5 Haunted Places in Poland
Every case file on record in Poland — each with the full legend, the documented sightings spine and the skeptic’s file. Browse the archive below, or open the world map.
Kórnik Castle — The White Lady of the Dining Hall
B · Kórnik, Greater Poland, Poland — The neo-Gothic castle near Poznań whose 18th-century chatelaine never checked out: Teofila Działyńska (1715–1790), whose white-gowned portrait steps down at midnight to walk the halls with a knight — …
Niedzica Castle — The Inca Princess of the Carpathians
B · Niedzica, Poland — A 14th-century Dunajec castle where an Inca princess is said to have been murdered — and whose lost testament may still point to a treasure of the Incas.…
Ogrodzieniec Castle
B · Podzamcze near Ogrodzieniec, Poland — Poland's grandest castle ruin, on the highest hill of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland — and the certain home of a huge black dog that drags a heavy chain across the courtyard on moonlit nights.…
Wawel — The Castle Where the Dead Queens Walk
A · Kraków, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland — Poland's royal castle above the Vistula, where the grieving king Sigismund Augustus had the sorcerer Pan Twardowski summon his dead queen Barbara Radziwiłł from the grave — and where her apparition, t…
Zofiówka Sanatorium — The Hospital Murdered With Its Patients
B · Otwock, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland — The interwar Jewish psychiatric hospital in the pine-air resort town of Otwock — a progressive colony of villas emptied in a single night of murder in August 1942, left to decay for decades, and final…