Built in the 11th century Swedish castle Häringe, located near Stockholm, put up for sale by auction house Sotheby's for 80 mln сrowns (about €9.2 mln).
One of the owners of the castle was the "father of modern Sweden" King Gustav I, who purchased it in 1525. Also among the owners was Swedish industrialist Torsten Kruger, and later his brother Ivar, called "Match King" (he owned ¾ of global production of matches). It was said that when Kruger owned the castle, they had humongous parties, where naked guests were drinking champagne until the sunrise.
The next owner was Axel Leonard Wenner-Gren, founder of Electrolux. During his time the frequent guests in Häringe were Elizabeth Taylor and Greta Garbo. Garbo stayed here so often that it has created her own room without a single acute angle (she once told the owner that hates corners).
Like any self-respecting old castle, Häringe is shrouded in legends and, of course, here live a few ghosts. Employees and guests of the castle at different times noticed a lot of paranormal phenomena, defies rational explanation. Among the most famous ghosts of the castle are 400-year-old monk and a young boy, Axel Horn, who according to legend was cold under the castle walls of his cruel aunt's fault. One of the guests of the castle told that once she saw the boy next to her bed and taking him for her nephew, called him under the blanket. Before she falt asleep, she noted how cold was a boy. And the next morning woke up alone. Gren's wife was so afraid of ghost stories, that didn't fall asleep without putting up around the bed 40 pairs of slippers. If the morning they are all intact - ghosts did not come to her that night.
The castle is just 45 minutes drive from Stockholm, is standing on the bank of the river on a large plot surrounded by green. On the territory of the estate arelocated 17 buildings, all the interiors are executed in a classical style. Today the castle is used as a premium hotel.
According to the materials of scandinews.fi and dailymail.co.uk
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