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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, with what 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 millions of people in the world love to watch and read ? 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 of her 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 are prohibited from entering 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: in the late evening from the side Garden Ring an invisible car drives up, 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


Most famous ghost Minska lives in the Loshitskaya estate, where in the very beautiful place In the park, the wife of Evstafy Lyubansky, a descendant of the Prushinsky nobles on the maternal side, drowned herself. 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 less crowded 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

Who are ghosts and ghosts? Do they exist or is it a figment of human imagination? It is known that legends about ghostly phantoms were especially common in the Middle Ages. It is also known that almost all medieval castles enjoyed a bad reputation. There were rumors that ghosts live there and interfere with the lives of the owners. What is really behind these rumors? Today there is documentary evidence that ghosts do exist.

By the way, ghosts and ghosts are synonyms, although experts say that the word “ghost” has a narrower meaning and is typical for restless human souls, and any phantom can be called a ghost.

It should be noted that in the Middle Ages, haunted castles were not something special. On the contrary, family estates, in which the spirits of ancestors lived, were considered beneficial for their owners. Most often, the spirits of suicides and those who died wandered around the castles. violent death as well as children. At the same time, the living heard groans, tapping, laughter, observed the movement of objects, saw human outlines. It is believed that ghosts freely pass through any objects and walls, since they are subtle entities. And in fact, according to eyewitnesses, these objects are most similar to holograms, white energy clots.

Now in the world there are hundreds of specialists who call themselves ghost hunters. They are equipped with special equipment that allows you to see ghosts indoors and outdoors. open space. Modern cameras with increased sensitivity are able to capture the movement of these objects, as they capture the vibrations of a subtle, invisible world for us.

Why and where ghosts most often appear

What happens when a ghost appears in a house? The air becomes heavy, strange things begin to happen, objects and even people can disappear. There are ghosts who behave calmly and do not bother the living, but there are also those who are clearly trying to ruin people's lives.

Why is this happening? Apparently, every dead spirit has its own purpose on earth. Some come to their relatives in order to warn them of danger and thereby protect them from misfortune. Others appear to take revenge, to remind the living of the sins they have committed. As a rule, the restless souls of suicides, stuck between two worlds, wander through their former dwellings.

Psychics and mediums are convinced that the energy of ghosts is destructive for people, because ghosts are energy vampires that feed on the emotions of the living. This is especially true of the ghosts of children.

Haunted Contacts

Mediums call ghosts spirits and work with them on those subtle levels where these spirits are stuck. They hold séances to find out what the intruders really want.

In our world, there are many magicians who call themselves the chosen ones due to the fact that they are subject to communication with dead spirits, which they see without any devices. Spirits provide them with help and patronage in matters of magic.

There are documentary evidence of successfully conducted spiritualistic sessions. But here's the fact: everyone participating in such sessions will soon go crazy or die under unusual circumstances. According to mediums, this happens because when invading the subtle worlds and establishing contacts with spirits, a person gives up part of his own energy, which means that he becomes vulnerable to otherworldly reality.

Therefore, those wishing to make contact with spirits should first think very, very well. By themselves, these entities, with rare exceptions, cannot harm a living person, but the desire to visit the other world most often ends very badly. So is it worth the risk?

Haunted places in all legends and scary stories are often repeated. There are ghosts in different countries world, including Russia and Europe.

Where do ghosts live?

It is believed that the most likely places for the appearance of ghosts are cemeteries, old houses, castles. Ghosts live near places where someone died. According to parapsychologists, the spirit of the very first person buried there “lives” in cemeteries, which is the so-called “master”.

For inexplicable reasons, ghosts often choose medieval castles in Scotland, Ireland and England for "life". Most likely, this is due to the fact that many aristocratic families keep their terrible family secrets, which caused the appearance of family ghosts. England has long been the center of haunting. More than other cities, London is rich in legends about ghosts.

The scariest ghosts in Europe

Most of all in Europe, such ghosts as black monks and white ladies are common - these are dark shadows and white blurry figures that people periodically see in old houses and medieval castles.

"Black Nun"

It is known about the "Black Nun", who lives in the English Castle. According to legend, this nun is Sarah Wyhead, who comes to the bank hoping to find her brother there. The brother was at one time an employee of this bank, but was accused of forging checks. Sarah was so shocked by what happened that to this day she is looking for her brother within the walls of the bank.

The Haunted House in Beverly Square

One of the most terrible ghosts lives in London in a house in Beverly Square. It is said that several people died just from the sight of this ghost. According to one version, the ghost appears in the form of a little boy who died of fear in his room. According to another version, the ghost is a young girl whom her uncle wanted to seduce. To avoid harassment, she allegedly jumped out of the window.


The third version says that the ghost appears to people in the form of a pale-faced man. Wanting to see one of London's spookiest ghosts, tourists have turned a house in Beverly Square into a place of pilgrimage.

Poveglia Island

The mysterious place of Venice is the island of Poveglia. It is closed to tourists, and police boats ply along the coast of the island. There is a 12th century bell tower on the island. Fans of the unknown claim that bells are often heard from the side of this bell tower.


It is known that during the Roman Empire, all those infected with the plague were brought to the island to die. History repeated itself in the sixteenth century. Poveglia became the place where those who had contracted the bubonic plague were brought. They were dumped into huge pits and left to die. It is said that the cries of these unfortunates from time to time are heard over the island. Several centuries later, the island began to play the role of a quarantine point. In the last century, a nursing home was built on the island. After the head physician committed suicide, Poveglia was empty, people did not want to return to this island anymore.

Ghost of Anne Boleyn

According to legend, the headless ghost of a woman has been wandering the stairs of the Tower Castle for many years. This woman is Anne Boleyn, who was the second wife of Henry VIII Tudor. The king, noticing the beautiful Boleyn at one time, elevated her to the throne. It was she who brought the Renaissance and the Reformation to England, gave birth to the future Queen Elizabeth.


After being accused of adultery and witchcraft, Anna was executed by cutting off her head. The ghost of Anne Boleyn has no head, he keeps his head under his arm. Last time this ghost was seen in 1940.

The most famous ghosts in Russia

Each of us has heard legends about ghosts. Among them there are completely good-natured ghosts, there are also those that have been scaring people for many years. Aliens from the other world, approaching a person, sow fear and panic.


Russia has old houses, historical places and castles, about which there are many legends. According to some of them, ghosts still live in such houses and castles.

ghost town

Near Chelyabinsk there is a fortress Arkaim, which is also called the "Russian Stonehenge". Scientists, in addition to buildings and ruins of streets, found wells, the remains of metallurgical furnaces, water pipes, and mines. The inhabitants left Arkaim almost four thousand years ago, but before they left, they set fire to their city. It is believed that they had serious reasons for this.


People who have visited Arkaim talk about ghosts living there. Tourists on Mount Shamanka often see moving shadows. Once, an archaeologist student during an excavation heard a voice calling her to the center of the excavations. The girl went there alone. Returning, the student sobbed for a long time, talking about the ghosts of the ancient inhabitants of the city of Arkaim.

Sukharev tower

A famous place in Moscow is the Sukharev Tower. There, the engineer, astrologer and alchemist Jacob Bruce, who lived during the time of Peter I, spent all his nights. According to legend, he kept there the famous "Black Book", written by the Prince of Darkness himself. This book terrified the townspeople.


Even after the death of the famous alchemist, the light in the Sukharev Tower continued to light up every night as before. In 1934, the warlock's tower was demolished, but the ghost of a dry old man appears quite often in that place.

Miserly with Myasnitskaya

in Moscow for Chistye Prudy there is Myasnitskaya street. The house of the Kusovnikovs once stood on it. The couple were famous for the fact that, with all their wealth, they were misers and misers. They never invited guests, they never gave gifts to anyone.

Gathered in long trip, the husband and wife decided to hide all the treasures in the fireplace. After they left, an unsuspecting servant lit a fire in the fireplace. As a result, wealth burned completely. On hearing the news, his wife died immediately. With the words "Oh, my money, money," the old man's ghost still roams the nearby lanes to this day.

The most famous ghost in history

Most often, people see a ghost called the "White Lady". This is a collective image that would suit more than one lady of the past centuries. Eyewitnesses most often describe this ghost as a lady in white, with deep-set sad eyes and a pointed face.


The white lady is a woman who was forcibly given in marriage to an evil old man. He bullied her all his life. Before his death, he asked his wife for forgiveness, but was refused. The old husband cursed his wife, which is why she still appears in the family property in the form of the White Lady. The white lady is Perhta Rožmberk, and her tyrant husband is the aristocrat Jan Liechtenstein. It is known about the portrait, which depicts the White Lady. It has a signature on unknown language. It remains undeciphered to this day.

By the way, according to the site, it is the photographs of ghosts that become famous and are sold for fabulous money.
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Ghost towns are scattered all over the planet and silently keep their secrets. The creations of human hands, abandoned by people, stand empty and silent for decades. They are not destroyed, they are simply abandoned - at one point people left them due to insurmountable reasons. The reason for this could be the threat of a natural cataclysm, a man-made disaster, a war or an economic crisis.

This list contains the most famous ghost towns in the world!

1 Pripyat, Ukraine

Perhaps the most famous ghost town is Pripyat. This city in Ukraine is relatively young - it was built in 1970. In 1986, about 50 thousand people lived there, the first park was opened, and the infrastructure was actively developed. And one day - April 26, 1986, the city was evacuated due to an accident on Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Until now, this city is full of radiation, so excursions and groups of stalkers enter its territory only occasionally.

2 Gunkanjima, Japan


Hashima Island in the East China Sea, nicknamed Gunkanjima (cruiser), at the beginning of the 19th century was an ordinary rock near Nagasaki. Coal was discovered there, so the Japanese artificially built the island and began to develop the deposit. The city was the most densely populated place on the entire planet - on an area of ​​0.063 square meters. m. lived more than 5 thousand people! The peak of activity was reached in the middle of the 20th century, and in 1974 the mines were completely closed, and the city became a ghost.

3 Kolmanskop, Namibia


The history of this city began in 1908, when one of the railway workers discovered in the southern part Namib Desert diamonds. The deposit was handed over to August Strauch, who built a German town on this site with a hospital, schools and a stadium. But the diamond reserves dried up after a couple of years, and people faced terrible conditions. The city was constantly bombarded with sandstorms, there was no water and communication with the world. In 1954, the last inhabitants left the city, and it was left standing in the middle of the desert.

4 Famagusta, Cyprus


In the 1970s, the city of Famagusta was tourist center Cyprus. It was especially famous, it housed many hotels and hotels that were visited by celebrities from all over the world. In 1975, the Turkish army invaded Famagusta and drove the Greeks out of their homes. The Varosha quarter has become a ghost town, because according to the UN resolution of 1984, only its residents can return to it. On this moment this huge tourist area cities are slowly being swallowed up by nature.

5 Kilamba, Angola


Cities don't always become ghosts because they've been abandoned. Some cities were never populated, for example, large city Nova Cidid de Kilamba near the capital of Angola. It is designed for 500,000 people, and more than $3 billion has been spent on construction. In 2012, the city slowly began to be populated, but in fact it still remains a ghost. Among the inhabitants of Angola, there are few representatives of the middle class who could afford such expensive housing. At the moment, there is only one school in which people carry children from afar.

6 Tawarga, Libya


Ghost town in Libya was abandoned local residents in 2011 due to the genocide. The rebels began a real persecution of the indigenous peoples of Tavarga, which was once founded by the descendants of black slaves. In addition, this city was under the patronage of the Gaddafi regime, so the rebels ruthlessly destroyed the population - 1,300 people are still considered missing. Nearly 30,000 people have left the city and still cannot return to their homes. The Libyan government cannot provide them with security and protection from bullying.

7 Kayakoy, Turkey


At the Turkish village of Kayakoy rich story However, this did not stop her from becoming a ghost. It was founded in the 19th century by the Greek community and had developed infrastructure. But in the 1920s, the Greeks were forced to leave the places belonging to the Turks, so the villagers just left overnight. In addition, in 1957, a strong earthquake destroyed the last islands of civilization in Kayakoy.

8 Sanzhi, Taiwan


This city can hardly be called a ghost, since in 2008 it was decided to demolish it. Unfortunately, it belongs to those buildings where people have never settled. In 1975, it was decided to build an unusual complex of houses in the form of UFO saucers. They were built from fiberglass and concrete, taking into account the latest technology. However, in the 1980s, when the complex was almost completed, a crisis began in Asia, which led to a freeze on construction. The alien houses were abandoned, and Taiwan decided to demolish them in order to build a park on this site.

9 Oradour-sur-Glane, France


This village in France received the title of a martyr city. Today, it still stands as a silent reminder of the atrocities of the war, and a new town of the same name has been built nearby. Oradour in 1944 was inhabited by French partisans who captured a German officer. In retaliation, the SS killed all the inhabitants of the village - 205 children, 240 women and 197 men. Since then, the city has been a memorial center.

10 Kadykchan, Russia


One of the most famous abandoned cities in Russia is Kadykchan. It is located in Magadan region, and was completely abandoned by humans in the early 2000s. The city was built in the middle of the 20th century near a coal deposit, but after an explosion in 1996, the mine was closed. The residents of the village began to be slowly resettled, and in 2001 the houses were completely disconnected from electricity.


Paris is not only in France, but also in China, however, it is very small. The construction of the city of Tianducheng began in 2007, then in China there was a fashion for copies of European sights. There's an Eiffel Tower here, three times the size of the original, Triumphal Arch and Versailles park. However, housing here is so expensive that the city has practically remained a ghost - despite the splendor, no one lives in Tianducheng.

All these cities are completely deserted, so they gradually fall into disrepair, and nature wins back its territory, covering the gray buildings with lush greenery.