The White Lady of Mårslet
Every town has one
Between the towns of Mårslet and Beder lies the village of Skumstrup, and up on the hill you’ll find Vilhelmsborg manor. Like many other manors around the country, it is supposedly haunted.
The legend goes that Baroness Julie Gyldenkrone was attending a ball in nearby Aarhus, and going back to Vilhelmsborg she shared a carriage with a military officer who was stationed nearby. The officer assaulted the baroness and 9 months later she gave birth to a son.
Her father ordered his men to take the baby from her, and they drowned it in a nearby pond and buried it in an unmarked grave with its share of the family inheritance in the form of jewelry.
Not long after, Julie herself passed, either from grief or suicide. But she wasn’t gone for long. On quiet nights she can be seen walking from Vilhemsborg down to where her son was buried and back. It’s advised that if you see her that you turn around and walk in the other direction. Julie has been known to mistake people who walk in the same direction as her for grave robbers out to steal her son’s inheritance, and she has attacked them in the past.
Stories of her nightly walks and attacks on would be grave robbers, are so well known in the area that the path she walks has been officially named on town maps as “Julie’s Path”.