Many water spirits seek to kill humans. And worse, some are even able to compel their victims to approach their waters so that they offer themselves up to the slaughter!

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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/Nixie_in_the_Lake_near_Wanzka

The living and the dead CAN co-exist, if everyone puts in just a little bit effort.

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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Haunting_Housekeeper

Winter time is ghost time!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI1Llu8SSV4

Exorcists have a bad habit of dumping malevolent spirits at the nearest convenient hill, swamp, or forest - without considering that other people might want to use those places, too.

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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/An_Exorcism_in_Kirchbrak

The paths of the dead are not meant for the living.

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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/In_Paradise

There are voices in the storm...

Voices that scream for vengeance!

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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Shower_Maidens

Duty never ends for a coast warden. Not even death is a release.

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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Coast_Warden

Many lost souls appear as "fiery men" - humanoid apparitions of living flames.

#Austria #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Saved_Fiery_Man

Most ghosts seek salvation. A few attain it.

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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/Ghosts_Reaching_Salvation

A headless horseman roams the Mückenloch forest near Neckargemünd.

#Germany #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Rider_without_a_Head_(M%C3%BCckenloch)

Many ghosts in turmoil can only move on with the aid of the living.

...sometimes, the required assistance is rather easy to fulfill.

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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Farmer_Who_Had_Moved_The_Boundary_Stones

In life, a tone-deaf nun.

In death, an avian companion to the Wild Huntsman!

#Germany #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory #bird #owl #WildHunt
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Hooting_Ursel

A strange dog haunts the village of Lüttgenrode.

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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Welthund_near_St%C3%B6tterlingenburg_and_L%C3%BCttgenrode

Some missionaries are so fanatical that even death will not make them shut up about their faith.

#Germany #Helgoland #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Monk_on_Helgoland_Island

Strange lights can sometimes be spotted in the German countryside at night.

Some of them are friendly, and some of them are... not.

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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Ghostly_Light

The "Corpse Lake" is named for the many murders perpetrated on it by bandits.

And even long after the bandits were gone, the lake retains its haunted atmosphere...

#Germany #folktale #folklore #lake #ghost #ghoststory
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Corpse_Lake

A sunken road near Münsterhof is haunted by a strange, headless ghost.

#Poland #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Headless_Man_near_M%C3%BCnsterhof_and_the_Farmer

Many inns offer barber services at very affordable rates.

In fact, it's the rates for _refusing_ their service that can be a killer.

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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/A_Ghost_does_a_Haircut

When the spirits of the dead will not stay away from the living, experts need to be called in to deal with them.

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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Ghost_of_Day_Laborer_Rossow_from_Klein-Kelle_near_R%C3%B6bel

When you see two men carrying a heavy load across a lonely mountain one evening, it's best to leave them well enough alone.

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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Heavily_Loaded_Men