List of reportedly haunted locations in Colombia

Colombia, a country rich in folklore, has a massive list of haunted locations that remain on people's minds.

The most common Colombian ghost story is the Guaca. A Guaca is a valuable treasure that remains hidden, mostly in old houses or terrains. It's highly implied that where a Guaca hides, there is a ghost protecting it. A superstition dictates that every Guaca is destined to someone, so no one else would be lucky to pull it out. The new owner of the guaca could be blessed by the treasure, but not without a price: A curse that condemn the life of its new owner.

But not only Guacas enrich the following article, which classifies haunted locations by departments, and then, in alphabetical order.

Antioquia

• An old house in the neighborhood of Aranjuez in Medellín which now works as a school. No one dares to stay there at nights, where steps and eerie noised have scared teachers and students.^[1]
• Fredonia: A town in Southwestern Antioquia, famous for the novel La Bruja (The Witch), written by Germán Castro Caycedo and inspired on a true story. The house where the sorcery took place is filled with presences, which roam at nights and make themselves present with steps, moans, whispers and snoring sounds, specially on the second floor. It seems there could be three or more ghosts in the house: A man in white, who walks around the stairs and gets lost in the bathroom; one of the owners of the house who haunts the master bedroom and a sweet entity in the patio are some of those reported. For "Amanda", the woman from whom the book is inspired, it's unbearable to stay inside the house, since it's charged with potent aura.^[2]
• La Barquereña, Sabaneta: A man suicided inside this house. Some strange phenomena, including the ghost of a boy who was captured in a photography and the ghost of a previous owner, have been reported.^[3][4]
• La Catedral, Medellín: A short-lived prison, built to incarcerate Pablo Escobar. Now a monastery,.^[5] some priests and nuns report to have seen lights and to have felt eerie presences.^[6]
• La Magnolia, Envigado: A family was warned by a former owner that the house they were going to move into was haunted. The youngest child told his parents he used to play with another kid inside the house and who also got him some mangos out of season. Things got scary when the child tried to hang himself several times, testifying that his new friend ask him to commit suicide, so they could keep playing. After these facts, the family moved out. Some time later, the ground where the kid used to appear, was dugged out to find bones and clothes which seem to belong to a boy.^[7][8]
• Normal Superior School of Medellín: Windows are opened and swings pushed by unseen forces, ghosts of monks, and shadows appearing on the dovecote are some of the phenomena reported by students.^[9]

Auditorium, University of Antioquia

• A three floor building located in Santa Cruz neighborhood, part of the northwestern comunes of Medellín claims the curiousness of neighbors. Coins thrown from nowhere rolling on the floor, pots and glasses flying around and crashing on the floor, windows which break by themselves and strange shadows moving through the rooms are some of the phenomena reported, specially on the ground floor. The phenomena are attributed to an old man whom lived in the house and who rumouredly is possessed by the soul of his wife, though some blame the strange happenings on sorcery.^[10]
• University of Antioquia, Medellín Campus: The main campus was home of the Franciscan Community, which also built a school there. Many people, but specially general services workers, janitors and surveillance officers who worked there at nightshift, affirm to felt presences in most of the buildings, specifically the auditorium, the chapel, the radio station and the museum.^[11][12] The ghost in the auditorium is presumed to be a monk, who some claim is a friar who worked there as the school's first principal.^[13]

Arauca

• Arauca Circuit Jail: Many of the inmates, guards and even workers are horrified by events they are put through, thanks to some spirits who remain there. The inmates are afraid when the lights go out, because that is when they feel strange noises and eerie presences that grab their feet and their sheets, push them from their litters or their stuff to the floor and even lay with them. Those spirits made themselves present on classes, moving objects from the classroom when the teachers are inside. The inmates are so desperate, that they ask with insistence to get a priest who performs an exorcism, who can release them from the souls, who reputedly belong to some inmates who had died inside or outside the penitentiary or to those who were victims of the inmates accused of homicide.^[14]

Atlántico

La Alboraya Castle

• Hospital General de Barranquilla: The ghost of Hortensia, a nun who worked there during the 1950s has been reported to walk around the maternity wing.^[15][16][17]
• La Alboraya Castle, Barranquilla: La Alboraya is a house built 200 years ago. Neighbors state that a ghostly headless horseman gallops from the house; The horseman is probably the spirit of Rondón, who owned the estate and killed everyone who dare to get on his way. Also a boy dressed in a school uniform has been seen walking by himself at late hours around the house.^[17][18][19]
• Reports of a ghost bride, in La Curva del Diablo (The devil's curve) in Puerto Colombia, have been kept in people's minds by centuries. The bride has been capted in footage when a team from a TV channel were recreating the bride's story in that road; she appears just behind the actress who was playing her.^[20]
• Marco Fidel Suárez School, Barranquilla: Legend says there is a boy who asks for help to find a coin; To those who find the coin, the boy will grab their arm, turn up his face and show he has no eyes. Apparently, the boy was murdered when he lost his bus and someone kidnapped him to get his eyes.^[17] This school is part of the Barranquilla Ghost Tour^[21]
• A house in Santa Inés neighborhood, Soledad, where a family was tormented by a series of unexplainable phenomena caused by a pyromaniac spirit. Walls ignited by themselves, strange faces and laughs seemed to come from nowhere, and a family member was possessed by the spirit of an indio. The phenomena stopped after some catholic rites were performed. The family blames a witch, with whom the family's stepfather had an affair.^[19]

Bogotá

Jorge Eliecer Gaitán Theater

Luis Colmenares plaque, El Virrey Park

San Juan de Dios Hospital

Tequendama Hotel

• Bogotá City Hall or also known as Liévano Palace: Typewriters operating by themselves, an unusually giant owl flying over the parking lot, and lights turning on and off are some of the phenomena reported.^[22] A white mass has been noticed by surveillance and even a press officer. The mass has been photographed and felt by sensors.^[23]
• Bogotá South Bus Terminal: A man and a red lady rumouredly haunt the terminal, even being detected by surveillance cameras. Many people have heard screams and strange sounds in the early morning hours. A possible explanation is the proximity to El Apogeo Cemetery.^[24][25]
• Bolívar Square: José Raimundo Russi was executed by fusillade here, and his ghost has been seen roaming the square, elegantly dressed but his face covered in blood.^[26]
• Capitolio Nacional: A child haunts the third floor.^[27]
• Casa de Nariño: At nights, none of the guards dare to check close to the German piano installed in one of the halls. There has been sightings of a dark-haired female ghost who likes to play it, which rumours appoint to the ghost of Manuelita Saenz^[28]
• Central Cemetery of Bogotá: Most of the paranormal activity comes from a place called "El Caracol", a spiral staircase leading to a mass grave where rapings, murderings and suicides took place. Presences have also been felt around the Presidential Alley and near Leo Siegfred Koop's grave.^[29]
• An apartment building located in Chapinero where Campo Elias Delgado used to live. There, in 1986 he killed his mother and six of his neighbours, before perpetrating what is known as The Pozzetto Massacre. At night, residents claim to hear screams and moans.^[30]
• A family residence in Ciudad Montes, in Puente Aranda district, where the whole family have sensed a non violent (and even pleasing) entity. Door knocks, ear-whispering voices, shadows, footsteps, pot sounds, electronic artifacts turning on and off with no explanation and even a black lady walking down the stairs are some of the phenomenons reported.^[31]
• Colombian Liberal Party National Headquarters: Located in Teusaquillo district, It's an old manor with an eerie presence that makes everyone around to feel watched. Noises of coughing, sneezing, wood squeaks, lights turning on and off by themselves, also doors operated by no one visible have been reported.^[32]
• DAS Headquarters: A building in central Bogotá that was the target of a bombing in 1989, resulting in a significant number of deaths. Some of the victims of the attack still haunt this building, including a desperate blonde woman running in a corridor, a vanishing couple, a man in the parking lot and a strange presence on the terrace that makes dogs bark.^[33]
• El Virrey Park, where Luis Colmenares died under undiscovered circumstances. Strange occurrences have been reported in the police surveillance station and surrounding areas near where the body of Luis was found.^[34]
• Jorge Eliécer Gaitán Theater: The ghost of 'Varguitas' likes to move things, make strange noises and to play pranks inside the theatre.^[35]
• La Candelaria:
• La Inmaculada Cemetery: There is a TV reportage about a woman cab driver who picked up a young woman in the cemetery at late hours. The passenger was described to be wearing in ellegant manner, but her face was extremely pale and had an strange formaldehyde odor. When the women arrived, the driver stopped in front of an old and seemingly abandoned house; the passenger got out of the cab and asked the driver to wait for her mom so she will pay for the ride, and next, when the driver got distracted, the girl vanished. Scared after seeing no signs of the passenger, the driver found a shawl that the passenger left in the backseat. The driver got out of the cab too and approached to knock at the house door. An old lady answered the door, and when the driver ask her for the money the passenger promised, the old lady started to cry. Confused, the driver reached for the shawl, and the lady, after recognizing the shawl as her daughter's, showed her a picture of the passenger, telling her: "You see, your passenger was my daughter, and we just buried her in the cemetery a few hours ago". The old lady proceed to pay the driver after thanking her, leaving the driver scared for life.^[36]
• The actual offices of Ministry of Environment, haunted by a tall man wearing a sailor uniform, who walks the stairs down and up from the fifth floor. The building used to host the American embassy in Bogotá.^[31]
• Palace of Justice: One of the most tragic episodes of the history of Colombia was a siege that took place here on November 6, 1985, in which the building ended up being burned and resulted in 120 casualties, with army, guerrilla and civilians among them. A new building was built over the ruins of the burned one. Security personnel secretly reported paranormal activity in the basement and corridors. Some claims of sensations of being choked and sightings of a walking man have been reported; Parapsychologists rely on explanations about the chokings could be ghosts that couldn't resist to attack army officers as a way of revenge.^[37] Nightshifts tend to be difficult for surveillance, when they watch doors closing and when they get to the cameras, It seems nobody is moving the doors.^[38]
• Quinta de Bolívar: It is speculated that Simón Bolívar's ghost has been seen walking up to the pools at night, due that in his last year of life, he spent a lot of time there because of the high temperatures he had to suffer from his malaria. There has been reports of horse sounds coming from the now empty stables, presumingly from Bolivar's horse, Palomo.^[28]
• San Juan de Dios Hospital: Abandoned since 2001, a nun has been seen wandering around the rooms, administering medicine, and paranormal activity in the morgue has been reported.^[29]
• Seguros Bolívar Building: Located in the center of Bogotá, the ghost of a woman has been seen in the elevator.^[39]
• A dependency of Superintendencia de Notariado y Registro, located in Teusaquillo where surveillance cameras have detected what appears to be the spectre of a boy running on one of the dependencies, who supposedly died there when the house was a kindergarten.^[40]
• Tequendama Hotel: One of the most famous hotels in Bogotá, where some guests have seen a girl crying and singing in a corridor, followed by dramatic low temperatures.^[41]
• On the cross of Carrera Séptima and Calle 170, Usaquen district, a ghostly couple of well dressed hitchhikers appear to drivers, asking for a ride. If a driver accepts to pick them up, shortly after they get inside the car, they would vanish.^[31]

Bolívar

Naval Museum of the Caribbean, Cartagena

• Naval Museum of the Caribbean, Cartagena: A tourist took a photograph of what seems to be the ghost of an old man, and a ship's wheel moving by itself are some of the occurrences in this place.^[42]
• Palacio de la Inquisición, Cartagena: On colonial times, this palace was a tribunal for the Holy Office. Now a museum, it exhibits torture artifacts which tormented slaves and anyone who dares to go against the Office, and also elements of witchcraft used by slaves and Spanish wives. The guides tell that at nights, you can hear screams, chains being dragged, doors working by themselves, and the ghosts of the Spanish inquisitors walking around the house.^[43] The site has been researched by the media and ghost hunters.^[44]
• The former San Pablo Psychiatric Hospital in Cartagena has a scary reputation due to the occurrences happened to some workers, specially on the third floor, which used to be a wing to treat patients with cancer and tuberculosis. Attacking shadows, female patients who levitate, unusual cold spots, moans, voices and whisperings have been reported.^[45]
• Santa Clara Hotel, Cartagena: Founded in 1621, this large building has been a monastery, a penintentiary, a hospital and a forensic pathology office. Rumours of ghosts of nuns and prisoners walking in corridors.^[46] The ghost stories have played with the minds of many construction workers who have participated in the renovation. The contractor had a hard task to make some of them to come back, even when he tried to rise their salaries.^[47]

Boyacá

San Agustín Cloister, Tunja

• Las Nieves Church, Tunja: An ancient legend of a levitating lantern, making a trip between Las Nieves and the Metropolitan Cathedral. Some say it's a walled girl who got kidnapped by his own father on colonial times, and when she was about to get into a forbidden marriage, the father preferred to wall her. Folklore says it disappeared when the streetlights appeared in Tunja.^[48]
• San Agustín Cloister, Tunja: A cloister built in 1578, this building was a convent, a hospital, a penitentiary and now harbors a public library. A legend which terrified locals for centuries tells about the spirit of a monk who lures people inside and attacks them; in 1912 the local bishop performed an exorcism so the monk would not appear anymore. Chains being dragged, laughs, children's moans and screams have been heard.^[49]
• San Francisco de Asis Church, Tunja: An unusual big sized dog that terrified everyone around at late hours with terrible barkings and howlings, dragging chains and bright eyes, and also the laymen who refused to give the last bellringing, afraid of have an encounter with red-dressed priest who was giving an unattended mass looking for redemption, are some of the legends told by the former neighbors.^[48]
• The old town in Tunja was plagued with ghosts of franciscan and Dominican monks, roaming in rooms and corridors, making loud punches in the walls and appearing in windows looking for victims to pray for their redemption or asking them to find treasures.^[48]

Caldas

• Cerro de Oro, Manizales: The myth says if you reach this point by car, you must put some candies over your car, and then a group of children can be heard, singing children songs that get louder and louder as soon as the children approach and then disappear slowly, leaving a few or no candies at all and also leaving traces of flour or powder poured in their path. The neighbours says these are the souls of the children who used to live in an orphanage which got blazed, killing everyone inside.^[50]
• La Argentina neighborhood, Manizales: A popular horseman who in the eighties use to provide milk to the neighbors whose ghost still gallops around the streets.^[50]
• Manizales City Centre: Karina Albornoz was a greengrocer lady who mistreated her husband, who consequently killed her in 1941. She still torments the neighbours with her laughs and noises on the roofs at late hours.^[50]
• San Jorge neighborhood, Manizales: A lady who wears red heels haunts an old house in this neighborhood.^[50]

Cauca

Casa Museo Valencia, Popayán

• Calle del Mascarón, Popayán: A house with a guaca, an evil being who offers a treasure in exchange of souls.^[51]
• Casa Museo Valencia, Popayán: Hat men that appear and vanish on the estate surroundings have been reported.^[51]
• El Duende Hypogeum, Tierradentro: The location's name means "The Goblin" in Spanish. Archaeologists and construction workers have reported to lose food and tools with no explanation.^[52]
• Hacienda Calibío: A historic estate on the north side of Popayán, which hosted Simón Bolívar and was the place of a battle between armies of Antonio Nariño and Juan Sámano. Guards have reported moans, whistles, chapel bells ringing and doors moving by themselves, as well as giant shadows and sudden attacks by unseen forces.^[13] In 2013, there were media reports of a Miss Colombia contestant who was scared by a presence during a photo shoot on the estate.^[53]
• Párraga, La Sierra: The presence of a deaf-mute young woman brought an strange occurrence, when stones were thrown to the township's roofs. Later was known that the woman was attacked by the devil, so the locals decided to expel her from the township, leading to the end of the phenomenon.^[54]
• San José Hospital, Popayán: The popular 'white nun' that still roams in search of patients to help and a ghost who moves things and who makes a disgust gesture to those who appear. Also, the hospital has its own guaca.^[51]

Cesar

• La Paz: People claim to have seen the ghost of a boy with "an ugly appearance" who predicts tragedies and deaths.^[55]

Cundinamarca

Marroquín Castle

• El Vergel Lagoon, Nocaima: The surrounding area was inhabited by Panche people on colonial times. It is known because of rumours of strange noises, similar to screams or roars, that can be heard at nights.^[56]
• The Carranza family residence in Funza, which used to be a brothel, it also was a place for sorcery. The family members that now live there have reported to have seen and felt ghosts.^[4][57]
• Hacienda Yerbabuena, Chía: An old republican estate, run by the Caro y Cuervo Institute. The mystery in this house borns in 1828, when Trinidad Ricaurte, mother of President José Manuel Marroquín, disappears in the middle of mass officiated in the house, and never seen back again. Some claim her ghost still roams around the estate, accompanied by strange noises and ghostly voices.^[58][59]
• La Piedra del Diablo (The Devil's Stone), a big stone that lays on the mountains next to the road from Bogotá to Tocaima had a reputation of being a place for sorcery and satanic rites. Next to this place, there's a legend where two drunk friends suddenly got into a fight where one of them ended up being beheaded. His head was never found, but his ghost has been seen under a bridge on the Camino Real (Royal Road).^[60]
• Marroquín Castle, Chía: A historic house built in 1904 on the lands of president Marroquín. The ghosts of a nun who worked there when the house was an asylum, two female patients who hanged themselves, and an extremely tall black lady, called "La Zancona", are some of presences that inhabit the location.^[61][62]
• The Salt Cathedral of Zipaquirá: A tourist attraction, known by being a miracle of engineering, by its religious importance but also by its haunting environment. Some photographers have found odd human shapes when they check their photoshoots.^[63]
• Salto de Tequendama House, San Antonio del Tequendama: Located 5 kilometers south of Bogotá, near the Tequendama Falls, once a luxurious mansion and then a hotel, it was abandoned when the Bogotá River (which feeds the falls) started to become polluted. Now a place with a high rate of suicides, the spirits of those that take their own life now haunt the insides of the house and the surrounding areas.^[64] It's not easy to hire caretakers since many of them can't deal with the job for too long. Some people who get inside feel an environment filled with sadness and depression. There has been reports of a headless man seen walking around the terrace or watching from the windows.^[65]
• An abandoned estate farm, located in the Savanna of Bogotá has the ghost of a man roaming inside and outside the main house.^[60]
• Siberia, La Calera: Recent reports had attracted the media to cover the strange fame around an abandoned concrete factory built in the rural area. Some of the former workers have complained the factory is being visited by strange people who come to perform satanic rites. Parapsychologists affirm the factory is filled with the energy left by the rites performed there.^[66] Lately it's been attracting so many visitors that the access had to be controlled by authorities. Visitors are said to have seen a white lady (presumably a nurse) and to have heard a kids' chorus.^[67]

Huila

• La Jagua, Garzón: A lovely and magic township, nationally known for its witches. While some of the sorcerers are dated from pre-Columbian times, when some aborigin communities decided to stay here, some gypsies and wizards from Europe felt attracted by the town and also made it their home. Inhabitants from La Jagua claim witches take form as hags, with long black hair, pointy noses, bad teeth. Witches get into houses and leave hickies on their victims after they feed from them, almost paralyzing them in the process; they also tend to inmobilize everyone they find on their way or use to sit on the town's roofs. A native painter testifies his house is haunted by them and claim witches are spirits of women.^[68][69][70]
• Paicol: The life of this town was never the same again after around 150 people testified to have seen a goblin that appeared in Salinas family residence.^[71]

Magdalena

Manuel Varela House

• Manuel Varela House also known as The Devil's house, Ciénaga: An abandoned republican mansion, home to the infamous Manuel Varela, a physician who reportedly made a pact with the devil. The legend says that if Varela sacrificed a soul to the devil every year, the devil would raise his wealth, explaining why people related to Varela died or disappeared mysteriously. 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.^[72]

Meta

• El Manantial neighborhood, Villavicencio: Unknown if it's 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.^[73]

Norte de Santander

• 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 now threatens to fall down. The grandson claims a girl haunts the upper floors. He have heard her moaning, so he tries to calm her with a cup of water but sometimes the task isn't a success and the girls get rebellious. Sometimes she looks for him in his bedroom and approaches him slowly, just to vanish when she gets really closer to his bed.^[65]
• La Gabarra, Tibú: The Restrepo family home was taken by the AUC and turned into a headquarter where huge parties took place, but also ominous crimes where prisoners were tortured, hanged with hooks and quartered with chainsaws. The new owner counts more than 150 prisoners who died there during four years so he suspects the number of corpses buried inside the house is also huge. For him and his family it's only possible to sleep during daytime since they claim that during nights they have seen two black dogs walking around the two cells built in the patio. They also claim to have heard screams, moans and whispers and seen moving shadows.^[65]
• Ocaña: Antón García de Bonilla, a legendary landlord, still lures in the town old streets.^[74]

Quindío

• Armenia City Hall: The spirits of some of the previous workers scare the surveillance, specially on the parking lots, the fourth and the sixth floors and the restrooms. Mass offered several times to put those souls to rest.^[75][76]
• 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, coughings, desks being opened and closed. Suddenly the sounds became more prequent, 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 blowed itself to the adjacent wall, and the phenomenons never happened again.^[77]

Risaralda

• Diocesano School, Dosquebradas: A nun roaming in the corridors, a man dressed in black and a playful girl in the second floor have been seen in the building at late hours.^[78]
• 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.^[78]
• A Horror House in Pereira which in fact it appears to be haunted for real. The owners, a pair of brothers, found an abandoned old house; they've found it so scary that they have decided to put the attraction there. When the attraction started to run, the brothers had a hard time when it came to hire guards, since some of them quitted when they claim to have heard strange steps and moving things.^[79]

Santander

Las Nieves Chapel

• An 100 years 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 an untempestive 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 dugged out some hair and guane gold pieces from the patio.^[80]
• Bucaramanga City Hall: Surveillance have reported strange light rows in the second floor, where the City Department of Health functions.^[81]
• El Centro township, Barrancabermeja: A beautiful american nurse was known to be 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.^[82]
• 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.^[82]
• 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.^[82]
• La Llorona makes herself present in Las Nieves creek, Girón, with her hair reaching her ankles and her notorious wipping.^[82]
• The Headless Nazareno that haunts Girón in Easter times and after 11 pm. It's known to levitate in Calle de La Calavera or Calle del Sagrado Corazón and disappears in Las Nieves Chapel. Last sight was documented in 1992.^[82]
• National Police Headquarters, Bucaramanga: The radio station is haunted by a playful ghost who turns lights and water tapes on and off, opens doors, knocks on the station's windows, and plays with CD players. Some workers reported to have seen a tall, blonde figure, wearing a kepis, who seems to keep guard, but when chased, suddenly disappears. An officer committed suicide inside the building.^[13]

Sucre

• Hacienda El Palmar, San Onofre: El Palmar is a recently abandoned estate, usurped by paramilitary forces and used as a headquarter. An important paramilitar chief, known by the alias 'Cadena', committed abominable 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' but this can't be proven since Cadena's fate remain unknown and some claim he's still alive.^[83]

Tolima

Armero Ruins

• Armero Ruins, Armero-Guayabal: A natural disaster destroyed this small city in November 1985, killing approximately 23,000. Many people say the spirits of those who perished are haunting the ruins.^[84]

Valle del Cauca

Cemetery of El Cerrito

• 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.^[85]
• Central Cemetery of Palmira: A boy that sits on his grave has been seen by the guards.^[85]
• La Cascada neighborhood, Cali: In past years these houses were inhabited by drug traffickers who suffered violent deaths. Residents and security guards describe sounds of walking steps and chains being dragged.^[13]
• Santa Lucía township, Tuluá: The ghost of Mireya Alpala, a 24-year-old woman who was raped and quartered by AUC men, has appeared in the streets and creeks of the township at dawn.^[30]
• Telepacífico Studios, Cali: The surveillance, Camera staff, and other workers are accustomed to the eerie presences that roam around the whole building. On a nightshift, a journalist have captured what it seems to be an invisible force opening and closing the door where she was working.^[86]
• Versalles: A school building that used to be an orphanage and a boarding school have been reported as haunted by some of the vigilants.^[87]

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