Where the White Lady Walks

Where the White Lady Walks: 30 hand-picked locations. Each includes its story and GPS coordinates.

• 👻 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
• 🏰 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
• 🛣️ Pinzgau Road (B311) Salzburg On the Pinzgau road a woman in black stops cars at night – warns of an accident, then dissolves into the dark.
• ⛪ The White Lady of the Scots Abbey Vienna When lights kindle in the cloister passages at midnight, Berta von Rosenberg walks. The white lady's visit has never meant anything but a death.
• 👻 The White Lady of the Theresianum Vienna The white lady stepped in to a fevered pupil — he died soon after. The gatekeeper who merely glimpsed her fell into nervous fever himself. 🛏 Book a night here
• ⛪ The White Lady of Hernals Vienna Sooner would the bells ring on Good Friday, said Gundl. At midnight a woman in white pulled the bell rope — and Gundl was gone.
• 🏚️ Berry Pomeroy Castle Devon The White Lady and the Blue Lady — two of England's most documented ghosts. The ruin in Devon is so haunted that English archaeologists refuse to dig at night.
• ⛪ Franciscan Monastery of Halshany Hrodna oblast A young mason's wife was walled up alive in the monastery wall at Halshany – and to this day the White Lady lets night guests feel her wrath.
• 🏚️ Corfe Castle Corfe Castle, Dorset An atmospheric ruin with a spectral white lady and a weeping child among several ghosts.
• 🏰 Český Krumlov Castle Jihočeský kraj Two legends meet at Krumlov Castle: the silent walks of the White Lady, and the emperor's son who murdered the barber's daughter Markéta. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Krivoklat Castle Prague The white lady in the chapel is said to be Eliska Premyslovna. In the Huderka tower musicians played to drown out the screams below. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏚️ Dunluce Castle Portrush, Northern Ireland Guarded by cliffs and lashed by the sea, a gaunt shell of a castle with a white lady.
• ⛪ Mortemer Abbey Normandy On full-moon nights the Empress Matilda appears in the abbey ruins — her gloves reveal whether she brings fortune or death.
• 👻 Château de Montségur Occitanie On the rock where 200 Cathars burned, the lady Esclarmonde is said to weep for her people on stormy nights.
• 🏰 Château de Puymartin Nouvelle-Aquitaine Thérèse de Saint-Clar was locked in the north tower for fifteen years — at midnight she walks there still. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏯 Lerbæk Hovedgaard Frederikshavn, Jylland A poltergeist moves guests' belongings. Hoofbeats across the moat bridge. The horses in the stable stare at one specific corner. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏯 Louhisaari Manor Masku, Egentliga Finland A jealous husband forgot he'd locked his wife away — she starved to death, and the White Lady still walks the third floor, sometimes with a child. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Muncaster Castle Cumbria A crying child and a singing woman are heard in the Tapestry Room — and the White Lady is said to be Mary Bragg, murdered by the gate in the 1800s. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🗡️ 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
• ⛪ 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.
• 🗡️ Real Felipe Fortress Callao By the King's Tower bridge in Callao's fortress appears a footless lady in white, singing into the night. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🛣️ Balete Drive Quezon City, Metro Manila The Philippines' most notorious White Lady flags down taxis on Balete Drive at night – then vanishes from the back seat.
• 👻 Radziejowice Palace Warsaw Primate Radziejowski shut his mistress in the hole beneath the tower. She lost her mind and died, and still searches the halls for him. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Czocha Castle Lower Silesia At Czocha the beheaded Gertruda is said to walk as a White Lady, while cries echo from the "well of unfaithful wives". 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Krzyżtopór Castle, Ujazd Świętokrzyskie In magnate Ossoliński's gigantic calendar castle, his ghost rides in winged hussar armour – while a headless White Lady hunts for her killer.
• 🏯 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.
• 🏰 Svaneholm Castle Skurup, Skåne This Renaissance castle in Skåne even has its own ghost exhibition — a dancing Danish king and a White Lady are among those said to walk here. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Svartå Manor (Mustio) Raseborg, Nyland The White Lady wanders the rooms with a candelabra, King Gustav III drags his steps in the royal chamber, and a Grey Woman haunts the third floor. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Tutbury Castle Staffordshire Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned here and is said to walk — in 2004 her apparition reportedly appeared to some forty people on the South Tower. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Pidhirtsi Castle Lviv oblast In the Renaissance castle of Pidhirtsi walks the White Lady – the young mistress said to have been walled up alive by her jealous husband. 🛏 Book a night here

FAQ

Where the White Lady Walks — which places are included?

The list has 30 places, among them Dragsholm Castle, Rosenholm Castle and Pinzgau Road (B311).

Can you stay overnight at these places?

17 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 United Kingdom, Austria, Denmark, France, Poland and Czechia.

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