About

Ghost Map is a world map with a timeline that brings together the most famous ghost stories: white ladies in castle corridors, haunted houses and prisons, poltergeists, vampires, werewolves, cursed objects and witch trials – from medieval chronicles to modern accounts.

phenomena

351

countries

67

kinds

21

How to use the map

• The timeline below the map selects a period: drag the handles or the whole window, click anywhere on the axis or pick an era from the buttons. The bars show how many stories come from each period.
• ▶ Travel through time moves the window from the oldest accounts to the present – new phenomena flash on the map. The Trail button keeps phenomena from earlier years on the map, dimmed.
• The categories above the map switch groups of phenomena on and off; the search box in the panel looks through names, places and countries. Random story picks something spooky for you.
• Trails in the panel next to the map take you through selected stories one by one – for example “The 7 scariest stories in the world”. The next story opens by itself after a few seconds; you can pause and skip back and forth.
• The page address remembers the view – you can copy it and share it, and the Share button on every story copies its address (on a phone it opens the share sheet).

Categories

• Apparitions – Ghosts, phantoms and spectral figures
• Haunted places – Castles, houses, hotels and prisons with ghosts
• Poltergeists – Poltergeists, possessions and séances
• Revenants – Vampires, werewolves and night beasts
• Curses – Curses, cursed objects and witchcraft

Case verdicts

We do not settle whether ghosts exist. For every story we describe what the legend tells or what witnesses reported, and what historians, researchers and sceptics established later. The verdict sums up the state of knowledge today:

• Unexplained – the accounts are documented, but there is no convincing explanation.
• Disputed – a likely or official explanation exists, but some of the facts are still disputed.
• Legend – a story handed down through generations that can be neither confirmed nor disproved.
• Explained – the phenomenon has a widely accepted, down-to-earth explanation.
• Hoax – a proven or admitted hoax.

Privacy

This site uses no cookies, shows no ads and uses no Google or social media tools. Your browser’s local storage keeps only your settings – the language you chose, whether Halloween mode is on or off, and the light theme if you choose it with the switch in the header (the default dark theme is not stored). They are never sent anywhere, and you can remove them by clearing the site’s data.

• Statistics. We count visits with Matomo, which runs on our own server (stats.komba.pl). We run Matomo without cookies, so we do not ask for consent.
• What is recorded: pages visited and visit time, the page you came from, approximate location (country, region), device type, operating system, browser, its language and screen resolution, as well as terms typed into the map search and use of buttons such as “Random story”, trails or “Share”. IP addresses are shortened by their last two bytes, so they do not identify a specific device.
• Purpose: statistics only – to know which content is read and to improve the site. The data is not shared with or sold to anyone and is not used for advertising or profiling.
• Legal basis: the controller’s legitimate interest in keeping site statistics (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).

• Contact form. When you write to us (contact form), we process your name or nickname, your e-mail address and the content of your message, as well as the name of the site and the page from which the message was sent. The message is delivered by e-mail to contact@ominuvo.com.
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• Spam protection: we store the sender’s IP address only as a hash (the address cannot be recovered from it) for the message limit, and delete it after an hour. The form does not use cookies.
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Sources

• Country borders: Natural Earth (public domain).
• Descriptions: written by our editors from publicly available sources – legends and folk tales, eyewitness accounts, chronicles, court records, the press and the literature on the subject. Each case lists its sources – primary ones wherever possible: contemporary newspapers, records, investigators’ reports, museum and heritage sites, and the work of historians and folklorists – along with links to Wikipedia.
• The dates of many legends are conventional. For every case we note where the date comes from – records made at the time, later accounts, or tradition that cannot be verified – and, where known, the year of the earliest known record. Approximate dates are marked “c.”.
• Some of the places described are private or closed to the public – before you go ghost hunting, check whether you can visit.