A ghost at what was a rural castle near a vineyard never revealed her secrets Parts of what is now Prague used to be villages separated by dusty and seldom used roads.…
A village once stood outside the Old Town walls, and a pond there was home to a sad but beautiful mermaid The Czech word for a little pond is Rybníček, and in…
The War of Succession left behind a spirit who refuses to accept defeat Not all soldiers leave after a war. Some are left in faraway graves, while others refuse to accept their…
Malá Strana has two ghosts who suffered painful deaths that involved iron nails A pair of otherwise unrelated ghosts a few streets apart in Prague’s historical Malá Strana area have something in…
A wealthy nobleman tried to break up a romance by having his daughter become a nun The rich should marry the rich, and the poor should marry the poor. That idea was…
The mysterious spectres wander the same small group of streets The area around Prague Castle has quite a few frightening apparitions. Two of the most unsettling are at Jánský vršek, just down…
A wedding ended in a massacre, and the bride now haunts the D1 motorway The tale of an unhappy female ghost causing havoc for motorists on the highway is almost universal. There…
Some buildings have become home to several restless spirits The Czech Museum of Music doesn’t look too scary now, but in its long history it has attracted two or three ghosts. One…
Building names hold clues to some gruesome tales Older buildings in Prague are known not by their numbers but by distinctive names, and corresponding pictures are often on the facades. Three buildings…
The mistaken report of a soldier’s death led to unintentional bigamy Three ghosts appear on Christmas Eve in Prague’s Malá Strana district. They are not the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and…
The Černín Palace in Prague has a long and unsettling history. What is now the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs from the 1660’s up to 1851 belonged to the noble Černín family,…
