261 stories
Ghost stories of Estonia
261 ghost stories of estonia, each tied to the real place where it happened or is told, county by county. See them on the map →
Harju County
- The Devil's wedding on Rataskaevu Street
- The black monk of the Lühike jalg gate tower
- The terrified prisoners of the Stable Tower
- Screams and the wine-drinking monk of the Maiden's Tower
- The fire-spitting dog of the Danish King's Garden
- The nuns of St Michael's Convent
- The walled-up skeleton of Suur-Karja 10
- The rejected monk of the Hueck House
- The woman in white of the City Museum
- The silent man in black of Uus Street
- The grey lady and black lady of Toom-Kooli 13
- Footsteps in Toompea Castle
- The girl in the bloodstained dress at Stenbock House
- Vaimu, the Ghost Street
- The Old Man of Lake Ülemiste
- The bearded prisoner of Patarei
- The red-haired witch of Kolga manor
- The little daughter of Riisipere manor
- The grey figure of Mohni island
- The dead lords' card game in Harju-Madise church
- The grey old man of Lake Kahala
- The revenant mistress of Vanahalli farm, Sigula
- The death knock in the Dome Church chancellery
- The old maid by the walled-up stair on Kuninga Street
- The spirit bridge across Lake Ülemiste
- The chasm of Kurevere
- The woman on the balcony at Vihterpalu manor
- The cruel lord who would not lie still at Tuhala 1894
- The call from the river below Ravila bridge 1929
- 'Miina is not coming': the river at Kose-Uuemõisa 1929
- The water spirit on the barn roof at Oru 1929
- Hans's Grave in the river at Harmi 1930
- The dead innkeeper of the Harju-Jaani New Inn
- The dead lord's ring at Risti
- The cursed maiden on the Paljassaare road
- The three men at the fire by the Ärgmetsa stone, Loo
- Näkikivi, the water spirit's stone in the Jägala river 1937
- 'Man, come quickly!': the river by the Tõdva inn 1928
- The ghost well of Tõnismägi, 1674 1674
Hiiumaa
- The phantom horseman of Suuremõisa cellar
- The laughing apparition of Viilopi lake
- The goblins' paths on Ümatsi hill near Puski
- The evil spirit's ride to Pühalepa parsonage
- The child-shaped water spirit of Kärdla river
- The black dog at Heltermaa harbour 1924
- The ghost boat of the torch-fishers, Mänspää 1938
Ida-Viru County
- The gift-giving ghost of Saka manor
- The cursed house of Joala Street, Narva
- The walled-up girl of Illuka manor
- The guardian of the Vasavere burial ground
- The ghost guardians of Kalevipoeg's grave at Kivinõmme
- The screaming house spirit of Püssi
- The phantom dogs and horsemen of Kuremäe
- The little man in the top hat at Pähklimäe
- The woman in pink by the Maidla barn
- The treasure guard in a general's uniform
- The lord who waited seven years in the Repniku forest
- Nine rowan sticks against a dead father-in-law, Kannuka 1938
- The bad place on the hay-meadow road at Võrnu Sala 1930
Järva County
- The ghostly monks of Kirna manor
- The cursed spruce grove of Toodamägi
- The unseen shover on the Tarbja road
- The lost soul in Ambla churchyard
- The laughing bride of the Roosna sand hill
- The cursing lady of the Ervita bog lake
- The cursed bell of Koeru church
- The restless bride stone of Metsla
- The black figure of the Raka stone cross
- The walled-up girl of Purdi manor 1941
- The New Year's maiden of Koigi manor 1939
- The noble maiden by Käravete lake
- The walled-up room of Norra manor
- 'The week is ending': the river by the Aruküla inn 1894
- The curly-haired boy in the river at Paide 1929
- The sauna revenant of Esna and the six students 1896
- The golden foal on Merja Linnamägi 1893
Jõgeva County
Lääne County
Lääne-Viru County
- Betsy of Palmse manor
- The black lady of Sagadi manor
- The veiled woman of Viitna lake
- The midnight lights of Porkuni lake
- Whispers in the cupboard at Rägavere manor
- The white lady of Kiltsi castle
- The dead ladies baking at Muuga manor
- The lady in white stockings at Väike-Maarja churchyard
- The headless man of Udriku
- The cruel junker of Tapa manor
- The money-counters in Rakvere castle cellar
- The white runner of Kalmuneeme hill, Vihula
- The restless dead under Pikk Street, Rakvere
- The white woman on Simuna churchyard wall
- The spirit foal of Väike-Maarja churchyard
- The singing monks of Viru-Nigula graveyard
- The two-headed watcher of Karkuse manor
- The shape-shifting church warden of Viru-Jaagupi
- The spirit that dragged sledges back at Lammasmägi
- The sleepwalking girls of the Ärina woods
- The angel of Võhmuta manor cemetery
- The lady with the lantern at the Küti rowan
- The ghosts that walk to Sarapuu hill
- The dead baron on Paasvere chapel hill 1929
- The white foal of the Tõikvere inn pond 1894
- White horses and cellar maidens in Porkuni castle 1893
- The dead lord as a white dog at Metsiku
- The revenant shot with a silver bullet at Tapa
- The lady from the sea at Mustoja beach
- The singing swan-woman of Lake Üllikjärv, Võsu
- The girl knitting a dead man's stocking by the Valgejõgi 1896
- The phantom coach at the Valgejõgi bridge
- The silver brooch in Lake Kolu
- The woman in white in the Rägavere peat pits
- The white figure in the Loobu river
- The two proud ladies of the Vergi stream
- The dead barons' card game in Simuna church 1978
- The voice on the steps of Kiltsi manor 1939
- The noseless sexton and Rassi Jaak of Vihula
- The knock on the cabin door of a Võsu-built ship 1929
- The white-clad maidens of the Kissa spruce wood 1929
- 'Kai can't get home!': the voice in the Tapa woods 1894
Pärnu County
- The restless murderer of Lihula manor
- The spirits of Allikukivi cave
- The black book of Tuudi manor
- The white goat of Vana-Pärnu cemetery
- The red foal of the Virtsu castle cellars
- The weeping sea maiden of Pootsi
- The green-haired maiden on the Jäärja stone
- The hellhound and the ghost coiners of Lihula castle
- The Devil's night fishing at Kokakivi, Manija
- Kuradimännik, the pine where the Devil hanged himself
- The whooping spirit of Silmoja swamp and the vanishing stone 1939
- The bluish-green lights of Võlla bog 1934
- 'Shall I hop or shall I jump?': the money spirit of Surju 1896
- The duelling spooks of Pärnu's two trading houses 1895
Põlva County
- The young lord in white of Mooste manor
- The church beneath the lake in Ahja parish
- The phantom carriage of Laagaristi hill
- The phantom cow of Labasaare bog 1939
- The skipping dead lord of Peri manor 1985
- 'You will not get it!': the guardian of Mõrsjaorg, Kooraste 1939
- The cuckoo shot in the Pikajärve woods 1939
- The black spirit of Janutjärv, Krootuse 1939
- The Swedish dead by the railway at Valgemetsa 1939
- The cross cut in Põlvapalu forest, Koorvere 1939
- The haystack spook at the Bride's Spring, Kärsa 1939
- The dead lord who wanted porridge, Tooste 1935
Rapla County
- The moaning bone of Varbola stronghold
- The thirsty miller of Põlma windmill
- The manor lady and the thirteen millstones of Vana-Vigala
- The drowned girl of the Maiden's Grave, Vaimõisa
- The monks' church in Raikküla forest
- The Devil's coach at the Vigala chapel
- The black dog in the Vigala tunnel
- The Kukkoja stone of Purku
- The horned ghosts of Rapla church tower
- 'The hour is full': the riverside inn at Märjamaa 1928
- The Maiden's Grave in the Kodila river 1928
- Ruuna-haud, the gelding's grave in the Nõlva river
- The dead baron in the hay barn, Hageri 1936
- The moaning shin bone on the Vigala inn road
- 'The hour is full': the rider at the Kohatu river 1929
- The headless blood-red horse of Kuimetsa
Saaremaa
- The locking doors of Pädaste manor
- The haunted chapel of Kudjape cemetery
- Marta, buried alive, at Laimjala manor
- The lake spirit of Karujärv
- The woman in white of the Trammi burial ground
- The whirling spirits of Kaarlikivi
- The night visitors of Kingli manor's barns
- The restless dead of Kiritu village
- The grave in the middle of the Metsküla road
- The weeping house spirit of Uulispilli hill
- The lady in white on the Aaviku road
- The forester who would not stay buried, Mustjala
- The drowned baron who warns of wrecks at Pilguse
- Tõlli village and the haunted alder grove
- Old Toomas who came home to eat, Pamma 1947
- The red light at old Andrus's house, Neemi 1947
- The dead man who rode on passing sleighs, Kaarma 1947
Tartu County
- The Lilac Lady of the Literary Museum
- The pistol shot on Toome Hill
- Death's driver at the Krooks pub
- The grey woman of Jaama manor
- The white walker of Kasepää
- The spring spook of Palupera
- The bottomless Roopjärv and the spirits' road
- The knitting maiden of Rõngu castle
- The knight's daughter who guards the Warbeck cellar
- The bone-needle tailor of Tõresoo bridge 1939
- The misty stone of the Puddle Marsh, Aakre 1939
- The wolf and the white revenant of Soesoo, Vitipalu 1939
- The white lady of the Rästa peat bog, Laguja 1939
- 'Put it down!': the white figure of Lümati swamp 1939
- The night watchman who wrestled a spook at Uderna manor 1939
- The walled-in key-bearer of Tartu Cathedral
- Singing spirits in the Valguta woods 1939
- The feast in the 'hell barn' of Luke 1939
- The money melters of the Vesneri forest 1922
- The devils' footbridge over Köia bog, Karijärv 1907
- The white ghost behind Kodavere chapel 1937
Valga County
- The drowned countess of Pühajärv
- The dead lord of Otepää churchyard
- The black lady and her dog in Helme castle cellar
- The spirit pine on the Otepää–Tartu road
- The black cat of Kassipalu
- The knitting crone of Otepää castle hill
- The blue-fire money of Kirgjärv
- The cruel lord of Laatre manor
- Old Läll, the lord who would not stay buried at Riidaja 1930
- The cemetery in the clearing near Väljasoo, Helme 1928
- The grey boy and the crying lake of Lajassaare, Karula 1973
- The bearded boy under the Räigi stone, Karjatnurme 1928
- The dead master of Saarde farm, Kaagjärve 1956
- The näkk driven out of Näkisoo, Palupera 1896
- The spooks under Tammekolga bridge, Hargla 1914
Viljandi County
- Oskar of Kõrtsi-Tõramaa, Soomaa
- The returning innkeeper of Tarvastu
- The water maiden of Veisjärv
- The spooks around the money chest in Halliste church
- The two-headed hag of Koodiorg
- The black cat of Karksi castle cellar
- The bathing maiden of Lake Parika
- The moaning bone of Mäeküla burial hill
- The ghost eyes over the bog at Hundimäe, Mudiste 1939
- The thousand-year spirit on the Sarja inn road 1936
- The cartwheeling ghost of the Suislepa cemetery 1948
- The moaning bones of Rahahaua hill, Holstre
- The spooks' sauna in the Kitsi spruce grove, Karksi 1894
- The church that sank by Lake Viljandi
- The water women of Võrtsjärv's Tarvastu shore
- Spooks counting money on the Suurdeniit road, Pikru 1939
- The little bearded man of the plague bog, Odiste 1911
- 'The red lake waits for you': the swimmer of Pornuse
Võru County
- The blue nun of Rogosi manor
- The black rider and the dead maiden of Vastseliina castle
- The drowned master of Verijärv
- The sunken church of Uhtjärv
- The Devil's servants at Ilumetsa craters
- The night-riding baron of Rõuge manor
- Madame Krüdener's rooms at Viitina manor
- The dancing dead man of Höörämägi spring
- Jüri's head in Lake Ähijärv
- The dead lord who walked to his widow at Mõniste 1956
- The dead baron's dancing horses at Tsooru 1957
- The miller's wife taken from the Kasaritsa mill 1939
- The baron's night flight from Vana-Antsla 1939
- The whipping spruce behind Urvaste manor 1939
- God's Hill, where souls board the carriage to heaven
- The man in black on Kerikuniit, Ruuksu 1939
- Lost on Kalmemägi, the graveyard hill of Põru 1977
More to explore
Estonian legends · Mysteries and the unexplained in Estonia · True crime from Estonia’s past · Spies, smugglers and escapes in Estonia · Shipwrecks in Estonian waters · Battles fought in Estonia · Fires, floods and disasters in Estonia · Famous lives in Estonia · Estonian firsts and records · Film and book locations in Estonia · Lost landmarks of Estonia · Memories of people who were there · Castles and forts of Estonia · Ancient hillforts of Estonia · Manors of Estonia · Folk songs from Estonian parishes · Campsites in Estonia · Free forest huts in Estonia · Forest houses to rent in Estonia · Saunas to book in Estonia, with prices · Smoke saunas you can book in Estonia · Hiking trails in Estonia · Nature study trails in Estonia · Observation towers in Estonia · Cycling trails in Estonia · Campfire sites in Estonia