Haunted Fortresses (132)

132 haunted fortresses from around the world. Each location includes its story and GPS coordinates.

• 🗡️ Edinburgh Castle Edinburgh, Scotland "Britain's most besieged place" — 26 sieges in 1,100 years, today known for paranormal phenomena. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🗡️ Fort de la Chartreuse Vallonien – provinsen Liège In this abandoned fort above Liège – monastery, prison and war hospital in one – the spirit of a dead nurse is said to still make her rounds. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🗡️ Fortaleza de San Carlos de la Cabaña Havanna In the vast fortress above Havana harbour, phantom soldiers are said to march through dark passageways where shots and cries echo at night. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🗡️ Špilberk Fortress Jihomoravský kraj Legend says prisoners were chained by the sewer channel and eaten alive by rats — and that their souls never left the casemates. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🗡️ Fort of San Cristóbal Navarra 795 prisoners broke out of the mountain fortress in 1938 — over 200 were shot down on the slopes, where walkers now speak of voices in the fog. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🗼 Site of the Tour de Nesle Paris From the top of the tower Marguerite de Bourgogne beckoned down the night's lovers. By dawn they floated past the Louvre, sewn into sacks.
• 🗼 The Tower of Dreams (Pyrgos ton Oneiron) Attica Kyriakos never left his tower. Neighbours still see a shadow in a bowler hat singing on the balcony — and muttering: away from my tower.
• 🗡️ Garh Kundar Fort Madhya Pradesh In this medieval hill fort in Bundelkhand, an entire wedding procession descended into the cellars – and never came back up.
• 🗼 La Specola (the Torlonga tower) Padua The knight Sarpendone was mutilated and shut in Ezzelino's tower. A small flame is said to slide down the tower and go out in the river.
• 🗡️ Mamula Boka Kotorska Around the fortress island of Mamula at the mouth of the Bay of Kotor, fishermen say cries of lament still carry across the water on still nights.
• 🗡️ Fort St Elmo Valletta In the chapel where the fort's last defenders were cut down in 1565, police dogs refused to enter — and the guards never went in alone.
• 🗡️ San Juan de Ulúa Veracruz In the fortress's dank dungeons, the witch known as the Mulata de Córdoba is said to have sailed straight out through her cell wall. 🛏 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
• 🗡️ 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
• 🗡️ 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
• 🗼 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.
• 🗡️ 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
• 🗡️ Fort Santiago Intramuros, Manila In the fortress dungeons by the Pasig River, screams still echo from prisoners drowned by the rising tide. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🗡️ Poenari Citadel Argeș (Transfăgărășan) The boyars whom Vlad the Impaler forced to build his eyrie fortress are said to howl for help on full-moon nights. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🗡️ St Briavels Castle Lydney, Gloucestershire Visitors can boast of having entered the most haunted fortress in England.
• 🗡️ Gjirokastra Castle Gjirokastra Rather than be taken captive, Princess Argjiro leapt from the fortress's highest tower with her son – and milk is said to have flowed from the rock. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🗡️ Rozafa Castle Shkodra Into the walls of Rozafa fortress a young mother was immured alive – a milk-white water still seeps from the stone. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🗼 Maiden Tower, Baku Baku From the top of the tower, the shah's daughter is said to have thrown herself into the Caspian Sea to escape a forced marriage.
• 👻 Bastion Carolus Rex / Dux — The Underground Mortuary Västra Götaland Casemates used as a mortuary in the 1800s — stalactites like pearl draperies hanging from the ceiling.
• 🗡️ Lalbagh Fort Dhaka Division By the light of the full moon, the Mughal princess Pari Bibi is said to appear singing and dancing on the fort walls.
• 🗡️ Baldwin's Tower, Tsarevets Veliko Tarnovo In the southeast tower of Tsarevets fortress, the Latin emperor Baldwin of Flanders is said to have met his end – betrayed by a spurned tsaritsa. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🗡️ Fort St. Catherine St. George's The fort's lower chambers belong to a ghost called George – so persistent that islanders attempted an exorcism in the 1970s.
• 🗡️ Fort George Ontario In the War of 1812 fort, seven-year-old Sarah Ann still plays peek-a-boo with visitors — dead since 1840.
• 🗡️ Fort Henry Ontario On Fort Henry's ramparts still patrols Nils von Schoultz, the rebel hanged in 1838 after being defended by a future prime minister.
• 🗡️ Halifax Citadel Nova Scotia The Grey Lady walks the Halifax fortress seeking the soldier who took his life on their wedding day — leaving the scent of roses behind. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🗡️ Castillo de San Marcos Florida The oldest masonry fort in the United States. An officer's wife is said to have been walled in alive.
• 🗼 The Bell Tower and the Bell-Casting Goddess (钟楼) Beijing When the great bell tolls in stormy weather, Beijingers hear a girl crying for her embroidered shoe – the girl who threw herself into the molten bronze.
• 🗼 Daliborka Tower Prague Need taught Dalibor the violin, the Czechs say. From the bottom of the prison tower rose the notes that drew crowds to the castle wall.
• 🗼 Sitkov Water Tower Prague By the old Sitkov mills the hastrman sat on the stones watching the boats pass. That stretch of current took a swimmer a year.
• 🗼 The Goose Tower, Vordingborg Sydsjælland, Vordingborg From the Goose Tower's castle rode Valdemar Atterdag — condemned in the ballads to hunt restlessly through the night for all eternity, his whole train behind him.
• 🗡️ Montjuïc Castle Barcelona In the fortress where anarchists were tortured in the casemates in the 1890s, visitors still hear footsteps and voices in empty corridors – the soldiers are said never to have left the moat. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🗡️ Fort Delaware Delaware At the island fort that held Civil War prisoners some 2,500 men died — cold spots and figures are said to linger. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🗡️ Fort Mifflin Pennsylvania The screaming woman screams loudly enough for the police to be called, and the blacksmith Jacob still argues with his commander. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🗡️ Château de Joux Franche-Comté Berthe de Joux, locked for ten years in a cell where she could neither stand nor lie straight, is said to weep in the fortress still. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🗼 Tour Saint-Jacques Paris Beneath the tower lay the alchemist's grave. When it was opened there was no body — only the stories of the man who had cheated death.
• 🗼 Severndroog Castle — the widow's tower on the gallows hill London Lady James raised a triangular Gothic tower to her dead husband on Shooter's Hill — London's most notorious robbers' road.
• 🗡️ Ananuri Fortress Mtskheta-Mtianeti A woman named Ana was tortured to death rather than reveal the fortress's secret water tunnel — and the castle is said to carry her name still. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🗡️ Surami Fortress Shida Kartli Young Zurab is said to have been walled up alive in the fortress — and his mother's tears still seep from the stone. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🗼 The Typaldos Tower (Pyrgos Typaldou) Attica Four times the builders have walked away from the neo-Gothic tower near Amerikis Square. Locals say whoever still lives inside dislikes being disturbed.
• 🗡️ Frangokastello Kreta At dawn in late May, the shadows of fallen warriors, the Drosoulites, are still said to march on the Venetian fortress. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🗡️ Spinalonga Kreta The sick entered through Dante's Gate and left the island only in death — their whispers are said to linger in the lanes. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🗼 Solomon's Tower, Visegrád Pest King Solomon was imprisoned at Visegrád and gave the tower its name. Historians say no — folk memory has refused to listen for 700 years.
• 🗡️ Charles Fort Cork The White Lady still walks the ramparts in her wedding gown — the bride who threw herself into the sea after her groom was executed by mistake.
• 🗡️ Feroz Shah Kotla Delhi Every Thursday, thousands leave letters, milk and incense for the djinns said to dwell in the fort's vaults.
• 🗡️ Golconda Fort Telangana After closing time, courtesan Taramati's anklet bells are said to ring through the diamond fortress's halls.
• 🗡️ Nahargarh Fort Rajasthan By night, Prince Nahar Singh's spirit tore down what the masons built by day – until the fort was given his name.
• 🗡️ Castle of Charles V, Monopoli Puglia In Monopoli's harbour fortress, a ghost was seen walking straight through a wall – where a bricked-up doorway was later discovered. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🗡️ Castel Sant'Elmo and the Pedamentina Naples A high-spirited figure in white startles people on the 414-step stair. Behind the rusted grate below, moaning rises from the pit. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🗡️ Roveresca Fortress of Senigallia Marche After Cesare Borgia's New Year's massacre of 1502, the souls of his strangled captains are said to still cry out from the fortress walls. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🗼 Torre della Scimmia (Tower of the Monkey) Rome A monkey carried the household's baby to the top of the tower. Ever since, a lamp burns up there that must never be allowed to go out.
• 🗡️ Shobak Castle Ma'an On the Crusader castle's windswept hill, ghostly knights are said to still stand guard, and visitors hear footsteps in the underground passages. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🗡️ Fort Jesus, Mombasa Mombasa In the 16th-century Portuguese fort in Mombasa, the spirits of fallen soldiers and prisoners are said to walk the walls at night.
• 🗡️ The Bastion of Bokšto Street, Vilnius Vilnius In the bastion's 48-metre tunnel beneath Vilnius the basilisk is said to have dwelt – the beast whose gaze killed until an apprentice raised a mirror. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🗡️ La Contaduría Fort Nayarit On moonless nights, a monk paces the ruined fort above the old harbour of San Blas.
• 🗡️ Pendennis Castle Falmouth, Cornwall A fortress of Henry VIII from the 1540s with a stormy history and several ghosts.
• 🗡️ Castillo San Felipe del Morro San Juan In the corridors of the Spanish clifftop fortress, soldiers are still said to stand watch – and moans that never fell silent rise from the dungeons. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🗡️ La Garita del Diablo (The Devil's Sentry Box) San Juan From the Devil's Sentry Box by the sea, the soldier Sánchez vanished without a trace one night – leaving only his rifle and a neatly folded uniform. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🗡️ Nebojša Tower Belgrad Legend says the tower lifted from the upper town and flew down to the river so it could never be taken — beneath it Rigas Feraios was strangled. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🗡️ Torsburgen Gotland The place is called Thor's fort — and the Gutasaga says every third Gotlander fled here, drawn by lot to leave the island forever. The wall remains. The people did not. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🗡️ Fort Canning Hill Centrala Singapore Offerings are still left at the keramat of Iskandar Shah, said to be the last king's grave — and white-clad figures move among the trees at night.
• 🗡️ Tower of London: The White Tower and the Bloody Tower England, London The Tower of London was founded by William the Conqueror shortly after 1066, and the great White Tower was completed around the year 1097.
• 🗡️ Harput Elazığ In the ancient hilltop town of Harput, the entity Kamos is said to settle on sleepers' chests in the night. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🗡️ The Kerkoporta (Eğrikapı) Istanbul A small gate between Edirnekapı and Eğrikapı was left unbolted the night the city fell — historians deny it, the legend lives on. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🗡️ Kamianets-Podilskyi Fortress Chmelnytskyj oblast On the walls of Kamianets-Podilskyi, a girl in a white dress is said to wander – she who died of grief when her beloved was slain. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🗡️ Fort Totten – Sentry of the Casemates New York In the black Civil War casemates of the granite fort, boots and coughing echo from soldiers the fevers took – and in the tunnels beneath the water battery, flashlights insist on dying.
• 🗡️ Het Steen (Antwerp) Flandern – provinsen Antwerpen At this medieval fortress on the Scheldt, the trickster spirit Lange Wapper is said to have stalked night walkers – growing from dwarf to giant before their eyes. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🗡️ Zhonghua Gate Nanjing, Jiangsu Beneath Nanjing's colossal city gate a magic treasure bowl is said to lie buried — and the builders' sighs to linger in the vaults. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🗼 Torre Baró Castle Barcelona Neighbours saw lights in the half-finished castle's window openings and a small figure on the ridge at dusk — the tower is known as the cursed castle.
• 🗡️ Lamia Castle Fthiotida On full-moon nights a white-clad noblewoman is said to walk the ramparts above Lamia, mourning her death. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🗡️ Malerkotla Fort Punjab In the crumbling 16th-century stronghold of the Nawabs of Malerkotla, fallen soldiers and imprisoned freedom fighters are said to still walk the halls.
• 🗡️ Castel dell'Ovo Campania Beneath Naples' oldest castle, the sorcerer Virgil is said to have hidden a magic egg – if it breaks, the city falls. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🗼 Torre dell'Orologio Venice Legend says the republic had the eyes of the Rainieri clockmakers put out, so that no other city would ever get a clock quite like it.
• 🗡️ Bock Casemates Luxemburg (stad) Every seven years the mermaid Melusina rises from the Bock rock, calling on anyone brave enough to redeem her. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🗡️ The Portuguese Cistern of El Jadida Casablanca-Settat The people of the town say spirits live in the dim vault — the hall lay walled up and forgotten for nearly two hundred years. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🗡️ Walls of Elvas Alentejo On the ramparts of the fortress town of Elvas, a ghostly sentinel is said to appear on moonlit nights, gazing east – ready to defend the realm. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🗼 Galata Tower Istanbul The Genoese ate the gull that guided them through the dark and raised the tower on its nest — then a man flew from it across the strait.
• 🗡️ Rumeli Fortress Istanbul The land was to be no bigger than an ox hide — so the hide was cut to a hair-fine thread, closed in a ring around the headland. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🗼 High Rock Tower Massachusetts Moll Pitcher told fortunes at the foot of High Rock — and if she said a voyage would end badly, whole crews refused to sign on.
• 🗡️ Caesar's Fort, house on site of. Once known as Lord Beechborough House Kent Reported haunted location in Folkestone, Kent, the UK.
• 🗡️ Castle Ring (Iron Age Hill Fort) Staffordshire Reported haunted location in Cannock, Staffordshire, the UK.
• 🗡️ Citadel Restaurant Cumbria Reported haunted location in Carlisle, Cumbria, the UK.
• 🗡️ Coalhouse Fort Essex Reported haunted location in East Tilbury, Essex, the UK.
• 🗡️ Dodman Fort Cornwall Reported haunted location in Mevagissey, Cornwall, the UK.
• 🗡️ Fort Amherst Kent Reported haunted location in Chatham, Kent, the UK.
• 🗡️ Fort Brockhurst Hampshire Reported haunted location in Gosport, Hampshire, the UK.
• 🗡️ Fort Gardens Kent Reported haunted location in Gravesend, Kent, the UK.
• 🗡️ Fort Horsted Kent Reported haunted location in Chatham, Kent, the UK.
• 🗡️ Fort Pitt / Medway College of Design Kent Reported haunted location in Chatham, Kent, the UK.
• 🗡️ Fort Wallington (now mostly demolished and replaced by an industrial park) Hampshire Reported haunted location in Fareham, Hampshire, the UK.
• 🗡️ Golden Hill Fort Isle of Wight Reported haunted location in Freshwater, Isle of Wight, the UK.
• 🗡️ Hembury Fort Somerset Reported haunted location in Hembury, Somerset, the UK.
• 🗡️ Hill Fort, Ambresbury Banks Essex Reported haunted location in Epping Forest, Essex, the UK.
• 🗡️ Kerris Roundago (Iron Age hill fort, no longer present) Cornwall Reported haunted location in Kerris, Cornwall, the UK.
• 🗡️ Landguard Fort Suffolk Reported haunted location in Felixstowe, Suffolk, the UK.
• 🗡️ Maiden Castle (hill fort) Dorset Reported haunted location in Winterborne St Martin, Dorset, the UK.
• 🗡️ Maiden's Castle (Iron Age fort) Yorkshire Reported haunted location in Reeth, Yorkshire, the UK.
• 🗡️ Nothe Fort Dorset Reported haunted location in Weymouth, Dorset, the UK.
• 🗡️ Roman Fort Cumbria Reported haunted location in Camboglanna (aka Castlesteads), Cumbria, the UK.
• 🗡️ Roman Fort Cumbria Reported haunted location in Hardknott Pass, Cumbria, the UK.
• 🗡️ Slough Fort Kent Reported haunted location in Allhallows, Kent, the UK.
• 🗡️ Tilbury Fort Essex Reported haunted location in Tilbury, Essex, the UK.
• 🗡️ Treryn Dinas Cliff Fort Cornwall Reported haunted location in Treen, Cornwall, the UK.
• 🗡️ Arbeia Roman Fort Reported haunted location in the UK.
• 🗡️ Ardoch Roman Fort Reported haunted location in the UK.
• 🗡️ Berry Head Fort Reported haunted location in the UK.
• 🗡️ Birdoswald Roman Fort Reported haunted location in the UK.
• 🗡️ Drop Redoubt Fort Reported haunted location in the UK.
• 🗡️ Eastbourne Redoubt Fortress (Closed) Reported haunted location in the UK.
• 🗡️ Eggardon Hill Fort Reported haunted location in the UK.
• 🗡️ Fort Cumberland Reported haunted location in the UK.
• 🗡️ Fort George Reported haunted location in the UK.
• 🗡️ Fort Gilkicker Reported haunted location in the UK.
• 🗡️ Fort Luton Reported haunted location in the UK.
• 🗡️ Fort Purbrook Reported haunted location in the UK.
• 🗡️ Fort Widley Reported haunted location in the UK.
• 🗡️ Harwich Redoubt Fort Reported haunted location in the UK.
• 🗡️ Newhaven Fort Reported haunted location in the UK.
• 🗡️ Reigate Fort Reported haunted location in the UK.
• 🗡️ Fort Donnellson National Battlefield Tennessee Reported haunted location in Dover, Tennessee, USA.
• 🗡️ Fort Morgan Alabama Reported haunted location in Gulf Shores, Alabama, USA.
• 🗡️ Fort Necessity National Battlefield Pennsylvania Reported haunted location in Farmington, Pennsylvania, USA.
• 🗡️ Fort Pickens Florida Reported haunted location in Pensacola, Florida, USA.
• 🗡️ Fort Pitt Museum(Point State Park) Pennsylvania Reported haunted location in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
• 🗡️ Fort Wayne Indiana Reported haunted location in Allen, Indiana, USA.
• 🗡️ North Fort Lewis Washington Reported haunted location in Fort Lewis, Washington, USA.
• 🗡️ Old Fort Benton/ Old Patterson school Missouri Reported haunted location in Patterson, Missouri, USA.
• 🗡️ Old Fort Piqua Hotel Ohio Reported haunted location in Piqua, Ohio, USA.

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Haunted Places lists 132 haunted fortresses worldwide, each with its story and GPS coordinates.

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