The girl in the bloodstained dress at Stenbock House

Stenbock House, a classical mansion on the northern edge of Toompea, was built at the end of the eighteenth century as a courthouse and later became the seat of the Estonian government. Among the people who work there a quieter tale circulates: a young woman in an old-fashioned dress, its front dark with blood, has been seen wandering the hallways and staircases late at night. She does not speak and seems unaware of the living, and nobody can say whose tragedy she carries with her. The building has been restored and now houses the Government Office, with cabinet meetings held in its hall.