The Borgvattnet Vicarage stands at the edge of a village of fifty people in Jämtland county, in the northeast of Sweden — a red timber house built in 1876, two storeys, surrounded by boreal forest that goes quiet in winter in the particular way of places very far from anywhere. Every clergyman who lived there since 1927 reported unusual events. Not some of them. All of them. They kept records.
The first report came from Chaplain Hedlund in 1927 — a formal letter about unexplained sounds, written in the tone of a maintenance report. In the 1930s, Rudolf Tängdén was the first to see a figure: a woman standing in rooms where no one was supposed to be. By the 1940s, objects were displaced between evenings and mornings. In 1945, Chaplain Erik Lindgren kept a private journal — including an account of a rocking chair he had brought with him that appeared occupied by a figure each time he entered, always gone before he could cross to it.
More ministers rotated through. The accounts stayed consistent across independent witnesses: a woman or women seen in the house, sounds without sources, objects displaced, the sensation of being watched. One chaplain reported seeing three women seated together who then were not there. The pattern across decades made the haunting of Borgvattnet one of the most documented in Scandinavia. The vicarage now operates as a guesthouse, receiving visitors from around the world who come specifically to spend the night in its documented history.
Story Source: adventuresweden.com
Address: Borgvattnet, 830 76 Stugun, Sweden
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