HALLOWEEN IN ALICANTE 2024
Haunted Halloween in Alicante 2024
With Halloween just around the corner, we think it's the right time to share with you some haunted places in the region. I bet you didn't know most of them!
THE SCARIEST DESTINATIONS IN ALICANTE
For some years now, abandoned, gloomy and ghostly places have become common for photography enthusiasts and movie sets in need of a touch of suspense. In Alicante there are several of these places, and some of them have suffered so much abandonment that they are currently in total disuse. Today we rescue some of these abandoned destinations, and others that are still in use, to form this selection of the scariest destinations in Alicante.
TOP 10 SCARIEST PLACES IN ALICANTE
FINCA PALMERETES DE SAN JUAN
It is a luxury mansion from the nineteenth century that has been abandoned and boarded up for years, and has suffered more than ten fires in recent years. It is in very bad shape and many ghost stories have been told about it. Everyone who knows her agrees that it is a real scene of horror.
SANTA POLA ROAD
Road apparitions are a common phenomenon on narrow roads and dangerous curves with a high accident rate. There are many testimonies that tell of having seen the "woman of the curve" on the N-332 road near Santa Pola. This woman dressed in a white nightgown wanders along the roadside at night, inviting people to stop, and some believe she appears to warn of a possible accident. After warning you, it disappears. Other roads in Alicante where the girl on the curve appears are Maigmó and Orihuela.
THE MAGIC SLOPE OF CREVILLENTE
When I heard the name of this place, I immediately felt a huge desire to know more about it. It's not purely scary, but paranormal things happen that have been investigated by many teams. The magic slope is actually a stretch of road of about twenty meters in which vehicles, being in neutral, go up instead of down. The explanation for this fact seems to lie in an optical illusion caused by our brain. Doesn't it seem mysterious?
CALAHORRA TOWER IN ELCHE
In the beautiful city of Elche we find the Calahorra Tower, a place with a spectacular historical past in which many people died. It was an Arab fortress, a medieval castle and the only Masonic lodge of the Egyptian rite that existed in Spain. Its interior still houses details and decorations of Masonic symbolism. The place meets the requirements to host paranormal phenomena, and even the last inhabitant who lived in the place says that one day he encountered a decapitated being. It is a place studied by parapsychologists, who discovered in the recording of psychophonies that different voices and laments appeared. Without a doubt, a spooky place of mystery and death.
THE LIBRARY OF ELCHE
The building that today houses the municipal library of Elche was previously a convent of Franciscan friars and a charity hospital. They say that it is a place where very strange things happen at night, and where the spirit of the monks roams, as a security guard was able to verify in the 90s, an event that had a lot of media coverage. He was hired to protect some valuable works of art that were temporarily on display in the library, and he left there terrified. One of the nights, the guard began to hear a shocking noise of chains crawling in the cloister and library. When he went to see what was happening, he found a pile of books stacked on a table, which were not there before. He decided not to give it any more importance until in one of his rounds he met the ghost of a monk, and he ran out of there as fast as he could, terrified, as usual.
THE ABANDONED SANATORIUM OF TORREMANZANAS
In the municipality of Torremanzanas we find this sanatorium that was built in 1926 by a religious community. It was used as a home for the elderly, then as a holiday colony for children and as a children's hospital. During the Civil War it became a military hospital, and when it was finished, it was established as a tuberculosis sanatorium until 1963, taking advantage of the fact that the fresh air benefited these patients. Today it is abandoned and in quite poor condition, and is frequented by investigators of paranormal phenomena. In fact, there are those who believe that the place is charged with negative energy emitted by the former patients of the place, and they claim to have captured psychophonies.
THE AIGÜES DE BUSOT PREVENTORY
A luxury hotel and spa from the nineteenth century, which took advantage of the hot springs of the Sierra Cabezón de Oro until the beginning of the Civil War, when it was used as a hospital for tuberculosis patients. It has always been linked to paranormal activity and multiple legends, including that of a lady dressed in white, the White Lady who is said to pass through this place. Also on one occasion they captured the image of a monk with a child in his arms. And although it cannot be visited inside, it is a perfect setting for terror, as Carlos Samper thought to be inspired by his suspense work "Preventorio".
OLD SAN RAMÓN SCHOOL IN AGOST
In 1967 this school was built on the outskirts of Agost, intended for the education of children with mental disabilities and with disabilities of various degrees. It was in operation for a few years, and in the 90s it was abandoned, due to the new law that dictated the right to integration in education for students. That is how it was totally abandoned. Currently the school is in ruins and has become a spooky place, and a regular search area for psychophonies and other paranormal phenomena. To this is added that he has a dark past of mistreatment and deaths in strange circumstances. The most narrated is that of a student who tried to escape from school in search of her parents, and while running along the access road to Agost, she was accidentally hit by a car.
Another story that seems to be more legend than reality is that of another student who was locked in the basement during a fire, could not escape the flames and died. Because of all this past, there are those who say that their spirits still remain in the place.
THE OLD PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL OF CHESTE
Cheste isn't exactly in the province of Alicante, but it's nearby, so it deserves a spot on this list. This construction dates from the Franco era, in the last years of the dictatorship and the beginning of the Spanish transition, in 1970. It served as a shelter for children with mental disabilities to isolate them from society and also as a day center for the disabled. It is said that if you dare to spend the night among its ruins, you will hear cries, screams, sounds of children and you will notice sensations that will not leave you indifferent. Two floors and long corridors full of rooms on both sides, many of them quite charred, and with holes in their walls that allowed patients to be seen without having to enter them. Now abandoned and vandalized, there are rumors that shadows are sneaking into the darkness inside and that the souls of children who died during a fire caused by an inmate are still there.
THE ABANDONED PORCELAIN DOLL FACTORY
Right on the border between the municipalities of Altura and Segorbe (also outside the province of Alicante, but still in the Valencian Community), this property belonged to the Inglés family in 1970, who were dedicated to the manufacture of porcelain moulds. Inside the building we find hundreds of them in different forms: animals, houses, and especially, dolls. It's one of the clichés of the horror genre, but visiting this factory will make you understand the reason for its dark fame more than ever. Even the wigs of many of them are still there, as well as the ovens where they were fired and a large multitude of pieces on their old shelves. The building, located on the corner between the so-called 'old Altura road' and the Esperanza road, has been declared in ruins due to its poor state of conservation and the area has even been cordoned off to prevent passage. It has four floors and it is said that the corpses were thrown into one of the two pits in its outer courtyard. Its spacious rooms, with high ceilings and crisscrossing lights, have the presence of hundreds of eyes that seem to observe and follow your every step.
