2 Haunted Places in Suriname

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

1. Groot-Chatillon — The River of the Drowned Leper

   B · Dombourg, Paramaribo district, Suriname — The state leprosarium of Suriname, 1897 to 1972, on the Suriname river close upstream of Paramaribo — where patients banished from the city tried to float home on rafts and drowned, and where the rive…

2. Spanhoek — The Devil in Chains at the Crossroads

   B · Paramaribo, Suriname — The old colonial crossroads at Spanhoek in central Paramaribo — the best-known address in Surinamese ghost story collections, where the devil was said to walk at midnight dragging his chains, and no o…