15 Scariest Places To Spend Halloween

The world’s most haunted forest, visitors have reported intense anxiety, nausea, vomiting, and missing time, as well as unexplained scratches, rashes and burns. Others have described disembodied voices, giggling and feelings of being watched.

The 100 stone houses sat on a hillside are actually crypts filled with the dead and, often, their belongings.

Closed in the mid 1990s after asbestos was discovered in the walls, the abandoned derelict building now stands as a creepy reminder of its past.

The bones of 5000 monks line the walls of the Portuguese chapel, with two bodies hanging from the ceiling.

A murder occurred on the Massachusetts asylum’s grounds in the 1970s, when patient Melvin Wilson killed fellow patient Anne Marie Davee. Wilson buried her body in three separate graves.

A funeral parlour for over 100 years and alleged to be the last place an infamous Victorian murder victim was seen, the Annison funeral parlour is known as Hull’s most haunted site.

During an air raid in WWII, 173 people were crushed to death while taking shelter in the tube station. Staff have since reported hearing the screams of women and children.

As you might expect, Hell Town in Ohio lays claim to any number of paranormal phenomena, including: Satanist cults; a haunted cemetery; and a ghost hearse that chases you out of the town.

Abandoned in the 1960s, this Czech Republic church was closed after the roof fell in during a funeral service. Now, it is filled with sculptures of ghosts, making it all the more terrifying.

One of Scotland’s most haunted sites, Edinburgh Castle was subjected to a 10-day scientific survey with 240 volunteers. Almost half of those involved reported their clothes being pulled at by invisible presences, drops in temperature and ghostly sightings.

Around 100 executions took place in this prison before it closed in the 1990s. Take a nighttime tour and prepare to see the ghosts rumoured to haunt it.

Often hanging from the walls, around 8000 mummified remains can be found here.

Originally a funeral parlour, it’s said to be haunted by a former employee who hanged himself in the attic.

Britain’s most haunted house, Borley Rectory stands on the site of a church and monastery: home to a monk who fell in love with a nun. When they were discovered, he was hanged and she was buried alive.

Rumoured to be one of the world’s most haunted castles, this has played host to a number of horrible deaths, including the murder of a priest by his own brother.