2 Haunted Places in Uzbekistan

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

1. Bibi-Khanym Mosque — The Architect's Kiss

   B · Samarkand, Uzbekistan — Timur's grand congregational mosque, whose founding legend — the architect's forbidden love for the queen, sealed by a burning kiss that left its mark — is told at the monument itself, printed in the …

2. Gur-e Amir — The Tomb That Took Three Days

   A · Samarkand, Uzbekistan — Tamerlane's turquoise-domed mausoleum in Samarkand, where — by the most famous curse story in Central Asia — Soviet archaeologists opened the iron grille and lifted the jade tombstone on 19 June 1941,…