4 Haunted Places in Turkey
Every case file on record in Turkey — each with the full legend, the documented sightings spine and the skeptic’s file. Browse the archive below, or open the world map.
Lake Van — The Soda Lake's Serpent
B · Lake Van, Eastern Anatolia, Turkey — Turkey's great soda lake and its ancient serpent: the vishap water-dragons of the Armenian highland tradition, an 1889 Ottoman newspaper report of a lake-dweller that dragged a man in — answered by an…
Perili Köşk — The Haunted Mansion of the Bosphorus
A · Istanbul (Rumeli Hisarı), Sarıyer, Turkey — The red turreted mansion on the Bosphorus shore whose popular name simply IS 'the Haunted Mansion' — built by an Ottoman pasha for a wife who left him, abandoned half-finished for eighty years while l…
Hierapolis — The Ploutonion, Rome's Documented Gate to Hell
A · Hierapolis, Pamukkale, Denizli Province, Turkey — The entrance to the underworld the ancients wrote down and modern chemistry closed: in the white-terraced city of Hierapolis the Ploutonion — a grotto sacred to Pluto, god of the dead — suffocated eve…
The Vanishing House of Resneliler — Ankara's Ghost Mansion
B · Kavaklidere / Cankaya, Ankara, Turkey — A derelict mansion on a lane in central Ankara that made national news in 2021 when residents reported a house that appears and disappears, screams from its empty rooms, and figures in its windows — a…