Velhartický Cemetery

Velhartický Cemetery

Located less than 10 kilometers from the Fairy Tale Farmhouse is the famous Velhartický cemetery. The dominant feature of the unusual cemetery is the grim church of St. Mary Magdalene. The church was originally built on a burial site in 1373. It was supposed to be a place of peace and eternal rest – it was author Karel Jaromír Erben who realized that the church was something different.

Erben drew inspiration from it for his ballad The Wedding Shirt (Svatební košile). According to legend, the cemetery orchestrated a satanic black mass in an attempt to revive the dead. The negative forces that were summoned remained there until this very day. A mysterious face gleams from the church’s walled shield – watching newcomers.

Some believe that this is the face of the girl who was kidnapped by the zombie that appears in Erben’s ballad. The zombie has an overgrown and unkempt grave in the cemetery. Others think it’s the face of a lady of the castle, who died tragically near the church. Or perhaps it is an imprint of the energy that was released when conjuring up the dead.

Czechmag.cz can tell you from personal experience that the cemetery holds negative and gloomy energy that sends chills down your backs and covers your skin in goosebumps. It is definitely not a place for an organized family outing.

Source : https://prague.tv/en/s72/Directory/c217-Sightseeing-Attractions/n7750-The-Scariest-Places-in-the-Czech-Republic-Part-1