If tourism scares you, now you can do it without leaving the capital. Madrid Centro houses some legends of ghosts, murders and spirits that will give you goosebumps. We’ve compiled the eight scariest that have happened in buildings you’ve most likely been in (and felt the dark presences of) before.
The Woman on the Roof in the House of Seven Chimneys
Now it is the Ministry of Education and Culture, but not even this honor has made us forget the story of love and death that precedes the building. Felipe II had it built for his mistress Elena, who eventually married Captain Zapata and committed suicide when he died.
His body was never found, until the reforms of the mansion began in the 19th century and his skeleton was found. The bones of a woman who, according to testimonies, still nowadays he wanders in his white robe among the chimneys from the roof.
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The girl Raimunda of the Palace of Linares
The Linares Palace is perhaps one of the most famous Spanish castles in Madrid. It is today known as Casa América, where the ghost of the girl Raimunda lives. She was the daughter of an incest and murdered by her own parents for fear of scandal. sightings of a small walking the corridors are counted by hundreds and many of the night watchmen claim to hear and see it.
Portal 3 by Antonio Grilo, the most cursed building in Madrid
More than ghosts, what this building in the center of Madrid has is a curse that seems to be taken from the best horror movies. In only 19 years has harbored eight murders and one suicide, including a man who killed his wife and five children before committing suicide. Enough lurid sleaze to include it in all the tours Madrid horror.
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The former patients and Picasso himself at the Reina Sofía Museum
Few places in Madrid give shelter to as many ghosts as the Reina Sofía Museum, but it is what it has having been a detention center for the insane and abandoned children. The workers who worked on the construction of the museum and its workers have denounced the presence of three nuns, a priest, elevators that go up and down without calling them and even the ghost of Picasso.
The monks of the 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 as they did not know what to do with them they left them on the platform wall covered with tiles. A change of sanctuary that they must not have liked, because there are many who say they hear his cries after midnight.
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The nun of the Bank of Spain
It is also built on an old church and therefore has its own ghost. In this case it is a nun with white habit and there are so many testimonies and encounters that EVP recordings were made to try to listen to it.
The Goyito boy from the Telefónica building
Surely you have stayed at the corner of Gran Vía where the Telefónica building is and you have stayed so wide. What you may not have known is that at nightfall the guards claim to see a boy who opens and closes the doors of the highest floors. Sometimes he goes alone and sometimes accompanied by Ana, the Bilbao telephone operator who jumped from the seventh floor in 1934.
The devilish statue of the Retiro
The center of the Retiro Park houses a very famous statue, the Fallen Angel that Ricardo Bellver created in 1878 and placed in this Madrid space in 1885. They say that hides a door to hell for being exactly 666 meters above sea level. Such is the fear that it produces that an exorcism was even performed on him.
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