16 Haunted Places in India
Every case file on record in India — each with the full legend, the documented sightings spine and the skeptic’s file. Browse the archive below, or open the world map.
Agrasen ki Baoli — The Stepwell of Black Water
B · New Delhi, Delhi, India — A fourteenth-century stepwell of 103 stone steps hidden between Connaught Place's towers — Delhi's most-listed haunted monument, where the legend says the water once rose black and hypnotic, inviting …
Tunnel No. 33, Barog — The Engineer's Last Alignment
B · Barog, Himachal Pradesh, India — On the UNESCO-listed Kalka-Shimla mountain railway, the line's longest tunnel — completed in 1903 — keeps the legend of the engineer who miscalculated its alignment, was publicly humiliated, and shot …
Bhangarh Fort — India's Cursed City
A · Alwar, Rajasthan, India — A 16th-century fort city abandoned overnight, where the government's own sign forbids entry between sunset and sunrise.…
Brijraj Bhavan Palace — The Resident Who Slaps the Guards
B · Kota, Rajasthan, India — The 1830s Agency Bungalow on Kota's Chambal riverfront — half royal residence, half heritage hotel — keeps the most domesticated ghost in India's canon: a British political agent killed in the violenc…
Delhi Cantonment — The Lady in White at the Roadside
B · Delhi Cantonment, Delhi, India — In the leafy military district of south-west Delhi, India's most canonical modern road legend: a woman in a white sari who flags down cars at night, asks for a lift or a location, and vanishes — with …
Dow Hill, Kurseong — The Headless Boy of the Pine Forest
B · Kurseong, West Bengal, India — A fog-bound hillside of colonial schools and pine forest above Darjeeling, called India's most haunted forest — footsteps in locked schools, a headless boy on the Death Road.…
Dumas Beach
B · Surat, Gujarat, India — A black-sand beach near Surat where the Hindu dead were once cremated — and where every Indian list of haunted places insists the spirits remain, whistling and howling after dark.…
Firoz Shah Kotla — The Fort Where Delhi Writes to Its Djinns
A · Delhi, India — A 14th-century fortress whose dark chambers are believed to house djinns — and where every Thursday, Delhi comes to post them letters.…
Kuldhara — The Village That Vanished Overnight
A · Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, India — A Paliwal Brahmin village of 84 settlements whose people left in a single night around 1825, cursing the land so that no one could ever settle it again.…
Lambi Dehar Mines — The Quarries That Coughed Blood
B · Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, India — Abandoned limestone quarries in the hills above Mussoorie, worked from the British era until the courts shut them in the 1990s — a landscape of ruined kilns and cliff faces where miners died of the du…
Manikarnika Ghat — The Fires That Do Not Go Out
A · Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India — The most sacred burning ground on earth: at Manikarnika Ghat, on the Ganges at Varanasi, the cremation fires have burned continuously for centuries — some hundred bodies a day carried down the steps t…
National Library, Kolkata — The Governor's Lady of Belvedere
B · Alipore, Kolkata, India — India's largest library, housed in a colonial Belvedere Estate rumoured to be walked by a governor's wife — and hiding sealed rooms nobody could explain.…
Roopkund — The Himalaya's Skeleton Lake
A · Roopkund, Chamoli District, Uttarakhand, India — A glacial lake at 5,000 metres in the Indian Himalaya, frozen most of the year, holding the bones of several hundred human beings visible in its clear water and on its shores every melt season — the s…
Savoy Hotel, Mussoorie — The 1911 Poisoning
A · Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, India — A 1902 hill-station hotel in the Himalayan foothills, still taking guests, keeps India's best-documented hotel death file: the 1911 strychnine poisoning of a missionary in her room, a sensational acqu…
Shaniwar Wada
A · Pune, India — The seat of the Peshwas in Pune — a 1732 palace-fort whose garden walls and gates survive a great fire, and where, in 1773, a teenage ruler was hacked down by his own guards while crying for an uncle …
South Park Street Cemetery — The Company's Dead
B · Kolkata, West Bengal, India — One of the world's great non-church cemeteries — opened in 1767 for the East India Company's servants, its moss-blackened tombs thick on a Park Street block — and Kolkata's classic haunted ground, whe…