{"id":871363,"date":"2022-10-26T16:43:40","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T15:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trafalgar.com\/real-word\/?p=871363"},"modified":"2025-06-23T17:05:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T16:05:54","slug":"travel-directors-ghost-stories-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trafalgar.com\/real-word\/travel-directors-ghost-stories-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel Directors share 6 chilling ghost stories from Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In honour of Halloween, we asked our Travel Directors to share their spookiest, scariest, most chilling ghost stories from around the world. From haunted houses to eerie islands, we found the best ghost tales and spooky stories came straight from beautiful Italy<\/a> and it’s rich, dark history. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read on to discover the craziest ghost stories and real-life spooky tales to inspire your next trip abroad\u2026 or keep you up at night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The drowned man of Campiello del Remer <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn the late 16th century, a nobleman called Loredan fell in love and married the Doge\u2019s niece. Loredan was, unfortunately, a horribly jealous man who later accused his wife of adultery (she denied it). He chased her from their home with a sword and ended up beheading her in front of the Doge himself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs punishment, the Doge ordered Loredan to carry his dead wife\u2019s body to the pope in Rome to ask for forgiveness. The pope refused to see him, so Loredan walked back to Venice and, distraught, threw himself into the lagoon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHis ghost can still reportedly be seen at the Campiello del Remer at the Grand Canal, coming out of the water carrying his wife\u2019s head.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Follow Travel Director <\/em>Victorio<\/em><\/a> on Instagram<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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GET INSPIRED BY: <\/em><\/strong>Italian Glory<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Venetian Island plagued by ghosts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere is an island in the Venetian lagoon, called Poveglia, where many plague victims in the past were left to die. The island covers an area of seven hectares, and it is said that around 160,000 people died there so half the ground is made up of their remains. Poveglia is considered one of the most haunted places in the world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLocal fishermen don\u2019t fish around the island and locals prefer not to go there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Follow Travel Director <\/em>Maria<\/em><\/a> on Instagram<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ghost bride of Florence<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt Piazza della Santissima Annunziata in the Palazzo Budini Gattai (once known as Palazzo Grifoni) the last window on the top-right floor is always open. Why? There is a ghost bride is waiting for her husband’s return. Centuries ago, one of the Grifoni sons was called off to go to war that even the Florentine nobles could not escape. He had to leave his young bride with the promise that he would return soon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHis bride waited patiently behind the open window for decades, but her loved one never returned. She kept on waiting until the day of her death when the window was finally closed. Legend has it that immediately the furniture started shaking, books flew around and off the shelves, and paintings fell off the walls. This continued until the shutters were reopened, and so that is why this window is always left open.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Follow Travel Director <\/em>Marina<\/em><\/a> on Instagram<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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GET INSPIRED BY: <\/em><\/strong>Best of Italy<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A ghost in the kitchen<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAround 10 years ago I was with a group of guests enjoying dinner at Palazzo Rossi, a local hamlet around the Appennino Bolognese area. It was Halloween night and there was just us in the restaurant with two waiters and two cooks In the kitchen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt the end of the meal, we took souvenir photos with chef Marcello and the three other staff. Many of the guests took the exact same photo from different angles, and one of the guests had in his picture a hooded man whose face was not clear. Only in one photo he appeared where there were five people instead of four. We all were shocked because the whole group knew that nobody dressed like that had been posing with the chefs and waiters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis has been the strangest, most paranormal thing I have experienced. We went away and most of us, even the most skeptical, couldn’t explain how this happened. To play this down I told them that it was what normally should happen during Halloween night, but I still think about it\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Travel Director Fabrizio<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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RELATED BLOG: <\/em><\/strong>10 spooky Halloween traditions from around the world<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Haunted houses in Sorrento<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOne evening while on tour in Sorrento some tourists came to the reception of our hotel asking for a room. The hotel was full, but those tourists were desperate because they did not want to go back to their B&B. They had heard moaning, screams, doors and windows slamming and they were meant to stay for the night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI thought they were exaggerating until the owner of the hotel told me the whole story. In that area of Naples and Sorrento there are properties that once belonged to the Church. People later bought those properties for very little money and made speculations with them, so eventually those places would become haunted where no one can sleep in peace! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs a matter of fact, there are still lots of beautiful properties abandoned by the locals in that area because nobody will buy them!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Follow Travel Director <\/em>Letizia<\/em><\/a> on Instagram<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The hotel ghost<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI was staying at a hotel with my group many years ago and had no idea that it was haunted. But my guests and I experienced the appearance of a ghost! During the night there was someone trying the handle of my door, but every time I got up to see and check in the corridor, there was no one there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe next morning some of my guests reported seeing a lady walking around the corridors, dressed in a long white dress, and asked me who she was. When I enquired with the staff they told me that it was the hotel ghost.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Follow Travel Director <\/em>Maria<\/em><\/a> on Instagram<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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GET INSPIRED BY: <\/em><\/strong>Contrasts of Italy<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those are our spookiest ghost stories and legends from our Travel Directors. Do you have a ghost tale to share? Leave us a comment below\u2026.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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