Can a house itself be a ghost? Strange tales have been sung of the sunken house at the bottom of Gardner Lake since it went through the ice so many years ago. And on quiet nights if you really listen, you can sometimes hear the piano of the house play music from underwater.
The house of Gardner Lake was supposed to be moved over the lake when it was covered in ice in the cold winters of Connecticut. Thomas LeCount was a grocer from Connecticut that wanted to move his beloved and fully furnished two-story summer house over the lake to the east side for the perfect spot back in 1895.
He thought moving the house over the ice would be more efficient than by land, but miscalculated how much the ice could take and on its travel it slipped and the ice cracked. They tried to get the house back on track, but gave up in the night to try again at first light. But they never managed to get the house over the lake and it remained stuck.
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The Piano Playing from Underwater
But it took years to reach the bottom of the lake though and children would fish and swim around it in the summer and skate through it in the winter until it eventually disappeared forever under the dark water.
The moving of the house didn’t demand any human lifes, neither were there any rumours of the owners circulating of hauntings and ghosts. So where do the haunting rumours come from then?
By now, most of the sunken house has rotted away, but the local fishermen still tell the legend that the sound of music, og the piano of the house can still be heard on quiet nights.
The Sunken House: The house remained for years dipping in the Gardner Lake before it became fully submerged and sank to the bottom.
Horror Movie Inspired by the House
In 2021 a movie based on the story of the house at the bottom of the lake was released. Called Deep Dive the movie takes the legend further and makes it a haunting horror movie set in France.
Sometimes the sound of someone gasping for air is heard over the deep waters in Lake Lowell, Idaho. Some claim it is the ghost of a girl who drowned at Gotts Point a long time ago that is still trying to get to the shore.
The deep waters can be a treacherous place. One wrong move and you will never reach the shores of safe land ever again. Stories about ghosts of drowned are some of the oldest ghost stories we have and they come from all. From the deep blue sea, fierce rivers and the dark waters of lakes.
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Gotts Point is a place between Nampa and Caldwell in Idaho and bears such a haunting legend. The beautiful Lake Lowell is home to much wonderful wildlife as well as haunting stories of the people that drowned there.
The Ghost of the Lady in the Lake at Gotts Point
One of the ghosts that are said to sit under the surface of the water is that of a girl that drowned in the lake in the 1970s when she was water skiing at Gotts Point. She has later been dubbed Lady of the Lake of Lake Lowell to some when telling the legend of her ghost that are sometimes spotted by swimmers or those that walk along the shores.
The Lady of the Lake: at Gotts Point in Lake Lowell there are tales that a woman is haunting the lake after drowning. Her ghost have been dubbed the Lady of the Lake.
The reports include sounds of her gasping for air out in the lake late at night as well as seeing her sitting on a rock along the shore, but disappearing when you get close.
Her name as well as hard evidence of a girl actually having drowned at that time and place has not surfaced, but considering that many people drown in these parts every year when the summer comes and people are drawn to the water, a ghost of a drowned one doesn’t sound as far fetched at all.
There is more than one ghost at the old manor house in Norway. In addition to a classical Lady in Grey, there are stories about an orphan girl is forever confined to a strange country without her family, trying to lure other children to the same pond she died in at the Manor House in Larvik.
Far back in 1671, a ship came over from Denmark across the Nordic sea. In a time when Norway didn’t have its own king, the Lord High Steward of Norway, Gyldenløve, ruled the country in the danish crown service. He was also the founder of the city this story takes place in, Larvik, still a city today. And with it, he built the Manor House in Larvik that is today rumored to be haunted by more than one ghost.
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The late 1600s was a time of living large. The wigs were tall, the makeup overdone and the dresses were huge. The french fashion was the only fashion and the kings and nobility had never been stronger.
The Haunted Mansion: The Manor House in Larvik was built to be finished to Gyldenløve’s third wedding in 1677. The Baroque mansion is today rumored to be haunted.
This lifestyle was however only reserved for the rich, like the people owning The Manor House in Larvik. But it was also a more modest soul crossing the ocean to work for these people.
The Young Seamstress with Half of a Medallion
When Gyldenløve came to Norway to found the Countship of Larvik and build the Manor House in Larvik he brought his Danish tailor as well. A young girl followed the tailor because of her skills as a seamstress to work for the High Steward of Norway. The young Danish girl was an orphan and the only relative was a brother, working as a blacksmith in Denmark and had no way of following her.
Before the two orphan’s mother died, she had given her daughter a medallion split in two. The children got each one of the half. They promised they would reunite the medallion when they met again after working. All alone she traveled to work at the Manor House in Larvik, hoping she would one time be back with her brother and see her country again.
It had only been a few years since she got to Norway and the year was 1677. It was just after Gyldenløves wedding with his third wife, 17 year old Antoinette Augusta Komtesse Aldenburg. The city of Larvik was still in a wedding frenzy as it wasn’t everyday the Count himself got married.
For the young girl however, the festive wedding days got an abrupt end and she died at the Manor House of Larvik. She never would see the white beaches of Denmark again, never the open flat fields. The last she would see was the bottom of a carp pond.
The Ghost of the Girl from the Koi Pond
The girl was found dead, floating in the koi pond in the garden at the Manor House in Larvik. She liked to sit there, feeding the carps, watching them swim under the surface. What happened that fateful day only she and the depth of the pond knows. People figured it was an accident as she didn’t know how to swim. Most think that the girl fell into the koi pond when she was feeding the fishes and no one heard her cries of help.
The 1600s and 1700s was a restless one for the ghost of the little girl. The locals in Larvik reported on observing her, haunting the mansion in this strange country she had found herself in and named her Piken fra Karpedammen (Girl from the Koi Pond). Young children seemed to see the ghost of her the most. Her ghost lingered for years, trying to lure children down to the pond. For what reason is uncertain. To help her in some way? Something more ominous like make them suffer the same faith she did?
The Girl from the Koi Pond: The Manor House of Larvik was said to be haunted by the ghost of a young girl that used to work in the mansion. She was said to appear close to the koi pond were she was found drowned.
In any case, the legend has it one can only make her find rest with reuniting her medallions she and her brother shared and thereby giving them peace in the afterlife. The fact that people have reported about seeing her ghost less and less in the later years, gives hope that she somehow found peace.
This is what is told in the legend of Comtesse Juliane Sophie, the daughter of the Count a hundred years later. The young Comtesse came from Denmark when she was 9 years old in 1766. She was said to have seen the ghost of the girl and somehow reunited the medallion the girl was rumored to carry and therefore giving the siblings spirits the rest and peace they were looking for.
The Grey Lady of the Manor House in Larvik
But the ghost of the girl in the koi pond isn’t the only one walking the Manor House in Larvik after her death. There is also suppose to be a grey lady haunting inside the mansion that have been called the Grey Lady in Larvik, or Den Grå Damen i Larvik as she is known as in Norwegian.
The Grey Lady of Larvik: The Manor House in Larvik is also haunted by a woman wearing grey that moves around the furnitures in the mansion.
But of her ghost and who she is, we know less of. We know the Grey Lady in Larvik is supposedly the woman in a painting hanging in the hall called the knight hall. It is the only picture were the people isn’t identified hanging in the Manor House in Larvik.
People that have visited the Manor House in Larvik claim that the picture itself is creepy and perhaps the thing that ties the ghost to the house. When visitors walk around the room it hangs in, they claim the woman in the painting watches and her eyes are following them.
In the addition of the eerie painting and appearing in the corner of the eyes for the staff and visitors, the Grey Lady of Larvik also reported to be somewhat of a classical poltergeist according to the legends. It is said that her ghost is moving around the chairs and other furniture in the mansion.
According to people that have visited the mansion, the ghost of the Grey Lady seems to be active even to this day. Unlike the ghost of the girl in the koi pond, it seems that this ghost still has some unfinished business and haunts the halls of the Manor House in Larvik until further notice.
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