4 Haunted Places in Estonia
Every case file on record in Estonia — each with the full legend, the documented sightings spine and the skeptic’s file. Browse the archive below, or open the world map.
Haapsalu Castle — The White Lady in the Wall
A · Haapsalu, Lääne County, Estonia — A 13th-century bishop's fortress on Estonia's west coast whose baptistery window shows a woman's white figure each August — a legend of a girl walled up alive that the town's own tourism office keeps,…
Kuressaare Castle — The Knight in the Sealed Cellar
A · Kuressaare, Saare County, Estonia — The best-preserved medieval convent castle in the Baltics, where — by the story that gives the cellar its name — an engineer opening a walled-up room in 1785 found a seated skeleton in purple robes, s…
Patarei — The Battery That Never Stopped
A · Tallinn, Harju County, Estonia — The tsarist sea-fortress on Tallinn Bay that became a prison under every regime that ruled Estonia — deportees for Siberia, then Nazi transit, then the KGB, then Estonian criminals until 2002 — with i…
Rataskaevu 16 — The Devil's Wedding House
A · Tallinn, Harju County, Estonia — A late-Gothic merchant house in Tallinn's Old Town whose top-floor window is bricked up with curtains painted on the glass — because, says the city's most famous ghost story, the Devil held his weddin…