2 Haunted Places in Cairo

Every case file on record in Cairo — each with the full legend, the documented sightings spine and the skeptic’s file.

1. Baron Empain Palace

   B · Heliopolis, Cairo, Egypt — Cairo's Hindu palace — an eccentric Belgian industrialist's 1907-1911 architectural folly, abandoned for sixty years and 'haunted' in Cairo's imagination until its 2020 rebirth as a museum.…

2. Tiring Building — The Sealed Attic

   B · Ataba, Cairo, Egypt — Egypt's first department store, crowned by four kneeling Atlas statues and a glass dome, keeps a chain-locked chamber beneath that dome which Cairo legend calls a hanging room — sealed for decades and…