl, the cries of children and sensations of being pushed down onto the bed by a male demon.


5. Lawang Sewu, Indonesia

Lawang Sewu is the World War II prison, former railway building and prisonal executions. It is believed to be the most haunted place in Indonesia. Among the many ghosts that have been reported here, the most popular spirit is the Dutch woman, headless spirits who was said to have committed suicide in the building, and a kuntilanak (a female vampiric ghost in Malaysian and Indonesian mythology).


6. Penang War Museum (Ghost Hill), Penang, Malaysia

Listed as one of Asia’s most haunted sites by National Geographic, Penang War Museum is known locally as Ghost Hill. It was built as a defence fortress in the 1930s and used by the British until the Japanese invaded in 1941. From then it became a prison for enemies of the Japanese and was the site of torture and beheadings. It’s said that a particularly cruel Japanese officer is one of the ghosts that wanders the site.


7. Devils Pool, Babinda, Queensland, Australia

Devil’s Pool is thought to have been cursed by an Aboriginal woman who tragically drowned herself after her lover was taken away from her. Since 1959, is has been estimated that 17 people have drowned there from falls or slips, or getting caught in the fast flowing currents that can trap people in ‘rock chutes’.



8. Salem, Massachusetts, USA

Salem is a site of the infamous Witch Trials where 20 people, mostly women, were hanged for consorting with the Devil and casting spells upon the towns children. Bridget Bishop, the first woman to be hanged, is thought to haunt the Lyceum Bar and Grill, which is built on the site of an apple orchard that she had owned.

Witnesses have reported seeing his angry ghost around the city’s oldest graveyard, the Howard Street Cemetery.  The House of Seven Gables has also been the site of paranormal activity, with a general oppressive atmosphere, as well as a rocking chair that has appeared to move by itself.


9. Burg Wolfsegg, Wolfsegg, Germany

This 800-year-old castle in the municipality of Wolfsegg, Germany, is apparently haunted by a “White Woman” who scares off any visitors who pass. The woman is rumored to be the ghost of Klara von Helfenstein who was reportedly murdered by her jealous husband.


10. Pluckley Village, Kent, UK

This village in Kent was once crowned the most haunted village in England by the Guinness Book of World Records, with an estimated 12-16 ghosts. There’s a highwayman who was stabbed with a sword and pinned to a tree and is said to haunt an area with the fitting name of ‘Fright Corner’. Look out for an apparition named The Red Lady who haunts the churchyard after dark.


Indeed, you will agree with me that there is no safer place on earth, heaven is the safest home.