Versuchen GOLD - Frei
Saints and Spirits on the Black Sea
The Morning Standard
|August 10, 2025
Bulgaria's Anastasia Island trades beachy clichés for pirate legends, and monastic ghosts

Forget beach bars and banana boats. Bulgaria's Anastasia Island, a speck in the Black Sea just off Burgas, doesn't serve you sunshine and selfies—it serves you shivers. With its pirate-haunted cliffs, a monastery-turned-prison-turned-hotel, and ghost stories thick in the air, this is not your ordinary sun-kissed beach escape.
The small island lacks in mojitos and luxury, but it makes up for it with its legends, mystery, and eeriness—enough to make you sleep with an open eye and a proven spell to ward off ghosts.
A volcanic hiccup floating off the coast of Burgas, the island as small as the size of a ship, but big enough to squeeze in centuries of sacred legend, herbal remedies, and enough ghost stories to warrant its own horror franchise.
The island’s volcanic cliffs have eroded into natural rock formations with names that sound less like geography and more like a prophecy: The Dragon, The Gate of the Sun, The Mushroom, and—cue ominous music—The Petrified Ship.
Diese Geschichte stammt aus der August 10, 2025-Ausgabe von The Morning Standard.
Abonnieren Sie Magzter GOLD, um auf Tausende kuratierter Premium-Geschichten und über 9.000 Zeitschriften und Zeitungen zuzugreifen.
Sie sind bereits Abonnent? Anmelden
WEITERE GESCHICHTEN VON The Morning Standard
The Morning Standard
India-UK FTA: MPEDA calls on seafood industry to seize opportunities
THE Marine Products Export Development Authority (MPEDA) has called on India's seafood industry to seize the new opportunities opened up by the India-UK Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), particularly in value addition, skill development, and sustainable production.
1 min
October 22, 2025
The Morning Standard
Delhi Police pays homage to martyrs at Commemoration Day Parade
THE Delhi Police on Tuesday held a Commemoration Day Parade to pay homage to personnel who laid down their lives in the line of duty between September 1, 2024, and August 31, 2025.
1 min
October 22, 2025
The Morning Standard
Tata Trusts reappoints Venu Srinivasan for life
TATA Trusts, which owns and controls the $180-billion Tata empire, has ‘unanimously’ reappointed Venu Srinivasan, chairman emeritus of the TVS Group, as a trustee for life.
1 min
October 22, 2025
The Morning Standard
Vance says Gaza truce exceeds expectations
He met Netanyahu, visited a US-Israel cooperation center, and will meet hostages' families
2 mins
October 22, 2025
The Morning Standard
At least 30 rebels give NDA, Oppn a headache
REBEL and independent candidates may spin the poll arithmetic for both the ruling NDA and the Opposition Mahagathbandhan in the Bihar Assembly elections, scheduled in two phases on November 6 and 11.
1 min
October 22, 2025
The Morning Standard
Domestic markets kick off Samvat 2082 on positive note
DOMESTIC equity markets kicked off Samvat 2082 on a positive note after wrapping up Samvat 2081 with a modest gain.
1 mins
October 22, 2025
The Morning Standard
Stage set for first phase of polls, 1.3K in fray for 121 seats
IN all, 1,314 candidates are left in the fray for the first phase of the Bihar Assembly elections, scheduled on November 6.
1 mins
October 22, 2025
The Morning Standard
Relief as $1L H-1B fee does not apply to US visa holders
A month after US President Donald Trump’s proclamation jacking up the fee for H1-B visas to a steep $100,000 caused panic among international students and professionals, the US government has now clarified that the fee won't apply to current visa holders and recent international graduates.
1 min
October 22, 2025

The Morning Standard
HC to SIT: Probe criminal conspiracy in Sabarimala case
THE Kerala High Court on Tuesday directed the Special Investigation Team (SIT) to thoroughly investigate the aspect of criminal conspiracy in the Sabarimala gold scam, observing that the chain of events commencing in 2019 and the subsequent entrustment of the Dwarapalaka idols to Unnikrishnan Potti appeared to be part of a larger and well-orchestrated scheme.
1 mins
October 22, 2025
The Morning Standard
Sanae Takaichi elected Japan's first female PM
JAPAN's parliament elected ultraconservative Sanae Takaichi as the country's first female prime minister Tuesday, a day after her struggling party struck a coalition deal with a new partner expected to pull her governing bloc further to the right.
1 mins
October 22, 2025
Listen
Translate
Change font size