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myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Sunday, 11-May-2025 20:30:46 JST myrmepropagandist
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To entice someone to improve this I will point out that this castle and the scary stories about it are becoming very popular in online horror so a lot of people curious about the castle and the real history will see your work.
It could be a chance to get them interested in the real history!
Perhaps it's not an important castle in history, but it has become important in contemporary english language folklore.

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  myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Sunday, 11-May-2025 20:30:48 JST myrmepropagandist
  
  IDK if any of you are into castles but this wikipedia article is terrible.
  It's literally just all the goofy rumors and folktales about this place and not much else.
  (I tried to make it a little better but I'm not a history person especially this history very much out of my depth... I looked this up because I thought the rumors about it were goofy and wanted to know how they started.)
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houska_Castle
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    Houska Castle
    
    Houska Castle (Czech: Hrad Houska) is an early Gothic castle in the municipality of Blatce in the Liberec Region of the Czech Republic. It lies about 47 km (29 mi) north of Prague. It is one of the best preserved castles of the period. Some notable features of the castle include a predominantly Gothic chapel, a green chamber with late-Gothic paintings, and a knight's drawing room. Folklore considers this castle to cover one of the gateways to Hell, built to prevent demons (trapped in lower levels) from reaching the rest of the world. History Houska Castle was built in the second half of the 13th century probably on the orders of Bohemian ruler Ottokar II of Bohemia during his reign (1253–78) to serve as an administration center from which the extensive royal estates could be managed. Later on, it passed to the hands of the aristocracy, frequently passing from the ownership of one to another. The castle was built in an area of forests, swamps and mountains with no external fortifications, no source of water except for a cistern to collect rainwater, no kitchen, far from...
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