2 Haunted Places in Moldova

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

1. Soroca Fortress — Storks on the Starving Ramparts

   B · Soroca, Moldova — A perfect stone circle of five round bastions on a bend of the Dniester — Stephen the Great's 1499 crossing-guard rebuilt in stone 1543–46 — where, during an unrecorded siege, white storks nesting in …

2. Tipova Monastery — The Cave Monks Who Never Left

   B · Tipova, Rezina District, Moldova — Eastern Europe's largest cave monastery, carved into cliffs above the Dniester, where monks' cells, a rock-cut church and the memory of Stephen the Great's possible wedding meet a living local traditi…