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Val Sinestra Hotel and the Ghost of Hermann Haunting the Lower Engadine

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In an old sanatorium in Switzerland the ghost of Hermann is said to have been haunting the Val Sinestra Hotel for ages. But who was he when he was alive, and what was his true name before he died in the remote fortress up in the mountains? And is he still haunting the old halls where he never made his recovery?

Tucked away in the silent snowscape of Switzerland’s remote Lower Engadine Valley lies Val Sinestra, a former 1912 spa-hotel, or a Kurhaus, once famed for its healing mineral springs in the Grisons region of Switzerland. The Kurhaus ‘Val Sinestra’ grew into a real sensation, the foreign newspapers and magazines were full of it and the high society came there to take the cure. Some say that that some of the patients never left.

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Although once a stately institution, In 1914, this glorious period came to an end as the First World War broke out and the Belle Epoque was over for good. The therapy activities of Val Sinestra Hotel closed in 1972, but beneath its former Belle Époque elegance, it harbors a secret far colder in the form of a ghost named “Hermann” who has been haunting its corridors for nearly a century. 

The Haunted Hotel: Hotel Val Sinestra in Graubünden is said to be haunted by a former patient, now known as Hermann. // Source: Agnes Monkelbaan/Wiki

From Spa to Specter: The Legend of Hermann

Originally built to treat tuberculosis patients, Val Sinestra drew visitors seeking cures and rest 1500 metres above the sea levels in the remote parts of Switzerland. The Hotel Val Sinestra stands like a fortress on the rock, eleven stories high with a pointed tower, looming above the valley overlooking La Brancla river. The rust-red, arsenic-laden water from the Ulrich spring was said to cure syphilis, people with consumption and anemic patients.

One of the more talked about ghosts has been one named Herman. Hotel owner Adrienne Kruit has claimed strange things have happened since 1978 when her husband bought the building. He passed away in 2018, and most of the ghost stories told from the hotel, comes from their time running the place. It is said that he was greeted at the door by a spirit screaming at him, scaring him so badly he drove all night to the North Sea. 

“There were loud noises, keys were swinging on their hooks, and the windows were suddenly open!” she said about her experiences since taking over the Val Sinestra Hotel. “Once, a wall clock fell to the floor right next to me. But the hook was stuck in the wall.”

But who was the famed ghost? There have been a lot of theories, but most of them claim was a Belgian patient, who reportedly stayed so long and grew so attached to the Val Sinestra Hotel and its staff  that he refused to leave. He was for a long time known as Hermann.  

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In 2010 there were also two mediums ordered to check out the haunting of the Val Sinestra Hotel, and said it was a tuberculosis patient called Gilbert, Guillon or Guillaume, perhaps a Belgium soldier from World War I who stayed there in the 1920s haunting the hotel. 

It is said that he fell in love with Maria, an employee. After his death in the late 1920s, sightings began: a tall, pale figure wandering the old bathhouse halls at night, sometimes glimpsed in the lobby or elevator area. It is said he mostly haunts the lower floors where the patients used to stay. 

Staff and guests describe Hermann as mischievously protective of the Val Sinestra Hotel. Windows will open on their own, the lift runs unoccupied, and he’s even moved objects. 

Haunted Floors & Hotel Whispers

There is little evidence to the story of the poor patient at Val Sinestra Hotel today, especially since the guestbook from this time was stolen at some point. 

The old bathhouse floor—a place of healing in life—has become the epicenter of paranormal activity. Lights flicker, faucets run without explanation, windows open suddenly, wine glasses begin to ring, balls of light emerge at night and cold drafts pierce the temperature of the rooms. Visitors report waking to the hiss of steam and feeling a distant presence when alone..

The Old Sanatorium: Val Sinestra Hotel. // Source: Agnes Monkelbaan/Wiki

Visiting the Phantom’s Realm at Val Sinestra Hotel

Val Sinestra remains an operational hotel, its ghostly inhabitant part of its allure. Guests hoping to connect with Hermann are advised to stay near the old bathhouse, wander empty corridors at dusk, and be open to subtle signs: a misplaced key, sudden draft, or perhaps a feeling of presence. As one medium noted, Hermann doesn’t mean harm—he’s just a restless guardian who cares deeply… and quietly.

According to Thomas Frei and other ghost hunters who have investigated the hotel for years, there are other ghosts said to haunt it as well. A man, a woman and a little girl is also said to be lingering inside of the halls. 

Val Sinestra Hotel stands as a beautifully preserved relic of early 20th-century health resorts—but it is Hermann’s spectral shadow that lingers darkest. And in the silent snowfall of Lower Engadine, the gentle hum of unseen footsteps may well be the echo of a man who never truly left.

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Troubling Encounters With the Ghosts of Tranquille Sanatorium in Canada

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Tranquille Sanatorium near Kamloops is said to be one of the most haunted places in Canada. Once a hospital treating tuberculosis, later a place for the mentally ill has a history filled with mystery, tragedy, and an eerie atmosphere that still lingers to this day. Visitors report spooky sightings of ghostly figures wandering the grounds and warning whispers in dark corridors.

Is there something more haunting and creates a more scary atmosphere than the now abandoned sanatoriums that exist around the world? Canada’s historic Tranquille Sanatorium near Kamloops (Tk’emlúps) in British Colombia hides many secrets of its past, including a host of creepy sightings and paranormal activity. 

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Located not far from Kamloops in British Columbia, the Tranquille Sanatorium opened its doors back in 1907. By 1910, the hospital was able to accommodate almost 50 patients, 4 nurses, and 12 attendants. By 1932, the Tranquille Sanatorium was able to house over 600 patients and staff and was operating as a fully functioning and self-sustaining community. 

Tranquille Sanatorium around 1920

Originally designed to treat tuberculosis known as the white plague back in the days, the Tranquille Sanatorium hospitalized thousands of people over the years. The facility was called the King Edward VII Sanatorium. The community built around the facility had gardens, houses, a gymnasium, a farm, a fire department as well as recreational areas such as an auditorium, a cafeteria, a laundry mat and tennis courts. It even had a school for handicapped children named “Stsmemelt Village” and a community and life grew around the sanatorium outside the hospital as well.

In 1958, the hospital closed and was reopened in 1959 to treat the mentally ill until the late 80s. In September 1991, an Italian developer, Giovanni Camporese, the president of A&A Foods, bought the land to turn it into a resort and renamed it “Padova City” from his hometown. There have been many plans to demolish it, but is for now an abandoned and derelict building and a farming community around. 

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Many did not survive their stay in this haunted building as the white plague once was the single biggest killer in Canada, and its tragic history has added to its eerie reputation. 

Tranquille Sanatorium: A former TB hospital near Kamloops, with plans to become a sustainable community. Here from 2014. // Source

Paranormal Activity at Tranquille Sanatorium

Although the place is closed off as it is private property, you can still visit to participate in their historic tours. It is said that both visitors and staff at Tranquille Sanatorium have reported a wide range of paranormal occurrences like strange sightings and ghostly images. Moans and groans that from disembodied voices ring through the location and others have even reported seeing apparitions wandering the grounds. Some visitors have even reported feeling like they were being watched or followed by something unseen in the shadows.

One of the more retold rumours is about seeing light orbs and faint floating lights traveling in circles. This is especially reported on happening around the main entrance. Apparently, lights in the sanatorium also go on and off by themselves.

But what or who is behind the haunting rumours? According to the stories, these paranormal occurrences are linked to the dark history of Tranquille Sanatorium and those who lost their lives here as patients are still lingering. 

There are not many names and specific ghosts connected to this place, but they are certainly active, and sometimes even violent. Visitors report a figure pushing past them before disappearing and one even claimed to have been chased out of the hospital by a mist looking like the silhouette of a human. The spirit of a nurse who was supposedly murdered by a patient can be seen in several of the rooms have also made its rounds as a haunted legend. 

The Mother’s Cries on the Eight Floor

Although the stories from the haunted Tranquille Sanatorium can be very vague, there are some rumors that seem to echo through many sources. 

The sounds of children crying can be heard coming from the 8th floor, an area where pediatrics used to be. This is also a place where many people talk about seeing the mysterious orbs that have been observed throughout the sanatorium grounds. They have also claimed to have heard the voices of ghostly children playing in the abandoned children’s ward. 

Another ghost said to appear in these rooms is a female ghost believed to be a mother to one of the children. She can be heard crying for her child and even seen on both the eight as well as the sixth floor. When those seeing her approach her though, she vanishes into thin air. 

The Haunted Tunnels Below

The most haunted place though it is said to be the tunnels that have been dug out underneath the sunken gardens. Not only were these tunnels used to transport food and supplies into the sanatorium, they were also used to transport the dead bodies of the patients to the cemetery. Although it sounds dark, it was actually to spare the living patients the distress of seeing others succumbing to the illness they were battling with themselves. By using the tunnels, the staff would be able to discreetly transport them without anyone seeing it. 

Could these tunnels be haunted now? Throughout the decades, local teenagers have used these tunnels as a hang out and party place, and many of the haunted rumours come from this period.  There are reports that the tunnels below are filled with lonely voices and cries. 

The Ancestral Burial Site

It is not only the dark history of the sanatorium that has made people think it is haunted. Tranquille is a particularly active area when it comes to First Nations history. This land west of Tk’emlúps which is Secwépemctsín for “where the rivers meet”  is also the site of a major Secwépemc settlement dating back thousands of years. The Secwepemc used the area around Tranquille Sanatorium as a fishing and hunting settlement before the first colonists took over the area. Their ancestral burial sites and gravel pits have been found under the structures of the sanatorium. 

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The same location that was once Tranquille Sanatorium is now known as Tranquille Farm Fresh, which offers escape rooms and heritage tours, often connected to the haunted rumours for Halloween. For now, further development of the place remains in a place of limbo, where private development, agricultural needs as well as First People rights is trapped in a crossroad. 

Ghost Hunting in the Sanatorium

But is it really haunted? Several blogs have recounted their own experiences of partying and fuelling the haunted rumours with playing and pranking, pretending to be the ghosts. A lot of the modern takes on the haunted sanatorium actually comes from the MTV Show “MTV Fear” that aired from 2000 to 2002. Contestants are blindfolded and led by guides to the supposedly haunted area. Once night arrives, a computer terminal will usually pick one or two colors and assign a dare. This computer also provides the group with background information about the area. Tranquille Sanatorium was chosen as a location in episode 5 of season 2. 

Some teenagers remember the time they were paid in pizza to act as the ghosts rumored to haunt the place. The show had perhaps even created several unique characters that were unknown to everyone before airing the show. They had for instance the wife of one of the doctors, Ellison, who was consumed by tuberculosis haunting the place, and the ghost of the Pig Man as well. 

Question is: Did the show create the haunted rumors, or did the haunted rumors just inspire the show? 

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The Haunted Sanatorium of the Gotthard Abandoned in the Swizz Mountains

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Now long abandoned and left to decay in the Swizz forests, The Sanatorium of the Gotthard is said to still have some patients that never checked out. Is it really someone haunting the old hospital in the mountains?

In the shadow of Switzerland’s Gotthard Massif, with mountains looming over the misty dense pine forests, stands a decaying relic of the nation’s darker past. The Sanatorium of the Gotthard, near the village of Piotta, also called The Sanatorio Popolare Cantonale di Piotta, is more than a run, a place where history, death, and whispered legends have blurred into one lingering, malevolent presence.

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Today, its broken windows gape like hollow eyes, and ivy-strangled walls crumble beneath the weight of decades of silence. But those who have braved its abandoned corridors claim the building is anything but empty. According to legend, there is said to be a mountain of corpses in the basement of the sanatorium, and some of them are said to still be haunting the place. 

Sanatorio Popolare Cantonale di Piotta (1919)

A Sanatorium Built for the Afflicted

Constructed in the early 20th century, the sanatorium was originally designed to house tuberculosis patients, a common affliction in the Alpine regions due to the damp mountain air and close living conditions and opened in 1905. It was initiated by Fabrizio Maffi, who later became an Italian senator and fled to Switzerland. Just a year after its opening, the sanatorium went bankrupt for the first time.

Sanatorium of the Gotthards remote location, isolated in the hills, made it an ideal quarantine facility, but also the perfect setting for stories to ferment.

During World War I, the sanatorium’s role expanded. It began treating wounded and shell-shocked soldiers, men maimed not only in body but broken in spirit. It was here, according to local folklore, that the line between medicine and malevolence began to blur.

Among the most enduring and unsettling rumors is the tale of a nameless doctor who allegedly conducted experimental procedures on both TB sufferers and injured soldiers alike. Surgeries without anesthetic, grotesque experiments with electricity and cold therapy, and cruel psychological trials are said to have taken place within those bleak rooms. Though no official records confirm these claims, the sanatorium’s very architecture hints at secrets, a discreetly hidden morgue, unmarked underground tunnels, and sealed wings where sunlight no longer dares to enter.

Decades of Decay and Unease at the Gotthard Sanatorium

The Sanatorium of the Gotthard was quietly shuttered in 1961 as modern medicine outpaced its usefulness and the place faced economic hardships they would not overcome. Over the following 60 years, the building fell into disrepair, succumbing to the encroaching forest and harsh mountain winters. Yet even in its decay, it never quite fell silent.

Urban explorers and thrill-seekers drawn to its crumbling halls speak of disembodied voices, the sound of shuffling footsteps in empty rooms, and a lingering, oppressive chill that clings to the air like mist. Some claim to have seen pale figures watching from broken windows or glimpsed fleeting shadows in the peripheral dark. The sensation of being followed is nearly constant, and many leave with an inexplicable sense of dread.

Urban Explorers: The abandoned building has become a popular place for urban exploring and ghost hunters. // Source: Wendelin Jacober/Wiki

One widely retold account describes a man attempting to drive up the narrow road to the Sanatorium of the Gotthard, only to feel his car begin to roll backward on its own, as if some unseen force was physically repelling him from the site. Despite firming his grip on the steering wheel and applying the brakes, the car continued its slow, deliberate retreat down the road, stopping only when he gave up the attempt.

The Haunting Legacy of the Morgue

Perhaps the sanatorium’s most notorious feature is its basement morgue, where rows of rusting gurneys and shattered cabinets still linger, untouched for decades. Visitors report a sudden drop in temperature upon entering, and the unmistakable, sour scent of old antiseptic and decay — though the building has been abandoned for generations.

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Some locals insist that the spirits of those who perished in agony within these walls — from soldiers torn apart by war to TB patients abandoned by hope, remain trapped, their suffering bound to the place of their torment. There are also said that a doctor carried out demonic experiments on patients, said to be associated with the fictional character, Dr. Mabuse. Lights flicker in its hollow shell, and faint, mournful cries sometimes rise above the wind that rattles its ancient eaves.

A Warning Carried by the Wind

Even today, few locals will approach the sanatorium after nightfall. Hikers claim to hear whispers in the trees, and it’s said that animals avoid the path leading up to the ruined building. Storms seem to gather with unsettling speed over its roof, and the once-healing Alpine air turns cold and heavy as one nears its gates.

The Sanatorium of the Gotthard was sold from Canton Ticino to a Kazakh group of investors in 2016, wanting to turn it into a winter sports training center, although nothing has happened. 

In 2021, the “Corriere del Ticino” reported a strange ritual filmed in the ruins. The video shows a man who claims to be Swiss, dressed in black with a hood featuring a skull. He waves a (likely fake) skull in one hand and holds a notebook in the other, with a fire in front and small candles around it. What is happening in the old sanatorium today?

The Sanatorium of the Gotthard endures as one of Switzerland’s most chilling forgotten places, a decaying testament to human suffering, medical ambition, and the spirits that refuse to be forgotten. To wander its halls is to court the past — and perhaps meet whatever lingers in the shadows.

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https://www.satyrography.com/panoramas/sanatorium-gotthard/Sanatorium-Gotthard.html

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Dr. Mabuse – Wikipedia

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Isla de Pedrosa – the Haunted Island

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The haunted Isla de Pedrosa was a place of isolation. First for sailors with exotic diseases, then as a children’s sanatorium for those suffering from strange afflictions. In the later years it has been thought to be haunted by those isolated on the island that took those unwanted by the rest of society.  

Off the coast of Cantabria, the Isla Pedrosa sits as a dark spot on the blue ocean. The island has become known as Isla Embrujada, or the haunted islands because of the strange things that are said to have taken place there.

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Isolated places were in old times used as a precaution to illnesses since the time of the Black Death and often deserted islands close to the ports were used to hinder any diseases from oncoming ships. These places are called lazarettos, taken from the Bible story about the man that rose from the dead. The most famous Lazaretto is perhaps the haunted Poveglia Island in Venice.

Lazaretto: Isla de Pedrosa was for a long time used as a lazaretto for ships that came from exotic places to quarantine and prevent bringing any illness into port.

In the 19th century, Isla de Pedrosa took on a new role as a place to house sailors and other individuals suffering from exotic diseases from 1834 to help battle the diseases like yellow fever from America for instance as well as smallpox, tuberculosis, cholera and leprosy. The isolation of the island made it an ideal location for quarantine, protecting the mainland from potential outbreaks. It is said that during this time, many tragic events occurred on the island, leaving behind a haunting presence that still lingers today.

In the first decade of the 20th century it was converted from a lazaretto into a maritime children’s sanatorium. It could house over 200 children from almost half of Spain by 1910. First and foremost it was in an effort to combat tuberculosis. It wasn’t the only illness though and it operated until 1989. 

The Haunting Legends of Isla de Pedrosa

One of the most chilling aspects of Isla de Pedrosa’s history is the abundance of haunting legends that surround the island. Many locals and visitors alike have reported eerie encounters and unexplained phenomena, contributing to its reputation as a haunted place.

Among the abandoned buildings on Isla de Pedrosa, there is one that stands out as particularly haunted – the abandoned theater. This theater was once frequented by the sick individuals who were quarantined on the island, and it is said that their spirits still linger within its decaying walls.

The Haunted Theatre: One of the places that are said to be more haunted than other, is the theatre found on Isla de Pedrosa that are now not in use and just left abandoned.

Visitors to the theater have reported hearing disembodied voices and footsteps, as well as seeing apparitions moving across the stage. Some have even claimed to witness performances happening in the theater, despite its state of abandonment. The ghostly presence in the theater adds to the island’s eerie atmosphere, leaving visitors with an unforgettable experience.

The Bird Girls on Isla de Pedrosa

Another haunting legend of Isla de Pedrosa involves the so-called Bird Girls. These two sisters were said to have lived on the island during the time it served as a quarantine facility sometimes in the 1960s. They were born with a rare disease called progeria that made them somehow look like birds. 

This appearance led superstitious people to speculate that their conditions were caused by the devil himself.

The Strange Illnesses: After being used as a base for quarantine, they started to isolate children with strange diseases, like the Bird Girls. Here is a picture of Alfonso XIII visiting Isla de Pedrosa in 1914.

According to the legend, the Bird Girls were isolated from society and hidden away on the island and they tragically died very young, perhaps because of their affliction. Visitors to Isla de Pedrosa have reported seeing the ghostly figures of these sisters roaming the shores, their deformed bodies reminiscent of bird-like creatures. The presence of the Bird Girls adds a layer of mystery and intrigue to the island’s haunted reputation.

People Experiencing Paranormal Activity

There are plenty of people that claim to have experienced something paranormal on this island. A paranormal seeker named Anita Lauda claims to have seen spirits of children coming towards them accompanied by a nurse after an Ouija board session. 

Today’s Isla de Pedrosa

In present times, Isla de Pedrosa is mostly abandoned, with only a few buildings still in use. Some of these buildings now house juvenile prisoners and serve as a reintegration center. The island’s dark past and haunted reputation make it an eerie and unsettling place for those who reside there.

Despite its haunting atmosphere, Isla de Pedrosa continues to attract visitors curious about its mysterious history. People from all over the world come to explore the abandoned buildings and soak in the eerie ambiance that surrounds the island. Isla de Pedrosa serves as a reminder of the past and a testament to the power of legends and folklore.

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Ghostly Encounters at the Sanatorium of Santo Angel de la Guarda

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In a former sanatorium turned into a psychiatric hospital, there have been tales about hauntings for years. A culmination of all the tragic souls trapped there is said to be haunting the Sanatorium of Santo Angel de la Guarda’s abandoned building.

The Sanatorium of Santo Angel de la Guarda sanatorium in the Navacerrada mountains close to Madrid in Spain. The sanatorium was built in 1941 in Franco’s Spain to treat some of the very serious diseases that plagued the country. The hospital was also called La Barranca and later The Navacerrada Psychiatric Hospital.

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Patients suffering from tuberculosis, leprosy, polio and other heavy diseases were sent here to the Pinar de la Barranca. Illnesses like tuberculosis wouldn’t get a better cure until the 50s with the rise of antibiotics and was looked as like the white plague because of how the patients looked with the disease.  

At the time, cold and dry air was the best climate to treat it and is the reason why so many tuberculosis hospitals were built in the Sierra de Guadarrama area as with the case with Sanatorium of Santo Angel de la Guarda .  

Sanatoriums in Europe

A sanatorium is an old name for specialized hospitals that were made for specific ailments. They were often built in the countryside with plenty of fresh air in a healthy climate isolated from the outside world. Sanatoriums across Europe and America were very popular to treat tuberculosis until the discovery of antibiotics. 

Read more: Check out all of our ghost stories from old hospitals like Hauntingly Beelitz-Heilstätten Hospital, Gonjiam Psychiatric Hospital or Hauntings at the Weston State Hospital or the Trans-Allegheny Asylum

It could however also be a place for people to heal from things like alcoholism, nervous diseases like hysteria or emotional exhaustions. After medical advances the use of sanatoriums declined and many were abandoned in the mid 1900s often and has since gained a haunted reputation. 

Sanatorium of Santo Angel de la Guarda Closes

After these diseases were slowly but surely cured, the sanatorium was converted into a psychiatric hospital in 1950 before finally closing in 1995. 

The Sanatorium of Santo Angel de la Guarda was for a long time not completely closed off and it was an easy access to curious people that wanted to have a look. 

Inside they could find records of patients and treatments that hadn’t been cleared out as well as experiencing what some claim was something paranormal. 

The Haunting of the Sanatorium

The people that have decided to go inside of the abandoned Sanatorium of Santo Angel de la Guarda claim that they felt some sort of presence in the abandoned corridors and doors would open and close with some kind of force. 

The electrical devices they brought with them inside had a habit of stopping working. There are also those who claim to have seen lights that look like little lanterns walking around. 

Who are the ghosts Haunting Sanatorium of Santo Angel de la Guarda

But who are the ghosts still haunting the old Sanatorium of Santo Angel de la Guarda? There is not a single ghost that are talked about, rather a culmination of all the souls that passed the hospital is said to have left some sort of energy behind. There are however reports about people spotting distinctive figures haunting the place. 

There are said to be children running around in the corridor, playing a game that will last an eternity. There are also reports of old women wearing white clothes, looking confused. A mother has been spotted leaning out of the windows with a baby in her arms as well as the more vague footsteps and voices coming from the darkness. 

From what time these ghosts came from is uncertain. Was it from the time it was used as an anti-tuberculosis sanatorium or perhaps later when it was converted into a psychiatric hospital.

The Future of the Sanatorium

The building was big and could be used for many purposes. Why is it that no one put the old building in use? Was it because of the haunted rumors no one wanted to have a part in? Perhaps it was just because the location is far away from anything and inconvenient?

Today the place is only visited by vandals, paranormal seekers and spiritualists although the place is closed off for visitors and is punishable by a fine. 

In September 2020, the building made headlines when a man fell through two floors and hurt himself badly. He said he was there with friends to drink and do spiritualism to try to contact the afterlife. And in the effort, he almost went to the other side himself. 

In 2023 though, the national park the Sanatorium of Santo Angel de la Guarda is located in decided to demolish the building. Exactly when it happens though, is unclear but was believed that would be done during that year.

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The Haunted Hospital del Tórax de Terassa

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The old Hospital for respiratory illnesses in Spain are said to be haunted by the patients that suffered a slow and painful death. The Hospital del Tórax de Terassa has since been abandoned, but people keep finding strange and disturbing things that maybe should be left in the darkness. 

This eerie hospital is said to be home to a ghost that has been lurking around its halls for years. People have reported strange occurrences and unexplainable sightings that suggest this hospital is indeed haunted.

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A hospital that is said to be haunted is the Hospital del Tórax de Terassa in Catalonia, Spain that opened in 1952 closed in 1997 and was abandoned for years until 2004 when the city decided to remodel the building to be used for a residence wing as well as a location for horror movies. 

Recovery Center in the La Pineda Forest

The hospital used to be a hospital that specializes in respiratory illnesses for patients in Catalonia like lung cancer, fibrosis and the much feared tuberculosis and was when it opened the largest hospital in Europe that treated tuberculosis. And even if the illness was about to be practically eradicated, there were still a fair amount of cases in Spain in the 50s of the white plague. 

Abandoned Building: The Haunted Hospital del Tórax de Terassa or Sanatori de Terrassa is thought to be haunted by the patients that jumped to their death. //Source: Enric/wikimedia

The patients were in deep pain suffering a very slow and painful death trying to get better in the fresh air of the La Pineda forest close to Barcelona in an area known as Llano del Buen Aire. The city of Tarrasa was the city with the lowest incidence of tuberculosis in Catalonia as well.  

Hospital del Tórax de Terassa was primarily a recovery center and the climate the place gave was the perfect setting for the 18 month recovery process from tuberculosis. The terraces on every floor were perfect for the patients to sit outside in and breathe in the fresh air the place had to offer. 

Although Hospital del Tórax de Terassa was in a fresh place, it was a desolate place far away from the city, and the patients had to be months separated from their loved ones. 

The hospital from the 50s had around 1500 rooms that separated the lower-class from the upper-class. In 1970, when the tuberculosis patients slowly declined, the place was turned into a general hospital. 

The Use of Hospital del Tórax de Terassa

A sanatorium is an old name for specialized hospitals that were made for specific ailments. They were often built in the countryside with plenty of fresh air in a healthy climate isolated from the outside world. Sanatoriums across Europe and America were very popular to treat tuberculosis until the discovery of antibiotics. 

Read more: Check out all of our ghost stories from old hospitals like Hauntingly Beelitz-Heilstätten Hospital, Gonjiam Psychiatric Hospital or Hauntings at the Weston State Hospital or the Trans-Allegheny Asylum

It could however also be a place for people to heal from things like alcoholism, nervous diseases like hysteria or emotional exhaustions. After medical advances the us of sanatoriums declined and many were abandoned in the mid 1900s often and has since gained a haunted reputation. 

The Nurses Caring for the Patients

The workload for the staff at Hospital del Tórax de Terassa must have been overwhelming, and there were around 50 nurses and nuns to take care of the over 1000 patients everyday that sometimes needed constant care. 

The caretakers and nurses at the hospital was a community of 25 Carmelite nuns that joined the hospital in 1954. Nuns have often a history of being the caretakers at hospitals, sanatoriums, orphanages and the likes in catholic countries like Spain, especially in the past.

The nuns left the hospital 20 years later though, due to the poor management of the hospital by the owners. Instead they hired inexperienced students from the nursing school that oftentimes took way more over their heads than they could offer in terms of being qualified to treat tuberculosis. 

The Many Deaths in “The Jungle”

For years the Hospital del Tórax de Terassa had the highest numbers of suicides in Spain. In one week when it was really bad, 21 people took their own lives while admitted to the hospital. 

The reasons for why varied. Some were just in so much pain that they weren’t able to take it anymore. Some were on a lot of drugs or some sort of psychosis. Some were just clinically depressed because of their long stay far away from anything as the patients were isolated completely from the world and the only form of contact was through the telephone and radio. 

It could also be because their family just dumped them there and they had nowhere to go once they were let out. Some knew that they would never be better and decided they would slowly waste away in the hospital bed. 

The legend says that the patients jumped from the ninth floor and into the garden. This garden was nicknamed The Jungle because of the horrible screams that could be heard before another body hit the ground.  

The Jungle is said to be a haunted place by the former patients of Hospital del Tórax de Terassa that jumped to their death even to this day. According to legend it is said you can still hear their dying last screams from falling or the excruciating moans and pain from those that didn’t immediately die from the fall. 

The Dark Magic Done in The Chapel

The 9th floor and the garden outside is not the only place the ghosts are haunting in the former sanatorium. According to those investigating they have found strange paranormal activity in the old chapel. 

According to some legends, there was dark magic going on inside of the chapel done by the people working there as well as some of the patients. Some claim it was even a place for satanic rituals, as many abandoned buildings are accused of.

Although whether that is true or not, has never really been found out.   

The Fetus in a Jar and Other Strange Things Left Behind

It is not only ghosts that creeps people out about the former hospital as it is also a location that serves those wanting a perfect place to shoot a horror movie as the place is now used as the Audiovisual Park of Catalonia.  

There are also creepy remains from the time it served as a hospital. In 2004 the police arrested a young man with something horrible in his possession found at the hospital. He had a fetus sealed in a jar filled with formaldehyde that he claimed he found on the 5th floor. 

Who the fetus came from, why it was on the 5th floor of Hospital del Tórax de Terassa and to what purpose, no one knows. 

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The Haunted History of Sierra Sky Ranch in Yosemite

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The old Sierra Sky Ranch in the Sierra Nevada Mountains has had many people coming and going. From the tragic death of a farm hand to the victims of terminally ill tuberculosis patients, this historical hotel has some guests that never checked out. 

The Sierra Sky Ranch has stood witness to the ebb and flow of time ten miles from the south entrance to Yosemite National Park since its inception in 1875 and the original ranch house from 1900.

What began as a humble cattle ranch in the Sierra Nevada Mountains ended up as the area’s largest one before metamorphosed into a sanatorium for those afflicted by the scourge of tuberculosis in the 1930s until the 1940s. 

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The corridors of Sierra Sky Ranch echoed with the footsteps of children, innocent souls grappling with a relentless disease. From its time as a sanatorium it housed terminally ill patients until after the second world war when it was a halfway house for survivors.

Sierra Sky Ranch: The old ranch house has gone through many stages and today it operates as a hotel. According to sone, it is also a haunted hotel. //Source

Transitioning through the years, the ranch extended its healing touch to World War II veterans before evolving into the 29-room hotel it is today—a hotel that not only provides shelter to the living but also harbors the lingering spirits of the past.

Mostly the guests notice that a ghost could be haunting the room because of the smell of a perfume without anyone there, a piano that starts playing by itself and mysterious cloud-like things entering the room. There are also strange silhouettes that make guests and staff believe that the hotel is at least haunted by five different ghosts. 

The Ghost of the Farm Hand Elmer

The first and most likely the oldest ghost haunting the Sierra Sky Ranch hotel is thought to be Elmer, who was the original ranch hand when the ranch first opened. 

It is said old Elmer spent so much time in solitude and he started to drink and ended his life by hanging himself in a back tree at the property. Why he did as he did, no one knows, some claim that his home was sold off and he had no place to go. 

Another version of this story is that his ax slipped when chopping wood and he severed the main artery in his legs. He called for help but no one heard him and he bled to death. 

Many claim they can still hear his boots walking in the halls as well feeling a certain presence when they drink at the bar at Sierra Sky Ranch. 

The Haunted Bar: By the old bar at Sierra Sky Ranch it is believed that the old Elmer is haunting and has been seen wandering by the guests and staff. Source

The Ghost of the Nurse Sarah

Another ghost said to haunt the ranch is from the time when Sierra Sky Ranch was used as a sanatorium. Sarah was supposedly a nurse tending to the terminal patients and said to have a kind and calm presence, even in the way she is haunting the place. 

It is this ghost people write mostly about in the red guest book they use to collect all the strange and ghostly encounters guests have at Sierra Sky Ranch.  

The Ghosts of the Sickly Children

Sierra Sky Ranch is no stranger to the whispers of the supernatural, with reports of spectral activity painting an eerie portrait of its haunted legacy. At the heart of these ethereal tales are the “phantom children,” spirits of a bygone era who continue to frolic and play within the confines of the hotel. Guests and staff alike recount the unmistakable sounds of giggles and whispers reverberating through the halls.

A pair of ghosts are said to have been siblings in life, and are haunting together in their afterlife. They are said to be mischievous children that are playing and moving objects as the sound of them laughing and running is heard. 

Guests complain about the sound of children when there is no one there, or wake up and find two ghostly small silhouettes by the end of their beds. Staff finds doors they closed opened and objects around the hotel misplaced. 

A Night at the Haunted Sierra Sky Ranch

In the quiet corners and dimly lit corridors of Sierra Sky Ranch, the past asserts its presence as more and more ghosts are talked about. A World War II soldier in the library, ghosts from its Hollywood heydays as a luxury resort in the honeymoon suits. 

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As guests traverse the realms of the living and the spectral, the haunted history of this Yosemite haven continues to unfold—a testament to the enduring legacy of those who once sought refuge within its walls.

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The Haunted Preventorio de Aigües in Alicante

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The former wellness hotel and sanatorium called Preventorio de Aigües is said to have healing thermal water as well as the ruins of the buildings are said to have attracted ghosts. This abandoned building close to Alicante is popular with paranormal seekers and ghosts alike. 

Among the many haunted places around the world, Haunted Hospital in Spain is known for its eerie atmosphere. The ghost that is said to linger in the hospital has been a topic of discussion for horror enthusiasts for a long time. 

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The hospital has a dark history, and it’s not hard to imagine the spirits of those who perished there still wandering through its corridors.

The Time as a Wellbeing Hotel

This 19th century building high up in the mountains 25 kilometers from the city of Alicante in Spain was originally built as a luxury hotel in Aguas de Busot by Count de Casa de Rojas and Marquis de Bosh for the rich and wealthy. 

The hotel was known as Hotel Miramar Winter Station and was built out with many buildings, chapels, a casino, a playground and sport facilities. It was a state of luxury, and the guests were all from high society where even the King and Queen of Spain visited.

Haunted Building: the Preventorio de Aigües now abandoned is thought to be haunted by the children that used to live there when it was used as a sanatorium//Source: Jesús Alenda/wikimedia

Today the only building still standing from it is the building from 1816 designed by the architect Pedro Garcia Faria and the once glorious place is now only an abandoned shell of what it once was. And throughout the years, it truly was a lot.   

The Civil War Closed the Door of the Hotel

But the story took a sharp turn in the later years. In 1930 the luxury hotel closed its doors as a hotel and spa. According to the stories, it is said that the owner, Marquis de Bosch lost the hotel in a poker game.

At the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1936, Preventorio de Aguas de Busot was turned into a sanatorium for children. The idea was to take uninfected children and keep them away to prevent them from being infected as well as to accommodate orphans. 

When the disease started to die out the hospital was abandoned in the late 1960s and remains so to this day. 

The Building as a Sanatorium

A sanatorium is an old name for specialized hospitals that were made for specific ailments. They were often built in the countryside with plenty of fresh air in a healthy climate isolated from the outside world. Sanatoriums across Europe and America were very popular to treat tuberculosis until the discovery of antibiotics. 

Read more: Check out all of our ghost stories from old hospitals like Hauntingly Beelitz-Heilstätten Hospital, Gonjiam Psychiatric Hospital or Hauntings at the Weston State Hospital or the Trans-Allegheny Asylum

It could however also be a place for people to heal from things like alcoholism, nervous diseases like hysteria or emotional exhaustions. After medical advances the use of sanatoriums declined and many were abandoned in the mid 1900s often and has since gained a haunted reputation. 

The Healing Thermal Water

The water in the area was thought to contain healing properties all the way back to Roman times and it is also chronicled by Arabs that resided in Spain in medieval times. 

They have talked about the good water in the hot springs found in the area, making it a perfect spot for a wellbeing hotel. It is also a place perfect for where mysterious things happen.

The Haunting in the Abandoned building

Now the building is abandoned and the only visitors are those seeking out the paranormal rumors and trying to investigate if they are true or not. In 2005 they tried to install some fences around the place, but no fences have ever held the most intense people out. 

People that have visited the place say that you can find many secret tunnels from the war leading as far to the neighboring town called Campello. There is even paperwork from both the time it served as a hotel as well as a hospital where even old patient files lie scattered around in the ruins. They have also come back claiming to have seen a ghost or two. 

Inside the old hospital it is said you can hear whistles while a translucent figure is climbing the ruined stairs.

It is said the place is haunted by the children that ended their life here, even though there are not really any recordings of deaths related to tuberculosis in the building. The legend persists and there are many who claim to have seen the ghosts of children around the ruins. 

Although no one really died of tuberculosis, there were recorded deaths of fires, sunstrokes and falls. 

The Woman in White

It is also said that a woman in white is seen crying when calamities approach. According to the legend, she could be seen in the reflection in a mirror that hung by the stairs to the first floor.  If you saw her laughing and crying at the same time, it was all good. But if you saw her only sobbing it meant something bad was going to happen. 

She is most often seen walking around the building at night and some claim that was  the wife of the Count of Casas Rojas, the former owner of the hotel and spas. Some of the variations of the legends says that she used to reside inside of a mirror, but when the mirror broke, she escaped and is now walking freely around.

According to the locals, the staff that used to work there used black magic in the church in the building and there are rumors that the place was also the place for a sect with ill intentions. 

The Future of the Sanatorium

Through the knocked down fences, the dark building stands looming on the hill. 

What will happen with the building is unclear, as it has been the topic of debate and in court for decades now. Some want to construct a hotel again, perhaps turn it into a museum. Some even want to tear the entire building to the ground. 

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The Ghosts of the White Plague Haunting the Alfaguara Sanatorium

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In the ruins of Alfaguara Sanatorium, also known as The Berta Hospital in Spain they tried as many sanatoriums did, to cure tuberculosis. It is said the victims of the white plague are still haunting the ground as well as the founder of the hospital.  

One of the smallest haunted hospitals in Spain is known for its long history of ghost sightings and paranormal activity. This hospital has been abandoned for many years and has become a popular destination for ghost hunters and thrill-seekers alike.

In Granada there was a sanatorium that was built in 1923 to help with the rising problem of tuberculosis in wartime at the beginning of the 20th century and operated as a hospital until it closed in 1940. 

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At the hospital’s inauguration the archbishop, the military governor and representatives of the city council of Granada with a large audience helped open the hospital. The furniture was even donated by Queen Victoria Eugenia who served as the president of the Red Cross for Ladies. Later the hospital was abandoned and forgotten except for the ghosts said to roam in the ruins. 

The Old Alfaguara Sanatorium

A sanatorium is an old name for specialized hospitals that were made for specific ailments. They were often built in the countryside with plenty of fresh air in a healthy climate isolated from the outside world. Sanatoriums across Europe and America were very popular to treat tuberculosis until the discovery of antibiotics. 

Tuberculosis was one of the deadliest illnesses in Europe at the turn of the century and was often known as the white plague and is one of the oldest diseases we have proof of.

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It could however also be a place for people to heal from things like alcoholism, nervous diseases like hysteria or emotional exhaustions. After medical advances the use of sanatoriums declined and many were abandoned in the mid 1900s often and has since gained a haunted reputation. 

Trying to Cure Tuberculosis

The Alfaguara Sanatorium was built with the money of a German Lady, Berta Wilhelmi, a philanthropist and was also known as the Berta Hospital. It was built in the area of what is now known as the heart of the Sierra de Huetor Natural Park in the mountain range, surrounded by Mediterranean and pine forest and fresh air in the mountains, something that was especially good for tuberculosis patients. 

Berta Wilhelmi was a businesswoman and philanthropist who had settled in Granada in 1870 when she was a child after moving from Heilbronn, Germany after the family mill had burnt to the ground and they went to Spain to start again. 

She had a brother who was named Luis who passed away from tuberculosis when he was only 12 years old and to cure people from it was close to her heart. 

This is why she invested a huge amount of her personal fortune into building a hospital that could help prevent further death from this disease. 

The Berta Hospital

Together with some doctors they built a new hospital to help with the rise of tuberculosis in the region. Tuberculosis was a dangerous illness at this time and spread fast in the overcrowded time of the early industrialization of the world and the approaching civil war that turned it into an epidemic. 

Most patients didn’t pay for their stay as it was first and foremost a philanthropic project for Berta and those who did pay paid three pesetas for their board at the hospital. 

The small hospital of Alfaguara Sanatorium was made to house 24 patients, and they also made a preventorium to house children in addition later. They stayed in their own pavilion named after Berta’s own son that passed away in 1925. 

She was well known for this type of work, and had also founded schools and was the director for the hospital until her death in 1934. And for the believers of the paranormal, some claim that her ghost is still roaming the place and looking out for it. 

The Ruins of the Hospital

The ruins of the building of Alfaguara Sanatorium are pretty hidden away and are today mostly rubbles and ruins you have to reach by foot up the mountain. 

The rumors say the sanatorium closed down for unknown reasons. What we do know is that the Spanish Civil War was raging at the time and the hospital was very close to one of the fronts and trenches by the Toriles fort near the town of Cogollos.

At one point in 1939 the hospital had more than 60 armed soldiers inside the compound and the scars of the Civil War in Spain are still felt by the nation where thousands of people died for their ideologies.

In the postwar times it was completely abandoned, but has been protected as a part of the forest conservation program of the Natural Park where it is in. 

The Ghosts of the Alfaguara Sanatorium

Today Alfaguara Sanatorium is known as a haunted place that draws hiking ghost hunters to see the ruins for themselves and do an investigation of the place. People that have visited claim to have seen ghostly silhouettes in the ruins and heard voices of the people that used to live there. 

Who are the ghosts that are said to haunt the place? A fact is that many of the tuberculosis patients didn’t make it, and some claim that it is the spirits of the patients taken by the white plague that is haunting the place. 

Considering Alfaguara Sanatorium role in the Spanish Civil War as well, some speculate that there were victims of war that ended their days inside of the hospital.  

Could it be Berta herself who is haunting her old hospital she poured her passion and love into just to see it crumble just a couple of decades after she built it?  

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Hauntingly Beelitz-Heilstätten Hospital

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The abandoned sanatorium in Germany is said to be haunted by all those souls that died inside of it because of its dark history. And in the Beelitz-Heilstätten Hospital, it wasn’t just sick people who ended up dying, but several murders took place in it or around it as well. 

Some buildings are just thought to be haunted by the look of them. Especially these old abandoned buildings with a dark and sinister history attached to them. One of these buildings with long ominous corridors and peeling paint is the Beelitz-Heilstätten Hospital not far from Berlin in Germany. 

The sanatorium was first built in 1898 as a response to the rapid increase in tuberculosis patients at the time as it was the number one cause of death in Germany at the time for people between 15 to 40. 

The Abandoned Sanatorium: The Beelitz-Heilstätten Hospital was originally built in 1898 as a treatment place for tuberculosis. Today it is abandoned with a haunted reputation over it.//source//wikimedia//qbanez

One of the treatments for this was fresh air, so the sanatorium was built in a remote pine forest. The Beelitz-Heilstätten Hospital was a complex of around 60 buildings that in the end, almost served as a small town of itself, with its own bakery, shop, apartments, post office, stables, butcher shop and laundry houses. At the time it was the largest treatment center in the world for lung diseases with at its peak beds for over 1200 patients. 

During the first world war Beelitz-Heilstätten Hospital served as a field hospital, and it got famous for treating Adolf Hitler who was wounded in his leg as well as being blinded by a gas attack by the British forces in the Battle of Somme. 

When the second world war started it would again be a treatment hospital for the Nazi forces until they lost and ended up being occupied by the Russians from 1945. Beelitz-Heilstätten Hospital stayed like that until 1995 before closing its door for good. At least for treating patients. 

The Abandoned Buildings as a Murder Place

Many murders have taken place in this remote area and around it. After the Soviet left, it became a hotspot for satanic and occult people to gather to drink and keep seances. And it was also those with an even more sinister idea. 

In March 1991, a mother and her newborn child of three months were brutally murdered right outside the old sanatorium. It was the Beast of Beelitz  who had struck again, a notorious serial killer that had started on 24 of October in 1989. 

The serial killer Wolfgang Schimdt used to be called Beast of Beelitz or Pink Giant because of his choice of weapon. The killer who legally changed name to Beate and underwent gender reassignment had terrorized the local women for years and his modus operandi was to strangle the victims with pink womens underwear. The Beast of Beelitz is in prison to this day after killing 6 people. 

But it wasn’t the only murderer who used this place for his crimes. A photographer and sadist named Michael K brought a 20 year old model named Anja P. to Beelitz-Heilstätten Hospital for pictures, and as he explained it, an erotic photo session that ended with her accidental death. 

During the photo session he ended up killing her, but the police found clear evidence that this was not an accident, but a premeditated murder. He beat her with a frying pan and had sex with her corpse after she died.  

Dark Tourism of Beelitz-Heilstätten Hospital

Like many of these mysterious and abandoned places there are many people attracted to the eerie beauty of the macabre building and its history. Many visit the place to get a closer look at the building itself or just explore the paranormal rumors that are created by just the haunted atmosphere of the place. 

Dark Tourism: Most of the buildings of Beelitz-Heilstätten Hospital are left to decay and a number of visitors come to experience the eery atmosphere of the abandoned building. But one of the reasons it is fenced off and off limits is because it is dangerous. Several people have had accidents in the unsecured and abandoned building who is falling apart. //source:Wendelin Jacober

Before 2015 it was mostly left to its own devices and people would come and go as they pleased. It was used as a movie location for the 2002 movie “The Pianist”, as well as being the place for horrific crimes. 

Today it is more closed off and taken back by the public to renovate and made into a tourist attraction rather than an urbex location for exploration. 

A Haunted Hospital

So is Beelitz-Heilstätten Hospital really a haunted place? Considering all the dark stuff that have happened inside of the building complex it is easy to think why people would call this place haunted. But rather than a specific story or encounter that made the place famous, it seems to be the other way around. 

There are however those who enter the place that exit it with tales of something paranormal happening to them. It is the usual stuff of seeing apparition where there are suppose to be none as well as hearing strange sounds and having the feeling of being watched as the room gets colder. 

So what do we think? Is Beelitz-Heilstätten Hospital haunted or just plain spooky?

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