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Ghosts exist not only in old European castles and Hollywood movies. There are mysterious houses in Russia, whose inhabitants have become the protagonists of urban legends

Houses with a mystical history are one of the favorite topics of locals and an exciting part of the trip for tourists. Most often these are old noble estates, the inhabitants of which were remembered by contemporaries for their strange behavior, tragic history or scientific experiments, which they took for witchcraft.

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Secrets of the sorcerer: Glinka's estate

Monino (station of the Yaroslavl railway), the territory of the sanatorium "Monino"

One of the famous associates of Peter the Great, a descendant of the Scottish kings, Jacob Vilimovich Bruce, was also known as a magician-warlock and the first Freemason in Russia. In 1721, the "sorcerer" Bruce received the village of Glinkovo \u200b\u200bnear Moscow as a reward for his assistance in signing the Nystadt Peace. An unknown architect erected a small palace estate in the baroque style for the count, equipping it for scientific studies: Bruce moved his observatory to the estate from St. Petersburg. Five years later, the Field Marshal retired and finally moved to the Glinka estate. In addition to astronomy and mathematics, he studied herbs, made medicines and treated peasants who considered the master a sorcerer. They said that iron dragons flew into the windows of the mansion, and in the summer a pond froze in the park and guests skated.

After Bruce's death, the estate passed from hand to hand, as the new owners went bankrupt and were forced to sell the estate. In Soviet times, a gastroenterological sanatorium was opened on the estate. The building continues to attract fans of the image of the "Russian Faust" - in the late 1990s, enthusiasts explored the building's foundations using echolocation and discovered voids. According to legend, there should be kept gold, archaeological rarities and magic books of the sorcerer Bruce. It is believed that the castle stones on the facade, made in the form of demonic masks, are able to wink, smile and make faces at those who look at them. The Yakov Bruce Museum is located in the western wing of the estate.

In addition, his name is associated with the story of the Sukharev tower destroyed in 1934, where a mysterious count once worked. It is believed that on Sretenka, on the site of a demolished building, you can see the ghost of a sorcerer who is waiting for the building to be rebuilt.

The curse of the princess: palace of the Oldenburgsky

Voronezh region, Ramon village

In 1833-1837, the architect Christopher Neisler designed a brick neo-Gothic manor in the Old English style for Princess Eugenia of Oldenburg. After moving to Ramon, the princess took up charity work: she opened schools, canteens and hospitals, established a scholarship, and also built the first candy factory in Russia. Strange rumors circulated about her life - the locals believed that Princess Eugenia kept a menagerie in the basements of the house and fed the guilty servants to a huge bear. No less ominous stories were told about her husband, Alexander Petrovich Oldenburg, who was considered a sorcerer. The prince and his friend, artist and philosopher Nicholas Roerich, conducted esoteric experiments in the castle and its surroundings and summoned the souls of the dead. Magical practices in the castle ended only in 1902, after a fire that almost completely destroyed the Oldenburgskys' factory.

According to visitors to the castle and restorers, today there are no photographic and video equipment, no pets, footsteps and voices are constantly heard. According to legend, three ghosts live in the castle. The most famous is the spirit of Princess Eugenie, which appears in the form of a female figure wrapped in a dense black veil. They also talk about the spirit of a sorcerer healer who once healed Oldenburgskaya and cursed her for refusing to become his lover. The third ghost is the shadow of a serf girl who died of illness when the Oldenburgskys lived in Ramon and were the owners of the house.

Since 2006, the castle has been under reconstruction, the duration of which is also explained by mystical reasons - supposedly, the diseases of the restoration brigade's masters are caused by the fact that the mistress of the castle opposes changes. As proof, they say that outside the estate, the sick are getting better, and once in one of the rooms of the palace plaster flew around and the silhouette of the late princess appeared on the wall. After the completion of the renovation, the local authoritiesplan to open a new museum and registry office in the building.

Restless monks: a residential building in Kaluga

Kaluga, Lenin street, 100

Five-storey house on the street. Lenin in Kaluga - the first example of the constructivism of the Stalin era in the city. It was built in 1934 by the architect Mikhail Ilyenko on the site of the church of the Archangel Michael. Historian, journalist and ethnographer Alexey Urusov in the book "Secrets of Old Kaluga" writes that the residential building was erected on a temple foundation, and the bricks from the walls of the dismantled church were used to build a kindergarten and other "Stalinist" houses in the city.

House No. 100 is associated with a legend about ghosts that are seen in the building every autumn, in late October - early November. The appearance of the spirits is explained by the fact that priests were buried on the territory of the destroyed church. Residents talk about dark figures in monastic robes in different parts of the house - in apartments and in stairwells - and that they hear footsteps and knocks at the door when no one is on the landing. According to the inhabitants of the mystical building, pets behave restlessly and strange at this time of the year.

The spirit of a thief: the house of the merchant Zheleznov

Yekaterinburg, Rosa Luxemburg street, 56

One of the most famous and beautiful historical buildings of Yekaterinburg. The estate was built in 1895 and is made in the pseudo-Russian style - a red brick house resembles a tower, and the stonework imitates graceful wooden carvings. The merchant Zheleznov bought the house in 1905 and settled there with his wife Maria and three children. The building owes its mystical reputation to Maria Zheleznova.

According to the memoirs of contemporaries, the merchant's wife was a very attractive woman with oddities. She collected exotic plants, spent most of the time in the local park near the fountain and rarely went out into the city, because she suffered from kleptomania. The husband, knowing about the illness, agreed with the merchants so that they would not pay attention to the loss, since he fully covered the losses. In 1914, Maria Zheleznova died suddenly at a performance of the ballet Romeo and Juliet. Three years later, during the revolution, the merchant with his children left Yekaterinburg for Omsk, and nothing is known about the further fate of the family. However, in Yekaterinburg there is a legend that the ghost of the mistress of the house is still wandering along the brick tower. Another secret of the mansion is the underground passages throughout the courtyard, the purpose of which has not yet been clarified.

The Mystery of the Queen of Spades: House of Princess N.P. Golitsyna

St. Petersburg, Malaya Morskaya street, 10

The court lady of state, Princess Natalya Petrovna Golitsyna, is the most famous prototype of the old Countess Anna Fedotovna Tomskaya from the novel "The Queen of Spades" by Alexander Pushkin. According to legend, the secret of the three cards of the Russian maid of honor was discovered by her friend, the French alchemist and occultist Count Saint-Germain, when Golitsyna needed to cover the card loss. The family story was told to the poet by his friend - the grand-nephew of the princess Sergei Golitsyn, nicknamed Firs. According to Firs, once finding himself in the same position as Natalya Petrovna, he turned to her for help. The princess revealed to the young man the secret of Saint-Germain, and Golitsyn got it back.

The death of Natalya Petrovna Golitsyna also became a legend - the princess's acquaintances said that the ghost of a black officer appeared to her, who took her life, but left the soul of the superstitious princess to wander around the house. The story of the Queen of Spades is associated with a strange magic of numbers. Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin was killed in a duel three years after the publication of the story. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, who wrote the opera of the same name on the basis of the story, died three years after its production.

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There are many places in the world to which human rumor attributed the presence of evil spirits. But it is one thing when there are rumors that voices, footsteps and strange shadows are wandering in the house, and another thing is when otherworldly entities are captured.
website made a selection of the most famous buildings in which visitors were able to take pictures of ghosts. These photographs have been reviewed by professionals who have concluded that the photographs are genuine.

Edinburgh Castle, Scotland, UK

This gloomy castle holds the record for the number of ghosts living there. The ghost of a piper who lost his way in the labyrinths of the castle, never leaving it to death, the spirit of a drummer from the army of Oliver Cromwell, the ghost of a dog walking around the local cemetery, the spirits of French prisoners, the townspeople who died from the plague.

In addition to these "well-known" ghosts, visitors meet other unidentified entities, hear groans, footsteps, and many have a deterioration in their health.

Myrtle plantation, Louisiana, USA

This is one of the most famous haunted houses in the United States. The ghost of the black slave Chloe is roaming the plantation. According to legend, the owner found Chloe, when she was eavesdropping at the door, and cut off her ear. The offended Chloe baked a poisonous cake for the owner, which his wife and three daughters accidentally ate. The owner, in despair, unleashed anger on all the slaves of the estate, executing anyone who, in his opinion, was under suspicion. The slaves, in turn, lynched Chloe and lynched her.

Since then, the dark ghost of the tortured slave has repeatedly made itself felt and attracts paranormal researchers and ordinary tourists to the estate.

Queens House, Greenwich, London, UK

This white house, decorated with ebony, was the place of imprisonment of Anne Boleyn, Catherine Howard (fifth wife of Henry VIII), Lady Jane Gray, Queen Elizabeth I. To this day, the ghost of the Lady in Gray walks along the tulip stairs of Queens House (who exactly is prisoners, has not been established).

In 1966, photographer Ralph Hardy captured a silhouette climbing a staircase. The photograph has been determined by Kodak to be genuine. In addition to the Gray Lady, there are other anomalies in Queens House: children's choral singing, the ghost of a woman wiping blood from the floor.

Newby Church, North Yorkshire, UK

Newby Church has not been famous for ghosts since its construction, but in 1963 the Reverend C.F. Lord took a picture of the altar, and when the film was developed on it, the outlines of an eerie phantom measuring 9 feet (275 cm) were revealed.

The ghost in the photo turned out to be so clear that the authenticity of the photo raised doubts, but experts, having studied it, came to the conclusion that this was not a double exposure or some other photo trick. I wonder if this picture inspired the creators of "Scream"?

Port Arthur Prison, Tasmania, Australia

In the 19th century, Port Arthur was a prison in which a large number of prisoners died, unable to withstand difficult living and working conditions. Now the old prison building is dilapidated, and no one lives in it all the time. Nobody but ghosts. At night, footsteps are heard here, old doors creak, and lights flicker in the windows every now and then. Port Arthur has become a real Mecca for all lovers of the supernatural.

Winchester House, San Jose, California, USA

The California home was bought by Sarah Winchester, daughter-in-law of gunsmith Oliver Winchester, in 1884. After the death of her child and then her husband, Sarah went to a medium who told her that the family's misfortunes were caused by the spirits that had died from the weapons created by Winchester.

To prevent the vengeful ghosts from reaching her, Sarah rebuilt the house on her own project, making it incredibly confusing and huge (there are about 10,000 windows in it).

After Sarah's death, strange phenomena began in the mansion: shadows in mirrors, doors slamming, objects moving. According to the mystical version, these spirits are still looking for Sarah, wandering through the endless corridors of her house. Rumors about the presence of ghosts attract crowds of tourists to this house, it is called the most extravagant attraction in California.

Berry Castle Pomeroy, Devon, UK

Visitors to this castle for no reason begin to feel despondency, fear and irritation on its territory. The reason for this, in the opinion of many, is the ghost of the White Lady, which was repeatedly met in these gloomy walls. Locals say that this is the soul of Margaret Pomeroy, whom Eleanor's own sister, out of envy, imprisoned in a tower and starved to death for 20 days until the unfortunate woman died. Most often, a translucent ghost is seen hovering silently over St Margaret's Tower.

St David's Cathedral, Wales, UK

55-year-old San Diego resident Russ McCamey and his girlfriend Carol Schultz have opened "Phantom Manor", the world's scariest horror house, where visitors are bound to be tied up, forced into a cage with snakes and doused with slippery fake blood. Incredibly, there are already 24 thousand people in the application queue. No one has ever withstood all the tests, not even the marines and extreme lovers, and dozens of adult men ran out of this room with tears in their eyes.

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1. Visitors to the "Ghost Manor" with their hands tied were doused with fake blood.

2. Only two people can be in the mansion at a time.

3. Visitors must endure close contact with spiders and snakes.

4. Trials in the house of horrors can last up to eight hours, but no one has ever been able to go all the way from start to finish.

It is absolutely free to visit the McCamey mansion, and believe me, its owners make every effort to diversify the tests. Before entering the house, daredevils must undergo a mandatory medical examination and obtain an appropriate permit confirming the absence of serious diseases. Only persons over the age of 21 are admitted.

5. An extreme enters a room whose walls are completely covered with artificial blood.

6. Grown men often leave the mansion with tears in their eyes, even the Marines and avid extremists cannot withstand such stress.

7. Founder Russ McCamey and his girlfriend Carol Schultz change the subject of the test every year.

8. Visitors over the age of 21 can visit the Ghost Manor absolutely free of charge.

A die-hard fan of horror films such as Psycho, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and The Haunted House, McCamey decided to found the “scariest house” with smoke and mirrors that would make even grown men cry. The couple spent over 500 thousand dollars to realize their dream. “You will not find anything like this all over the world. It's like reliving your own horror movie. The mansion houses four different rooms designed specifically for hardcore fans who dare to go through it. All tests are highly interactive. These experiences and obstacles should show you what you can do and what you can't, ”McCamey explains.

9. The couple spent more than 500 thousand dollars to realize their dream.

10. Before entering the house, daredevils must undergo a mandatory medical examination and obtain appropriate permission.

11. Horror fan McCamey described his "Phantom Manor" as "Indiana Jones on steroids."

The interactive adventure is described as a real-life horror movie that visitors can record on camera, look at themselves from the outside and relive all that fear once again. Everyone has the opportunity to watch the tests of other people using an online broadcast, one session of which lasts from four to eight hours.

I made a list of mystical houses where it is better not to take selfies - unless, of course, you want to see a ghostly stranger in the background.

Elsa's house, Pyatigorsk

The once luxurious, but deserted, three-story 62-room mansion has earned its dark fame thanks to the ghost of a young girl living in it. This house was built at the beginning of the 20th century by confectioner Alexander Gukasov for his beautiful bride Elsa. The spouses' happiness was short-lived - the girl was never able to get pregnant, and a few years later her husband left her alone in the castle, leaving with another woman. After the betrayal, Elsa was never able to cope with her grief and in the 40s she suddenly disappeared. The true circumstances of the death of the owner of the mansion are not known, but according to one version, she began to go crazy and eventually poisoned herself with a deadly poison. According to another, she was killed, and her body was walled up in the walls of the mansion.

Since then, the house has been overgrown with mystical legends. Those who decided to go inside talk about the crying of children coming from distant rooms, the sound of footsteps and groans. Strange white haze or incomprehensible shadows often appear in the frame. And on one of the balconies, a poem is written, which, according to rumors, Elsa herself whispered to one of her guests:

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Find me voiceless

Wash me down with rain

Find me faded

Take back my old home.

The basement is considered the gloomiest place in the house - there a curious visitor can find a strange tiled parallelepiped. Perhaps it is in it that the body of the owner of the mansion rests.

Glinka estate, Moscow region

An old house in the Shchelkovo district of the Moscow region literally attracts tourists with its legends. They are connected with the former owner of the estate, Jacob Broyus, who was fond of science, but the rumor has christened him a magician-warlock. Terrified peasants whispered about how he froze the ponds in the middle of summer, and then launched iron birds into the sky.

After his death, the new owners were clearly uncomfortable in the house. For some reason, they very subtly got rid of the graceful antique statues that used to decorate the territory of the estate: they were destroyed, some were walled up in the walls, and some were even sunk to the bottom of the pond. At night, creaks and groans were heard in the corridors, which forced the frightened owner and mistress to move to the farthest rooms of the mansion.

Today, the residence looks no different from other 18th century manors, but several special skeletons are kept in its cabinets. They say that the house has a network of secret underground passages, through which the former owner got into his "secret rooms": an astronomical observatory, a repository of archaeological finds, a laboratory and a scientific library. At the end of the 20th century, enthusiasts conducted biolocation, which showed that there are indeed hollow chambers under the foundation, many of which have remained unopened. According to legend, they contain the Black Book and a chest with Bruce's gold, which will only be "opened" to his blood relative. In addition, many people notice that the demonic masks that adorn the facade of the estate grimace and wink at everyone who looks at them for a long time.

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Palace of the Oldenburgskys, Ramon village, Voronezh region

There are many rumors about the ghosts and evil spirits that are found in the Oldenburgsky Palace in the Voronezh region. According to local beliefs, many years ago, a talented healer fell in love with the owner of these estates. But the young princess Eugenia did not share the doctor's feelings, for which she was cursed along with the mansion.

Since then, strange things began to happen on the estate. The husband of the Princess of Oldenburg became interested in the occult and began inviting mystics to esoteric sessions, and the couple's son allegedly performed experiments on people in the basements of the house. It is believed that even the princess herself kept prisoners and a chained bear in the dungeon, to which she gave up unwanted servants to be torn apart. The workers who restored the castle in the 80s of the XX century constantly complained about the creaks and moans coming from the basement.

Another mysterious event happened in Ramon not long ago. The museum staff discovered that the plaster had collapsed in the basement, and a silhouette began to emerge from the chipped part formed on the wall, in which visitors can recognize the owner of the mansion. By the way, if you have dreamed of spending the night in a haunted house all your life, then this is your chance - the Oldenburgskys' Palace welcomes tourists.

According to the stories of local residents, in these abandoned buildings one can meet ghosts of stabbed brides, murdered children, executed soldiers, etc.

Baldun Castle

Baldoon Castle, Bladnock, Scotland

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The picturesque ruins of an ancient castle do not look ominous during the day. But at night, the ghost of a girl in a bloody wedding dress allegedly wanders around them. It is said that in the middle of the 17th century, a certain Sir James Dalrymple decided to marry his daughter Janet to the wealthy owner of Baldun Castle. The girl loved another, but could not go against the will of her father. However, Janet did not manage to become the wife of a wealthy nobleman: just a few minutes before the start of the wedding ceremony, she was found stabbed to death in the room where the brides are waiting for their exit to the altar. Most likely, the crime was committed by the rejected lover Janet, who could not survive the insult inflicted on his feelings, but some believe that the girl committed suicide.

Fort Bhangar

Bhangarh Fort, Rajasthan, India

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The first thing that catches your eye on the way to the Bhangar fort is the signs strictly forbidding you to approach the ruins after sunset. According to legend, a powerful magician cursed Bhangar because his shadow fell on a sacred place intended 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 disembodied entities. To debunk this myth, the Indian government wanted to deploy armed patrols in Bhangar, but there were no people willing to enroll in the detachments.

St. John's Hospital

St. John's Hospital, Lincolnshire, England

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The clinic, founded in 1852, contained not ordinary patients, but poor people suffering from mental disabilities. Few of the unfortunate people worried about the fate of the unfortunate, so the methods of treatment were rather cruel. After the closure of the institution in 1989, hired workers had to remove all medical supplies from the building. However, they could not spend even a few days there: the men claimed that at every step they were pursued by terrible screams of unknown origin. Firefighters were repeatedly called to the abandoned clinic: it seemed to random passers-by that tongues of flame were bursting out of the windows. The brigades who arrived at the scene did not find any signs of fire, but they saw some strange lights flickering in the corridors.

Hotel "Berengaria"

Hotel "Berengaria" in Cyprus

Berengaria Hotel, Prodromos, Cyprus

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The hotel, which opened its doors in the 1930s, was intended for wealthy tourists and brought in large profits. His sad fate was determined by the death of the owner, who bequeathed the management of the family business to his sons. At first, the three men tried to follow the instructions of their father, who, dying, demanded that they work together and share the proceeds equally. However, over time, quarrels over money began to break out between them more and more often. It all ended with the fact that the young owners of the hotel died one after another under unclear circumstances. There was no one to continue their work. The huge building quickly fell into disrepair, and the residents of the surrounding villages stole valuable things - they just claim that the ghosts of greedy brothers settled on the ruins of the hotel.

Church in San Juan Parangaricutiro

San Juan Parangaricutiro Church, Michoacan, Mexico

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For a long time, the inhabitants of the Mexican village of Paricutin had no idea that they were living on a volcano - in the literal sense of this expression. Their surprise knew no bounds when in the winter of 1943, in a field belonging to one of the peasants, in a matter of days, an impressive cone-shaped mountain grew. Soon the volcano began to erupt. Inhabitants of Parikutin, as well as the nearest settlement of San Juan Parangarikuchiro, left their homes. The lava crawled slowly, and therefore all people managed to escape. She also spared the stone church. Now, once a year, Mexicans make a pilgrimage to the cracked altar and try to appease the spirit of the volcano with small offerings. If he remains dissatisfied with the gifts, the pilgrims will have nightmares for a long time.

Great Isaac Cay Lighthouse, Bahamas

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A tiny island in the Atlantic Ocean is not shown on every map. Nevertheless, ghost hunters from all over the world know about its existence. According to legend, in the 19th century, a shipwreck occurred near the island, as a result of which only a small child survived. What became of him later is unknown, but the spirit of his mother - the Lady in Gray - still wanders around the abandoned lighthouse at night and cries bitterly. By the way, a strange story also happened with two lighthouse keepers: they disappeared without a trace in the summer of 1969. Their bodies have never been found. The solution to this mystery is usually associated with the fact that Great Isaac Kay is located in the Bermuda Triangle. However, skeptics believe that the lives of the caretakers, most likely, took away the hurricane.

Weaverly Hills Sanatorium

Waverly Hills Sanatorium, Louisville, Kentucky, USA

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The former sanatorium for tuberculosis patients has repeatedly been 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 evident in the so-called "tunnel of death", which was originally cut through so that employees of the sanatorium could get to their workplaces, bypassing the steep slopes of the hill. However, later the tunnel was adapted for the secret removal of the bodies of the dead: the living were not supposed to see how their neighbors in the ward set off on their last journey. Ghosts can dwell not only in a narrow dark corridor, but also in separate offices. For example, in room 502 the spirit of a nurse who hanged herself here after being pregnant, contracted tuberculosis settled in room.

Hotel "Diplomat"

Hotel "Diplomat" in the Philippines

Diplomat Hotel, Baguio, Philippines

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Residents of houses located near the Dominican Hill in Baguio complain that at night they are not allowed to sleep with chilling sounds - screams, groans, hurried steps, slamming doors. They believe that the source of these sounds is the abandoned Diplomat Hotel, whose building served as a refuge for refugees during the Second World War. It was repeatedly bombed and shelled, and many sisters of mercy were innocently executed by soldiers of the Japanese army. The guests of the hotel, which opened at this place in the 1970s, also had a hard time: they constantly dreamed of mysterious black figures that walked the halls, appeared in the windows, hid behind heavy curtains.

Salesian school

Salesian School, Goshen, New York, USA

Access: the building is under protection

A Catholic school for boys, opened on the territory of a former aristocratic estate, was highly respected in the district until one of the pupils died. In 1964, nine-year-old Paul Ramos fell from the roof of an educational building and crashed to his death. Then everyone decided that a tragic accident had happened. Already in the early 2000s, the case again attracted the attention of the press and special services. It turned out that the boy's body was lying too far from the building: for the child to fly this distance, he had to be pushed, but, of course, it is now impossible to find the killer. Those few daredevils who managed to get close to the dilapidated building, passing the guards, claim that they saw a silhouette of a boy in the window openings.

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