3 Haunted Places in Ghana

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

1. Cape Coast Castle — The Dungeon Shrine

   A · Cape Coast, Central Region, Ghana — The largest of West Africa's slave castles, where a thousand people at a time were held in darkness beneath the governor's ballroom — and where a shrine spirit still receives ritual in the cells.…

2. Elmina Castle — Ghana's Door of No Return

   A · Elmina, Ghana — The oldest European building in sub-Saharan Africa, a 1482 Portuguese fortress whose dungeons funneled captives through the Door of No Return.…

3. Lake Bosumtwi — Where the Dead Say Farewell

   A · Abono, Ashanti Region, Ghana — Ghana's only natural lake, a perfect circle of water in a meteorite crater, where Asante belief holds that the souls of the dead come to bid the god Twi farewell — and where iron may never touch the w…