Dizarranged is back, and stacked with days 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, and 27 of 31, exploring haunted places across the globe you can travel to. In case you missed one, check out the full section here.

Locations: Taiwan, Savannah, GA, New Orleans, LA, Belgium, Vietnam, Mexico, Abion, ID, Romania, Arizona, and Pennsylvania.

Places: Grand Hyatt Hotel Taipei, Moon River Brewing Company, The LaLaurie Mansion, Château Miranda, The Ghost House on Hang Ma Street, Island of the Dolls, Albion Normal School Campus, Hoia Forest, Sedona Vortexes, and Seven Gates of Hell

Grand Hyatt Hotel Taipei History

You earthlings sure do enjoy luxury without even knowing the history of the initial construction site. Over in Taiwan sits the Grand Hyatt Taipei. Standing twenty-seven stories high, the five-star hotel is in the Xinyi District of Taipei. It opened in 1990, years before the surrounding business district filled. The property sits next to Taipei 101, Taipei World Trade Center, City Hall, and the Taipei International Convention Center. Skybridges link the hotel to a dozen nearby malls and venues. It holds 850 rooms and suites. Over the decades, it has hosted many known guests, including X Japan, Linkin Park, Beyonce, Eagles, Boyz II Men, Hugh Jackman, Snoop Dogg, and more.

Moon River Brewing Company History

Savannah, Georgia, is a notoriously haunted city and well worth a visit. Focusing on Moon River Brewing Company, the place opened its doors in 1999 inside Savannah’s first hotel, the 1821 City Hotel at 21 West Bay St. Over 25 years, it brewed delicious concoctions from rosemary IPA to witbier, drew attention to TV ghost-hunters to its famously spooky basement, and operated a busy brewpub at street level while the upper floors sat vacant for decades. In June 2024, Savannah’s first brewpub closed its doors at this address amid mounting challenges, bringing an end to its long run in the landmark space.

The building’s owner, DAI Commercial Realty, has filed preliminary plans to renovate the entire property. The concept: a new restaurant tenant in the basement and ground floor; apartments or short-term vacation rentals on floors two through four; a new elevator core and lobby between the main structure and carriage house; exterior restoration with wood windows, shutters, and a Bay Street porch modeled on an 1837 painting; and carriage-house roof repairs. The project is seeking historic tax credits, with a stated period of significance of 1817–1865, and is slated for review by the Savannah Historic District Board of Review. For now, the plan remains early-stage, but the City Hotel/Moon River building is positioned to transition from a long-time brewpub home into restored dining and residential use.

The LaLaurie Mansion History

New Orleans, known for its music, cuisine, and annual Mardi Gras celebration, also holds a dark past, similar to Savannah, where living humans may not be the only ones walking on the infamous Bourbon Street. The LaLaurie Mansion is a famous haunted location whose dark past inspired the Kathy Bates character in the third season of American Horror Story, a fictional portrayal of Marie Delphine Macarty LaLaurie. Tracing back to 1831, Marie and her third husband, Dr. Louis LaLaurie, completed a grand residence at 1140 Royal Street. By April 10, 1834, a kitchen fire exposed the house of horror secrets, lifting the veil and revealing evidence of the brutal abuse of enslaved people inside. Rescuers and city officials reported multiple victims confined and injured, leading to an angry crowd that ransacked the house, resulting in the LaLauries fleeing New Orleans, ultimately living in Paris. The original structure was left in ruins, and the standing building was rebuilt after 1838; over the next century, it served many purposes, including a private home, a school, apartments, and a conservatory, to name a few.
Today, the property is a private residence and one of the French Quarter’s most talked-about addresses. The Mansion changed hands multiple times in recent years, including a brief ownership by Nicolas Cage. Despite its haunting lore, the building sits as a haunting reminder of its dark past, surrounding documented 1834 abuse and a mob destruction that soon followed.

Château Miranda / Château de Noisy History

The beautiful castle in Belgium, left abandoned and later demolished, will make most feel empathy for such fine architecture. The Château Miranda, also known as Château de Noisy, was commissioned by the Liedekerke-de Beaufort family and designed in 1866 by English architect Edward Milner. Construction was completed in 1907, after the signature clock tower rose; the neo-Gothic estate replaced the family’s former seat at Vêves Castle and remained in their hands until World War II. German forces occupied the grounds, and fighting from the Battle of the Bulge touched the property, a bloody mess. Later in 1950, Belgium’s national railway converted it into Château de Noisy, a holiday camp for children which lasted until the late 1970s.

The property became vacant by 1991 due to prohibitive upkeep; the castle decayed through fire damage, storms, and vandalism. Efforts to find investors or transfer the site to the local municipality failed. Leading to the official demolition, which began in October 2016 and concluded in October 2017, leaving no remains of this beautiful historic castle in Belgium.

The Ghost House on Hang Ma Street History

Heading to the capital of Vietnam, Hanoi, sits one of the most haunted houses the blue planet has to offer: The Ghost House on Hang Ma Street, sometimes called Ghost House of Kim Mã, or you can call it 300 Kim Mã. The villa is located in the busy Ba Đình District and was reportedly intended to become the Bulgarian Embassy in the late 20th century. The plan fell through, and the building was never put to use. It was left sealed off behind a fence, slowly rotting and overgrown, for years after abandonment, while the rest of the neighborhood modernized around it. The Vietnamese government still holds the property. Over time, stories began circulating that a violent death had taken place nearby, some versions say a murder, others say unexplained deaths of previous occupants, and that the area was never spiritually “settled” afterward.
The site’s creep factor took on a life of its own because Hanoi doesn’t really have many large colonial-style houses left sitting untouched in the middle of heavy traffic. Locals say no one dares move in, security guards don’t last, and anyone who tries to repurpose it runs into “bad luck,” so it just sits.
Overall, the site was returned to Vietnam’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and has been left unused for decades: no tenants, no businesses, no official function. Locals say attempts to set up offices there never last, and the place just sits behind a fence collecting stories about ghosts, bad luck, and a 2009 murder nearby.

Island of the Dolls History

One of the creepiest locations on planet Earth is The Island of the Dolls (Isla de las Muñecas). What would look like a snapshot from a Rob Zombie horror film, this Island sits in a chinampa, a human-made agricultural island, in the canals of Xochimilco, in the southern part of Mexico City. While it may look disturbing, its overall history is more heartbreaking, empathetic, and profound. In the mid-20th century, a local man named Don Julián Santana Barrera left his family and began living alone on this small plot of land. According to the story, he either found the body of a young girl who had drowned near the Island or believed he had failed to save her. Soon after, he saw a doll floating in the canal. He hung that doll in a tree as an offering, both to honor her and to keep away whatever he believed was haunting the place. Over the next fifty years, Barrera collected more and more dolls, pulled from trash, traded for produce, scavenged from the canals, and tied them to trees, fences, and structures. Some were intact. Many were missing limbs, heads, or eyes. The result was a kind of open-air shrine: thousands of rotting dolls watching over the water.

In 2001, Barrera died in the canal beside the Island, in the same spot he said the girl had drowned, and his family opened the site to visitors. Today, you can reach the Island by trajinera, the flat-bottomed polychrome boats that still navigate the old Aztec-era waterways of Xochimilco. The Island has been turned into a devotional space and a dark tourism site.

Albion Normal School Campus History

Albion State Normal School was established in 1893 as a state teacher-training school. The school stayed small for most of its life, mainly drawing local students from south-central Idaho and awarding two-year teaching certificates. In 1947, it was renamed Southern Idaho College of Education and allowed to grant four-year degrees, but low enrollment and weak funding never really improved. Idaho shut it down in 1951 and transferred Albion’s academic programs to what’s now Idaho State University in Pocatello. Over its run, the school awarded about 6,460 degrees and produced notable alums, including Terrel Bell, who later became U.S. Secretary of Education under President Ronald Reagan.
After closure, the old campus bounced through a few lives: it briefly housed Magic Valley Christian College (1957–1969), then sat idle, primarily under city ownership, as the historic buildings aged and decayed. In 2007, the property was sold at public auction to a private family, who refurbished the property as a lodging and gathering space. Today, the site operates as Albion Campus Retreat, hosting conferences, retreats, and seasonal haunted attractions under the name Haunted Mansions of Albion.

Hoia Forest History

Hoia-Baciu Forest is located in Transylvania, Romania, on a hill bordered by the Someșul Mic River to the south and the Nadăș River to the north. The forest includes winding valleys, springs with drinkable water, and even a small natural lake near Cheile Baciului. This forest is one of the oldest occupied landscapes in Europe. Archaeologists have discovered one of the earliest settlements in this location, dating to around 6500 BC. A Neolithic settlement, to be exact, linked to one of the earliest farming cultures in Europe, the Starčevo–Kőrös–Criș. The discovery included dwellings and burials, showing that people were living and dying on this land thousands of years before Rome, Dracula, or even the word “Transylvania” existed. Today, Hoia-Baciu is a public recreation area where locals mountain bike, hike, play paintball, shoot archery, and walk their dogs.

Sedona Vortexes History

Sedona’s vortex history really took off in the late 20th century, when writers and New Age seekers began claiming that certain rock formations were spiritually charged. The idea was that these red rock sites sit on places where the Earth’s energy spirals in an unusually intense way, either flowing upward to inspire clarity, confidence, and vision, or flowing inward to support grounding, release, and emotional healing. Sedona was once sacred land to the Indigenous peoples of the region. The Yavapai and Apache have long viewed the buttes, mesas, and canyons as living places of power, ceremony, and reverence. The vortex term began in the 1970s and 1980s, when people believed it was a place of personal transformation and meditation.

Today, the vortexes are both a spiritual pilgrimage and a mainstream attraction. Sedona as a whole is often described as a single giant energy field. Still, the four major vortex sites are the most visited: Airport Mesa, Cathedral Rock, Bell Rock, and Boynton Canyon. Other spots, like the Chapel of the Holy Cross, Schnebly Hill, and Courthouse Butte, have their own reputations, too.

Seven Gates of Hell History

Deep within the back roads and woods of Hellam Township in York County, Pennsylvania, lies the terrain known as The Seven Gates of Hell. The name derives from two myths. First, a secret, isolated insane asylum that once caught fire. Due to its reclusive location, firefighters were unable to reach it in time, resulting in many casualties. The ones who managed to escape were, sadly, hunted down and beaten to death by angry locals. Following the incident, it is said that search parties built a series of seven gates in the surrounding woods along Toad Road or Trout Run Road to trap the surviving inmates. Only the first gate was allegedly visible during the day, while the rest became apparent at night, and all who made it through all seven gates do not return.

Another version of the lore takes away the asylum tale, replacing it with an eccentric local doctor who owned the land and built multiple gates along a private path. In both tellings, the message is the same: reach the final gate and you go straight to Hell.

There was no asylum in that patch of Hellam Township, and no documented mass fire. What the area did have was rugged woods, old industrial ruins like a flint mill near Trout Run, and a dirt road once known as Toad Road that was partly wiped out after Hurricane Agnes in 1972. The “doctor” in the story appears to have been a real person, Dr. Harold Belknap, who lived nearby and practiced medicine at West Side Sanitarium, and he’s said to have put up a single gate and threatening “keep out” signs to stop trespassers. Today, multiple physical gates still stand off Range Road near the old Toad Road alignment, and you can see them in broad daylight despite the legend. The land is now privately owned, and police have warned that anyone sneaking in to “find Hell” is more likely to be charged with trespassing.

Reported Activity

Grand Hyatt Hotel Taipei

The Grand Hyatt Taipei is considered one of the most haunted hotels in the world, but some claim the hauntings are debunked and full of nonsense. One Reddit thread is convinced the luxury hotel is genuine, citing first-hand experiences and suggesting that the debunking is intended to save the hotel’s reputation, including its remodeling in 2015 to “cleanse” the spirits. Locals say it sits on a former Japanese-era execution ground or POW camp, and that’s why guests report late-night knocks on windows, voices in empty corridors, cold spots, elevator doors opening on their own, and even unexplained scratches. The Jackie Chan tale, bolting from a suite after a ghostly encounter, is one of its most famous and historic reports. During its reconstruction in 2015, management reportedly brought in feng shui experts. These experts gave the hotel a few enhancements, including wind chimes, mirrors, and calligraphy scrolls, decked out in the lobby as a way to “balance” the place. Some travelers quietly ask to avoid “dirty” rooms; a few check out at 3 am without explanation.
Hotel staff and local historians say the site was a wartime logistics warehouse, not a prison or execution ground, and neighboring hotels on the same block don’t carry a haunted stigma. Plenty of guests stay without incident. So the folklore persists alongside denials, split between Taipei residents who won’t set foot inside and others who dismiss it as an urban legend.

Moon River Brewing Company

Initially, the 1821 City Hotel, which later became Moon River Brewing Company over a century later, adds fuel to Savannah’s haunted history. The building had many uses, including being a hospital where many deaths were reported, more so on the upper floors. Beyond hospital deaths, the building held a violent history, such as the 1832 shooting of James Stark by Dr. Philip Minis on the main level, mob attacks, such as the 1860 strike on Yankee James Sinclair outside the Hotel. While no clear evidential documentation, there have been claims that people were enslaved, trapped in the basement.
Reported activity matches the floor-by-floor history: in the basement, “Toby” is blamed for cold spots, disembodied voices, touches, and guests being shoved. Heading to the main floor, visitors have experienced bottles thrown, women locked or stuck in bathroom stalls, and grabs under tables. On the upper levels, a full-body “Lady in White,” children’s footsteps and voices, and pushes on the stairs, especially on the third floor during past renovations, are repeatedly cited. The fourth floor is often described as heavy or “dark” due to its hospital past. The site’s reputation has drawn Ghost Hunters, Ghost Adventures, and other crews. You can read more hauntings in full detail on Nightly Spirits, Ghost City Tours, and US Ghost Adventures.

The LaLaurie Mansion

Most reports come from the 1834 fire that exposed abuse within the attic and upper rooms. Visitors and passersby have sighted screams, metal clanking, cold spots, and a rancid odor, a phenomenon tied to accounts of enslaved people found confined there after the blaze. There have been sightings of a small girl’s apparition and sudden drops in temperature around the stairwell and roofline, believed to be the spirit of a child who was once chased with a whip and fell from a height. Heading outside in the courtyard area is linked to fleeting figures and nausea believed to come from the spirit of a child, where their body was buried on the grounds. Back inside on the kitchen level, where the chained cook reportedly set the fire, witnesses mention whiffs of smoke, hot–cold “flashes,” and disembodied movement. Periodically, the front salons report faint music and perfume, read as “party residuals” from LaLaurie-era gatherings, while later uses (school, apartments) left their own lore of slaps, shoves, and footsteps in former dorm or corridor spaces.
With a house filled with rich, hell-house-like history, it’s no secret there’s haunted lore surrounding the site. Let’s take a look. The fire began in the kitchen, leading to rescuers documenting injured captives in upper rooms; a neighbor’s account placed a child’s fall from an upper story; and the mob’s ransacking centered on the main floors and courtyard. Add a long, messy afterlife, decades of turnover, renovations, and pop-culture retellings, and you get a building where every layer has a story attached. Historians caution that the most graphic torture details were amplified over time, and the current house was rebuilt after 1838, but the reported activity keeps the haunted reputation alive.

Château Miranda / Château de Noisy

Before demolition, urban explorers mostly talked about the place’s oppressive quiet, unsafe corridors, and a heavy, deserted atmosphere. This only fuels more of its natural haunting than paranormal proof. There weren’t widely documented apparitions or classic ghost claims tied to Château Miranda/Noisy; what existed were impressions and anecdotes from brief, risky visits to a structure in severe decay.

That reputation makes sense given the history. The estate saw German occupation and nearby fighting during the Battle of the Bulge, then decades as a strict children’s holiday/orphan camp (1950s–70s), major damage from fires (1995 and again in 2014), and steady collapse until demolition in 2016–2017. With the castle gone, any chills today come from the story of the site itself, surrounded by war, illness, and neglect.

The Ghost House on Hang Ma Street

300 Kim Mã was meant to be the Bulgarian Embassy, finished after nearly a decade of construction, and then, nothing. It was handed back to the Vietnamese government and left to sit behind its rusting fence. From there, the ghost stories exploded. Locals say the land was used as a hospital and then a burial ground, where too many people died, and the spirits were never settled. People in the neighborhood claim they’ve heard crying from inside at night, including what sounds like a baby wailing on an upper floor, even though the building has no tenants, no electricity, and no one inside. Others talk about a former night guard whose bed “stood up by itself,” as if something were trying to lift him off the ground. Some versions even say a Bulgarian staffer was paralyzed after investigating strange noises in the structure.

Whether you buy any of that or not, the building feeds the legend. A murder in 2009 right outside, a man found in his Lexus, throat cut by his girlfriend, only added fuel to something supernatural or a dark energy surrounding the villa. People walking past at night say they’ve heard footsteps, doors dragging, furniture moving around in an empty shell. Taxi and motorbike drivers openly refuse to wait out front, warning that “the ghosts will take you.” Contrary to the legend, locals have also added skepticism and practical excuses for its unexplained activity, such as drug users sneaking in, bad feng shui, and a stalled diplomatic project nobody had the money or will to fix. They point out other houses on the same street where people actually died, and nobody calls those haunted. On one side: cursed ground, angry spirits, restless infants, and a building that supposedly ruins anyone who tries to use it. On the other hand, an abandoned embassy with no power is a great urban myth. Either way, Hanoi still treats it like a forbidden address.

Island of the Dolls

While the Island of the Dolls’ overall appearance is creepy and haunted, visitors claim the location is haunted as well. While Don Julián Santana Barrera claimed a young girl drowned near his chinampa in the Xochimilco canals, this led him to hang dolls to calm her spirit. He said he heard her crying at night and even heard her ask for her doll. Visitors report they hear a girl sobbing or calling after dark. They say the dolls’ heads turn, the eyes blink, the arms shift. Some guides and caretakers say they’ve heard whispers and moans inside the huts, and soft whistling that seems to answer you. Others claim the dolls “call” to boats at night, trying to lure people onto the Island.
Skeptics point out that wind moves loose joints, wood swells and creaks, and you’ll hear strange sounds anywhere in the chinampas after midnight. Believers point to two details they don’t consider a coincidence: first, Don Julián himself said the Island’s energy changed after the girl’s death that he saw shadows and heard voices in pain. Second, in 2001, he was found dead, face down in the canal at the exact spot he always said she drowned. Since then, the shrine has only grown. There are now thousands of dolls on the Island, and people still bring new ones as offerings, sometimes asking for protection or miracles. The most “important” doll on the Island, Agustinita, sits in Don Julián’s old sleeping hut and is treated almost like a guardian.

Albion Normal School Campus

Beyond the Haunted Mansions event, there have been reports of legit haunted activity across the old Albion Normal School campus. Staff and visitors describe disembodied voices, hurried footsteps in empty corridors, and quick, peripheral “shadow people.” A long-abandoned kitchen reportedly carries the warm smell of baking bread, and at least one employee says an unseen force shoved him hard against a wall before releasing him.
Ghost Adventures put national attention on Albion when the crew investigated the campus. On camera, they reported capturing disembodied voices and strange visual anomalies, and focused on “dark energy” tied to satanic graffiti that staff had found. During their lockdown, Jay and others said they were aggressively marked with odd symbols behind their ears, an on-the-spot physical manifestation the team linked to the site’s atmosphere.

Hoia Forest

The Hoia-Baciu forest has earned its reputation as Romania’s Bermuda Triangle. This prestige comes from decades of eerie, persistent reports of unexplained and paranormal activity. Locals say the forest is named for a shepherd who vanished there with his entire flock of 200 sheep and was never seen again, and that disappearances of hikers, children, and even bones and clothing remain tangled within the lore. Visitors describe stepping past the treeline and instantly feeling watched, anxious, or disoriented. People report headaches, nausea, sudden rashes and scratches appearing on their skin, and an intense sense of time distortion. Electronics and travel gear, such as cameras, compasses, and batteries, would drain and glitch.
Deep in the forest is a nearly perfect circular clearing where nothing grows, even though soil tests haven’t turned up a reason it should be barren. Paranormal groups call it an energy hotspot or even a portal; UFO researchers note that Hoia-Baciu has had waves of reported sightings, including a 1968 photo by a military technician, Emil Barnea, of what appeared to be a disc hovering over that exact treeless circle. This was a claim that cost him his job under Romania’s communist regime because talking about the paranormal was seen as dangerous. People who spend time near that clearing talk about sudden temperature drops, flickering lights with no source, and black, human-shaped figures moving. One of the most persistent legends even claims a five-year-old girl vanished into the forest and reappeared years later in the same clothes, with no memory of where she’d been, a story people used as evidence for time travel or multidimensions.

Sedona Vortexes

Sedona’s vortex sites go beyond spiritual energy, with unexplained or paranormal reports of sudden cold spots in warm air, disembodied voices, phantom footsteps on empty trails, and shadowy human figures that appear on slickrock. People also describe lights in the sky, presumed to be UFO activity over the buttes, that move in patterns unlike those of planes or drones. Camera and electrical gear would receive bizarre electronic disturbances in the area. The Bradshaw Ranch, for instance, which is currently under federal control, has been widely reported for its odd activity. Over the last several decades, reports of glowing orbs, temperature anomalies, and even portal-like flashes have been made. The location has since drawn media attention, including a History Channel documentary that documented unexplained radiation spikes and strange transmissions there.
Closer to town, Relics Restaurant, located in one of Sedona’s oldest surviving buildings, is known for recurring encounters with specific entities: a calm female presence often called Elizabeth, and a heavier, angrier spirit linked to a violent death whose “signature,” witnesses say, is the sudden smell of blood and gunpowder in the parking lot. Drivers who pass Schnebly Hill Road commonly claim to see the spirit of a bride in a torn wedding dress wandering around the roadside. Many believe the strange activities are connected to the unique energy surrounding Sedona’s geology.

Seven Gates of Hell

Even with the asylum story debunked, people still go looking for the Seven Gates of Hell in the woods off Old Toad Road/Trout Run Road. Trespassers say that once you pass the first visible iron gate and head deeper into the trees, the air feels heavier and wrong. Some describe smelling smoke or burning flesh even though there’s no fire. Others say they’ve heard panicked screams, frantic footsteps, or low muttering voices. Shadow figures of tall, human shapes moving. A few locals even claim they knew kids who went “gate hunting,” reached what they said was the fifth gate, and then refused to ever talk about what happened.
There’s also an emotional piece to it. People who hike that stretch at night talk about a wave of panic hitting out of nowhere. In paranormal circles, the area is said to hold trapped energy. Between the single gate that really did once stand on private property, the rumors of violent patients, and the idea that passing all seven gates drops you straight into Hell.

How to Visit

Grand Hyatt Hotel Taipei

Check in here, if you dare.

Moon River Brewing Company

While Moon River Brewing Company has closed its doors and restoration is underway, you can book a haunted tour with Savannah Ghost Tour to explore more hauntings in Georgia’s oldest city.

The LaLaurie Mansion

While you can’t visit the Mansion due to it being private property, there are ghost tours available that will take you outside the location: try New Orleans Ghost Adventures Tour.

Château Miranda / Château de Noisy

While you can no longer visit the Château Miranda, there’s a near by Castle worth to see for the standing structure itself, Castle Vêve.

The Ghost House on Hang Ma Street

There doesn’t seem to be any ghost tours or visits for the building. It’s surrounded by a fenced, abandoned and locked away from the public. But the address remains on a busy street, House No. 300 Kim Ma, and you can likely walk near it, if you dare.

Island of the Dolls

The Island of the Dolls remains open with tours, like this one, available.

Albion Normal School Campus

The place is currently known as Albion Campus Retreat holding events, lodging and haunted events. For more information, check out the website.

Hoia Forest

Hoia Forest is open to the public and available to explore, at your own risk.

Sedona Vortexes

This mysterious sacred place of beauty is available to visit and you can grab more details here.

Seven Gates of Hell

While the location is closed off, you may be able to find a path to drive by it via RoadTrippers.

Nearby Haunted Sightseeings

Grand Hyatt Hotel Taipei

Xinhai Tunnel (辛亥隧道), Da’an – 15 minutes

Taipei’s classic “road ghost” legend: motorists report a pale woman hitchhiking, phantom knocks, and cars mysteriously stalling right at the portal.

Linkaijun Mansion (林開郡洋樓), Keelung – 45 minutes

Nicknamed the “Keelung Ghost House,” this crumbling Baroque villa is notorious for apparitions and uneasy vibes after decades of abandonment.

Remains of the 13 Levels (十三層遺址 / 水湳洞選煉廠), Ruifang – 60 minutes

The vast smelter ruins above Jinguashi are a favorite for ghost-hunters; locals trade stories of shadows and voices drifting through the concrete tiers at night.

Moon River Brewing Company

The Marshall House (123 E Broughton St.) – 5 Minutes

The 1851 hotel is noted for tales of a Civil War hospital and for guest reports of unexplained sounds and sightings. The hotel itself maintains a page about its ghosts.

Sorrel–Weed House (6 W Harris St.) – 10 Minutes

1840s mansion long linked to tragic family lore and frequent apparition claims; runs paranormal tours.

Colonial Park Cemetery (200 Abercorn St.) – 5 Minutes

Savannah’s old burial ground, widely cited for shadow figures, whispers, and other activity reported.

The LaLaurie Mansion

Muriel’s Jackson Square (801 Chartres St.) – 5 Minutes

Famous for its resident spirit(s) and a private Séance Lounge; the restaurant openly embraces its ghost lore.

Lafitte’s Blacksmith Shop Bar (941 Bourbon St.) – 5 Minutes

18th-century tavern linked to pirate Jean Lafitte; patrons and guides report apparitions (including Lafitte himself) and upstairs shadows.

Bourbon Orleans Hotel (717 Orleans St.) – 5 Minutes

Historic hotel with reports of ballroom dancers, Civil War soldiers, and former nuns; the property highlights its hauntings in its own history.

Château Miranda / Château de Noisy

Château féodal de La Roche-en-Ardenne (La Roche-en-Ardenne) – 1 hour 10 Minutes

Famed for the ghost of Countess Berthe said to appear.

Abbaye de Villers (Villers-la-Ville) – 1 Hour

Vast Cistercian ruins are often featured on haunted/folklore reports. The site’s reputation comes from atmospheric legends tied to its monastic past.

Château de Franchimont (Theux) – 1 Hour 30 Minutes

Late-medieval fortress, locals fold it into Ardennes ghostlore.

The Ghost House on Hang Ma Street

Hỏa Lò Prison (“Maison Centrale”) – 15 Minutes

The old French colonial prison in Hoàn Kiếm — later nicknamed the “Hanoi Hilton” when it held American POWs- is now a museum. However, it still has a reputation for being emotionally heavy and spiritually unsettled. Visitors describe an intense chill, a sense of being watched in the old interrogation areas, and a kind of grief that sits on your chest in the death row and execution blocks. The site held political prisoners under French rule, and later wartime captives, so people assume the energy there is still angry and trapped.

Long Biên Bridge / the Red River banks below it – 20 Minutes

Long Biên Bridge is a rusted French-era cantilever bridge that was bombed repeatedly during the Vietnam War and has seen more than a century of wrecks, suicides, and drownings in the Red River below. Locals talk about it as a place of “unquiet souls,” and the Vietnamese press has described how bodies recovered from the river are sometimes buried quickly in makeshift graves under the bridge, which only feeds the belief that spirits linger there. People walking the bridge at night talk about figures that appear near the railings and then vanish over the water.

West Lake (Hồ Tây), especially around Trấn Quốc Pagoda – 10 Minutes

West Lake looks peaceful now, with temples, villas, cafés on the water, but the lake’s origin story is not exactly gentle. One legend says it was formed when the hero Lạc Long Quân killed a shape-shifting nine-tailed fox spirit, leaving behind “Fox Corpse Swamp,” an old name for the lake. That story stuck, and West Lake is still treated as a place where very old forces live just under the surface. Because of that, people still make offerings at lakeside temples like Trấn Quốc Pagoda to keep things balanced.

Island of the Dolls

La Isla de la Llorona, Xochimilco canals – 20 Minutes

Same canal system, Xochimilco. Instead of a drive, you get there by trajinera (boat) from the same docks you’d use to reach the Island of the Dolls. This chinampa is tied to the legend of La Llorona, the Weeping Woman, said to wander Mexico’s waterways crying for her lost children. Visitors report hearing unexplained wails and seeing a female figure along the reeds at night, and the site even stages night performances retelling the haunting as if she’s still out there in the canals.

Casa de la Tía Toña (Bosque de Chapultepec, Mexico City) – 40 Minutes

The legend says a reclusive woman known as “Tía Toña” took in street children, then either died tragically or, in darker versions, killed the kids and now haunts the house. Locals say people who sneak into the old house deep in the wooded area of Chapultepec hear children crying, footsteps in empty rooms, and sometimes glimpse the old woman herself watching from a window.

Hospital Juárez / “La Planchada,” Mexico City – 50 Minutes

Hospital Juárez is famous for the ghost known as La Planchada, described as a nurse in an old-style uniform who appears at patients’ bedsides, especially at night, and treats them with unusual gentleness. The story ties back to tragedy and mass casualties, including the hospital’s history of emergency care during major disasters; some staff believe she’s the spirit of a nurse who couldn’t save her patients in life and is making up for it in death.

Albion Normal School Campus

Howells Opera House – Oakley, ID – 15 Minutes

A historic brick theater in Oakley. It is reported that two spirits remain: a former actress who’s been seen onstage during rehearsals and B.P. Howells himself, the original owner, who supposedly lingers in the building.

Stricker Ranch / Rock Creek Station – Hansen, ID – 40 Minutes

A one-time stop along the Oregon Trail. The site is rumored to be haunted by “Mrs. Stricker,” who’s said to appear and help people in need on the property. Some also believe that travelers who died along the trail still visit the ranch in spirit.

Gooding University Inn (old TB hospital) – Gooding, ID – 1 hour 15 Minutes

The former Gooding College was later converted into a tuberculosis hospital in the 1940s. The building is now the Gooding University Inn and a magnet for paranormal findings. Guests have reported whispers, footsteps in empty halls, and apparitions, including a man in a white coat and a woman seen with a young girl.

Hoia Forest

Bánffy Castle (Bonțida, Cluj County) – 40 Minutes

Often called “the Versailles of Transylvania,” Bánffy Castle is also described as one of the most haunted places in Romania, with legends of ghosts said to linger.

Corvin Castle (Hunedoara, Hunedoara County) – 3 Hours

Corvin Castle (Castelul Corvinilor) is a massive Gothic fortress tied to grim legends of imprisonment, torture, and even Vlad the Impaler, and it’s frequently cited as one of Romania’s and even Europe’s most haunted castles, drawing paranormal attention for its “evil spirits” and dungeon lore.

Iulia Hasdeu Castle (Câmpina, Prahova County) – 4.5 Hours

Built by scholar Bogdan Petriceicu Hașdeu after the death of his brilliant daughter, Iulia, the castle was designed as a spiritual channel to her. Visitors still tell stories of Iulia’s ghost playing piano at night and her father applauding from beyond the grave.

Sedona Vortexes

Jerome, AZ (Jerome Grand Hotel / Haunted Hospital) – 40 Minutes

Jerome is an old mining town built on Cleopatra Hill. The Jerome Grand Hotel was once the United Verde Hospital, where thousands of patients were treated, and many allegedly died, during the early 20th century mining age. Reports include footsteps in empty halls, voices, and full-body apparitions of former patients and staff. The town itself is often called one of the most haunted in Arizona.

Bradshaw Ranch (Sedona / Coconino National Forest area) – 25 Minutes

Originally owned by Hollywood stuntman Bob Bradshaw and used as a Western movie set, it became famous in the 1990s and 2000s for reports, and a documentary, of glowing orbs, strange creatures, unexplained radiation spikes, and possible “portal” phenomena. The land was later taken over by the U.S. Forest Service and is now closed to casual access.

Clemenceau / Cottonwood Old Town (Cottonwood, AZ) – 30 Minutes

Reports of cold spots, disembodied voices, and shadow figures in older brick and hospital-associated buildings tied to early Verde Valley settler life, bootlegging, and rough Prohibition-era crime.

Seven Gates of Hell

Rehmeyer’s Hollow / the Hex Murder House (Stewartstown, PA) – 40 Minutes

Heading near Stewartstown, sits the site of the 1928 hex murder of Nelson Rehmeyer, a Pennsylvania Dutch healer killed by men who believed he’d cursed them. The house and hollow became associated with witchcraft, curses, and lingering spirits, and over the years, locals have treated the hollow as an actively haunted site.

Farnsworth House Inn (Gettysburg, PA) – 50 Minutes

The Farnsworth House Inn is a Civil War-era building pockmarked with bullet holes and reports of soldier apparitions, footsteps, voices, and intelligent haunt activity. The inn hosts ghost tours and late-night paranormal investigations.

Pennhurst Asylum (Spring City, PA) – 1 Hour 40 Minutes

The former Pennhurst State School and Hospital, often called Pennhurst Asylum. Opened in 1908 and later exposed for abuse and overcrowding, it’s now infamous for reports of voices, apparitions, and physical interactions during investigations.