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Haunted Tallinn

Haunted Tallinn

While Estonians are bracing themselves for several weeks of pre-Christmas gloom this season, some Anglo/Irish cultures are getting ready to observe Halloween. And you may have noticed that with winter fast approaching, the Tallinn nights are getting longer and darker. As the light dwindles, parts of the Old Town are starting to take on a mysterious, somewhat forlorn quality.

With this in mind, we decided that this would be a good time to go ghost hunting - specifically, to find out which places in Old Town are associated with spooky stories and paranormal activity. It’s pretty much required for any town as old as Tallinn to have a number of such tales, but while researching the subject we were surprised to learn that, without exaggeration, almost every house in Old Town is reputed to be haunted by some spirit or another. Some of accounts of ghostly activity have taken on the quality of legends, while others, with more recent witnesses, are simply creepy.
If you’re a skeptic, feel free to skip this part and move right on, but if you happen to be walking home late at night through the wrong fog-laden Old Town street and you get that prickly feeling as if someone’s watching you, don’t run screaming to us. What follows is a list of supposedly haunted sites in Old Town. Read on ...if you dare.


Haunted Tallinn comments

  • 10

    February

    2010
    Lexy - Tallinn

    Thanks for the interesting stories, now I know which places to exactly visit. Maybe one day when I'm not feeling lazy I'll go and investigate myself. :D



  • 18

    October

    2009
    Ellen -

    I loved this article! Such interesting stories, and I liked the fact that you actually interviewed the current residents of the haunted sites and included the historical background/legends. It makes me want to visit Talinn for all the history and mystique. You should do this type of feature for every city you cover, surely all cities are haunted at least a little bit, right? :)
  • 01

    September

    2009
    rob - london

    my wife and i visited the old town of tallin back in december 2005, it was snowing and i took a photograph of my wife in a cold, damp and miserable court yard, then when we had the photographs developed a person was standing next to her, how scary




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