Ghosts and Ghosts. What are they? The most famous ghosts

Do you want to tickle your nerves with quality, going on a trip? On our planet, you can find enough places characterized by increased paranormal activity and the presence of ghosts, according to eyewitnesses. So, where can a risky and adventurous tourist who wants to encounter something supernatural go?

1. Eastern State Penitentiary

The maximum security prison in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania has long been the subject of much research. paranormal activity. The building resembles a well-fortified fortress with towers and powerful gates, and it served as a prison for almost 140 years until the early 1970s. Today it state museum, and one of the most interesting places in the former prison - this is the solitary confinement of Al Capone himself. The ill-treatment and torture caused many prisoners to go insane and die, which is why visitors today report hearing ominous whispers, weeping, and even dark silhouettes in the rooms.

2. Tower of London

There were so many and so many executions in the Tower that the manifestations of paranormal activity within its walls do not seem surprising at all. Most often, visitors and workers notice the appearance of the ghosts of Queen Anne Boleyn, the executed wife of King Henry VIII, the children's silhouettes of Edward V and his brother Richard, Duke of York, and the elderly Countess of Salisbury, whom the executioner managed to behead only the third time.

3. Gettysburg

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania is one of the most visited historic sites in the United States. This is the site of a bloody three day battle (1863) during civil war which claimed the lives of about 50 thousand people. It is believed that the battlefield and several nearby buildings, then used as temporary hospitals for the wounded, have forever remained an eternal haven for the souls of many soldiers, whose ghosts are often observed by tourists who come to these parts.

4. Pere Lachaise

The atmosphere of the Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris is unique and inimitable, its territory is not like any other earthly cemetery, but rather like some special City of dead. Ancient tombstones, statues and the absolute silence of Père Lachaise make visitors feel as if they are constantly being watched by invisible eyes.

5. Bran Castle

Bran Castle in Transylvania is a real attraction for tourists. Still, because the people still call it nothing more than Dracula's castle. There are no historical records confirming that Vlad the Impaler was his master, but for several months he was kept in this castle as a prisoner. However, imagination is a powerful thing, and Bran Castle has forever become Dracula's own fearsome fortress.

6. Liner "Queen Mary"

The transatlantic military transport liner Queen Mary is also haunted, according to numerous eyewitnesses. Today it is permanently laid up in the port of Long Beach (California) and performs a lot of functions: a museum, a restaurant, a hotel and a room for presentations, exhibitions and conventions. It even has a church and a chapel for wedding ceremonies on board. Among the paranormal activity, one can note the appearance of young man, which was crushed by door number 13 in the engine room, the sounds of splashing water from an empty pool and wet footprints and
dancing lady in white in the first class lounge.

7 Mansfield Prison

If you walk into the former prison and penal colony of Mansfield, Ohio, chances are you will feel very uncomfortable there. Many horrific and mysterious deaths have been recorded in the prison infirmary.

The chapel once housed a torture chamber, and the so-called "Hole" was a terrifying punishment cell. By the way, it was Mansfield Prison that “played the role” of Shawshank Prison in the movie The Shawshank Redemption.

8. Edinburgh Castle

Edinburgh Castle is a tourist attraction, and certainly not without its own ghosts, namely Greyfriars dog Bobby, who guarded the grave of his deceased owner, and a mysterious man in a leather apron. In addition, the sounds of bagpipes are heard here, since once a local piper was lost forever in the tunnels under the castle, and visitors also note the constant feeling that they are being watched by invisible inhabitants of the castle.

9. Parisian catacombs

They say that the Parisian catacombs are simply overpopulated with ghosts. And this is quite understandable. The catacombs serve as underground burial chambers for the vast quantities of bones removed from the overcrowded city cemeteries.

From the remains, an amazing, but rather sinister ossuary (bone) was built in the form of crosses and imitation walls.

10 St. Louis Cemetery

St. Louis Cemetery in the City New Orleans(Louisiana) looks like a real set for some Hollywood horror movie. Visitors are also drawn to the grave of a local voodoo queen named Marie Laveau, who passed away in the late 19th century.

It is believed that even from underground, she continues to fulfill the wishes of those who come to her here for help - most importantly, do not forget to draw three crosses on the wall of her crypt.

Parisian catacombs - (Paris, France)

At the beginning of the history of Paris, when Christianity flourished, they began to practice the burial of the dead not on the outskirts, but within the city. As the city grew, the cemeteries became overcrowded, resulting in an unsanitary condition. The areas that surrounded the most popular cemeteries were so heavily polluted with decaying remains that a new large-scale burial ground was needed. By the end of the 1700s, 6 million Parisian dead had been exhumed and taken to underground tunnels. Parisian catacombs. Rumor has it that hostile spirits, disturbed bodies, now visit the tunnels. According to visitors, not only human remains crawl out in the tunnels, neatly buried row after row, but also supernatural phenomena: cold spots, the feeling that you are being watched, dark figures, and there have been cases of suffocation by ghosts.

Castle in Roscray, Offaly, Ireland

If there is a room with the name "Bloody Chapel" in the old castle - this is already a reason to think about whether it is worth going there at all. The chapel got its name and ghost story around the mid-1500s, when the chapel priest was stabbed to death in the middle of a service by his crazy brother, who left him to bleed to death on the altar.

The dungeon dungeon - a long, spiked shaft at the back of the chapel where the castle's enemies were thrown to be killed - is another likely source for the 20 or so spirits rumored to appear in the building today. The most feared of these is the Elemental, a hunched-over creature with a decaying face that smells of rotting body and brimstone.

Island of the Dolls - Xochimilco (Mexico)

And imagine yourself drifting lazily down a maze of rather small canals in Xochimilco, south of Mexico City. You see other trachinera gondolas - colorful boats carrying visitors, live traditional music beside you while you enjoy breakfast, looking at the wildlife and tastefully manicured gardens on the islands passing by.

After looking up you realize that instead of wildlife, you are actually surrounded by puppets. Your boat has sailed away, the music has died down and there are only dolls around - mutilated, dirty, nasty dolls. Thanks to Don Julian Santana Barrera. According to legend, Barrera found the body of a little girl near his island in the canals. He believed that he was haunted by her ghost, and decided that these creepy dolls would help protect him from the spirit of the girl. He spent the next quarter of a century hiding in his house until he died ... or rather drowned in the very spot on the river where the girl's body is said to have been found. Visitors to the island are convinced that the puppets have taken on the girl's spirit or are self-producing evil spirits, and are often seen whispering to each other.

Larundel Psychiatric Hospital - Bandura, Australia

The Larundel Psychiatric Hospital opened its doors in 1953 to hundreds of patients with varying degrees of mental disorders and psychosis, as well as one famous patient who, after his stay in the institution, became one of the most notorious serial killers Australia. Today, the building is covered in graffiti such as pictures of monsters, straitjackets and bizarre eyes.

Parts of the building were badly damaged by fire, which is believed to have caused the restless spirits. People, exploring the area, often talk about loud noises, strong, unpleasant odors, and sometimes you can hear children crying or - which is somehow even creepy - laughter.

The most common sound heard is that of the young girl's music box on the third floor. The girl is said to have died there, and occasionally appears to visitors in a nightgown with a box in her hands.

Tower of London - London, England

Tower (London), since the 1070s used as royal residence, a menagerie, a mint and treasury, an arsenal, but most often it is remembered as torture chambers and a prison used by English monarchs to satisfy their thirst for violent punishments. The spirit of Anne Boleyn, who was executed here in 1536, haunts several parts of the tower, especially in the place where she was executed.

Her ghost was seen headless wandering around Royal Chapel. Another victim of Henry VIII - the Countess of Salisbury, before she was beheaded, managed to escape, but the executioners caught up with her throwing an ax that killed her - a terrible scene that is repeatedly played out by the spirits and which can be seen by visiting the Green Tower.

Linda Vista Hospital - Los Angeles, California, USA

The Linda Vista Hospital in Los Angeles previously flourished. But since East End Los Angeles neighborhood is changing, both customers and employees have changed. In the 1970s and 80s on quality medical care The decision by doctors to move to hospitals in wealthier areas has taken a toll, resulting in an unusually high death rate in Linda Vista.

By 1991, the hospital ceased to exist and quickly emptied. In the years that followed, the building quickly fell into disrepair, and rumors spread of screams in the night, inexplicable voices, ghosts, and disembodied, insanely creepy humming. City explorers swear that the little girl is still hanging in one of the old operating theaters, and sometimes tries to grab the hand of a living person to calm her down.

The hospital is going to be converted into an apartment for the elderly, if there are any grandparents that you especially dislike.

Suicide Forest Aokigahara - at the foot of Mount Fuji, Japan

The dense forest of Aokigahara was popular place suicide before Wataru Tsurumi's 1993 bestseller " Complete guide suicide," who called it the perfect place to die. Suicide was so common here that in the 1970s, annual sweeps were instituted by the government to remove bodies - most of which were found in various stages of decay, hanging from trees in nooses.

Approximately 70-100 bodies are found here every year, so it is terrifyingly likely that the sounds of weeping heard through the trees may be from real living people committing suicide, but many believe that the forest is cursed with the torture of the souls of the dead here. In any case, I would not like to find out the details.

Edinburgh Castle - Edinburgh, Scotland

Castle Dungeons, especially since 900 -year history have seen different hard times. In the dungeons Edinburgh castle inhabited by the spirits of such strange personalities as Lady Janet Douglas, who was accused of being a witch and later burned at the stake (along with 300 other women who were burned in the history of the castle), Prince Alexander Stewart of Albany, who escaped by killing the guards and burned their bodies.

When visiting, we expect to see their ghosts and the spirits of a headless drummer, a phantom piper, a stray dog ​​from a dog cemetery, and many other deceased prisoners roaming the halls. Visitors also report an eerie feeling of being watched, unnatural fluctuations in temperature, breath sounds coming from nowhere, and, worst of all, invisibility touching their faces.

Igorot Burial Caves - Echo Valley, Sagada, Philippines

For centuries, coffins containing the remains of famous citizens of the small mountain town of Sagada in the Philippines were hung along the cliffs of the Echo Valley. The tradition is related to the belief of the Igorot tribe that hanging the bodies of the dead brings them closer to heaven, and in addition saves their bodies from animal scavengers.

The tradition is rooted in the depths of centuries, some decaying coffins fall off the rocks, and the area around is a little terrifying because of this. Along with the coffins suspended from the rocks, many coffins fill the caves below.

According to local residents, not only coffins and remains are in the Echo Valley. Sometimes whispering voices are heard, and shadows appear here and there. There were also rumors that the ghosts of the caves were mischievous, but the people of Igorot usually say that if you just show some respect and don't disturb the coffins, you'll walk out of the valley unscathed.

Cecile Hotel - Los Angeles, California, USA

The Cecile Hotel in downtown Los Angeles has a reputation for being where you might not want to stay due to drug addicts, serial killers and really scammed tourists. It was first heard of in 1947, in connection with the still unsolved case of the murder of the Black Orchid girl, in subsequent years the hotel was associated with several more mysterious deaths.

After a string of suicides and several in-room murders, the hotel gained notoriety as the residence of serial killers Richard Ramirez (Night Stalker) in 1985 and Jack Anterweger (Vienna Strangler) in 1991. And then there was Eliza Lam, who disappeared from the hotel earlier this year. Shortly after her disappearance, a video was released showing Eliza in a hotel elevator (at her last known location) frantically pushing buttons, hiding, peeking furtively down the hallway, and waving her arms into the hallway.

A few weeks later, after hotel residents complained about the smelly and strange-tasting water, her body was found at the bottom of one of the rooftop water tanks, even though the area had been sealed off. emergency door. With no visible signs of injury and no banned substances in her body, her death was ruled an accident.

If you believe that she accidentally stripped naked and climbed without a ladder into one of the 2.5-meter-high water tanks, fell inside and closed the tank lid behind her, then yes - there is nothing wrong with Cecile's hotel at all.

Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum - Phnom Penh, Cambodia

The most horrific holiday destination - an estimated 14,000 men, women and children were imprisoned by the Khmer Rouge, the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh has seen many horrors over the past few decades. There is nothing unexpected about rumors of restless spirits in a place where thousands of horror stories have taken place. Museum workers have been known to leave food during their lunch break for the spirits - they say they can't otherwise eat in peace due to poltergeist activity and loud crackling. Guards say they have seen shadowy figures wandering around at night and regularly hear screaming and banging inside buildings.

Other workers also say that the spirits of the dead come to them in their dreams at night. As horrific as it is to think of the thousands of tortured souls roaming the scene of their brutal murders, the reality of what actually happened in those cells sounds a hell of a lot scarier.

Lemp Mansion - St. Louis, Missouri, USA

The history of the Lemp family in St. Louis began in 1838, when Johann Adam Lemp built his small store to sell food, household items, and lager beer. own production. The light beer was so popular that Lemp started a brewing business, which made his family and himself very rich.

Despite their success, the Lemp family survived 4 suicides (and the murder of an unfortunate dog). And it all happened in their mansion. After the last member of this family died, the mansion was turned into a boarding house, and the building began to collapse. After the sounds of walking, knocking and other strange sounds, people began to say that the building was inhabited by ghosts.

Today, you can rent rooms in the mansion and check out the existence of visions, other moving objects, and leave a toy in the attic for the ghost of William Jr.'s illegitimate son. He was everyone's favorite.

Chernobyl - Pripyat, Ukraine

From the areas adjacent to Chernobyl, 300,000 people were evacuated on April 26, 1986. Hundreds of residents and members of clean-up teams have died from radioactive poisoning, and people living in neighboring cities suffer from exposure to radiation for many years. And although the area has been empty for almost 30 years, this place and the abandoned villages surrounding it have become the scene of strange phenomena. Witnesses reported seeing ghostly figures moving through the streets and buildings, especially near the hospital in Pripyat. But the saddest reports actually came BEFORE the crash.

Reports of winged, gigantic shadowy figures - human-shaped but with glowing red eyes - began to surface in the vicinity of Chernobyl in the weeks before the accident. People also reported nightmares and threatening phone calls, all around watching what became known as the Black Bird of Chernobyl. The inexplicable continued until the morning of April 26. After the accident, the Black Bird of Chernobyl was never seen.

Shanghai Tunnels - Portland, Oregon, USA

Portland's underground network of tunnels was heavily exploited between the 1850s and 1940s for human trafficking and other seedy purposes. Many of those who made it to Shanghai—falling into tunnels through hatches hidden in bars and other questionable establishments, sold as laborers on long sea voyages—didn't survive.

The dark and dusty passages are now home to the souls of former tunnel workers and those who were trapped and imprisoned there, such as "Strawberry" - a little girl who lived in the basement with Nina, a long-dead prostitute.

Cannibal Village - Nabutautau, Fiji

Christian missionary Reverend Thomas Baker in 1867 visited small village in the mountains of Fiji. Shortly after his arrival in Nabutautau, the reverend and his Fiji escorts were executed, cooked, and eaten. Over a hundred years later, cannibalism has stopped in Fiji, but the spirits of the missionaries have not yet calmed down.

The villagers of present-day Nabutautau believe that they are still haunted by the spirits of those who were eaten that day, and that the woods around the place where Reverend Baker was beheaded are cursed as punishment for past transgressions. Reports of strange sounds, wailing, screaming and footsteps being heard in the forest have been commonplace for generations, along with rumors of moving phenomena between the trees at night.

To end the curse, in 2003 the villagers of Naubautau held a reconciliation ceremony with the descendants of the murdered missionary to try to make amends for what their ancestors had done to Reverend Baker and his group. Apparently it didn't help.

You can believe or not believe in ghosts, but there are only places where uninvited guests (or maybe not guests at all) appear with enviable constancy. Most often they can be found in old houses with history, palaces or castles. And not because the former inhabitants of historical places were famous and rich people - just palaces and castles - these are sights and components tourist routes, and the more people visit such places, the stronger ghosts become and live longer, because they are fueled by our fears with you ... And if it were not for them, who and what would inspire writers and directors who write and shoot "horror films" that love to watch and read by millions of people in the world? On the eve of All Souls Day, which is celebrated on November 2, I suggest that you familiarize yourself with some places where ghosts are found.

Tower of London

The Tower of London (formerly a prison) is one of the most famous haunted houses in the world, its walls have witnessed an endless number of executions, tortures and murders, with many people dying in terrible agony and torture. The ghosts here are all famous, for example, Queen Jane Gray and Anne Boleyn, who were beheaded. Or the Countess of Salisbury, who was hacked to death by an executioner in an attempt to escape from the fortress.

Most often, tourists and ministers see the spirit of Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII. They say the ghost carries its head in its hands. The king was madly in love with the beautiful Anna, but the girl said that she was ready to become his lover only in a legal marriage. Distraught with passion, Henry married Anna, who soon gave birth to a daughter, the future Queen Elizabeth I, who would glorify England and make her great. maritime power. But Heinrich was waiting for his son, his love passion began to subside, and after the miscarriage, Anna completely fell out of favor. Moreover, the king has a new favorite - Jane. He did not think of anything else how to fabricate accusations of debauchery, incest and treason against Anna, after which the unfortunate queen was sentenced to death. The most experienced executioner was specially invited from France, who cut off the disgraced head. Since then, the ghost of Anna has been wandering the corridors of the Tower until dawn, and then disappears.

Edinburgh castle

Scotland is a country of castles and, accordingly, ghosts. Most famous castle with ghosts - Edinburgh, which for more than a thousand years has acquired a whole army of ghosts. The two most famous are distinguished by their love of music. The first is a headless drummer who appears when the city is in danger: he is said to have warned the inhabitants of the castle in 1650 that the troops of Oliver Cromwell were approaching him. The second is a piper who disappeared without a trace in the labyrinth of dungeons, where in the years Seven Years' War the British kept French prisoners (their spirits, by the way, also still cannot calm down). There are even four-legged ghosts here - there was a dog cemetery on the castle grounds, where dogs belonging to garrison officers were buried. One of them has become a cult character in Scottish mythology: Bobby the terrier spent 14 years on his owner's grave and deserved a posthumous monument. An old man in a frock coat, cocked hat and high leather boots often pursues tourist groups, pulls the guests of the castle by the clothes, throws stones at them, closes the doors in front of them, and especially likes to scare young girls.

Rainham Hall

The most famous ghost of this English house in Norfolk is the Brown Lady. Those who saw her claimed that she was dressed in a brown satin dress, her hair was disheveled, and her face glowed. At the same time, the eye sockets are dark and empty. It is now difficult to find out who exactly this woman is, but it is assumed that this is Dorothy, sister of Robert Walpole and ex-wife of the Marquess of Townshend. According to legend, as punishment for treason, the marquis locked Dorothy in the house and did not allow her to see their children. She eventually died. The owners of the house were even able to film the ghost in 1936.

Rose Hall House

Ghosts have chosen this house in Jamaica thanks to its former owner, Annie Palmer, who lived here about 200 years ago. Nicknamed the "Black Witch", she is rumored to have killed three of her husbands and many slave lovers through poisoning, strangulation, and sorcery. She is also attributed terrible story, according to which the witch buried many slaves alive. The cruel Annie sacrificed babies in her rituals and did many other terrible things. And she did it out of boredom. So the ghosts of her victims roam the house in search of Palmer to avenge their ruined lives.

Hotel Stanley

This place became the prototype of the hotel in famous novel Stephen King's "The Shining", later Stanley Kubrick directed the film of the same name. The story is quite real, here someone is still making noise and walking in the halls, the guests see several spirits and hear the sound of the piano. Some of the patrons were waking up with a cold, and their blankets were neatly folded up next to the bed. Most often, ghosts visit room 407, where the main ghost appears - Lord Dunravin. It was he who once owned the land on which the hotel was built. They say that it is the lord who steals their valuables from the guests, any incomprehensible noise is most often attributed to this ghost. It was also said that there were seen the ghosts of children playing in the hall, and the ghost of a child who calls for his nanny. Stephen King claimed to have personally seen this ghost.

Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel

The hotel is located on the territory national park Banff (Province of Alberta, Canada). The external architectural beauty and refined interiors still fail to convince many people who avoid staying in it that it is safe. According to rumors, not only do ghosts live in it, but there is even a place where they live. One of the creepiest rooms in the hotel is Room 873, where children's handprints regularly appeared on the walls. During one of the regular repairs, this room was walled up, as if it had never been.

Catacombs of Paris

The Paris catacombs are a network of artificial tunnels and caves located under the city, with a length, according to various sources, from 187 to 300 km. Currently, only 2.5 kilometers are open to tourists. Part of the catacombs centuries ago was turned into an ossuary - a place to store skeletonized remains. Since the end of the 18th century, the remains of almost six million people have been buried in the catacombs. With so many remains, it's no wonder the dungeon is full of ghosts. Participants of mystical tours have repeatedly seen entire groups of ghosts passing through the walls of the catacombs. Quiet voices and howls are often heard from here.

Bhangarh

India - mysterious country, there are also their sinister places that are inhabited by ghosts. The most famous of them, the ruins of the city of Bhangarh, in the state of Rajasthan. According to legend, the princess Ratnavati lived in the city. When the beauty was 18 years old, suitors from different regions. The local sorcerer was also fascinated by the beauty of the young princess. To get Ratnavati's hand, he resorted to black magic, but his plan was discovered. The sorcerer was executed, but before his death he managed to curse the city. The princess died the following year. According to another legend, the sorcerer cursed the city because the shadow from him fell on sacred place designed for meditation. Frightened, the people left the fort, but they failed to escape: almost all of them soon died and were forced to return to the cursed place already as incorporeal entities.

And now, when the sunset comes, and before sunrise, tourists, local residents and any person is forbidden to enter the city - at this time shadows and spirits begin to roam there.

Louisville

The former tuberculosis sanatorium, Louisville, located in the state of Kentucky, has been repeatedly recognized as the most frightening place in the United States. It is believed that paranormal activity within its walls is very high. It is especially manifested in the so-called "death tunnel", which was originally cut so that the employees of the sanatorium could get to their jobs, bypassing the steep slopes of the hill. However, later the tunnel was adapted for the secret removal of the bodies of the dead. Ghosts live not only in a narrow dark corridor, but also in separate rooms. For example, room 502 is haunted by the spirit of a nurse who hung herself here after contracting tuberculosis while pregnant.

Poveglia Island

Not far from the wonderful canals of Venice is the island of Poveglia, which has gained dubious fame as a real "symbol of horror". In the 14th century, during a plague epidemic, hopelessly ill Venetians were brought to the island, where they died in terrible agony. To prevent the spread of the disease, people were burned, so the soil of the island is half human ash. They say that in total about 160 thousand unfortunate people died here. In 1922, a psychiatric hospital was opened on the island. Patients complained of wild headaches, and at night they were ghosts dead people, patients heard wild screams and cries ...

There were also rumors that the head doctor of this hospital experimented on the mentally ill - tested illegal drugs on them and conducted sophisticated experiments. Soon the doctor himself began to see the ghosts of Poveglia, after which, in a fit of madness, he threw himself from that same tower.

House of Winchesters

In the mid-fifties of the 19th century, Oliver Fisher Winchester, who in the past was a successful manufacturer of menswear, began to make weapons. His famous repeating rifles and shotguns brought world fame to the creator, and a curse to his family. In any case, such a version was put forward by a medium who was visited by Winchester's daughter-in-law after her father-in-law and husband died with a difference of only a year. She had lost her only daughter fifteen years earlier. The medium claimed that misfortunes were sent to the Winchester family by the ghosts of those who were killed from weapons manufactured by their company. To get rid of them, he advised the widow to move from Connecticut to another state and build a huge house with many rooms there - to confuse the ghosts. Mrs. Winchester followed the medium's instructions exactly. And since she believed that her life would end at the moment when the construction was completed, the house was constantly rebuilt: one after another, stairs appeared, resting on the ceiling, doors leading to nowhere, partitions of incomprehensible purpose and openings where an adult squeezes with difficulty. By the time of the owner's death in 1922, the building had more than 150 rooms. Today, the building is shown to tourists as a local landmark. Ministers say that at night doors slam there by themselves, door handles turn, someone's steps are heard and some moving lights appear ...

The White house

They say that here you can see the ghosts of the late presidents. For example, Andrew Jackson, or see how the ghost of Abraham Lincoln sits on the bed and takes off his shoes. His ghost was seen by Eleanor Roosevelt and the wife of Calvin Coolidge.

Beria's house

A cozy mansion in the center of Moscow, where the Tunisian embassy is located today, used to belong to one of the most odious figures in the history of the USSR, Lavrenty Beria. There were rumors that he could stop his car next to the beauty he liked and invite her to visit him, even against her will, and that after a visit to the house on Malaya Nikitskaya, many "invited" disappeared without a trace. Local old-timers claim that several times a month a strange phenomenon can be observed near the mansion: late in the evening, an invisible car drives up from the side of the Garden Ring, doors slam, voices are heard, then a strangled female scream cuts through the darkness of the night - and everything subsides. However, mysterious events sometimes occur inside the embassy: documents disappear from safes, papers left unattended turn out to be crumpled, and employees repeatedly met the ghost of the former owner in the corridors.

Ship "Flying Dutchman"

Not only people are in the form of ghosts, there are ghost ships. Everyone knows the Flying Dutchman. This ghost is known to all sailors. The Flying Dutchman was born in 1641. It was in this year that the captain of the East India Company ship, Hendrik van der Decken, decided to go around the cape in a terrible storm. Good Hope even if it costs him his life. Since then, no one has seen the ship, but not far from the cape they began to meet the ghost of the ship. The ship always appears in the fog and dissolves into it. The Flying Dutchman had many eyewitnesses, but the most famous of them was King George V of England, who even noted in his diary a meeting with mysterious ghost. The monarch wrote that at first he saw a mystical red light, then the contours of the brig, with sails and masts, gradually began to emerge from the fog. Soon the ghost disappeared into the haze, and the sailor, who was the first to notice the Dutchman, fell from the mast and crashed to death.

City of Pripyat

There are many ghost towns in the world. They have houses, shops, trees, bus stops but not a single living soul. It's scary and creepy to walk through such cities. Each city has its own history, its own sadness and misfortune: some died because of natural Disasters and natural disasters, pollution, as a result of which it became life-threatening to live in them, others - as a result of military operations, difficult economic situations. There are cases of cities dying out due to the appearance of various diseases in them. Detroid (USA), Kayakoy (Turkey), Tawerga (Libya), Oradour-sur-Glan (France), Kadykchan (Russia), Balestrino (Italy), San Zhi (Taiwan), Mandu (India). And in China, ghost towns are still growing. In this country, a third of new buildings are empty today - no one lives in 65 million apartments. This amount of housing would be enough to relocate at least 200 million people there. The fact is that the price of real estate has jumped and now it is such that the average Chinese cannot "raise" a loan to buy an apartment, and construction companies keep building and building entire cities.

And, of course, everyone knows the history of Pripyat. Built in the 1970s for workers at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, by 1986 it had 50,000 inhabitants. When there was an explosion at the power plant, the city was quickly deserted. People left a lot of their things, which makes the city look like a stalker zone frozen in time.

Nesvizh Castle

Everyone knows that the ghost of the Black Lady lives in the Nesvizh Castle. This is the spirit of Barbara Radziwill, the wife of the Polish King Sigismund. Barbara, the daughter of Yuri Radziwill, was unusually pretty and smart. It is not surprising that when Sigismund, the heir to the Polish king, saw her, he instantly fell in love with the beauty. At that time he was married, so the lovers met secretly. Barbara's brothers "caught" a couple during such a date and took the word from Sigismund that he would marry their sister. Sigismund kept his promise. However, the royal beau monde did not want to accept the young queen, and Sigismund's mother, Queen Bona Sforza from the Medici family, completely hated the representative of the ancient Radziwill family. The Italian wanted a better match for her son, so she poisoned Barbara.

Heartbroken, Sigismund did not want to come to terms with the death of his beloved wife. He decided to use spiritualism to call the soul of the deceased wife. In Nesvizh, where Barbara's brothers lived, the well-known European sorcerer Tvardovsky was invited. The king was strictly forbidden to touch the ghost, but when the ghost of Barbara in white clothes appeared, Sigismund, distraught with happiness, rushed to him with a cry of "My little fable!" and tried to hug. There was an explosion, the mirrors shattered, a putrid smell spread around the room, Barbara's white clothes turned black, and the ghost disappeared - disappeared into the air of the castle ...

Golshany castle

Golshany is probably the most mystical place in Belarus. No wonder it was once proposed to hold a festival of ghosts. The stories about the ghosts of the White Lady and the Black Monk once inspired Vladimir Korotkevich to write the novel The Black Castle of Olshansky. According to legend, once upon a time a rootless young guy Gremislav Valyuzhinich fell in love with a noble beauty - Princess Hanna-Gordislav Golshanskaya. She reciprocated. To meet his beloved, Gremislav dressed up as a monk. When the husband of the princess found out about their secret meetings, he killed them both. Since then, in the niches of the ruins of the castle, the ghosts of the Black Monk and the White Lady appear every now and then, which inspire mortal horror on random passers-by.

And in the Franciscan monastery, the soul of a girl buried alive is tormented. According to legend, the magnate Pavel Sapieha decided to build a monastery next to the church, the consecration of which was scheduled for August 6, 1618. The builders were in a hurry, but one of the walls of the monastery constantly sagged. Sapieha threatened to leave the builders without pay. On reflection, they decided that they could not do without otherworldly forces: in order for the monastery not to collapse, a sacrifice is needed, and it will be one of the wives of the builders who will be the first to bring her husband dinner. The young wife of the youngest mason came first. She was immured alive in the monastery wall. Since then, the restless soul of the unfortunate woman has been wandering around the monastery.

Loshitsa estate

The most famous ghost of Minsk lives in the Loshitskaya estate, where the wife of Evstafy Lyubansky, a maternal descendant of the Prushinsky nobles, drowned herself in the most beautiful place in the park. The husband was constantly busy at work, and the young Jadwiga, out of boredom, started an affair with the Minsk governor A.N. Musin-Pushkin. The novel was stormy and widely discussed in the world. On the eve of the revolutionary events of 1905, the official was recalled to St. Petersburg. But he did not stop communicating with Jadwiga - several times a day, dispatches began to arrive in Loshitsa from the capital of the empire, which could not but resent the woman’s legal spouse. One evening, after a quarrel with her husband, Jadwiga ran out of the house and went to the river. What happened next, no one knows: perhaps she herself threw herself into the river, perhaps it happened by accident. After some time, Pan Lubansky, who went along with all his servants in search of his wife, found Jadwiga's lifeless body in the river not far from the estate.

Before leaving for the Caucasus, Pan Lyubansky planted an apricot near the river, where Yadwiga's body was found. It is said that at the time of the apricot blossom, the ghost of Mrs. Lyubanskaya appears in the park.

Based on simple logic, we can draw a simple conclusion: ghosts appear after someone dies somewhere. However, it must be taken into account that in the entire history of mankind there have been so many deaths that ghosts, probably, should have been found at every turn.

But it doesn't, and here's why. Firstly, not all the dead become ghosts, and secondly, they love solitude, therefore they prefer sparsely populated quiet places. Thirdly, not every person can see a ghost: only those who have a special psychic gift have this ability. Fourth, ghosts appear where there is a lot of emotional energy. In other words, many phenomena are nothing but the memory of a place. This is especially true of ghosts from the battlefields.

Based on sightings recorded over the years, the haunts of ghosts can be classified in this way.

Places of execution. In past centuries, people were often put to death in public on central squares, but there they, oddly enough, usually do not appear. They were also executed at crossroads so that the ghost would get confused and could not return and take revenge. Therefore, at the ancient crossroads at night one could often see desperate souls rushing about.

When it came to hanging, as a rule, a thick, strong tree was chosen, usually an elm or an oak. Therefore, many such trees subsequently earned a reputation as bad places where the ghosts of the hanged are found.

Cemeteries. It would seem more natural place for haunting ghosts and hard to find. However, this is not the case, because people rarely die right in the cemetery. Usually only one real ghost can be found on the churchyard. This is the same guard, the "cemetery watchman" - the soul of the first of the dead buried in this place. In antiquity in Western Europe there was even a custom: at the foundation of a new cemetery, in order to provide it with a reliable watchman, a person was sacrificed.

In addition, in the cemetery you can see and hear semi-ghosts - more precisely, manifestations of ghostly activity: incomprehensible rustles, wandering lights, etc. Although sometimes these are just some kind of natural phenomena.

There are in the cemetery and special place, in particular the northern, the most uncomfortable and gloomy part of it. Suicides were buried there: it was believed that their souls would not find rest either on earth or in heaven. They became frightening ghosts.

Ghosts on the battlefields. Of course, the battlefield is one of the most suitable places for the appearance of phantoms. People die in a relatively small space, and many soldiers lie unburied for a long time. Such places include the Marathon in Greece, Waterloo in Belgium, Dunkirk in France, the Volokolamsk Highway near Moscow, the Kursk Bulge and many others. On such scary areas you can hear the groans of the wounded, the noise of exploding shells, the sound of bayonets or sabers. Ghostly armies tend to continue their battle on the anniversaries of the most heated battles.

Ghosts of catastrophes. There are many cases when people saw the ghosts of the victims of a disaster, both after it and before the event itself. You can see the victims of sea and air elements or those who died on the roads. Particularly sensitive people can feel the future catastrophe in any place in a few days, or even earlier.

Old houses. Such places are traditionally considered the habitat of ghosts. It is believed that in the past something happened there that tied the souls of people to this place. It could be murder or some other serious crime. Also, ghosts can be found in the house if suffering or simply unhappy people used to live there.

What's going on in haunted houses? According to eyewitnesses, such phenomena occur there: ghostly figures suddenly appear in the rooms, capable of passing through walls (by the way, ghosts always move in the same way as in life, regardless of how the house was rebuilt, which is why it sometimes seems that a ghostly figure walks up a staircase that does not exist; this also explains the ability of spirits to pass through walls);

The ghost of a deceased relative in such houses can suddenly materialize near his portrait, which at that time will be empty;

Traces of incomprehensible origin may appear on the stairs, floors creak and sounds resembling someone's heavy steps are heard;

Various objects move and fall, strange sounds, blows, ringing are heard;

The clock strikes thirteen times;

A blood stain appears on the floor that cannot be removed;

Moaning or crying is heard;

The chandelier begins to sway so violently that its component parts fly off.

Ghosts can also settle on various vehicles including on ships. There are many stories about ghost ships gliding silently across the water surface. It is believed that the ship on which the spirits settled is doomed to death.

Today, places where ghosts appear are more common and not as sinister as in past centuries (with the exception of TV murder sites). modern perfume do not avoid big cities, daylight and traffic, often appear in a crowd of people. They can also benefit from modern technology and amenities. Everyday life on a par with the living, although they rarely do ego.

Several phantoms of unknown origin appear at night in big department stores(in London, Birmingham, Liverpool, in some cities of France and the USA), causing panic among the guards, since when they occur, the tracking video equipment is blocked for 1-2 seconds. Both before and now, an alarm was announced, but it always turned out to be false, since no one has yet been able to detect traces of the "intruders".

In some cases, the videotape recorded slowly moving clouds of faintly flickering sparks, a little less than human growth. The guards sometimes heard sounds reminiscent of duck quacking, however, the recordings on the tape recorders for some reason disappeared. As some researchers note, parapsychologists also found persistent energy anomalies in the zone of the appearance of ghosts.

Nividimka broke the bottle

So... Whether we admit it to ourselves or not, we all have a flair for ghosts, no matter how much each of us is afraid of any kind of horror. Each of us has had moments in life when we could not resist the temptation to watch a horror movie before going to bed, and then stayed up almost all night, leaving the lights on, and diligently repeated all the prayers that we remembered. Nevertheless, places with ghosts always attract people with their mystery. Interest in otherworldly forces in many people is quite pronounced.

This article is dedicated to all those brave hearts who are just too shy to admit their love for all things haunted. We will introduce you to the twenty most terrible places inhabited by ghosts.

Myrtle Plantation, USA

From the outside, this place looks like a nice bungalow with a peaceful environment. But that's just how it seems. If you're lucky enough to visit this plantation one day, you'll be able to say hello to Chloe, one of the slaves who had her ear cut off, for having a habit of eavesdropping on things that didn't concern her.

She is often seen wandering around the house with two little girls whose faces have no eyes, nose, or mouth.

Cinco Saltos, Argentina

Cinco Saltos is a province in the Rio Negro in Argentina. It is famous for its witchcraft rituals, which contribute to the spread of many fascinating stories. The city of Cinco Saltos is also known as the "City of the Witches" due to the flourishing of witchcraft, which is widespread everywhere, and the Bajo Negro area is especially famous. See ghosts in these places, according to local population, is not a problem.

In 2009, the corpse of a young girl between the ages of 8 and 12, who died in the 1930s, was found there, completely intact. This fact further fuels the otherworldly reputation of the place.

Edinburgh Castle, Scotland

Historically significant place, Edinburgh Castle is one of the most popular tourist attractions in Scotland, mainly because of its ghost stories. Feelings of being touched or feeling that someone or something is being dragged somewhere is quite common among visitors to the castle, along with loud screams and terrifying screams, the causes of which have not yet been found.

Fort George, The Citadel, Nova Scotia, Canada

Fort George is a 300-year-old star-shaped fortress that was built in 1749. It is located on Citadel Hill in the city of Halifax ( Nova Scotia). This place is considered the most frequently visited historical place In Canada. Paranormal activity has been spotted here over the years, and as such, Fort George is a popular destination for ghost hunters and explorers.

Visitors to the fortress often report seeing an old man, a man in a red cloak, a woman, and an old lady who shows herself in mirrors. But the ghost of a little girl appears more often than others and causes concern. People taking part in "ghost" tours report the presence of a little girl during their tours of the fort; sometimes a girl is reported with her hands up. There is also evidence of disembodied voices appearing in the fort, inexplicable bumps and concussions, nebulae that are filmed or simply visible to the naked eye, and an eerie feeling of being constantly watched.