2 Haunted Places in Guyana

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

1. The Jumbie Tree of Mahaicony — The Road That Split

   A · Mahaicony, Mahaica-Berbice, Guyana — A giant silk cotton tree on the coastal road at Perseverance, Mahaicony — the jumbie tree of Guyanese canon, said to hold spirits and buried Dutch gold, blamed for possessions and misfortune, and so f…

2. Kaieteur Falls — The Chief's Canoe

   B · Potaro-Siparuni, Guyana — The Potaro River dropping 226 metres off the Guiana Shield — the world's great single-drop waterfall, and the site of Guyana's founding myth: the Patamona chief Kai, who paddled his canoe over the led…