2 Haunted Places in Belarus

Every case file on record in Belarus — each with the full legend, the documented sightings spine and the skeptic’s file. Browse the archive below, or open the world map.

1. Golshany Castle — The Black Monk and the Wall of Bones

   B · Golshany, Grodno Region, Belarus — The ruined shell of a Sapieha castle whose legend Belarus's national gothic writer fixed in print: a hooded black monk who walks the park with a lantern, and a monastery wall that, when it collapsed, …

2. Nesvizh Castle — The Black Lady of Barbara Radziwiłł

   A · Nyasvizh, Minsk Region, Belarus — The Radziwiłł palace where, by Belarus's most famous ghost story, King Sigismund II Augustus broke the one rule of the séance — do not touch the spirit — and condemned his dead wife Barbara to walk th…