The castle in Pieskowa Skała near Krakow has ghostly inhabitants who only visit its walls at night.
A man in a long black cloak with a hood, seemingly concealing a severed head by royal decree, wanders the courtyard and corridors. It is in this guise that Krzysztof Szafraniec, the former lord of Pieskowa Skała, appears – a troublemaker and squabbling crusader who opposed royal authority. In 1580, he was beheaded in Kraków's Market Square by decree of Stefan Batory. His body was buried in the basement of the Dominican Church, near the site of his execution, and his spirit, a headless specter, returns to his estate at night.
The second specter of Pieskowa Skała is the unfortunate Dorota – in life, she was the wife of one of the castle's castellans. Her jealous husband overheard her confessing her love for the court lutenist to the priest in the castle chapel and ordered her thrown into a dungeon, condemning her to death by starvation. Dorota's apparition is often seen on the first floor, in the hallway where the castle chapel once stood. A woman in a dark cloak draped over her dress kneels, her face turned to the wall. Approach her closely and she vanishes into thin air
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