Ghost story
The woman in white of the City Museum
The Tallinn City Museum occupies a fourteenth-century merchant's house at Vene 17, with deep cellars and steep wooden stairs. During the Soviet years several members of staff, working late or opening up in the grey morning, reported seeing a woman dressed all in white moving through the old rooms. She never spoke and never stayed; each time she was simply there, then gone, and the doors she passed remained shut. No one has managed to tie her to a known resident of the house, which makes her all the more mysterious. The building is still the main branch of the Tallinn City Museum and open to visitors.
Open it on the map See the spot on the old maps and as it is today
Eesti keeles
Tallinna Linnamuuseum asub Vene 17 neljateistkümnenda sajandi kaupmehemajas, millel on sügavad keldrid ja järsud puittrepid. Nõukogude aastatel nägid mitmed töötajad, kes jäid hiljaks või avasid hallil hommikul uksi, vanades ruumides liikumas üleni valgesse riietatud naist. Ta ei rääkinud kunagi ega jäänud kauaks – iga kord oli ta lihtsalt seal ja siis kadunud ning uksed, millest ta möödus, jäid suletuks. Kellegagi maja teadaolevatest elanikest pole teda seostada õnnestunud, mis teeb ta veelgi salapärasemaks. Hoones asub siiani Tallinna Linnamuuseumi peamaja, mis on külastajatele avatud.
Source: Staff reports from the Soviet period, recorded by In Your Pocket. ↗