In a news article in the Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet from 2012, they start with a description of an old house:

“On the hill above the small town Vinstra in Gudbrandsdalen, lies an empty, cold and uninhabited house, surrounded by forest on all three sides. The lights from Vinstra draws a black silhouette of the house against the backdrop. One lone lantern lights up the path covered in snow. The only sounds you can hear, is the crunches of a shoe against ice-cold snow, and a dog howling in the night.”

From this description we are left with the image of a classical ghost house. Forest on all sides that frames the house and keeps the modern world away. No lights to illuminate the forms moving in the snow around you, and no one around to hear you call if anything happens.

However, what did this house do in the newspapers at the time? What had happened to make it so special?

Well, this house was involved in a trial.

And the subjects of the case were ghosts.

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