Case file · Haunting
Cândido Mendes prison, Ilha Grande
The Cândido Mendes penal institute at Dois Rios on Ilha Grande held political prisoners and gangsters for decades. It was demolished in 1994, and its ruins are said to be haunted.
1994 CE · -23.18, -44.19 · status: legend
The account
The criminal group Comando Vermelho is said to have formed there in the late 1970s, when political and common prisoners were held together.