THE HAUNTED ATLAS / COUNTRY FILE3 RECORDS

3 Haunted Places in Tunisia

Tunisia · graded case files, legends and skeptic reports

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

  1. Bir Barouta — The Camel-Drawn Well of Zamzam

    B · Kairouan, Tunisia — A holy well inside a domed chamber in old Kairouan, turned for centuries by a blindfolded camel walking its circle — the tradition binding its water to the Zamzam of Mecca through the legend of the co…

  2. Dar Jarbah — The Jinn House of Route El May

    B · Houmt Souk, Djerba, Tunisia — A big abandoned house on the Route El May outside Houmt Souk on Djerba — Tunisia's most famous haunted house, decades empty, its legend the country's shared property: a sorcerer's curse, jinn guarding…

  3. Tophet of Carthage — The Field of Urns and the Punic Princess

    B · Carthage, Tunis, Tunisia — The open-air sanctuary where thousands of burial urns holding infant remains were dedicated to Tanit and Baal Hammon — a place whose excavation-era ghost stories and two-millennia reputation as the mo…