The Real Haunted Story Of Dragsholm Castle

On the Danish island of Zealand, there is a magnificent building that is now a five-star hotel with a golf course and a Michelin-starred restaurant. The building is situated majestically among lakes and meadows. The bishop of Roskill, Peter Soonison, built and brought home in 12/15 as a palace. Folklore states that this castle ranks high among Europe's most haunted locations. The home castle of Drag has become legendary due to three distinct hauntings. A troublesome Lord, the Earl of Bothwell is associated with three ladies: White, Grey, and White Lady. The white woman represents a lonely female who was encased in bricks. And the old woman is a grateful watchdog. At least one hundred ghosts reportedly roam Drag's ancestral castle.

To fully comprehend their Tal, we must go into the 800-year-long history of the castle. The only Danish castle to make it through the Civil War, often called the Count's quarrel, that raged from 1534 to 1536 was Dragzhom. Originally a grand palace, it was heavily defended throughout the Middle Ages. Nonetheless, from 1536 to 1664, with the revolt, the Crown acquired the drugs home Castle. It served a similar purpose. This was the castle's most gloomy period, according to historians. The area's nobility were among those held hostage here. Some of them could have even been residents or visitors to Drugsholm during its heyday just after the Protestant Reformation. Several bishops and other ecclesiastical captives eventually made Drags house their home as Lutheranism spread over Denmark and the Catholic Church was eventually outlawed.

A lot of famous people were among the prisoners, including the ironically former owner of the site and current Catholic Bishop of Roskill, Joachim Renault. On top of that, James Hepburn. Among the condemned were the third spouse of Mary, Queen of Scots—the 4th Earl of Bothwell—and others. We also count him as the first ghost we've encountered. One Scottish aristocrat who was notoriously troublesome was James Hepburn. Difficulty seems to be following him. He had just escaped one jam when he got sucked into yet another. In 1567, Hepburn fled Scotland in search of a better place to live, hoping to be able to escape to a safer haven. During the period when it was under Danish administration, his ship was compelled to make an emergency landing in Norway. It was unfortunate for him that he was held there due to a lack of proper identification.

He was haunted by some of his past mistakes. Anna Thronsen, a prominent ex-fiancee who he had kidnapped along with her dowry when she was abandoned, is the most prominent example. This on top of the fact that the English were known to be keen on apprehending him for the murder of his second wife and present spouse. The Danish king eventually sent the Earl of Bothwell to Drogshelm. If the stories are to be believed, he was shackled to a pillar and given just the barest essentials for sustenance. He supposedly went insane during the ten years he was locked up at Dragzholm Castle. Between the months of March and April of 1578, he walked around his pillar till his death. When he did this, he left an indelible mark on the floor—a circular groove.

Even now, you can see the groove. Although his physical form was removed from the castle, his spirit remained there. The likelihood of seeing the Earl's ghost is far lower than that of hearing his spirit. The noises of horses may supposedly be heard all around the courtyard. Hooves, often accompanied by the sound of a heavily loaded vehicle. Up to the Dano-Swedish War of 1658, when Charles the 6th, Gustave of Sweden, was imprisoned here, it remained a prison. There was an attempt to detonate it by sixty. The town's financial woes didn't end when the king sent narcotics back to a shopkeeper named Heinrich Mueller to settle a bill. After Frederick Christian Adler brought home narcotics in 1694, there was corruption and decay.

The restoration of the castle was initiated by its subsequent owner. But it wasn't until the subsequent owner completed the restoration in the Baroque style that it looked the way it does now. The Adela family held onto this land right up to 1932. The Central Land Board took control of the property deeds when no further heirs were found. The castle was bought by JF Butler around five years after the first acquisition, and the Butter family still manages it now. For at least two hundred years.

Almost all of the buildings we see today are examples of this style. No damage. That is, unless you include the limited repairs made after the First World War ended. Many of the salons and ballrooms were remodeled with late Romantic style furnishings as a consequence of this remodeling. In the 1930s, when repairing the plumbing, workmen made a terrible discovery. Some time in the past, the discovery was made. Legend has it that the castle was haunted by the specter of a young girl dressed in white, who supposedly prowls the grounds at night. On the hunt for her banned boyfriend.

Their discovery of this information added credence to her story. The legend goes that she was the daughter of one of the several castle owners. The story goes that a young lady named Selina Bovless fell for a working-class man. A fortress. The young woman started a connection with a commoner, which was very unsuitable for a lady of aristocracy. No. In his rage, her father informed her that they were having an affair behind closed doors. In response, he confined her to a cell inside the tower and bricked her up while she was inside. Just another ghost story. It was reported that the white woman could be heard crying because she was perpetually grieving a lost love.

The sequence continued until it reached the robed skeleton of a lady. Housed inside the foundation. One ghost tale that stands out from the crowd is "The Tail of the Grey Lady," which is surprisingly funny. The protagonist of this tale is a woman who, as a token of her gratitude, remained a servant in this castle well into her old age. This servant had excruciating toothache while she was employed here. Some stories have it that the lord of the house insisted she have a poultice to help with her pain. This was something she was going through.