The Ghosts of the Palacio de las Dueñas in Cartagena

Record summary

Cartagena’s former Palace of the Inquisition is frequently connected in local storytelling with tortured prisoners, executions, hidden chambers, and apparitions. The building’s museum setting encourages visitors and guides to interpret architectural remnants through narratives of suffering and supernatural residue. This makes it a useful comparison with other former tribunals, prisons, and colonial administrative sites. The existence of the Inquisition tribunal and the building’s history are documented, but individual ghost encounters, nocturnal voices, and specific hidden-room claims require separate sourcing and may be touristic accretions.