3 Haunted Places in Senegal
Every case file on record in Senegal — each with the full legend, the documented sightings spine and the skeptic’s file. Browse the archive below, or open the world map.
Fann Psychiatric Clinic — The Ghost in the Halls
B · Dakar, Senegal — West Africa's first psychiatric hospital (1956), where an American anthropologist's fieldwork recorded the clinic's own ghost — said to roam the halls — the deaths of young doctors attributed to witch…
Île de Gorée — The House of Slaves
A · Gorée, Senegal — A 28-hectare island off Dakar whose pink 1776 House of Slaves and Door of No Return became the world's memorial to the Middle Passage.…
Point of Sangomar — The Sandbar the Sea Reclaimed
A · Sangomar, Fatick region, Senegal — The long sand spit at the mouth of the Saloum delta — in Serer cosmology a threshold country of sea spirits and pangool, the ancestral dead — where the fishing village of Sangomar stood until the sea …