2 Haunted Places in Bolivia

Every case file on record in Bolivia — each with the full legend, the documented sightings spine and the skeptic’s file. Browse the archive below, or open the world map.

1. Cerro Rico (El Tio shrines)

   A · Potosí, Bolivia — The mountain that eats men: five centuries of silver mining above Potosí, several million dead, and six hundred underground shrines to El Tio — the devil the miners feed so he lets them come back up.…

2. Cementerio General — The Festival of the Ñatitas

   A · La Paz, Bolivia — The cemetery gates where, every 8 November, families arrive carrying human skulls — the ñatitas — to be crowned with flowers and cigarettes in Bolivia's festival of the living dead.…