Ghost story
The bearded prisoner of Patarei
Patarei was built in the 1830s as a sea fortress and later became one of the grimmest prisons in the Baltics, where Soviet and Nazi regimes held and executed thousands; some prisoners were shot after being told they were going to the sauna. When the prison closed in 2002 its cells were left almost as the last inmates abandoned them. Guards keeping watch over the empty complex reported a bearded man walking the corridors who ignored their calls, turned away when followed, and walked straight through a wall. Many visitors describe a heavy, watching silence in the cell blocks. Patarei is being converted into an international museum of communist crimes.
Open it on the map See the spot on the old maps and as it is today
Eesti keeles
Patarei ehitati 1830. aastatel merekindlusena ja sellest sai hiljem üks Baltikumi süngemaid vanglaid, kus nõukogude ja natsirežiimid hoidsid ja hukkasid tuhandeid inimesi; mõned vangid lasti maha pärast seda, kui neile öeldi, et nad viiakse sauna. Kui vangla 2002. aastal suleti, jäeti kongid peaaegu sellisteks, nagu viimased kinnipeetavad need maha jätsid. Tühja kompleksi valvanud valvurid nägid koridorides habemega meest, kes ei reageerinud hüüetele, pööras jälitamisel ära ja kõndis otse läbi seina. Paljud külastajad kirjeldavad kongiblokkides rasket, jälgivat vaikust. Patareisse rajatakse rahvusvahelist kommunismi kuritegude muuseumi.
Source: Guards' and guides' accounts collected by MinuAeg (after Hookusbookus.com). ↗