Case file · High strangeness
Hasdeu's spirit-designed castle
After his brilliant daughter Iulia died in 1888 at 18, the Romanian scholar Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu turned to spiritualism, and said she gave him the plans for the castle he built at Câmpina in 1893–96.
1893 CE · 45.13, 25.73 · status: account
The account
Hasdeu held séances, published spiritualist writings and designed the building as a temple of communication with Iulia, with a 'throne' and symbolic rooms. It is now a museum, and visitors still report a ghostly woman in white.
The sceptical view
The communications come from Hasdeu's own séances; the ghost reports are later tourist lore.