Anon03/14/26, 15:03No.42108670
This one isn't particularly spectacular, but it's very very real. More of a story of tragedy, prejudice and misfortune, but I like it. Has a grim(m) vibe to it.Alleged witch was murdered along one of the main roads in our small German town in the late 1600s. In her memory and to remember the injustice done to them, her family raised a cross in that spot. Ironically, that cross became a pretty important pilgrimage stop during Corpus Christi and eventually was walled in with a small chapel building. Fast forward to the sixties and the now car-oriented two way expansion of the main road means tearing down the historic chapel building, including the cross the alleged witches family had erected in her memory. The town builds a new, smaller chapel, replacing the old crucifix for whatever reason and placing the old one in a dedicated square outside the chapel. All of a sudden, misfortune happens all around that place, a surprising number of people get hit by cars or other traffic-related incidents occur and now the chapel literally had its walkway taken away so people would stop being hurt or dying around the crucifix.In the nineties, the chapel burns down. Nobody knows why. Now there is a new chapel, slightly off the main road, still causing discomfort in the people who go there, and the walkway outside is back again and a bunch of folktales about spooky shit center around it. I grew up there in the early 2000s and have never stepped foot in that chapel. I didn't know about this story but in all the child-oriented culture programs we had throughout kindergarten and elementary school, nobody had ever even mentioned it.One last funny addendum is that our little town's chronicle explicitly mentions the last name of the alleged witch. When I was a kid, one of my best friends was a red-haired girl with the same last name. It's a small, tight-knit town, always has been, so who knows if it isn't the same family lmao