Haunted Natural Sites (247)

247 haunted natural sites from around the world. Each location includes its story and GPS coordinates.

• 🌲 Deadmen Valley, Nahanni Northwest Territories The Dene have always avoided the valley — and when the search party reached the brothers' camp in 1908, they were still there, headless.
• 🌲 Bjældskovdal (the Tollund Man's bog) Midtjylland, Silkeborg The peat cutters thought they had found a murder victim. The man in the bog had lain there 2,300 years, the rope still around his neck.
• 🌲 Beinahóll on Kjölur Suðurland (högländerna) The Hill of Bones on the Kjölur route, where the Reynistaður brothers froze to death in 1780, frightened travellers so badly the entire highland trail was abandoned.
• 🌲 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.
• 🌲 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.
• 🌲 The A3 at Burpham Guildford, Surrey A phantom car was seen leaving the A3, but the only remains found were a skeleton five months old.
• 🌲 The Wedding Lime Tree in Sievering Vienna The groom threw a bottle at the priest and told him to go to hell. Lightning took the lime tree — the devil took him.
• 🌲 The Lament Tree Vienna Wailing tones came from the lime tree by the leper house at night. The priest who went with a cross was seized by the shadow and vanished with it.
• 👻 Avebury Stone Circle Marlborough, Wiltshire One of the most impressive mystical sites in England, and many have suffered for treating it lightly.
• 🌲 Devil's Throat Cave Smoljan The Devil's Throat cave in the Rhodope Mountains is called the gate to the underworld – nothing the river drags down into the dark ever surfaces again.
• 🌲 Actun Tunichil Muknal Cayo In the cave the Maya called the gateway to the underworld Xibalba lies the Crystal Maiden — a human sacrifice whose bones glitter in the stone floor.
• 🌲 Deadman's Pond Newfoundland och Labrador In the "bottomless" pond below the gibbet hill of St. John's, the hands of the executed are said to reach for those who stray too close.
• 🌲 Frank Slide Alberta Beneath Turtle Mountain's rubble rests an entire mining town — and drifting lights are said to cross the stone field at night.
• 🌲 Cave of Quicaví Los Lagos In the cave at Quicaví, Chiloé's secret council of warlocks held court, guarded by the deformed creature known as the imbunche.
• 🌲 Connington Crossing Peterborough, Cambridgeshire The crossing of death. Several fatal accidents have given it an ominous reputation.
• 🌲 The Kindel Woods near Schildow Brandenburg "If you helped hunt, you can help carry" – the hunchback on the Kindel bridge handed the night walker a parcel and fell backwards into the water. Inside the parcel lay a human leg.
• 👻 Grønsalen Long Barrow, Møn Møn, Fanefjord Beneath 145 kerbstones in a 102-metre row lie, by legend, King Grøn and his wife Fane — rival of the Cliff King for the mastery of Møn.
• 🌲 Møns Klint Møn The Cliff King rules beneath the chalk and rides out when Møn is threatened — but betray his secrets and he takes it back at sea.
• 🌲 The Robbers' Den, Rold Forest Nordjylland, Rebild Cords strung across the road, silver bells ringing in the dark — and in the hollow below waited men who had already escaped the gallows.
• 🌲 Dozmary Pool Bolventor, Cornwall Legends march out of the mist around this ominous lake on Bodmin Moor.
• 🌲 Dunwich Dunwich, Suffolk The town that vanished beneath the sea. Its church bells are still heard tolling from the depths.
• 🌲 Gévaudan (Saugues) Auvergne Around Saugues the Beast of Gévaudan raged in the 1760s – a monster that killed up to a hundred people and was never explained.
• 🌲 Parc Montsouris Paris The giant brigand Isauré was beheaded in the 9th century and buried in this slope. Residents speak of night screams from nothing living.
• 🌲 Yeun Elez Brittany In Breton belief, the peat bogs near Brennilis concealed the very gateway to hell.
• 🌲 White Webbs, Enfield Chase — the Gunpowder Plot's hiding place London The house was pulled down in 1790, but its doorway and fireplace were built into the pub across the lane — where a little girl in a white dress runs through the kitchens.
• 🌲 Goodwin Sands Deal, Kent Sandbanks said to be the ancient island of Lomea, and a notorious graveyard of ships.
• 🌲 Lake Vouliagmeni (Limni Vouliagmenis) Attica The lake's nereid lures young men into the cave passages, say the old people of Vouliagmeni — and the labyrinth below has never been measured to its end.
• 🌲 Davelis Cave Attica In the quarry cave on Mount Penteli, shadow figures are said to appear, torches die out and female voices sing from the dark.
• 🌲 Hickling Broad Hickling, Norfolk A phantom drummer echoes across the ice, a young lover who drowned in the nineteenth century.
• 👻 The Red Rock at Tahitótfalu Pest The woodsman Mihók lost his son to the war and his mind with him. Axe in hand, he still meets hikers at dusk. Villagers say he never left the woods.
• 🌲 Feltrim Hill Dublin A black hound with burning red eyes keeps the hillside, and an old woman with a bundle of sticks walks up toward the holy well and never arrives.
• 🌲 Jatinga Assam The villagers took it for evil spirits falling out of the sky — and the valley where birds plunge toward the lights is still called cursed.
• 🌲 Roopkund Skeleton Lake Uttarakhand In this glacial lake at 5,000 metres lie hundreds of skeletons – by legend an entire royal retinue struck down by the goddess Nanda Devi with hail hard as iron.
• 🌲 Sanjay Van Delhi Among Sufi tombs and banyan trees in Delhi's city forest, a white-clad woman is said to appear – then vanish into thin air.
• 🌲 Kal-e Jeni – the Valley of the Jinn Södra Khorasan In the desert canyon north of Tabas, jinn are said to hold court in the cliff-side tunnels – and young women to have been carried off into the dark.
• 🌲 Drekkingarhylur at Þingvellir Suðurland Visitors at dusk tell of soft weeping by the water — at least eighteen women were drowned here, forced under in sacks before the assembly.
• 🌲 Gunnuhver Suðurnes In this roaring mud spring on the Reykjanes peninsula, the ghost Gunna has been trapped ever since a priest tricked her into the boiling heat in the 1700s.
• 🌲 Atrio del Cavallo, Vesuvius Naples A wicked monk adjured the volcano. Out of the crater came a horse with flames for eyes and snakes for a mane, and it ran him down.
• 🌲 Gaiola Island Naples The island is called jellata, the jinxed one. Legend says a disciple of Virgil the magician cursed the rock for good.
• 🌲 Lake Avernus Naples The Greeks called it the birdless lake. The fumes killed whatever flew over — and here the Sibyl led Aeneas down to the dead.
• 🌲 Solfatara of Pozzuoli Naples The Romans called the crater Forum Vulcani. The Middle Ages said the Titans lay chained below — the fumaroles are their breath.
• 🌲 Hakkōda Mountains Aomori In the mountains where 199 soldiers froze to death in 1902, snow-laden columns are said to still march through the winter night.
• 🌲 Heiwa Falls Hokkaido At the 'Falls of Peace' on Sapporo's edge, restless spirits are said to gather around the trees as darkness falls.
• 🌲 The Devil's Cave (Cerro de la Estrella) Mexico City A stooped old man asks for help up the hill at dusk — and only at the mouth of the cave does he turn his face and show what he really is.
• 🌲 Cuemanco Landing, Xochimilco Mexico City Ay, mis hijos — La Llorona is said to glide over the canal water in white, hair across her face, and the boatmen would rather turn back.
• 🌲 The Spring of La Noria (El Charro Negro) Mexico City El Charro Negro courted the washerwomen at the spring — and years later he and his bride were seen sitting on its bed.
• 🌲 Los Dínamos de Contreras Mexico City The witches are said to circle above the river valley — and from the Monk's Cave comes an old prayer nobody says any more.
• 🌲 La Mocuana Hill Estelí From a cave in the hillside rises La Mocuana — the chieftain's daughter walled in alive, undone by love and betrayal.
• 🌲 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.
• 🌲 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.
• 🌲 Raniban Forest Bagmati (Kathmandu) In the Queen's Forest above Kathmandu a woman is heard weeping among the trees – the echo of a crime that never stopped haunting the place.
• 🌲 Koh-i-Chiltan Balochistan (Quetta) On the Mountain of Forty Bodies, the spirits of forty abandoned infants are said to still lure lone wanderers.
• 🌲 Bald Mountain (Święty Krzyż) Świętokrzyskie On bare Łysa Góra the witches held their sabbaths with devils – until monastery bells silenced them, and one tardy devil's boulder was left on the slope.
• 🌲 Potsford Wood Wickham Market, Suffolk An eerie wood even in summer, haunted by the last victim of the Potsford Gibbet.
• 🌲 Prestbury Village Cheltenham, Gloucestershire A ghostly monk was caught on film in Prestbury churchyard, one of many spirits here.
• 🌲 Golosov Ravine, Kolomenskoye Moscow In Kolomenskoye's ravine a green mist is said to have swallowed wanderers – peasants who stepped in around 1810 emerged twenty years later.
• 🌲 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 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.
• 🌲 Messlingen Härjedalen Nine sledges drawn by nine small horses carried a coffin across the frozen lake – and on the pasture west of the village, hymn-singing rose out of the ground itself.
• 👻 The Björketorp Stone Blekinge Four metres of standing stone carrying a runic curse: whoever breaks this shall be restless with malice and die by cunning. Nobody has cared to test it.
• 🌲 The Blue Maiden Småland This is where the witches flew on Maundy Thursday. And whoever takes a stone from the island has bad luck until it is returned – the council gets parcels every year.
• 🌲 The Wreck of Gribshunden at Stora Ekön Blekinge The king made it ashore. One hundred and fifty men did not. They are still down there at ten metres, under a monster with a human head in its jaws.
• 🌲 Skurugata Småland An eight-hundred-metre crack in the mountain where the trolls lived – and where the robber Thief-Jösse hid a rifle nobody has found yet.
• 🌲 The Silent Pool Shere, Surrey A strange stillness hangs over this ominous pool near Shere.
• 👻 Stonehenge Salisbury, Wiltshire Visitors from all over the world make the pilgrimage to immerse themselves in the spirit of the stones.
• 🌲 Devil's Door San Salvador The rock above Panchimalco is said to have split when the Devil himself fled the village — and the gate he left bears his name.
• 🌲 Kham Chanot Forest Udon Thani The palm island of Kham Chanot is said to be the gateway to the Naga king's underworld — where in 1989 a travelling cinema screened a film for an audience of ghosts.
• 🌲 Khao Lak Phang Nga After the 2004 tsunami, taxi drivers refused night fares in Khao Lak — the spirits of drowned tourists were said to hail cabs, then dissolve from the back seat.
• 🌲 The Hairy Hands Dartmoor, Devon Ghostly hairy hands seize travellers on the B3212 across Dartmoor.
• 🌲 Ipswich Bar Massachusetts Harry Main is said to be chained to the sandbar, condemned to coil a cable of sand — and when it breaks his roar carries for miles.
• 🌲 Screeching Lady Beach (Lovis Cove) Massachusetts An English woman was murdered by pirates for her rings at Lovis Cove — and her screams are said to return across the water every year on the night.
• 🌲 Wicken Fen Wicken, Cambridgeshire Primitive and mysterious, with phantom armies, a black dog and the dreaded lantern men.
• 🌲 The Agnes Spring on the Hunters' Meadow Vienna At the spring people drew circles in blessed chalk against the spirits, waiting for Agnes or Karl to appear at midnight.
• 🌲 The Acorn Warden of the Anninger Lower Austria The spirit guarded the oak for three days to win the girl — but a squirrel ate the acorns. Ever since, the Acorn Warden rages.
• 🌲 The Dragon of the Kahlenberg Vienna A bloodthirsty dragon lay in its lair on the hill and struck at everything living, until the Viennese trapped it in planks and smothered it in smoke.
• 🌲 Badbury Rings Wimborne, Dorset Peaceful surroundings with an eventful past tied to the Romans and to King Arthur.
• 🌲 Barnet Road Enfield, London A walk along Barnet Road by moonlight may bring you face to face with a murder victim.
• 🌲 Foy's Lake Chattogram Division At the man-made lake above Chittagong, the White Lady warns night-time walkers of her dark sister.
• 🌲 The Black Madam (Silsom Woods) Flandern – Vlaams-Brabant (Kortenberg) At midnight, voices are said to lure late wanderers towards the brook in the Silsombos – where the Black Madam waits to pull them under.
• 🌲 Bell Lane Enfield, London A night walk along Bell Lane may bring you face to face with the spectral Enfield Flyer.
• 👻 Beltany Stone Circle Donegal, Northern Ireland The Stonehenge of Donegal. 64 stones from 2000 BC, two hundred years older than Stonehenge.
• 🌲 Bottlebush Down Sixpenny Handley, Dorset A ghostly rider who once galloped alongside an archaeologist's car.
• 🌲 Meeting of the Rivers (Cabeça de Cuia) Piauí Where the Poti and Parnaíba rivers meet lurks Cabeça de Cuia – the youth who killed his mother and was cursed to roam the riverbeds with a giant gourd-shaped head.
• 🌲 Oak Island Nova Scotia The treasure island in Mahone Bay is said to be guarded by vanished fishermen's spirits — and a curse demanding seven lives before the treasure is found.
• 🌲 Plains of Abraham Québec On the 1759 battlefield, fallen soldiers are said to appear in the evening haze, trailed by the smell of gunpowder.
• 🌲 Cerne Abbas Giant Cerne Abbas, Dorset A striking and magnificent hill figure whose origins are shrouded in mystery.
• 🌲 Belalp and the Aletschji Wallis Above the Aletsch Glacier, the burned witch of Belalp is said to roam still – the woman condemned for flying as a raven.
• 🌲 Mount Pilatus Luzern/Obwalden In a mountain lake on Pilatus the corpse of Pontius Pilate is said to rest – and whoever disturbed him called storms down upon Lucerne.
• 🌲 Jingshan and the Emperor's Tree (景山) Beijing On the hill behind the Forbidden City, the last Ming emperor hanged himself in 1644 – the tree itself was put in chains as 'the guilty scholar tree'.
• 🌲 Covent Garden Underground Station Westminster, London The ghost of the murdered actor William Terriss haunts the depths of the station.
• 👻 The Devil's Column (Vysehrad) Prague The devil Zardan wagered for a priest's soul, was knocked into the lagoon three times — and smashed the pillar here in fury.
• 🌲 Divoka Sarka Prague Sarka had herself tied to the tree in the ravine as bait for Ctirad. When the trap sprang shut she threw herself off the cliff.
• 🌲 Vitkov Hill Prague Zizka ordered his skin stretched over a drum. The sound of it alone was to turn the enemy ranks and send them running.
• 🌲 Blanke Helle at Alboinplatz Berlin The bottomless pool in the middle of the city bears the name of the death goddess Hel – and for generations it was said that Blanke Helle claimed one victim a year.
• 🌲 Kleist's Grave at Kleiner Wannsee Berlin On the shore of Kleiner Wannsee the poet Heinrich von Kleist shot first his companion and then himself one November day in 1811 – they were buried where they fell.
• 🌲 Peacock Island Berlin The alchemist with ruby-red eyes is said to still roam Peacock Island. In the 1600s it was whispered that ships straying too close to the island rotted and sank.
• 🌲 Devil's Lake in the Müggel Hills Berlin Beneath the Müggel hills a whole castle sank into the black bog water with its cursed princess. To free her, you must carry her three times around Köpenick's church at midnight.
• 🌲 Ghost Forest of Nienhagen Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Around the ghost wood they tell of drowned sailors whose spirits come up from the beach — and in the fog the trees move like beings.
• 🌲 Lake Hertha (Jasmund) Mecklenburg-Vorpommern By the black forest lake on Rügen, the goddess Hertha is said to have had her servants drowned – and a white woman rises from the rampart under the full moon.
• 🌲 Lake Mummelsee Baden-Württemberg In the Black Forest's darkest mountain lake, the lake king is said to rule his nymphs – and whoever mocks the deep is punished by the water itself.
• 🌲 Rosstrappe Saxony-Anhalt Princess Brunhilde is said to have leapt the Bode gorge on horseback to escape the giant Bodo – the hoofprint is still visible in the granite.
• 🌲 Untersberg Bavaria Inside the Untersberg an emperor is said to sleep at a stone table – and on winter nights the Wild Hunt rides out of the mountain's gates.
• 🌲 El Morrot of Montjuïc Barcelona In the dark of the new moon, the viceroy's ghost rises from coal-black earth beneath Montjuïc's cliffs and walks to the sea – still fleeing his executioners of 1640.
• 🌲 Supelegor Cave Baskien In Basque mythology the goddess Mari dwells in this cave in the Itxina massif – and witches were said to gather by its mouth at night.
• 🌲 Caves of Zugarramurdi Navarra In the witch caves by the Stream of Hell were held the covens that in 1610 sparked Spain's greatest witch trial – and the pyres of Logroño.
• 🌲 Mount of Souls Castile and León On All Souls' Night, slain Templar knights are said to rise from their graves on this hill by Soria – the legend Bécquer made immortal.
• 🌲 Mikladalur — Kópakonan (the Seal Woman) Kalsoy The seal woman's curse still rests on Mikladalur: so many shall drown that the dead can join hands and dance around the whole island.
• 🌲 Bay of the Dead (Baie des Trépassés) Brittany In the Bay of the Dead, the souls of the drowned await the night boat that will carry them to the other side.
• 🌲 Gouffre de Padirac Occitanie The 75-metre chasm was known as the Devil's doorway – struck open by Satan's heel in a wager with Saint Martin.
• 🌲 Lac Pavin Auvergne In the black depths of this round crater lake, a sinful drowned town is said to rest – and casting a stone wakes the bells and the storm.
• 🌲 Jardin du Luxembourg Paris An old man in a black coat invited him home to a concert. The next day it turned out nobody had lived in the flat for fifty years.
• 🌲 Claremont — the gardener by the lake London An elderly man in a long dark cloak stands at the water's edge in Claremont's garden. Walk towards him and no one is there.
• 🌲 The Fairlop Oak — the giant tree that became a death cult London When a branch fell from the giant oak, Daniel Day had it sawn into his own coffin — and feasted beneath the tree every July until he was laid in it.
• 👻 The Areopagus and the Revered Ones Attica In the cleft below the judgement rock lived the Erinyes. Athenians did not dare say their name — they called them only "the revered ones".
• 🌲 The Serpent of Kychreus at Kynosoura Attica In the middle of the sea battle a serpent rose among the Greek ships. The Athenians knew it: the hero Kychreus, who never left his island.
• 🌲 The Hill of the Nymphs (Lofos Nymfon) Attica The nymphs took whoever passed at noon — and in the ravine below lived Panoli, the blind woman groping her way along the walls.
• 👻 The Tailor of Porto Rafti (Raftis Islet) Attica She begged the gods for help against the suitor who would not stop — and they turned her to marble on the island's summit. She sits there still.
• 🌲 The Lady's Spring on Mount Parnitha (Pigi tis Kyras) Attica As the sun drops at the Lady's Spring, walkers meet a girl in a white dress with a blue ribbon at her waist — and the woman always beside her.
• 🌲 The Cave of Pan at Oinoe Attica Pan stopped the runner Philippides on the mountain road, asked why Athens had forgotten him — and promised to come to Marathon anyway.
• 🌲 Thalassi on Mount Penteli (Thalassi Pentelis) Attica At midnight women in white danced by the water at Thalassi and called to whoever passed. Lamias, the shepherds said. Not women.
• 👻 Hårgaberget (the Hårga Mountain) Bollnäs, Hälsingland The hill where the Devil, disguised as a fiddler, played the local youth to death. The Hårga tune is still said to echo among the trees.
• 🌲 Hella Point Porthgwarra, Cornwall A sea lashed cliff with a moving story of love and loss.
• 🌲 Witch Island, Szeged Csongrád-Csanád Twelve people were burned at the stake here in 1728, among them the town's former judge — and the innocent dead are said never to have found rest.
• 🌲 Wedding Party Cave, Naszály Hill Pest A whole wedding party fled into the cave and held the feast in the dark. Animal bones and potsherds still lay on the floor when it was dug.
• 👻 Törökugrató (The Turk's Leap), Budaörs Pest The Ottoman commander blindfolded his horse and spurred it over the edge. The crag has been called the Turk's Leap ever since. Neither horse nor rider came up again.
• 👻 Athgreany Piper's Stones Wicklow One Sunday the piper struck up and the girls danced through the Sabbath. They stand in the ring still, and he stands alone outside it.
• 🌲 Powerscourt Waterfall Wicklow In the roar of Ireland's tallest fall a bean sí keens, and among the trees a coachman drives on, avenging a sentence he never earned.
• 🌲 Aleya Lights of the Sundarbans West Bengal Over Bengal's marshlands flicker the aleya lights – souls of drowned fishermen said to lure night travellers to their deaths.
• 🌲 Chir Batti Ghost Lights Gujarat Across the pitch-black grasslands of Kutch dance the unexplained chir batti ghost lights – said to follow anyone who dares walk towards them.
• 🌲 Nohkalikai Falls Meghalaya India's tallest plunge waterfall is named after Likai, the mother who threw herself off the cliff – and whose lament is said to sound within the roar.
• 🌲 The Marsh of Spirits (Mordab-e Arvah) Mazandaran Villagers named the lake for the spirits said to dwell among its dead trees — Mordab-e Arvah, the Marsh of Spirits.
• 🌲 Drangey Norðurland vestra As Bishop Guðmundur the Good blessed the cliffs of Drangey, a grey claw slashed at his rope and growled: 'Even the wicked must have somewhere to dwell.'
• 🌲 Systrastapi Suðurland On this rock stack by Kirkjubæjarklaustur rest two burned nuns – one grave stays green, the other remains forever barren.
• 🌲 Lake Nemi Rome On March evenings the wind carries the ring of a sword across Diana's mirror — the forest king still waits for the challenger who will kill him.
• 🌲 Villa Celimontana Rome A woman's figure searches the walls for her own bones — the courtesan Imperia, whose grand tomb was given away to an unnamed canon.
• 🌲 Simbi Nyaima Homa Bay 'The village that sank' – beneath the green waters of the crater lake, an entire village is said to rest, drowned by a rejected stranger's curse.
• 🌲 Issyk-Kul — the Sunken City Issyk-Kul Beneath the mountain lake's surface rests a drowned city — legend says the lake was formed from the tears of girls whose home was swallowed as punishment.
• 🌲 Gimnyeongsagul (Snake Cave) Jeju In the lava cave at Gimnyeong a giant serpent demanded a young girl in sacrifice each year – the officer who slew it dropped dead after glancing back at a blood-red cloud.
• 🌲 Jangsan Mountain Busan In the forests above Haeundae, the white-furred Jangsanbeom is said to mimic human voices to lure hikers deeper among the trees.
• 🌲 Nong Fa Lake Attapeu In the crater lake Nong Fa, a giant serpent beast is said to guard the turquoise water – whoever bathes there defies the spirits.
• 🌲 Land's End Sennen, Cornwall Beyond the rugged cliffs stretches the sunken kingdom of Lyonesse.
• 👻 Lanyon Quoit Madron, Cornwall A Cornish dolmen that keeps its dignity despite the damage of the elements.
• 🌲 Kandy Lake Central Province A woman in white appears by the royal lake in Kandy – tuk-tuk drivers refuse to pass after midnight.
• 👻 Mên-an-Tol Morvah, Cornwall A small but striking stone formation around which legends swirl.
• 🌲 Fuentes Brotantes National Park, Tlalpan Mexico City La Llorona drags her wail along the old lakeshore — and an enchanted stone in the woods is said to swallow whoever sits on it.
• 🌲 La Malinche (Matlalcueye) Tlaxcala The lady of the mountain in her blue skirt is said to lure hikers ever deeper into the mist.
• 🌲 Aeilsgat Pool Groningen In this pool near Oudeschip a sea-wife has been trapped since the flood of 1717 – singing young men into the depths.
• 🌲 Ellertsveld Heath Drenthe On the heath where the giants Ellert and Brammert robbed and murdered, their victims are said to drift as white wraiths in the mist.
• 🌲 The Seven Hillocks (Mastbos Forest) Noord-Brabant Beneath seven small mounds in the Mastbos, the charcoal burner's murder victims are said to rest – and the Heldreef lane is haunted after dark.
• 🌲 Kringen, Sel Innlandet Legend says Prillar-Guri sounded her lur from the far side of the valley. Below her, fourteen hundred Scottish mercenaries were buried in the scree.
• 🌲 The Oseberg Mound, Tønsberg Vestfold For generations the district had said a ship lay in Revehaugen. In 1904 they dug — and found it, with two women in the burial chamber.
• 🌲 Ekeberg Forest Oslo Inside the hill, the Ekeberg King holds court with his subterranean folk — linger in the woods at dusk and you risk being taken into the mountain.
• 🌲 Steilene Islands Oslo Sailors crossed themselves as they passed at dusk — out on the islands the bodies of the executed were nailed to wheels on poles, facing the approach to the city.
• 🌲 Lake Seljord and the serpent Selma Telemark As early as 1750 the serpent is said to have reared up mid-lake and set upon Gunleik Andersson Verpe in his rowing boat. Over five hundred have seen it since.
• 👻 Torghatten, Brønnøy Nordland The hole straight through the mountain is, legend says, the shot of a troll's arrow that missed – the maiden it was meant for just made it ashore on Leka.
• 🌲 Trollkirka, Hustadvika Møre og Romsdal A troll-dragon is said to live in the innermost cave – last seen in the late 1800s by an old shoemaker from Varholen.
• 🌲 Parsonage Wood Castle Combe, Wiltshire Ghostly chatter can be heard in the air in the wood above Castle Combe.
• 🌲 Krakus Mound Kraków King Krak is said to lie under the sixteen-metre mound. Every year after Easter, food is thrown from its top to the living and to the dead.
• 🌲 Wanda Mound Kraków Wanda refused the German suitor and threw herself into the Vistula. The mound was raised where the current brought her body ashore.
• 👻 Hercules' Club Kraków A limestone tower 25 metres tall, balanced on its narrowest end. The devil carried it here on the orders of the sorcerer Twardowski.
• 🌲 The Dragon's Den Kraków The dragon in the cave under the rock demanded a maiden a month, until the cobbler Skuba filled a lamb with sulphur and left it at the mouth.
• 🌲 Trivale Forest Argeș (Pitești) In Trivale Forest a headless bride is said to appear to unmarried couples – and a dead bride once left her ring on a taxi driver's finger.
• 🌲 The Ghost on the Islet of Witten in Åmål Dalsland Two fishermen camping on an islet saw an unseen boat, panicked animals, and a fire where a man had hanged himself.
• 🌲 Arkebacken on Kållandsö Västergötland A herd-boy grew rich through the Fiend, but chose to be taken for life rather than saved – for salvation would make him a herd-boy again.
• 🌲 The Oak Where the Devil Was Bound, Algutstorp Västergötland After forcing the Devil to serve as a cart wheel, the priest bound him in an oak at Algutstorp — and the oak has never been felled.
• 🌲 The Priest and the River Spirit at Apelnäs Falls Västergötland By the falls the water spirit played so beautifully — until the priest offered him hope and Satan tore the wheel from the cart.
• 🌲 Hultungs-Per and the Oak at Bunge Gotland Beneath the oak where a feared man meant to hang himself crouched a great black dog with burning eyes.
• 🌲 Svarte-Mons's Servant and the Channel Nes-løypti, Jostedal Sogn og Fjordane Returning home with the black book, the servant read the devil loose – and his labour left a channel in the mountain.
• 🌲 The Lake Bailed to the Height of the Mountains, Nordfjord Sogn og Fjordane A man read the devil loose and set him to empty a lake – until the water stood level with the mountains.
• 🌲 The Sand Ropes on Skjoldsanden, Salten Nordland The devil could never make the sand hold together as rope – and begged in vain for tar before the priest came home.
• 🌲 The Sand Ropes on Kaupanger Shore, Sogndal Sogn og Fjordane The children read the devil loose and the house soon seemed ablaze – until mixed grain and rope of sand held him.
• 🌲 The Merman and the Fall of Busby Läänemaa A merman from the water led the proud dancers of Busby into the lake, until the whole village drowned and lay dead.
• 🌲 The Nix and the Bridal Train of Busby Läänemaa After five weddings at once the nix raised the water around the people and rode them all out into the lake to drown.
• 🌲 The Hoof Print in the Rock in Norrby Egentliga Finland Where Nygårdsen wrestled the Devil, the mark of a horse's hoof can still be seen in the rock.
• 🌲 Mora Battjon in the Mora Forest, Ingå Nyland In a charcoal-burner's hut on Good Friday night, a stranger asked the man whom he believed in.
• 🌲 The Devil's Smithy at Pyhalepa on Dagö Hiiumaa From a cave in the cliff the dark one rode out by night in a black carriage, until a pastor banished him back.
• 🌲 The Devil's Stone at Pyhalepa Church Hiiumaa Enraged by the finished church, the dark one gripped a stone so hard five fingers sank in, but the cock stopped him.
• 🌲 The Stones at Issapöld, Dagö Hiiumaa The dark one threw stones at the giant Leigre at Issapöld, but had to flee himself.
• 🌲 The Stone Heaps at Kemi, Dagö Hiiumaa At Kemi the dark one is said to have fought a giant and thrown stones that still lie in heaps.
• 🌲 The Dark One Who Heaped Sand in the Sea, Ormsö Läänemaa An unwanted sailor proved to be the dark one, who in revenge heaped up shoals to wreck seamen.
• 🌲 The Bride Elsa Rapids Ångermanland The bridal couple rowed home from their wedding, came too close to the rapids, and the river kept them both — the falls still carry the bride Elsa's name.
• 👻 The Frösö Runestone Jämtland The world's northernmost runestone holds the Great Lake Monster bound – and the legend adds that the binding breaks the day someone can read and understand the inscription.
• 🌲 Funäsdalsberget Härjedalen Twelve cows came walking down the snowy mountain, led by a strange woman knitting as she went – until the father ran up the slope and the whole procession was gone.
• 🌲 Hoverberget Jämtland In Scandinavia's deepest fissure cave lived the Hoverberg Giant, already there when Christianity reached the district – and he gave christening gifts by the spadeful of silver.
• 🌲 The Skule Cave Ångermanland High in Skuleberget's sheer cliff gapes the Robbers' Cave — whoever sat up there saw every traveller long before the traveller saw him.
• 🌲 The Vett Spring at Biltöst Härjedalen The priest threw a tar root into the spring and bound the vettar until it rotted – so they laughed. Then he threw in a stone and said the same. Then they began to weep.
• 👻 The Hoburg Man Gotland A sea stack with a human face guards Gotland's southern tip, and sailors greeted him – those who forgot did not grow old.
• 👻 The Karlevi Stone Öland A Danish viking crew buried their chieftain on Öland's shore and cut a skaldic poem over him – the oldest surviving in the North.
• 👻 The Li Burial Field at Fjärås Bräcka Halland The 4.7-metre stone is called King Frode's stone — the legendary king is said to rest beneath it, and in 1865 the quarrying stopped abruptly.
• 🌲 The Troll Forest Öland The gnarled oaks, among them the Troll Oak, were both revered and feared — at dusk the shapes in this wind-twisted pine wood have long shown people something other than trees.
• 🌲 Bedok Reservoir Bedok After a wave of drownings, kayakers report tugs from beneath the surface – and at night a mother and her son are said to be heard laughing across the dark water.
• 🌲 Mae Ramphueng Beach Rayong This miles-long beach in Rayong is known as 'the beach that eats people' — the spirits of the drowned are said to pull new victims under.
• 🌲 The Botathen Ghost South Petherwin, Cornwall A ghost from 1665 reappeared in 2018 in a house near South Petherwin.
• 👻 The Maiden's Stone (Column of Marcian) Istanbul The column whispers about every girl who passes beneath it — and inside the stone itself lies a king's daughter, wrote Evliya Çelebi.
• 👻 Öreke Rock, Rumelifeneri Istanbul The rocks slammed shut on anything that tried to pass — until Jason sent a dove ahead and the Argo slipped through at the last moment.
• 🌲 The Hill of Joshua (Yuşa Tepesi) Istanbul The grave on the Bosphorus's highest crown is seventeen metres long — a prophet rests here, and before him, the legend says, giants walked.
• 👻 Trethevy Quoit St Cleer, Cornwall Mystery hangs heavy over this ancient dolmen, and legends march out of the mist.
• 🌲 Lantan Lake Chiayi From Lantan's depths a carp spirit is said to claim a human life for every great fish landed – and from the dark shore a voice asked: 'Is the fish tasty?'
• 🌲 The Amboni Caves, Tanga Tanga By tradition, the limestone caves outside Tanga are home to the mizimu spirits – and the rebel Otango is said never to have left his hideout.

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