Uncover fascinating paranormal activity on this chilling, nerve-wracking global tour of 100 haunted locations.

Set out on a uniquely dark armchair journey, and witness the shocking supernatural events, ghosts and unexplained phenomena that have captivated humankind for as long as we have told stories to each other, looked to the skies, and wondered whether we really are alone…

The paranormal places include:
 

• The Island of the Dolls in Mexico, where a haunted recluse has hung hundreds of creepy dolls from trees
• St. Augustine Lighthouse in Florida, USA, the eerie former home of three girls trapped beneath a wheelbarrow
• Gunnuhver Mud Pool in Iceland, infected by the spirit of a maddened criminal
• Turkmenistan’s Door to Hell, an infernal crater still blazing after half a century

Legends about spirits that rise from the dead, places where the crops don’t grow, or sites where strange lights are seen at night… glaciers that bleed, ghost towns, crumbling castles, disused (and active) cemeteries, eerie forests, and freak nature patterns…

This cursed collection covers these sites in all their mysterious glory, and recounts what happened, what continues to happen, and what may explain these phenomena. Hauntings, aliens, moving rocks, and all manner of paranormal activity are covered, in manmade as well as natural surroundings.

You may not want to read it when you are alone…

Evelyn Hollow is a double academy award winning Scottish writer and paranormal psychologist. She was a resident author at Esoterica Zine for more than four years, was the recipient of the 2015 Lonely Planet Travel Writing Scholarship, the occult columnist for Corvid Culture, and has taught writing classes at everywhere from universities to arts festivals. She has also been featured in exhibitions at ESAF and is the creator of The Baer Archive. She is a former psychology lecturer and holds a Master of Research degree in Paranormal Psychology. She now consults as a paranormal psychologist and expert for various TV shows and podcasts — most recently the smash-hit BBC shows The Battersea Poltergeist and Uncanny. She is also 1/4 of the team on the new TV show Spooked Scotland airing on the Discovery Channel in May 2022. Evelyn gives guest talks on paranormal history and the quantum physics of anomalous phenomena.

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ONE – HAUNTED PLACES

Charleville Castle 12

County Offaly, Ireland

L’Ossuaire Municipal 20

The Paris Catacombs, Paris, France

The Chase Vault 24

Oistins, Barbados

The Borgvattnet Vicarage 28

Borgvattnet, Ragunda, Sweden

Bhangarh Fort 32

Rajasthan, India

Bannockburn House 36

Stirling, Scotland

Poveglia Island 44

Venice, Italy

The Winchester Mystery House 48

San Jose, California, USA

TWO – WITCHCRAFT

El Mercado de las Brujas 54

La Paz, Bolivia

Siquijor Island 58

Philippines

Rose Hall Great House 66

Montego Bay, Jamaica

Catemaco Veracruz 70

Mexico

Pendle Hill 78

Lancashire, England

THREE – SACRED SITES

La Recoleta Cemetery 88

Buenos Aires, Argentina

The Hanging Coffins of SagAda 92

Luzon, Philippines

Borobudur Temple 96

Central Java, Indonesia

Duzgun Baba 100

Tunceli Province, Türkiye

Luxor Temple 104

Luxor, Egypt

FOUR – MYTHS & LEGENDS

Cachtice Castle 114

Cachtice, Slovakia

Cortijo Jurado 122

Málaga, Spain

Goblin Ha’ 126

Haddington, Scotland

Burg Eltz 134

Weirschem, Germany

Dragsholm Castle 138

Zealand, Denmark

The Han River 142

Seoul, South Korea

FIVE – STRANGE NATURE

Gunnuhver 148

Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland

Aokigahara Forest 152

Yamanashi, Japan

Door To Hell 160

Darvaza, Turkmenistan

Lake Maracaibow 164

Zulia, Venezuela

Dumas Beach 168

Gujarat, India

Skinwalker Ranch 172

Utah, USA

San Clemente 176

Maule Region, Chile

Wycliffe Well 184

Northern Territories, Australia

SIX – CRYPTIDS & CREATURES

Slaghtaverty Dolmen 190

County Derry, Ireland

Al Madam Ghost Town 198

Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

The Qiu Mansion 202

Shanghai, China

Lake Wakatipu 206

Otago, New Zealand

The Mines of Donbas 210

Eastern Ukraine

Gangkhar Puensum 214

Bhutan

Acknowledgements 220

Picture credits 221

INDEX 222