Ghost Map

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Country

Mexico

cases
8
years
1550–2026

Legend: 7 Explained: 1

  1. 16th century

    1. c. 1550 Spectral creatures and night demons · Legend La Llorona – the Weeping Woman of Mexico Plaza Mayor (Zócalo), Mexico City A woman in white who wails by the water at night, “Oh, my children!” – Latin America's most famous phantom has roots in records from the Conquest.

  2. 19th century

    1. 1859–present Haunted houses and manors · Legend The House of La Zacatecana, Querétaro Casa de la Zacatecana, Independencia 59, Querétaro A 17th-century house in Querétaro is named after a woman who, legend says, had her husband killed, killed the hired assassin and was then murdered by an unknown hand.
    2. 1865–present Cemeteries, crypts and ossuaries · Legend The Mummies of Guanajuato Museum of the Mummies by Santa Paula Cemetery, Guanajuato Clearing crypts for unpaid fees, Guanajuato's gravediggers found bodies frozen in grimaces – now one of the world's most macabre collections.

  3. 1900–1909

    1. 1900–present Prisons, hospitals and asylums · Legend Lecumberri, Mexico City's Black Palace Palacio de Lecumberri (General Archive of the Nation), Venustiano Carranza, Mexico City Mexico's former ‘Black Palace’ prison now houses the national archives – and its staff tell of the ghost of ‘Don Jacinto’.

  4. 1930–1939

    1. c. 1930–present White ladies · Legend La Planchada – the Ghost Nurse of the Hospital Juárez Hospital Juárez, Mexico City At night a nurse in a perfectly ironed, old-fashioned uniform is said to visit patients' bedsides in a Mexico City hospital – and they recover.

  5. 1950–1959

    1. c. 1950–present Forests, islands and abandoned places · Legend The Island of the Dolls in Xochimilco Isla de las Muñecas, Xochimilco canals, Mexico City On an islet among the canals of Xochimilco hundreds of decaying dolls hang from the trees – a hermit hung them to appease the ghost of a drowned girl.
    2. 1952 Cursed objects · Legend The Death Clock of the Hospicio Cabañas Hospicio Cabañas, Guadalajara, Jalisco A clock in a former Guadalajara orphanage was said to stop every time a child died. The nuns removed it in 1952.

  6. 1960–1969

    1. c. 1960 Vampires and strigoi · Explained The Tlahuelpuchi – Bloodsucking Witches of Tlaxcala Rural communities of Tlaxcala at the foot of La Malinche volcano In Tlaxcala's villages, the sudden deaths of infants were blamed on the tlahuelpuchi, a bloodsucking witch. The anthropologist Hugo Nutini studied dozens of such cases.