Every country seems to have creepy spots with ghost stories, cursed forests, abandoned hospitals, etc. In Germany it often feels like the answer is just “yeah that castle is 900 years old, deal with it.”
Are there any places people genuinely think are haunted or at least deeply unsettling?
places locals avoid “for no reason”, abandoned buildings with bad reputations, forests that feel wrong at night or anywhere you’d think twice about going alone…
The Black Forest is associated with a lot of stories, although I guess we have literature to thank for that more than anything else. Then there's a lot of stuff associated with WWII. But yeah, for a country that played such a big role in the romantic movement, that aesthetic/sensibility has largely fallen away.
You do know that ghosts aren’t real?
Ok one more ghost denier here
Ghost stories are very real.
Every culture in the world just independently invented ghosts for fun. Very efficient use of imagination.
I used to live in a haunted house.
The ghosts all moved out when I got double glazed windows. I guess they just don't like warm houses with no draughts.
With many hours of wandering empty corridors but yet to actually provide proof, think it's all just a lot of very old places.
It's pretty wild that human minds think the same way, huh? Crazy even.... Also explains why humans all over invented gods for things they couldn't explain back then...
wouldn't that be ... extremely crowded? I mean, we are 8 billion right now, how many already died? If earth gets destroyed, do they fly in space?
believing in ghosts in 2025...
whenever I bring this up to people they are like "oh obviously ghosts aren't dead people, they are inter-dimensional souls"
silly me
oh, i had this conversation, too. I tried to be smart and question this shit more and more... but this person just went with new random shit and had a whole fictional world ready (or made it up on the spot). I learned my lesson :D
No point. Almost every culture developed some kind of god as well.
And coordinated use
If you want unsettling, go visit Buchenwald, Dachau or the gas chambers in Hadamar
The Hospital I work at is over 500 years old. Can you imagine how many ghosts would be there if ghosts were real?
Germany has places that are deeply unsettling because of history. While some countries have taken a taste to create tourism around horrible things (there were tours in Edinburgh dedicated to places where killings and executions took place, to name an example and London also has something similar, or Salem with the witch trials); this isn’t a thing in Germany.
We are Germans. WE turn places to "haunted places" but we aren't scared of it. Yes we have old places like black forest with tons of legends etc. But if u want to be real scared visit an concentration camp museum.
Weird flex but okay
Das ist kein flex. Hast du dir mal die originale zu den Grimm Märchen angesehen? Die wenigsten davon hatten ursprünglich ein happy end. Das waren eher warnungen und grusel für Kinder Als Gute-Nacht-Geschichten.
Die Originale der Grimm-Märchen kommen allerdings aus Frankreich (Hugenotten), aber die waren nicht wirklich Friede-Freude-Eierkuchen, das stimmt.
Mein Kommentar war eher auf den ersten Satz deines Kommentars gemünzt
Nun, historisch sind wir mehr der Schrecken als das wir einen haben ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Das ist leider wahr ..
Dennoch, Frohe Weihnachten!
The forest around Hinterkaifeck was always very spooky to us while we were growing up.
Other than that the black forest is the setting of a lot of scary folktales including some of the classic brothers Grimm fairy tales.
Castles don't tend to be spooky, because they aren't actually abandoned. Even the most broken ruins are usually maintained and open to tourists.
Why do you think only old places are haunted? I'm sure there are some Plattenbauten in Leipzig with ghost stories to tell...
Long ago, there was a sea demon named Roggenbuk who haunted the bay of Travemünde.
Then there's Ekke Nekkepenn, a kind of Rumpelstiltskin of the sea.
Gonger are revenants, tales told on the islands of Sylt and Amrum.
The book The Rider on the White Horse is based on an old Frisian ghost story.
Every region has its own ghost stories, which are gradually being forgotten.
A nearby castle has a demonic dog and a girl bricked into a tower because of an unhappy love affair and haungint the place. However, until you have written sources, you won't know if it's traditional or if someone in the (19)60s just smoked bad weed at the place and told all their friends about spooky ongoings -- or, if there isn't any story, you do not know if the stories died in 1944 or 1644 or whatever. And if you have written sources you do not know if the writer was a folklorist, or if he was impressed by the place and made stuff up.
Most spooky stories are more likely to attract people than to deter them.
Well, that would depend on whether you believe in ghosts or not. If you do, then yes, some places are allegedly haunted. Though I don't personally know of any that are still visitable to the public.
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Try the Hexenwald near Wolfenbüttel, just outside of Braunschweig.
If ghosts of people gruesomely killed were real....oh boy, we'd be in trouble. So nah, the only thing to be afraid of is the living.
No such thing as haunted places. Anywhere.