The Most Haunted Places in Sweden

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

• 👻 Bredsätter Ångermanland A glow that keeps returning to the hall, and a crying that sounds like a newborn – in Ångermanland they call it the skväk, and it rises where a child has been done away with.
• 👻 Gubbträsk Lappland Pedlars who took shelter with the Gubbträsk man were never seen again. At last he had the church announce for a herd boy – and one came.
• 🌲 Kimsundet Hälsingland The man out in the sound refused to move his fish traps – and when the student threatened to duck him in the current, he began to grow until he reached the treetops.
• 🌲 The Great Brook at Lövberg Lappland Several had heard cries and wailing by the brook. Olle Nilsson met the man who blocked his path whichever way he turned – and learned who lay buried there.
• ⚔️ Spångmyrholmen Härjedalen Here Big-Märet was beheaded and burned – and three centuries later a bishop came to the islet to pronounce peace over the women the church itself had killed.
• 👻 The Strandgren Farm at Täftbyn Västerbotten The district called it "the ghost castle". The old man in the grey coat and long full beard had been dead for years when the tenant met him by the jetty at night.
• 🌲 The Bocksten Bog Halland They drove three stakes through the body and sank it in the bog. Not to hide the murder – to stop the dead man walking.
• ⚔️ Skänninge execution site (Tivoliängen) Östergötland One of Sweden's most-excavated execution sites — used for ~600 years, eleven graves and a gallows ditch.
• 📖 Abbey Garden — the Black Nun Östergötland In the abbey garden the Black Nun is said to glide along the wall at night — a nun who killed her child and never found rest.
• ⚔️ The Gallows Hill at Kvarnbacken Östergötland The town gallows, in use 1400–1650. A 2005 dig uncovered ~25 executed young men — one with an iron hook driven through the skull.
• ⛪ Alvastra abbey ruin Östergötland A Cistercian abbey from 1143 where the monks' treasure is said hidden in the mountain — and where dusk walkers think they glimpse cowled figures.
• 🏰 Ängsö Castle Västmanland On an island in Lake Mälaren, Karl XII's court jester is still said to walk — nearly 300 years after his death. 🛏 Book a night here
• 📖 Lake Sommen — the primal cow Sommakoa Östergötland The lake was made by the primal cow kicking open the rock; caged in a cave she eats one hair each Christmas Eve — then she breaks free.
• ⛪ Bjälbo church & Ingrid Ylva Östergötland Birger Jarl's 'sorcery-wise' mother is said to have been walled in standing in a pillar — while she held her head high the dynasty would be spared.
• ⚔️ Kårarp / the Gallows Hill (Eriksgata) Östergötland The district execution ground on the medieval royal road itself — with an Iron Age grave field, a hollow way and three runestones.
• 📖 Högby old churchyard & the Högby stone Östergötland An abandoned churchyard and Östergötland's second-greatest runestone, naming the freeholder Gulle's five sons — all dead.
• 📖 Kungshöga grave field Östergötland One of Sweden's larger Iron Age grave fields — 125 graves, judge-rings and standing stones, in use a thousand years.
• 📖 Mount Omberg & Queen Omma Östergötland The mountain's mist-queen weeps in the Rödgavel cave so fog settles over Vättern — giants dwell in the rock and hurl stones at the churches.
• 📖 Sverkersgården & the 1156 regicide Östergötland Here King Sverker the Elder was murdered by his own stable-hand on the way to Christmas matins in the dark — a memorial stone remains.
• 📖 Lake Vättern — the lake-wight & the scornful laugh Östergötland A mute old man was foretold to drown by the seer at Fjuk; when he was found dead in the ice-hole, witnesses heard 'a ringing scornful laugh from the lake'.
• 🏰 Penningby Castle Norrtälje, Uppland A medieval fortress by Lake Väsby where a resident was seized by the foot by a bony, invisible hand.
• 🏰 Rosersberg Palace Sigtuna, Uppland A queen died at this royal palace in 1818 — and a sentry is said to have met her again that same night, a glass in her hand. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏥 Sandträsk sanatorium Norrbotten One of northern Sweden's largest sanatoriums, built in 1913 on the belief that nature itself could heal what was otherwise fatal.
• 🌲 Äspnäs Jämtland The old woman rowed across the bay to fetch whoever had lit the signal fire – but the boat filled with a rake, a broom and a voice: "Shall I rake, or shall I sweep?"
• 🏛️ The Bakehouse at Friggesund Hälsingland The widow was found dead at the dough trough on the night of 5 February 1899 — after that no one in Svedjebo would bake there, and the whole cottage was moved.
• ⚰️ Bygdeå Churchyard Västerbotten "Blessed are they that sleep", read the gravedigger's wife as she crossed the graves. Then something sighed heavily beneath her: "We do not all sleep so well."
• 🌲 The Killer Pine at Otostorp Lappland The murder weapon hung on its nail in the pine for a hundred and fifteen years, re-tarred at intervals to preserve it – and the cross in the bark was cut the year after the deed.
• 👻 Ensillre Medelpad Johan Per's old woman murdered a pedlar and found no rest after death – the furniture shifted by night in the house where she once lived.
• 🏰 Gävle Castle Gästrikland The official Johan Wattrang was summoned to the castle and never seen again – legend says he was walled up alive in one of the cellar vaults and so never found rest. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏯 Gysinge Ironworks Gästrikland The White Lady, the farmhands – and someone who scratches and wants out of the wall. In the winter of 1820 the works also met a real terror that could not be walled in.

FAQ

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

The list has 30 places, among them Bredsätter, Gubbträsk and Kimsundet.

Can you stay overnight at these places?

3 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 Sweden.

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