1 Haunted Places in Panama

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

1. Isla Coiba — Panama's Devil's Island

   B · Gulf of Chiriquí, Veraguas Province, Panama — For 85 years Panama sent its worst criminals — and, under Torrijos and Noriega, its disappeared — to the island penal colony of Coiba, founded November 1919 and closed 2004, a place the New York Times…