Paranormal tourism in colombia

Unfamiliar places with strange stories

Today I go to places that hardly anyone knows and some people are curious to go.

As always my obligation is to put everything about Colombia. Including the dark.

Supposedly things happen here and they are very famous places for paranormal tourism.

Salto del Tequendama, a leap into the afterlife

The Tequendama waterfall is a 157-meter waterfall that is formed thanks to the waters of the Bogotá River. This natural attraction and the first of the paranormal destinations. It is located approximately 30 km southwest of the country's capital and its paranormal stories are mostly related to the supposed lost souls of the multiple suicide bombers who have ended their lives by throwing themselves into the abyss. According to popular tradition, this space has a special force that invites those who get too close to the shore to jump. However, it is also said that the deaths date from when indigenous tribes in the region took their prisoners to force them to throw themselves.

However, the strange events are concentrated above all to the side, looking towards the precipice, in a house that currently houses a museum and that was previously a train station, then a hotel and finally a restaurant. From appearances of headless men to noises of fights, are some of the things that happen in the enclosure, even the locals affirm that to this day a nun who accidentally fell into the waters that flow into what is now called El Lake of the Dead.

Gorgona jail: a death sentence

The abandoned prison on the island of Gorgona is another of the paranormal destinations. It stands 35 kilometers from the Pacific Coast of the department of Cauca. Its ruins have become part of a National Natural Park that attracts hundreds of tourists annually and that seeks to preserve the abundant fauna and flora.

The maximum security institution, which operated from 1960 to 1984, housed the most dangerous criminals in facilities with punishment cells, latrines and small wooden cabins. As the story goes, the prisoners had to survive animals, such as poisonous snakes, and also suffered from tropical diseases. Entering Gorgona at that time was almost a death sentence.

It is said that, at present, the mysterious energy of the place is accompanied by fleeting shadows and inexplicable noises, even some visitors claim to have experienced the sensation that someone is trying to hold them.

Armero

On the night of November 13, 1985, a great avalanche, coming from Nevado del Ruiz, buried Armero, a prosperous town in Tolima, and with it more than 23,000 of its inhabitants who were caught unawares and many of whom were never found. found.

Over time, the physical space has become a cemetery, with hundreds of symbolic tombs that stand out from the undergrowth that invades the ruins of the old buildings. The tip of the church's bell tower, which survived the tragedy, has been placed in the same place where the sacred enclosure used to be.

Tourists come to this place to offer a prayer for the victims of the tragedy and others attracted by the stories and paranormal events that ensure, among other things, that at night it is possible to hear laments, especially in what remains of the first floor of the hospital.

Bogota Central Cemetery

The Central Cemetery is the oldest in the capital of Colombia and is where the remains of important personalities of the country such as former presidents, artists and businessmen are buried. Many stories are woven around the enclosure, the most popular having to do with apparitions of a man, apparently a monk who guards the place, and a 15-year-old girl: both appear in white robes.

Additionally, those who work in the cemetery assure that groups of people come there to make invocations, that it is a meeting point for witches and that voodoo and black magic are the subject of every day. All this is done above all in a space known as the snail, a staircase that leads to a basement with multiple corridors full of tombs.

I hope you liked this article soon more curiosities about Colombia.

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