2 Haunted Places in Portugal

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

1. Capela dos Ossos — Évora's Waiting Room

   A · Évora, Alentejo, Portugal — A 16th-century chapel next to Évora's Church of St Francis, lined floor to vault with the bones of some 5,000 people — with a welcome message over the door: 'We bones that are here, for yours we wait.…

2. Carmo Convent — The Roofless Church of 1755

   B · Lisbon, Portugal — Lisbon's great Gothic church, left roofless by the All Saints' Day earthquake of 1755 with the congregation beneath the falling vault — a deliberately preserved ruin where the arches are said to keep …