House of Terror (Terror Háza)

The House of Terror (Terror Háza) is a museum and memorial located on Andrássy Avenue in central Budapest. Housed in a city palace historically used by state security services, the museum contains exhibits documenting the fascist Arrow Cross and later communist regimes in 20th‑century Hungary and serves as a memorial to the victims of those regimes. Sources describe the site as containing material related to those detained, interrogated, tortured, or killed in the building and note its role as a major cultural and educational institution on a principal Budapest boulevard. The museum has been the subject of public discussion and academic interest concerning representation and transitional memory; it has marked institutional anniversaries and appears widely in travel and history guides. The provided research materials contain no reports or claims of paranormal phenomena, spirits, apparitions, poltergeist activity, or other supernatural events associated with the House of Terror. Visitor reactions recorded in travel and feature pieces are emotional and commemorative responses to the museum's content rather than descriptions of unexplained phenomena. Scholarly and journalistic sources focus on historical, curatorial, and memory‑politics aspects of the site rather than any supernatural interpretation. The building remains open to visitors as a public museum and memorial.