Haunted Natural Sites (270)

270 haunted natural sites from around the world. Each location includes its story and GPS coordinates.

• 🌲 Aokigahara Forest Yamanashi The world's most infamous suicide forest at the foot of Mount Fuji — unnaturally silent and full of yūrei.
• 👻 Deadmen Valley, Nahanni Northwest Territories The Dene have always avoided the valley — and when the search party reached the brothers' camp in 1908, they were still there, headless.
• 👻 Bjældskovdal (the Tollund Man's bog) Midtjylland, Silkeborg The peat cutters thought they had found a murder victim. The man in the bog had lain there 2,300 years, the rope still around his neck.
• 🌲 Hoia-Baciu Forest Cluj, Cluj-Napoca "Transylvania's Bermuda Triangle" — UFO photographs from 1968 and shepherds vanished according to legend.
• 👻 Beinahóll on Kjölur Suðurland (högländerna) The Hill of Bones on the Kjölur route, where the Reynistaður brothers froze to death in 1780, frightened travellers so badly the entire highland trail was abandoned.
• 👻 Karitjønna, Bringsåsvolden Trøndelag, Verdal Kari mördades och dumpades i tjärnet — hennes skrik och hand kommer upp ur vattnet.
• 👻 Kimsundet Hälsingland The man out in the sound refused to move his fish traps – and when the student threatened to duck him in the current, he began to grow until he reached the treetops.
• 👻 The Great Brook at Lövberg Lappland Several had heard cries and wailing by the brook. Olle Nilsson met the man who blocked his path whichever way he turned – and learned who lay buried there.
• 👻 The Bocksten Bog Halland They drove three stakes through the body and sank it in the bog. Not to hide the murder – to stop the dead man walking.
• 👻 The A3 at Burpham Surrey, Guildford A phantom car was seen leaving the A3, but the only remains found were a skeleton five months old.
• 👻 The Wedding Lime Tree in Sievering Wien The groom threw a bottle at the priest and told him to go to hell. Lightning took the lime tree — the devil took him.
• 👻 The Lament Tree Wien Wailing tones came from the lime tree by the leper house at night. The priest who went with a cross was seized by the shadow and vanished with it.
• 👻 Avebury Stone Circle Wiltshire, Marlborough One of the most impressive mystical sites in England, and many have suffered for treating it lightly.
• 👻 Devil's Throat Cave Smoljan The Devil's Throat cave in the Rhodope Mountains is called the gate to the underworld – nothing the river drags down into the dark ever surfaces again.
• 👻 Bronesvollen, Drolsum Buskerud, Modum Två rymlingar begravdes där 1700-talet — deras skrik hörs i fullmånenätterna.
• 👻 Actun Tunichil Muknal Cayo In the cave the Maya called the gateway to the underworld Xibalba lies the Crystal Maiden — a human sacrifice whose bones glitter in the stone floor.
• 👻 Deadman's Pond Newfoundland och Labrador In the "bottomless" pond below the gibbet hill of St. John's, the hands of the executed are said to reach for those who stray too close.
• 👻 Frank Slide Alberta Beneath Turtle Mountain's rubble rests an entire mining town — and drifting lights are said to cross the stone field at night.
• 👻 Cave of Quicaví Los Lagos In the cave at Quicaví, Chiloé's secret council of warlocks held court, guarded by the deformed creature known as the imbunche.
• 👻 Connington Crossing Cambridgeshire, Peterborough The crossing of death. Several fatal accidents have given it an ominous reputation.
• 🌲 The Kindel Woods near Schildow Brandenburg "If you helped hunt, you can help carry" – the hunchback on the Kindel bridge handed the night walker a parcel and fell backwards into the water. Inside the parcel lay a human leg.
• 👻 The Devil's Pool Queensland, Babinda Aboriginal legend of Oolana's revenge — 17+ young men have drowned here since 1959.
• 👻 Grønsalen Long Barrow, Møn Møn, Fanefjord Beneath 145 kerbstones in a 102-metre row lie, by legend, King Grøn and his wife Fane — rival of the Cliff King for the mastery of Møn.
• 👻 Møns Klint Møn The Cliff King rules beneath the chalk and rides out when Møn is threatened — but betray his secrets and he takes it back at sea.
• 🌲 The Robbers' Den, Rold Forest Nordjylland, Rebild Cords strung across the road, silver bells ringing in the dark — and in the hollow below waited men who had already escaped the gallows.
• 👻 Dow Hill, Kurseong Västbengalen, Kurseong En huvudlös pojke i skoluniform vandrar längs "Death Road" i de dimhöljda skogarna.
• 👻 Dozmary Pool Cornwall, Bolventor Legends march out of the mist around this ominous lake on Bodmin Moor.
• 👻 Dumas Beach Gujarat, Surat Svart sand av aska från en gammal likbränningsplats — och resenärer som aldrig återvänt.
• 👻 Dunwich Suffolk, Dunwich The town that vanished beneath the sea. Its church bells are still heard tolling from the depths.
• 👻 Gévaudan (Saugues) Auvergne Around Saugues the Beast of Gévaudan raged in the 1760s – a monster that killed up to a hundred people and was never explained.
• 👻 Parc Montsouris Paris The giant brigand Isauré was beheaded in the 9th century and buried in this slope. Residents speak of night screams from nothing living.
• 👻 Yeun Elez Bretagne In Breton belief, the peat bogs near Brennilis concealed the very gateway to hell.
• 🌲 White Webbs, Enfield Chase — the Gunpowder Plot's hiding place London The house was pulled down in 1790, but its doorway and fireplace were built into the pub across the lane — where a little girl in a white dress runs through the kitchens.
• 👻 Goodwin Sands Kent, Deal Sandbanks said to be the ancient island of Lomea, and a notorious graveyard of ships.
• 👻 Davelis Cave Attika In the quarry cave on Mount Penteli, shadow figures are said to appear, torches die out and female voices sing from the dark.
• 👻 Hickling Broad Norfolk, Hickling A phantom drummer echoes across the ice, a young lover who drowned in the nineteenth century.
• 👻 Hitra — Den huvudlösa gumman Trøndelag, Hitra Huvudlös gumma på heden och kramaren vars skelett hittades 60 år senare.
• 👻 Jatinga Assam The villagers took it for evil spirits falling out of the sky — and the valley where birds plunge toward the lights is still called cursed.
• 👻 Roopkund Skeleton Lake Uttarakhand In this glacial lake at 5,000 metres lie hundreds of skeletons – by legend an entire royal retinue struck down by the goddess Nanda Devi with hail hard as iron.
• 🌲 Sanjay Van Delhi Among Sufi tombs and banyan trees in Delhi's city forest, a white-clad woman is said to appear – then vanish into thin air.
• 👻 Kal-e Jeni – the Valley of the Jinn Södra Khorasan In the desert canyon north of Tabas, jinn are said to hold court in the cliff-side tunnels – and young women to have been carried off into the dark.
• 👻 Drekkingarhylur at Þingvellir Suðurland Visitors at dusk tell of soft weeping by the water — at least eighteen women were drowned here, forced under in sacks before the assembly.
• 👻 Gunnuhver Suðurnes In this roaring mud spring on the Reykjanes peninsula, the ghost Gunna has been trapped ever since a priest tricked her into the boiling heat in the 1700s.
• 👻 Hakkōda Mountains Aomori In the mountains where 199 soldiers froze to death in 1902, snow-laden columns are said to still march through the winter night.
• 👻 Heiwa Falls Hokkaido At the 'Falls of Peace' on Sapporo's edge, restless spirits are said to gather around the trees as darkness falls.
• 👻 Lough Devereaugh Ireland, Ballinalack Plats där Lirs barn förvandlades till svanar av deras avundsjuka styvmor Aoife.
• 👻 Mount Osore Aomori "Mount Fear" — one of Japan's three sacred sites, a gateway to the underworld.
• 👻 La Mocuana Hill Estelí From a cave in the hillside rises La Mocuana — the chieftain's daughter walled in alive, undone by love and betrayal.
• 👻 Domen near Vardø Finnmark Norway's most notorious witches' mountain: here the condemned were said to have danced at midsummer while Satan himself played a red fiddle.
• 👻 Solsem Cave, Leka Trøndelag Thirteen red human figures dance on the cave wall deepest inside the mountain — and on the floor beneath them lay bones of animals and of infants.
• 🌲 Raniban Forest Bagmati (Kathmandu) In the Queen's Forest above Kathmandu a woman is heard weeping among the trees – the echo of a crime that never stopped haunting the place.
• 👻 Oiran Buchi Yamanashi Ravine where 55 courtesans were, according to legend, murdered to protect a silver mine.
• 👻 Koh-i-Chiltan Balochistan (Quetta) On the Mountain of Forty Bodies, the spirits of forty abandoned infants are said to still lure lone wanderers.
• 👻 Bald Mountain (Święty Krzyż) Świętokrzyskie On bare Łysa Góra the witches held their sabbaths with devils – until monastery bells silenced them, and one tardy devil's boulder was left on the slope.
• 👻 Potsford Wood Suffolk, Wickham Market An eerie wood even in summer, haunted by the last victim of the Potsford Gibbet.
• 👻 Prestbury Village Gloucestershire, Cheltenham A ghostly monk was caught on film in Prestbury churchyard, one of many spirits here.
• 👻 Randøy, Ryfylke Rogaland, Stavanger Skrik och skratt från tomt fönster — och tre svarta gestalter tre nätter i rad.
• 👻 Golosov Ravine, Kolomenskoye Moskva In Kolomenskoye's ravine a green mist is said to have swallowed wanderers – peasants who stepped in around 1810 emerged twenty years later.
• 👻 Äspnäs Jämtland The old woman rowed across the bay to fetch whoever had lit the signal fire – but the boat filled with a rake, a broom and a voice: "Shall I rake, or shall I sweep?"
• 👻 The Killer Pine at Otostorp Lappland The murder weapon hung on its nail in the pine for a hundred and fifteen years, re-tarred at intervals to preserve it – and the cross in the bark was cut the year after the deed.
• 👻 Messlingen Härjedalen Nine sledges drawn by nine small horses carried a coffin across the frozen lake – and on the pasture west of the village, hymn-singing rose out of the ground itself.
• 👻 The Björketorp Stone Blekinge Four metres of standing stone carrying a runic curse: whoever breaks this shall be restless with malice and die by cunning. Nobody has cared to test it.
• 👻 The Blue Maiden Småland This is where the witches flew on Maundy Thursday. And whoever takes a stone from the island has bad luck until it is returned – the council gets parcels every year.
• 👻 The Wreck of Gribshunden at Stora Ekön Blekinge The king made it ashore. One hundred and fifty men did not. They are still down there at ten metres, under a monster with a human head in its jaws.
• 👻 Skurugata Småland An eight-hundred-metre crack in the mountain where the trolls lived – and where the robber Thief-Jösse hid a rifle nobody has found yet.
• 👻 The Silent Pool Surrey, Shere A strange stillness hangs over this ominous pool near Shere.
• 👻 Stonehenge Wiltshire, Salisbury Visitors from all over the world make the pilgrimage to immerse themselves in the spirit of the stones.
• 👻 Devil's Door San Salvador The rock above Panchimalco is said to have split when the Devil himself fled the village — and the gate he left bears his name.
• 🌲 Kham Chanot Forest Udon Thani The palm island of Kham Chanot is said to be the gateway to the Naga king's underworld — where in 1989 a travelling cinema screened a film for an audience of ghosts.
• 👻 Khao Lak Phang Nga After the 2004 tsunami, taxi drivers refused night fares in Khao Lak — the spirits of drowned tourists were said to hail cabs, then dissolve from the back seat.
• 👻 The Hairy Hands Devon, Dartmoor Ghostly hairy hands seize travellers on the B3212 across Dartmoor.
• 👻 Tjøtta, Alstahaug Nordland, Alstahaug Hårek från Tjøtta från vikingatiden, Brodtkorb på grønnloftet — och inga råttor sedan trolldomen.
• 👻 Tōjinbō Fukui, Sakai Den mördade munkens ande rasar vid klipporna — och de självmordsdrabbades själar drar besökare i havet.
• 👻 Toyama Park Tokyo, Shinjuku Park built over the mass graves of Unit 731's biological warfare experiments.
• 👻 Wicken Fen Cambridgeshire, Wicken Primitive and mysterious, with phantom armies, a black dog and the dreaded lantern men.
• 👻 The Agnes Spring on the Hunters' Meadow Wien At the spring people drew circles in blessed chalk against the spirits, waiting for Agnes or Karl to appear at midnight.
• 🌲 The Acorn Warden of the Anninger Niederösterreich The spirit guarded the oak for three days to win the girl — but a squirrel ate the acorns. Ever since, the Acorn Warden rages.
• 🌲 The Dragon of the Kahlenberg Wien A bloodthirsty dragon lay in its lair on the hill and struck at everything living, until the Viennese trapped it in planks and smothered it in smoke.
• 👻 Badbury Rings Dorset, Wimborne Peaceful surroundings with an eventful past tied to the Romans and to King Arthur.
• 👻 Barnet Road London, Enfield A walk along Barnet Road by moonlight may bring you face to face with a murder victim.
• 👻 Foy's Lake Chattogram Division At the man-made lake above Chittagong, the White Lady warns night-time walkers of her dark sister.
• 🌲 The Black Madam (Silsom Woods) Flandern – Vlaams-Brabant (Kortenberg) At midnight, voices are said to lure late wanderers towards the brook in the Silsombos – where the Black Madam waits to pull them under.
• 👻 Bell Lane London, Enfield A night walk along Bell Lane may bring you face to face with the spectral Enfield Flyer.
• 👻 Beltany Stone Circle Northern Ireland, Donegal The Stonehenge of Donegal. 64 stones from 2000 BC, two hundred years older than Stonehenge.
• 👻 Bottlebush Down Dorset, Sixpenny Handley A ghostly rider who once galloped alongside an archaeologist's car.
• 👻 Meeting of the Rivers (Cabeça de Cuia) Piauí Where the Poti and Parnaíba rivers meet lurks Cabeça de Cuia – the youth who killed his mother and was cursed to roam the riverbeds with a giant gourd-shaped head.
• 👻 Brides Pool (Bruddammen) New Territories, Tai Po Bruden föll ur bärstolen och drunknade — en kvinna i rött kammar ännu sitt hår vid vattnet.
• 👻 Brocken (Blocksberg) Sachsen-Anhalt, Harz Sista natten i april bjuder djävulen häxorna till sabbat på Blocksberg — ridande på kvastar och getter.
• 👻 Oak Island Nova Scotia The treasure island in Mahone Bay is said to be guarded by vanished fishermen's spirits — and a curse demanding seven lives before the treasure is found.
• 👻 Plains of Abraham Québec On the 1759 battlefield, fallen soldiers are said to appear in the evening haze, trailed by the smell of gunpowder.
• 👻 Cerne Abbas Giant Dorset, Cerne Abbas A striking and magnificent hill figure whose origins are shrouded in mystery.
• 👻 Belalp and the Aletschji Wallis Above the Aletsch Glacier, the burned witch of Belalp is said to roam still – the woman condemned for flying as a raven.
• 👻 Mount Pilatus Luzern/Obwalden In a mountain lake on Pilatus the corpse of Pontius Pilate is said to rest – and whoever disturbed him called storms down upon Lucerne.
• 👻 Jingshan and the Emperor's Tree (景山) Peking On the hill behind the Forbidden City, the last Ming emperor hanged himself in 1644 – the tree itself was put in chains as 'the guilty scholar tree'.
• 👻 Covent Garden Underground Station London, Westminster The ghost of the murdered actor William Terriss haunts the depths of the station.
• 👻 The Devil's Column (Vysehrad) Prag The devil Zardan wagered for a priest's soul, was knocked into the lagoon three times — and smashed the pillar here in fury.
• 👻 Divoka Sarka Prag Sarka had herself tied to the tree in the ravine as bait for Ctirad. When the trap sprang shut she threw herself off the cliff.
• 👻 Vitkov Hill Prag Zizka ordered his skin stretched over a drum. The sound of it alone was to turn the enemy ranks and send them running.
• 👻 Blanke Helle at Alboinplatz Berlin The bottomless pool in the middle of the city bears the name of the death goddess Hel – and for generations it was said that Blanke Helle claimed one victim a year.
• 👻 Kleist's Grave at Kleiner Wannsee Berlin On the shore of Kleiner Wannsee the poet Heinrich von Kleist shot first his companion and then himself one November day in 1811 – they were buried where they fell.
• 👻 Peacock Island Berlin The alchemist with ruby-red eyes is said to still roam Peacock Island. In the 1600s it was whispered that ships straying too close to the island rotted and sank.
• 👻 Devil's Lake in the Müggel Hills Berlin Beneath the Müggel hills a whole castle sank into the black bog water with its cursed princess. To free her, you must carry her three times around Köpenick's church at midnight.
• 🌲 Ghost Forest of Nienhagen Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Around the ghost wood they tell of drowned sailors whose spirits come up from the beach — and in the fog the trees move like beings.
• 👻 Lake Hertha (Jasmund) Mecklenburg-Vorpommern By the black forest lake on Rügen, the goddess Hertha is said to have had her servants drowned – and a white woman rises from the rampart under the full moon.
• 👻 Lake Mummelsee Baden-Württemberg In the Black Forest's darkest mountain lake, the lake king is said to rule his nymphs – and whoever mocks the deep is punished by the water itself.
• 👻 Rosstrappe Sachsen-Anhalt Princess Brunhilde is said to have leapt the Bode gorge on horseback to escape the giant Bodo – the hoofprint is still visible in the granite.
• 👻 Untersberg Bayern Inside the Untersberg an emperor is said to sleep at a stone table – and on winter nights the Wild Hunt rides out of the mountain's gates.
• 👻 El Morrot of Montjuïc Barcelona In the dark of the new moon, the viceroy's ghost rises from coal-black earth beneath Montjuïc's cliffs and walks to the sea – still fleeing his executioners of 1640.
• 👻 Supelegor Cave Baskien In Basque mythology the goddess Mari dwells in this cave in the Itxina massif – and witches were said to gather by its mouth at night.
• 👻 Caves of Zugarramurdi Navarra In the witch caves by the Stream of Hell were held the covens that in 1610 sparked Spain's greatest witch trial – and the pyres of Logroño.
• 👻 Mount of Souls Kastilien och León On All Souls' Night, slain Templar knights are said to rise from their graves on this hill by Soria – the legend Bécquer made immortal.
• 👻 Fishers Ghost New South Wales, Campbelltown Ett spöke satt på broräcket och pekade mot bäcken — där låg den mördade Fishers begravda kropp.
• 👻 Mikladalur — Kópakonan (the Seal Woman) Kalsoy The seal woman's curse still rests on Mikladalur: so many shall drown that the dead can join hands and dance around the whole island.
• 👻 Bay of the Dead (Baie des Trépassés) Bretagne In the Bay of the Dead, the souls of the drowned await the night boat that will carry them to the other side.
• 👻 Gouffre de Padirac Occitanie The 75-metre chasm was known as the Devil's doorway – struck open by Satan's heel in a wager with Saint Martin.
• 👻 Lac Pavin Auvergne In the black depths of this round crater lake, a sinful drowned town is said to rest – and casting a stone wakes the bells and the storm.
• 👻 Jardin du Luxembourg Paris An old man in a black coat invited him home to a concert. The next day it turned out nobody had lived in the flat for fifty years.
• 👻 Claremont — the gardener by the lake London An elderly man in a long dark cloak stands at the water's edge in Claremont's garden. Walk towards him and no one is there.
• 👻 The Fairlop Oak — the giant tree that became a death cult London When a branch fell from the giant oak, Daniel Day had it sawn into his own coffin — and feasted beneath the tree every July until he was laid in it.
• 👻 Hella Point Cornwall, Porthgwarra A sea lashed cliff with a moving story of love and loss.
• 👻 Hexentanzplatz Thale Sachsen-Anhalt, Thale Här samlas Harzens häxor Valborgsmässoafton innan de flyger till Brocken för att fria till djävulen.
• 👻 Hill of Tara Ireland, Tara Forntida säte för Irlands kungar — Lia Fail-stenen ropade igenkänning av rätte kungen.
• 👻 Witch Island, Szeged Csongrád-Csanád Twelve people were burned at the stake here in 1728, among them the town's former judge — and the innocent dead are said never to have found rest.
• 👻 Aleya Lights of the Sundarbans Västbengalen Over Bengal's marshlands flicker the aleya lights – souls of drowned fishermen said to lure night travellers to their deaths.
• 👻 Chir Batti Ghost Lights Gujarat Across the pitch-black grasslands of Kutch dance the unexplained chir batti ghost lights – said to follow anyone who dares walk towards them.
• 👻 Nohkalikai Falls Meghalaya India's tallest plunge waterfall is named after Likai, the mother who threw herself off the cliff – and whose lament is said to sound within the roar.
• 👻 The Marsh of Spirits (Mordab-e Arvah) Mazandaran Villagers named the lake for the spirits said to dwell among its dead trees — Mordab-e Arvah, the Marsh of Spirits.
• 👻 Drangey Norðurland vestra As Bishop Guðmundur the Good blessed the cliffs of Drangey, a grey claw slashed at his rope and growled: 'Even the wicked must have somewhere to dwell.'
• 👻 Systrastapi Suðurland On this rock stack by Kirkjubæjarklaustur rest two burned nuns – one grave stays green, the other remains forever barren.
• 👻 Lake Nemi Rom On March evenings the wind carries the ring of a sword across Diana's mirror — the forest king still waits for the challenger who will kill him.
• 👻 Villa Celimontana Rom A woman's figure searches the walls for her own bones — the courtesan Imperia, whose grand tomb was given away to an unnamed canon.
• 👻 Kanmangafuchi Abyss Tochigi, Nikko Stenstatyerna sägs försvinna och dyka upp igen — räkna dem och du får aldrig samma antal två gånger.
• 👻 Simbi Nyaima Homa Bay 'The village that sank' – beneath the green waters of the crater lake, an entire village is said to rest, drowned by a rejected stranger's curse.
• 👻 Issyk-Kul — the Sunken City Issyk-Kul Beneath the mountain lake's surface rests a drowned city — legend says the lake was formed from the tears of girls whose home was swallowed as punishment.
• 👻 Gimnyeongsagul (Snake Cave) Jeju In the lava cave at Gimnyeong a giant serpent demanded a young girl in sacrifice each year – the officer who slew it dropped dead after glancing back at a blood-red cloud.
• 🌲 Jangsan Mountain Busan In the forests above Haeundae, the white-furred Jangsanbeom is said to mimic human voices to lure hikers deeper among the trees.
• 👻 Nong Fa Lake Attapeu In the crater lake Nong Fa, a giant serpent beast is said to guard the turquoise water – whoever bathes there defies the spirits.
• 👻 Land's End Cornwall, Sennen Beyond the rugged cliffs stretches the sunken kingdom of Lyonesse.
• 👻 Lanyon Quoit Cornwall, Madron A Cornish dolmen that keeps its dignity despite the damage of the elements.
• 👻 Kandy Lake Central Province A woman in white appears by the royal lake in Kandy – tuk-tuk drivers refuse to pass after midnight.
• 👻 Mên-an-Tol Cornwall, Morvah A small but striking stone formation around which legends swirl.
• 👻 Midoro Pond Kyoto Pond in Kyoto with classic Japanese ghost stories attached to it.
• 👻 La Malinche (Matlalcueye) Tlaxcala The lady of the mountain in her blue skirt is said to lure hikers ever deeper into the mist.
• 👻 Aeilsgat Pool Groningen In this pool near Oudeschip a sea-wife has been trapped since the flood of 1717 – singing young men into the depths.
• 👻 Ellertsveld Heath Drenthe On the heath where the giants Ellert and Brammert robbed and murdered, their victims are said to drift as white wraiths in the mist.
• 🌲 The Seven Hillocks (Mastbos Forest) Noord-Brabant Beneath seven small mounds in the Mastbos, the charcoal burner's murder victims are said to rest – and the Heldreef lane is haunted after dark.
• 👻 Kringen, Sel Innlandet Legend says Prillar-Guri sounded her lur from the far side of the valley. Below her, fourteen hundred Scottish mercenaries were buried in the scree.
• 👻 The Oseberg Mound, Tønsberg Vestfold For generations the district had said a ship lay in Revehaugen. In 1904 they dug — and found it, with two women in the burial chamber.
• 🌲 Ekeberg Forest Oslo Inside the hill, the Ekeberg King holds court with his subterranean folk — linger in the woods at dusk and you risk being taken into the mountain.
• 👻 Steilene Islands Oslo Sailors crossed themselves as they passed at dusk — out on the islands the bodies of the executed were nailed to wheels on poles, facing the approach to the city.
• 👻 Lake Seljord and the serpent Selma Telemark As early as 1750 the serpent is said to have reared up mid-lake and set upon Gunleik Andersson Verpe in his rowing boat. Over five hundred have seen it since.
• 👻 Torghatten, Brønnøy Nordland The hole straight through the mountain is, legend says, the shot of a troll's arrow that missed – the maiden it was meant for just made it ashore on Leka.
• 👻 Trollkirka, Hustadvika Møre og Romsdal A troll-dragon is said to live in the innermost cave – last seen in the late 1800s by an old shoemaker from Varholen.
• 👻 Parsonage Wood Wiltshire, Castle Combe Ghostly chatter can be heard in the air in the wood above Castle Combe.
• 🌲 Trivale Forest Argeș (Pitești) In Trivale Forest a headless bride is said to appear to unmarried couples – and a dead bride once left her ring on a taxi driver's finger.
• 👻 The Devil at the Alet Bog near Essunga Västergötland In the red mire-holes of Alet, the devil is said to have worn through the eleventh band of his wooden clog — ground no one could set foot on.
• 👻 The Eel in Lake Angster, Förlanda Halland The great eel was gone when the fisherman got home, for the fiend had borne the catch.
• 👻 The Ghost on the Islet of Witten in Åmål Dalsland Two fishermen camping on an islet saw an unseen boat, panicked animals, and a fire where a man had hanged himself.
• 👻 The Stone Cairns from the Fiend's Load at Tegneby Bohuslän The Fiend meant to haul a load of stone to the sea, but tipped over three times – and three cairns were left in the hills.
• 👻 The Giant's Stone at Skatteby Field Jämtland A giant straddling two shores meant to topple Lännäs church tower – but threw too high, and the boulder landed in the field.
• 👻 Arkebacken on Kållandsö Västergötland A herd-boy grew rich through the Fiend, but chose to be taken for life rather than saved – for salvation would make him a herd-boy again.
• 👻 The Oak Where the Devil Was Bound, Algutstorp Västergötland After forcing the Devil to serve as a cart wheel, the priest bound him in an oak at Algutstorp — and the oak has never been felled.
• 👻 The Priest and the River Spirit at Apelnäs Falls Västergötland By the falls the water spirit played so beautifully — until the priest offered him hope and Satan tore the wheel from the cart.
• 👻 Hultungs-Per and the Oak at Bunge Gotland Beneath the oak where a feared man meant to hang himself crouched a great black dog with burning eyes.
• 👻 The Imps and the Wind in the Quill, Eidskog Hedmark Seven imps untied every knot in the net in an instant – until a man gave them a wind to chase for seven years.
• 👻 The Sand Ropes on Onstadsanden, Etnedal Oppland The household read loose a whole host of evil angels – but the down and sand ropes kept them busy till the old man came.
• 👻 Kristen of Reed and the Emptied Lake Breim, Gloppen Sogn og Fjordane His children read the devil loose – and to buy time he set him to bail Lake Breim dry.
• 👻 Svarte-Mons's Servant and the Channel Nes-løypti, Jostedal Sogn og Fjordane Returning home with the black book, the servant read the devil loose – and his labour left a channel in the mountain.
• 👻 The Maid and the Dug-Out Kjerkvågen, Kabelvåg Nordland A maid read the devil loose – and his impossible tasks moved mountain peaks and dug out a whole bay.
• 👻 The Birch on Bersaghauen and the Rope of Sand, Lindesnes Vest-Agder The servant boy read the devil loose – but leaves, a wind and rope of sand held him till the priest came.
• 👻 The Kleivgard Man and the Sand Ropes on Ryesanden, Nord-Aurdal Oppland A feeble sorcerer read loose all the black angels – and had to row across the fjord for help to bind them.
• 👻 The Lake Bailed to the Height of the Mountains, Nordfjord Sogn og Fjordane A man read the devil loose and set him to empty a lake – until the water stood level with the mountains.
• 👻 The Sand Ropes on Skjoldsanden, Salten Nordland The devil could never make the sand hold together as rope – and begged in vain for tar before the priest came home.
• 👻 The Sand Ropes on Kaupanger Shore, Sogndal Sogn og Fjordane The children read the devil loose and the house soon seemed ablaze – until mixed grain and rope of sand held him.
• 👻 Ropes of Sand on the Shore, Åsskard Møre og Romsdal While the priest preached, his daughter set the Evil One to twist rope from beach sand.
• 👻 Parson Storm and Lake Vågå Telemark The priest drove the fiend out the window so hard that the lakebed lay bare in his wake.
• 👻 The Impatient Cry over Lake Strandsjøn, Hof Hedmark He shouted for a ferry across the lake – then in anger told the devil to carry him. And so it did.
• 👻 The White Mare on Karvat Forest Österbotten On Karvat forest they met the fiend driving a white mare, and the horse that glimpsed her vanished into thin air.
• 👻 The Tame Fox at Kusbacken Nyland The fox at Kusbacken was strangely tame, yet always slipped away, until someone said it was no ordinary fox.
• 👻 The Encounter at Pissibackan Kymmenedalen At Pissibackan the devil rushed past at terrifying speed, fire from his mouth and sparks beneath his feet.
• 👻 The Cracked Stone at Särkjärvi Nyland In a great cracked stone by Särkjärvi the devil is said to dwell, and at a funeral he sat heavy on the horse's back.
• 👻 Laughter Mountain in Esbo Nyland In Laughter Mountain the devil dwelt and cooked in the rock's cauldrons, until the church bell's sound drove him out.
• 👻 The Maiden's Dance at Söderby Egentliga Finland At the Maiden's Dance the ground booms as if a great chamber lay beneath, the devil's lair, which he sometimes opens.
• 👻 The Merman and the Fall of Busby Läänemaa A merman from the water led the proud dancers of Busby into the lake, until the whole village drowned and lay dead.
• 👻 The Nix and the Bridal Train of Busby Läänemaa After five weddings at once the nix raised the water around the people and rode them all out into the lake to drown.
• 👻 The Devil on the Threshing Floor of Busby Läänemaa Amid the dance of fifteen weddings the devil drove the dancers into the lake, only a couple in the loft saw it all.
• 👻 The Wrestling Match on Skrattberg in Iniö Egentliga Finland An old man wrestled the Devil on his way home - and at last pinned him down into a pine root.
• 👻 The Hoof Print in the Rock in Norrby Egentliga Finland Where Nygårdsen wrestled the Devil, the mark of a horse's hoof can still be seen in the rock.
• 👻 The Whirlwind in the Rye on Ormsö Like a serpent the deadly whirlwind tore through the field - all it touched fell.
• 👻 The Boy on the Hill at Östersundom Egentliga Finland A stepmother's curse made the boy vanish - visible only at noon on the hill.
• 👻 Mora Battjon in the Mora Forest, Ingå Nyland In a charcoal-burner's hut on Good Friday night, a stranger asked the man whom he believed in.
• 👻 The Devil's Smithy at Pyhalepa on Dagö Hiiumaa From a cave in the cliff the dark one rode out by night in a black carriage, until a pastor banished him back.
• 👻 The Finns on the Sledge at Långängsbergen, Sibbo Nyland A farmhand saw the dark one drag a loaded sledge down the hill, full of Finns turned away everywhere.
• 👻 The Devil's Tracks on Sandön near Obbnäs While the rocks were still soft, the dark one crossed the island and left prints of feet and hooves in the stone.
• 👻 The Devil's Footprint on Runö Saaremaa A stone in Kroggatu bears a hollow said to have formed when the dark one stepped across the island.
• 👻 The Devil's Stones at Rötkel, Nuckö Läänemaa The dark one carried stones in his apron to dam the bay, but the cock's crow made him drop them.
• 👻 The Dark One's Fingers in the Stone at Rötkel He meant to crush Rötkel church with a stone, but the cock's crow stopped him and he pressed his fingers into it.
• 👻 The Claws in the Stone at Pyhalepa, Dagö Hiiumaa The dark one hurled a stone at a Finnish giant but wrenched his arm, and the stone lies there to this day.
• 👻 The Devil's Stone at Pyhalepa Church Hiiumaa Enraged by the finished church, the dark one gripped a stone so hard five fingers sank in, but the cock stopped him.
• 👻 The Hoofprint in the Devil's Stone, Dagö Hiiumaa In one version the dark one rode with the stone in his coat pocket, but the cock's crow forced him to drop it.
• 👻 The Viborg Stone Between Villinge and Ärtholmen, Sibbo Nyland The devil carried a great stone all the way from Viborg, but tired and dropped it in the sound.
• 👻 The Stones at Issapöld, Dagö Hiiumaa The dark one threw stones at the giant Leigre at Issapöld, but had to flee himself.
• 👻 The Stone Heaps at Kemi, Dagö Hiiumaa At Kemi the dark one is said to have fought a giant and thrown stones that still lie in heaps.
• 👻 The Devil's Dam-Building at Issapöl, Dagö Hiiumaa He dragged an apron full of stones to dam the sea to Finland, but the cock crowed too soon.
• 👻 The Dark One Who Heaped Sand in the Sea, Ormsö Läänemaa An unwanted sailor proved to be the dark one, who in revenge heaped up shoals to wreck seamen.
• 👻 The Bride Elsa Rapids Ångermanland The bridal couple rowed home from their wedding, came too close to the rapids, and the river kept them both — the falls still carry the bride Elsa's name.
• 👻 The Frösö Runestone Jämtland The world's northernmost runestone holds the Great Lake Monster bound – and the legend adds that the binding breaks the day someone can read and understand the inscription.
• 👻 Funäsdalsberget Härjedalen Twelve cows came walking down the snowy mountain, led by a strange woman knitting as she went – until the father ran up the slope and the whole procession was gone.
• 👻 Hoverberget Jämtland In Scandinavia's deepest fissure cave lived the Hoverberg Giant, already there when Christianity reached the district – and he gave christening gifts by the spadeful of silver.
• 👻 The Skule Cave Ångermanland High in Skuleberget's sheer cliff gapes the Robbers' Cave — whoever sat up there saw every traveller long before the traveller saw him.
• 👻 The Vett Spring at Biltöst Härjedalen The priest threw a tar root into the spring and bound the vettar until it rotted – so they laughed. Then he threw in a stone and said the same. Then they began to weep.
• 👻 The Hoburg Man Gotland A sea stack with a human face guards Gotland's southern tip, and sailors greeted him – those who forgot did not grow old.
• 👻 The Karlevi Stone Öland A Danish viking crew buried their chieftain on Öland's shore and cut a skaldic poem over him – the oldest surviving in the North.
• 👻 The Li Burial Field at Fjärås Bräcka Halland The 4.7-metre stone is called King Frode's stone — the legendary king is said to rest beneath it, and in 1865 the quarrying stopped abruptly.
• 🌲 The Troll Forest Öland The gnarled oaks, among them the Troll Oak, were both revered and feared — at dusk the shapes in this wind-twisted pine wood have long shown people something other than trees.
• 👻 Bedok Reservoir Bedok After a wave of drownings, kayakers report tugs from beneath the surface – and at night a mother and her son are said to be heard laughing across the dark water.
• 👻 Mae Ramphueng Beach Rayong This miles-long beach in Rayong is known as 'the beach that eats people' — the spirits of the drowned are said to pull new victims under.
• 👻 The Botathen Ghost Cornwall, South Petherwin A ghost from 1665 reappeared in 2018 in a house near South Petherwin.
• 👻 The Tristan Stone Cornwall, Fowey Sju fot hög monolit som sägs ha markerat Tristans grav.
• 👻 Trethevy Quoit Cornwall, St Cleer Mystery hangs heavy over this ancient dolmen, and legends march out of the mist.
• 👻 Trollkyrka i Tiveden Tiveden, Närke En bergknalle djupt i Tivedens nationalpark där folk enligt traditionen höll hemliga riter och offer långt efter kristendomens införande. Skogen omkring var i århundraden känd som mark man inte beträdde frivilligt.
• 👻 Lantan Lake Chiayi From Lantan's depths a carp spirit is said to claim a human life for every great fish landed – and from the dark shore a voice asked: 'Is the fish tasty?'
• 👻 The Amboni Caves, Tanga Tanga By tradition, the limestone caves outside Tanga are home to the mizimu spirits – and the rebel Otango is said never to have left his hideout.
• 👻 Unzen Jigoku Nagasaki, Unzen Kokheta källor där 33 kristna torterades till döds — översköljda med skållhett vatten tills de avföll eller dog.
• 👻 Split Rock – Anne Hutchinson's Cloven Stone New York When Anne Hutchinson's settlement was attacked in 1643, legend says her daughter hid inside the cloven boulder – at Split Rock in Pelham Bay, the heretic prophet's spirit is said to walk beside the river that bears her name.
• 👻 The Lake of Sighs and the Hill of Two Graves Đà Lạt, Lâm Đồng At the Lake of Sighs, the wind in the pines is said to carry drowned lovers' laments — and a girl in white to wait at the shore.
• 👻 Woolpit Suffolk, Woolpit The village sign remembers the medieval legend of the mysterious green children.
• 👻 Yoshimi Hyakuana Saitama, Yoshimi Över 200 grottgravar gapar ur berget, klädda med självlysande grön mossa — och en krigsfabriks tunnlar.
• 👻 Cape Point – The Flying Dutchman Västra Kapprovinsen Off the storm-lashed Cape of Good Hope, Captain van der Decken's cursed ship is said to sail for all eternity – and misfortune awaits anyone who sees her.
• 👻 Lake Kashiba Copperbelt The sacred 'sunken lake' of Kashiba is said never to give back its drowned – the ichitapa spirit seizes their shadows and drags them into the deep.
• 👻 The Chinhoyi Caves Mashonaland West The cave's cobalt-blue pool is called Chirorodziva, 'the Pool of the Fallen' – victims were cast into it, and their spirits are said to watch over the water still.
• 👻 Kariba Dam – Nyaminyami Mashonaland West The river god Nyaminyami, parted from his wife by the dam wall, is still said to shake the ground at Kariba in his fury.
• 👻 The Water Sprite of the Ottakring Brook Wien The water sprite guarded the spring so fiercely that anyone who came near became vermin — and let one wanderer choose: gnat or spider.
• 🌲 Sonian Forest Bryssel (gränsar Flandern och Vallonien) In the mists of this beech forest southeast of Brussels, eyes are said to open suddenly and stare at lone walkers.
• 👻 Belogradchik Rocks Vidin Among the red rock giants of Belogradchik, the nun Vitinia stands petrified with her child in her arms – punished for a forbidden love.
• 👻 Pretty Molly Bay Little Exuma By moonlight on Little Exuma's white sand, Pretty Molly is still said to walk the water's edge – the girl the sea took and never gave back.
• 👻 Montmorency Falls – The White Lady Québec In the dawn mist at Montmorency Falls appears Mathilde, the bride who leapt from the falls when war took her beloved.
• 👻 Guijianchou – Incense Burner Peak (鬼见愁) Peking The highest peak of the Fragrant Hills bears the name 'Even Ghosts Despair' – too steep for the living, and by legend barred even to the dead.
• 👻 Certovka Canal (Kampa) Prag The water sprite Kabourek sat in the corner of the pubs and paid for his beer with fresh fish. Wet footprints on the floor gave him away.
• 👻 The Holy Lake at Alt-Heiligensee Berlin A cursed castle sank into the holy lake with its princess, and on full-moon nights the bells toll from the deep – before a white woman rises from the water.
• 👻 Babelsberg Hill Brandenburg Why does Babelsberg have two crests? The Potsdam legend answers with a wicked knight, helpful dwarves beneath the hill, and brave Mechtel fleeing with her child.
• 👻 Lake Straussee Brandenburg On moonlit summer nights a marble staircase opens down to the monastery on the Straussee lakebed – a fisherman once caught its bell Anne Susanne in his net, but the deep took her back.
• 👻 Witches' Kitchen of Tecklenburg Nordrhein-Westfalen At the Hexenküche rock formation near Tecklenburg, the devil is said to have left a hoofprint in the stone – still visible today.
• 👻 Mount Watzmann Bayern Berchtesgaden's mightiest mountain is said to be a petrified royal family – cruel King Watzmann, his wife and their seven children.
• 👻 Externsteine Nordrhein-Westfalen, Teutoburger Wald Uråldriga stenpelare i Teutoburgerskogen — hednisk kultplats omgiven av myter och en magisk cirkel.
• 🌲 Brocéliande Forest Bretagne In the fabled forest where Merlin sleeps his enchanted sleep, the fairy Morgane lured faithless men into the Valley of No Return.
• 👻 Lac d'Aiguebelette Savoie Beneath Savoy's turquoise lake a village is said to rest, drowned as punishment for refusing a beggar shelter.
• 👻 The Witch's Rock, Montmartre Paris A foreign boulder in the middle of Montmartre — and the old woman next door the local children were convinced was a genuine witch.
• 👻 Gellért Hill Budapest The hill where Bishop Gellért was hurled to his death in 1046 became, in folk belief, the foremost meeting place of Hungary's witches.
• 👻 Lough Gur Limerick Beneath Lough Gur sleeps the enchanted Earl Geróid Iarla — every seventh year he rides across the water on a horse shod with silver.
• 👻 Drei Schwestern (Three Sisters) Planken Three sisters who picked berries on the Feast of Our Lady and refused the Virgin a handful now stand petrified above the Rhine Valley.
• 👻 Loreley Rheinland-Pfalz, St. Goarshausen Den gyllenhåriga jungfrun kammar sitt hår och sjunger — skepparna ser upp och driver mot de dödliga reven.
• 👻 Min Min-ljuset Queensland, Boulia Spökljus som följer resenärer genom outbacken — de dödas andar vid det ökända Old Min Min Inn.
• 👻 Kuklica Kratovo At Kuklica an entire wedding party stands petrified – the guests of the 'merry wedding' are still smiling in stone.
• 👻 Mount Popa and Taung Kalat Mandalayregionen On the volcanic Mount Popa, the blacksmith Maung Tint De and his sister are said to dwell as mighty nat spirits ever since the king had them burned alive.
• 👻 Cerro del Muerto Aguascalientes The mountain lies like a fallen giant above Aguascalientes — the dead priest who never found peace.
• 👻 Janitzio Island Michoacán Every Night of the Dead, Prince Itzihuapa and the lake's twenty spectral oarsmen are said to rise from Lake Pátzcuaro to meet his beloved.
• 👻 Piwhane / Spirits Bay Northland At the remote bay in the far north, Maori tradition holds that the spirits of the dead gather before their final journey out of this world.
• 👻 Old Enchanted Balete Tree Lazi, Siquijor At witch-island Siquijor's 400-year-old balete tree, the nature spirits themselves are said to hold court among the roots.
• 👻 Mount Makiling Laguna The mountain shaped like a reclining woman is guarded by Maria Makiling – the spirit who leads disrespectful hikers astray.
• 👻 Śnieżka – Realm of the Mountain Spirit Nedre Schlesien (Karkonosze) On the slopes of Śnieżka, the Mountain Spirit Karkonosz – mockingly nicknamed Liczyrzepa – is said to keep his invisible fortress.
• 👻 Rakotzbrücke (Teufelsbrücke) Sachsen, Kromlau Byggherren slöt en pakt med djävulen — och lurade honom genom att skicka en hund över bron.
• 👻 St Olof's Holm Gotland Pilgrims came by sea to the saint's spring to drink themselves well — here Olaf the Holy came ashore in 1029 and christened Gotland.
• 👻 Teufelsmauer Sachsen-Anhalt, Harz Djävulens gränsmur — som han slog sönder i raseri när tuppen gol för tidigt och Harz gick förlorat.
• 👻 Ko Hin Ngam Satun Whoever steals one of Ko Hin Ngam's black stones falls under the curse of the Tarutao spirit — and parcels of remorsefully returned stones still arrive today.
• 👻 Belvedere Park Tunis At the park gates, a young woman is said to ask night-time passers-by for help – a woman who turns out to have been dead for years.
• 👻 Bà Đen Mountain Tây Ninh On the Black Lady's mountain, faithful Thiên Hương is said to appear still — a woman in black guiding lost wanderers home.
• 👻 Wittewijvenkuil (Witte Wieven) Gelderland, Barchem De vita kvinnorna — kloka örtkvinnors andar som svävar i höstdimman över Achterhoeks hedar.
• 👻 Verlatenbosch, Table Mountain Västra Kapprovinsen At dusk, a mournful flute is still said to drift across the slopes of Table Mountain, played by the governor's son who died an outcast in the 'forest of the forsaken'.
• 👻 Schildhorn Berlin With Albert the Bear's riders at his heels, the Slavic prince Jaczo plunged into the Havel in full armour – pledging his soul to whichever god would let him reach the shore.

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