14 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…
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.…
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…