2 Haunted Places in Tajikistan

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

1. Childukhtaron — The Forty Maidens of the Stone Valley

   B · Muminobod District, Khatlon, Tajikistan — A valley of pale stone pyramids at the edge of the Hazratishoh range — Chil dukhtaron, 'forty girls' — where the legend says forty maidens fleeing captivity were turned to stone rather than be taken; …

2. Iskanderkul — The Lake of Alexander's Horse

   B · Sughd Province, Fan Mountains, Tajikistan — A triangular glacial lake at 2,195 metres in the Fan Mountains, named for Iskander — Alexander — whose war-horse, the local legend holds, drowned here and lies buried on the shore; a landslide lake 72…