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Haunted places in Norway
What are the most haunted places in Norway? The best-known is Doppelgänger.
Norwegian folklore gave the world the vardøger, a spirit double that arrives before its owner – people hear footsteps at the door or a voice in the hall, and minutes later the real person walks in. It is a gentler cousin of the doppelgänger, often seen as a kind of guardian spirit.
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Haunted places in Norway
The ghost lore of Norway
The coast has its draug, the ghost of a drowned fisherman sailing half a boat with seaweed for a head, whose appearance warns of death at sea, while the forests are home to the huldra, a beautiful woman with a cow’s tail. Medieval fortresses and old wooden towns add their own ghost stories.
Ghost-hunting hotspots
- Nordland coast
The fishing coast of northern Norway, where the sea draug of folklore warned of storms and drowning.
- Akershus Fortress, Oslo
A medieval castle and former prison on the Oslo fjord, one of the capital’s best-known settings for ghost stories.
- Norway’s forests and mountain farms
The traditional realm of the huldra, the trolls and other beings of Norwegian folk belief.
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