3 Haunted Places in Peru

Every case file on record in Peru — 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 Matusita

   B · Lima, Peru — A mid-town Lima corner house whose name comes from a hardware firm — and whose room, by nationwide legend, drives everyone who enters it mad.…

2. Quinta Heeren — The Seppuku Chalet of Barrios Altos

   B · Barrios Altos, Lima, Peru — A crumbling Beaux-Arts mansion complex of 1888-1930 in old Lima, on the World Monuments Fund's watch list — built by a German merchant, home to ambassadors, and carrying Peru's most precise ghost orig…

3. Real Felipe Fortress — The White Lady of Callao

   B · Callao (Lima), Peru — The great colonial fortress guarding Lima's port, whose towers and casemates carry the tradition of the Dama Blanca — a woman in white who appears in the fort's upper rooms and ramparts, tied in local…