Latin America is not only one of the most visited regions on earth because of its beautiful sceneries, but it's also home to truly dark places that specter-hunters and morbid thrill-seekers look for.

Terrifying Places in Latin America
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Terrifying Places in Latin America

Latin America is not only known for its distinct places that are full of mysteries and cultural background, there are places in the region that specter-hunters and morbid thrill-seekers look for and are always part of their bucket list. These are the terrifying places in Latin America.

Ruined hotels, abandoned mental hospitals, temples of violent death cults-grim locations like these are just a few that one can find in the region. These places are not for the faint of heart.

According to a published article in Fodors' Travel, here are some of the terrifying places in Latin America:

1. La Noria Cemetery in Atacama Desert, Chile

This is the place you do not want to get caught out after sundown. La Noria has a dark history. It was a lonely saltpeter-mining town whose inmates were subjected to unspeakable cruelty. Slave-like conditions prevailed, even for children. When the workers died, they were tossed in shallow, tumbledown graves-and forgotten.

However, after the settlement was shuttered in the 1920s, strange happenings were reported. Objects would change location when no one was looking.

A persistent, barely audible whisper filled the air. Most ominously, at night the cemetery would suddenly fill with presences, their gibbering voices heard for miles.

2. Real Felipe Fortress in Lima Peru

People described this place as sadistic. During Peru's war against the Spanish crown, they forced the prisoners mostly Republicans to remain standing the whole time they were interned even when they were sleeping. The life expectancy of the captives here is 60 days.

It is not a surprise anymore why the place scores high on the paranormal-activity scale. If you are liable to panic in tight places, then this fortress is not for you.

3. Santa Muerte Shrine in Mexico City, Mexico

Devotees and sociologists have tried to normalize it but La Santa Muerte or Sacred Death has been tied to ritual murders and several of the country's bloody narco-related killings.

Additionally, the shrine also pays homage to the dark goddess in images that recall both the Virgin Mary and the Grim Reaper.

Moreover, the Santa Muerte cult has a deep root in Aztec culture. This is where death was venerated in huge annual festivals. The place reemerged in the 20th century as Mexico found itself bled to the bone by narco-violence that was forced underground during the Spanish Conquest.

4. Hotel de Salto in San Antonio del Tequendama, Colombia

The hotel is branded as "Hotel of the Suicides," The Hotel del Salto began life as a train station and in 1928 became a playground for Bogota's beautiful people.

However, it was in the '50s when things started to go wrong. It was also the time the river got polluted and guests stopped coming.

Additionally, following those years more and more visitors were dying, in what some said was a gruesome recapitulation of a ritual from the 1500s, wherein the indigenous Muisca people would leap to their demise to avoid capture by the conquering Spanish.