3 Haunted Places in Madagascar
Every case file on record in Madagascar — each with the full legend, the documented sightings spine and the skeptic’s file. Browse the archive below, or open the world map.
Ambohimanga — The Forbidden Royal Hill
A · Ambohimanga, Analamanga, Madagascar — The walled royal hill of the Merina kings, a UNESCO World Heritage site since 2001 — the burial ground of sovereigns and the seat of the razana, the royal ancestors whose presence made the hill fady, …
The Pirate Cemetery of Sainte-Marie — Île aux Forbans' Dead
B · Ambodifotatra, Île Sainte-Marie, Madagascar — A small walled graveyard on Île Sainte-Marie, off Madagascar's east coast — billed as the world's only pirate cemetery, holding the graves of the freebooters who made the island their haven in the gol…
Rova of Antananarivo — The Queen's Palace and the Body in the Square
B · Antananarivo, Madagascar — The hilltop royal compound whose wooden halls burned in 1995 — and on that night, the body of a queen turned up in the public square at the bottom of the hill, out of her ruined tomb, in an event the …