4 Haunted Places in Netherlands
Every case file on record in Netherlands — each with the full legend, the documented sightings spine and the skeptic’s file. Browse the archive below, or open the world map.
The Heksenwaag of Oudewater — The Scale That Saved Witches
B · Oudewater, Utrecht, Netherlands — A sixteenth-century weigh-house in a small Dutch town where people accused of witchcraft could be officially weighed — and where a certificate of honest weight was, by imperial privilege, proof of inn…
Kasteel de Haar — The Lady in the Restored Chapel
B · Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands — The Netherlands' largest castle — a romantic ruin resurrected by architect Pierre Cuypers from 1892 — keeps a chapel ghost: a young woman of the restoration era said to have died in the chapel, whose …
Spooksteeg — Ghost Alley and the Deathbed Curse of Helena
B · Amsterdam city centre, Netherlands — A metres-long alley off the Zeedijk named on the map as Ghost Alley, where a tanner's daughter murdered her sister out of jealousy, confessed on her deathbed in 1753, and was cursed by her dying husba…
The Waag — Anatomies on Nieuwmarkt
B · Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands — Amsterdam's 15th-century city gate, later weigh house and guildhall, whose domed Theatrum Anatomicum saw the Surgeons' Guild dissect executed criminals before a paying public — the very room in Rembra…