Yellow level — mystical places on the map
Something is reported, and nobody is hurt by it: voices, figures, lights, cold, objects that move, cameras and engines that stop working. This is the level most hauntings actually sit at — frightening to be in, and that is all that was ever claimed.
164 placesAbout the danger levels
The Bad Apartment on Bolshaya Sadovaya
Apartment No. 50 in the Ilya Pigit tenement building at 10 Bolshaya Sadovaya Street in Moscow is the famed "Bad Apartment" from Mikhail Bulgakov's masterpiece The Master and Margarita, which served as the temporary headquarters for Woland and his retinue. In reality, Bulgakov lived here from 1921 to 1924 in a chaotic communal flat whose volatile domestic atmosphere inspired the novel's supernatural satire.
Overtoun Bridge
A Victorian bridge in Scotland from which dozens of dogs have leapt over the decades — some of them more than once. The likeliest explanation is the scent of mink below and a solid parapet that hides the drop.
Mount Shasta
A volcano in northern California surrounded by perhaps the densest tangle of esoteric legend in America — from Telos, an underground Lemurian city, to reports of glowing objects above the summit.
Devils Tower
Devils Tower is a colossal columnar igneous monolith rising 386 meters (1,267 feet) above the Belle Fourche River valley in northeastern Wyoming, USA. It holds historic significance as the very first designated U.S. National Monument (established in 1906). Formed of striking vertical phonolite columns, the formation serves as a sacred cultural sanctuary for indigenous tribes and a global icon of pop culture and ufology.
Loch Ness
A deep loch in the Scottish Highlands holding more water than every lake in England and Wales combined. Monster reports date from 1933; sonar sweeps and DNA surveys have found no such animal.
Island of the Dolls
An islet in the Xochimilco canals near Mexico City, hung with salvaged dolls for half a century. Its caretaker said he hung them to appease the spirit of a drowned girl; after his death in 2001 it became a tourist pilgrimage.
Highgate Cemetery
An overgrown Victorian cemetery in north London with gothic vaults and an Egyptian Avenue. In the early 1970s a newspaper frenzy about a "Highgate Vampire" drew crowds of hunters to its gates.
Akershus Fortress
A medieval fortress and prison on the Oslo fjord, never taken by siege. Its dungeons gave rise to Norwegian legends of the dog Malcanisen and a faceless woman said to guard the cellars.
The Ancient Ram Inn
A 12th-century house in Gloucestershire, said to stand on crossing ley lines and a pagan site. Reputed one of Britain's grimmest buildings — its owners avoided sleeping on the upper floor for decades.
The Stanley Hotel
A hotel in the Colorado Rockies where Stephen King spent a night in room 217 and conceived The Shining. Staff and guests have reported piano notes and children's footsteps in empty corridors for decades.
The Myrtles Plantation
A Louisiana estate billed as one of America's most haunted houses. Its best-known story is of an enslaved woman, Chloe, in a green turban — undocumented, but persistent for well over a century.
Château de Brissac
The tallest château in France, seven storeys in the Loire valley. It carries the legend of the "Green Lady" — Charlotte de Brézé, killed in the 15th century, whose moaning is said to be heard in the tower at dawn.
Mapimí Silent Zone
A patch of northern Mexican desert where, by local account, radios fall silent and compasses misbehave. The reputation dates from a US missile crashing here in 1970; tests have not confirmed any radio anomaly.
Eastern State Penitentiary
A Philadelphia prison that pioneered total solitary confinement in the 19th century. Closed in 1971 and left in ruins, its vaulted cellblocks are counted among the most reputedly haunted places in the United States.
Old Changi Hospital
An abandoned hospital in Singapore, used as a prison and interrogation site during the Japanese occupation. Its empty wards and corridors have long attracted stories of voices and shadows — one of Asia's best-known haunted sites.
Skinwalker Ranch
A ranch in Utah known for decades of reported UFO sightings, unexplained phenomena, and mysterious livestock deaths. Named after the skin-walker of Navajo folklore.
Tower of London
A medieval fortress on the Thames with nearly a thousand years of executions and imprisonments. Legend holds that the ghosts of Anne Boleyn and other prisoners still walk its grounds.
Aokigahara Forest
A dense forest at the foot of Mount Fuji in Japan, known in folklore as a home to yūrei — the spirits of the dead. Its heavy silence and tree roots gripping hardened lava give it a singular atmosphere.
Hoia Baciu Forest
A forest in Romania often called the world's most haunted: bent tree trunks, reports of UFOs, unexplained lights, and visitors losing their sense of direction.
Winchester Mystery House
A sprawling Victorian mansion in California, continuously expanded for decades on the belief — held by its owner, Sarah Winchester — that construction kept the spirits of those killed by Winchester rifles at bay. Staircases lead to ceilings; doors open onto walls.