We go on a ghost tour in Bruges, Belgium, one of the Europes most haunted medieval cities.
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00:00Hello, I'm Simon, I am co-founder of Legends Tours in Bruges, and today I'll be showing
00:09you three spooky places in Bruges.
00:16Here you have the Ghost House in Bruges.
00:18It's a very well-known house in Bruges because there's been apparitions here since centuries
00:23of a nun and a monk who would walk around in the hallways and always disappear.
00:29How come there were apparitions here of a monk and a nun?
00:33That's because at some point a monk fell in love with a nun here, and he kept on trying
00:37to seduce her, but the nun would never give in to his advances.
00:41And at some point he got so jealous that he stabbed her to death and hid her body here
00:46in an underground tunnel way.
00:48And so this is when these apparitions started appearing, and it was only when a medium,
00:54clairvoyant, came here to release the spirit of the monk that the monk's apparitions disappeared.
01:01People were so afraid that they would always stay away from this building.
01:13So this stretch of canal is called the Hodenhantree, or the Golden Hand Canal, and that's from
01:17a spooky story concerning the devil, because the eel was a creation of the devil.
01:24And so people would never catch it because they were afraid they would be messing with
01:28the devil.
01:29But one day a fisherman stood here, and when he was fishing here, he caught a golden eel.
01:35So when he tried to pull in the net and grab the fish, a golden hand came from underneath
01:39the water's surface, grabbed the fisherman by the ankle, and then pulled him down.
01:43And the fisherman was never seen again.
01:45People believe that it was the devil himself warning people not to catch or eat eels.
01:50That is why the hand holding the eel is sculptured on the bridge right there.
01:56So here we are in front of the house Luciferum, and the owner, Dr. Retzin, identifies himself
02:06as a vampire.
02:10So Mr. Retzin is a very peculiar figure here in Bruges.
02:14He opens his house to tourists and to visitors as a sort of museum, and also a bar, a very
02:22spooky bar.