Ghost story
The spirit bridge across Lake Ülemiste
A baron of Vana-Vigala had many spirits in his service, people said. Once, driving to Tallinn, he took his coach straight across Lake Ülemiste and strictly forbade his coachman to look back. The wheels ran over the water as on the best highway. Near the far shore the coachman glanced round and saw a swarm of spirits taking boards and planks from behind the coach and laying them in front as a bridge. At once coach and horses sank, but being close to land, the horses swam out. "Had you looked back in the middle of the lake, we would both have drowned," said the baron. "Spirits do not work when a human eye sees them."
Open it on the map See the spot on the old maps and as it is today
Eesti keeles
Vana-Vigala mõisas elas parun, kelle teenistuses oli palju vaime. Kord sõitis ta Tallinna ja kihutas tõllaga otse üle Ülemiste järve, keelates kutsaril rangelt tagasi vaadata. Kutsar sõitis veepinnal nagu kõige paremal maanteel. Teise kalda lähedal vaatas ta siiski tagasi ja nägi, et tõlla ees ja taga on hulk vaime, kes võtavad tõlla tagant laudu ja planke ning laovad neist ette silda. Samal hetkel vajus tõld koos hobustega vette, kuid kalda lähedal ujusid hobused välja. "Oleksid sa keset järve tagasi vaadanud, oleksime uppunud," ütles härra. "Vaimud ei tee tööd, kui inimese silm neid näeb."
Source: M. J. Eisen, 'Kodused jutud' (no. 138; M. Aija < Hans Luks, Pärnu-Jaagupi, 1895) ↗