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Castle Houska: Gateway to Hell Part 1

Castle Houska: Gateway to Hell Part 1

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The descriptor "Hell Hole" can currently describe anything from
your first apartment to the workplace you dread, but where do we
get that term? Ages ago, could there have been a hole that people
believed led straight to the depths of hell itself? There are
several sites in our world that could lay claim to that title,
where the "veil" to the underworld seems a little "thin," but a
historically solid contender would no doubt be Houska Castle,
about 40 miles north of Prague in the Czech Republic. Tales of
demonic beasts issuing forth from the chasm and visiting violence
upon villagers and ghastly specters scaring those who roam the
castle grounds have been known since the Middle Ages to the
present, but what of the edifice itself? No matter what you
believe about the folklore, what can't be denied is that the
castle was not built for the usual reasons – instead of a
fortification to keep people out, it was built to keep things
in.

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