Höfði House

One specific legend connects the ghost to Sólborg Jónsdottir, who reportedly took her own life after a legal case judged by the house's first owner, a judge and poet named Einar Benediktsson. She is said to have appeared to him at night. The haunting in the house got so bad that John Greenway that lived in the house in 1952 asked to be moved, that the house should be sold and the British consulate should move elsewhere. He was afraid of what he called: ‘Bumps in the night’, and even filed a special permission from the Foreign office to get out of there as quickly as possible. The same year Höfði was sold back to the Icelandic government and the official statement by the Foreign Ministry was: “We do not confirm or deny that the Hofdi has a ghost.”