{"id":8078,"date":"2019-10-24T23:12:15","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T23:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/?p=8078"},"modified":"2019-10-24T23:12:15","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T23:12:15","slug":"what-haunted-places-you-should-visit-in-poland-during-halloween-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/what-haunted-places-you-should-visit-in-poland-during-halloween-season\/","title":{"rendered":"What haunted places you should visit in Poland during Halloween season?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you a fan of Halloween and haunted places? Are traditional ways of spending time while traveling not enough for you? If yes, then trip to Poland with a little bit of a thrill may be a great idea!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8081\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft post-item__attachment\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8081\" class=\"wp-image-8081 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2019\/10\/lost-places-4332498_1920-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2019\/10\/lost-places-4332498_1920-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2019\/10\/lost-places-4332498_1920-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2019\/10\/lost-places-4332498_1920-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2019\/10\/lost-places-4332498_1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8081\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lost places&#8230;Image by Michael Gaida from Pixabay<\/p><\/div>\n<p>You probably will not able to find much information about haunted places with chilling stories in Polish guidebooks&#8230;Places with a terrible past, stories repeated by the locals so often that legends mingle with the truth! I will try to give you few ideas here!<\/p>\n<p>First, take a look at the <strong>skull chapel<\/strong> (also called <strong>&#8220;the chapel of bones&#8221;<\/strong>) I wrote about a while ago:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"Zb3z56yRIp\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/would-you-step-inside-this-polish-chapel-made-out-of-skulls\/\">Would you step inside this Polish chapel made out of skulls?<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Would you step inside this Polish chapel made out of skulls?&#8221; &#8212; Polish Language Blog\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/would-you-step-inside-this-polish-chapel-made-out-of-skulls\/embed\/#?secret=ojKWzMCcrw#?secret=Zb3z56yRIp\" data-secret=\"Zb3z56yRIp\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This would be a great place to start!<\/p>\n<p>Another place that may give you chills is the abandoned <strong>Zofi\u00f3wka psychiatric hospital located near Warsaw.\u00a0<\/strong>If you dare, you can enter the building of the old <b>Zofi\u00f3wka asylum, located in Otwock.\u00a0<\/b>The Zofi\u00f3wka asylum was founded in 1907 and was intended for mentally ill Jews. During the liquidation of the ghetto in Otwock in 1942, the Germans killed about 110-140 patients of this hospital in the nearby forest as part of Aktion T4 (a program implemented in the Third Reich, involving the extermination of disabled people). The rest of the patients were taken to concentration camps. Some medical staff managed to flee in an ambulance to Warsaw, and those who remained committed suicide. However, the building was not abandoned completely until 1998, after closing a sanatorium that had been functioning there after the war. <strong>The locals still hear disturbing moans and footsteps in this Warsaw haunted house, and many of them swear that they saw blurred faces in the forest, surrounded by a strange glow&#8230;!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you enter the hospital building, red inscriptions on the walls may catch your eye. It probably is a little creepy to see signs like <b> &#8220;Behind you&#8221;, &#8220;I see you!&#8221; or &#8220;He craves your blood&#8221;!<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Next hunted place would be great for myself and my 2 daughters&#8230;since we are going to be dressed up as 3 witches from Hocus Pocus this year!!! And it is <strong>\u0141ysa G\u00f3ra in the \u015awi\u0119tokrzyskie Mountains.\u00a0<\/strong><b>Legend has it that \u0141ysa G\u00f3ra was once a meeting place for witches<\/b> who flew there for the Sabbath. It was there, at the top of the mountain, that they would light their bonfires and brew their poisons. And when the rooster crowed at midnight, the witches would sit on their brooms and fly down from the mountain, carried by the breeze.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8083\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright post-item__attachment\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8083\" class=\"wp-image-8083 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2019\/10\/witch-949055-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2019\/10\/witch-949055-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2019\/10\/witch-949055-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2019\/10\/witch-949055-1024x681.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8083\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image by Kevin Phillips from Pixabay<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The beliefs about the witches&#8217; Sabbath were probably related to the Slavic rite of burning the June fires, which took place on \u0141ysa G\u00f3ra.To this day, scholars studying demonology cannot reach a consensus as to the days the witches&#8217; Sabbaths were allegedly held on. According to some, these unusual meetings only took place on Saturdays, while others think that the Sabbaths were held as often as three days a week. The Sabbaths themselves in fact could be simply celebrations of pagan holidays, such as Kupa\u0142a Night.<\/p>\n<p>There is one more place I wanted to tell you about: <strong>Nawiedzony dom (hunted house\/horror house) in Krak\u00f3w, Wola Justowska<\/strong>. When passing by this mysterious building you will immediately feel a breath of terror on your neck. You can recognize the abandoned house in the Wola Justowska district by the fact that&#8230; <b>a tree is growing through its roof!<\/b>\u00a0The building&#8217;s surroundings also do not raise positive associations: the plot is infested with weeds, the fence is tangled with barbed wire, windows and doors are boarded, and the gate is wrapped with chains.<\/p>\n<p>The story of this haunted house in Krak\u00f3w dates back to the 1990s when a man supposedly hanged himself there. Shortly afterwards, a series of bizarre events occurred in this place. First, a married couple lived in the house, but they only lasted a month \u2013 the young couple moved out immediately after their car started by itself and drove forward in the garage.<\/p>\n<p>The next daredevils were the owners of a jewellery company who opened their shop in that house. After some time, they noticed that for some inexplicable reason, the gems in their drawers were crushed time and time again. Then there was an IT company, which also did not stay too long \u2013 something constantly burned their computers and threw monitors on the floor.<\/p>\n<p>Today, this haunted hous is locked up tight. However, pedestrians occasionally notice lights and dancing shadows in the windows. If you have the courage, you can stroll the nearby streets after dark to see if these legends are true&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nawiedzony Dom - Krak\u00f3w, Wola Justowska.\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bUY-ZSsAr6Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Did I manage to encourage you to visit any of these places? Or maybe there are some of you that have already done it? Let us know in comments below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"233\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2019\/10\/lost-places-4332498_1920-350x233.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2019\/10\/lost-places-4332498_1920-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2019\/10\/lost-places-4332498_1920-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2019\/10\/lost-places-4332498_1920-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2019\/10\/lost-places-4332498_1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>Are you a fan of Halloween and haunted places? Are traditional ways of spending time while traveling not enough for you? If yes, then trip to Poland with a little bit of a thrill may be a great idea! 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