Ghost story
The grey woman of Jaama manor
Jaama was a town manor of Tartu-Maarja parish, and its main house, built in 1847, still stands at Puiestee 126 in the Jaamamõisa district. In its manor days the house had an uneasy name. A ghostly grey woman was said to drift through the rooms and corridors at night, and she frightened the housemaids so badly that one after another they gave notice and fled their service rather than spend another night under that roof. Who she had been was never explained, which only made the servants' tales spread further through the neighbourhood. The building is now a school.
Open it on the map See the spot on the old maps and as it is today
Eesti keeles
Jaama oli Tartu-Maarja kihelkonna linnamõis ja selle 1847. aastal ehitatud peahoone seisab siiani Jaamamõisa linnaosas Puiestee 126. Mõisaajal oli majal kõhe kuulsus. Räägiti, et öösiti liugleb tubades ja koridorides kummituslik hall naine, kes hirmutas toatüdrukuid nii hullusti, et üks teise järel ütlesid nad teenistusest üles ja põgenesid, et mitte veeta veel ühtki ööd selle katuse all. Kes ta oli, ei seletatud kunagi, mis lasi teenijate juttudel ümbruskonnas veelgi kaugemale levida. Hoones asub täna kool.
Source: Old Tartu ghost tales retold in Postimees' 'Külmavärinad' series (2021). ↗