House of Terror (60 Andrássy Avenue)

Budapest · Hungary · Museum

In the former headquarters of two terror regimes at 60 Andrássy Avenue, the spirits of tortured prisoners are said never to have left the basement.

The building at 60 Andrássy Avenue in Budapest served from the 1930s to the 1950s as headquarters first of the fascist Arrow Cross and then of the communist secret police, its basement holding interrogation rooms and cells where prisoners were tortured and executed. Since becoming the House of Terror memorial museum, stories have spread that the victims' spirits remain: visitors and staff have described sensing a woman whose eyes had been taken, a tormented couple, and a middle-aged man executed by his own comrades. The museum's reconstructed basement ranks among Budapest's most oppressive spaces – ghosts or no ghosts.

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House of Terror (60 Andrássy Avenue) is in Budapest, Hungary.

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Accounts are drawn from local folklore and visitor reports.