Haunted Travel Stories From Travel Bloggers

October is around the corner and as some of you may know I am very excited for Halloween! What is more exciting than getting scared and eating candy? If you haven’t read my blog post, Three Haunted Destinations You Can Travel To In October, check it out now, and be inspired to go on some haunted trips this Halloween. Keeping up with the haunted travel theme, I asked some of my travel blogger friends to share with me some of their haunted travel stories, and put them together in this blog post for all of you!

So, I’ll start with my own haunted travel story! While I was in Ireland, I stopped in the lovely town of Kilkenny and visited a haunted pub called Kyteler’s Inn. It is a medieval bar that looks super cool and was build in 1324. Many of it’s guest have seen ghosts, and you can enjoy live music on most nights. During my visit in the pub nothing unusual happened, I was with my aunt and we enjoyed a drink and then headed back to our hotel. The next day I was scrolling through my photos that I took at Kyteler’s Inn and in the background of one of my photos there was a ghost! A GHOST PHOTO BOMBED ME IN A HAUNTED PUB! Check out the photo below and enjoy the other haunted travel stories! 

Check out this haunted blog stories!

1. The Most Haunted Place in Malaysia – Kellie’s Castle

   We decided to take a detour on the way back to KL and stopped by the famously known haunted building in Malaysia, Kellie’s Castle. It is situated on the way to Batu Gajah town at the Kinta Kellas Rubber Estate, about 30-minute drive and 14 km south of Ipoh City. Given this year is the Visit Malaysia Year, the place was nicely done up with proper signage guiding tourists like us. There’s a lot of fascinating haunted stories surrounding this castle. READ MORE.

2. Taman Festival: Abandoned Theme Park in Bali

Taman Festival is the name of an abandoned theme park in Bali. Built in 1997, Taman Festival featured Bali’s biggest swimming pool, a 3D cinema, the world’s first inverted roller coaster, laser shows and many other attractions. However, unfortunately, millions of dollars worth of laser equipment were struck by lightening on Friday 13th of March 1998 and caused irreparable damage, resulting in the close of the park after insurance companies refused to cover the loss. READ MORE. 

3. THE HISTORY OF BODMIN JAIL

Bodmin Jail in Cornwall was an operational prison from 1779 to 1927.  Like the Eastern State Penitentiary we went to in Philadelphia, it was built with lofty goals as a visionary forward-thinking place. For example, Bodmin Jail was the first British prison to hold prisoners in individual cells.  As the years went on, these lofty goals went by the wayside. In 1869, when the law changed so that you could no longer be put in prison for being in debt, Bodmin Jail had spare capacity.  The jail gave a portion of its buildings to the Royal Navy to become a naval prison.  During World War I, the prison housed some British treasures such as the Crown Jewels. READ MORE.