Monks stuck in the subway and a building where people don’t stop dying: a ghost tour in central Madrid

If tourism scares you, now you can do it without leaving the capital. Madrid Centro is home to some ghost, murder and spirit legends this will give you goosebumps. We’ve compiled eight of the scariest things to happen to you in buildings you’ve probably been in (and felt their dark presence in) before.

Woman on the Roof of the Seven Chimney House

Now it has become the Ministry of Education and Culture, but even this honor did not make us forget the past. the story of love and death that precedes the building. Felipe II had it built for his lover Elena, who eventually married Captain Zapata and committed suicide when he died.

His body was never found until the mansion’s reforms began in the 19th century and his skeleton was found. Still a woman’s bones, according to testimonies nowadays he walks between the chimneys in his white robe from the roof.

Raimunda, daughter of the Palace of Linares

Linares Palace is perhaps one of the most famous Spanish castles in Madrid. Today it is known as Casa América, where the ghost of Raimunda’s daughter resides. She was the daughter of incest and was killed by her own parents for fear of scandal, she. sights hundreds of small walking corridors counted and most of the night watchmen claim to have heard and seen him.

Portal 3 by Antonio Grilo, Madrid’s most cursed building

This building in the center of Madrid has a curse that looks more like something from the best horror movies than ghosts. Inside only 19 years has hosted eight murders and one suicideincluding a man who killed his wife and five children before committing suicide. Scary enough sleaze to include him in everything tours Madrid horror.

Former patients and Picasso himself at the Reina Sofia Museum

Few places in Madrid shelter as many ghosts as the Reina Sofia Museum, but this is what it has. to be a detention center for insane and abandoned children. Workers and workers working on the museum’s construction denounced the existence of three nuns, a priest, elevators going up and down without calling, and even the ghost of Picasso.

Priests of Tirso de Molina station

The station was built on the Convento de la Merced. When they buried the subway, they found the skeletons of the monks buried there and did not know what to do with them. they left it on the platform wall covered with tiles. It’s a change of shelter they shouldn’t like, because many say they hear their screams after midnight.

priestess of the Bank of Spain

It is also built over an old church and therefore has its own ghost. In this case a nun with white habit and there are so many testimonies and encounters that EVP recordings were made to try to listen to it.

Goyito boy from Telefónica building

Of course, you stayed on the corner of Gran Via, where the Telefónica building is, and you stayed very spacious. What you may not know is that the guards claim to have seen them at night. a boy opening and closing the doors of the top floors. Sometimes he goes alone, sometimes with Ana, the Bilbao telephone operator, who jumped from the seventh floor in 1934.

demonic statue of Retiro

At the center of the Retiro Park is a very famous sculpture, the Fallen Angel, which Ricardo Bellver created in 1878 and installed in this Madrid venue in 1885. hides a door to hell because it is exactly 666 meters above sea level. It causes such fear that even an exorcism is performed on it.

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