Spooky Castle
Houska Castle creeps me out. Basically, this Bohemian fortress was constructed on top of an ancient Slavo-Germanic pagan ritual site which was a very deep hole. Nothing too weird about that except for the way the castle was built.
For one, it’s built in a useless position and served no strategic purpose, so it was not desirable for medieval lords of Bohemia or any invaders to control. Then people realized that the castle was actually inverted!
The fortifications were on the inside (arrow slits, turrets, thick fortress walls slanting into the castle etc.) as if they were trying to keep something inside.
There’s a legend that a Bohemian king lowered a prisoner into the hole that the castle was built on and he began screaming so they pulled him back up and he had aged 60 years and died.
Then during WWII, the Nazis did actually occupy the castle for a time, but they reported some strange sounds and when Allied forces stormed the castle, the Nazis were dead or abandoned the place.
For sure there’s some folklore involved with the place, but the fact that the castle was built clearly to keep something inside opposed to out and even the Nazis had issues with it, it definitely makes it seem like some ancient horror lies within that hole.
Story Credit: Reddit/Binch101