Why Tallinn is called the damned: about the executioner, the KGB, the printing house and ghosts

Most tourists fall in love with the capital of Estonia from the first, even a fleeting glance, but few of the guests of the city know what stories are actually hidden behind this welcoming atmosphere of the "Middle Ages", what secrets are kept by local buildings and restaurants. What locals will not tell you about, hoping not to scare them away? Agree, after all, few people want to buy a house in which a woman constantly laughs with a demonic voice, and there are hardly anyone who wants to dine in a restaurant where the floor is made of tombstones, well, few people want to become a star in a frontal place, because it has nothing to do with " House-2 ", but only with city execution.

The old city of Tallinn, like an avid fisherman, skillfully lures tourists into its networks, well, so they come to see its beauties in order to completely immerse themselves in this perfectly recreated theater of the real Middle Ages. But, judging by the number of skeletons hidden behind the walls, someone cursed this city, well, or simply added gloomy colors to a bright palette of positive impressions. The final verdict is of course to be delivered to you, but after you learn the whole truth.

Locals say that there is a mysterious mansion on a high hill, which at one time belonged to the von Brevern family, until this fully-fledged gentleman bought this old house for his own needs. His last name will tell you little, and he is not famous for anything special, but he always imagined a ghost that laughed demonically and prevented him from receiving guests and sleeping.

But her name was already Gray Lady. People on the streets said that she worked as a servant in the house of the aforementioned gentlemen and, at the behest of her heart, passion and lust, she became the mistress of the owner of the house. And when she was tired of him and began to threaten his wife with detailed “stories”, he quietly killed her, and walled her up right into the wall of his native estate. Therefore, our mistress always appears in a dirty gray dress, with long tattered nails and hands, because it was not easy for her to get out of there, and all in order to strangle sleeping men, but the trouble is, she laughs stupidly and manically.

But what is surprising is not the very fact of the presence of a hysterical ghost in the house, but the fact that thanks to this misunderstanding, the deal was canceled, because the contract did not indicate the mystical spirit that went into the load on the real estate. Total? The owners returned the house, and they, in turn, pledged to reimburse everything to the penny to that wealthy gentleman. You ask what is now with this building? The legendary house is located on Toom-Koli Street and has a mysterious thirteenth number, now there is a Canadian consulate and a restaurant.

By the way, there is another mysterious institution called "The Monk's Basement", and it is hiding on Vienna Street 12. The restaurant itself is not very deserving of attention, and I would not even have remembered about it if it had not been for one more fun fact. There used to be a printing house where very strange things happened at night, people disappeared, and newspapers appeared with strange, unapproved material. They say that all miracles happened because of a specific gender, because they laid it out from the gravestones of the church cemetery. The inscriptions, of course, were erased from constant friction with the sole, but the mystical spirit remained in the room.

And in one of the houses on Ryutli Street in the Middle Ages the executioner lived. The story is not scary, but simply strange, because he and his whole family were forbidden to go to church, and his daughter could not marry for a long time. As a result, only the son of another executioner saved the whole situation. Strange, it seems that a person did a useful thing, but they did not like him that way.

A similar fate is with the house on Pagari Street, 1. Now there is already a luxury residential complex, but apartments are hardly sold there. It would seem, what is the problem?

It turns out that people still remember those recent times when the KGB headquarters was located here. Naturally, there is a rumor among the masses of people about indelible blood on the walls, which is in great numbers here due to constant torture and executions. Well, everyone still remembers that it was from these doors that the long road to the camps of the Russian north began. It is not surprising that half of the advertising campaign of this complex is based on the phrase “forget about the KGB!”.

Oh yes! Frontal place. Estonian historian Jüri Kuuskemaa says that in place of the current Swedbank office, on Liivalaia Street, there used to be a Execution Ground where people were executed. Moreover, the book “Tallinn in Legends” says that execution by chopping off the head was a special privilege for the upper class, because ordinary people were wheeled, all bones were broken, and then they were left alive for birds to eat. Women child killers were buried alive, witches and bestialists were burned at the stake, and counterfeiters were fried in boiling oil.