Weekly Weird News · paranormal

Filed by Max the Cryptid Reporter

  In the courtyard of central Helsinki's oldest surviving wooden house, a rough-hewn cube of reddish granite sits low in the gravel, flat-topped enough to double as a seat. For decades it was the favorite perch of Alexander Wickholm, the fire captain (ruiskumestari, literally "hose master"), who liked to smoke his pipe there while keeping an eye on the yard. Wickholm died in 1896. Nearly three decades later, in 1923, his granddaughter Martta had the stone moved near his grave at a cemetery acro