The cathedral of Cologne, Germany, a monumental piece of Gothic architecture, holds an eerie legend. Its origins date back to the 14th Century and it is said to harbor all kinds of mystical and ghostly figures believed to wander around its spectral, often mist-shrouded, gothic spires. One of the most famous ghostly residents of this cathedral is that of the locally revered ‘Gehenkte’, the hanged man. As the story goes, during the cathedral’s construction, a race was held between the devil and the cathedral’s master builder over who could finish their work first. The builder made a pact with the devil, to deliver the soul who first circumambulated the completed building. Believing himself to be crafty, the builder released a rabbit to run around the building first, tricking the devil. Enraged, the devil sought to take the master builder’s life instead, leading the builder to hang himself in the cathedral – forever binding him to the cathedral as a tormented soul. People have claimed to see the apparition of the builder wandering the cathedral at night. Another wraith resident is a headless saint – Saint Ursula. According to legends, St. Ursula, accompanied by a retinue of 11,000 virgins, went on a pilgrimage to Rome, and on their return, they were slaughtered by Attila’s Huns. Ursula was decapitated, and her ghost, along with her followers, are believed to haunt the walls of the choir, screeching horribly into the night. The cathedral is also infamous for weeping pictures and statues, supernatural moaning sounds and disturbing energies. These ghostly tales have earned Cologne Cathedral a well-deserved place in the folklore of ghost stories in Germany.