'People who don't believe in ghosts are scared'

For the past four years, two Berliners have been combing castles and cellars touched by the paranormal. We joined the city’s ghost hunters on a night time expedition.

“Last time we were here we picked up a lot of readings,” said Gerhold. “I saw a boy with a shaved head, and we recorded voices,” she added. There were lights on in the flats above, but none of the building's residents had been made privy to the investigation.

The landlord, a burly middle-aged man, said: “I feel like something is watching me when I'm down there.” He brought this up with the owner of the house. She grew up in one of the flats, and inherited the building after her father died. A well-to-do Berlin family, she asked not to be named.

“As a child I would always see other children down in the cellar who asked me to play. But I know now there were no other children,” she said, adding that she remembers her father digging up the courtyard to find vestiges of SS army uniforms, and crosses. “Maybe it was a grave,” she said. Before her father bought the house, it had been owned for a long time by a Jewish family.

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