Haunted Places in Oslo (17)

Explore 17 haunted places in Oslo. Read the stories and find your next ghost trip.

• 👻 Dikemark Hospital Oslo Night visitors to the pavilion called The Castle hear footsteps in empty corridors and doors slamming — and the sense of being watched from the blind windows.
• ⚔️ Etterstad Execution Ground Oslo One April morning in 1864, five thousand people streamed here to watch two heads fall — the last public execution in Christiania.
• ⚔️ Galgeberg (Gallows Hill) Oslo The name means Gallows Hill and it earned it: the city's execution ground stood here for centuries — and construction workers later dug the bones of the executed out of the courtyard soil.
• 👻 Gaustad Hospital Oslo Behind the handsome brick facades they cut into brains without anaesthesia — and at night, hospital beds are still said to rattle in the corridors.
• 🌲 Ekeberg Forest Oslo Inside the hill, the Ekeberg King holds court with his subterranean folk — linger in the woods at dusk and you risk being taken into the mountain.
• 🏛️ Mangelsgården – Prinds Christian Augusts Minde Oslo Behind the gate at Storgata 36 lay the "Dollhouse" — nine madhouse cells, including a special room for the 'talkative and quarrelsome'.
• 👻 Oslo Hospital Oslo Norway's oldest psychiatric hospital was built on the ruins of a plundered friary — nearly 500 years of confinement in the shadow of the Ekeberg ridge.
• 🏯 Oslo Ladegård (the Old Bishop's Manor) Oslo Karen Toller, the most powerful widow of 18th-century Christiania, still drifts through the salons — while in the medieval cellar an abbot hangs himself anew every Christmas Eve.
• 🌲 Steilene Islands Oslo Sailors crossed themselves as they passed at dusk — out on the islands the bodies of the executed were nailed to wheels on poles, facing the approach to the city.
• 🌾 Brekke Mill and Falls Oslo By the mills where the Akerselva river is born, Asbjørnsen gathered his 'Mill Legends' — of mills that burned down Christmas night after Christmas night, and of the beings that set them alight.
• ⛪ Old Aker Church Oslo Beneath Oslo's oldest building, a fire-breathing dragon broods over a silver hoard — the mine openings are still called the Dragon Holes.
• 🏚️ St. Hallvard's Cathedral Ruins Oslo His killers sank young Hallvard in the fjord with a millstone round his neck — but the body floated up, and around the miracle a cathedral rose.
• ⛪ Hovedøya Abbey Ruins Oslo One January night in 1532 the soldiers came across the ice. In a few hours the monks' world was wiped out — and their graves still lie tight against the walls.
• 🏯 Losby Manor Oslo When the estate was driven into bankruptcy, the steward hanged himself in his bedroom in the east wing — and at the manor hotel they say he never checked out.
• 🏚️ St. Margaret's Church Ruins, Maridalen Oslo The Black Death emptied the valley and the church fell to ruin — yet the sick still came on Christmas night, setting burning candles among the walls to be healed.
• 🏚️ Sarabråten Oslo Long before the gentry's parties, Haugkjerringa Sara — the old woman of the mound — lived on this hill by Nøklevann. The place still carries her name.
• ⚰️ Sofienberg Park Oslo The stones were removed but the dead were never moved — beneath Grünerløkka's barbecue smoke and picnic blankets, 60,000 people still lie in their graves.

FAQ

How many haunted places are there in Oslo?

Haunted Places lists 17 haunted locations in Oslo, each with its story and GPS coordinates.

What are the most haunted places in Oslo?

Among the most notable in Oslo: Dikemark Hospital, Etterstad Execution Ground and Galgeberg (Gallows Hill).

Can you stay overnight at haunted places in Oslo?

Most haunted places in Oslo are public sites you can visit; a few are hotels or inns where you can stay overnight.

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