The Most Haunted Places in Norway

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

• 🏥 Harastølen (Luster Sanatorium) Vestland The tubercular were isolated five hundred metres above the fjord to die — and rumour holds they never found rest in the corridors now collapsing.
• 🌲 Domen near Vardø Finnmark Norway's most notorious witches' mountain: here the condemned were said to have danced at midsummer while Satan himself played a red fiddle.
• 🗡️ Fredriksten Fortress, Halden Østfold The White Lady drifts over the grass without touching the ground, turns at the forest edge and waves — she has done so in Halden for two hundred years. 🛏 Book a night here
• ⛏️ The King's Mine, Kongsberg Buskerud Two herding children found the silver in 1623. Three centuries later the mine had eaten 1,068 metres into the rock – and accidents came weekly.
• 🗡️ Kristiansten Fortress, Trondheim Trøndelag Below the fortress wall lies the execution ground – first the occupiers shot their prisoners here, then Norway shot its traitors on the same spot. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 The Leprosy Museum, St Jørgen's Hospital, Bergen Vestland You were admitted here never to leave again. Bergen was the leprosy capital of the 19th century – and the ward still stands with its beds in place.
• 🗡️ Munkholmen, Trondheim Trøndelag Earl Håkon's head was set on a stake here long before the monks arrived. Then the island became a state prison – and the count walled up for eighteen years is said never to have left. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Nusfjord and the draug of Elvstøa Nordland The fisherman grabbed a stone to beat his mittens dry. At the third blow the stone screamed – and the draug rose from the shoreline.
• 👻 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.
• 🏗️ Pyramiden, Svalbard Svalbard A Soviet model town emptied out in weeks in 1998 – the plates are still on the tables, and the world's northernmost bust of Lenin stares across an empty football pitch.
• 🗼 The Rosenkrantz Tower, Bergen Vestland Four metres long, one metre wide, without light — in the tower's dungeon visitors say they meet those who never came out of the hole alive.
• ⛪ Selja Abbey and St Sunniva's Cave, Stad Vestland The Irish king's daughter and her followers prayed for the mountain to fall on them rather than be taken. The mountain obeyed.
• 🌲 Solsem Cave, Leka Trøndelag Thirteen red human figures dance on the cave wall deepest inside the mountain — and on the floor beneath them lay bones of animals and of infants.
• ⚔️ Steilneset Memorial, Vardø Finnmark Under torture they confessed to flying to the mountain Domen and dancing with Satan. Ninety-one lamps now burn in the dark for those burned here.
• ⛪ Utstein Abbey, Mosterøy Rogaland The White Lady has walked the abbey for two hundred years. She first appeared in Stavanger Cathedral – just as her husband was about to remarry.
• 🏥 Vensmoen Sanatorium, Saltdal Nordland Ghost hunters call Vensmoen Norway's most haunted building — reporting knocks on a window, a blow two floors up, and toys sounding in empty corridors.
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• 🏯 Austad Manor Drammen, Buskerud At this Drammen manor, the 'Black Lady' is said to walk — Ingeborg Marie Glud, the proud governor's wife of the early 1700s. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Blaker Skansen – A Historic Fortification with a Haunted Past In the heart of Sørum municipality in Akershus lies Blaker Skansen, a venerable Norwegian fortification built in 1682 as part of the defense line along the Glomma river to protect against Swedish attacks.
• ⛪ Dolm Church A place of faith, tragedies and mysteries. Dolm Church, located on Dolmøya in Hitra municipality, is one of the oldest buildings along the Trøndelag coast and carries a history full of drama, faith and supernatural tales.
• 🏯 Fossesholm Manor Øvre Eiker, Buskerud At this manor, 'Limping Birthe' is said to walk — the girl mocked for counting only to three, who threw herself from a window. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🛎️ GamlaVærket A historic gem in Sandnes with an eerie side. In the heart of Sandnes, just a minute from the train station and along the charming pedestrian street Langgata, lies GamlaVærket Gjæstgiveri & Tracteringssted. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Gjøvik Farm On a farm just outside Gjøvik, stories unfold that could come straight from a horror film. This farm, the subject of many paranormal investigations, is known for its recurring unexplained events and rumours of welcoming — but also restless — spirits...
• 👻 Gjeterøya and Siktesøya Haunted places in the Langesund Fjord. The Langesund Fjord in Norway paints a picture of scenic archipelago and calm waters, but behind the idyllic façade hide dark stories and tales of the supernatural.
• 🏰 Austrått Manor, Ørland Trøndelag Lady Inger of Austrått ruled Norway from this house – and Ibsen turned her into a woman who betrayed her country and carried her own son to the grave. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🛎️ Dr Holms Hotel, Geilo Buskerud A sanatorium for the tubercular that became Norway's grandest winter hotel – and the grey lady in the corridor seems not to have noticed the change. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🛎️ Fleischer's Hotel, Voss Vestland The hotel's first hostess refuses to move out. One sleeping guest is said to have woken to a gentle pat on the cheek. 🛏 Book a night here

FAQ

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

The list has 30 places, among them Harastølen (Luster Sanatorium), Domen near Vardø and Fredriksten Fortress, Halden.

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 Norway.

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