Løp Gård is said to be an venerable farm for the prosperous and powerful in the northern part of Norway, where many of its former residents stay, even after their deaths.
Løp Gård in Nordland, Norway, has a long-standing reputation that has worried locals after dim for centuries. Løp Gård is today a tourist attraction run by the Salten Museum, and in the summer it turns into a cage. Parts of the house are up to 300 years venerable.
The venerable farmhouse is steeped in whispered stories, but none are as enduring or as eerie as the legend of the twin sisters who are said to haunt its halls. Their presence is not announced by shouting or violence, but by something much more disturbing. The feeling that someone is looking just beyond the edge of the lithe.
Shadows that move on their own
Throughout Løp Gård's history, people with great power lived here, such as government officials, captains and policemen, who were the center of power. The layers of exclusive tapestry, which was uncommon in Norway at the time, show how much wealth was put into the house. The house as it stands today consists of seven different houses and to this day many of the original furnishings still function as a museum and café.
Some people believe that juvenile children are more sensitive to the supernatural. It has been reported that infants and juvenile children do not want to come into the house. If they are brought inside, they scream, howl and want to get out.
The ghosts of the sisters in Løp
One story tells of an artist and his wife who lived in a house in a room that is now called the Boys' Room. The room is located on the second floor. The two are said to have often heard the main door on the first floor open and close as if someone was entering the house. They often heard footsteps on the stairs, but when they went to check, no one was there. This happened repeatedly, but no one was there.
One day, while his wife was painting a picture, she turned around and saw a woman in white. She slowly returned to the painting. She decided she wanted to paint this woman, but when she turned to her again, she was gone.
It is said that the woman in white was Hannah Løp, who also had a hobby of painting, and was the first owner of the house. It is said that both sisters haunt their former home today.
The sisters haunt their house
Hannah and Arnold's sisters inherited the house after their father Lauritz died and became the sole owners of the house, often called Frøknene på Løp (The Maids of the Løp) and known for its hard-working women. During the summer, they still serve their celebrated lemon cake at the café.
Before taking over the farm, Hanna learned photography from Louise Engen and worked as a professional in Oslo from 1898 until the 1930s. Although she was an educated and well-traveled woman, after her father's death in 1945, she and her sister tried to return to their roots.
They lived there until their deaths in 1971 and 1979, at the age of 97 and 103. The bed in which they spent the last days of their lives is located in one of the rooms in the house and is called a four-poster bed. There, the two of them lay down under some blankets to keep sultry.
Maid with a red bow
Another story concerns a maid who once lived in this house. She fell in love with a government official and her employer and soon became pregnant. However, he rejected her and she confronted him before leaving the house forever. But where did she go?
In the 1990s, it was being renovated and two workers loosened the floor and found a compact red bow lying there. It is said to have been the exact same type of bow that the maid was wearing when she was last seen. According to some accounts, workers ran out of the house and did not return at all to finish their work.
But what happened to the maid? There are many theories. Anna Elisabeth Westerlund is one of the fortune tellers who visited the farm and presented hers. When she was in the pantry where two workers found a red ribbon, she said something terrible happened here once. The museum's manager, Barbro Laxaa, stated that she believed the arch was still in the same place today.
Some also claimed that the maid actually kept the baby in the house. The son screamed and cried every day when his mother left for work. And it is said that you can still hear the baby crying in the house. However, what happened to them still remains a mystery.
A survivor who knocks
It is once said that the ship sank near Løp. There were reportedly several people on board, but one man managed to climb from the beach in Løp to the farm, wading through equally frigid air before Norway's icy winter waters.
He knocked as rigid as he could, a man appeared on the door and opened it. At that time, several people with a very high social status lived on the farm and they did not let the man into the house. It is said that a indigent man froze to death outside his house during the night because he had nowhere else to go.
Some workers say cool winds are blowing through the house and they think the man just dropped in to have a look.
Civil official under the ceiling
It is said that a woman from the eastern part of Norway came to visit and heard about the farm. This was after the house became a tourist attraction and she wanted to tour it. The staff were simply too busy preparing for the party and running the cafe, so they told the lady she could just walk around the house and see what she wanted.
The woman looked around and when she reached the second floor, she entered a room called the Great Hall. There she saw a man hanging from the ceiling. It is said that an official hanged himself in this very room, and according to some his ghost hangs to this day.
In Løp Gård, even in silence, you are never truly alone, as more than one room has eternal residences just beyond the curtain.
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Løp Gård is said to be an venerable farm for the prosperous and powerful in the northern part of Norway, where many of its former residents stay, even after their deaths.
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