3 Haunted Places in Chile

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

1. Cementerio General de Santiago — The City of the Dead, Open at Night

   B · Recoleta, Santiago Metropolitan, Chile — Santiago's great municipal cemetery — founded by O'Higgins in 1821, eighty-six hectares holding some two million dead — is the anchor of Chile's documented ghost canon: the graveyard where the country…

2. Humberstone — The Saltpeter Ghost Town

   B · Pozo Almonte, Tarapacá, Chile — A company town of the Atacama nitrate boom, abandoned to the desert in 1960 and preserved so completely it feels inhabited — a UNESCO World Heritage ghost town.…

3. La Noria — The Town of the Open Graves

   B · Pozo Almonte, Tarapacá, Chile — A ruined nitrate settlement in the Atacama whose cemetery of broken-open graves and exposed bodies made it Chile's most notorious dead town.…