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List of reportedly haunted locations in Mexico

The following is a list of reportedly haunted locations in Mexico.

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Baja California

  • Agua Caliente Casino and Hotel in Tijuana: This former casino, which is now a high school, is allegedly haunted by a female singer who poisoned her lover after stealing money from him in the 1930s. According to legend, the man pursued her in an attempt to get the antidote, but she refused to give it to him, and he shot her to death in his frustration.

    • Baja California Sur

  • Colegio Salvatierra in Santa Rosalía, Baja California Sur: According to legend, there was a student, a small child, who used to play with marbles in the girls bathroom. One day he accidentally swallowed a marble and choked. After teachers took out the body, girls who enter the bathroom have said that they heard noises of laughter and a child playing with marbles, and some have said they have seen marbles roll into the bathhouses.
  • Hotel California in Todos los Santos, Baja California Sur: founded in 1948, supposedly several entities haunted the courtyard of this inn.
  • Hotel Finnestera in Cabo San Lucas: The ghost of a maid, as well as voices are allegedly encountered.

    • Chihuahua

  • Restaurant La Casona in Chihuahua, Chihuahua: is a mansion built from 1888 to 1893, supposedly at least 5 ghosts inhabit it. The former and the most active is a boy, usually appears playing with a blue ball in the staircase, according to the legend he was son of the first house owner, the General Luis Terrazas. Other spirits are a little girl, a little boy with a sailor suit, a lady of white and other lady of black.

    • Durango

  • Mapimí Silent Zone in Bolsón de Mapimí, Durango: is a legendary site of paranormal phenoms, allegedly in the site appears orbs and a tall blond man, also several alleged ufological phenoms as ovnis and allien like creatures reportedly were viewed in the site.

    • Guanajuato

  • Callejón del beso ("The Alley of Kiss") in Guanajuato, Guanajuato: allegedly haunted by two lovers who died in tragic circumstances here.
  • Casa de la tía Aura ("House of Aunt Aura") in Guanajuato, Guanajuato: was built in 1805. During the 1840s, two women were murdered in the property by their own father, the first daughter was walled in the basement when he knew that she got pregnant without being married and the second was poisoned after to inherit all. People say that they can hear voices and see orbs and shadows in the house. The house is now a museum.
  • Casa de las Brujas, or the House of the Witches, in Guanajuato, was built in 1845, and was owned by a Dutch mine owner by the name of Juan Carson. He was imprisoned for murder, and his daughter, Susan, was left in the custody of her aunts in the house. She was supposedly found beaten and starved to death in the cellar a year later. According to legend, Susan's ghost is said to haunt the house, and odd sounds and cold spots have been reported.
  • Hotel San Diego in Guanajuato: According to legend, there is a room on the hotel's top floor where sounds of doors slamming and furniture moving around can be heard.
  • House of Laments or Casa de los lamentos in Guanajuato, Guanajuato: This mansion was the house of a serial killer active during the 1890s through the 1910s named Tadeo Fulgencío Mejía. According to the legend, the victims' crying sounds can be heard in the mansion.
  • House of mummies in Guanajuato, Guanajuato: is a museum where the natural mummies of Santa Paula cemetery are in exhibition. In this place several paranormal phenomenon have been reported such as an apparition of a tall lady, cries of babies and other strange whispering sounds.

    • Jalisco

  • Panteón de Belén (Belen Cemetery): Located in the center of Guadalajara, it was opened in 1848. According to local legend several entities appear here and many mysteries surround the cemetery, including "The Vampire Tree" and the much visited tomb of "Nachito".
  • Clover Lawn House or Casa del Trébol Negro in Guadalajara, Jalisco: was built in 1908. Reputed to be haunted by a family father and who murdered his wife and daughter in the house. Supposedly, the ghosts wander throughout the property; bloody marks appear in the room walls; crying, shouting and voices are heard in the house.
  • Hospicio Cabañas in Guadalajara, Jalisco: was built from 1805 to 1810, during its history the building was an asylum, military barracks, prison and orphanage. According to the legend several ghosts haunt it, mainly children spirits who wander in the building. Also supposedly it had a monumental clock installed in 1952. The clock mysteriously stopped whenever a child died in the orphanage.
  • Hospital Fray Antonio Alcalde y Barriga in Guadalajara: Opened in 1788 and still in function. Supposedly, several paranormal entities appear in the hospital, the most active is a 19th-century female nurse named Manuela Lozano, who wanders for the Internal Medicine wing.
  • Journalism Museum, also known as La Casa de los Perros or The House of the Dogs: Located in the center of Guadalajara, is a colonial mansion that in the 1790s housed the first independent newspaper of America. The hauntings are attributed to the original owner's wife, who took on a lover and later conspired to kill her husband.

    • Mexico City

  • Mexico City International Airport in Venustiano Carranza, Mexico City: allegedly haunted by a little girl who often appears playing with a ball and interacts with people. She asks them to tie her shoelace then disappears. Supposedly the ghost was filmed, and the video can be seen on YouTube.
  • Callejón del Aguacate in Coyoacán, Mexico City: Is the site of esoteric rituals, and according to testimony, an entity wanders by this backstreet.
  • Casa de la tía Toña ("Aunt Toña´s House") in Chapultepec, Mexico City: Several fatal accidents were reported in the property. Also, according to legend the first owner lady and her adopted children dead by she haunted the mansion.
  • Casa de las Brujas or the Rio de Janeiro building in Colonia Roma, Mexico City: was built in 1908. During the first part of the 20th century, a woman named Bárbara Guerrero also known as "Pachita" lived here. The legend says that she practiced witchcraft, supposedly several paranormal phenomenons occurring in the house including the appearance of the Barbara Guerrero ghost.
  • Casa de los Condes de la Torre Cossío y de la Cortina , or the House of the Count De la Torre y la Cortina, in Historic center of Mexico City: A colonial mansion, which during the 1630s, a spree killer named Juan Manuel de Solórzano lived there. Believing his wife unfaithful, he killed several men, simply because they walked outside to his house. Juan Manuel would ask them the time, if they responded 11 pm, or showed anxiety, he would stab them. He was executed in 1641. The legend says that a man with 1600s-era clothing wanders in and around the house, sometimes asking bystanders for the time, and soon after disappearing.
  • Casa Negra ("Black House") in Álvaro Obregón, D.F.: is XIX century mansion, now abandoned. According to the legend, its firsts owners- a family named Mondragón- died of unknown causes into the house; without a live heir, the property passed to State custody. Supposedly for the paranormal phenomena, the house is uninhabitable. Allegedly paranormal activity in the site including temperature changes, voices and bizarre sounds, doors open and close alone and invisibles hands that touching and pulling.
  • Hospital Juarez in Gustavo A. Madero, Mexico City: open in 1847 and still in functions. Here started one of the most famous Mexican ghost story, the legend of La Planchada, a spirit of an early 20th-century female nurse who haunts this hospital. Also reported this ghost was sight in several other hospitals around Mexico.
  • Instituto Cultural La Moira in San Miguel Chapultepec, Miguel Hidalgo, D.F.: according to the legend this house is haunted by several paranormal entities, the most active is a young man named Marcos who died under mysterious circumstances during the 1960s, allegedly when he was an 8-year-old boy who entered the building, at this time abandoned, and he saw an apparition, a man hanged in one of the rooms; 10 years after he appeared hanged in this same room in an apparent suicide. Several spiritism sessions done in the site since this time, allegedly the paranormal phenoms reported in the houses included from shadows, strange sounds and orbs to objects moving alone, people who say had visions and demoniac possessions. According with some parapsychologists this house´s the most haunted in Mexico.
  • Mexico City Metro: opened to the public in 1969, allegedly several entities haunted its installations, mainly persons who committed suicides. According to the legend, the Tasqueña station is one of the haunted place into the train web, in this place supposedly an old man appears at nights for to accompany to lonely passers, the man would be murdered during assault for this reason wants to protect to the people. Other haunted stations are the Pino Suárez station where appears an old employee named Victor Castilla Platonoff who died in the site in 1989 and apparently doesn't know that he has been dead and also an ancient Aztec man who cries for the Spanish Conquest; the Panteones station where the people say that they can hear knocks in the tunnel walls that connects this station and the next and shadow "lumps" a few feet ahead that disappear as they get close – the paranormal activity in this place is attributable to its proximity to two old graveyards, the Spanish and the British graveyards; - the Airport station where appears a little girl who plays with her own decapitated head; and the Viaducto station where happened in 1975 the worst subway accident in the Mexico history with at least 31 deaths, supposedly from then a ghost train walks from Allende station to Zocalo station, the same route that the accident train.
  • Palace of the Inquisition in the Historic center of Mexico City: Constructed between 1732 and 1736, was the place of the New Spain Tribunal of the Holy Inquisition until 1820 when it was disbanded. Supposedly, the construction is place of several paranormal phenomenons.
  • Palacio de Lecumberri in Venustiano Carranza, Mexico City: Constructed in 1900, it served as a prison for 76 years. Supposedly several entities live in the building, but two are the most active. the first is a male spirit, which wanders throughout the building, wanting to interact with people. Reportedly, he would say "My name's Jacinto" or "Again, Amalia didn't come here" and disappear. The second is also a male spirit, dressed in a black charro costume, which is especially aggressive, and has appeared to many people.
  • Pateón de San Isidro in Azcapotzalco, Mexico City: is a cemetery exclusive for children, according with the legends several entities appears in the site but two are the most active, the first is a little girl named "Nani", she appears in a street next to the cemetery, causes automovilistico accidents because she often distracts to the drivers. The second, is a boy named "David" who often interacts with the person.
  • Plaza de las Tres Culturas or Plaza de Tlatelolco in Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City: the history of this place dated to before XV century, in this time several tragical events happened in the place. In Pre-Columbian era, it was the most important market in Mesoamerica but also public execution place. During Spanish conquest of Mexico several natives massacres occurred here, included 4 000 deaths on 13 August 1521. Contemporary bloody events as the Tlatelolco massacre in 1968 and the Nuevo León building collapse during 1985 Mexico City earthquake, with at least 400 fatality victims, also occurred here. Stories of ghosts in this place are counted from Aztecs time. The paranormal phenomena reported here are sounds of children playing, the 1968 massacre sounds and shadows moving from Foreign Relations building to the church.
  • Posada del Sol in Colonia Doctores, Mexico City: was an ambitious inn project during the 1950s. For several mishaps it was never completed. Finally, the owner - named Fernando Saldaña - committed suicide in the site in 1945. According to the legend, he cursed the property for it will be never inhabited. After of the Saldaña death, the building became by turns a home to the Instituto Indigenista Americano, El Consejo de Recursos Minerales and the Procuraduría General de Justicia, but always it was abandoned. Alleged the Saldaña ghost still haunts the lonely building.
  • Swamp South of Mexico City: The Island of Dolls is rumoured to be one of the most haunted sites in Mexico. Don Julian Santana was a man who lived as a hermit on this island for over fifty years, where he is believed to have lost his mind. The tragic accident of a girl who drowned on the island while visiting caused further madness in Julian. The island was turned into a shrine for that little girl. Dolls by the hundreds hang in the trees and the house. Each of the dolls is believed to be fused with the energy of the little girl. Candles, hard candy, and dolls are occasionally brought as offerings to appease the spirits. The dolls are said to move, beckon, and speak to those who come. The man's spectre also roams this place. Orbs, loud sounds, and reports of doll eyes opening abound.
  • Haunted places in Mexico City

    • Nuevo Leon

  • Casa de Aramberri in Monterrey: Reputed to be haunted by a man's wife and daughter, who, according to legend, were tortured to death by three male robbers in 1933.
  • Casa de los Tubos in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon: An abandoned mansion built during the 1970s, reputed to be haunted by a girl that committed suicide in the property and a boy that died in an accident.
  • Villa de Santiago, Puerto Genovevo: These mountainous roads have been the site of many car accidents. Among the numerous crosses, there is a set of ten crosses in memory of a family who were the victims of a truck accident. If one stands next to the crosses, it is rumored to be possible to see a truck moving very fast through the trees. Also, it is said that at midnight the screams and pain of those in the accident can be heard.

    • Oaxaca

  • Jarquin in Mietchulan, Oaxaca: This small store is haunted by its anonymous former owner. The owner's apparition is known to walk in and out of the building. He is notorious for pushing customers out of the store.

    • Puebla

  • Chautla Hacienda in Puebla, Puebla: opened in 1777, was an agave plantation and actually it is an inn. Allegedly this site is haunted for several entities, the ghosts of a horseman and a boy were filmed in the site.
  • Instituto Cultural Poblano in Puebla, Puebla: built from 1740 to 1751. It was a Society of Jesus convent to 1767. After it served as cemetery during the Typhus epidemic of 1812–1813. From 1840 to 1871, the property was conditioned as a prison; the Penitentiary of Puebla was in functions to 1984, when it became a cultural center and museum. Allegedly the building is haunted for many ghosts of the different stages.
  • Santa Mónica Religious Art Museum in Puebla, Puebla: built in 1606 as poorhouse and orphanage. From 1686 to 1934, it served as Augustinian Recollects convent. The religious abandoned the building by State order, after the scandal when the cloister life condition was known. According to the legend the former convent is the site of several paranormal events as the lady of white apparitions, apparitions of persons with antique clothing are wandering for the installations or nonexistents clocks sound.

    • Queretaro

  • Casa de La Zacatecana: A colonial mansion in Santiago de Querétaro, Querétaro. In the 17th century, a woman known as "La Zacatecana" commanded the murder of her husband, and then executed the killer that she contracted for the murder. The legend says that the mansion harbours three spirits.
  • Claudia Mijangos house: Located in a suburb of Querétaro, Claudia Mijangos killed her 3 children here in 1989. She said that "... she was possessed by a diabolic entity". To this day, neighbors claim that they can hear crying and shouting in the house and a boy appears in a window of the second level. Local government boarded the windows and built a wall around the house to deter vandalism and the curious public. Although the house is abandoned and unclaimed by any immediate family members, it is not known if Claudia Mijangos will re-occupy the house upon release in 2014. The home was a subject of investigation by the Mexican paranormal television program, Extranormal.

    • San Luis Potosi

  • Real de Catorce in Sierra de Catorce, San Luis Potosí: is a ghost town founded in 1770 and abandoned in 1920, supposedly the town is haunted. According to the legend one of the most active ghost is an ancient miner known as "El Jergas", he´s a benevolent entity who guided miners to new silver veins.

    • Sonora

  • Los Estralios Mines in San Carlos Nuevo Guaymas, Guaymas: is alleged to be inhabited by a demon or a werewolf called "Neuale".

    • State of Mexico

  • Lake Texcoco in Texcoco, State of Mexico: A murderous monster was said to live in the depths of this lake. The name of such beast is Ahuizotl. It was a canine mammal with spiky hair and a hand in the tip of its long tail. It was supposed to eat humans. In order to attract people, it would produce a sound like that of an abandoned human baby crying. Its victims were caught by it and then drown in the lake. In Aztec mythology the souls of its victims were sent to Tlalocan.
  • Lerma Marshes in San Miguel Almaya: A mermaid is said to live in the lakes and swamps. Her name is Tlanchana. She comes out of the marshes once or twice a year. She is beautiful and attractive. If a man follows her he dies.
  • Pilar Hacienda in San Juan Teotihuacán: was built by the Spaniards who came to Mexico in the 16th century. On the top floor there is a large cut on the window, which is believed to be the mark of Miguel Aritztia, a Spanish hidalgo. It is thought that he died from falling off the balcony, and while he fell he grabbed at the window, creating the long scratch. The ghost of the wife of Miguel has also been seen on the balcony crying "Oh, my husband." She was there at the time of his death, and tried to save him. Mr. Aritztia has been reported to be seen hanging from the window, as well as being seen in a window. It is said that at times the scratch disappears from the window.
  • General Asylum La Castañeda or Psychiatric Hospital La Castañeda now only exist the central building in Amecameca: It was the biggest madhouse in Mexico, opened in Mexico City during 1910, was active for 58 years and during this time is said to have housed around 60 000 patients. Several paranormal cases have been reported in the hospital.

    • Tlaxcala

  • Matlalcueitl volcano and Cuatlapanga mount in La Malinche National Park: supposedly a reptilian monster lived in the Matlalcueitl mountain and that would come down during the rainy season to abduct children and take them up the mountain to be devoured. Other legend says that in Cualtlapanga sounds a golden bell hidden there during the Mexican War of Independence. Many people looked for it but no one found it.
  • Haunted mounts in La Malinche National Park

    • Veracruz

  • Catemaco in Catemaco Municipality, Veracruz: internationally known as the "Capital of wizards", the history of this city dated from XVII century. Each March, from 1774, the city celebrates the Night of witches, when witchcraft practitioners and believers gather for to celebrate ancient rituals. Several legends are counted in the site, as the legend of Cerro del Mono Blanco (White Monkey mount) where supposedly a man named Gonzalo Aguirre Pech, known as the "Great Wizard", sold his soul to the Demon.

    • Yucatan

  • Cecilio Chi Elementary School in Espita, Yucatán: According to a legend, there was a rancher who was a powerful warlock. He was able to obtain any vegetable or fruit from his farm regardless of the time of the year. Furthermore, he could get them in 1 day. That is not enough time for crops or trees to grow. It was rumoured that he was able to transform into a sinister flying monster known as the Uay Pop. After the suspected shapeshifter died it was said that the Uay Pop haunted the same place were the farm was found.
  • Cenote Zací in Valladolid, Yucatán: local legends say that the cenote is haunted for several ghosts, mainly ancient Mayan persons who were sacrificed in the site. The most antique legend of ghosts relates that two lovers named Hul-Kin and Sac-Nicte committed suicide here, they jumped it into the cavern. Allegeldy paranormal phenomenons in the site included bizarre sounds, voices and cryings, and the apparition of an ancient Mayan warrior.
  • Chichen Itza in Tinúm, Yucatán: is an ancient Mayan city, according with some testimonies the site is haunted by several entities, from ancient ghosts of sacrificed persons and Aluxes – fairy-like spirits in Mayan folklore – to aliens.
  • Cholul Hacienda in Mérida, Yucatán: was a 19th-century henequen plantantion, now abandoned. According to the legend several ancient owners of the plantation practiced witchcraft and Satanism, one of them appears with owl form. Other appearances were human shadows in the windows, a woman with a baby crying and an antique plantation laborer than committed suicide after to kill the rapist of his fiancee.
  • Hospital Peninsular in Merida, Yucatan: was a hospital that operated as illegal abortion clinic to 2009 when was closed. According with popular testimonies the firsts alleged paranormal events reported in the site occurred in 2007, when the hospital was partially abandoned already, a policeman group entered it one night, they affirmed that heard babies crying, their lamps stopped to function and some doors opened and closed alone.
  • Minesbalam Hacienda and Village in Progreso, Yucatan: is an abandoned 19th-century henequen plantation, around it was a village of about 2000 people. Supposedly, the witchcraft and the public executions were usual there. The most active ghost in the property is a boy named "Julian", he committed suicide after being raped, during the 1920s. Also the legend says, in the place can see it some Mexican folklore demons as the Xtabay and chaneque.
  • Wyndham Mérida′s Inn in Mérida, Yucatan: allegedly several entities haunted the building. According with employees testimonies the most active is an old man who supposedly was buried in the property before to the inn construction.

    • Zacatecas

  • Meson de Jobito Hotel in Zacatecas, Zacatecas: Built in 1700, then it was an inn, during the 1940s it was adapted for to be condominiums. From 1990 to 1993, the building become in the now hotel. Supposedly the hotel is one of the most haunted in the country. Reported paranormal phenomenons in the site included the feeling to break observed, children voices and laughters, these invisible children jumping on the beds, horses sounds and objects moved alone. This paranormal activity concentrates in the 107 room.
  • Historic Center of Zacatecas in Zacatecas, Zacatecas: This World Heritage Site has many legends. One of the most popular is the legend of "Calle de las tres cruces", here in 1761 two lovers— named Gabriel García and Beatriz Moncada— died in tragic circumstances, the legend says that the lovers ghosts appears in this street. Calle de las tres cruces is on Hidalgo avenue where this finish with Toledo street Other legend tells about a haunted backstreet named "Callejón del indio triste" where Xolotl one of the last Chichimeca natives leader died during the 1550s. Another alleged haunted backstreet is known as "Callejón del mono prieto", where according to the legend, in the 17th century, here died a woman named Marciana Castillo, the people believed that she practiced witchcraft and was responsible for a child disappear and the mother death, and therefore she lived isolated her last days, died burned alive when her house caught fire.
  • Haunted places in Zacatecas, Zacatecas

    • References

    List of reportedly haunted locations in Mexico Wikipedia
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