3 Haunted Places in Denmark

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

1. Dragsholm Castle — The Earl, the White Lady and the Pillar

   B · Odsherred, Zealand, Denmark — Denmark's oldest castle kept a mad earl chained in its tower for decades — and in the 1930s, workmen found a skeleton in the walls.…

2. Kronborg Castle — Elsinore, Home of Hamlet's Ghost

   B · Helsingør, Capital Region, Denmark — Elsinore is real: the Renaissance fortress of Kronborg on the Sound, whose ramparts open the most famous ghost play in world literature — Shakespeare's sentries waiting for the dead king — and whose o…

3. Voergaard Castle — Ingeborg Skeel's Moat

   B · Dronninglund, North Jutland, Denmark — A moated Renaissance fortress in northern Jutland whose reputation was built on its most capable owner — a 16th-century noblewoman remembered as a witch instead.…