The Most Haunted Places in Denmark

The Most Haunted Places in Denmark: 30 hand-picked locations. Each includes its story and GPS coordinates.

• 🌲 Bjældskovdal (the Tollund Man's bog) Midtjylland, Silkeborg The peat cutters thought they had found a murder victim. The man in the bog had lain there 2,300 years, the rope still around his neck.
• 👻 The Køge House Cross (Torvet 2) Köpenhamn 'Here raged the Køge Huskors 1608–1615' – the devil in the merchant's house triggered Denmark's largest witch trial. Fifteen women died.
• ⛏️ Daugbjerg Limestone Mines Midtjylland, Viborg Sixty metres beneath the heath lies the cave where Jens Langkniv hid — the outlaw who killed the bailiff who wanted his mother burned as a witch.
• 👻 Dragsholm Castle Sjælland, Odsherred In 1910 they broke open the old wall and found a skeleton in a sealed niche. The noblewoman Celestine had vanished around 1550. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Finderup Barn Midtjylland, Viborg On St Cecilia's night 1286 the king was found with 56 stab wounds in a barn — seven men, eight thrusts each, and no proof to this day.
• 🏰 Hammershus, Bornholm Bornholm The watchman sat on the wall to learn who built by night. By morning the wall had grown three ells around him. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Maren Splids' House, Ribe Sydjylland, Ribe The tailor Didrik vomited up a living animal that moved in his belly — and named the woman in this house as the one who had bewitched him.
• 🏰 Rosenholm Castle Østjylland, Hornslet The white lady had walked the corridors for centuries — until builders opened a tower wall and found the skeleton of a young woman inside. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Harridslevgaard Castle Fyn, Bogense Funen's most haunted castle. Anne Lykke was beheaded for witchcraft in 1641. A man must every night ride his pregnant sister to death.
• 🏰 Visborggaard Castle Hadsund, Jylland Denmark's richest haunted castle: three phantom carriages, a cursed portrait that harms all who touch it, a battered wife and a wicked mademoiselle.
• 🏰 Dallund Slot Fyn, Søndersø Eiler Høg drove a carpenter to suicide in the 1600s — and still haunts the place. Two hellhounds tore a colonel to pieces. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Aalholm Castle, Lolland Lolland-Falster, Nysted The king fled up the chimney when the knights broke down the door. They pulled him down and locked him up here. 🛏 Book a night here
• ⛪ Børglum Abbey Nordjylland, Vendsyssel The bishops of Børglum ruled Vendsyssel with an iron hand — and in one particular room, the dead canons are said to still appear.
• 🏰 Clausholm Castle Østjylland, Randers The king had her carried out through a window and married her that same evening — she returned here as dowager queen, and is said to return still. 🛏 Book a night here
• ⚰️ Assistens Cemetery Köpenhamn Giertrud Bodenhoff was buried in 1798 – merely in a deathlike trance. When grave robbers came for her jewels, she woke in the coffin.
• ⚔️ Østre Fælled (Fælledparken) Köpenhamn Here Struensee lost his head before 30,000 spectators in 1772 – the executioner needed three blows before it left the body.
• ⛪ Roskilde Cathedral Köpenhamn Beneath the cathedral a horse was buried alive with one leg cut off – as a three-legged hel-horse with glowing eyes it still portends death.
• 👻 Grønsalen Long Barrow, Møn Møn, Fanefjord Beneath 145 kerbstones in a 102-metre row lie, by legend, King Grøn and his wife Fane — rival of the Cliff King for the mastery of Møn.
• 👻 Hald Ruin, Viborg Midtjylland, Viborg A curse is said to have lain over Hald since the king had Niels Bugge murdered in 1358 — five castles have risen by the same lake, and all five lie abandoned.
• 🏛️ Herlufsholm, Næstved Sjælland, Næstved She appeared to the priest the night before his journey and struck the table leg — and in the hidden compartment lay the deed that saved the school.
• ⛪ Højerup Old Church, Stevns Klint Sjælland, Stevns Every Christmas night the church moves one cock's stride inland. On a March day in 1928 it was too slow — the chancel fell into the sea.
• 👻 Kalø Castle Ruin Østjylland, Djursland Seven years of tax revenue lies buried in the islet, guarded by a dragon whose tail can sometimes be seen moving in the grass.
• 🏰 Koldinghus Sydjylland, Kolding Dowager Queen Dorothea makes her rounds every night to check that the guests behave — several have had their hats knocked off in the castle chapel. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏛️ The Ladby Ship Fyn, Kerteminde Eleven horses and four dogs were killed and laid in the ship with the chieftain — and before the rust had set, someone had gone down into the grave and emptied it. 🛏 Book a night here
• ⚰️ Mårup Church, Lønstrup Nordjylland, Lønstrup The sea is gnawing into the cliff where 226 drowned sailors lie in a mass grave — walkers already find bones the grave has lost to the water.
• 🌲 Møns Klint Møn The Cliff King rules beneath the chalk and rides out when Møn is threatened — but betray his secrets and he takes it back at sea.
• ⛪ Østerlars Round Church, Bornholm Bornholm The Day of Judgement was whitewashed over at the Reformation and lay hidden for 350 years — and legend has the Templars hiding a treasure beneath the cold round room.
• 🌲 The Robbers' Den, Rold Forest Nordjylland, Rebild Cords strung across the road, silver bells ringing in the dark — and in the hollow below waited men who had already escaped the gallows.
• 🏯 Sæbygaard Manor Nordjylland, Sæby A book chained to the table, two men reading it by night — and flames rising straight out of the pages until an entire wing was gone.
• ⛪ St Canute's Cathedral, Odense Fyn, Odense The monks dug secret tunnels to the nuns on Nonnebakken — and legend says none of them has found rest in the grave since.

FAQ

The Most Haunted Places in Denmark — which places are included?

The list has 30 places, among them Bjældskovdal (the Tollund Man's bog), The Køge House Cross (Torvet 2) and Daugbjerg Limestone Mines.

Can you stay overnight at these places?

8 of the places on the list are hotels or inns where you can book a night. The rest are places you can visit.

Where are these places?

You will find them in Denmark.

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