Palacio de la Inquisición, Cartagena

Record summary

Cartagena’s Palacio de la Inquisición, now a museum, became associated with stories of screams, apparitions, and residual suffering linked to its history as an ecclesiastical tribunal and prison. The building is a strong comparison case for examining how torture narratives, museum display, and colonial memory shape reports of haunting. Its institutional history and restoration can be documented, while the alleged late-twentieth-century encounters require source-by-source checking. Researchers should distinguish museum interpretation from claims attributed to guards, visitors, or named investigators.