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
Accessibility Rating: Booking Required — Open to visitors but requires advance reservation, ticket purchase, or tour booking.
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What Others Have Experienced
A travel writer who spent Halloween night in the vicarage’s Crying Ladies room described waking around 1 a.m. to find herself completely unable to move, as if an enormous weight had been placed on her entire body. The paralysis lasted roughly ten minutes before lifting without explanation. Her father sleeping nearby had meanwhile been kept awake by what sounded like tree branches scraping the window — despite there being no trees close to the building.
— from Adventure Sweden
A group on a guided tour reported receiving what they interpreted as direct responses through a K2 electromagnetic field meter, including what felt like a communication from a child’s grandmother. The experience made a strong impression on the entire group, who described it as far beyond what they had expected going in and said it left little room for skepticism.
— from TripAdvisor
A visitor described the vicarage as genuinely unnerving even for skeptics, noting the atmosphere of the house does most of the work before anything else happens. They praised the staff as warm and knowledgeable and called the guided tour well worth taking. The vicarage’s ghost-themed waffles served in the cafe also received an enthusiastic mention.
— from TripAdvisor
A visitor who first stayed at the vicarage in the late 1980s and returned in summer 2023 noted the experience was equally unsettling on both occasions, separated by more than thirty years. They offered no specific detail about what occurred either time but described the atmosphere as consistently and unmistakably strange. The fact that they came back a second time decades later seemed to speak for itself.
— from TripAdvisor
A guest who spent the night in the Crier’s Room reported leaving the next morning without any dramatic paranormal encounters but still found the stay worthwhile and the hospitality of the operators genuinely warm. They noted the beds were comfortable and recommended the vicarage as a destination whether or not the spirits choose to cooperate on a given night.
— from TripAdvisor
