Hello and welcome back to the Most Amazing Channel on the internet!
I am your host Rebecca Felgate and today we are talking about the top 10 scary Berlin
Urban Legends ! JA!
I’ve been to Germany a few times, but only to Cologne where my mate Christina lives.
I would absolutely love to go to Berlin, though.
It is the home of some of the most interesting political and historical events!
With a city dating back to the 13th Century, Berlin has seen some action…find out what
is going on in the capital of Deutschland.
Let me know if you believe in ghosts and if your town or city has any scary stories?
10 - The Wailing Lover of the Spandau Citadel Firstly, lets just have a little moment to
appreciate how bloody beautiful the Berlin Citadel is.
What a Renaissance glory!
The building was finished in 1594 and is one of the best preserved military structures
of its time.
It seriously is beautiful…and kind of romantic to look at.
As it happens, the building is home to a twisted love story…but not just that, it is home
to a heart broken ghost.
Back when Germany was a collection of states, Berlin was known as Brandenburg.
From 1535 until his death in 1571, the state was ruled by Joachim the second.
Joachim was married to Hedwig of Poland, but in 1549 she suffered a terrible accident that
rendered her unable to walk without crutches.
Joachim then decided to take a lover, Anna Sydow, who is regularly dubbed the beautiful
foundress.
Joachim asked his son, on his deathbed, to look after Anna, but he threw her behind bars
and she was imprisoned until she died.
To this day, it is said that she never left….
She roams the halls looking for Joachim to set her free.
Sometimes dissonant wails can be heard.
9 - The limping monk of the Graues Kloster.
Ah, you have to love an old gothic monastery.
There is almost no way one of those babies isn’t haunted by some kind of ghoul or trapped
repressed religious spirit.
So, sitting in ruins on Klosterstraße is the Church of the Franciscan Monastery.
The place may be ruins today, but it has a long and interesting fraught, dating back
to 1250.
Sadly, the majority of the church was destroyed in 1945 during the bombing of Berlin.
These days, part of the church’s early history seems to still remain in the form of a limping
monk.
The monk was said to have walled up his son and left him to die in the monastery walls.
Right.
His malicious presence can still be felt today, although he seems to have gone off walling
people, he is said to pinch them instead.
8 - The Ghosts of the Reichstag The Reischstag has been the on and off seat
of German Political power since it was built by Bismark in 1894.
Since then it has been rebuilt twice – in 1933 following the suspicious Reichstag fire
and again after the second world war, as the building was once again destroyed.
Since Germany was reunified, the building was restored and became the meeting place
of German Parliament once again in 1999.
A lot of people consider the building to be haunted by the political ghost of Hitler,
but in reality, he hated the place and never set foot in there after the Nazis rose to
power.
Politics aside, the building is thought to be haunted by actual ghosts too, many former
country leaders and possibly even Van De Lubbe, the Dutch man accused of starting the Reichstag
Fire.
He didn’t die in the blaze – but was executed as a result.
The emotional trauma the event had on his life may explain an imprint on the building.
7 - An Urban Legend from Hitler’s time - The Reichstag Fire Was Prophesized
The Reichstag Fire was the talk of the town in 1933 and of course caused a big stir and
a huge political scandal…perhaps even a constitutional crisis.
Three days before the fire happened Erik Jan Hanussen, a famous clairvoyant, predicted
the blaze.
The story of Hanuessen is actually pretty fascinating – he was a Jewish performer
who would present magic and hypnotic skits across Berlin.
It seems that Hanussen sensed the Nazis rise in strength and he decided to try and try
to win favour with the party….a dangerous move for a jew.
He lied about his heritage and managed to win favour, even performing with Hitler on
stage.
While he had the public convinced, it seems his Clairvoyance may not have been a natural
gift, he may have been privy to intel that the arson attack was planned.
When Hitler caught wind of his prediction, it is alleged that he had Hanuessen killed.
He was killed in the 25th March 1933 and his body was found in a field on the outskirts
of Berlin.
Bringing it back to the modern day 6 - The Mystery of Berghain
Berlin is known as the home of Techno music, even though it originated in Detroit.
In Berlin there is a nightclub called Berghain North of the Spree in the Fredrichshain neighbourhood.
This club is notoriously hard to get into and bouncer Sven Marquardt, here he is…say
hi….
He is the one who gets to decide whether or not you made the cut, but nobody can figure
out exactly why.
It is said that it helps if you wear black, but nothing is ever a given with this place.
Some people queue for three hours to get a chance at gaining admission to the nightclub,
and many of those are turned away and simply have to go home.
Some people claim the mysterious door policy is racist, sexist, hetrophobic, homophobic,
xenophobic…all the phobics….
But others think there is something stranger going on, that Sven and those behind Berghain
are in a secret cult and those that get in know something we don’t.
What goes on inside that industrial estate mansion?
No one will tell you, including those who have been inside.
There are no photos of the club, either…as there is a strict no camera policy.
5 - The Legends of the Führerbunker.
What happened to Hitler in his Berlin Bunker as Nazi Germany fell has been the topic of
much speculation.
In fact, the Berlin Bunker has been the focal point for a number of wild theories and urban
legends for nearly 80 years.
The generally accepted course of events is that Hitler committed suicide in his bunker
in the 30th April 1945, but his body has never been found.
When his bunker was stormed, the Fuhrer was no where to be seen and Soviet leader Joseph
Stalin was convinced he was still alive.
Berlin was scoured top to bottom, but no body could find him.
A lot of conspiracy theories say that the bunker was more complex than at first suspected
and that he somehow managed to escape to Argentina.
Some urban legends even suggest that the United States Government were in on his escape, allowing
him passage to South America in exchange for assurance that Germany would surrender.
A lot of this makes up the drama in the docu-film Grey Wolf.
Others think he lived out his years in disguise in Berlin.
4 - The Ghost Wall Along Oranienburger Straße sits the Gespen-ster-mauer
– the ghost wall.
According to a popular urban legend, the section of wall is haunted by the spirits of two children
from an unknown time period – although the area was subject to heavy bombardment at the
end of World War Two so it could be they were killed in a 1945 ariel attack.
It seems the kids will grant you a wish if you stick a penny in the crumbling wall.
The proviso is that the wish must be modest and unselfish, and if so…the children will
set about doing it.
To be honest, while ghosts are scary, these two spirits seem pretty friendly.
3 - The Abandoned Spree Theme Park and the Fire of 2014
Opening in 1969 as the Kulpurpark Planterwald in East Germany, the amusement park was better
known as spree park.
Despite surviving the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Park closed due to insolvency in 2002
and is now one of the most famous ghost theme parks in the word.
The park is closed to the public, but of course that hasn’t stopped urban explorers investigating
the place and taking a number of eerie pictures.
Eesh.
The park owner was a dubious chap linked to a Peruvian drug ring.
He was arrested and sent to jail for seven years for trying to smuggle 180 kilos of cocaine
from Peru to Germany in 2004.
In 2014, a large part of the park was destroyed by fire.
Firefighters indicated that two blazes merged to form one bigger fire, suggesting it may
have been arson.
Who lit the match and why they wanted the park to burn, we don’t know.
2 - The Nuclear Secrets of Vogelsang Vogelsang is an abandoned city in the Brandenburg
forest that was built by the Soviet Union in 1951.
In its day, the city was home to around 15,000 soldiers and civilians as well as a whole
bunch of weapons.
It is thought that the city held atomic weapons ready to launch on West Europe at the touch
of a button.
Four of the weapons stored in this town were allegedly set up to hit the United Kingdom.
The bombs stored here were said to be 20 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
Nobody but high ranking soviets were informed that the missiles were housed in the town.
Now, no living souls are present in the town, but there are questions as to whether there
are a few unliving ones, trapped forever among the rubble and hiding the towns nuclear secrets
for an eternity.
So there was that!
What a corker!
The Top 10 Scary Berlin Urban Legends. 1 - The Bright Lights of Brieselang
Brieselang is a park on the outskirts of Berlin.
In 1945 a young girl, 12 year old Elisabeth Wieja, was raped and murdered by soviet soldiers
in the Brieselanger Forest.
Perhaps it was this trauma, or the trauma of the war in general, but since the late
1940s, mysterious lights have been spotted dancing in the sky above the forest.
The phenomenon gained national and international attention in the 1980s and to this day people
still try to visit the park in order to see the dancing lights.
There are a few grainy youtube videos of the lights… but really you have to see them
for yourself.
The lights are reported to be white, red and green.
They flicker on and off and appear in random spots.
Not only that, many people have reported hearing voices around the park…whisperings and voices.
There is also a very creepy abandoned inn next to the park…which adds to a sense of
unease.
Some people try and explain the lights as a natural phenomenon related to the ability
of the soil to store gasses….
But a lot of people consider this explanation to be tenuous.
So there we have it, that was the Top 10 scary Berlin Urban Legends!
This was a tough one to script!
I feel like the city keeps its cards close to its chest.
Anyone from Berlin that knows anymore spooky stories?
Let me know.
Also let me know what urban legends you would like me to make next!
Comments from my Top 10 Historical Misconceptions You Were Taught in School.
Swiftie Runner 89 wrote: My favourite class was lunch!
Always got an A+ My favourite class is always lunch!
We did get to do food tech in school too, which was basically like 2 hours of extra
lunch.
Captain Weegee wrote: My favorite classes are history and science?
- those would be my favourite if I was still at school, too.
I love a good informative comment!
Clara P wrote: Not only were Washington's dentures made of human teeth, but some records
have caused historians to speculate that were ripped from the mouths of slaves.
Also, the reason that Cinco de Mayo is celebrated and treated as Mexican Independence in America
is because the U.S passed an act around that time that prevented anyone from celebrating
foreign independence days.
This act was mainly targeted toward Mexican immigrants, who were then forced to choose
a seemingly random battle to celebrate legally.
I could be wrong about those things, though, and if I am, please let me know.
Just trying to be informative-ish for those of you who didn't know.
Thank you for your time!
:)? Thanks Clara.