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The Atoning Vrykolakas Vampire in Santorini

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After a man died before atoning for his crimes, he came back from the dead as a vampiric Vrykolakas when his wife failed to follow his final wishes. What followed was a month full of terror and haunting.  

Perhaps the sunny Santorini is not the place people think vampire-like creatures roamed, although history would tell you otherwise. 

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From the text from a French priest, we have some of the oldest stories of the vampiric Vrykolakas from Greek folklore documented in writing. One of them being the tale of a merchant from Patmos called Patino. 

Santorini: The Greek Island, officially Thira or Thera, is around 200 km from mainland Greece in the Aegean Sea. As well as ancient Greek mythology, the folklore was influenced from the Byzantine Empire, the Ottoman rule as well as Orthodox Christianity. Pyrgos Kallistis was the former capital of Santorini.Some speculate that there are so many vrykolakas stories from here because of the volcanic soil so the body doesn’t decompose as well.

The Atoning Vrykola

One of the stories we have written down from a Jesuit priest came from the cousin of a man who had died on Santorini. He was known as a usurer and money lender named Lanettis. He is also sometimes given the last name Anapliotis. Lanettis reformed in the last year of his life and started to make amends to the people he had wronged. When he died he asked his wife to pay his remaining debts, and rectify his wrongdoings if the people came to her. 

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She ended up not adhering to his final wishes though. Instead, she spent the money meant as alms on people she liked, not those in need. Lanettis began haunting his village six weeks after his death as something between a vampiric monster and a revenant ghost. 

Vrykolakas Stories: Jesuit Priest François Richard was a missionary to the Greek island of Santorini. In Paris, his accounts about the Vrykolakas appeared titled: Relation de l’Isle de Sant-erini, 1657. He believed the devil kept some corpses and animated them. For the Jesuit, the “vrykolakas” was simply “a special case of diabolic possession. He said that when a village is visited by vrykolakas, the villagers gather in one house for protection, and apply to their Bishop for permission to exhume the suspect. This is done on a Saturday, the only day when a vrykolakas may rest in its grave. If the body is found “fresh and gorged with new blood”, it is “exorcised” with prayer or cremated.

Almost like a poltergeist, Lanettis started terrorising the villagers. But as a Vrykolas, as the Greek knew these types of the returned dead as. 

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He was known to be yanking the bedclothes off of sleeping people, waking up the priests for matins, emptying wine kegs, and generally abusing and terrorizing people. It seemed to not be targeted toward any particular person, and everyone could become a target. 

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He visited the Mother Prioress of a Dominican convent, awakened her by rolling her rosary on the floor, jeered at her prayers. She spat in his face and asked what he wanted. as a parting joke, threw her shoes into the water cistern. Simply praying the ghost away would do no good. 

Exhuming and Exorcising a Vrykola

This haunting went on for around a month. His wishes to atone in his life had turned into terrorising more people in his afterlife. After a woman lost her speech for three days after encountering him, the villagers gathered up the courage to go to his wife, trying to make her do the right thing and comply with her husband’s final wishes. 

This was not enough however, certain rites had to be done to make sure he strayed in his grave. His body was exhumed, and examined. According to the story, his body didn’t really show signs of being undead, and was badly decayed. Just for good measure though, he was exorcised for an entire day with prayers before being dismembered before he once again was buried. This happened not only once, but twice, and he didn’t stop his haunting until his wife repaid his debt back to everyone to atone for his sins in life. 

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The Vrykolakas Vampire in Patmos

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After terrorizing his village, the Vrykolakas Vampire from Patmos in Santorini were taken to an inhabited island and set on fire. The question is, did it really work?

Perhaps the sunny Santorini is not the place people think vampire-like creatures roamed, although history would tell you otherwise. 

Read More: Check out all ghostly tales from Greece

From the text from a French priest, we have some of the oldest stories of the vampiric Vrykolakas from Greek folklore documented in writing. One of them being the tale of a merchant from Patmos called Patino. 

Santorini: The Greek Island, officially Thira or Thera, is around 200 km from mainland Greece in the Aegean Sea. As well as ancient Greek mythology, the folklore was influenced from the Byzantine Empire, the Ottoman rule as well as Orthodox Christianity. Pyrgos Kallistis was the former capital of Santorini.Some speculate that there are so many vrykolakas stories from here because of the volcanic soil so the body doesn’t decompose as well.

The Merchant from Patmos

The story was relayed to the Jesuit Priest, by the abbot of the Greek Orthodox Monastery of Amourgo on an island not too far from Patmos, Santorini where the story is set.

A merchant from Patmos called Patino went on a business trip to Anatolia, the peninsula in West Asia that is mainly the land area of Turkey today. While he was there, he died, although the sources don’t say from what. They put him in a coffin and got him ready to be shipped home for his burial. When lifting him into the boat, one of the sailors on the ship was placed on top of it, and claimed he felt something move inside of the coffin. 

He talked the other sailors to lift the lid of the coffin to check it out, and saw that his body was perfectly preserved, with no signs of decay. It doesn’t really say how long time had passed since his death though. According to the story, the sailors said nothing of what they had seen to his wife when they returned her husband. 

Vrykolakas Stories: Jesuit Priest François Richard was a missionary to the Greek island of Santorini. In Paris, his accounts about the Vrykolakas appeared titled: Relation de l’Isle de Sant-erini, 1657. He believed the devil kept some corpses and animated them. For the Jesuit, the “vrykolakas” was simply “a special case of diabolic possession. He said that when a village is visited by vrykolakas, the villagers gather in one house for protection, and apply to their Bishop for permission to exhume the suspect. This is done on a Saturday, the only day when a vrykolakas may rest in its grave. If the body is found “fresh and gorged with new blood”, it is “exorcised” with prayer or cremated.

The Merchant Returning as a Vrykolaka

His wife had him buried with full honors according to the story, so his transformation wasn’t because of anything with an improper burial as many vampiric stories allude to. He began appearing in houses in the area, violently assaulting people and causing damage. Fifteen people are said to have died after his beating, or just in pure terror. 

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Prayers and exorcisms were fruitless in stopping the haunting. Patino’s body was ordered sent back to Natolia, but the thoroughly spooked sailors charged with its transport stopped on the first island they passed and burned it, which ended the phenomena. 

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The same Jesuit priest notes elsewhere in his writings that vrykolakas were commonly thought to be unable to cross salt water by themselves, and they were often dispatched on uninhabited islands. Like on the island of Amourgo, where they were said to roam freely often in groups of five or six, feeding on raw green beans. Who knows, perhaps there is still someone roaming the sunny islands around Santorini?

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The Shoemaking Vrykolakas Vampire from Pyrgos Castle

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After a humble life as a shoemaker on Santorini in Greece, a man was said to have come back as a Vrykolakas, the vampire of Greek folklore. But for this Vrykolaka, it wasn’t to devour human life that kept him going. 

Perhaps the sunny Santorini is not the place people think vampire-like creatures roamed, although history would tell you otherwise. 

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From the text from a French priest, we have some of the oldest stories of the vampiric Vrykolakas from Greek folklore documented in writing. One of them being the tale of Alexander from Pyrgos. 

Santorini: The Greek Island, officially Thira or Thera, is around 200 km from mainland Greece in the Aegean Sea. As well as ancient Greek mythology, the folklore was influenced from the Byzantine Empire, the Ottoman rule as well as Orthodox Christianity. Pyrgos Kallistis was the former capital of Santorini.Some speculate that there are so many vrykolakas stories from here because of the volcanic soil so the body doesn’t decompose as well.

The Shoemaker at Pyrgos Castle

His name was said to be Alexander, and he had been a shoemaker at Pyrgo Castle. He was known as a gentle and kind man when he was alive.

It’s not mentioned exactly what happened that turned Alexander into a vrykolaka after his death. Most often, Greek vampire stories tell about people living sinful lives that are turned into vampires. In Alexander’s case however, it seems something else must have triggered the transformation. One thing worth noting is that Alexander is far from the only shoemaker that turned into a vampire, although the connection to the profession is unknown. 

Vrykolakas Stories: Jesuit Priest François Richard was a missionary to the Greek island of Santorini. In Paris, his accounts about the Vrykolakas appeared titled: Relation de l’Isle de Sant-erini, 1657. He believed the devil kept some corpses and animated them. For the Jesuit, the “vrykolakas” was simply “a special case of diabolic possession. He said that when a village is visited by vrykolakas, the villagers gather in one house for protection, and apply to their Bishop for permission to exhume the suspect. This is done on a Saturday, the only day when a vrykolakas may rest in its grave. If the body is found “fresh and gorged with new blood”, it is “exorcised” with prayer or cremated.

The Helpful Vampire of Pyrgos

According to the story, Alexander returned from the grave, not to attack or eat the flesh from the living like in many stories, but appeared to his living wife as he had in life. He returned to mend his children’s shoes, carry water for the family, work on their house and chop their firewood. 

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Although his family’s reaction to this is not talked about, it seems this went on for a while, and it was his neighbors who took matters into their own hands. After seeing him going on with his chores, fetching water from the cistern and chopping wood in the valley, they decided to exhume his body from his grave. According to lore, all vrykolakas went back to their graves on Saturdays, so it’s most likely this is what happened. Here, even the helpful dead needed to go. 

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The Sea Draug: The Ghostly Fisherman of the Norwegian Coast

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Thought to be haunting the dark seas of the north, the Sea Draug is a ghost of the drowned fishermen’s and other unfortunate souls who perished on the waters. 

Along Norway’s rugged coastline, where the sea has always given both life and death, sailors have long spoken in hushed tones about a terrifying apparition known as the sea draug. As a place where the sea claimed hundreds of lives every year, no wonder that a particular sea ghost started haunting the shores. 

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Originally, the word draugh simply meant ghosts, and there are stories about them across Scandinavia since before the Viking area. This ghost is not the same creature as the draugr of the Viking sagas, the corporal ghost even though they share a name. The sea draug belongs to coastal Norwegian folklore and is shaped by centuries of fear, loss, and respect for the unforgiving ocean, especially along the coast of western Norway stretching up to the north, the draug is almost always a ghost from the sea.

The Norse Draug: The word draug itself is derived from the Old Norse word draugr , which originally could mean the ghost of any deceased person. The draugen was originally a dead person, either living in a mound (in Old Norse called haugbúi ) or going out to haunt the living. They were corporal ghosts.  // Illustration: Kim Diaz Holm

A Spirit Born of the Sea

In later folklore it became common to limit the figure to a ghost of a dead fisherman who had drifted at sea and who was not buried in Christian soil. Later the word has mainly come to mean a spirit at sea in Norway. This development is partly due to the many and popular folkloric tales of Jonas Lie in the 1870s , 80s and 90s, based on superstitions from Northern Norway. In other Nordic countries though, the word draug, often means the ancient and corporal ghost from the graves. 

The Sea Draug: Fairy tale artist Theodor Kittelsen’s The Sea Troll from 1887 shows a creature that has several features in common with the drowned ghost, the draug. Kittelsen also has his own drawing of the draug as a drowning man in a fisherman’s boat.

It is often said to look like a fisherman still dressed for work, wearing oilskins or old sea clothes soaked through and clinging to a bloated body. Its skin is pale and water-swollen, and its eyes may glow faintly, lit by an eerie shimmer like moonlight on kelp.

Seaweed is frequently described as tangled in its hair or beard, drifting and moving as if still underwater. In some stories, the draug’s presence is announced not by sight but by sound. The creak of oars, the slap of waves against wood, or a strange voice calling out across the water can signal that it is near. When it cried out at night, it sounded like a cry for help from people in danger.

The Fear of the Draug: An incident from Nesna where two men had sailed for coal a few years earlier between Vikholmen on Hugla and Saura on Handnesøya. The shipwreck occurred in winter right near his home. One of them made it ashore on a deserted islet. From there he shouted in vain for help. People on Vikholmen near his home heard him, but did not dare to go out, because they thought the cries came from the sea draug. The man was found frozen to death in the spring. This story corresponds somewhat with the documented accident on January 20, 1823, when fisherman and farmer Lars Pedersen Tønder from Vik on Hugla died on the uninhabited Sauraholmen.

Sometimes he would wander around in the boathouses, and sometimes he would be a stone with seaweed on it, so fishermen were reluctant to take a “seaweed stone” as ballast as he could come onboard with them then..

He settled near fresh water, in mill houses, landed and moored boats or boathouses. Signs of his presence were rust and turned oars. If he went out into the boat, it became noticeably heavier. The ghost could not tolerate light or fire and could be scared away with fire or embers. Grassy land was safe because the ghost could not walk there.

Sometimes he would get into the fishermen’s huts and lie down under the beds. He would only disappear when the room was lit or heated. He would also evaporate if someone shouted “Kirkheim” or threw cemetery soil or excrement after him. Such soil could symbolize that the drowned person was finally able to rest in consecrated ground. Another old piece of advice was to smear feces on the landing rope to prevent the ghost from taking the boat. The belief in the use of excrement against supernatural forces is found in connection with other legendary figures, including ghouls or elves. Rituals, such as spitting on land before getting out of the boat or tying three knots on the rope, were also used as protection.

Boats that Should not Float

One of the most chilling images in sea draug folklore is that of the half-sunken boat. The draug is said to row vessels that sit unnaturally low in the water, as if already claimed by the sea. These boats glide silently through fog or darkness, appearing suddenly alongside fishing boats or ships.

In storms he headed for land like the other fishermen. He could race or steer directly towards boats, and anyone who encountered him at sea was in for a bad time. If a boat was overlooked by the draug, it foreshadowed inevitable shipwreck and death for the crew.

Seeing such a boat was considered a deadly omen. To meet the gaze of the sea draug or hear its call could mean disaster. Some tales say it cries warnings of coming storms, as if trying to save others from sharing its fate. Other stories are darker, claiming the draug lures sailors closer, only to drag them down into the depths.

If the draug shouts “Welcome” or calls out the name of a specific person, you should not respond. You should stand up, turn your back to the sound, and shout the same word. If you find bones, clothes, planks or similar from a sunken boat near where you hear the draug, you must make sure to get it upstream and bury it. If it is buried where the seawater does not reach it, it will lose its effect. If you are in possession of fire when you encounter the draug, you should throw a firebrand at it and shout: “Now you are burning!” Then it will go out to sea, and only the Morilden or mareel will appear after it.

Stories of the sea draug are deeply tied to Northern Norway, where long winters, dark waters, and violent weather have shaped life along the coast. These legends helped explain sudden disappearances and shipwrecks, and they gave form to grief in communities where loss was a constant companion.

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Draug

draug – Store norske leksikon

Draugen – havets hevner og dødens varsler – Helgeland Museum

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The Silent Music Haunting Hald Pensjonat

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Who can be haunting the old Hald Pensjonat in Mandal? Playing soft piano music in the afterlife, and rumours about the footsteps of a Norwegian pirate seems to linger. 

In the coastal town of Mandal, where summer light lingers long into the evening, Hald Pensjonat appears by the shore, unassuming. But legend has it that it is haunted, although the details of it are scarce.  

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In the left wing there is a carved and decorated ceiling in the Renaissance style with 42 carved heads. The heads are all different and symbolize, among other things, sorrow, joy, despondency and despair. Perhaps they are the only ones who can sway what’s really going on inside of these walls.  

Hald Pensjonat: The historic Hald Pensjonat in Mandal, is thought to be haunted by the soft piano music, although no one is playing. // Foto: Daniel DeNiazi

The Assembling of Hald Pensjonat

The property is a building complex consisting of one central building and two wings. The building in the middle was originally built around 1795 in Eikvåg outside Farsund , and was called “Krohn’s House”. Around 1897, Jens Bugge moved this building to Mandal.

The two wings have also been moved to their current location from other locations. The west wing was originally an older house in the Malmö district of Mandal . The east wing was an older house in Kleven in Mandal, built around 1750. In all, the history of this house comes from multiple parts of the country.

Today, the Hald International Center has premises here. In the summer, the site is used as a guesthouse. The building absorbed the presence of countless visitors, their routines, their conversations, their quiet moments. But not everyone who stayed here is believed to have left.

The Moved Building: Is the haunting from one of the buildings that were moved to Mandal years ago? Here from Farsund, where the pirate, John Jahnse lived in his time.

The Piano Playing Alone

But who is the one behind the haunted rumors? Some say it had to be John Jahnse, a pirate and hijacker of ships who used to live in one of the rooms in the 1700s. This particular room was one of those that were moved from Farsund to Hald. Footsteps were apparently heard around the house and during the second world war, it was said to scare the German soldiers who took over the house. The footsteps frightened them so much that they shot at the ceiling in the fireplace room. Stories say you can still see the bullet hole. 

The most well known phenomenon at Hald Pensjonat centers around the piano music seemingly coming from the fireplace room. More than once, music has reportedly been heard drifting through the rooms without a visible player. 

Sources tell that in the fall of 2000, when a group heard the piano music, they went to check it out. When investigated, the piano is found untouched. The lid closed and the room was empty.

The Mysterious Piano Music: The cozy interior of Hald Pensjonat, featuring a comfortable seating area and an antique piano, where ghostly piano music has been reported. // Source: Ssu/Wikimedia

The Figure in the Corridors

Equally unsettling is the figure some claim to have seen in the hallways. The figure appears briefly, then disappears around a corner or into a shadow where no doorway exists.

But who could this figure be? The building is from a time after the reformation, so no monks lived there. Some speculate a former caretaker. Others suggest a deeply religious guest who once sought solitude within these walls. There are no records to confirm any theory.

A Place that Remembers

Unlike many haunted hotels that have been leaning into its house spirits, the manager for the bed and breakfast used to say that the Bible didn’t want the living to contact the dead and didn’t want people to come seeking ghosts. 

When the summer season ends and the house grows still, some believe the music returns. Soft notes echoing through empty rooms. At Hald Pensjonat, something remains awake long after the guests have gone.

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Hald Pensjonat Mandal Her, i et av rommene bodde Skips kapreren John Jahnsen. Dette rommet var fra før et hus som sto i Farsund og senere flyttet til Hald. Han har vandret rundt i rommet og har ikke forlatt huset. Det er hele tiden hørt fot trinn rundt i huset. Under andre verdenskrig, når tyskerne tok over huset ble de så redde av fottrinnene at de fyrte av et skudd mot taket i peisestuen. Kulehullet finnes der fremdeles. Det er og observert en munk som går rundt i gangene. Høsten 2000 hørte de plutselig piano spilling fra peisestua, de gikk inn, men ingen folk å se. bilde tatt fra hjemmesiden til Hald pensjonat 37 Halseveien, Mandal, Norge, 4517

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The Ghostly Guardian of MS Nordstjernen

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The MS Nordstjernen spent decades bringing passengers north across the arctic sea, and although the waters can be brought this far north, it always seemed to reach port unharmed. Some think that it could be Ernst, the ship’s ghosts.

MS Nordstjernen was built in 1956 at the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg, Germany. The order came from Det Bergenske Dampskibsselskab, which wanted a modern coastal steamer capable of carrying four hundred passengers. The ship was named after Stella Polaris, the North Star, long trusted by seafarers as a guide through darkness and storm.

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During a test of the fire doors on B deck, designed to slam shut automatically in case of emergency, a young German shipyard worker named Ernst was caught between the steel doors. He was crushed to death instantly.

Despite the accident, the ship was completed on schedule and departed on her maiden voyage from Hamburg to Bergen on February 24, 1956.

Ernst never came along in body. But many believe he never truly stayed behind either.

Photo: Aldebaran/Wikimedia

A Lifetime at Sea

MS Nordstjernen remained in service for more than sixty years, making her the longest sailing ship in Hurtigruten history going all the way along the Norwegian coast until 1994. She crossed the Arctic Circle more than three thousand times without a single major accident. The boat has sailed a distance equivalent to 185 laps around the Earth, or 19 times to the moon.

Stories began circulating early in the ship’s career that Ernst had become a permanent passenger. He was said to travel from port to port, in sunshine and winter storms alike, never setting foot on land. Even in the harshest conditions, when ice covered the bridge and waves battered the hull, Nordstjernen always made it safely home.

– He is here and looks after us. We have full confidence that he wants us well. If he had wanted us to do something bad, we would have made it up, said captain Kåre Søllevold in the TV report that aired on the 2006 Norway Rundt.

The Man in the Corridors

Many passengers claim to have encountered the ship’s ghost. Ernst is most often reported on the cabin deck. Some describe him as a shadow slipping along the corridor walls. Others say they have seen the outline of a grown man, vague but unmistakably human.

Captain Ole Johan Andreassen has worked on the ship for 1.5 years and is among those who believe he has experienced the presence of the ghost. He himself is convinced that he met the restless German when he ate in the church one night. Then suddenly the door closed by itself. He probably didn’t want me to sit in the draft, the captain says, laughing.

Cabin attendants have felt his presence while cleaning empty rooms. Crew members insist he causes no trouble. On the contrary, they say he keeps them company in the smoking lounge. More than once, a visible indentation has appeared on the sofa cushion beside them, as if an invisible body had settled down to listen. Like Sailor Einar Antonsen who also believes he has encountered the ghost.

– When I have a smoke in the smoking booth, he often comes and keeps me company. Then I can see that the sofa cushion pulls down, just as if someone is sitting there, he says, pointing to the place Captain Andreassen has taken.

Photo: Tore Sætre / Wikimedia

There are stranger encounters as well.

Female passengers have occasionally complained that someone gently stroked their hair, even though no one stood nearby. One waiter woke in the middle of the night to find Ernst sitting on the edge of his bed, dressed in a green boiler suit. Where his face should have been, there was only white mist.

Today, MS Nordstjernen has been retired from its long service of carrying cruise passengers into Arctic waters. The engines still hum. The decks still creak beneath careful footsteps. And some believe that somewhere aboard, the young shipyard worker remains at his post, faithful to the vessel that claimed his life. After all, a ship named after the North Star should never sail without a guide.

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The Cabin in the Woods where the Forest Watches Back

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The DNT Cabin Flisberget deep in the mystical forest of Finnskogen, bordering Norway and Sweden has a lot of strange tales coming from it. So much so, that it was voted the scariest cabin in the country. 

Deep within the endless forests of Finnskogen stands Flisberget cabin, alone among towering pines and moss covered stones. Outside of the cabin, the poisonous Badger’s-bane grows. It has been voted the scariest cabin as well as the people’s cabin, operated by the Norwegian Trekking Association.

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By day, Flisberget is described as a jewel in the northern trail network. It is easy to reach, even for families with children. The path is clear. The cabin is welcoming. Smoke curls gently from the chimney. But when night settles over Finnskogen, the forest changes character.

Photo: Ingunn Holm/Wikimedia

A Place Apart from the World

Flisberget is part of the DNT cabin network north of Finnskogen, a place settled by lumber farmers from Finland centuries ago, creating a new culture, with their own customs and language. Because of the foreignness and shamanistic traditions of the Forest Finns, the Norwegians looked at these parts of the woods as a mysterious and supernatural place. 

The cabin is the main house on an old Forest Finn farm. The first known residents of Flisberget, or Ulvimäki as it is in their language, lived there in 1703. There was never much housing on Elverum Finnskog, but Flisberget is one of the places that the Forest Finns used. Some think that this place used to be a farm before the Black Plague even. People lived permanently on Flisberget until 1973. Today’s farmhouse was built c . 1850.

DNT proudly promotes the cabin as peaceful and accessible. Visitors, however, tell another story once darkness falls. They speak of uneasy sleep, of sounds that do not belong to wind or wildlife, and of a persistent feeling that someone is standing just beyond the tree line.

The members have spoken. From time to time you will find phrases in the guest books at Flisberget that “there is a lot of good in the walls here”, “there is a special peace here”.

When the Forest Breathes

Those who stay the night often report the same sensations. Footsteps circling the cabin without leaving tracks. The sound of movement between trees where no animal can be seen. Knocks that come once, then never again.

Inside, the wooden walls creak as if responding to unseen pressure. Some wake abruptly with the certainty that they are not alone. Others refuse to sleep at all. The last people that lived in the cabin, Oline and Hans Olastuen, told about strange things going on inside of the walls as well. 

But what is lurking around the cabin? The farm was written about in a book about Finnskogen and magic, or trollskap, as it’s called in Norwegian. There he talks about trollkjella, a monstrous troll woman that was nearby the farm by a water, and where a “trollkar”, a sorcerer who lived on the farm, sacrificed goats. Legend has it that they found a huge amount of bones at the bottom of the water.  

Trollkjella: Hans Olastuen has ventured to Trollkjella – he admits that it is eerie to see his reflection in the deep water. At this cellar, the trolls from Flisberget and Storsvea met every Midsummer night. No one knows what happened here, but just up until our time, large bone remains have been found on the cellar floor, probably from the sorcerers’ sacrifices. And there are still those who see a bit of everything at Trollkjella. // Source

Every Jonsok night, midsummer, he went there with other sorcerers. The sorcerer at Flisberget was also believed to be behind at least the murder of several men he cursed. 

Outside of the cabin it is said that he buried his black book of magic together with his silverware, hidden away. 

https://tv.nrk.no/se?v=FOLA63006963

The Old Saying of Finnskogen

According to Åsmund Skasdammen, chairman of Finnskogen Tourist Association, the region has its own understanding of such things. In Finnskogen, the supernatural is considered natural.

For centuries, these forests have been home to wanderers, hunters, and people living on the edge of society. Finnskogen has always been a borderland, both geographically and spiritually. Folklore speaks of spirits tied not to buildings, but to the land itself.

The cabin remains popular. Visitors continue to arrive, keys in hand, unaware of the stories waiting for them. Many leave with nothing but memories of nature and quiet nights. And when the forest grows dark and still, it becomes clear why so many believe that something else has always been there, watching patiently among the trees.

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The Haunted Devonshire Park Theatre: The Phantom Violinist of Eastbourne

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Could one of the musicians on the Titanic be haunting the Devonshire Park Theatre in Eastbourne, England? Who is the person behind the ghost said to still be playing the violin?

In the seaside town of Eastbourne, the Devonshire Park Theatre stands as one of England’s most elegant Victorian playhouses. 

Since its grand opening in 1884, the theatre has welcomed countless performers, audiences, and stories to its stage. But when the last curtain falls and the lights dim, it is said that not all who linger in the theatre belong to the living.

Devonshire Park Theatre by Oast House Archive

The Violinist from Titanic Haunting the Orchestra Pit

For decades, whispers have circulated about a ghostly musician who haunts the Devonshire Park Theatre. Some claim to have seen a man dressed in white tie and tails standing silently in the orchestra pit or seated among the stalls, his instrument cradled gently beneath his chin. The figure, shimmering faintly in the low light, is said to vanish the moment one looks twice.

Reports of this spectral violinist date back to the 1960s and 1970s, when both staff and visitors described fleeting glimpses of him during rehearsals and late-night performances. Though sightings have become less frequent in recent years, those who have experienced the haunting speak of a deep sense of melancholy that seems to hang in the air whenever the mysterious music begins.

For a time, locals believed the apparition to be none other than John Wesley Woodward, the Titanic’s heroic cellist who famously continued to play as the ship went down in 1912. 

John Wesley Woodward: (11 September 1879 – 15 April 1912) was an English musician. Born in West Bromwich. A memorial plaque was erected to Woodward on the promenade in Eastbourne depicting the Titanic as it sank.

In Eastbourne, he played the cello both at the Grand Hotel and in the local orchestra. While in Eastbourne he joined the White Star Line musicians, playing on transatlantic ships. On 10 April 1912, he boarded the RMS Titanic at Southampton for her maiden Transatlantic voyage. Five days later, on 15 April 1912, the ship hit an iceberg and he and the other musicians famously continued to play as the Titanic sank. Their final tune was, according to some survivor accounts, “Nearer, My God, To Thee”. All members of the band, including his friend Jock Hume, drowned, and the body of Wesley Woodward was never recovered.

The theory gained traction due to Woodward’s connection to Eastbourne, where he is memorialized with a plaque at the Bandstand. However, researchers later discovered that the ghostly musician could not be Woodward, as the spirit has always been described as a violinist, not a cellist.

Who, then, is the phantom that haunts the Devonshire Park Theatre? 

Paranormal Investigation at the Theatre

The mysterious violinist is perhaps not the only ghost haunting the theatre though. According to a spokesperson, they actually had a few paranormal investigators at their venue in 2005. According to a medium visiting and doing the investigation with them, they believed that a ghost haunting the place could have been Murray King who was an actor and licensee of the venue in the late 1800s up until the 1930s. Could this also be the identity of the mysterious violinist? 

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The drowned boy and the ghosts that haunt our theatres

Devonshire Park Theatre – Wikipedia

John Wesley Woodward – Wikipedia

John Wesley Woodward : Titanic Cellist (Victim)

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The Lady of Soria Moria Haunting Villa Fridheim

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In the Norwegian fairytale house in Krøderen, Villa Fridheim is said to be haunted by its former mistress, still running things her way as she did in life. 

Rising like a fairy tale vision along the shores of Krøderen, Villa Fridheim is often called Soria Moria in wood and paint. Its towers, carved details, and storybook halls draw visitors into a world shaped by Norwegian folklore. 

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Those staying at the house long enough often sense that the museum is more than a collection of fairytale artifacts. There is a persistent feeling of not being entirely alone.

The Haunted Fairytale Castle: The enchanting Villa Fridheim, a Swiss-style house in Krøderen, Norway, inspired by Norwegian folklore and rich with history. // Source: John Erling Blad

The House of Fairytales

Villa Fridheim is a Swiss-style building with elements of national romanticism and dragon style on Bjørøya in Krødsherad, built in 1890–1892 by Lumber merchant Svend Haug. Villa Fridheim was intended to serve as a country home for the lumber merchant and his wife Thea (née Sveaas). When the builder himself died in the middle of the construction work in 1891, it was the widow Thea Haug who completed the work. She then moved here permanently and used it as a home for herself and her children. 

After several years, the family converted the place into a hotel, but it was soon sold out of the family. The hotel was in operation from 1914 to 1960. After that, the house was left empty and dilapidated. After many years of decay, there were plans for the building to be burned down as part of a fire drill.

Soria Moria: The Villa Fridheim is often called the Soria Moria castle, a name from Norwegian folktales about the hidden castle where the hero will find the princess. It has also now turned into an expression for expectations about a great place.

It currently houses the Villa Fridheim Fairy Tale Museum , which is mainly associated with Asbjørnsen and Moe’s work as collectors, storytellers and publishers of fairy tales.

A House That Never Sleeps

Guests and staff have spoken quietly of sounds echoing through the servant wing after hours. Furniture seems to scrape across floors where no one walks. Doors creak open and close on their own, as if someone unseen is still making her nightly rounds.

There are many different claims to who is haunting the place. In a book that used to be in the house, people wrote down strange occurrences they experienced. One of them was about a little boy in the cafe who vanished into thin air right before them. 

The Ghost Haunting the Villa: The intricately designed interior of Villa Fridheim, showcasing its wooden architecture and fairy tale motifs. There’s a lot of ghostly tales lingering in the walls. // Source: John Erling Blad

On the fourth floor, some claim to have seen children at play, a little girl. She was dressed in old fashioned clothing, running and laughing among the shadows before vanishing as suddenly as they appeared. No footsteps follow them, and no voices remain once they are gone.

From the attic, a sound, almost like an audiotape playing at high speed is heard. 

The Woman in Black

Most striking of all is the figure seen in the main hall. Visitors have described a woman wearing a long black dress, her appearance belonging to another century. She moves calmly through the space, observing rather than frightening, her presence quiet but unmistakable.

According to local tradition, this is the spirit of Thea Haug, the first lady of the house. In life, she was known for her discipline and order, ensuring that Villa Fridheim ran smoothly and with dignity. She died in 1924, when she was 85 years old. In death, it seems she has not entirely relinquished her role.

When she is not satisfied, the ghost slams the doors, it is said. According to legends, she didn’t treat her staff particularly well. Although, some say that when she retired and went back to Drammen, a feast was held in her honor, and she was given gifts by the locals for all her effort and hospitality. Mostly in written form, she was remembered as a person with a big heart.

It is also said that her daughter, (maybe named Rilda), was hidden away in the tower room when she got syphilis and turned mad. This is also one of those tales that doesn’t have much proof, as their daughters don’t have as much information about them as their sons.  

A German tourist once staying there came down from the second floor and talked with the staff. “So festive that the staff wear old costumes,” she said after having seen a woman wearing a black dress from another century. The staff all wore jeans and t-shirts. 

A TV-series called Soria Moria was recorded at the hotel in the early 2000s about the fictional ghost of a nazi soldier. One day all the images from a Polaroid camera to keep track of continuity were strange. All of them were marked by a shadow that looked like a female figure in a long skirt.

A Watchful Housekeeper

Those who work at the museum believe that Thea Haug still watches over the building’s forty rooms. If she senses carelessness or neglect, doors may slam sharply as a warning. It is not seen as malice, but as correction, the firm reminder of a housekeeper who expects standards to be upheld.

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Despite the strange occurrences, no one speaks of cleansing the house of its ghost. The presence causes no harm, and many feel it adds depth to the living history of Villa Fridheim. The husfrue is considered part of the story, woven into the walls as surely as the carved dragons and fairy tale motifs.

At Villa Fridheim, it is said that being a house ghost is a good existence. The Lady of Soria Moria still keeps watch, ensuring that her enchanted home remains just as it should be.

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FLERE GJENFERD SOM OGSÅ VILLE VÆRE MED – Issuu 

Villa Fridheim – Wikipedia 

Turist så norsk spøkelse 

Det spøker på Villa Fridheim – DigitaltMuseum

Husfruen spøker i villaen

Villa Fridheim – Eventyrmuseet, WW2 , Åndelig akivitet

Fredheim På Bjørøya I Krødsherad – Historier.no

Fru Thea Haug – nekrolog | Eiker Arkiv

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Dun Dreach-Fhoula – The Blood-Soaked Castle of the Reeks

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Said to be found deep in the mountain range MacGillycuddy’s Reeks in Kerry, Ireland, the ruins of Dun Dreach-Fhoula castle is said to be the home of bloodthirsty fairies of the Otherworld. Question is if it’s an ancient legend or a modern hoax. 

The Castle of Tainted Blood or the Castle of The Blood Visage is supposedly a fortress in the mountains in Kerry in Ireland, said to be inhabited and built by the blood sucking and shape-shifting fairies from ancient times.

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But how much truth is the legend of the supposed bloodthirsty fairies? Is it truly as old as the story claims? And what is the truth about its connection to Dracula? Let’s first have a look at what the legend tells. 

The MacGillycuddy’s Reeks: The Coomloughra Horseshoe Loop Walk in Co. Kerry is one of Irelands best ridge walks. It is a strenuous 6 to 7 hour (12 km) hiking trail over several mountain peaks in the MacGillycuddy’s Reeks range including 4 of the top 5 highest mountains in Ireland. Thought to be the place where the ruins of fairy folk with a taste for blood lives. // Photo:Valerie O’Sullivan

The Legend of the Castle of Tainted Blood

High among the jagged slopes of Kerry’s MacGillycuddy’s Reeks, meaning Black Stacks in Irish, it goes on for 19 kilometers from Gap of Dunloe in the east to Glencar in the west. It’s Ireland’s highest mountain range with the highest peak and sharpest ridges. 

 It is said that this is the place where the ruins of Dun Dreach-Fhoula, a fortress of blood and death, is hidden away in the misty mountains. The “Castle of the Blood Visage,” as it translates, was said to guard a lonely mountain pass where few dared to travel. The silence of the peaks, the thick mist that curls around their ancient stones, and perhaps it was the strange crimson hue  of the stone that sometimes stains the walls after rainfall gave rise to whispers of a darker truth. It was said that the very rock itself was cursed, steeped in the blood of the living and haunted by creatures that were neither mortal nor divine.

The legends tell that Dun Dreach-Fhoula was not built by human hands alone. According to the old stories, the fortress was raised by beings from the Otherworld and blood-drinking fae who hid from sunlight and feasted upon travelers who strayed too close. The pass they guarded was more than a road through the mountains; it was a threshold between life and death. 

The Dracula Connection

Bram Stoker: There has been a lot of work connecting vampires and the fame and lore of vampires to Ireland. But how true are these claims? How was the Irish vampiric lore before modern fame?

Now, the legend is not really told as a stand alone story, but it is certainly mentioned when talking about alternative theories to the inspiration behind Dracula. Many have argued that this Irish legend, rather than the history of Vlad the Impaler, may have inspired Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Though Stoker himself claimed otherwise, the rumour about it being more Irish than anything exists and has taken hold in lore since at least the 90s.

He never visited Eastern Europe and relied on travelers’ tales to construct his vampire’s homeland. At the same time, in Dublin’s National Museum, Geoffrey Keating’s History of Ireland was displayed, filled with accounts of undead spirits and ancient chieftains who rose from their graves to drink blood.

One such tale was that of Abhartach, the blood-drinking lord of Irish legend, whose grave was said to exude darkness even in daylight. Around the same period, writer Patrick W. Joyce published a story about this same chieftain, spreading his name throughout Ireland. I

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The words alone, “the place of tainted blood”, seem like something born from Gothic imagination, yet they belong to Ireland’s own folklore. Or does it? Is it really just a piece of Gothic imagination? Some say that the very word Dracula comes from the word, Droch-fhoula. But if we start to dismantle the grammar and linguistic history of the Droch-fhoula, it seems to fall apart. And the question is, does the whole legend of Droch-fhoula fall apart if you take a close look at it?

The Hunt for Droch-fhoula Castle

Now, the tale gets passed around that Droch-fhoula comes from ancient Irish legends. The expression is believed to refer to blood feuds between people or families. Could it also be for a vampire legend native to Ireland?

It looks like this claim comes from Peter Haining and Peter Tremayne in their book The Un-Dead from 1997. According to them, they got the story sent to them in a letter from Cathal Ó Sándair in 1995. It is supposed to be from a lecture delivered by a man called Ó Súilleabháin, the head of the Irish Folklore Commission, who supposedly mentioned a castle called Dún Dreach-Fhola in Magillicuddy’s Reeks inhabited by blood-drinking fairies:


It was Ó Sándair, writing to the authors in April 1995, who also made the observation that Bram might have been guided to use the name of the historical Wallachian hero – Dracula – because it sounded the same as the Irish droch-fhola (pronounced drok’ola), bad blood; he might even have connected the name with a Kerry folk-tale about ‘Dún Dreach-Fhola’ (pronounced drak’ola), the castle of blood visage. The castle was said to be high up in a lonely pass among the Macgillicuddy’s Reeks, a range in Co. Kerry, which contains Ireland’s highest mountain. Ó Sándair may well be right: Seán Ó Súilleabháin, the Kerry-born one time registrar and archivist of the Irish Folklore Commission, mentioned this same oral folk-tale in a lecture at UCD in 1961, prior to the publication of his book on Irish death customs, Caitheamh Aimsire ar Thórraimh, translated into English six years later as Irish Wake Amusements. He said it was told to him in the Macgillicuddy’s Reeks. The story concerns an ‘evil fairy fortress’ – Dún Dreach-Fhola, inhabited by neamh-mhairbh (Un-Dead), who sustained themselves on the blood of wayfarers. Unfortunately there is no reference to the story in Caithreamh [sic] Aimsire ar Thórraimh.
Source: The Un-dead, page 71

Folklorist, Owen Harding believes the origin of the word could come from this word and that the connection comes from a manuscript about another vampiric legend about The Abhartach. An article says: 

“Owen Harding says there was a manuscript published about this legend from an anonymous writer. It was entitled The Abhartach, Dreach-Fhoula. This document was exhibited up till 1868 in none other than Trinity College which Stoker attended. So is it likely that Stoker used this story to base his novel on? Harding believes it is.”

Is it true that these writers got the story from a folklorist who collected Ó Súilleabháin was a folklorist, but there are as of now, no primary sources directly from him about this legend. In fact, an article about his work actually said: Vampires are not to be found in Seán Ó Súilleabháin’s A Handbook of Irish Folklore, published in 1942. So that this part is true is rather dubious. It is also worth noting that both Hauning and Tremayne also wrote a lot of fiction and perhaps were not careful enough in their research. 

Although they are claiming these folklorists and writers have been straight up lying about it and most hits searching for it is a blog post dedicated to expose the story as fabricated and not ancient and local of Kerry at all. So it begs the question, was it more of a mistranslation and confusing old Irish text, or about fabricating them to make stronger claims about Irish connection to Dracula? Or is it really a piece of evidence somewhere, where the tales and ruins of a castle inhabited by blood thirsty fairies exist?

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How Bram Stoker created Dracula with the aid of Irish folklore

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