Legends of ghosts in Ukrainian castles
The Castle of Belgorod-Dnestrovsk
Belgorod-Dnestrovskyi Castle is the biggest ancient castle in Ukraine which is extant nowadays. It is situated on the right bank of the river Dnestr in 2 kilometres from the Black Sea and in 46 kilometres from the city of Odesa. The castle is built on the place of the ancient Greek town of Tira which existed in V century BC.
Lots of legends are connected with this castle One legend is linked to “the Maiden Tower”. One Moldavian ruler Alexander the Kind had a daughter, Tamara. She was evil and violent and surrounded herself with dissipated servants. While her father was away on war journeys, Tamara with the help of her servants was robbing the inhabitants of the Princedom. Once, she asked her father for some money to build a monastery, but instead of the monastery she brought a lot of peaceful people and made them build a strong castle. Then she declared herself the Queen of the land, settled in the castle and started robbing and killing people even more furiously than before. When Alexander the Kind returned home from his journey, he was shocked to know what his daughter had done during his absence. He repudiated Tamara and cursed her. After that, she fell asleep deeply. Being asleep Tamara was brought into the tower which the people called “the Maiden Tower” after her. Since then, the cruel princess has been sleeping in her tower, waiting for a prince who will come, expiate her guilt with his heroic deeds and want to marry her. At that moment Tamara will awake.
The other tower is called “the Dungeon Tower”. This tower is connected with a Ukrainian beauty named Paraskovia. According to the legend, the cruel Turkish ruler Uzun-pasha took Paraskovia prisoner and tried to make her change her faith into the Muslim one. But the proud girl remained adamant, and then Uzun-pasha put her into the wet and dark dungeon where she spent long-long days and nights. Once, the Turkish ruler came to see Paraskovia, but her fetters fell down from her, and she walked quietly out of the tower and then – out of e. At that moment Uzun-pasha regained his senses and sent his servants to catch the girl. They reached her near the firth and raised their yataghans to deal shortly with her, nevertheless, a miracle happened again: Paraskovia melted in the air, and on the place where she was standing there appeared a spring. And the janissaries turned into stones around the spring. The spring with transparent and clean water still runs there.
Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Akkerman_fortress
The Castle of Kamenetsk-Podolsk
The old castle of Kamenetsk-Podolsk is one of the most outstanding monuments of the art of fortification in Ukraine.This powerful defensive installation was built in XVI century on the basis of the Old Russian constructions of XII – XIII centuries. The Old Castle consists of 11 towers which are connected with each other with the help of defensive walls; there are also barracks and a siege well on the territory of the castle.
White Lady in the Kamenetsk-Podolsk Castle
In the history, fortress became known by the name of Polish princess of Italian descent, Bona Sforza. People of the countryside narrated many peculiar and imaginary stories on her behalf. Supposedly she sought eternal youth. In the course of absence any medicinal treatment that would provide it for her, Sforza would have to use blood of innocent virgins. There is another legend telling a story of a rope bridge crossing built out of female braids of hair that princess used to take to get into the castle.
To many well known narration about a tradition that Bona observed hiding out in a water well of underground palace and every Easter used to come out holding in her chin a golden key to a secret treasure chest filled with gold. Even though historian assert that Sforza owning the castle for twenty years had not visited it even once, motley canvas knit out of ancient legend perplex imagination. Sources:   
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamianets-Podilskyi_Castle http://niazkamenec.org.ua/ http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Kamyanets_Podilsky_Castle