Tag: Haunted places

August 13, 2021 (day 15 of 19)

In the spotlight

400 km / 249 miles 🚗 🚶

Olavinlinna, Savonlinna 🇫🇮

By far the most famous story of Olavinlinna is the tragic love story of the Finnish maiden.

The daughter of the castle’s Lord was in love with a Russian soldier and one night she opened the castle gate to let him in. But she was betrayed by her lover when he brought more soldiers with him. The Russian forces were fought off and the traitorous lover was killed in the attack. The maiden was sentenced to death for treason and buried alive in the wall of the courtyard.

Shortly afterwards a rowan tree grew on the burial spot and the white flowers which bloomed on the tree were said to be symbolic of the girl’s innocence.

The gear

Camera:
Fujifilm X-S10

Camera lens:
Fujinon XF 16-80mm f/4 R OIS WR

Camera lens filter:
Tiffen Black Pro-Mist Filter 1/4

Film simulation recipe:
LomoChrome Metropolis

The pictures

Russian borders, Änkilänsalo 🇫🇮 & Pajarinkylä 🇫🇮

This is as close as I could safely get to the Russian borders in Finland.

The gear

Camera:
Fujifilm X-T3

Camera lens:
Fujinon XF 16-80mm f/4 R OIS WR

Camera lens filter:
Tiffen Black Pro-Mist Filter 1/4

Film simulation recipe:
Kodachrome 64

The pictures

Parked for the night 🇫🇮

The gear

Cameras:
Fujifilm X-T3
Xiaomi Mi 10

Camera lens:
Fujinon XF 16-80mm f/4 R OIS WR

Camera lens filter:
Tiffen Black Pro-Mist Filter 1/4

The pictures

August 5, 2021 (day 7 of 19)

In the spotlight

532 km / 331 miles 🚗 🚶

Parked for the night 🇳🇴

The gear

Camera:
Xiaomi Mi 10

The pictures

Nidarosdomen, Trondheim 🇳🇴

This church is the result of many craftsmen who spent their entire lives working on it. Norway’s most famous ghost haunts the Nidaros Cathedral.

Several generations of Norwegians have seen the ghost of a bloody monk in this cathedral. Like most good ghost stories there are legends about this monk as well as a real haunting.

The gear

Camera:
Fujifilm X-T3

Camera lens:
Fujinon XF 16-80mm f/4 R OIS WR

Camera lens filter:
Tiffen Black Pro-Mist Filter 1/4

Film simulation recipe:
Kodachrome 64

The pictures

Parked for the night 🇸🇪

The gear

Camera:
Xiaomi Mi 10

The pictures

August 4, 2021 (day 6 of 19)

In the spotlight

487 km / 303 miles 🚗 🚶

On the road 🇳🇴

The gear

Cameras:
Fujifilm X-S10
Xiaomi Mi 10

Camera lens:
Fujinon XF 16-80mm f/4 R OIS WR

Camera lens filter:
Tiffen Black Pro-Mist Filter 1/4

Film simulation recipes:
Fujicolor NPS 160 Pulled
Fujicolor Superia 1600

The pictures

Hotel Union Øye, Øye 🇳🇴

A few years after the hotel’s grand opening, a maid called Linda fell head over heels in love with a German soldier who served Kaiser Wilhelm II.

Because there’s no tragedy without a love triangle, Linda’s lover was of course, already committed to another. After asking his wife for a divorce and being refused (the shame!), he killed himself. Then Linda, upon learning her lover’s fate, drowned herself.

Fast forward several hundred years and Linda still hasn’t gotten over her grief. She can be heard sobbing inconsolably in the Blue Room from time to time.

The gear

Camera:
Fujifilm X-S10

Camera lens:
Fujinon XF 16-80mm f/4 R OIS WR

Camera lens filter:
Tiffen Black Pro-Mist Filter 1/4

Film simulation recipe:
LomoChrome Metropolis

The pictures

Parked for the night 🇳🇴

The gear

Camera:
Xiaomi Mi 10

The pictures

August 3, 2021 (day 5 of 19)

In the spotlight

478 km / 297 miles 🚗 🚶

On the road 🇳🇴

The gear

The pictures

Den Nationale Scene, Bergen 🇳🇴

Over the years, several employees at Den Nationale Scene have claimed that they met Octavia Sperati in the theater building – 100 years after she died. It is said that she can sometimes be heard in the hallways of the old house on Engen.

Fortunately, most people think that the legendary actor is a kind house ghost.

The gear

Camera:
Fujifilm X-S10

Camera lens:
Fujinon XF 16-80mm f/4 R OIS WR

Camera lens filter:
Tiffen Black Pro-Mist Filter 1/4

Film simulation recipe:
LomoChrome Metropolis

The pictures

Parked for the night, Tindevegen, Øvre Årdal 🇳🇴

Tindevegen is a high mountain pass at an elevation of 1.322m (4,337ft) above the sea level, located in Sogn og Fjordane county, in Norway. The road to the summit is paved but pretty narrow and steep, hitting a 12.5% through some of the ramps.

The road to the summit is called Tindevegen. It’s 32 km long and links Øvre Årdal deep in Sognefjord to Turtagrø in Jotunheimen. The road is a toll road open from May to November. Just a short walk from the road, you can enjoy fantastic panoramic views of the Hurrungane peaks and Store Skagastølstind mountain in the east, and of the inner reaches of the Sognefjord and Skjolden in the west.

The gear

Camera:
Xiaomi Mi 10

The pictures

August 2, 2021 (day 4 of 19)

In the spotlight

397 km / 247 miles 🚗 🚶

Dalen Hotel, Dalen 🇳🇴

Guests and staff tell frequent stories of the notorious Room 17, where the ghost known as “The English Lady” spends her restless afterlife. Formerly known as Miss Greenfield of England, The English Lady checked into Dalen Hotel on a spring morning in the late 19th century and spent several months there as a guest.

No one at the hotel knew she was expecting a child, but when staff entered the room after her departure, they found a dead infant. She was arrested and charged with murder but took her own life before the trial could begin. To this day, a table is set for her in the hotel’s restaurant.