Haunted Halloween in Alicante 2022

With Halloween right around the corner, we figured this is the right time to share some regional haunted places with you. I bet you didn’t know most of them!

Most terrifying destinations in Alicante

For some years, abandoned, gloomy and ghostly places have become commonplace for photography enthusiasts and movie sets that need a touch of suspense. In Alicante there are several of these places, and some of them have been suffering from such great neglect that they are currently in total abandonment. Today we rescue some of these abandoned destinations, and others that are still in use, to form this selection of the most terrifying destinations in Alicante.

Top 10 most terrifying places in Alicante

1. Finca Palmeretes de San Juan

It is a luxury mansion from the 19th century that has been abandoned and boarded up for years, and has suffered more than ten fires in recent years. It is in very poor condition and many ghost stories have been told about it. Everyone who knows it agrees that it is a real horror scene.

2. Carretera de Santa Pola

Roadside appearances 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, invites you to stop, and some believe that she appears to warn of a hypothetical accident. After warning you, it disappears.
Other Alicante roads in which the girl with the curve appears are the Maigmó and Orihuela.

3. The magic slope of Crevillente

When I heard the name of this place, I immediately felt an enormous desire to know more about it. It is not purely terrifying, but it is in which 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 the vehicles, being in neutral gear, go up, instead of going down! The explanation for this fact seems to lie in an optical illusion that our brain causes. Doesn’t it seem mysterious to you?

4. 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 symbology.
The place meets the requirements to host paranormal phenomena, and even the last person who lived in the place tells that one day he met a headless being. It is a place studied by parapsychologists, who discovered in the recording of psychophonies that different voices and lamentations appeared. Undoubtedly a spooky place of mystery and death.

5. The Library of Elche

The building that today houses the municipal library of Elche was formerly a convent of Franciscan friars and 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 walked out of there terrified.
One of the nights, the guard began to hear a shocking noise of chains dragging in the cloister and the library. Going to see what was happening, he found a pile of books piled on a table, which had not been there before. He decided not to give it more importance until in one of his rounds he came across the ghost of a monk, and he ran out of there as fast as his feet could, and terrified, as usual.

6. 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 nursing home, later as a children’s holiday colony, and as a children’s hospital. During the Civil War it became a military hospital, and at the end 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 given off by the former patients of the place, and they say they have captured psychophonies.

7. The preventory of Aigües de Busot

A luxury hotel and spa from the 19th century, which took advantage of the thermal waters of the Sierra Cabezón de Oro until the start of the Civil War, when it was used as a hospital for tuberculosis patients. It has always been related 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 you can’t visit inside, it is a perfect setting for terror, as Carlos Samper thought to be inspired by his suspense work “Preventorio”.

8. Former San Ramón school in Agost

In 1967 this school was built on the outskirts of Agost, intended for the education of mentally handicapped children 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 of integration in education for students. That was how it was totally abandoned.
Currently the school is in ruins and has become a frightening place, and a regular searching area for cacophonies and other paranormal phenomena. To this is added that it has a dark past of ill-treatment and deaths in strange circumstances. The most narrated is the one of a student who tried to escape from the school in search of her parents, and when running down 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. For all this past, there are those who say that their spirits still remain in the place.

9. The old psychiatric hospital in Cheste

Cheste is not exactly in the province of Alicante, but it’s close, 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 mentally handicapped minors 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, the sounds of children and you will notice sensations that will not leave you indifferent. Two floors and long corridors full of rooms on either side, 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 scurry in the darkness inside and that the souls of children who died during a fire caused by an inmate are still there.

10. The abandoned porcelain doll factory

Right on the border between the municipalities of Altura and Segorbe (also not in the province of Alicante, but still in the Valencian Community), this property belonged to the Inglés family in 1970, which was dedicated to the manufacture of porcelain moulds. Inside the building we find hundreds of them in different shapes: animals, houses, and especially, dolls. It is 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 baked and a large multitude of pieces on their old shelves. The building, located on the corner between the so-called ‘old height 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 its passage. It has four floors and it is said that the corpses were thrown into one of the two wells in its outer patio. Its spacious rooms, with high ceilings and intersecting lights, have the presence of hundreds of eyes that seem to observe and follow each one of your steps.

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