4 Haunted Places in Indonesia
Every case file on record in Indonesia — each with the full legend, the documented sightings spine and the skeptic’s file. Browse the archive below, or open the world map.
Jembatan Ancol — The Sweet Maiden of the Bridge
A · Jakarta, Indonesia — Indonesia's most filmed urban legend: a beautiful young woman of the Dutch-colonial era, murdered near the Ancol swamps and her body thrown in the river, who appears at night on the old North Jakarta …
Jeruk Purut Cemetery — The Priest Who Carries His Head
B · South Jakarta, Indonesia — A working Jakarta public cemetery whose headless priest — carrying his own head, followed by a black dog — became the city's signature ghost, complete with a hit film franchise.…
Lawang Sewu — The Thousand Doors
B · Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia — A vast Dutch colonial railway headquarters, site of WWII torture and executions — Indonesia's most famous haunted building.…
Room 308, Samudra Beach — The Queen of the Southern Sea
B · Pelabuhanratu, West Java, Indonesia — A hotel room on a surf coast reserved for Nyai Roro Kidul, the sea goddess of Javanese legend — furnished, fragrant, and never rented to guests.…