The Most Haunted Places in Sweden

The Most Haunted Places in Sweden: 12 hand-picked locations, ranked by how haunted they are. Each includes its story, a 1–5 scare rating and GPS coordinates.

• Skänninge execution site (Tivoliängen)
  Östergötland · Scare 5/5
  One of Sweden's most-excavated execution sites — used for ~600 years, eleven graves and a gallows ditch.
• Abbey Garden — the Black Nun
  Östergötland · Scare 5/5
  In the abbey garden the Black Nun is said to glide along the wall at night — a nun who killed her child and never found rest.
• The Gallows Hill at Kvarnbacken
  Östergötland · Scare 5/5
  The town gallows, in use 1400–1650. A 2005 dig uncovered ~25 executed young men — one with an iron hook driven through the skull.
• Alvastra abbey ruin
  Östergötland · Scare 4/5
  A Cistercian abbey from 1143 where the monks' treasure is said hidden in the mountain — and where dusk walkers think they glimpse cowled figures.
• Ängsö Castle
  Västmanland · Scare 4/5
  On an island in Lake Mälaren, Karl XII's court jester is still said to walk — nearly 300 years after his death.
• Lake Sommen — the primal cow Sommakoa
  Östergötland · Scare 4/5
  The lake was made by the primal cow kicking open the rock; caged in a cave she eats one hair each Christmas Eve — then she breaks free.
• Bjälbo church & Ingrid Ylva
  Östergötland · Scare 4/5
  Birger Jarl's 'sorcery-wise' mother is said to have been walled in standing in a pillar — while she held her head high the dynasty would be spared.
• Kårarp / the Gallows Hill (Eriksgata)
  Östergötland · Scare 4/5
  The district execution ground on the medieval royal road itself — with an Iron Age grave field, a hollow way and three runestones.
• Högby old churchyard & the Högby stone
  Östergötland · Scare 4/5
  An abandoned churchyard and Östergötland's second-greatest runestone, naming the freeholder Gulle's five sons — all dead.
• Kungshöga grave field
  Östergötland · Scare 4/5
  One of Sweden's larger Iron Age grave fields — 125 graves, judge-rings and standing stones, in use a thousand years.
• Mount Omberg & Queen Omma
  Östergötland · Scare 4/5
  The mountain's mist-queen weeps in the Rödgavel cave so fog settles over Vättern — giants dwell in the rock and hurl stones at the churches.
• Sverkersgården & the 1156 regicide
  Östergötland · Scare 4/5
  Here King Sverker the Elder was murdered by his own stable-hand on the way to Christmas matins in the dark — a memorial stone remains.

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