A widow at twenty-nine took on herself the management of her many properties. On a journey over them she came one evening to the tavern in Fjelkinge, and was quartered for the night in a room that had the name of being haunted. The room was called the "ghost's room" after a traveller and all his belongings had disappeared without a trace there a few years before. The last that was seen of him, what that he went to sleep in this room. People supposed he had been murdered.
Shortly after this, a ghost appeared in the room nightly, and those who knew about it, would rather travel to the next inn in the dark, rather than to stay at Fjelkinge inn for the night. However, he widow chose to sleep in the room anyway.
She retired to bed and sleep, leaving the lamp burning. At twelve o'clock she woke up when two boards in the floor were lifted up, and from the opening rose a bloody phantom, with a cloven head hanging on its shoulders.
"Noble lady," whispered the ghost, "Please, prepare a grave in consecrated earth for a murdered man, and speed the murderer to his just punishment."
Now the phantom told her he had already asked various other people to do the same thing; but in vain.
The widow drew a gold ring from her finger, laid it in the gaping wound, and bound the apparition's head up with her kerchief. With a glance of unspeakable gratitude he told her the name of the murderer, and disappeared beneath the floor without a sound.
Next morning the lady sent for the bailiff of the estate to come to the tavern with some people. She told them what had happened during the night, and ordered that the planks of the floor be taken up. Uder the ground they discovered the remains of a body that was buried in the earth. They noticed that the ring of the countess lay in a wound in its head, and her kerchief was tied about its head.
At the sight of this, one of those present grew pale and fell to the ground in a swoon. When he came to his senses, he confessed that he had murdered the traveller and robbed him of his belongings. He was condemned to death for his crime, and the body of the murdered man was buried in the village churchyard.
【Isn't really scary for the first one but I think it's interesting. Let me know what you think!】
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