A Castle Built atop a Gateway to HELL || Houska Castle || Ghosteas || Paranormal Podcast

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He's grieving his impending punishment, but just as he believes all hope is gone, he and his fellow prisoners are presented with another option. They can take their death sentences and await their scheduled executions. Or they can follow local officials to a mysterious crack in a nearby cliff. Now, this dark, cavernous hole in the ground had been a source of great intrigue for many in the village for some time. And the rumors that our prisoner had heard were enough to give him goosebumps, simply thinking of its location through the thick forest. But he was willing to give up. He was willing to do anything that could save his life. So he and the brave few who decided to take the chance are brought out to that cliff. If these men would like to leave on this day with their freedom, then they will volunteer to be lowered down into the depths one by one and report back what they witnessed below. As the first man is lowered slowly further and further down, you could feel the tension between them all. It's quiet at first until a piercing scream erupts from the hole. Those holding the rope pull him back up while the others gather around back away. Faster and faster, they pull the convict up. But it isn't fast enough. Oh my god. I'll tell you the rest of the story later. Ah! But the castle that now sits atop this supposed gateway to hell, Hauska Castle, is surrounded by legends of monsters and demons crawling from the pits of the underworld to wreak havoc on those who live nearby. And it remains something of a mystery for those who visit. Today, I'd like to tell you that story. I've never heard of it. I've never heard of this. It's in Prague, so I wouldn't, or not near Prague, so the Czech Republic. Huh. Yeah, but I think the gateway to hell and something so scary, like I would have heard of it before. Yeah. Maybe I have. There are a few other gateways to hell in the world. In Galveston. Oh yeah, a portal to the underworld. Horrifying. Well, for this October, every Monday for this month, we'll be telling the histories and haunting mysteries of some of the world's most horrifying haunted houses, or in this case, a castle. It's a castle. They're a Halloween staple, and in my opinion, some of the best kind of stories to really get you in the spooky mood. So I thought, October's for haunted houses. I love it. Are you going to go to any haunted houses this season? I don't know. I haven't been to a haunted house in a long time. Me neither. You know, like the jump scare ones? Yeah, like a real one. Like the 13th floor or whatever. I probably haven't been to one since I was maybe even in high school. Same. I saw a billboard. Well, I was in college probably, but I saw a billboard for the 13th floor in Houston. I've heard of it. I've never been. And I don't know that I would go. Have you heard of those places that you have to sign waivers because they're so horrifying? I think that's kind of like what the 13th floor is, and I might be wrong. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think I would ever do that, actually. I don't want anyone jumping out at me and coming after me. I don't want anyone to touch me. You know the ones where they can grab you and snatch you and take you away? Yeah. I'll pass. I'm okay. I'm good, actually, I think. But I don't know. If y'all are going to any haunted houses or if y'all know any good ones, drop them in the comments. Oh, yeah? I want to look into it. I'd like to hear about it, too. But we'll go ahead and get started. Our tea today was actually sent over by one of our friends over at Spotify, Millie. Shout out, Millie. Thank you, Millie. It is from Dead to Me Collective by Wynwood Farms. This one's called Phantom, an Earl Grey-inspired tea. Yes. It smells delicious. It called to both of us. 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If not the first one. Before we dive into the paranormal side of things, of course, we want to start with the history. Hauska Castle is located in Blacidocsi, as I said before, not far from Prague in the Czech Republic. Apologies for my pronunciation. I'm trying my best. Today, it is visited by many throughout the year and hosts tours from April through October. It is a protected cultural monument and is considered one of the best preserved castles of the period even before the castle's construction in the 12th century it is believed that celtic tribes inhabited the area before the slavic tribes migrated into the area during the 6th century it was documented that the first known structure to exist in the area was a small wooden fort built around the 9th century so like in the area of the castle theories claim that this original wooden fort is how hauska castle got its name as the fort was built by a for his son named hosek i think so it's like named after him but kind of yeah loosely yes a lot of what we know about the area was chronicled by a man named hajik in 1541 and in his chronicle he mentions a well-known legend of a large crack in the limestone cliffs that is so big and so deep that no matter how many stones and other materials the villagers threw into it it would never fill it's limestone it is limestone lines limestone and sandstone hmm they believed it harbored dark secrets but more on that later real quick i feel like i always say like oh it's limestone ah and then never give any context so for people that don't know limestone is known to be like what it just carries like a lot of energy it's it holds on to energy and like the especially this kind of like ghostly it's involved in a lot of hauntings and things and we we learned that early on and then every time we're reading a story and it's like oh it was near the limestone reserve and it's like it makes sense yes very interesting i find it interesting that the villagers were like this is strange let's fill it up couldn't do it nope very scary the gothic style castle that we see in this spot today is said to have been built on top of this massive opening sometime between 1253 and 1278 by king odekar ii of bohemia though some believe that the work may have actually begun under his father before him and this castle is different from many others of this time it's thought to have been built firstly for administrative purposes which sometimes occurs as a place where the landowner could come and handle business in the area but the site has no real characteristics of a typical castle ground so usually you'll find castles even if it is mostly for administrative purposes along trade routes near big bodies of water or places that it makes sense yeah sources of of commerce something like that this one is tucked deep into a dense forest some of the sources even said that the forest was so dense it was a difficult place to even hunt for food there is no nearby water source not a substantial enough to provide for anybody living there rather the castle would have had to use a cistern to collect rainwater there were no trade routes nearby so it was pretty desolate no one was traveling through it's where i would build my castle at least i don't know it sounds like a good idea to me i agree a heavy stone slab was placed over the opening sealing it up and keeping whatever called that place home locked away for eternity or that was the hope it was anyway even stranger most of the structure's defenses are facing inside the courtyard and the castle rather than around the outside like you'd expect to protect you from invaders like if you look at pictures of the courtyard you've got the base layer uh floor i mean and then up you've got you know like railings uh and walkways to walk around the courtyard looking down into the courtyard like a like a prison type of thing like they're keeping something in yeah interesting it was as if there was a prison in the courtyard and it was like a prison in the courtyard and it was a threat that they were trying to keep in was my next sentence there were no stairs that led from the upper floors down into the courtyard either until remodeling took place hundreds of years later this is alarming so it was only the the second like third yeah maybe fourth floor yeah the first known written mention of the castle was in 1316 when hinachek of the lord of dubai was recorded as of hauska ownership of the castle passed on from aristocrat to aristocrat in the late 1500s the structure underwent a renaissance style remodel in 1639 another important piece of its legend arrived a swedish mercenary named oranto is said to have occupied the castle at this time he was a feared commander and was known to be obsessed with dark magic and alchemy it's rumored that he carried out many horrific and gruesome experiments during his quest for an elixir for eternal life the details are sparse but it's said to have frightened the local population so much that they banded together to get rid of the castle in 1639 and they were able to get rid of the castle in a revolt against his cruelty of whatever was going on inside they stormed the castle and murdered him and all of his mercenaries who lived there oh my god they said get out yeah well you're an evil guy and we don't want you here doing your evil things wow i support them the castle fell into a state of disrepair in the 1700s and remained that way until the early 1800s when it was renovated once more it was purchased and a home was made of it by princess ho in loa in 1897 about 100 years after those first renovations in 1924 it was purchased by the president of skoda works yeah you make like cars and stuff his ownership and restorations are a big reason why the castle still survives in as good a condition as it is today so yay for that guy unfortunately during world war ii the german ss occupied the castle and this is another piece to the puzzle a weird one as to why there are so many strange reports coming from its corridors hitler and the nazi government have been fighting for the castle for years and years and years and years and years nazis are believed to have been very interested in the occult i mean a lot of people believe that and are said to have been looking into supernatural methods to fight and win the war nobody truly knows what the ss was doing while occupying this castle but many speculate that occult research and experiments were conducted here harnessing that supposed portal to hell it makes me kind of think of stranger things yeah like they are trying to use this portal to wherever the upside down did you watch stranger things yeah i did i haven't watched last season though this is a lot darker than i thought it was about to be i mean we already said like it's a portal to hell and everything but like the nazis like what are we doing yeah unfortunately i mean oh my god during during the world war ii um the ss occupied a lot of like very well-known structures yeah but like i was thinking weird things yeah i was thinking as you were talking i was like oh i want to visit this place this sounds cool like a castle and then i don't know well that's too that's like too much uh negativity for me this next part might get you a little bit negatively or in a more negative space yeah great locals would report strange lights in the night and horrifying sounds escaping from the castle they could see them through the windows some say that top nazi officials including people like himmler attended dark ceremonies at house good castle so they were they were doing some dark rituals to i don't know summon demons or harness a very evil power evil whatever they were doing straight always bad straight up evil yeah some say that the castle was also used to kill demons and they were used to killing demons to store stolen jewish and masonic library collections and other valuables which they did too they stole a lot of books yeah and um when i think about that art and stuff it like makes me spiral it pisses me off all of the lost art and things and just artifacts and yeah just history another rumor is that the ss used the castle as a quote breeding facility so if you know a lot about world war ii era and what what the ss and nazis were doing then you know that this was a thing um they would bring you young women of particular origins with particular characteristics to have children in order to advance the so-called master race absolutely just freaking despicable disgusting this is horrifying yeah either way unspeakable things are said to have occurred within the castle's walls between 1939 and 1945 and we will never know exactly what happened as they destroyed most of their records as allied forces advanced on them which they did a lot in in many cases they were just like burn everything yeah get rid of everything losers once the war was finally over possession of the castle was given back to the previous owners and his heirs still own it today having opened it up to the public for tours in 1999 it's been featured on plenty of paranormal tv shows and youtube channels and its reputation as terrifyingly haunted remains many of the claims about the castle's hauntings come from rumor and legend as i feel like most of everything does a lot yeah there isn't a lot of concrete evidence for the atrocity said to have been connected to the land though we can guess on some of it and to the castle itself but the stories are strange to say the least the first story is that to the gate to hell down beneath the castle's chapel as i said in the beginning it was reported that before the castle was constructed a massive fracture in the limestone opened up long ago the local residents couldn't see the bottom and had no idea how far down it actually went attempting to cover it like i said they threw stones and debris down to the hole but they couldn't even hear them hit the bottom that is horrifying i don't like that far i don't like uh like in movies whenever they're like in a height they're like at a tall height or something they throw something and you hear that way down there it it makes me like i can't breathe yeah i don't like things like that yeah it's really creepy well soon after this pit opened the local villagers began to complain of nighttime visitations dangerous creatures sometimes described as half animal half human would climb or sometimes even fly out of the gateway after the sun went down they would tear their livestock apart and were occasionally known to drag those nearest the back down in with them never to be seen or heard from again i was thinking like uh the descent oh well that of course like cave cave half animal half dwelling beings yeah yeah horrifying villagers began avoiding the fissure in the rock altogether not not wanting to even be near it because of what comes out at night yeah it seemed there wasn't much they could do to get rid of it and the monsters that emerged could only be described as demons straight from hell eyewitness accounts were rare as many who actually saw the creatures wouldn't live to tell the story the tale. Oh my god. Officials became desperate to find answers so a plan was devised prisoners who were sentenced to death could have the option to commute their sentences they could be released if they agreed to be lowered down into the pit to hell by a rope that is insane and then of course um those at the top tell those at the top what they saw and experienced it did anybody ever come out or were they just well lowering them down there and letting them come back as bones i'll tell you so the first convict was brought down he was silent at first going deeper and deeper into the darkness like the story i told you at the beginning but not long after he'd made it into the depths he began to scream in great agony and fear he begged and pleaded to be brought back up to the surface the officials holding the rope pulled him up as swiftly as they could while the other convicts looked on in horror like this what we're because they're next yeah when they finally pulled the man out of the hole his face had aged at least 30 years and his hair had turned completely white he was young and healthy before he was born and he was born again and he was born again and he was born again vibrant young man but now he seemed to be in a state of great shock and illness his addled brain keeping him from relaying to those around what he's he had witnessed he died not what i was expecting he died only a day or two after coming back from old age like yes well old age illness shock but also shock and horror what after seeing the horror on the young man's face many of the all ended up in the same position as the first man nobody ever found out exactly what was down there did his hair actually turn gray or was it covered in some kind of substance no his hair turned white like i don't know what to make of this as if suddenly all of his hair lost its pigment like he's just tim allen and the santa claus yes like it's just gray and old yep wild rather than continue to be tortured by the beasts that crawled out at night it was decided that a giant slab of stone placed over the hole and church was able to get out of the hole and he was able to get out of the hole was built on top dedicated to archangel michael known as a warrior for god who defeats evil and leaves a heavenly army against satan and his demons so an apt angel to bring about makes sense yeah strangely enough dead birds were still regularly found in the courtyard around the castle as if they were plucked from the air by an invisible force those who lived nearby still heard screams and screeches and ungodly noises bursting from the cover and there are some who say the slab would be slightly ajar in the mornings as if something attempted to move it out of their way oh my god the castle looks as though it was built around this opening and the fact that the fortifications were made to the inside rather than the outside as well as the unusual location of the castle in the middle of nothing leads some to believe that it was all put into place to keep something from escaping inside the chapel you'll find remnants of fresco paintings that depict strange things for a typical church building there are images of monsters and dragons as well as a left-handed which was considered to be associated with satan in medieval times being left-handed left yeah yes um it was a female a left-handed female centaur aiming her arrow the mix of christian and pagan imagery inside of a church is really interesting to many and leads some to believe that there is something evil lurking beneath and they were just like giving it everything they got everything yeah oh my gosh even still today there are some who claim to hear scratching noises and screams coming from beneath the chapel's floors it's as if those ancient beings are still trying to claw themselves out of the bottomless pit in search of blood but the gateway to hell isn't the only unusual thing about this place surprisingly what okay many people have claimed to see something unexplainable and otherworldly while walking the grounds of the castle there is a creature that some believe was able to escape the deep dark hole in the ground that's described as a half bullfrog half human hybrid beast thing that is one of the most horrifying images i could ever imagine yes some people have claimed to see a headless horseman riding around um the outside of the castle leaving a trail of blood in his wake outside the castle huska has its own woman in white with long dark hair seen walking through the woods around and even in the upper floors of the building too on occasion visitors to the castle have been known to experience car trouble like an entire parking lot full of cars being unable to start until a priest blessed them with holy water no way could you imagine going for a tour and everybody's car won't start while i'm walking the 70 miles or more would you get back in the car would you feel safe getting behind yeah i would just go slow i'm not walking through the dense forests back to prague as a big group i would i wouldn't get back in a car that's really scary uh there are some who believe that merely visiting the castle brings bad luck and there are so many visitors who have claimed to get a very dark and negative feeling upon walking through those castle doors owner and operator of a tour group mcgee's ghost tours in prague hannah mcgee claims that she had an encounter kind of like this one the first time she ever visited huska castle she and the company's co-founder tyler mcgee took their dog up to the castle but as soon as hannah walked into the courtyard she was met with an extreme uneasiness her dog then began to bark and was very just excited with no visible reason for him to have been provoked the mcgees felt as though they were being watched the entire time they toured the place like a predator was stalking them just out of view and then even later that night when they got back to prague to run their ghost tour their car was like stolen and then when the police finally found it like it was completely stripped of all valuables oh so just like bad luck but that just like they aren't the only ones that have bad experiencing bad things yeah visiting there have been many many reports of poltergeist activity like banging sounds echoing through the building doors opening and closing on their own and objects moving from one place to another without anyone nearby inside the castle people have reported seeing shadow figures galore they traipse through the halls oh my god hiding around corners and in doorways disappearing in the blink of an eye some have claimed to see a row of prisoners chained together and walking slowly through the castle preceded only by the clinking sounds of their restraints in the castle not only are there screams and scratches coming from beneath but there have been witnesses who reported hearing voices speaking loudly in an unrecognizable language it seems to those who have heard it that the sound is emanating from the walls themselves as if the castle is speaking to them offering maybe a warning protection or worse luring them closer mm-hmm but the most reported sighting here at Hauska castle is the faceless black monk that is said to guard the opening to hell nobody knows exactly where he comes from but he waits in the chapel keeping curious onlookers from getting too close or making the grave mistake of digging down beneath that large stone like he's like a fully black figure or he's wearing black he's wearing like a black robed monk no one can see his face oh but he's there as a guardian to keep people from opening the pits of hell well then maybe he's not bad maybe unless he'll do anything to keep the door closed well i i still don't think that that's bad because he's protecting i support it yeah i mean i wouldn't want to see him by any means but i'm okay i'm okay with the guard i also a quick interesting tidbit that i forgot to mention in here was that the current owners don't allow any like digs or searches through the castle like too deeply because they're afraid that there are still like world war ii um era booby traps oh and stuff in there and they're afraid that someone could someone could get hurt yeah yeah oh that's really they removed all the mines leading to the castle beforehand but they don't know like if there's anything deep down you know the current owner of the castle has had his fair share of encounters like his wine glass sliding across the table in front of a whole crowd of people without any water or glass on the table to send it moving because you know sometimes just set a cup down if there's like condensation on the table yeah he said no table completely dry everyone just sat down he set his glass of wine down and it just like slid that's really little by little across the table i don't like that also while in the castle he felt eyes on him as if he weren't alone in there quote i do believe that something between sky and earth exists if it's connected to the hole into hell i guess you know the legend smoke coming up from the ground and nobody can block it the hunting room is well known for its hauntings and has had many visitors who experience their own close encounters with something unseen the owner tells a story of two musicians a grandmother and her granddaughter who stayed often they would sleep in the hunting room over the weekends many many times but on one occasion they brought a friend with them someone who was supposedly a more sensitive medium on this night the women heard stomping and wheezing all night long after attempting to i don't know make some kind of contact the three of them left very early early the next morning and the two that came often never returned rightfully so that is the correct choice thank you but they aren't the only ones who had an unusual encounter in the hunting room andrea a paranormal enthusiast and investigator brought her team for an overnight visit to house good castle they arrived around midnight and set up their base in the hunting room as they were unpacking and having a look around they found that a room nearby had an overwhelming negative feeling to it they walked in and they said this something's dark here they were becoming panicked by it and they couldn't breathe so they made their way back to their the hunting room their their base of operations and drew a protective circle with sanctified chalk to see their circle keep yes real pretty much they lit a candle for protection as well and they waited nothing seemed to be happening everything was quiet they blew out the candle as a little test and not long after the whole team began to hear footsteps coming down the stairs straight towards them in their circle oh no as it approached and the group became concerned footsteps suddenly stopped then a minute later they heard a loud bang coming from the ceiling above them it sounded to them as if someone had dropped a barrel and they were like oh my god what's going on here oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god they lit the candle again and once again it all went quiet It felt to Andrea like whatever it was that was there with them that night didn't like the circle and the protective object that they brought, and it wanted them to leave their circle of protection. Oh, oh. I don't know if trying to lure them out. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't like that. By the time Dawn came around, they all heard footsteps again, but the sun was coming up and the tension was kind of leaving. That is until Andrea saw a shadow figure walk right behind a wardrobe. There was no way that she could explain what she had seen. And even more worrying, there was no explanation for the loud banging that they had heard the night before either. So they went around inspecting the entire castle. Trying to see, like, oh, did something fall or, you know? Nothing. And they were there alone. I'm not a fan. See, you always do this. You're like, wow, it's this beautiful piece of history and it's a castle and it's grand. People can go for tours. But the worst thing you've ever heard in the world has happened here. Yeah. Dang it. I kind of, I wanted to go and now I don't. Well, the most haunted places always have the most horrific, tragic backstories. That is true. 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A number of paranormal investigators, occult enthusiasts, and individuals interested in UFOs visit Hauska Castle. Not only looking for an experience of their own, but to serve as a meeting place to hold conferences. And events. Which I think is really cool. To have a paranormal event or conference in a haunted castle would be the light of my life. That would be fun. I think I'd be less scared going in like a large group like that. Yeah. If it was just like me, you, and like a couple people, I don't, I wouldn't go. Well, they hold like talks and you've been to a convention before. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's cool. I would do that. But I wouldn't go on like a night ghost tour or night ghost hunt, which is like me, you, and like two dudes. I wouldn't do that. Yeah, I would. I think. Many of those visitors have encountered one of the many unexplainable circumstances that befall those brave enough to step foot inside. Some of these believers think there is a principle of sacred geometry that can explain Hauska. Now, don't ask me how. Because I don't know. But in this case, it isn't just a portal to hell, but a portal to another time. Well, it makes sense when that guy got like turned to old. Turned to old. Turned old. In 1836, a well-known Czech poet named Karol Máša spent the night in Hauska Castle. In a letter to his friend Edward Hendel, Máša detailed a strange and horrifying dream he had during his stay. He claimed that his soul descended down, down, down into a dark pit where he was transported to a hellish, mechanized future. He wandered around alone at first in horror and despair before meeting a young girl who told him that the year was 2006 and he was in prison. The girl showed him moving pictures and a small casket, and he claimed that while in the darkness, he walked among high sandstone cliffs that seemed to be riddled with holes projecting an eerie yellow light. Those who have heard the story say that his description sounded similar to a block or several blocks of flats that they have today that sits over, like overlooking the outskirts of the city. So they kind of look, especially at night, just like tall cliffs with windows and their living room lights or whatever. Wait. What year was this when? He lived in 1836. And it was 2006? He visited in 2006. Whoa. Some point to this encounter, or possibly a vision, of proof that there is a link through time and space here on these grounds. Whoa. Okay. You've reeled me back in. I'm very intrigued. And like you said, with the aging, with the white hair and everything, like he wasn't just visiting through a dream. He was here on this plane. Yeah. Going through time. Going through time. But. That does make it feel weird because they're saying like, oh, these creatures and things are coming out of this hole, but it's also just like 2006. Like, that doesn't make any sense. At that point in time, it was 2006. Who says it's linear? Good point. So it could be any time. Any time. So at some point, we either did have evil creatures roaming around or we will. That is not very comforting. Like hybrid mutants of some kind. Well, I could see that happening, actually. Yeah. That's kind of where we're headed. It's possible. That's how it feels anyway in America. Anything's possible. Yep. Anything's possible in this world. Yep. But that is Hauska Castle. It was spooky and chilling and it was, it had everything. Everything that I wanted. Ghosts, demons from hell, a gateway to the underworld and, you know, possible time travel. I could have done without the first two, but yeah. Yeah. I thought, I thought, I thought it was really fun. I liked this one a lot. Me too. I think I would like to. I think I would like to go inside, run around and then leave. Okay. I don't think I would stay very long. I would love to stay and explore and learn everything and see everything. Can people stay there or they just do tours? I think you can stay the night. And there are some paranormal investigators that do, like they post YouTube videos about it. Well, yeah. I'm sure they let like, you know, people with fame and notoriety like stay the night in a haunted castle. No. Not even, not even fame. But I mean like, can regular people like us just like come in? Yeah. You have to rent it out and stuff. Yeah. Yeah. And make agreements. But yeah. Interesting. Has anybody in the audience ever been? Let me know. I'm on the fence. I'm on the fence about if I would go. I think. I don't know. I would probably do an investigation. I wouldn't want to sleep there though. No. I would never sleep at any of these haunted places because I don't want them messing with my dreams. Yeah. I wouldn't want to have a dream of where I'm like descending down into another time. That would wreck me. Yeah. In my waking life. Yeah. For sure. So it would be very weird and hard to come back, I think. Hmm. What a way to start. I'm glad you did. I was nervous about the haunted houses month just because sometimes I feel like people are like, boo, give us like Reddit demons. And it's like, you know what? I'm glad we did this. I like this one. This is like getting back to my roots. Okay. This is where I like to be. I feel comfortable. Yes. Me too. In a weird, very weird way. Yeah. But we hope you like it too. And we hope that you'll join us for more haunted house stories going forward. We are doing extra episodes through the month of October. So you will. You'll get every Monday. We have a new haunted house to talk about. Every Friday, we'll have more listener stories. I've got themes for you. Some of the spookiest themes. And then every Saturday, we're going to dive into some Reddit stories. So you get a little bit of everything for the month of October. We are just every type of pod you could ever want all in one. Yes. 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