2 Haunted Places in Cyprus

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

1. Bellapais Abbey — The White Canons' Peace

   B · Beylerbeyi (Bellapais), near Kyrenia, Cyprus — The gothic ruin above Kyrenia where the white-robed canons of the Abbaye de la Paix kept their peace for three centuries — and where the white robes outlasted the order: the abbey's own legend-keeping…

2. Varosha — The Resort City That Time Sealed

   B · Varosha, Famagusta, Cyprus — The quarter-mile of golden sand that was the Mediterranean's richest resort strip — Famagusta's Varosha, the high-rise hotels of the 1970s' jet set — emptied in August 1974 in a day of war and stayed …