New Zealand Ghosts & Other Haunts

Babenhausen Barracks

Lights are turning off and on by themselves, voices in the basement. Training area - soldiers in Nazi uniform have been seen. Barracks - footsteps when no one is there, phone calls of a woman "talking backwards", toilets flush by themselves. A witch was hung in the local town during the 1800's. It is thought her ghost seduced and killed 5 soldiers in the early 1900's for they were never seen again. Also present day soldiers say a woman's voice is heard talking backwards on some of the phones in the barracks.



The White Lady of Bernkastel-Kues Cemetery

Several witnesses told about a ghost on the local cemetery: a lady with long white dress gliding from one grave to another without touching the ground. Sometimes she is crying. A hunter, terrified about the creature, shot on it. The next day he was brought to military hospital in Koblenz with swelled legs and fever. He died always murmuring things about a white lady who attacked him.



(Unfortunately, I have found no picture from the White Lady herself)

Osnabrück-Haste: Karlsteine (Charlemagne's Stones)

Ancient pagan place of worship. Several large tumuli and menhirs (standing stones). When Emperor Charlemagne brought the Christian faith to this part of Germany, he single-handedly smote and destroyed one of the biggest altar stones, thus proving the supremacy of Christ over the "old gods". The place has remained a spot of witchcraft activity and strange rituals, especially around winter solstice and summer equinox. Several sightings of strange orbs, disembodied howls, and stains on the stones. There are reports of the "wild hunt" going by around midnight. This ghostly army rides the night sky, led by the spirit of Charlemagne himself. Legend says that anybody accidentally witnessing rush by should cover his eyes and step aside in a gesture of humility. Nasty things are said to have happened to those who did not make way or tried to sneak a look.




Source: http://www.theshadowlands.net/places/germany.htm
(for texts)

Wabun Wind

Fascinating stuff Wabun. I would love to know more about German Graveyards (Im a taphophile, I love headstones/graveyards etc) ......its hard to find sites (in my experience) that feature info and pictures of European graveyards.

Are you able to post some links in here for me? I dont mind if they're in German (text) - I would love to look at some cemetery layouts/pics etc

Thanks hun.

Well, I have to admit, that I admire explicitely "ancient" cemetaries. The German ones are not so old in this case. Sometimes you can find graves dating back to 1810 at the latest but not older. Mostly famous people have their old stones still standing. Usually Germans like to clean their cemeteries every 25 years if there is no prolongation. I am sorry for that old witnesses of some history have to leave for "neatness". But I adore one of the most famous and oldest cemeteries in Europe. It is Pére Lachaise in Paris, France. You will find some nice family chapels there and really little houses for up to 8 people with so wonderfull sculptures. I have found an English page about it with pictures. If you still like some older ones you surely can find them only in Scotland and Ireland dating from the first time of Christianity even. There is e.g. in south-east Ireland County Wicklow with Glendalough. Wonderfull place with very old cemetery, monastery and a little lake around. I am sure to find some pictures when I am going to browse. Or at the Scottish frontier to North-England/Cumbria there is Jedburgh, an old chapel with old graves with celtic crosses. Probably there are some pictures to find as well. Those are the ones I like best and I all visited personally.

But before....may I perhaps bring up a suggestion to makes things more evident or invite more people to post "stuff"?
What about a new forum or only subforum would be sufficient entitled "Ancient Cemeteries" or "Beautiful Cemeteries around the World". So the pictures and descriptions would have a nice place and will not get lost in the "somewhere". And probably other posters will get an impulse for posting graveyards of their home/country. I think that we both are not the only ones here that like beautiful graves
Am I right? What do you mods/admins think about that?

Wabun Wind

I have no objections to photographs of cemeteries being posted as long as you either own the photo or give the full copyright details.
Asylum what happened to those wonderful shots you took at the cemetery with what looked at someone sleeping at the bottom of a tree.

That was a rest area that has a vortex GG. I will see if I can dig em up again