Haunted Places in Poland (78)

Explore 78 haunted places in Poland — castles, hotels, churches, ruins and more. Every location includes its story and GPS coordinates.

• ⛪ Church of St Benedict Kraków The Black Princess lives under the steps of the tiny church. She hands out gold, and tears the head off anyone who breaks her one condition.
• 👻 Old Psychiatric Hospital, Owińska Greater Poland In the abandoned hospital at Owińska, where the Nazis murdered every patient in 1939, screams and weeping are said to echo each November.
• ⛪ The Skull Chapel, Czermna Dolnośląskie Legend says those whose bones line the chapel never found rest — at night, whispers and footsteps are heard among three thousand skulls.
• ⚔️ The Torture House in Gdańsk Pomorskie In Gdańsk's old torture house, two executed prisoners are said to appear as white figures with nooses around their necks.
• ⛪ Holy Trinity Basilica (Dominican Church) Kraków A girl called Eleonora appears by the crypt stairs. Above the tomb of St Hyacinth, torches have been seen floating with nobody holding them.
• ⛪ St Mary's Basilica Kraków The trumpet call breaks off mid-note where the arrow hit the watchman's throat. In the Chapel of Criminals the condemned still moan after dark.
• 👻 Belweder Palace Warsaw Grand Duke Constantine returns to the study where he signed the sentences, by preference on the eve of the November Uprising's anniversary. 🛏 Book a night here
• ⚰️ Powazki Cemetery Warsaw For 364 days a year General Blumer lies still. On the anniversary of the uprising he stands at his own grave, facing the city centre.
• 👻 Krzywe Kolo – the basilisk's cellar Warsaw The basilisk sat in a cellar on Krzywe Kolo. Its gaze turned the living to stone, until a poor cobbler walked down carrying a mirror.
• 🏛️ Mansjonaria, Swietojanska 2 Warsaw Two cooks were tortured for a poison they never gave. Since 1524 the house on Swietojanska has whispered and rattled its dishes.
• 👻 The tenement at Nowogrodzka 14 Warsaw The actress Maria Wisnowska never left her house on Nowogrodzka. Tenants say she still enjoys the occasional small prank.
• ⛪ Tyniec Benedictine Abbey Kraków If the monks of Tyniec start loving wealth more than prayer, Walgierz the Bold appears to them: the knight who killed out of jealousy.
• 👻 Krzysztofory Palace Kraków At midnight the Black Lady crosses the halls at Main Square 35. Catch her eye and she will whisper you the date of your own death. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Radziejowice Palace Warsaw Primate Radziejowski shut his mistress in the hole beneath the tower. She lost her mind and died, and still searches the halls for him. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Wielopolski Palace Kraków A young woman was walled up for a forbidden love. When the plaster came down after the fire, the skeleton was still in the niche in black velvet. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🌲 Bald Mountain (Święty Krzyż) Świętokrzyskie On bare Łysa Góra the witches held their sabbaths with devils – until monastery bells silenced them, and one tardy devil's boulder was left on the slope.
• ⛪ Lubiąż Cistercian Abbey Dolnośląskie In the desecrated crypt of the vast baroque abbey, princes and monks lie without rest – and legend tells of the brother who slept for a hundred years.
• 🏰 Czocha Castle Lower Silesia At Czocha the beheaded Gertruda is said to walk as a White Lady, while cries echo from the "well of unfaithful wives". 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Krzyżtopór Castle, Ujazd Świętokrzyskie In magnate Ossoliński's gigantic calendar castle, his ghost rides in winged hussar armour – while a headless White Lady hunts for her killer.
• 👻 Lipowiec Castle, Babice Małopolskie At the bishops' old priest-prison of Lipowiec, a phantom carriage is said to arrive by night – and a chained prisoner is dragged towards the executioner's raised sword.
• 👻 Ogrodzieniec Castle Schlesien (Jura Krakowsko-Częstochowska) A giant black dog dragging a rattling chain is said to guard Ogrodzieniec – the trapped soul of the cruel castellan Warszycki.
• 👻 Olsztyn Castle near Częstochowa Schlesien (Jura Krakowsko-Częstochowska) In the castle's dungeon vault, voivode Maćko Borkowic was starved to death – at full moon his moans and rattling chains can still be heard.
• 🏰 Reszel Castle Warmińsko-Mazurskie Barbara Zdunk, the last 'witch' burned in Europe, is said to hover above the castle walls of Reszel, limbs bound and eyes full of accusation. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Wenecja Castle Ruins Kujawsko-Pomorskie In the ruins between the lakes, the 'Bloody Devil of Wenecja' guards his treasure – at night come the rattle of chains and the counting of coins.
• ⛪ Węgrów Basilica – Twardowski's Mirror Masovien The sacristy at Węgrów keeps the sorcerer Twardowski's mirror – in which he is said to have conjured the ghost of dead Queen Barbara.
• ⚰️ Remuh Cemetery, Kazimierz Kraków A wedding that danced on into the sabbath is said to have sunk into the earth. The small green plot on Szeroka is told to be their grave.
• 🚇 The Cracked Bell on Kanonia Warsaw The bell on Kanonia cracked before it ever rang once. Walk around it three times and make a wish, knowing whose misfortune you circle.
• 🌲 Krakus Mound Kraków King Krak is said to lie under the sixteen-metre mound. Every year after Easter, food is thrown from its top to the living and to the dead.
• 🌲 Wanda Mound Kraków Wanda refused the German suitor and threw herself into the Vistula. The mound was raised where the current brought her body ashore.
• ⛪ Church of St Joseph of the Bernardine Sisters Kraków Night after night Katarzyna Jaworska scrubs the stone floor of the sisters' church. The brush is heard, but nobody sees the water move.
• 👻 Hercules' Club Kraków A limestone tower 25 metres tall, balanced on its narrowest end. The devil carried it here on the orders of the sorcerer Twardowski.
• 👻 Bishop's Palace, Krakow Kraków The White Lady has been asking forgiveness in the palace corridors since the 1820s. Nobody there fears her; she belongs to the house. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Branicki Palace on Nowy Swiat Warsaw Baroness Anna Branicka fell down the palace staircase and died. Her white figure still walks the same short stretch of corridor. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 The Palace on the Isle, Lazienki Warsaw The king never left his island. Late visitors in Lazienki say a fortepiano can be heard inside the locked and empty palace. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Przebendowski-Radziwill Palace Warsaw Countess Elzbieta Branicka died in one of the rooms and stayed. The staff count her as the quietest fixture in the building. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 The corner of Piwna and Piekarska Warsaw Macko Kwasizur boasted that not even the devil was his equal. Out of the dark corner of the tavern stepped Chmielorz, eyes like coals.
• ⛪ The Church on the Rock (Skalka) Kraków Bishop Stanislaus was cut to pieces here. Eagles guarded the parts, a fish swallowed one finger, and the body grew together without a scar.
• 🌲 The Dragon's Den Kraków The dragon in the cave under the rock demanded a maiden a month, until the cobbler Skuba filled a lamb with sulphur and left it at the mouth.
• 🏛️ The Cloth Hall knife Kraków A knife hangs on a chain under the arcade of the Cloth Hall. With it, the elder brother is said to have killed the younger over a tower.
• 👻 Ostrogski Castle Warsaw A princess enchanted into a golden duck swims on a lake beneath the castle cellars. She gives away gold on one impossible condition. 🛏 Book a night here
• ⛪ The Penitents' Bridge, Wrocław Dolnośląskie High between the towers of St Mary Magdalene's, the souls of sinful maidens are said to sweep the bridge for eternity – night walkers hear the rasp of brooms.
• 🚇 Crown Tribunal, Lublin – The Devil's Paw Lublins vojvodskap In Lublin's old courthouse, devils held their own trial by night – and branded a paw print into the judges' table as their signature.
• 🏰 Będzin Castle Śląskie Burgrave Mikołaj, who leapt from the tower clutching a stolen chalice, is said to roam the walls of Będzin with his victim – a White Lady – in tow. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Bobolice Castle Schlesien (Jura Krakowsko-Częstochowska) At the cliff-top castle of Bobolice, a countess in black robes still grieves for her lost sons. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Royal Castle of Chęciny Świętokrzyskie On the walls of Chęciny, the white figure of Queen Bona appears in the moonlight – guarding the treasure she never managed to carry out of the country.
• 👻 Chojnik Castle Nedre Schlesien (Karkonosze) Cruel princess Kunegunda, who sent suitors riding to their deaths around the walls, still weeps in the ruins of Chojnik.
• 👻 Czersk Castle Mazowieckie At full moon Queen Bona is said to gather pearls in the courtyard of Czersk – a necklace that breaks again and again, for all eternity.
• 👻 Czorsztyn Castle Małopolskie In the ruins of Czorsztyn, rebel leader Kostka Napierski and the cruel lord Baranowski are said to walk again – 'when night spreads its wings'.
• 🏰 Gniew Castle Pomorskie Teutonic commander Zygmunt von Ramungen, killed at Grunwald in 1410, is said to still watch over his castle – cursing those who let it fall to ruin. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Grodno Castle, Zagórze Śląskie Lower Silesia At Grodno Castle, Countess Małgorzata is said to re-enact her despairing suicide every night, after being forced into marriage. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Grodziec Castle Lower Silesia On the basalt hill of Grodziec appears the "Red Spectre" – a knight in a crimson cloak who once frightened an unjust castellan into mending his ways. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Janowiec Castle Lublins vojvodskap In the ruins above the Vistula, Helena Lubomirska appears as the Black Lady – locked away for her forbidden love of a fisherman.
• 🏰 The Knights Hospitaller Castle, Łagów Lubuskie The Knight in Flames – Commander von Schlieben, who broke his monastic vows – is said to appear in a fiery glow at the bedside, but only to men. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Krasiczyn Castle Podkarpackie Sixteen-year-old Zofia Sapieha, said to have leapt from the tower on her wedding day, appears at midnight in her bridal gown. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Royal Castle in Warsaw Mazowieckie Here in 1569 King Sigismund Augustus had necromancers summon his dead queen Barbara – a spirit said never to have left the castle. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Krupe Castle Ruins Lubelskie From the empty windows of the Renaissance ruin at Krupe, mournful weeping is said to echo at night – and sometimes a White Lady appears.
• 🏰 Castle of the Pomeranian Dukes, Szczecin Zachodniopomorskie The witch Sydonia von Borck, beheaded in 1620, is said to have cursed the entire Pomeranian ducal line – and to walk the castle halls still. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Łańcut Castle Subkarpaterna Through the corridors of the grand palace, the "Devil of Łańcut" – the infamous Stanisław Stadnicki – is said to prowl still. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Royal Castle of Łęczyca Łódź vojvodskap In the royal castle's vaults dwells the devil Boruta – the noble devil in a kontusz coat guarding the treasures beneath Łęczyca. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Malbork Castle Pomorskie At midnight the dead Grand Masters of the Teutonic Order are said to rise from the crypt beneath St Anne's Chapel and hold counsel until dawn. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Moszna Castle Opolskie In the fairy-tale castle of 99 turrets, an English governess denied rest in her homeland still haunts – along with a maid who leapt from the tower. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Niedzica Castle (Dunajec Castle) Lillpolen At the castle above the Dunajec, Brunhilda is said to haunt the walls after plunging into the castle well during a quarrel. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Przemysł Castle, Poznań Wielkopolskie Duchess Ludgarda, smothered on her husband's orders in 1283, is said to walk Przemysł Hill – her dying curse came true to the last word. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🛎️ Ryn Castle Ermland-Masurien In the Teutonic castle of Ryn, the night carries the weeping of Anna, said to have been walled up alive with her children. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Górka Castle, Szamotuły Greater Poland In the Black Princess's tower, Halszka of Ostróg was held captive for fourteen years behind an iron mask – and is said to haunt it still. 🛏 Book a night here
• ⛏️ Wieliczka Salt Mine Małopolskie Deep in the Wieliczka salt mine dwells the Skarbnik – the grey-bearded guardian spirit with a blue-flamed lamp, who warns of cave-ins but punishes the greedy.
• 🚇 The Stone Bear on Swietojanska Warsaw The bear in front of the Jesuit church is a petrified prince. The right woman's love breaks the spell; so far nobody has managed it.
• 🚇 Sigismund's Column Warsaw The king holds his sabre raised over the square. The legend is exact: the day the blade sinks and touches the base, Warsaw is lost.
• 🚇 The Warsaw Mermaid Warsaw The mermaid of the Vistula was caught and shown for money. The fisherman who freed her was given a promise: the sword guards the city.
• 👻 Branicki Palace, Białystok Podlaskie In the 'Versailles of Podlasie', a woman in a white gown is said to appear in the baroque gardens on warm summer nights. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🌲 Śnieżka – Realm of the Mountain Spirit Nedre Schlesien (Karkonosze) On the slopes of Śnieżka, the Mountain Spirit Karkonosz – mockingly nicknamed Liczyrzepa – is said to keep his invisible fortress.
• 🏰 Golub-Dobrzyń Castle Kujavien-Pommern Princess Anna Vasa, granddaughter of Sweden's Gustav Vasa, is said to still tidy her castle at Golub by night. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Gołuchów Castle Greater Poland Art collector Izabella Działyńska is said to keep nightly watch over her treasures as the Black Lady of Gołuchów's Renaissance castle. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Kamieniec Castle, Odrzykoń Podkarpackie At sunset the dwarf lady Kasia, in a green Renaissance gown, is said to walk the walls of Kamieniec – home at last after dying in a foreign land.
• 🏰 Kórnik Castle Greater Poland Just before midnight each night, Countess Teofila Działyńska is said to step out of her portrait – Poland's most famous White Lady. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Pieskowa Skała Castle Lillpolen In the tower of Pieskowa Skała, Dorotka starved to death – now her ghost forever seeks her executed beloved. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Pszczyna Castle Śląskie Princess Daisy von Pless, buried with her cursed six-metre rope of pearls, is said to keep watch over Pszczyna Castle still. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Uniejów Castle Łódzkie By the Warta river, Uniejka is said to walk again – the girl who lured robbers into the marsh to save the archbishops' treasure, and was dragged into the deep. 🛏 Book a night here

FAQ

How many haunted places are there in Poland?

Haunted Places lists 78 haunted locations in Poland, each with its story and GPS coordinates.

What are the most haunted places in Poland?

Among the most notable in Poland: Church of St Benedict, Old Psychiatric Hospital, Owińska and The Skull Chapel, Czermna.

Can you stay overnight at haunted places in Poland?

Yes — 35 of the haunted places in Poland are hotels or inns you can book for an overnight stay. The rest are public sites you can visit.

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