

There may be no night-time television, but leave out a plate of onions by the door and you may just coax Linda into paying you a reluctant visit.ģ/10 The Bloody Monk Who Likes To Squeeze To snap up these quarters you have to do so at least a year in advance.

She can be heard sobbing inconsolably in the Blue Room from time to time.

Then Linda, upon learning her lover’s fate, drowned herself.įast forward several hundred years and Linda still hasn’t gotten over her grief. After asking his wife for a divorce and being refused (the shame!), he killed himself. 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.īecause there’s no tragedy without a love triangle, Linda’s lover was of course, already committed to another. Before you despair over the lack of entertainment, know this: the hotel comes complete with its own telenovela. There are no televisions and no WIFI (we are not amused!).

Hotel staff still set a table and light a candle for her in (probably) a useless attempt to ward off any evil intentions.īuilt in 1891, the Hotel Union Øye is a throwback to its Victorian times. To this day, guests claim they can feel her presence in the hotel, and some have said to seen her during the night in their rooms. The mother was eventually tracked down and put on trial, but she committed suicide before a verdict could be given. RELATED: 10 Haunted Airbnbs In America You Can Book Whether or not she intentionally killed the baby, no one knows. The next morning when the cleaning lady entered, it was to find more than she (or anyone) bargained for: Miss Greenfield gone and the tiny corpse of her child wrapped in a bloodied sheet. In the 1800s, a British lady who went by the name of Miss Greenfield came as a guest and gave birth here. It might look pretty on the outside, but one horrifying event took place on the inside - and you guessed it, in room 17. The end.Officially called 'Dalen' but known as the Fairytale Hotel, this lavish Norwegian establishment combines picturesque turrets and a ‘painting within a painting’ feel. The girl, shocked, finishes her errand and wows never to be lazy again. The Nykur immediately throws her off, finishes his run to the pond and disappears. The girl may have been lazy, but she was smart, so she exclaimed "Ah, I can't be bothered with this anymore!" (Æ, nú nenni ég þessu ekki lengur).
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No sooner it goes sprinting at full speed towards a couple of pond's nearby.Īnother name for the Nykur is the Nennir. Thinking she'll save a few hours, she approaches it and sits on its back. As she's strolling along, cursing her father, she spots a beautiful, gray horse standing in a field. There's a story about a lazy daughter of a farmer who's sent by her father on an errand to the next farm over. There is a way around it, though: This creature can't stand the sound of its name, or its variations. You can't get off, no matter how hard you try. If you get on its back, it'll sprint off towards the nearest body of water, and drown you. The Nykur appears as a gray horse, except its hooves are backwards. Iceland gives us the Nykur, yet again different from the Scandinavian versions.
