Europe Pro E&E News Search WASHINGTON & POLITICS Congress White House 2024 Elections Supreme Court and Legal Issues Magazine Latest on POLITICO TRANSITION OF POWER Trump’s First 100 Days Tracking Trump’s Cabinet picks Inside Congress Live Trump Criminal Cases Trump Tariffs STATE POLITICS & POLICY California Florida New Jersey New York GLOBAL POLITICS & POLICY NATO Brussels Canada United Kingdom POLICY NEWS Food and Agriculture Cannabis Cybersecurity Defense Education Energy and Climate Tax, Finance and the Economy Health Care Labor Sustainability Tech Trade Transportation NEWSLETTERS Playbook Playbook PM West Wing Playbook Inside Congress POLITICO Nightly POLITICO Weekend The Recast All Newsletters COLUMNISTS Rachael Bade Alex Burns Victoria Guida John Harris Ankush Khardori Jonathan Martin Michael Schaffer Nahal Toosi All Columnists SERIES & MORE Breaking News Alerts Podcasts Video The Fifty Biden’s Billions Women Rule Matt Wuerker Cartoons Cartoon Carousel POLITICO Live Upcoming Events Previous Events Follow us X Instagram Facebook My Account Log In Marco Rubio’s esteem is rising in Trump world — at a cost With four hats, including national security adviser, the former Trump rival is defying predictions he’d be a weak player. Secretary of State Marco Rubio attends a National Day of Prayer event. Secretary of State Marco Rubio attends a National Day of Prayer event with President Donald Trump in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington on May 1, 2025. | Yuri Gripas/Abaca By Nahal Toosi, Felicia Schwartz and Robbie Gramer 05/03/2025 07:01 AM EDT Marco Rubio is doing big things under President Donald Trump — way more than nearly anyone expected. The secretary of State was once thought of as one of the weakest players in the Trump orbit, a man who wouldn’t last long in the Cabinet because he faced many internal rivals and had major policy differences with Trump and the MAGA base. But Rubio has deftly earned the president’s trust, enough so that Trump this week gave him another powerful job as interim national security adviser, replacing the ousted Mike Waltz. Some Trump advisers are interested in making the arrangement permanent, as POLITICO first reported. Rubio’s esteem has risen in Trump’s eyes since the former senator has abandoned many of his past policy views, loudly defended some of Trump’s harshest policies and worked well with others who have the president’s ear. “He took this job knowing exactly what he was getting into,” said Sen. James Risch of Idaho, the Republican chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. “When you take a job like this, you are no longer a free agent like you are when you’re a United States senator. … When you take the job, you commit to make happen what your boss wants to happen, and he has real ability to do that.” President Donald Trump participates in a National Day of Prayer event in the Rose Garden at the White House. President Donald Trump participates in a National Day of Prayer event in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington on May 1, 2025. House speaker Mike Johnson, front row left, and members of Trump's cabinet attend. | Yuri Gripas/Abaca Trump, who once derided Rubio, a presidential rival, as “Li’l Marco,” now appears to see the former Florida senator as a fixer who can tackle key challenges, enough so that he’s given Rubio four concurrent jobs. Speaking Thursday in the Rose Garden, Trump said: “When I have a problem, I call up Marco. He gets it solved.” Rubio’s rise offers a lesson to others trying to survive under Trump, whose first term was marked by constant staff turnover. Subordinate your ego and your views to the president’s; stay quiet when you need to, but be loud in defending Trump’s point of view; and outmaneuver rivals by doing just enough to make Trump unwilling to side against you. “It’s a snake pit, but Rubio just seemed to be a little better at navigating it,” a former Trump administration official said of the collection of officials and envoys that make up Trump’s top advisers. “You have to play well with all of these people.” The person, like others, was granted anonymity to speak candidly about a sensitive topic. Detractors say Rubio is rising in prominence at great cost, by deserting policies he long backed. Some argue he’s become nothing more than a Trump vassal, with little power in his own right. “Once you let yourself get trampled on, you lose respect, you lose cache, you lose your future in Washington, and Rubio is a doormat,” said Adam Ereli, a former U.S. ambassador to Bahrain under presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. Supporters argue that Rubio is a skillful politician who has achieved various heights — including serving as speaker of the Florida House of Representatives when just 35 years old, and as a U.S. senator with senior roles on the intelligence and foreign relations committees — by being flexible and receptive to voters’ views. That includes the voters who swept Trump to power. As a result, his role has expanded. He is now secretary of State, interim national security adviser, acting administrator for USAID and acting archivist of the United States. Asked for comment, the State Department offered the following statement: “Secretary Rubio is honored by the trust placed in him and is working every single day to execute the president’s agenda.” MOST READ supreme-court-jackson-99747.jpg Ketanji Brown Jackson sharply condemns Trump’s attacks on judges Trump sends a scorched-earth budget plan. GOP lawmakers hate it already. JD Vance’s Canadian pal tells him: Please don’t visit ‘He’s Trying to Colonize This Community’: Inside Elon Musk’s Plan to Take Over This Texas Town The Supreme Court Could Unleash Chaos on the Economy Secretary of State Marco Rubio boards his plane. Secretary of State Marco Rubio boards his plane at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, April 2, 2025, en route to NATO in Belgium. | Pool photo by Jacquelyn Martin Rubio has made inroads under Trump in part by not being too territorial. There are multiple foreign policy power players on the Trump team, including special envoy Steve Witkoff, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, Vice President JD Vance and White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, all of whom, according to a former Trump administration official, carry more weight than their titles suggest. But Rubio, the chief U.S. diplomat, has been able to work with the others. Rubio remains, for instance, a major voice on Iran policy, one U.S. official said, even though Witkoff leads that file. He’s also tight with Wiles, a fellow Floridian. The pair have remained in close contact as they’ve taken their respective roles in the administration, according to two people close to the White House. That said, Rubio is willing to knife people, too. He pushed out Pete Marocco, a MAGA favorite, who oversaw the dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development, amid policy differences and complaints over Marocco’s workplace actions. Rubio also successfully pushed back against demands from Trump adviser Elon Musk for radical, speedy cuts to the State Department — even drawing some support from Trump despite the president’s fondness for the billionaire. Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency team had spawned havoc as it imposed rapid cuts to USAID. The damage to the agency was well underway before Rubio took over as acting administrator, but he chose not to stop it. But Rubio did not want to repeat that chaos at State, according to a Trump administration official close to Rubio. So although Rubio has unveiled big cuts and restructuring plans for State, the moves are more methodical than what happened at USAID. Supporters hold signs of support for former USAID employees terminated after the Trump administration dismantled the agency. Supporters hold signs as former USAID employees terminated after the Trump administration dismantled the agency collect their personal belongings at the USAID headquarters on Feb. 27, 2025, in Washington. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Rubio also has endeared himself to Trump by aggressively adopting many of the president’s policies, even if they clashed with his past views. Rubio previously boosted human rights and democracy programs abroad. But Trump’s MAGA base sees such endeavors as “woke” liberal projects that are a waste of money. Now, Rubio is eliminating many programs that carry out such work. Rubio was once viewed as a hawkish Republican who backed everything from heavy sanctions on dictatorships to some U.S. military intervention abroad. He insisted the U.S. had to support Ukraine as it fought off a Russian invasion, and was a major voice challenging the rise of China. But since taking over as secretary of State, he has moderated such positions — pressuring Ukraine to come to a peace agreement with Russia, and suggesting casually that the U.S. needs to accept that the world is more multipolar in part because of China’s growing power. Rubio also has tried to woo the MAGA base, including by regularly appearing on talk shows hosted by favorites of that crowd. “He has fundamentally converted his own foreign policy views in order to serve,” said Aaron David Miller, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, who worked for both Republican and Democratic secretaries of State. Rubio’s backers in the Trump administration say his views were evolving before he joined the Cabinet, especially as he has traveled the U.S. and listened to voters who want the government to focus more on domestic challenges. He made it clear upon landing at Foggy Bottom that he would implement the president’s vision, not his own. “In our republic, the voters decide the course of our nation, both domestically and abroad, and they have elected Donald J. Trump as our president when it comes to foreign policy on a very clear mission,” Rubio said in his arrival speech. “That mission is to ensure that our foreign policy is centered on one thing and that is the advancement of our national interest.” Rubio, who in the past touted his family’s Cuban immigrant story, also has enthusiastically — even pugilistically — carried out Trump’s anti-immigration policies, including signing off on revoking many student visas and implementing efforts to send migrants to a prison in El Salvador. Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks as President Donald Trump looks on during a cabinet meeting. Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks as President Donald Trump looks on during a cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., April 30, 2025. | Ken Cedeno/UPI During a Cabinet meeting Wednesday, Rubio was asked if he’d requested that El Salvador return a man the Justice Department has admitted was mistakenly deported. “I would never tell you that. And you know who else I’ll never tell? A judge,” Rubio replied. “The conduct of our foreign policy belongs to the president of the United States and the executive branch, not some judge.” With Rubio expected to serve as both secretary of State and national security adviser for at least six months and likely longer, current and former State officials warned that it’s hard to do both jobs well. Some wondered if it meant both positions would be watered down. They also questioned how Rubio would balance the demands of travel for the secretary of State with the national security adviser’s tendency to stay by the president’s side while overseeing the National Security Council. “It’s hard to be in two places at once,” a former senior diplomat said. There’s a bit of cockiness in some corners at the State Department, which has seen its power eroded over the decades as the NSC and Pentagon have outmaneuvered it. “What’s the NSC? A new bureau of State?” one State official quipped. President Gerald Ford, flanked by Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, left, and and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, right, holds his first post election cabinet meeting in the White House, 1976. President Gerald Ford, flanked by Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, left, and and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, right, holds his first post election cabinet meeting in the White House in Washington, Nov. 5,1976. | AP Serving as secretary of State and national security adviser didn’t always go well for the only other person who’s done it, diplomat Henry Kissinger. During that 1970s stint, Kissinger faced questions about whether he manipulated decision-making to favor State and himself. “People at the Defense Department and other agencies that had roles in the national security process thought that it was unfair that everything was biased in Kissinger’s favor because he held two chairs,” said John Bolton, a first-term Trump national security adviser who has fallen out with the president. “That was one reason why pressure grew on [President Gerald] Ford, ultimately, to separate them and go back to the regular order.” Dasha Burns contributed to this report. 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The end of the deep state is here; Supreme Court seems likely to give Trump more power over agencies President Trump wants the Supreme Court to overturn a 90-year-old precedent limiting his ability to remove leaders of independent agencies. Portrait of Maureen GroppeMaureen Groppe USA TODAY Updated Dec. 8, 2025, 4:56 p.m. ET Deeper Dive BETA Which company sued over Trump's tariffs in a Supreme Court case? When did the Supreme Court hear arguments on Trump's agency firing case? What precedent does Trump seek to overturn regarding agency leadership removal? Which company sued over Trump's tariffs in a Supreme Court case? WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court appears likely to agree with President Donald Trump that he can fire at will the heads of some independent agencies, hearing arguments on Dec. 8 in a case that could redefine how more than a dozen agencies operate and shift power from Congress to the president. The agencies were set up by Congress to be led by politically balanced boards of experts serving staggered, fixed terms. But Trump argues presidential control will make agencies like the Federal Trade Commission, the Consumer Product Safety Commission and the Federal Election Commission more accountable to voters who elect presidents. “The real-world consequences here are human beings exercising enormous governmental authority with a great deal of control over individuals and small and large businesses who ultimately do not answer to the president,” Solicitor General John Sauer told the justices during nearly 2 ½ hours of oral arguments. “That’s a power vacuum.” A lawyer for Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, a FTC commissioner fired by Trump, countered that independent agencies have been part of the nation's governing structure since 1790. “Any abstract theory that would wipe away so much history and precedent should be a nonstarter,” attorney Amit Agarwal argued. Conservative justices sympathetic to Trump's argument President Donald Trump shakes hands with Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 20, 2025. But the court’s conservative supermajority seemed more sympathetic to the Trump administration’s position. Most seemed to agree that the president should be able to remove leaders from at least some agencies and pushed only on how far that could go. Justice Brett Kavanaugh, for example, stressed early that he views the Federal Reserve differently. By contrast, the court’s three liberal justices tried to raise the alarm about the potential consequences of letting presidents control agencies that Congress tried to insulate from political interference. “The result of what you want is that the president is going to have massive, unchecked, uncontrolled power,” Justice Elena Kagan said, “not only to do traditional execution, but to make law through legislative and adjudicative frameworks." Get the Susan Page newsletter in your inbox. Get the latest story from Susan Page right in your inbox. Delivery: Varies Your Email In response, Justice Samuel Alito gave Sauer the chance to argue that the results won’t be disastrous. “In fact, our entire government will move towards accountability,” Sauer agreed. But Agarwal said a president could “just on a whim decide tomorrow that everything the agency has been doing is wrong.” Trump wants Supreme Court to overturn a 90-year-old precedent The headquarters of the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in Washington, DC, November 18, 2024. Trump wants the court to overturn a 1935 decision limiting a president's ability to remove leaders of multimember administrative agencies, a decision the court has been chipping away at since 2010. Under the “unitary executive theory” that conservatives have advanced for years, the Constitution gives presidents complete control over executive functions, which must include the power to remove commission members. In 1935, however, the Supreme Court said the FTC’s duties were “neither political nor executive, but predominantly quasi-judicial and quasi-legislative.” The Department of Justice argues that even if that was a correct interpretation of the FTC in 1935 − which it disputes − it no longer is. Supreme Court could topple yet another campaign finance limit Supreme Court to take on controversial Trump policy on birthright citizenship Supreme Court lets Texas use congressional map favored by Trump Supreme Court not ready to tackle prayers at football games again Supreme Court to review controversial policy at US-Mexico border to limit asylum seekers Trump ratchets up pressure on Supreme Court not to overturn his tariffs Will the Supreme Court treat Trump's tariffs like Biden's policies? Amy Coney Barrett says 'I'm nobody's justice.' That includes Trump. “It was grievously wrong when decided,” Sauer told the justices. He had a receptive audience. Chief Justice John Roberts called that 1935 decision, Humphrey's Executor v. United States, a “dried husk of whatever people used to think it was” because it has “nothing to do with what the FTC looks like today.” But Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the court’s most senior liberal justice, asked Sauer if the court has ever overturned such a long-standing precedent with a major impact on how the government operates. “You’re asking us to destroy the structure of government and to take away from Congress its ability to protect its idea that a government is better structured with some agencies that are independent,” she said. Expert predicts court will overturn Humprey's Executor Kevin King, a partner at Covington & Burling law firm who focuses on appellate and administrative and constitutional law matters, expects the court to overrule − not just further curtail − Humphrey’s Executor. That would mean Trump could remove heads of the FTC and of similar agencies. But King said Kagan’s probing about the potentially far-reaching consequences on other agencies could make a difference when the justices meet privately to discuss the case. “Even if Justice Kagan is not on the winning side of the vote here,” he said, “she nevertheless is influencing the court’s reasoning, and her questions may lead some of her colleagues to take a more cautious and narrow approach here.” Trump declared all federal agencies are under his control The Supreme Court from left, Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Amy Coney Barrett, Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch, Chief Justice John Roberts, and Justices Brett Kavanaugh, Samuel Alito, Ketanji Brown Jackson and Elena Kagan. After taking office, Trump declared that all federal agencies are under his control. “The days of rule by unelected bureaucrats are over,” the president said in a March address to Congress. That same month, Trump fired the two Democratic members of the five-member Federal Trade Commission board, Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya. The FTC enforces a variety of antitrust and consumer protection laws affecting virtually every area of commerce. He’d already removed Democratic members of two federal labor boards and would later fire the three Democrats on the CPSC. The Supreme Court allowed the firings to proceed while it decides whether Congress had the ability to limit the reasons regulators could be removed to “inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office.” Supreme Court will later consider Federal Reserve case Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook attends the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City's 2025 Jackson Hole economic symposium, "Labor Markets in Transition: Demographics, Productivity, and Macroeconomic Policy" in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, on Aug. 23, 2025. One question hanging over the case is whether the court will treat the Federal Reserve Board of Governors differently, as the justices suggested they might earlier this year when issuing a temporary ruling about firing labor commission members without cause. And the court did not allow Trump to immediately fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, deciding instead to hear arguments in January on his claim that he has just cause to remove her. Slaughter’s and Cook’s cases are among at least four the justices are deciding in the coming months that test Trump’s expansive view of presidential authority. The court is also weighing whether Trump can impose sweeping tariffs on imports even though the Constitution gives Congress the power to raise revenue. And the court will decide if Trump's interpretation of the Constitution means he can deny citizenship to some babies born in the United States. A decision in Trump v. Slaughter is expected by the end of June.
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Freakin' Paranormal Freakin' Paranormal A haunted travel guide for the freakin' adventurous. Home Podcast Blog About Contact Us! Haunted Croatia Croatia is not only a beautiful country, it has numerous paranormal sites. What stands out about Croatia is that many of the hauntings are caused by recent events, in comparison to the much older stories we have told in our previous episodes. At first, we thought this might be due to the number of modern wars that ravaged this part of Europe. There have been eight wars fought here since 1918. However, when we compared modern day to the long history of this strategically-placed country, we learned that eight wars was just a drop in the bucket of bloodshed. Starting in 791 when Charlemagne marched into Croatia and made it a vassal state, Croatia has been involved in eighty-nine conflicts. That’s a lot of loss and heartache. The Witch, the Trial and the Guy in the Tower Veliki Tabor Castle via Wikipedia This story takes place in Veliki Tabor Castle in Hum Košnički, which is near Zagreb, the capital of Croatia. The castle is now a museum and can be visited. But the story is not about the castle. It’s about a young woman, Veronika of Desinić. The land around Veliki Tabor was once ruled by Count Herman II of Celje. His son Fridrik fell in love with a local girl. Of course, the count didn’t approve. So of course, the couple married in secret in Slovenia. When the count found out, he imprisoned his son in a tower for four years—which is a welcome departure from what would usually happen in such a case. The count pursued and caught Veronika and accused her of witchcraft, because she had certainly cast a spell over his son. Why else would his son misbehave? Veronika was put on trial and found innocent. Surprise. But the count overturned the verdict. He ordered his soldiers to kill the witch. Veronika was drowned in the castle courtyard of Veliki Tabor. Legend has it that as a safeguard, her body was built into the castle’s walls. No mention was made of what happened to the imprisoned son. He probably gained forty pounds in the tower and was married off to a royal hemophiliac from Prussia. The usual… Why It’s Superstitious: Go there at night—especially a cold dark night—and you might year Veronika’s cries and wails. Go there: Veliki Tabor Castle, Hum Košnički, Croatia The Island No One Will Buy Daska Island, via https://www.croatiaweek.com/controversial-croatian-island-up-for-sale-again/ For under two million euros, you could buy Daska Island. For that staggeringly low price, you get a villa, an old monastery, a lighthouse and a couple of crumbling docks on your own private island close to a major tourist destination. Sounds like a great investment, doesn’t it? But wait…the place is haunted. You can see small J-shaped Daska Island from the city of Dubrovnik. Daska is only 1.5 miles away from shore. In fact, you could swim to the isle—but no one ever does. Locals give the island a wide berth. So that means, if you were interested in buying the house, you’d have a difficult time hiring a boat to take you out to look at it. Inhabited by monks in medieval times. Place of refuge for sailors during storms. Everything changed in October 1944. Nazis were ousted at the end of WWII. Nazi sympathizers were rounded up, taken to the island and shot. 48-53 people were executed. Bodies left unburied. The dead included the mayor of Dubrovnik and some priests. Citizens were forbidden to collect their dead. In 2009, explorers stumbled over remains of six people. Authorities found 48 more. The bodies have been buried and a memorial erected. The math doesn’t make sense, but that’s what the research said… Why It’s Supernatural Ghosts and bad spirits haunt the island. Sailors won’t go ashore. Many won’t take a boat even close. Go There: Daska Island, Croatia The First Recorded Case of Vampirism A Bulgarian skeleton stabbed through the chest with an iron bar, via Wikipedia Jure Grando Alilović wasn’t famous enough or rich enough to have his portrait painted in the 16th century, so there is no image available of him. But his legend lives on. He was born in 1579 in Kringa on the Istria peninsula. He died in 1656 from an illness—nothing out of the ordinary for the time. In fact, he was fairly old. Seventy-seven. Lucky… But after Grando died, he began to terrorize his village until he was decapitated in 1672. The local priest reported that at night, Grando would knock on doors of the village, and whatever door he knocked on, in that home a person would die in a matter of days. Grando also appeared to his terrified widow in her bedroom. She described the corpse as smiling and gasping for breath. He would sexually assault her but didn’t kill her. Small favors. The priest eventually came face-to-face with the vampire and held out a cross and called on God to stop him. But his efforts were fruitless. A villager ran after the vampire and tried to stab him in the chest with a hawthorn stick, but couldn’t pierce the monster’s chest. Kringa, Croatia via Wikipedia The next night, the priest and nine other people marched to Grando’s grave. When they dug up his coffin, they found a perfectly-preserved corpse with a smile on its face. One of the villagers sawed off the vampire’s head. As soon as the saw cut the vampire’s flesh, he let out a roar and blood burst from his throat. After the decapitation, Grando the vampire was never seen in the village again. Why It’s Supernatural: It’s a vampire tale. Enough said… Go there: Kringa, Croatia The Lokrum Curse The former Benedictine monastery on Lokrum Island via Wikipedia. Lokrum Island is off the coast of the city of Dubrovnik. Benedictine monks first built a monastery there in 1023. Centuries later, in a government takeover, a French general demanded that the monks leave the island. On their last day at the monastery, the monks circled the island three times, holding candles upside down and chanting, “Whosoever claims Lokrum for his own personal pleasure shall be damned!“ Soon after the eviction, three aristocrats involved in the land grab were dead. One jumped out a window, one drowned, and another was killed by a servant. Later owners, including Captain Tomaševic, Archduke Maximilian Ferdinand of Habsburg and his wife Charlotte, either lost their fortunes, lost their lives or went insane. Many tragedies befell the Hapsburg family members who were unlucky enough to inherit the small island. Now all that remains on the island is a botanical garden and some wild peacocks. Why It’s Supernatural: Travelers can visit the island, but locals warn them to leave before dark. The residents of Dubrovnik still believe the curse remains. Go there: Lokrum Island, Croatia (by boat) Just Bury Me, and I’ll Leave… Prandau-Normann Castle via Wikipedia The church inside the castle, via Wikipedia This is the story of a courageous young woman who just wanted some basic human decency shown for her remains—and perhaps some recognition of her courage during an attack on the fortress now known as Prandau-Normann Castle. Prandau-Normann Castle in Valpovo is one of the largest schlosses (German for chateaux) in Croatia. It houses the oldest church in Croatia. Why is the castle paranormal? Because of another ghost lady. Only she’s white this time, and not green or gray. Apparently the spirit of a girl—the Lady in White—haunted the castle until a colonel in the imperial army visited the place in the 1800s. His name was Kuschmann. He complained about seeing a ghost. Maybe he was a channeler. Maybe he was an empath. Or maybe he didn’t like his after-dinner cigar interrupted by a young girl who claimed to have been murdered hundreds of years earlier. The ghost told him her body had been thrown unceremoniously between the ice-cellar and the city chapel, and she was going to keep bothering mortals until someone found her mortal remains and buried them. The owner of the castle, Baron Prandau, couldn’t have his guest being hounded by the Lady in White, so he ordered an excavation. And what do you know? The skeleton of a female was found in the exact spot the ghost told Colonel Kuschmann it would be. Many believe the skeleton belonged to a courageous heroine, Catherine, who helped defend the Valpovo fortress against the Turks in the 16th century. Why It’s Supernatural: Catherine’s ghost no longer haunts the castle, now that she has been found. Go there: Prandau-Normann Castle in Valpovo, Croatia The House No One Will Buy Ghost in the window of the Skrinjari House via @CreepyFacts1166 This house is located in the small village of Skrinjari and is considered one of the most haunted places in Croatia. There are many reports of paranormal activities in the house and around it. Unlike most haunted places we’ve talked about, this one is a fairly recent structure. The Skrinjari House via lets-travel-more.com Built in the 1950s or 80s. The owner left the house because of the paranormal activities. The house has been on the market since 1997 for an unusually low price. There are rumors that say the owner will give the house to anyone who can spend the night there. There are lots of reasons why this place might be haunted. Built over a graveyard. Small girl fell into a well and drowned. A young woman was killed here and supposedly her body was hidden in the foundations. The owner purposely built the structure to “leave something” behind (an evil spirit). What It’s Supernatural Eerie sounds like crying of a baby, screams, strange noises, strange shadows. Apparitions of woman and small girl inside the house and around the house. Apparently, those who have tried to spend the night have ended up in mental hospitals. Two policemen decided to investigate the house. However, their equipment didn’t work inside of the house, and in the morning they were found walking the house completely disoriented.
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