5 Haunted Places in Switzerland
Every case file on record in Switzerland — each with the full legend, the documented sightings spine and the skeptic’s file. Browse the archive below, or open the world map.
Belchen Tunnel — The White Lady of the A2
B · Basel-Landschaft / Solothurn border, Jura, Switzerland — The Belchen Tunnel (opened 1970) on Switzerland's A2 carries the country's most famous vanishing-hitchhiker legend: a white-clad old woman picked up before the tunnel portal who vanishes from the back…
Château de Chillon
B · Lake Geneva, Vaud, Switzerland — The lakeside castle that imprisoned a monk in the 1530s — where Byron carved his name into a pillar.…
The Aare Gorge — The Tatzelwurm's Alps
B · Aareschlucht, Meiringen, Bernese Oberland, Switzerland — The Alps' cat-faced serpent, three centuries in the naturalists' margins: the tatzelwurm — the 'claw-worm' or Stollenwurm of Swiss and Austrian valley tradition, a stubby, lizard- or cat-headed creatu…
Teufelsbrücke — The Devil's Bridge
B · Schöllenen Gorge, Andermatt, Uri, Switzerland — The stone arch across the Gotthard's black gorge that locals said only the Devil could build — and he threw a mountain at it when he was cheated of his fee.…
Villa Diodati — The Storm That Wrote Frankenstein
B · 9 Chemin de Ruth, Cologny, Lake Geneva, Switzerland — The literary cradle of the modern fantastic: in the summer of 1816 — the year without a summer, Tambora's ash still dimming the world — Byron rented the Villa Diodati above Lake Geneva, where with Per…