The White Lady In Freihung
Stories about white ladies are plentiful in Europe, especially in Germany, and this particular The White Lady In Freihung ended up winning against the U.S Army. The main town in […]
Stories about white ladies are plentiful in Europe, especially in Germany, and this particular The White Lady In Freihung ended up winning against the U.S Army.
The main town in Freihung has a long history of Bavarian culture and the industry of mining lead. There is also a ghost said to be haunting the quaint little Bavarian town.
This The White Lady In Freihung who is supposedly haunting the city center is said to be a middle aged woman who used the old mining tunnels to glide through, scaring people so much that in the end they destroyed the tunnels altogether. One hotel was greatly bothered by it and ended up taking matters into their own hands to rid themselves of the ghost.
The Noble White Lady In Freihung
Who The White Lady In Freihung was is not certain, but there are tales that there used to be a castle at this place were it now was a hotel, although there are no direct historical proof of it.
According to the legend, there lived a noble woman in this mysterious castle who died tragically, although her name and manner of death is not known as with the rest of the facts of the legend.
According to reports, there are tales about seeing The White Lady In Freihung since 1625. Ghosts that are reported on wearing white are very common in ghost stories from Germany, especially if the ghost is linked to a noble house. This is the case with the haunting of the house of Hohenzollern as well as an example.
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She is said to haunt the grounds where the castle once stood. Archaeological findings of a castle named Freihung Castle, exist, but in another place than where the hotel is today, and it is unclear whether that has any connection at all.
Today, most reports come from The Gasthaus Alte Post Hotel that they built over the underground mining tunnels.
Weiße Frauen in Germanic Folklore
Why exactley is germanic ghost stories riddled with stories about the lady in white or as they are called in german, Weiße Frauen
In German legends and folklore the stories of the Weiße Frauen or White Women used to be a name meant to the elven-spirits and the stories of the light elves from pagan times and has probably evolved to refer to the female ghosts said to haunt castles, forests, homes and everywhere women have met a deadly end.
Now the name is also used on women dying in grief, of sorrow or with an urge of revenge. It has spread throughout Europe and is an image with strong connotations, even today.
Even outside of Europe, there are tales about female ghosts clad in all white, from the Korean Virgin Ghosts to the vengeful spirit on the Onryo in Japan.
The U.S Army on Ghost Hunt
The terror of The White Lady In Freihung got so bad that the local owners of the hotel called in the U.S troops to the The Gasthaus Alte Post Hotel where most sightseeings of her were reported.
From 1945, the American army had a training center in Grafenwoehr, not far from Freihung. Elvis Presley was once stationed there. It is still used today as a training area by the army.
The hotel owners were desperate by the 1970s and asked for their help and help they received. The army from the base came and used explosives to seal off all the tunnels under the hotel, hoping it would silence the ghost that supposedly walked underneath inside of the tunnels.
The Haunting Continues
This was not enough to stop The White Lady In Freihung however, as she just finds new ways to move among the locals to scare them. And if we are to believe the stories, she is still wandering the streets in the city center of Freihung and showing herself in the rearview mirror of passing cars.
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I read this article about the White Lady in Freihung. This story is not 100% correct.
The author is mixing two different legends. I think it’s the White Lady of the “Ebersberger Forst”, who appears in the rearview of the cars, the one in Freihung never did.
Here in Germany exist several different legends of a “White Lady”.
I grew up in Freihung and spent more than 20 years in this town, and i never saw her, but i know the legend. The elderly people often told us about her, when we were kids.
At first, she is not a woman, she shall be a girl. I don’t believe in ghosts or any other paranormal activities, but the legend is part of this town. In former days there was a club called “Disco White Lady”, well known by U.S. Soldiers, and even the name of the local bowlingteam was (or is?) “White Lady Team”.
The mining tunnels were not destroyed by soldiers, i never heard of this. I’m not sure, if they even existed or if it’s just part of the legend. There is an abandoned lead mine near Freihung, but it’s 1Km from the old “Castle” of Freihung, and for me it doesn’t make any sense to dig a tunnel this long distance for no reason.
It was not a real castle there, i think in english you call it a manor and was built in the end of the 16th or beginning of the 17th century, by one of the owners of those lead mines. Over the years it’s purpose changed, and it became a tavern, the “Gasthof zur Post”. That was in the late 18th century.
The building and the yard were surrounded by a big wall. The basement was huge, maybe this is the reason why many people thought there were mining tunnels under the “castle”. And this basement was the location, where the White Lady resided.
The whole building was destroyed in the night of New Year’s Eve 1978, when a firework set the roof on fire. The next day, in the morning of the New Year’s Day, people saw footprints in the snow, of an barefoot child, leading from the burned “castle” down to the woods at the old mines, so they thought the “White Lady” would be there now.