2 Haunted Places in Venezuela

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

1. Hotel Humboldt — The Dictator's Empty Hotel

   B · Caracas (Cerro El Ávila), Venezuela — The modernist mountain hotel at 2,250 metres above Caracas, built by dictator Pérez Jiménez in 1956, abandoned for decades after his fall — during which a lone watchman swore to the Associated Press t…

2. Dr Knoche's Laboratory — The Mummies of El Avila

   B · Galipan, El Avila National Park (above La Guaira), Venezuela — The ruined laboratory of a German doctor who mummified the unclaimed dead of Venezuela's civil war with a secret injection, mummified himself on death in 1901, and whose hillside laboratory and mausol…