In the old farm for the rich and the powerful in the northern parts of Norway, Løp Gård is said to hold many of their former inhabitants, even in their death.
Løp Gård in Nordland, Norway has long carried a reputation that unsettles locals after nightfall for centuries. Løp Gård is today a tourist attraction run by Salten Museum and in the summer times, it turns into a cage. Parts of the house are up to 300 years old.
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The old farmstead is steeped in whispered stories, but none are as enduring or as eerie as the legend of the twin sisters said to haunt its halls. Their presence is not announced by screams or violence, but by something far more unsettling. The feeling that someone is watching from just beyond the edge of the light.
Shadows That Move on Their Own
Throughout Løp Gård’s history, people who have had great power have lived here, such as civil servants, skippers and policemen as a center of power. Layers of exclusive tapestry, a rarity in Norway at the time, shows how much riches were poured into the house. The house as it stands today is made up of seven different houses and to this day, a lot of the original furniture is still the museum and cafe.
Some believe that young children are more sensitive to the supernatural. It has been reported that infants and young children refuse to go inside the house. If they are carried inside, they scream, howl, and want to get out.
The Ghosts of the Sisters at Løp
One of the stories is about an artist and his wife who lived in the house in a room that is now called the Boys’ Room. The room is on the second floor. It is said that the two often heard the main door on the first floor open and close, as if someone was entering the house. They often heard footsteps coming up the stairs, but when they went to check, no one was there. This happened over and over again, but there was never anyone there.
One day, as his wife was painting a picture, she turned around and saw a woman in white. She slowly turned back to the picture. She decided that she wanted to paint the woman, but when she turned back to her, she was gone.
It is said that the woman in white was Hannah Løp, who also had a hobby of painting, an early owner of the house. It is said that both of the sisters are haunting their old home today.
The Sisters Haunting their Home
Sisters Hannah and Arnolda inherited the house after their father Lauritz died, and became sole owners of the house, often called Frøknene på Løp (The Misses on Løp) and were known to be hard working ladies. They still serve their famous lemoncake in the cafe in the summertime.
Before taking over the farm, Hanna learned photography from Louise Engen and was a professional in Oslo from 1898 until the 30s. Although a learned and well travelled woman, she sought back to her roots together with her sister after her father died in 1945.
They lived there until they died in 1971 and 1979, 97 and 103 years old. The bed they spent their last days in is in one of the rooms in the house and is called the four-poster bed. There they both lay under several quilts to keep warm.
The Maid With the Red Bow
Another story is about a maid who once lived in the house. She fell in love with a civil servant and her employer and became pregnant after a short time. He rejected her though and she confronted him before she left the house forever. But where did she go?
In the 1990s, renovations were done and two workers loosened the floor and found a tiny red bow lying there. It is said it was the exact type of bow the maid had been wearing the last time she was seen. The workers ran out of the house and didn’t return to finish their job at all, according to some stories.
But what happened to the maid? There are many theories. Anna Elisabeth Westerlund is one of the psychics who has visited the farm and presented her own. When she was in the pantry where the two workers found the red ribbon, she said that something terrible had once happened here. The manager for the museum, Barbro Laxaa claimed that she believed the bow was still in the same place to this day.
Some also said that the maid actually had the child there at the house. The son screamed and cried every day the mother left for work. And it is said that the sound of a child’s cry can still be heard in the house. But what happened to them though, is still a mystery.
The Shipwrecked Man who Comes Knocking
Once a ship is said to have sunk off Løp. There were reportedly several people on board, but there was one man who managed to climb up from the beach at Løp and up to the farm, fighting his way from the freezing Norwegian winter waters through the equally freezing air.
He knocked as hard as he could on the door, and a man came and opened it. At that time, the farm was inhabited by some people of very high social rank, and they refused to let the man into the house. The poor man is said to have frozen to death outside the house during the night because he could not get anywhere else.
Cold gusts are blowing through the house, some workers say, and they think it’s the man just stopping by for a look.
The Civil Servant in the Ceiling
It is said that a female from the eastern part of Norway came to visit and had heard about the farm. This was after the house had become a tourist attraction and she wanted a tour of the house. The staff were simply too busy preparing for the party and running the café, so they told the lady she could just take a walk around the house and see what she wanted.
The woman looked around and when she reached the second floor, she entered the room called the Great Hall. There she saw a man hanging from the ceiling. In that very room, it is said that an official had hanged himself, and according to some, his spirit is still hanging.
At Løp Gård, even in silence, you are never truly alone, as more than one room holds the eternal residences from just beyond the veil.
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