Post by Christian Numme on Jan 26, 2009 2:10:28 GMT
For a period of two years i lived in a small town called Evenskaer in northern Norway. In winter time it`s dark twenty four hours a day, in the summertime it`s light and midnight sun.
I worked in a rehabilitation center for people with different health problems like cancer and heart conditions. In my working period at the center i got to know many of Norways, as many call them native "samer". "Samer" is a people close to nature and are equal to Americas modern indians in some ways. But they really aint Norways native people. They have leaved there for a long time but are originally wanderers from Asia from the time of legendary Jenghis Khan. "Samer" ended they`re journey and settled down in the cold lands of northern Norway.
Now, these pople are wery spiritual and believe in the old ways and the magic that is hidden in nature.
There are shamans among "samer" spiritual leaders in the tribes.
These shamans can perform something called "ganning" wich is simular to woodo. "ganning" can be used for good or bad, but in modern times it is seldom practised.
the view on spiritual beliefe and the occult is very different in the south of Norway and in the north. In the south they can laugh they`re ears of hearing about it, but in the north it is quite common and the people are more open minded, probably because the many "samer" that have lived there for many years.
Many say the reason "samer" settled in Norway is because of the magical potensy of the land. You find deep fjords and sharp mountains with great forests covered in snow and ice. In the winter time it is dark for tree months always, the only thing that is bright is the moon, the stars and the beatiful northern light shining in many colours reaching sometimes miles and miles across the sky moving like a living creature.
And it is in these times they say the magic is on it`s peak. And then sometimes the mystic "ganning" is performed by the "shaman".
As i worked in the center it was this patient an old man a "same" he was ninty years old and quite grumpy i must say. He jused to shout and get really angry sometimes, and no one felt quite comfortable going to he`s room when he called. But i got used to him and he got used to me so we got along pretty good after a while. He told me about a "shaman who once leaved not far from here named Ivani. But he started to get in bad shape so we didnt get into it any closer.
Eventually i heard from the others i worked with that the patient also was an old "shaman" a spiritual leader. I had many reduced but good conversations with this man until he losed touch with reality and became senile.
I asked a woman i worked with who is also a "same" if she had heared of this Ivani. She told me the story about a bad "shaman, now dead but in he`s days he was known for he`s "ganning" and he was feared because he used it for wrong reasons making bad curses upon the ones he did not like or the ones he didn`t get along with. Ivani was the master of a farm. The Ivani farm lying on "geiteberget" or "The goat hill" in english. Ivani had many workers wich he treated badly. He also had a wife Evelyn wich was much younger and quite beatiful. Evelyn fell in love with one of the workers Geir who was not a "same". This was known among the rest of the workers. The workers all liked Evelyn because she treated them fairly and with respect. One day Ivani and Evelyn supposedly went out to visit another farm. A couple of days later Ivani came back without Evelyn telling the workers the terrible news that Evelyn most likely had fell threw the ice and get cought by the river when she had been walking in the area of the farm, her body they never found. Geir was beside himself with greaf over her death and was convinced that Ivani had taken her life as he had got to know of her affair with him. In anger Geir convinced the workers of he`s theory and got them in on the plot to kill Ivani.
One night Geir and the workers silently sneaked in to Ivanis bedroom and forced a large sack over he`s head and body, as Ivani screamed in fear they tied a rope around him taking him deep into the forest where they beat him to almost dead in the cold snow. As they finished beating him they could here Ivani whispering, performing a "ganning" cursing them, before they left him in the dark to get eaten by wolf or bear.
Short time after Geir supposedly got depressive an killed himself. And after sometime the workers died one by one by illness or accident leaving none of them old or dead by age.
They all say this is a true story happening in the early ninteen hundred not very far from Evenskaer.They also said that in cold winter days a man has been spotted under the northern lights whispering and performing "ganning".
It is a known tale among the people in Evenskaer both "samer" and not "samer". And people actually keep away from the ruins of the Ivani farm and "Goat hill".
As curius and facinated i am of the occult i just had to see this farm and "goat hill" after hearing this story. So i got a friend and wrestling partner to drive me to "Goat hill", it was a fourty five minute trip till we reached the area. i thought it was quite amusing when i almost had to drag my friend out of the car to see this house, we were both agreed of that we didn`t mean any disrespect to whatever spirits lurking about we were just curious and chukling about it. We walked in high snow about three kilometres till we stood upon the ruins of the Ivani farm. It was very dark but the snow was white so we could see most of it. It was no northern light there that time but it was actually sceary enough. As we went silent for some minutes we both could feel something, and i am not kidding it was as if the normally clear air was thicker there and it was some sort of dark aura about the place. We really started to feel uncomfortable, so we picked up the pace back to the car. I dont know what that feeling was maby we had build the tension to much before coming there, but it really felt massive and not good like if there were other forces living there. But that is not the freaky part yet, me and my friend both had strange dreams that night and the next. And then it stopped. I decided not to tell my colegues at work of our trip. But here it comes the part that was a little freaky. You know the old "shaman" patient who became senile, a couple of days later i was cheking up on him, when he grabbed me by the wrist looking me straight in the i eye and then he said with the clearest voice < Christian, you wont go playing on that farm anymore its not good for you, do you hear me!> And he let go. It really freaked me out it could mean anything, you know anyone old was farmers in those day, but i sensed exactly what he was talking about. It was very interesting cause he had only been babbeling the last six months.
So that was my little ghost story, but belive me that place is something in it`s own class! LOL
I worked in a rehabilitation center for people with different health problems like cancer and heart conditions. In my working period at the center i got to know many of Norways, as many call them native "samer". "Samer" is a people close to nature and are equal to Americas modern indians in some ways. But they really aint Norways native people. They have leaved there for a long time but are originally wanderers from Asia from the time of legendary Jenghis Khan. "Samer" ended they`re journey and settled down in the cold lands of northern Norway.
Now, these pople are wery spiritual and believe in the old ways and the magic that is hidden in nature.
There are shamans among "samer" spiritual leaders in the tribes.
These shamans can perform something called "ganning" wich is simular to woodo. "ganning" can be used for good or bad, but in modern times it is seldom practised.
the view on spiritual beliefe and the occult is very different in the south of Norway and in the north. In the south they can laugh they`re ears of hearing about it, but in the north it is quite common and the people are more open minded, probably because the many "samer" that have lived there for many years.
Many say the reason "samer" settled in Norway is because of the magical potensy of the land. You find deep fjords and sharp mountains with great forests covered in snow and ice. In the winter time it is dark for tree months always, the only thing that is bright is the moon, the stars and the beatiful northern light shining in many colours reaching sometimes miles and miles across the sky moving like a living creature.
And it is in these times they say the magic is on it`s peak. And then sometimes the mystic "ganning" is performed by the "shaman".
As i worked in the center it was this patient an old man a "same" he was ninty years old and quite grumpy i must say. He jused to shout and get really angry sometimes, and no one felt quite comfortable going to he`s room when he called. But i got used to him and he got used to me so we got along pretty good after a while. He told me about a "shaman who once leaved not far from here named Ivani. But he started to get in bad shape so we didnt get into it any closer.
Eventually i heard from the others i worked with that the patient also was an old "shaman" a spiritual leader. I had many reduced but good conversations with this man until he losed touch with reality and became senile.
I asked a woman i worked with who is also a "same" if she had heared of this Ivani. She told me the story about a bad "shaman, now dead but in he`s days he was known for he`s "ganning" and he was feared because he used it for wrong reasons making bad curses upon the ones he did not like or the ones he didn`t get along with. Ivani was the master of a farm. The Ivani farm lying on "geiteberget" or "The goat hill" in english. Ivani had many workers wich he treated badly. He also had a wife Evelyn wich was much younger and quite beatiful. Evelyn fell in love with one of the workers Geir who was not a "same". This was known among the rest of the workers. The workers all liked Evelyn because she treated them fairly and with respect. One day Ivani and Evelyn supposedly went out to visit another farm. A couple of days later Ivani came back without Evelyn telling the workers the terrible news that Evelyn most likely had fell threw the ice and get cought by the river when she had been walking in the area of the farm, her body they never found. Geir was beside himself with greaf over her death and was convinced that Ivani had taken her life as he had got to know of her affair with him. In anger Geir convinced the workers of he`s theory and got them in on the plot to kill Ivani.
One night Geir and the workers silently sneaked in to Ivanis bedroom and forced a large sack over he`s head and body, as Ivani screamed in fear they tied a rope around him taking him deep into the forest where they beat him to almost dead in the cold snow. As they finished beating him they could here Ivani whispering, performing a "ganning" cursing them, before they left him in the dark to get eaten by wolf or bear.
Short time after Geir supposedly got depressive an killed himself. And after sometime the workers died one by one by illness or accident leaving none of them old or dead by age.
They all say this is a true story happening in the early ninteen hundred not very far from Evenskaer.They also said that in cold winter days a man has been spotted under the northern lights whispering and performing "ganning".
It is a known tale among the people in Evenskaer both "samer" and not "samer". And people actually keep away from the ruins of the Ivani farm and "Goat hill".
As curius and facinated i am of the occult i just had to see this farm and "goat hill" after hearing this story. So i got a friend and wrestling partner to drive me to "Goat hill", it was a fourty five minute trip till we reached the area. i thought it was quite amusing when i almost had to drag my friend out of the car to see this house, we were both agreed of that we didn`t mean any disrespect to whatever spirits lurking about we were just curious and chukling about it. We walked in high snow about three kilometres till we stood upon the ruins of the Ivani farm. It was very dark but the snow was white so we could see most of it. It was no northern light there that time but it was actually sceary enough. As we went silent for some minutes we both could feel something, and i am not kidding it was as if the normally clear air was thicker there and it was some sort of dark aura about the place. We really started to feel uncomfortable, so we picked up the pace back to the car. I dont know what that feeling was maby we had build the tension to much before coming there, but it really felt massive and not good like if there were other forces living there. But that is not the freaky part yet, me and my friend both had strange dreams that night and the next. And then it stopped. I decided not to tell my colegues at work of our trip. But here it comes the part that was a little freaky. You know the old "shaman" patient who became senile, a couple of days later i was cheking up on him, when he grabbed me by the wrist looking me straight in the i eye and then he said with the clearest voice < Christian, you wont go playing on that farm anymore its not good for you, do you hear me!> And he let go. It really freaked me out it could mean anything, you know anyone old was farmers in those day, but i sensed exactly what he was talking about. It was very interesting cause he had only been babbeling the last six months.
So that was my little ghost story, but belive me that place is something in it`s own class! LOL