4 Haunted Places in Ukraine
Every case file on record in Ukraine — each with the full legend, the documented sightings spine and the skeptic’s file. Browse the archive below, or open the world map.
Lysa Hora — The Witches' Bald Mountain
B · Kyiv, Ukraine — The bald hill above the Lybid river that Kyiv tradition names as the witches' sabbath ground — the local instance of the Slavic Bald Mountain that Gogol wrote onto the world's stage — now a landscape …
Odessa Catacombs — The City's Second City
B · Nerubayske, Odesa Oblast, Ukraine — Beneath Odessa lies the largest labyrinth of hand-cut tunnels on earth — some 2,500 kilometres of limestone catacombs, three levels deep, dug as the city's quarries and lived in by smugglers and warti…
Pidhirtsi Castle — The White Lady and the Golden Lady
A · Pidhirtsi, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine — A Renaissance residence of Polish magnates and kings whose white-lady legend was investigated on national television, whose park and cellars are said to be patrolled by spirits, and whose Golden Lady …
Pripyat — The City That Stopped at 01:23
B · Pripyat, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine — The atom grad — the Soviet atomic city founded on 4 February 1970 for the plant's builders — was a showcase city of 49,360 people, evacuated by bus on 27 April 1986, roughly 36 hours after reactor fou…