3 Haunted Places in Morocco
Every case file on record in Morocco — each with the full legend, the documented sightings spine and the skeptic’s file. Browse the archive below, or open the world map.
Oued Fes Riverbank — The Offerings to Aicha Kandisha
B · Fes el-Bali, Fes, Morocco — The river that runs through the medieval city, where on Thursdays offerings are still carried to Aicha Kandisha — Morocco's most feared jinn, a beautiful woman with a camel's feet who takes men who cr…
Habs Qara — The Prison of the Captives
A · Meknes, Morocco — The vast subterranean prison of Sultan Moulay Ismail's Meknes, attributed in the record to the genius of a Portuguese captive — kilometres of dark chambers under the kasbah where thousands of prisoner…
Sidi Chamharouch Shrine — The Jinn King Beneath Toubkal
B · Aroumd (Arumt), High Atlas, Morocco — A whitewashed shrine on a cold stream beneath Mount Toubkal, honoured as the tomb of Sidi Shamharush — a jinn who, the mountain people say, converted to Islam in the Prophet's time and ruled as a judg…