2 Haunted Places in Kazakhstan

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

1. Tamgaly — The Canyon of the Sun-Headed Gods

   A · Zhambyl district, Almaty region, Kazakhstan — A Bronze Age sacred canyon in the Chu-Ili mountains, UNESCO-listed since 2004, where some five thousand petroglyphs centre on the sun-heads — deities drawn as rings of rays with human bodies — arrayed…

2. Khoja Ahmed Yasawi Mausoleum — The Unfinished Portal

   B · Turkistan, Kazakhstan — Timur's vast mausoleum of 1389 over the grave of Central Asia's most revered Sufi — a UNESCO site whose central portal was never finished: work stopped at Timur's death in 1405 and the townsfolk read …