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5 Haunted Places in Mexico

Mexico · graded case files, legends and skeptic reports

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.

  1. 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.…

  2. 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.…

  3. 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?…

  4. 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.…

  5. 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.…