Moon Mausoleum
An online magazine about the paranormal, haunted and macabre. We collect the ghost stories from all around the world as well as review horror and gothic media.
Deep down in the vaults under the St. Michan’s Church in Ireland, there is a crypt filled with coffins of mummified corpses. Some of prominent families in the local area, and some nameless that are perhaps a millennial year old.
In the mysterious Valley of the Kings, among the tombs of Pharaohs and their Queens, it is said that some are still lingering. Visitors claim to have seen a spectral […]
In a mad King’s last day, he seeks solitude in his Castle of Villaviciosa de Odón to mourn for his beloved wife in peace. It is said that ever since his death, the ghost of King Ferdinand VI of Spain has been haunting the halls of the castle.
Smee is a short story by A.M. Burrage, telling the haunting ghost story of a group of people playing hide and seek in a house were a girl died playing the very same game.
Craigdarroch Castle is an iconic landmark in Victoria, Canada steeped in intriguing history and shrouded by eerie tales of hauntings. It is said to be haunted by the Dunsmuir family who built the castle, and people still claim to see the ghosts of them today.
The story about the girl and her meeting with a ghost in the graveyard and the white cap she took from it has been retold for centuries in Iceland.
A once glorious and state of the art hotel in the Black Forest in Germany, the Schlosshotel Waldlust is now an empty shell of what it used to be. Old and abandoned, the place is now known as a haunted hotel after the manager was killed in one of the rooms.
When collecting folktales from Iceland, they encountered many tales about the ghost of children left by their mothers to die, an útburður, that came back to haunt their mothers. This is what the Icelandic ghost story Móðir mín í kví, kví or Dear Mother in a Pen, Pen is about.
In the old classic Fairmont Hotel Vancouver a certain Lady in Red is said to haunt the upper floors of the place she used to go ballroom dancing in the 1940s. Still to this day guests report seeing her in the lobby as well as their rooms and she has even been seen passing through walls and locked doors.
Ham House in England is said to be the eternal home to no more than 15 ghosts, at least! From the ambitious Duchess to former servants and even pets, the spirits of the old mansion far outweighs the living.
Ada Buisson (26 March 1839 – 27 December 1866) was an English author and novelist remembered today for her ghost stories.
During her short lifetime Buisson published one novel, Put to the Test (1865), Her second novel, A Terrible Wrong: A Novel (1867) and short stories were published after her early death. Various of her writings appeared in Belgravia, a magazine edited by her friend the novelist Mary Elizabeth Braddon. This is were the short story The Ghost’s Summons were published in 1868.
The Qiu Mansion in Shanghai is said to be one of the city’s most haunted places. It was owned by the Qiu brothers who mysteriously disappeared and left a haunted house and an unsolved mystery.
One of the most haunted houses in London was 50 Berkeley Square, which according to the stories had a dangerous ghost that could kill the people staying in the attic.
Djákninn á Myrká meaning the Deacon of Dark River is an Icelandic folk tale that have been passed down for generations now. It tells the story of the ghost of a man trying to make his girlfriend join him in death.
Every year the British Royal family celebrates their Christmas at Sandringham House in Norfolk, England. Stories say that the place is particularly haunted during the Christmas season both for the royals and their servants.
Checking into the Yun Shan Fan Dian Hotel in Chengde, China? According to legend, this is a haunted hotel, and the ghost in question is none else than the former Empress Dowager Cixi.
