The Vagabond

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Before 1938 and long before this house was built, there were fields, and a farmer lived there with his wife and three children. It is said that they still haunt the grounds to this day.

Legend has it that a vagabond wandering along the old royal road between Copenhagen and Roskilde made the children disappear. One late autumn, the farm's children vanished without a trace while playing in the fields. The children were so deeply rooted to the farm that they remained in the world of the living and did not cross over to the other side.

On All Hallow's Eve, the dead take physical form and appear to the living. Therefore, one can experience the farm's children appearing in the area. The boy especially enjoys playing tag, while the girls have found peace to relive their childhood and play with dolls, now that they no longer have to work in the fields.

After the children's disappearance, the farmer had such strong suspicions about the vagabond that he invited him for coffee and a piece of bread. But the vagabond never got his coffee, as the farmer had buried him alive in a chest in the front yard.

Three weeks after the farmer had buried the vagabond, the local postman found the farmer and his wife dead, and in the front yard lay an empty half-buried chest.