The most terrifying night of the entire year is approaching, the one in which the spirits (good and bad) cross the door that separates them from the living to wander among us for a few hours. It goes by many names, Halloween, Halloween, All Saints' Eve or Samaín, among others. For some it is a very special celebration, as they look for those places where they can be scared while it is still night, in areas far from urban centers, usually in abandoned buildings and with a stormy or mysterious past.
Therefore, if you are one of those who like to shiver and not sleep, the Rural Escape website has proposed some places where shadows lurk from dusk to dawn. Do not let darkness envelop you.
Declared as an Asset of Cultural Interest, it is an 18th century building in Níjar, built around a central patio, with a chapel, funerary crypt, ovens, stables, pig sheds and a cistern. It is an imposing farmhouse where a tragic event occurred that later inspired Lorca to write Blood Wedding. In 1928, the sharecropper of the farmhouse decided to marry his daughter Francisca Cañadas, known as Paca la Coja, to his brother-in-law's brother Casimiro. On the eve of the wedding, the bride decided to flee with her cousin Francisco, but they were chased and killed. Francisco and she was injured. The murderer, for his part, only spent three years in prison. These events were known as the Níjar Crime.
One of the most luxurious liners of the United States Lines and was baptized by Eleanor Roosevelt in 1939 as the S.S. America. A ship intended to transport the wealthiest of the time that was later transformed to help the Navy during World War II. At the end, she had several owners but never regained the shine she had before. Finally, a Thai businessman bought it with the intention of converting it into a floating hotel, but while he was towing it in 1994 there was a strong storm off Fuerteventura that left the ship adrift until it exploded off the coast, in the vicinity of the Garcey Beach. They rescued her crew but the ship broke in half. Neighbors plundered her interior, and some lost their lives trying to get on board, so she soon became known as a ghost ship.
The Torre Salvana castle is a 10th century fortress, located next to the historic complex of Colonia Güell, in Santa Coloma del Cervelló. Although it has been abandoned for centuries, many historical events have occurred inside as it has had many owners, feudal lords, powerful families and marquises. In 992 it was called the Eles tower, and in the 14th century it appeared as the Cort or Sacort tower. Inside the secret passages lead to "the gates of hell." because paranormal events are frequently associated with it. Many have tried spending the night in hell's castle: apparitions, voices, sensations... it's the usual thing.
This old weapons factory is located in Orbaiceta, it was built by order and desire of Carlos III in 1784, on a forge in the Aezkoa valley. The factory produced cannons, ammunition and iron until the implementation of the Blast Furnaces, its activity lasted almost 100 years. It is estimated that more than 150 families lived in this isolated location of Irati, but due to its proximity to the French border it became the object of constant looting and fires, which caused it to close its doors permanently at the end of the 19th century. Then it was abandoned until it was declared a Site of Cultural Interest in 2007. The dark image on its walls can produce a certain fear in the purest souls.
To the north of the Manzanedo valley, in the province of Burgos, is the monastery of Santa María de Rioseco, built in the first half of the 13th century and remodeled in later centuries. A monumental building that was inhabited for centuries by the white monks of the Cistercian Order, who were called that because of their clothing, and that, after the Confiscation of Mendizábal, fell prey to oblivion and plunder. As the centuries passed, depopulation and rural exodus did the rest until its neighbors, fed up with its degradation, decided to recover it so that it could tell its story again. Perhaps you can still hear the monks' prayers during the night.
