5 Haunted Places in Brazil
Every case file on record in Brazil — each with the full legend, the documented sightings spine and the skeptic’s file. Browse the archive below, or open the world map.
Casa das Sete Mortes — The House of the Seven Stabs
B · Salvador, Bahia, Brazil — A seventeenth-century house on the Ladeira do Passo in Salvador's Pelourinho, named for the murders of 1756 — the 'Seven Stabs' — and now a city-run traditional-arts school whose students and teachers…
Castelinho da Rua Apa — The Massacre the Autopsy Questioned
A · São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil — A 1912 mock-castle in central São Paulo where a cinema magnate's widow and her two sons were found shot dead in 1937 — an official murder-suicide the forensic record itself undermines, and Brazil's mo…
Hospital Colônia de Barbacena — The Brazilian Holocáusto
A · Barbacena, Minas Gerais, Brazil — The psychiatric complex where some 60,000 people died between 1903 and the 1980s — most of them not mentally ill — now a museum; the last 14 patients left in 2026.…
Joelma Building — São Paulo's Tower of Fire
A · São Paulo, Brazil — The 1974 office-tower fire that killed at least 179 people, leaving a building — renamed Praça da Bandeira — that many Paulistanos still refuse to call anything but Joelma.…
Mina da Passagem — Captain Jack's Mine
B · Passagem de Mariana, Minas Gerais, Brazil — One of Brazil's great colonial gold mines, worked from the eighteenth century and open to visitors by boat — where a 1936 flood drowned seventeen miners underground, and where the guides, the geologis…