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There are numerous reportedly haunted places in Colombia. This list is alphabetized by province or territory.

Antioquia

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Hotel Nutibara
Roberto Botero House, Clínica del Sagrado Corazón
Rafael Uribe Uribe Palace, former Gobernación de Antioquia
  • Hotel Nutibara, Medellín: Many people have jumped from its windows and balconies. Children laughter, shadows and objects moving by themselves have been reported.[1]
  • La Catedral, Medellín: A short-lived prison, built to incarcerate Pablo Escobar. Now a monastery[2]
  • La Loma de Los Bernal: In the western hills of Medellín, The aburraes, an ancient people from this zone, buried their deads here, along with treasures, which subsequently have been found when the area was urbanized. Legend says during foggy nights a white specter can be spotted walking on this hill. [1]
  • San Pedro Cemetery, Medellín: Specters, moving sculptures and shadows behind them have been reported. Locals have attributed this strange phenomena to the many souls of people murdered during Cartel times and whose tombs have been profaned. [1]
  • A three floor building located in Santa Cruz, part of the northwestern comunes of Medellín.[3]
  • Colinas del Poblado, Medellin: A moaning man manifests in the fourth floor. [4]
  • Aranjuez, Medellín: A building that once was home to Manicomio de Aranjuez was subject of paranormal memories from its former employees. A surveillant confessed one night he found a ghost roaming the second floor and after that night round he left his job. [5]
  • Clínica del Sagrado Corazón, Medellín: The clinic owns a French styled house that was built by Ricardo Botero on 1869. On the 1920s, the house was place for many spiritist sessions which produce manifestations like scents suddenly appearing from nowhere.[5]
  • Antioquia Railway Workshops, Medellín: Abandoned since 1992, the ruins are haunted by workers who perished inside.[5]
  • The old Gobernacion de Antioquia building, in Medellín: Slams, footsteps, lights switching on and off, doors and windows opening and closing are the phenomena reported by workers.[5]
  • The ghost of a boy who appears in Envigado, in a house where the families who have lived there have felt the presence in the backyard, surrounding a mango tree. [6]
  • Puente del Diablo, Envigado: The spirit of a worker who died there under unknown circumstances got trapped here. Many streetwalkers have been terrified by his presence. [1]
  • Envigado Municipal Theatre: Now destroyed, Chairs falling down, footstep and some other phenomena were reported. Hotspots for paranormal activity were the auditorium, dressing rooms and the parking lot.[5]

Arauca

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  • Carcel del Circuito de Arauca, Arauca: Inmates complain during nighttime the feeling of something invisible laying next to them, being pulled off from their bunks or dragged by their feet. [7]

Atlántico

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La Aduana
  • Reports of a ghost bride, in La Curva del Diablo (The devil's curve) in Puerto Colombia. A team from a local TV channel which was recreating this story at the same place claims to have captured actual footage of the ghost.[8]
  • La Aduana, Barranquilla, where the ghost of native woman dressed in white appears into the building and surrounding areas. [9]
  • La Alboraya, Barranquilla: A decayed mansion, located in a district school, where rumor tells that was a place for black magic and torture. Neighbors report to feel accustomed to paranormal occurrences, specially the ghostly presence of a lady and galloping sounds when no horse is reported to live there. [10]
  • Yidi Mansion, Barranquilla: built in 1927 and located in El Prado neighbourhood, known for the ghost of his owner, Emilio Yidi, a palestinian immigrant who founded Industrias Yidi. [11]
  • An old mansion located in Calle 53, also in El Prado, used for some time as a funeral house. Now abandoned, the ghost of a boy playing ball had been felt there.[11]
  • Puente La Cordialidad, Barranquilla: Haunted by a couple of hitchhikers. Passing through Jardines de La Eternidad many have testified that the ghosts of dogs or horses sometimes have caused car accidents.[12]
  • The abandoned building which was Hotel Royal in Barranquilla is apparently haunted by a bride who died after celebrating her wedding at the hotel. Workers on the door manifest to heard voices coming from inside.[4]

Bogotá

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Luis Colmenares plaque, El Virrey Park
Las Aguas Cloister
Patio, Silva House of Poetry
Hospital San Juan De Dios
La Sabana Railway Station
Jorge Eliécer Gaitán Municipal Theatre
National Museum of Colombia
Central Cemetery, at night
Mono Osorio Castle
  • Bogotá City Hall or also known as Liévano Palace[13][14]
  • Bolívar Square: José Raimundo Russi was executed here, and his ghost haunts the square.[15]
  • An apartment building located in Chapinero where Campo Elias Delgado killed his mother and six of his neighbours, before perpetrating what is known as The Pozzetto Massacre.[16]
  • Pozzetto Restaurant, Chapinero: After the massacre, former employees complained about noises in the tables, voices, bathroom faucets and the piano functioning with no one touching them. [17]
  • A family residence in Ciudad Montes, in Puente Aranda district.[18]
  • El Virrey Park, where Luis Colmenares died under unknown circumstances. Strange occurrences have been reported .[19]
  • The Colombian Institute of Anthropology and History headquarters[20]
  • The streets around the campus of La Salle University host the spectre of a vengeful woman who was rejected by a Spanish priest.[21]
  • Under the main altar of La Concepción Church, three knocks are reported to be heard whenever a nun is about to die.[22]
  • Manuelita Sáenz House[23]
  • The Silva Poetry House[24]
  • La Inmaculada Cemetery: There is an urban legend of a phantom passenger.[25]
  • On the corner of Calle de La Esperanza and Calle de La Parra sits a house where legend says disturbing satanic rituals took place in. In 1999, a local newspaper reported on the story of a security guard who claimed to have seen a two-meter tall white humanoid on the patio while he was there by himself.[21]
  • Calle de la Peña: An old manor in this street has a terrible reputation. Apparently, there is a ghost in the patio that had cursed the existence of everyone who has the misfortune of seeing it. Legend says that even Simon Bolívar got to see it when he was escaping from an assassination attempt. The husband of the actual owner hung himself after various encounters with the infamous ghost; he left a note to his wife revealing the ghost's horrible secret, although the wife refuses to reveal it publicly.[26]
  • Calle del Sol (The Street of the Sun) was built in 1917 as a lodge for a religious community, but became the headquarters for the Colombian Intelligence Service (DAS) in 1945,[27] which was used to incarcerate and torture prisoners during La Violencia. Now an apartment complex, some residents report hearing screams, moans, laughs, punches and whippings, preceded by lights and strange fogs.[24] Some workers at a restaurant, also located on the dungeon's location, report poltergeist activity such as toilets flushing by themselves, things changing location on their own, and an invisible force in the kitchen area which pats workers on their backs. Supposedly these are the souls of those who were tortured, or perhaps a witch who was the mother of one of these prisoners.[28]
  • The Casa Sámano Museum used to belong to Juan de Sámano, Viceroy of New Granada. Publicly recognized as one of the most hated figures of Colombian history; when he was alive, he used to spit, step on and kick those he did not like, which he has continued doing in the afterlife.[24] Security guards have heard steps on the second floor and seen or heard doors which appear to open by themselves.[29]
  • The Gilberto Alzate Avendaño Foundation is reported to be haunted by the ghost of Viceroy José Manuel de Ezpeleta, nicknamed "The Green Jacket Ghost". Legend says the ghost used to knock three times on a wall on the second floor and then proceeded to disappear.[24][15]
  • Gregario Vásquez de Arce y Ceballos House has the benevolent ghost of the owner within its premises, he appears in the basement and the backyard, wearing a long black cape.[24]
  • The José Caicedo Rojas House, also known as The Goblin's Mansion, is haunted by a goblin named Baltazar. Legend says the goblin is the spirit of a newborn, who was thrown into the backyard's well by his single mother, afraid of being burned at the stake of the Holy Office's laws.[21]
  • The Jose Raimundo Russi House is where Manuelito Ferro was murdered, with Russi being charged for the crime. Some neighbors have said they hear the screams of Ferro and the sound of his stabbings.[24][21]
  • The Juan Montúfar House has been a boarding school since colonial times, and is still being run by Montúfar's descendants. Students who have lived in the school have felt ghostly presences and drastic temperature drops, alongside hearing footsteps in the middle of the night.[21]
  • Las Aguas Cloister is a former convent where people claim to hear noises and see shadows in the south-eastern portion of the backyard, which the nuns used as a burial place.[15]
  • Palomar del Príncipe Park is haunted by a blonde, blue-eyed boy, who used to feed doves 300 years ago, this boy usually appears at dawn. A legend says that those who are cruel to the doves will be tormented by the soul of the boy.[24]
  • The Rosa Florida House is haunted by General Sardá, who was loyal to Simón Bolívar, and who manifests himself with the sound of his boots stepping on the sidewalks.[24]
  • In La Candelaria, the southeast corner of Calle 11 and Carrera 2 there is the house of author José María Cordovez Moure. In the first floor the spirit of a woman makes herself noticeable in the kitchen. In the second floor a man screaming for his mother has been heard.[30]
  • Ermita del Chorro de Quevedo, La Candelaria: Is said to be haunted by the ghost of Trinidad Forero, a woman known to be jealous of her maid.[31]
  • The Calle 100 Bridge that crosses over Carrera Séptima, where some local taxi drivers avoid driving in. Legend says some of them were haunted by the ghost of a nun who was killed near this spot.[32]
  • El Palo del Ahorcado located in Ciudad Bolívar, where legend says you could hear roars and strange lights around the tree. [33]
  • San Juan De Dios Hospital: A singing nurse, a nun, and some moanings have been reported where the morgue and the maternity wing used to be located. [34]
  • La Sabana Railway Station: Stories of spirits of kids playing inside and a tortured woman who was killed there.[34]
  • Jorge Eliécer Gaitán Theatre: Built in 1938, its story is full of events of cultural, social and political importance. Lights that switch on and off, children shadows, and the ghost of a builder are some of the phenomena that had scared the surveillants. [35]
  • Museo del Ser Humano, Los Mártires: Built near Central Cemetery, this is an odd museum in a constant exposition of fetuses and dead creatures. The director of the museum says the place is plenty of the remaining energies from those dead creatures causing paranormal events. Sometimes temperatures tend to quick fall down. Visitors reported their camera screens suddenly exploded and also lights from inside tend to flick until switch off completely. [36]
  • National Museum of Colombia: It was primarily used as a jail shaped as a panopticon, and was one of the main national prisons in Colombia during its first years as a Republic. The awful conditions lived by prisoners inside made some of them to perish and their souls still roam the halls of the building. [37]
  • Hospital Universitario San Ignacio: Built inside Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, is haunted by the ghost of a tall doctor who still makes rounds.[38]
  • Central Cemetery of Bogotá: Probably the most important cemetery of the nation, due to the many historical figures that are buried inside. It is also one of the most haunted places in the country, full of stories of sorcery, miracles and apparitions. An area known as "the caracol", which is an iron spiral-built staircase that leads to an underground enclosure full of tombs, has a reputation of having an awful vibe inside and actually had to be closed to the public due to the many findings of black magic artifacts. [39]
  • Mono Osorio Castle, Chapinero: A beautiful building built according to Belgian castle architecture, which now houses an Italian restaurant, a café and the ghost of a man in old fashion named Hilario. [40]

Bolívar

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Naval Museum of the Caribbean, Cartagena
  • The road between Arjona and Turbaco is allegedly haunted by the ghost of a woman who is dressed in a wedding gown and manifests herself at midnight.[41]
  • Naval Museum of the Caribbean, Cartagena: A tourist took a photograph of the ghost of an old man, but nothing appeared on the building's security cameras.[42]
  • The former San Pablo Psychiatric Hospital, Cartagena.[43]
  • Santa Clara Hotel, Cartagena: Founded in 1621, this large building is a former monastery.[44] The ghost stories made it harder for the renovator to get and keep workers.[45]
  • Sinu University, Campus Santillana, Cartagena: Students, patients and health staff report seen a little girl roaming the halls, inviting them to play. [41]
  • Calle Tumbamuertos, Cartagena: This street is on road next to San Diego Cemetery and legend says corpses needed to transit through it. The street was so bumpy that the bodies moved too much even to the point of partially sliding out of the coffin or falling from it completely. People says sometimes you can hear the laughter of a mocking spirit. [46]
  • Calle Don Sancho, Cartagena: Haunted by the ghost of a priest.[46]
  • Calle Santo Domingo, Cartagena: A carriage dragged by horses on fire and driven by a dark figure with sparks coming from its eyes has been reported. [46]

Boyacá

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Cojines del Zaque, Tunja
  • Las Nieves Church, Tunja: A legend of a levitating lantern, making a trip between Las Nieves and the Metropolitan Cathedral.[47]
  • San Francisco de Asis Church, Tunja: Claims of a large dog that barks and howls at late hours, dragging chains and bright eyes.[47]
  • There are stories that old town in Tunja was haunted by the ghosts of Franciscan and Dominican friars.[47]
  • Los Cojines del Zaque, a muisca sanctuary located in the hills of Tunja, where some strange phenomena has been reported.[48]
  • The ghost of a monk in El Panóptico also in Tunja, which required an exorcism in 1912. [49]
  • The Wandering Jew statue of Santo Domingo Temple in Tunja, where legends say it moves from its original place and looks in threatening way.[50]

Caldas

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  • Cerro de Oro, Manizales: A story that if candy is placed over a car, ghosts of children will approach the car and take the candy.[51]
  • La Argentina neighborhood, Manizales: A story of a horseman who used to provide milk to the neighbors whose ghost allegedly still gallops around the streets.[51]
  • Manizales City Centre: Karina Albornoz was a greengrocer killed by her husband in 1941, who allegedly haunts the building.[51]
  • San Jorge neighborhood, Manizales: A lady who wears red heels is said to haunt an old house in this neighborhood.[51]

Caquetá

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  • An old manor, known by locals as the Horror House, located between La Salle School and La Consolata neighborhood in Florencia.[52]

Casanare

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  • La Esperanza, Yopal: An empty field that used to be a cemetery was located in Carrera 14. Many victims from the armed conflict were taken here, sometimes unidentified. Cab drivers and neighbors have been witnessing blue lights that precede white figures roaming around the field. Next to the cemetery there is Colegio Jorge Eliecer Gaitán where surveillants had to do many rounds during nighttime after listening to crowds of teachers and students, sounds of desks being moved, lights switching on and off or balls being played with no one inside the school.[53]

Cauca

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  • Párraga, La Sierra: stones were thrown to the township's roofs, which was blamed on a deaf-mute woman.[54]
  • Hospital San José, Popayán: Haunted by an 8-years-old girl who roams through the halls of the fourth floor. [55]
  • San Francisco Parrish, Popayán: Sometimes the saints statues appear to move by themselves.[56]

Cundinamarca

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Marroquín Castle
Salto del Tequendama House
  • Marroquín Castle, Chía: A tall woman dressed in black, called "La Zancona", is one of several ghosts claimed to inhabit the location.[57]
  • Hacienda Yerbabuena, Chía: Haunted by a traveller who vanishes in the dormitories and a moaning woman in the praying room. [58]
  • El Rincón, Chía: Built between Marroquin Castle and Hacienda Yerbabuena, in ancient years muffled cries were reported.[58]
  • Salto de Tequendama House, San Antonio del Tequendama: A former hotel near the Tequendama Falls, a place with a high rate of suicides. There has been claims of a headless man seen walking around the terrace or watching from the windows.[59]
  • Siberia, La Calera: Visitors are said to have heard children singing, though there could be a natural explanation.[60]
  • The Psychiatric Hospital of Sibaté was abandoned in 2008 and since then there are ghost stories, specially one of the employees who was killed by a patient. [61]
  • Hacienda El Paraíso, El Colegio: Haunted by one of the owners, whose presence is noted by her moans. [62]
  • La Casa del Fantasma, La Vega: Haunted by a white lady.[62]
  • La Peña de Juaica, Tabio: This mountain is famous for being a hotspot for UFO sights. Shadows and whispers are reported. [63]

Huila

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Magdalena

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Manuel Varela House
  • Manuel Varela House also known as The Devil's house, Ciénaga: An abandoned republican mansion, home to a physician Manuel Varela, who legend says he sacrificed souls to the devil in return for wealth. Witches, ghosts of workers, a gold-toothed black boy who smokes tobacco while riding a tricycle, and even the devil himself are said to haunt the mansion and its surrounding grounds.[66]
  • Santa Marta Railway: The railway crosses Magdalena Department from Zona Bananera to Port of Santa Marta. There is a legend of a heartbroken woman who throw herself to be ridden by the train. Her ghost attracted many people to meet her same fate. For many years, some train drivers complained to find spirits of horrified people trying to cross the railway and then vanished. [67]
  • Old Hospital San Juan De Dios, Santa Marta: A nun who hanged herself after forbiddingly falling in love with a physician is reportedly haunting this old building. During the days were the hospital was still functioning, her benevolent spirit was remembered to heal some patients, taking care of them or the babies who were born there. Nowadays, the nun has being spotted in a hall in front of the chapel. [67]

Meta

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  • El Manantial neighborhood, Villavicencio: Unknown if it is a goblin or the spirit of a boy who appeared dead next to a wetland, many people have felt attacked by this presence or simply get to see unusual events inside their houses.[68]
  • Parque de la Cruz, Villavicencio: A house in this traditional neighborhood is haunted by the ghost of Celina, a teenager who was murdered and apparently buried under a staircase. [69]

Norte de Santander

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  • Known as El Anima Sola, is a popular apparition detailed by cab drivers that cross Cementerio Central de Cúcuta at nights. [70]
  • An old blue house built in El Páramo neighborhood, in Cúcuta was the home of Egon Bernhard, a Nazi sympathizer who arrived from Germany before the Second World War. Bernhard was found shot dead in 1987 and now his grandson lives in the house, which is currently at risk collapse. The grandson claims a girl haunts the upper floors. He has heard her moaning, and tries calming her down by "giving her" a cup of water, although sometimes the task is unsuccessful and the girl gets rebellious. Sometimes she looks for him in his bedroom and approaches him slowly, just to vanish when she gets very close to his bed.[59]
  • La Gabarra, Tibú: The Restrepo family home was taken by the AUC and turned into a headquarters where huge parties and heinous crimes took place, the crimes in question involved the torture, hook-hanging and chainsaw-quartering of prisoners within the building. The new owner says that more than 150 prisoners died there during a four-year period, so he suspects the number of corpses buried inside the house is also big. For him and his family it is only possible to sleep during daytime since they claim that at nighttime they can see two black dogs walking around the two cells built in the patio. They also claim to have heard screams, moans and whispers, alongside seeing moving shadows.[59]
  • Ocaña: Antón García de Bonilla, a legendary landlord, still lures in the town's old streets.[71]

Quindío

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  • Armenia City Hall: The spirits of some of the previous workers haunt the guards, specially on the parking lots, the fourth and the sixth floors and the restrooms. Masses were offered several times to put those souls to rest.[72][73]
  • Banco Popular, Armenia: A former bank manager came out to write about the strange occurrences that happened in the bank thirty years ago. One of the guards told him about hearing heavy footsteps, coughing, desks being opened and closed. Suddenly the sounds became more frequent, now adding voices and bangs. Another guard reported to watch a typewriter operating by itself. Apparently, when the superiors made fun of the ghost story, The first guard told the manager the spirit got angry and locked itself inside the guards' room. The guard decided to deal with the ghost, throwing holy water at it. A violent stream blew itself to the adjacent wall, and the phenomenon never happened again.[74]
  • Villa Gloria, Génova: And old house built in the 1920s, is reputedly haunted by one the owners and also by a woman who has been felt next the river [75]

Risaralda

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  • Diocesano School, Dosquebradas: A nun roaming in the corridors, a man dressed in black and a playful girl on the second floor have been seen in the building at late hours.[76]
  • Hernando Vélez Marulanda neighborhood, Pereira: A school in this neighborhood has its own ghost nun who appears in the restrooms. Suspicions are that the presence is indicating the site of a guaca.[76]
  • A Horror House in Pereira appears to be haunted for real. The owners, a pair of brothers, found an abandoned old house; they found it so scary that they decided to put the attraction there. When the attraction opened, the brothers had a hard time hiring guards, since some of them quit when they claimed to have heard strange steps and moving things.[77]

Santander

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Las Nieves Chapel
Palacio de Justicia, Bucaramanga
  • A 100-year-old house in Bucaramanga, site of a guaca and where a lot of paranormal activity scared three generations of a family. Voices, shadows, an entity whose hair flew with a violent wind (apparently, a witch), a tree of Spanish limes that used to throw its fruits with violence, footsteps and some other occurrences which partially ended when the family dug out some hair and Guane gold pieces from the patio.[78]
  • Bucaramanga City Hall: Guards have reported strange light rows in the second floor, where the City Department of Health functions.[79]
  • Palacio de Justicia in Bucaramanga: during one night on 2002 the figure of a man was pursued by the surveillance staff with no success. The entity appeared on multiple occasions but in different floors and was gunshot many times but it didn't stop or seem to noticed.[80]
  • El Centro township, Barrancabermeja: A beautiful American nurse was raped and murdered in this area. Her ghost likes to appear in front of lustful men who approach to flirt with her, but they pass out when they get to see her real face.[81]
  • El Patio de las Brujas (The Witches' Patio) in Girón got its name after an ominous happening took place in there. Legend recalls that in 1925, a farmer was found almost dead by his family. When he got up, he affirmed to have found a horseman, who was no one but the devil itself, surrounded by a black dog, a woman and some vultures (which folklore recounts as witches). The woman happened to be a neighbor whose love was not corresponded by the farmer.[81]
  • One of the bridges of the old town of Girón has a ghostly but peaceful horseman known as Antón García, whose horse makes first impression by its gallops; when the victim cannot see where the gallops come from, then they turned to be in front of the shadow of Antón.[81]
  • La Llorona makes herself present in Las Nieves creek, Girón, with her hair reaching her ankles and her notorious weeping.[81]
  • The Headless Nazareno that haunts Girón in Easter times and after 11 pm. It is known to levitate in Calle de La Calavera or Calle del Sagrado Corazón and disappears in Las Nieves Chapel. Last sighting was documented in 1992.[81]

Sucre

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  • Hacienda El Palmar, San Onofre: A recently abandoned estate usurped by paramilitary forces and used as a headquarters. An important paramilitary chief, known by the alias 'Cadena', committed heinous crimes inside the estate and many of his victims remain there in mass graves. The caretaker and her family have felt shadows, moans, and water running in the bathroom when no one is using it. Also, there is a shed between the barn and the corral which the caretaker insists to keep close, but appears open with no explanation. Locals added El Palmar is haunted by the souls of those who died there, or even 'Cadena', although his fate remains unknown and some claim he is still alive.[82]

Tolima

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Palacio de Justicia, Ibagué
  • Palacio de Justicia in Ibague, where the security staff have made reports of gravely voices, shadows, a woman in a mango tree, heel step sounds, a 10 year old boy during late hours, and other strange phenomena in the 4th floor and parking lot. This place used to be a morgue during independence times. [83]
  • El Panóptico, Ibagué: Built at the end of XIX century and occupied until 2003, this old jail is the place of many hauntings, which could correspond to the inmates who were murdered for their crimes. Neighbors have testified to watch shadows or to hear screams and moans. The fame of the building have attracted many investigators from paranormal-themed tv shows.[84]
  • Puente de la Variante, Ibagué: A place with a sad reputation of being spot for many people who have decided to end their lives. Many citizens and lifeguards report to feel a bad vibe, like something or someone is watching them. [84]
  • Parque Centenario, Ibagué: A headless priest, and a forbidden couple made by a priest and a nun whose skeletons were found in a cave inside the park are the most recognized hauntings here. [84]
  • Strange sounds and voices asking for help have being reported in the ruins of Armero.[85]

Valle del Cauca

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Cemetery of El Cerrito
Coltabaco Building
  • Cemetery of El Cerrito: Guards report strange shadows. A couple of them one night received a woman who asked to stay for five minutes when the guards were about to leave; Ten minutes passed, and when they got inside to look for her, no one was there.[86]
  • Central Cemetery of Palmira: A boy that sits on his grave has been seen by the guards.[86]
  • Santa Lucía township, Tuluá: There are rumors of the ghost of a 24-year-old woman who was raped and dismembered.[16]
  • Telepacífico Studios, Cali: Guards and other employees report eerie presences that roam around the whole building. On a nightshift, a journalist captured what it seems to be an invisible force opening and closing the door where she was working.[87]
  • Enrique Buenaventura Municipal Theatre, Cali: Cheers and claps can be heard while there is no crowd. The presence of a deceased worker have been reported by technicians. The puppet theatre is haunted by the members of family plagued by leprosy who secluded there.[88]
  • Coltabaco Building, Cali: Considered an architectonic jewel, this patrimonial building was built during the 1930s as solicited by the disappeared Colombian Tobacco Company. Moving door locks and loud bangs reported at late hours. A saluting presence was reported in the third floor by a maintenance worker. People blames a poltergeist from this strange occurences. [88]
  • A five-story building that hosts El País offices in San Nicolas neighborhood in Cali, built in the 1940s. The reporters have been scared with taps in their backs or whistling sounds next to their ears. Other phenomena are the sound of keyboard clicks or the ghosts of a mother and her children walking to the elevator. Staff members noticed the presence of a surveillance agent who died years before. [88]
  • The old Cali railway station that now hosts the Museo Libre de Arte Público de Colombia has a tragic history, since it was a used as a provisional morgue for many of the fatal victims of the 1956 explosion. From then on, the spirits of a little girl and a fireman dressed in 50s fashion have been spotted. The third floor and the north wing are where most supernatural occurrences happen. [88]
  • Torre de Cali: Inaugurated in 1986, some known local business rented many floors. 27th floor was occupied by Cali Cartel. Former employees report that tortures and murders took place inside the floor and subsequently some strange lights and alarming sounds were felt. [88]
  • Loma de la Cruz, Cali: The place of a legend that tells the story of a white young woman who fell in love with a black slave. When her father found out, he murdered the slave and buried him in the hill. The ghost of the slave terrified some citizens, so a cross was built in the hill in an attempt to pacify the slave's soul. [88]
  • Universidad del Valle, Faculty of Health, Cali: Built next to Evaristo Garcia University Hospital, in San Fernando neighborhood, which was used as an orphanage some years before and could explain the presence of otherworldly children in some of the halls. [88]
  • Cayzedo Square, Cali: Built over an old cemetery, no one dares to walk during night hours, since reports of strange shadows, screams of pain and people dressed in old fashion who mysteriously vanish in the dark.[89]
  • Fuente Versalles, Cali: At nights, workers have been scared by doors being slammed and faucets running on.[4]
  • Versalles: A school building that used to be an orphanage and a boarding school have been reported as haunted by some guards.[90]

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