3 Haunted Places in Sierra Leone

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

1. Bunce Island — The Slave Castle in the River

   A · Freetown region, Sierra Leone River, Sierra Leone — The best-preserved British slave-trading castle in West Africa, from which tens of thousands of people were shipped to the Americas — now an overgrown ruin CNN called a 'slave-trade ghost town'.…

2. Freetown Cotton Tree — The Prophecy Tree

   B · Freetown, Sierra Leone — The giant cotton tree at the heart of Freetown, under which the city's freed-slave founders prayed in 1792 — the national symbol whose prophesied fall ('if the tree falls, catastrophe comes') was cred…

3. Wilkinson Road — Mama Lungi, the Woman in White

   B · Freetown, Sierra Leone — The long road out of Freetown toward Lungi — in the city's contemporary ghost canon the road of Mama Lungi, a woman in white who died in the 1970s searching for a child who never came home, and who st…