In every country, in every city, there is a place of ill fame. The townspeople themselves avoid it, and the guides include it in their programs, knowing that tourists love horror stories. Sad and terrible stories of the damned houses of Yaroslavl, Nizhny Novgorod, Jerusalem, Prague, Vienna and London.
The Hanged Dwarf's Room
Before the revolution, there was a brothel in the building of the Yaroslavl Theater Institute. He was guarded by a dwarf, unrequitedly in love with one of the girls. In 1917, the Red Army came here.
Yaroslavl State Theater Institute.
They raped and killed that very girl. Soon, the unfortunate dwarf committed suicide out of anguish. At the institute, all new students are still shown a local landmark - the room where the dwarf hanged himself. Inexplicable things happen in the building: at night, many residents of the hostel hear strange rustles and footsteps, and no one can detect the source of these sounds. They say that once a student was found in a room fainted. An ambulance was called for the girl. When she woke up, she confessed that she saw a dwarf walking down the corridor.
House of the dead groom
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The house of the dead groom, or "cursed house", is located in one of the central quarters of Jerusalem on Jaffa Street. In the 19th century, a wealthy Arab family gave a two-story mansion to their son before the wedding.
House on Jaffa Street in Jerusalem.
It all started like a fairy tale: a beautiful bride, a cozy family nest. But immediately after the engagement, the young groom died suddenly. The parents decided that the celebration would take place anyway, because so many eminent guests were invited. And in a beautiful new mansion they arranged a wedding with the dead groom. His corpse was tied tightly to a chair next to the unfortunate bride, who immediately after the ceremony became a widow. During the traditional dance of the mother in the house, all the candles were suddenly extinguished and heartbreaking sobs were heard. After the terrible wedding, the groom was solemnly buried. Since then, no one has settled in the house. The Turkish government opened a hospital there, but because of the notorious reputation of the mansion, only stranger Bedouins and poor fellahs were treated within its walls. In 1918, the British established a health administration office in the dead groom's house,which in 1947 became the Israeli Ministry of Health.
The seven devils of Aloise's house
In 1821, a daughter, Aloiz, was born to the Prague lawyer Vaclav Nemtsov. It was with her birth that the story of the history of the house on Maltese Square, the Strakovs palace from Nedabylitsy, begins. Aloise grew into a beautiful girl, and once a young man asked for her hand in marriage, but did not marry, but was carried away by the bride's best friend. Soon Wenceslas died, and the girl was left alone in a large house. The young hostess began renting rooms to the guests.
House * At the Seven Devils *, or the Strakovs' Palace from Nedabylice in Prague.
But with only one condition: that they do not lean furniture against the walls. This strange request frightened off the tenants. As a result, they all abandoned rooms and began spreading rumors about evil spirits in the house on Maltese. One artist jokingly painted devils on six columns supporting the house, and at the entrance he wrote: "The house of seven devils." The seventh thing he called the mistress. After the death of Aloise, ancient frescoes by Jan Rudolf Bisset were discovered in the rooms of the House of Seven Devils, hidden under a layer of plaster. It was them that the hostess took care of, not allowing furniture to lean against the walls.
Tower of the Mad
By decree of Joseph II - King of Germany and Archduke of Austria - in 1784, a hospital for the mentally ill was organized in Vienna. The gloomy five-story tower, where the chambers looked more like prison cells, became a haven for the unfortunate.
Tower of the Mad in Vienna.
In 1936, the tower turned into a museum of pathology, where many eerie exhibits have been collected by our time. Dissected skulls, alcohol-treated human organs affected by diseases and parasites. The most "valuable" exhibit is the head of the assassin of Empress Sisi.
Murder House in Berkeley Square
In London, on Berkeley Square, there is a house at number 50, built in the 16th century. In the 50s of the 18th century, an uncle lived there with an orphan niece. Once the police found a tortured girl in the house, and her uncle simply disappeared. The house, shrouded in a terrible secret, was empty for a long time. But in the end it was still sold for a pittance.
House number 50 at Berkeley Square in London.
The new owners of the mansion did not enjoy a bargain for long. Two months later, a young mistress named Adele, under mysterious circumstances, fell out of a third-floor window, landing on a fence with sharp stakes. Since then, the house has been abandoned for over 100 years. In the 19th century, the Frenchman Dupre settled in the mansion. He kept his maddened brother in the attic in dire conditions until he passed away. In the 20th century, many brave men stayed overnight in the rooms of the killer house. And inexplicable and terrible things happened to everyone. Someone ended up in a psychiatric hospital, someone died in a mansion under unclear circumstances. Now on the first floor there is an antique shop, and no one dares to occupy the upper ones. Store employees never go upstairs or stay in the house after sunset.
Cursed treasure of the Kamensky estate
In Nizhny Novgorod there is a notorious Kamensky merchants' estate. In the 70s of the XX century, a worker who was doing repairs there discovered a treasure under the stairs with old dishes, silverware and boxes for Carl Faberge's jewelry (it is not known whether the jewelry itself was there).
House-estate of the Kamenskys in Nizhny Novgorod.
The Kamenskys, fleeing from the Bolsheviks, hid some of the valuables in the abandoned house. According to legend, a curse was imposed on the cache: whoever ruins it, misfortune awaits him. And so it happened - the worker was sent to the camps, where he died. Nizhny Novgorod residents claim that the Kamensky ghosts live in the estate, who were very attached to the house and hoped to return. Alas, during their lifetime they did not succeed.
Svetlana Vovk