Ghost Map

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Country

Poland

cases
41
years
900–2026

Unexplained: 1 Disputed: 4 Legend: 28 Explained: 8

  1. 9th century

    1. c. 900–present Witches and witch trials · Legend Łysa Góra – Poland's Witches' Mountain Łysa Góra (Święty Krzyż), Świętokrzyskie Mountains Folk tales say witches from all over Poland flew to Łysa Góra on broomsticks. Long before that, a pagan sanctuary stood on its summit.

  2. 13th century

    1. c. 1260–present Forests, islands and abandoned places · Legend Halina Krępianka in the Sandomierz Underground Underground Tourist Route, Old Town, Sandomierz Legend says Halina Krępianka lured the Tatars into a maze of cellars beneath Sandomierz and died with them – her ghost is said to slip among the tourists.

  3. 14th century

    1. c. 1350–present Haunted castles · Legend Brothers Bobol and Mir – the Legend of Bobolice Castle Bobolice Castle, Niegowa commune, Kraków-Częstochowa Upland Two lookalike brothers, a treasure in an underground tunnel and a walled-up captive – her lament is still said to echo in the ruins of Bobolice and Mirów.
    2. 1360–present Ghosts of historical figures · Legend The Ghost of Maćko Borkowic at Olsztyn Castle Ruins of Olsztyn Castle near Częstochowa, Kraków-Częstochowa Upland A Greater Poland palatine, sentenced by King Casimir the Great to starve to death in the Olsztyn tower, is said to haunt the castle ruins still.
    3. c. 1390–present Haunted castles · Legend The Black Phantom of Bąkowiec Castle in Morsko Bąkowiec Castle ruins, Morsko, Kraków-Częstochowa Upland A cruel lord starved his daughter for loving a poor youth, then died in a storm – ever since, a black phantom has haunted the ruins.

  4. 15th century

    1. c. 1410–present Hotels and inns · Legend The Weeping Duchess Anna of Ryn Castle Hotel Zamek Ryn, Ryn, Masuria In a Teutonic castle that is now a four-star hotel, the walled-up wife of Grand Duke Vytautas is said to weep at night – and meeting her supposedly brings luck.
    2. c. 1431–present Haunted castles · Legend The Well of Unfaithful Wives and the White Lady of Czocha Czocha Castle, Sucha near Leśna, Lower Silesia The castle on the Kwisa has a well into which, legend says, unfaithful wives were thrown, while Gertrude, beheaded for treason, roams its corridors.
    3. c. 1450–present Haunted castles · Legend The Black Châtelaine of Grodno Castle Grodno Castle, Zagórze Śląskie, Lower Silesia The castellan's daughter Margaret pushed her unwanted husband off the walls, and her father had her walled up – a skeleton chained to a wall is shown in the castle.
    4. 1484–present Haunted castles · Legend Dorotka and the Beheaded Szafraniec – Ghosts of Pieskowa Skała Pieskowa Skała Castle, Prądnik Valley, Ojców National Park Above the Prądnik Valley walk Dorotka, starved to death in a tower, and Krzysztof Szafraniec, a robber knight beheaded in Kraków in 1484.

  5. 16th century

    1. c. 1551 Ghosts of historical figures · Legend Twardowski Summons the Ghost of Barbara Radziwiłł Wawel Royal Castle, Kraków (location according to tradition) Grief-stricken after his beloved wife's death, King Sigismund Augustus is said to have asked the sorcerer Twardowski to show him Barbara in a magic mirror.
    2. 1556–present Haunted castles · Legend The White Lady of Chęciny – the Ghost of Queen Bona Royal Castle in Chęciny, Świętokrzyskie A misty figure in a white dress is said to roam the walls of Chęciny Castle – Queen Bona, searching for treasures that sank in the Nida river.
    3. c. 1587 Spectral creatures and night demons · Legend The Basilisk of Krzywe Koło Krzywe Koło Street, Old Town, Warsaw A monster that killed with its gaze was said to lurk in an Old Town cellar – until a convict covered in mirrors defeated it.
    4. 1591–1592 Vampires and strigoi · Explained The Revenant Shoemaker of Breslau Wrocław (formerly Breslau), Silesia A shoemaker who took his own life was said to torment the people of Breslau at night – the city council had him exhumed and finally burned.

  6. 17th century

    1. 1610–present Haunted castles · Legend The Devil of Łańcut and the Ladies of Łańcut Castle Łańcut Castle, Subcarpathia After dark a black rider is said to arrive at the castle – Stanisław Stadnicki, the “Devil of Łańcut” – while the Blue and White Ladies appear in its salons.
    2. 1625–present Haunted castles · Legend The Ghost of Anna Vasa at Golub Castle Golub Castle, Golub-Dobrzyń, Chełmno Land The sister of King Sigismund III, who turned a Teutonic castle into a Renaissance residence, is said by legend to keep watch over her rooms still.
    3. 1649–present Haunted castles · Legend The Hussar and the White Lady in the Ruins of Krzyżtopór Krzyżtopór Castle ruins, Ujazd near Iwaniska, Świętokrzyskie In the vast ruins of the Ossoliński palace people have seen a knight on a black horse and a white female figure – and tourists photographed a ghost in a black habit.
    4. 1655 Haunted castles · Legend The Treasure and Devil Dogs of Tenczyn Castle Tenczyn Castle ruins, Rudno near Krzeszowice, Lesser Poland The Swedes searched the Tęczyński family castle for the crown treasures, unaware that three devils in the shape of black dogs were guarding them.
    5. 1672 Cemeteries, crypts and ossuaries · Explained The Mummies in the Crypts of the Reformati Church, Kraków Crypts of St Casimir's Church, Reformacka Street, Kraków Beneath a Baroque church lie friars and townspeople whose bodies – never embalmed – turned into mummies thanks to a unique microclimate.
    6. 1681–present Haunted castles · Legend The Black Dog of Ogrodzieniec Castle Ogrodzieniec Castle ruins, Podzamcze, Kraków-Częstochowa Upland A huge black dog dragging a chain is said to prowl the ruined courtyard at night – according to legend, the damned soul of castellan Stanisław Warszycki.

  7. 18th century

    1. 1775 Witches and witch trials · Disputed The Burning of the Witches of Doruchów Witches' Hill near Doruchów, Greater Poland According to an account published in 1835, fourteen women accused of bewitching the lady of the manor were burned in Doruchów. Historians dispute how much of it is true.
    2. 1776–1804 Cemeteries, crypts and ossuaries · Explained The Skull Chapel in Czermna Skull Chapel, Czermna, Kudowa-Zdrój, Kłodzko Land The chapel's walls and vault are lined with some 3,000 skulls and bones of war and plague victims, and its crypt holds the remains of tens of thousands more.
    3. 1790–present White ladies · Legend The White Lady of Kórnik Kórnik Castle, Greater Poland Teofila Działyńska, a former mistress of Kórnik, is said to step out of her portrait in a white dress every night and walk through the castle.
    4. c. 1797–present Haunted castles · Legend Umina and the Inca Treasure of Niedzica Castle Dunajec Castle in Niedzica, Pieniny Mountains Legend says the Inca princess Umina was stabbed to death in the castle courtyard, and a knotted-cord testament to the Inca treasure was hidden under the gate's threshold.

  8. 19th century

    1. 1811 Witches and witch trials · Explained Barbara Zdunk – Europe's Last Pyre Reszel, Warmia In 1811 Barbara Zdunk, whom the townspeople believed to be a witch, was burned at the stake in Reszel. She was the last person in Europe executed this way.
    2. 1835–present Haunted castles · Legend Kunegunde and the Phantom Rider of Chojnik Castle Chojnik Castle ruins, Sobieszów (Jelenia Góra), Karkonosze Mountains Cruel Kunegunde made her suitors ride around the castle walls above a chasm; on moonlit nights the ghost of a horseman is said to appear on the walls.
    3. 1893–1894 Séances and mediums · Disputed Eusapia Palladino in Warsaw Warsaw At Julian Ochorowicz’s invitation the famous Italian medium held séances in Warsaw attended by Bolesław Prus – echoes found their way into his novel “Pharaoh”.
    4. 1895–present Haunted houses and manors · Legend The Midnight Confession at the Wielopolski Palace, Kraków Wielopolski Palace (City Hall), All Saints' Square, Kraków Kraków's city hall is said to be haunted by a lady in white or black – according to legend, the victim of a family crime, confessed by a priest summoned at night.

  9. 1900–1909

    1. c. 1900–present Haunted houses and manors · Legend The Governess and the Maid of Moszna Palace Moszna Palace, Krapkowice County, Opole region The fairy-tale palace of the Tiele-Winckler family is said to be haunted by an English governess buried in the wrong place and a maid who took her own life in the park.
    2. 1903–present Cemeteries, crypts and ossuaries · Legend The Ghost Boy at the Orthodox Church in Chróścin St George the Victorious Orthodox Church and former Orthodox cemetery, Chróścin, Wieruszów County By the church where the young son of Russian landowners was buried in 1903, a boy in old-fashioned clothes is said to appear in the evenings and ask about his parents.
    3. 1908–1909 Séances and mediums · Disputed Stanisława Tomczyk and the Levitating Scissors Wisła, Silesian Beskids In the mountain town of Wisła, Julian Ochorowicz studied a medium who made scissors float between her hands – and “Little Stasia” left marks on photographic plates.

  10. 1910–1919

    1. c. 1915–present Haunted houses and manors · Legend The Haunted Tenement at 2/4 Wilcza Street, Warsaw Tenement at 2/4 Wilcza Street (corner of Aleje Ujazdowskie), Śródmieście, Warsaw The corner first-floor flat of the tenement on Wilcza Street is said to be the most haunted address in Warsaw – supposedly no tenant lasts long there.

  11. 1930–1939

    1. 1939–present Prisons, hospitals and asylums · Legend The Abandoned Psychiatric Hospital in Owińska Former psychiatric hospital in the old Cistercian convent, Owińska near Poznań From a former hospital whose more than one thousand patients were murdered by the Germans in 1939, a child's crying and footsteps are said to be heard in empty wards.

  12. 1940–1949

    1. 1942–present Prisons, hospitals and asylums · Legend The Ruins of Zofiówka in Otwock Former “Zofiówka” sanatorium, Kochanowskiego Street, Otwock In a ruined sanatorium for Jewish psychiatric patients, whose patients were murdered by the Germans in 1942, visitors report figures seen in the windows.
    2. 1943–present Haunted castles · Legend The Ghosts of Książ Castle and Princess Daisy Książ Castle, Wałbrzych, Lower Silesia Silesia's largest castle has a whole gallery of ghosts – from Janek, a servant who vanished, to Princess Daisy, who legend says still returns to her rooms.

  13. 1950–1959

    1. c. 1950 Prisons, hospitals and asylums · Legend The “Blue Spectre” of the Former Police Station in Konstancin Former police station on Niecała Street, Konstancin-Jeziorna In a villa allegedly used by the communist secret police, officers heard footsteps on an empty floor at night – the ghost of a cruel interrogator, legend says.

  14. 1970–1979

    1. 1973 Tomb and family curses · Disputed The Curse of King Casimir IV Jagiellon Holy Cross Chapel, Wawel Cathedral, Kraków After the tomb of King Casimir IV Jagiellon was opened in 1973, people who had worked in the crypt began to die. Many spoke of a Polish “pharaoh's curse.”

  15. 1980–1989

    1. 1983–1986 Poltergeists · Unexplained The Sosnowiec Poltergeist A flat in Sosnowiec, Zagłębie Dąbrowskie Around a young schoolgirl named Joasia in Sosnowiec household items flew, mirrors shattered and matches lit by themselves – the case became the book “The Elusive Force”.

  16. 1990–1999

    1. 1992 Forests, islands and abandoned places · Explained Kłomino – a Ghost Town Left by the Soviet Army Kłomino, Borne Sulinowo commune, West Pomerania A town hidden in the forest, home to thousands of Soviet soldiers and their families until 1992, emptied almost completely and nobody wanted to resettle it.

  17. 2000–2009

    1. 2008–2014 Vampires and strigoi · Explained Anti-Vampire Graves at Drawsko Drawsko 1 cemetery, Czarnków-Trzcianka County, Greater Poland In a 17th–18th-century cemetery by the Noteć river six people were buried with sickles across their necks and stones under their chins – so they would not rise.

  18. 2010–2019

    1. 2013 Vampires and strigoi · Explained The Beheaded Skeletons of Gliwice Drogowa Trasa Średnicowa road construction at Dworcowa and Jagiellońska streets, Gliwice Road builders in central Gliwice uncovered a cemetery where the dead had their heads cut off and placed between their legs.

  19. 2020–2029

    1. 2022 Vampires and strigoi · Explained The “Vampire” of Pień – a Grave with a Sickle and Padlock Cemetery on the hillfort at Pień, Dąbrowa Chełmińska commune Archaeologists from Toruń uncovered the 17th-century grave of a young woman with a sickle across her neck and a padlock fastened to her toe.