2 Haunted Places in Iceland

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

1. Álfhóll — The Hill the Road Bends Around

   A · Kópavogur, Capital Region, Iceland — A three-metre rock knoll in suburban Kópavogur that the road Álfhólsvegur visibly swings out around — because, says the municipality's own information panel, elves interfered with construction four se…

2. The Deacon of Myrka — Iceland's Dead Bridegroom

   B · Myrka, Eyjafjordur (near Akureyri), Iceland — The farm-church of Iceland's most beloved ghost story: a deacon rides out before Christmas through the thaw, drowns in the river Horga, and arrives on Christmas Eve anyway — dead, with the grave-candl…