4 Haunted Places in Czech Republic
Every case file on record in Czech Republic — each with the full legend, the documented sightings spine and the skeptic’s file. Browse the archive below, or open the world map.
Faust House, Prague — The Alchemists' Unlucky Address
B · Prague, Czech Republic — The Baroque mansion on Charles Square that never needed a Dr. Faust to earn its name: Rudolf II's alchemist Edward Kelley blew holes in its ceiling, a murderer hunted treasure in it, and the last priv…
Houska Castle — The Castle Built on a Hole
A · Blatce, Central Bohemia, Czech Republic — A 13th-century castle with no fortification value, no water, no kitchen — built, legend says, to seal a bottomless pit of demons.…
Sedlec Ossuary — The Church of Bones
A · Kutná Hora, Central Bohemia, Czech Republic — A small chapel beneath a Gothic church where the bones of some 40,000 people were arranged in 1870 into chandeliers, coats of arms and pyramids — by a woodcarver, not a cult.…
Špilberk Castle — The Dungeon of Nations
A · Brno, South Moravian Region, Czech Republic — The hilltop fortress above Brno that Emperor Joseph II turned in 1783 into the Habsburg Empire's prison of last resort — where Baron Trenck died in chains, the Italian poet Silvio Pellico served eight…