Anonymous
×
Create a new article
Write your page title here:
We currently have 2,416 articles on Monstropedia. Type your article name above or click on one of the titles below and start writing!



Monstropedia
2,416Articles

Difference between revisions of "Blankenfeldes manor"

Line 19: Line 19:
First off all, there is a room in the manor. It's doors are now shut to anyone who might dare to go in, because this room is the place, where two tragedies, connected with the Blankenfelde's ghosts, have taken place:  
First off all, there is a room in the manor. It's doors are now shut to anyone who might dare to go in, because this room is the place, where two tragedies, connected with the Blankenfelde's ghosts, have taken place:  


# The first tale goes, that the new owner of the manor was not a man to believe in ghosts and paranormal entities. He hired a beautiful, young gowerness for his children, and gave her the room in the first floor, though every sevant in the manor advised him not to do that, the rumors were going round the manor, that the room was haunted. The man only laughed and didn't change his mind.  The governess went to bed, but in the middle of the night someone woke her up, she was pushed out of the bed and a figure appeared in front of her, a figure of a tall man. When the ghost disappeared, the gowerness started to scream and cry. In came the baron and the baroness and the old hosekeeper, they saw the gowerness sitting in the corner curled up, and the girls beautiful, long black hair had turned white. There was nothing more to do, the girl had in fear lost her mind.
# The first tale goes, that the new owner of the manor was not a man to believe in ghosts and paranormal entities. He hired a beautiful, young gowerness for his children, and gave her the room in the first floor, though every sevant in the manor advised him not to do that, the rumors were going round the manor, that the room was haunted. The man only laughed and didn't change his mind.  The governess went to bed, but in the middle of the night someone woke her up, she was pushed out of the bed and a figure appeared in front of her, a figure of a tall man. When the ghost disappeared, the gowerness started to scream and cry. In came the baron and the baroness and the old hosekeeper, they saw the gowerness sitting in the corner curled up, and the girls beautiful, long black hair had turned white. There was nothing more to do, the girl had lost her mind in fear.
# The next evening, wishing to show that the room had nothing to do with the girl's madness, that she had already carried this illness in her, the baron and his friends stayed in the room. There were four of them - two soldiers, a forester and the baron himself. They took wine and cards with them and went into the room. After midnight, the baron went to bed, feeling dizzy and sleepy, the rest of the gang was left at the table. And then the Ghost appeared again.  
# The next evening, wishing to show that the room had nothing to do with the girl's madness, that she had already carried this illness in her, the baron and his friends stayed in the room. There were four of them - two soldiers, a forester and the baron himself. They took wine and cards with them and went into the room. After midnight, the baron went to bed, feeling dizzy and sleepy, the rest of the gang was left at the table. And then the Ghost appeared again.  
He said: ''I told you that those will die, who dare to come in this room! And this is the night when you will all die!'' He chopped the two soldiers heads off, the baron was wakened up in his bed and went mad seeing what happened. The next morning his wife opened the rooms door only to find two dead soldiers, the forester in the bed and her husband sitting in the same corner where the gowerness in the previous night.
He said: ''I told you that those will die, who dare to come in this room! And this is the night when you will all die!'' He chopped the two soldiers heads off, the baron was wakened up in his bed and went mad seeing what happened. The next morning his wife opened the rooms door only to find two dead soldiers, the forester in the bed and her husband sitting in the same corner where the gowerness in the previous night.

Revision as of 15:56, 16 May 2009

Blankenfeldes manor is a manor on the Latvian - Lithuanian border. It was first mentioned in cronicles in the late 1680-ties, and after some time it gained the fame as a unlucky, haunted place. Through years the manor went from hand to hand and changed several owners, untill finally it came in the kin of Hahn's posession, where it remained till the reforms in the 1920, when the Germans were demanded to return in Germany. Hahn's family cronicles let the historians know, why people thought this place hounted.

Official status

Today, Blankenfeldes manor is a historical and cultural monument, having the Blue flag. However, unofficially, it is also the capital of all ghosts and is said to be the most terribly haunted place in the Baltic region. It is also a popular excursion place, where people go in winter to experience real manor life and a taste of baron's supper in candlelight.

History

Remarkably interesting is, that the owners of Blankenfeldes manor change in very short periods of time, that are 10 to 40 years, though usually the manors were in the posession of one family for at least hundred of years. So whatever the reasons for the previous masters leaving are, we can consider, it was because of the same thing, why the manor was avoided by people later. The manor has seen all kinds of times. It has been built over a few times, making it from the original wooden into a stone building. It has shortly be the home for the exiled French king Louise XVIII. Later after 1920 the manor served a a nursing home for elderly people. After Baltic region was occupied by USSR, the manor was also used as an asylum and regained it's name and meaning as a manor only after year 1990.

Ghosts

Blankenfeldes manor does not carry the title of the most terribly haunted place in Baltics for nothing. Historians only know about the reports on ghost only starting with years, when Hahn family became the manor's owners, yet it is almost shure that the haunting didn't start with this year. The manor is said to have about three ghosts living in it: a man, a woman and a manikin or dwarf.

The ghost stories of the Blankenfeldes manor is far more terrible than any other in Baltic region. Now we now them because of the family cronicle, that is considered to be true among the people.

First off all, there is a room in the manor. It's doors are now shut to anyone who might dare to go in, because this room is the place, where two tragedies, connected with the Blankenfelde's ghosts, have taken place:

  1. The first tale goes, that the new owner of the manor was not a man to believe in ghosts and paranormal entities. He hired a beautiful, young gowerness for his children, and gave her the room in the first floor, though every sevant in the manor advised him not to do that, the rumors were going round the manor, that the room was haunted. The man only laughed and didn't change his mind. The governess went to bed, but in the middle of the night someone woke her up, she was pushed out of the bed and a figure appeared in front of her, a figure of a tall man. When the ghost disappeared, the gowerness started to scream and cry. In came the baron and the baroness and the old hosekeeper, they saw the gowerness sitting in the corner curled up, and the girls beautiful, long black hair had turned white. There was nothing more to do, the girl had lost her mind in fear.
  2. The next evening, wishing to show that the room had nothing to do with the girl's madness, that she had already carried this illness in her, the baron and his friends stayed in the room. There were four of them - two soldiers, a forester and the baron himself. They took wine and cards with them and went into the room. After midnight, the baron went to bed, feeling dizzy and sleepy, the rest of the gang was left at the table. And then the Ghost appeared again.

He said: I told you that those will die, who dare to come in this room! And this is the night when you will all die! He chopped the two soldiers heads off, the baron was wakened up in his bed and went mad seeing what happened. The next morning his wife opened the rooms door only to find two dead soldiers, the forester in the bed and her husband sitting in the same corner where the gowerness in the previous night.

This is how it goes in the cronicle and ghost stories about the manor. There are several other thing as well: The ghost of a woman is walking with mild steps in the hallways at evening, the manor's staff believe it is the countess Elisabeth, who comes to pay a visit to her only daughter, who died when she was very young and is buried in the cemetary near the manor. The manor staff has an interesting habit - when they hear the woman closing in, they open the doors and say loudly: Guten nacht, grossmutter Elizabeth!, and then the steps disappear. And sometimes heavy, strong steps are heard in the hallways, making the staff think there is also male ghost in the castle, though they are not shure, wether it is the same, who killed the two soldiers and made baron and gowerness loose their minds.

It is also believed to be the ghost of the small Marquise de Vise ( Visa ), who had died in the age of 245(!) and had the habit to watch over young people after some ball or grand party, and, if the people had started to behave more freely or the wway he didn't like it, he had clasped his small hands and said: Shoo, shoo! It's not the time yet! The granddaughters of the Hahn family believe that he is still haunting in the Balnkenfeldes manor, and he probably might be, because from time to time the guest receive uninvited help with things like getting an apple from table, when the fruit raises up in the air and comes forward, and sometimes on rare cases peple can also see him.

In the time of nursing home and asylum, there were also more common thing like the so called ticking on the windows or doors, when somebody died.

Another theory exists, that the ghosts are nor the baroness, nor the little marquise, but evil spirits, that some of the previous owners have called from the world of the dead in their time to receive help in this world's business.