6 Haunted Places in Mexico
Every case file on record in Mexico — each with the full legend, the documented sightings spine and the skeptic’s file. Browse the archive below, or open the world map.
Casa de los Azulejos — The Ghost Busker
B · Mexico City, Mexico — A 16th-century blue-tile palace in the heart of Mexico City, where a street musician's death spawned one of the capital's most beloved ghost stories.…
Isla de las Muñecas — The Island of the Dolls
A · Xochimilco, Mexico City, Mexico — A chinampa island in the canals of Xochimilco where a hermit spent 50 years hanging mutilated dolls from the trees — and died where the girl he mourned was said to drown.…
La Pascualita
A · Chihuahua City, Mexico — The bridal-shop mannequin installed in a Chihuahua window in 1930 so lifelike that the city has spent ninety years asking one question: is she wax — or the embalmed daughter of the shop's own owner?…
Mapimí — The Zone of Silence and the Rocket That Fell In
B · Mapimí, Durango (Bolsón de Mapimí), Mexico — Mexico's 'Bermuda Triangle of the desert': the Bolsón de Mapimí in the Chihuahuan desert, where — the legend runs — radios die, compasses wander, meteorites fall and mutations bloom; the zone's real a…
Museo de las Momias — The Mummies of Guanajuato
A · Guanajuato, Mexico — A cemetery so dry its dead mummified naturally — and the smallest mummy on earth is an unborn child.…
Panteón de Belén — Guadalajara's Vampire Cemetery
B · Guadalajara, Mexico — An 18th-century cemetery-museum whose iron-ringed tree is said to grow from a vampire's grave — and whose night tours sell out every Día de Muertos.…