2 Haunted Places in Bulgaria

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

1. Devil's Bridge, Ardino — The Shadow in the Arch

   B · Ardino, Kardzhali Province, Bulgaria — The Ottoman arch bridge of 1515–18 over the Arda gorge where, locals say, the builder sealed his young wife's shadow into the stone to make it stand — and the devil's face still surfaces in the water …

2. Sozopol Vampire Burials — The Iron-Pinned Dead

   B · Sozopol, Bulgaria — The medieval churchyard of Sozopol's old town, where the 2012 excavation of two 700-year-old skeletons pinned through the chest with iron rods — the anti-vampire rite of the Bulgarian lands — became a…