Haunted Castles (1043)

1043 haunted castles from around the world. Each location includes its story and GPS coordinates.

• 🏰 Berkeley Castle Berkeley, Gloucestershire Ever since Edward II was murdered here in 1327, the castle has echoed with his ghostly screams.
• 🏰 Chillingham Castle Northumberland The radiant Blue Boy cried at midnight in the Pink Room — and a renovation uncovered a child’s bones walled up in blue cloth. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 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
• 🏰 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
• 🏰 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
• 🏰 Château de Tiffauges Pays de la Loire In Bluebeard's castle, children's cries are still said to echo at night — this was the lair of Gilles de Rais. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Glamis Castle Angus, Scotland Earl Beardie is said to play cards with the Devil in a secret room — and the castle hides the legend of the Monster of Glamis. 🛏 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.
• 🏰 Skryne Castle Meath Lilith Palmerston runs screaming through the upper floor clutching her throat — as on the night Phelim Sellers choked her to death there. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Čachtice Castle Trenčiansky kraj In the ruin of Čachtice the Blood Countess Erzsébet Báthory was walled up until her death – and her victims are said to still wail among the stones.
• 🏰 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.
• 🏰 Woodcroft Castle Helpston, Cambridgeshire Cries of mercy, mercy are still heard from the walls, the phantom siege of Dr Hudson.
• 🏰 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
• 🏰 The Lion's Bride of Neugebäude Palace Vienna Four-year-old Berta led an escaped lion back to its cage and was named the Lion's Bride. On her wedding day she stepped inside one last time. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Farciennes Castle Vallonien – provinsen Hainaut When the family crypt was opened in 1851, four of the five Batthyány bodies had iron stakes driven through their hearts – the ruin is still called the vampire castle.
• 👻 Halshany Castle Ruins Hrodna oblast In the ruins of the Sapieha castle at Halshany walks the Black Monk – the youth who loved a princess and was walled into the masonry for his daring.
• 🏰 Carrickfergus Castle Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland The fortress founded in 1185 is haunted by Buttoncap, a soldier wrongly executed.
• 🏰 Castle Rising Castle King's Lynn, Norfolk Home to the howls of the mad queen Isabella, the She Wolf, imprisoned here in 1330.
• 🏰 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
• 🏰 Lemberk Chateau Liberecký kraj At Lemberk, castellans and visitors hear heavy footsteps in empty halls and organ music from the locked chapel. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Kokorin Castle Prague At midnight a girl wipes a bloodstain from the wall. The next night it is back — and the Black Huntsman rides out with his hounds. 🛏 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
• 👻 Okor Castle Prague Juliana was walled into the tower for a love her father forbade. The white figure seen up there is said to be her.
• 🏰 Svojanov Castle Pardubický kraj At Svojanov, often called the most haunted castle in the Czech lands, the lady Kateřina starved to death in the cellar vault – and skeletons have been found walled into the masonry. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 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
• 🏰 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
• 👻 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.
• 👻 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
• 🏰 Sønderborg Castle, Als Sønderjylland, Als Legend says the imprisoned king walked circle after circle around the table in his room until he wore a groove in the top with his thumb. For seventeen years. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Tranekær Castle, Langeland Fyn, Langeland The guest in the wing woke night after night to heavy footsteps coming slowly towards her door — and stopping outside it. No one was there. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Trøjborg Castle Ruin Sønderjylland, Tønder At night someone paces out the old castle's land — and the bridge collapsed under the demolition crew the day they came for the last of it.
• 🏰 Dover Castle Kent A headless drummer boy is said to walk the tunnels — murdered and beheaded while carrying a sum of money. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Salvana Tower Catalonia This tenth-century castle ruin is nicknamed Hell's Castle – visitors describe a woman in white and a pale girl with a bullet hole in her forehead.
• 🏰 Farleigh Hungerford Castle Bath, Somerset A history of battle, murder and intrigue, and the ghosts do not disappoint.
• 🏰 Château de Blandy-les-Tours Île-de-France Marie d'Harcourt, who leapt from the keep, and her blood-stained tormentor are both said to haunt this fortress. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Château de Fougeret Nouvelle-Aquitaine Called the most haunted castle in France, its owners reckon a dozen invisible residents share the house. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Château de Machecoul Pays de la Loire Cries are said to rise from the ruins by the Falleron at night — Gilles de Rais, the model for Bluebeard, held court in this castle.
• 👻 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
• 🏰 Château de Trécesson Brittany The white bride buried alive in the castle grounds is still said to appear by Trécesson's moat. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Château de Rambouillet and the Headless Coachman Paris In 1770 a wealthy burgher looked up at the box and saw his coachman beheaded — hands still gripping the reins as the carriage rolled on. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Hampton Court Palace Surrey Henry VIII's palace — "The Grey Lady" Sybil Penn and Catherine Howard's screams in the haunted gallery. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Hvedholm Castle Hotel Fyn, Faaborg A bare arm in green silk and lace reached across the dinner table in the Knights' Hall. The body was never found. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Athcarne Castle Meath In the ruin where James II is said to have slept before the Battle of the Boyne, a hanged soldier sways in the oak and a woman appears with blood on her hands.
• 🏰 Rathfarnham Castle Dublin Two suitors sealed the girl behind the ballroom panelling and went out to duel for her. Neither of them came back alive to let her out. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Duckett's Grove Carlow A grieving mother called a banshee down upon the Duckett family — and in the burned-out Gothic ruin her wail is still heard before a death.
• 🏰 Castello della Rotta Piedmont A knight with an iron cross around his neck is said to ride through the castle where his skeleton was unearthed beside his horse. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Carini Castle Sicily Every 4 December, Baroness Laura Lanza's bloody handprint is said to reappear on the wall of the room where she was murdered in 1563. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Fumone Castle Lazio Three-year-old marquis Francesco Longhi, poisoned by his own sisters, is said to still play in the castle halls. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Norman-Swabian Castle of Gioia del Colle Apulien Bianca Lancia, locked in the tower by Frederick II, is said to still appear in the castle where legend says she took her own life. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Gropparello Castle Emilia-Romagna Rosania Fulgosio, walled up alive by her jealous husband in the 13th century, is said to still scream for justice. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Montebello Castle Emilia-Romagna Every fifth year at the summer solstice, the albino girl Azzurrina is said to weep in the castle vaults. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Mussomeli Castle Sicily Three sisters walled in by their brother starved to death in the castle - in 'the chamber of the three women' they are said to lament still. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Malaspina Castle, Bosa Sardinien The marchioness who bled to death after her husband cut off her fingers is said to still drift along the walls of Bosa's castle. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Castel Capuano Naples Every 19 April Giuditta Guastamacchia is said to walk the courthouse — the woman whose head was displayed on an iron grating. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Castel Nuovo (Maschio Angioino) Naples Prisoners vanished without trace from the castle pit. Naples blames the crocodile Queen Giovanna is said to have kept down there. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Aragonese Castle, Ischia Naples In the Poor Clares' cemetery stand stone seats with holes beneath. The sisters kept vigil by their dead until only bone was left. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Orsini-Odescalchi Castle, Bracciano Rome Legend says Isabella de' Medici was strangled in the bedchamber here — and she has walked the lakeshore in sixteenth-century dress ever since. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Lindenborg Gods Nibe (Nordjylland), Jylland Sophie Amalie was suspected of murdering her husband in 1678. Every July she repeats her final painful journey to Aalborg.
• 🏰 Lydford Castle Lydford, Devon Lydford Castle is haunted by the ghost of a man who made himself unpopular in Devon.
• 🏰 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
• 🏰 Doorwerth Castle Gelderland A woman condemned to starve to death for her crime is said to still roam the halls of this castle on the Lower Rhine. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Waardenburg Castle Gelderland The Devil dragged Doctor Faust out through the tower window here – and the bloodstains are said to defy every scrubbing. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Loevestein Castle Gelderland Rebel leader Herman de Ruiter, whose head ended up on a gallows, is said to walk the castle as a headless ghost. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Okehampton Castle Okehampton, Devon A fatal case of mistaken identity led to the castle's dramatic haunting.
• 🏰 Olavinlinna Castle Södra Savolax, Savonlinna At this medieval fortress a maiden walled up alive is said to appear on the balcony at full moon — and a water spirit played the harp before every disaster. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Pengersick Castle Praa Sands, Cornwall One of the most haunted places in Britain, with many ghosts and an air of true enchantment.
• 🏰 Penningby Castle Norrtälje, Uppland A medieval fortress by Lake Väsby where a resident was seized by the foot by a bony, invisible hand.
• 🏰 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.
• 👻 Lipowiec Castle, Babice Małopolskie At the bishops' old priest-prison of Lipowiec, a phantom carriage is said to arrive by night – and a chained prisoner is dragged towards the executioner's raised sword.
• 👻 Ogrodzieniec Castle Schlesien (Jura Krakowsko-Częstochowska) A giant black dog dragging a rattling chain is said to guard Ogrodzieniec – the trapped soul of the cruel castellan Warszycki.
• 👻 Olsztyn Castle near Częstochowa Schlesien (Jura Krakowsko-Częstochowska) In the castle's dungeon vault, voivode Maćko Borkowic was starved to death – at full moon his moans and rattling chains can still be heard.
• 🏰 Reszel Castle Warmińsko-Mazurskie Barbara Zdunk, the last 'witch' burned in Europe, is said to hover above the castle walls of Reszel, limbs bound and eyes full of accusation. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Wenecja Castle Ruins Kujawsko-Pomorskie In the ruins between the lakes, the 'Bloody Devil of Wenecja' guards his treasure – at night come the rattle of chains and the counting of coins.
• 🏰 Preston Castle California An old reform school where the housekeeping matron was beaten to death in 1950. The murder was never solved.
• 🏰 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
• 🏰 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
• 🏰 Sønderskov Castle Brørup, Jylland A white maiden strode into the cattle shed. The next day they dug up an infant's skeleton beneath the floor stone—and she vanished.
• 🏰 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
• 🏰 Tintagel Castle Tintagel, Cornwall Dramatic clifftop ruins where tradition says King Arthur was born.
• 🏰 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
• 🏰 Voergaard Castle Vendsyssel, Jylland The hard mistress Ingeborg Skeel is still said to return to this Renaissance castle in Vendsyssel. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Warwick Castle Warwickshire Sir Fulke Greville was stabbed by his servant in 1628 — and is said to still walk the Watergate Tower where he died. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Wik Castle Uppland, Uppsala A White Lady who drowned on the lake ice in 1612 drifts here — and when the castle clock strikes thirteen, a lady wakes from 700 years of sleep. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Turku Castle Åbo, Egentliga Finland Nearly everyone who has worked here for long is said to have seen a ghost — a man in period dress on the stairs, and a green-shimmering veiled woman. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Greillenstein Castle Lower Austria At Greillenstein a headless count plays pranks, a white countess watches over her descendants – and the grass grows taller in the executed man's wheel tracks. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Porcia Castle Kärnten Hard-hearted Katharina von Salamanca was cursed by a poor farmer – and is said to haunt the Renaissance castle in Spittal to this day. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 The Ghost Castle on the Leopoldsberg Vienna Lights are carried from room to room in the ruined castle's windows — and all go out at once when the clock strikes twelve.
• 👻 The Ghost of Rauheneck Lower Austria The ghost in the ruin waits on a tree. Only when its wood becomes a cradle and that child becomes a priest can the spell break.
• 🏰 "Scaring people became my path in life" – Meet the man behind Skräckfabriken Skåne There is something about the darkness in old castles, shadows moving in the corner of your eye and whispers in empty rooms. Mikael P Wilson knows exactly how it feels — and he has turned it into his business.
• 🏰 Bamburgh Castle Northumberland Green Jane was sent to beg for food, turned away, and fell to her death with her baby — she is still said to walk the castle. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Castle of La Roche-en-Ardenne Vallonien – provinsen Luxembourg Countess Berthe was murdered on her wedding night – her ghost is still said to appear on the ramparts of this Ardennes ruin.
• 🏰 Gravensteen Castle (Ghent) Flandern – Oost-Vlaanderen (Gent) In the Castle of the Counts with its torture chambers, the spirits of tormented prisoners are still said to whisper in the stone corridors. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Beersel Castle Flandern – Vlaams-Brabant The ghosts of this medieval fortress are said to appear only when dark times threaten the country – an omen of troubles to come. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Horst Castle Flandern – Vlaams-Brabant At the stroke of midnight, a black coach drawn by six black horses is said to thunder down the avenue towards this moated castle in the Hageland. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Bogesund Castle Stockholm Where curses and ghosts still linger. In Vaxholm, amid the scenic landscape of the Stockholm archipelago, lies Bogesund Castle — a place said to bear curses and an eerie history. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Börringekloster Castle Skåne Börringekloster in Skåne is a place that bears centuries of history, from its time as a Benedictine monastery in the 13th century to its current state as an 18th-century castle. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Broholm Castle Fyn, Gudme The Grey Lady is seen in the bathroom mirror. She watches the shaving closely — but appears in the nursery to watch over sleeping children. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Brokind Estate Östergötland A haunted manor with the frightening presence of Barbro Påle. Among the scenic landscapes of Östergötland lies Brokind Estate, a place with a historical legacy spanning centuries.
• 🏰 Mir Castle Hrodna oblast By the cursed lake of Mir Castle appears Sonechka – the twelve-year-old princess who became the lake's first victim. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Craigdarroch Castle British Columbia Coal baron's widow Joan Dunsmuir is said to still sweep down the grand staircase in a ball gown in her Victoria castle. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Lenzburg Castle Aargau At Lenzburg hangs the bell that exposed a murderer – and is said to toll by itself on full-moon nights. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Bezděz Castle Liberecký kraj At Bezděz a ghostly monk guards the Templars' hidden treasure in the Devil's Tower – the legend that gave Smetana an entire opera. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Červená Lhota Chateau Jihočeský kraj The fairy-tale chateau in the lake owes its red colour, they say, to the blood of the lady the devil dragged out through the window. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Karlštejn Castle Středočeský kraj Around Charles IV's crown-jewel fortress wander the white maidens of legend – victims of the sadistic castellan's wife Kateřina Bechyňová. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Kašperk Castle Plzeňský kraj Around Bohemia's highest royal castle prowl the misshapen crone Swiza and the Climber, said to crawl up the courtyard walls at night. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Loket Castle Karlovarský kraj Loket Castle guards a glowing stone – the petrified burgrave Půta, cursed by a poor widow – while a goblin called Štrakakal lodges in a cell. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Pernštejn Castle Jihomoravský kraj The vain chambermaid Eliška never found rest – she walks as Pernštejn's own White Lady, and her cursed mirror is still on display. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Konopiste Chateau Prague The robbers tortured the daughter to learn where the gold lay. She died without telling — and still walks as a white lady. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Radyně Castle Ruin Plzeňský kraj In the ruin of Radyně outside Plzeň, the misshapen lord Radouš guards his treasure – donkey ears, goat's beard, a black hound at his side.
• 🏰 Rožmberk Castle Jihočeský kraj Perchta of Rožmberk, Bohemia's most famous White Lady, is said to still drift through her family's ancestral castle above the Vltava. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Velhartice Castle Plzeňský kraj At Velhartice a dead soldier is said to have been raised from his grave by black magic – and in the famous ballad, King Charles IV still drinks wine with his dead friend Bušek. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Grunewald Hunting Lodge Berlin When the White Lady appears wearing black gloves, a Hohenzollern is about to die. Anna Sydow, the Elector's mistress, died a prisoner – but never left the lakeside hunting lodge. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Köpenick Palace Berlin From the palace bridge the princess threw herself into the moat for unhappy love – at night her white veil is seen fluttering from the palace island in the Dahme. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Burg Berwartstein Reported haunted location in Germany.
• 🏰 Lauenstein Castle Bavaria Katharina von Orlamünde, said to have killed her two children with a golden needle, walks Franconia's medieval castle as a White Lady. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Stolpen Castle Saxony Countess Cosel was held prisoner on the basalt fortress for 49 years until her death in 1765 – and is said to wander there still as a figure in white. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Kranichfeld Upper Castle Thuringia A mother who killed her children is said to return to Kranichfeld's Upper Castle as a White Lady – to teach the living what fear is. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Residenzschloss Rastatt Reported haunted location in Germany.
• 🏰 Schloss Benrath Reported haunted location in Germany.
• 🏰 Bürresheim Castle Rheinland-Pfalz Diether von Breitbach murdered his daughter's secret lover – hunted by avengers, he plunged from the tower where his spirit is said to linger. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Colditz Castle Saxony Prisoners who faked an escape hid for months beneath the pulpit and were called ghosts — they only came out at night. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Schloss Rauischholzhausen Reported haunted location in Germany.
• 🏰 Rochsburg Castle Saxony Around the castle above the Zwickauer Mulde a burning monk is said to appear at night – a fiery glow that has frightened travellers for centuries. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Sachsenburg Castle Saxony The White Lady of Sachsenburg is linked to Magdalene von Schönberg's whitewashed tombstone – and to old tensions between lords and subjects. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Husum Castle Schleswig-Holstein Abandoned by her beloved, young Adelheid threw herself from the castle window – her body was never found, but the White Lady still glides through the corridors. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Gurre Castle Ruin Köpenhamn 'Let God keep His heaven, if I may keep Gurre' – for those words King Valdemar rides his wild hunt every night.
• 🏰 Dudley Castle West Midlands The Grey Lady is said to be Dorothy Beaumont, dead soon after childbirth — her dying wishes never granted. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Haapsalu Episcopal Castle Läänemaa In the baptistery window the White Lady appears at the August full moon – the girl walled up alive for loving a canon. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Koluvere Castle Läänemaa Princess Auguste of Württemberg died mysteriously at Koluvere in 1788, aged just 24 – her unhappy spirit is said never to have left the castle. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Kuressaare Episcopal Castle Saaremaa When a bricked-up cellar in Kuressaare was opened in 1785, a skeleton sat at a table – the knight walled up alive, as the legend tells. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Egeskov Castle Fyn A little wooden figure must get fresh straw each Christmas — or the castle is said to sink into the moat. And a White Lady walks the park. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Ekenäs Castle Östergötland Welcome to one of Sweden's most haunted castles. Ekenäs Castle, located in Örtomta parish in the Linköping municipality, carries a dark and mysterious history that makes it a place filled with legends and chilling stories... 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Ericsberg Castle Sörmland In the heart of Södermanland, near Katrineholm, lies the historic Ericsberg Castle. The building has stood here since the 17th century and is known for its imposing architecture, but above all for a chilling legend — the tale of the Pintorpa Lady 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Cardona Castle Catalonia Room 712 of the castle hotel is only let on explicit request – there mourns the maiden Adalés, who died imprisoned in the tower for a forbidden love. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Castle of San Servando Kastilien-La Mancha In the Templars' castle above the Tagus, an old woman's cough sounds from empty rooms – and motion sensors tripped as the TV crew slept. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Trasmoz Castle Aragon Spain's only excommunicated village has a castle where witches were said to hold their sabbaths – the curse from Veruela abbey was never lifted. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 The Field Marshal's Ghost Frightens Visitors at Bäckaskog Castle Skåne Bäckaskog Castle, situated on the isthmus between lakes Ivö and Oppmanna in northeastern Skåne, is a place where the echoes of history feel close. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Château d'Esquelbecq Hauts-de-France The lady with the little dog is still said to walk the Flemish castle's halls after dying in the flames. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Château de Chantilly Picardie Louise de Budos, who died mysteriously in 1598, is said to appear as Chantilly's white lady, an omen of death. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Château de Châteaubriant Pays de la Loire Every October 16 at midnight, Françoise de Foix is said to return in a ghostly procession through the castle. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Château de Combourg Brittany A count with a wooden leg is said to stump up the tower staircase at night, followed by his black cat. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Château de Culan Berry At this medieval fortress in Berry, the armoured ghost of Joan of Arc was reportedly seen for over a century. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Château de Lacoste Provence In the Marquis de Sade's half-ruined castle in the Luberon, flickering lights and a lingering presence are still reported.
• 👻 Château de Prény Lorraine The black knight Milon de Vandières, defender of the castle in 1286, is said to keep watch over the ruins of Prény.
• 👻 Château de Puilaurens Occitanie On the dizzying ramparts of this Cathar castle, Blanche de Bourbon, the murdered child queen, is said to walk on moonlit nights.
• 🏰 Château de Veauce Auvergne The servant girl Lucie starved to death in the clock tower — and became one of France's most famous ghosts. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Haut-Kœnigsbourg Castle Alsace On New Year's Eve the white lady circles the castle three times before climbing the keep to gaze out over Alsace. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Pflixbourg Castle Alsace Countess Stéphanie de Ferrette still mourns her lost loved ones in the ruin — a harmless but inconsolable white lady.
• 👻 Château Gaillard Normandy Queen Marguerite de Bourgogne, who died imprisoned in Richard the Lionheart's fortress, is said to walk the ruins still.
• 👻 Old Älvsborg Fortress — The Ruins at Klippan Västra Götaland Soldier apparitions in period uniforms are reported among the ruins of the medieval military execution site.
• 🏰 George Seaton's Hunting Lodge and Its Haunted Ruins Västra Götaland On Hyltenäs hill in the Mark municipality stand the ruins of George Seaton's hunting lodge. Once one of Sweden's most extravagant private builds, now a place for both historical fascination and supernatural tales. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Gl. Vraa Slotshotel Vrå, Jylland The White Lady Mariane Dorethe walks through the castle's halls — she has found no peace since the 1700s. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 The Ghostly Legends of Glimmingehus Skåne As you approach the massive stone fortress of Glimmingehus on Österlen, you feel both the wingbeats of history and a slight shiver down your spine. Construction began in 1499 by the Danish knight Jens Holgersson Ulfstand.
• 🏰 Gripsholm Castle Södermanland At Gripsholm Castle, door handles are said to move on their own, and some have claimed to meet the apparition of Queen Christina of Holstein-Gottorp in the old halls. In the castle theatre, bells can be heard ringing. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Guildford Castle Guildford, Surrey Renovation of the castle seems to have disturbed the slumber of its long ago residents.
• 🏰 Gunnebo Castle Västra Götaland A castle of ghosts and mystery. Gunnebo Castle in Mölndal is not only a historical gem — it is also a place where the supernatural is said to have a strong foothold. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Hässelby Castle Stockholm Where history lives and the ghosts walk. Hässelby Castle may be surrounded by a beautiful baroque garden and have a history reaching back to the 17th century, but for those drawn to the supernatural, it is the building itself and its mysterious atmosphere that fascinates most... 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Havreholm Slotshotel Sjælland, Hornbæk Six ghosts inhabit the castle — the most active is Coachman Kaj, who was run over by a carriage 120 years ago. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Highclere Castle Berkshire At the castle that plays Downton Abbey an unhappy footman is said to walk — the owner herself has described ghosts. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Holckenhavn Castle Fyn, Nyborg Renaissance castle from 1579–85 where Corfitz Ulfeldt and Leonora Christine were confined to house arrest in 1662 — guests hear strange sounds.
• 🏰 Medvedgrad Fortress Zagreb The Black Queen keeps watch above Zagreb – transformed, legend says, into a serpent brooding over her treasure in the mountain's tunnels. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Veliki Tabor Castle Hrvatsko zagorje Young Veronika is said to have been walled into Veliki Tabor's ramparts – her laments still drift through the Zagorje nights. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Diósgyőr Castle Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén (Miskolc) Legend says the witches gathered at night for secret rites in the woods around the castle — and the executed are still said to cry out by the walls. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Ó-Ebergényi Mansion Vas Photographs taken at an exhibition in the mansion suddenly revealed unknown spectral figures – and the footsteps in its corridors have never gone quiet. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Sirok Castle Heves Lady Gizella Kompolti, who slew her suitor and leapt from the cliffs, is said to appear among the ruins after sunset. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Szendrő Castle Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén On misty dawns, a figure in a black cloak is said to drift among the ruins of this medieval border fortress.
• 🏰 Doonagore Castle Clare Shipwrecked sailors of the Spanish Armada were hanged here in 1588 — and in the sea fog around the tower their figures are said to drift still. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Drimnagh Castle Dublin Eleanora was forced to marry her cousin while her true love was slain — now she searches for him forever in Ireland's only moated castle. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Howth Castle Dublin The pirate queen Gráinne carried off the heir and demanded the gates never close at dinner. An extra place is still laid at table. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Barberstown Castle Kildare A cloaked lady sits by the bed in the Katherine Dillon room. She smiles at the guest, rises, and slips out through the closed window. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Leixlip Castle Kildare When the bean sí is heard keening inside the corridors, a Conolly is to die before the week is out — and she is never seen, only heard. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Leamaneh Castle Clare Red Mary is said to have pushed unwanted husbands from the windows — and her flame-red hair still flickers in the ruin's empty window sockets.
• 🏰 Killeen Castle Meath The Earl of Fingall always appears in a blue coat and powdered wig. In the library the furniture stands in new places when you return. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Aragonese Castle of Otranto Puglia On August nights, a headless knight is said to ride through the tunnels beneath the castle that gave the world's first Gothic novel its name. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Cantelmo Castle Abruzzo Each evening after sunset, the White Lady is said to seek out young lovers in the castle ruin to tell how she was shot by both husband and lover.
• 🏰 Catajo Castle Veneto Lucrezia Obizzi, murdered in her bedchamber in 1654, is said to appear dressed in blue at the castle's highest windows. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Bardi Castle Emilia-Romagna The knight Moroello is said to still search the fortress for his Soleste, after mistake and grief drove both to their deaths. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Duino Castle Friuli-Venezia Giulia The White Lady thrown from the cliff turned to stone as she fell - her rock is still visible by the old castle. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Fénis Castle Valle d'Aosta In the fairy-tale castle of Fénis, a murdered child is said to haunt the halls – hidden in the walls by a stepmother who wanted the inheritance. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Gorizia Castle Friuli-Venezia Giulia On Gorizia's castle hill hunts the White Lady – a countess whose body the devil claimed, and whose hounds tear apart anyone who meets her. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Miramare Castle Friuli-Venezia Giulia Empress Carlotta's curse is said to hang over Miramare - while Maximilian's gentle spirit strolls the park. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Poppi Castle Tuscany Countess Matelda, who sent her lovers to die in a booby-trapped passage and was walled up alive herself, is said to haunt Poppi's castle. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Torre Alfina Castle Lazio The restless White Lady of Torre Alfina leaves footprints in the courtyard and moves objects on Christmas night. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Dal Verme Castle, Zavattarello Lombardy In the Room of Spirits a chair was moved every night - Pietro Dal Verme, poisoned in 1485, is said never to have left his castle. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Este Castle Emilia-Romagna In the dungeons of Ferrara's castle, the beheaded lovers Ugo and Parisina are said to still weep in the darkness. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Casertavecchia Castle Naples Countess Siffridina died a prisoner far from home. Her voice is heard in the keep — she never wanted to leave the village.
• 🏰 Royal Palace of Caserta Naples Vanvitelli died before the palace was finished. Guards say the architect still makes his rounds across the cold marble. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Gradara Castle Marche Francesca da Rimini, slain alongside her beloved Paolo, is said to call for him at night from the castle battlements. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Matsue Castle Shimane Beneath the castle's stone walls a young girl is said to lie buried as a human pillar — and the hill trembles whenever someone dances. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Krapperup Castle — The White Lady and the Centennial Cycle Skåne On the Kulla Peninsula in northwestern Skåne, a few kilometres from Mölle, rises Krapperup Castle. With its moat, thick walls and romantic park of trickling streams and exotic trees, it feels like stepping into a... 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Läckö slott Västra Götaland It usually begins with a feeling: a cold draught at the neck, a rushing sound behind you, shadows that move.
• 🏰 Liselund Ny Slot Lolland-Falster, Møn The White Lady Martha Sabine floats over the lawns — and old Baroness Oluffa watches in the halls.
• 🏰 Löfstad Castle Östergötland Where history echoes in every hall. Located in the beautiful Östergötland landscape, just outside Norrköping, Löfstad Castle stands as a living monument to Swedish history and the bygone days of the aristocracy. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Panemunė Castle Jurbarkas, Tauragė In Panemunė's walled-up dungeons serfs were allegedly left to die – at night owls shriek and the dead are said to laugh from the vaults. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Siesikai Castle Ukmergė, Aukštaitija The duchess walled up in Siesikai's tower for her love is still said to walk down to the lake on dark nights, where her knight once waited. 🛏 Book a night here

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