The Wild Hunt: Europe's Oldest Ghost Story

The Wild Hunt: Europe's Oldest Ghost Story For a thousand years, across every corner of Europe, people who heard a storm howling on a winter night bolted their doors and prayed not to look outside. Because on the wind, they believed, rode the dead. A spectral host of hunters, hounds and horsemen thundering across the night sky, and to see them was an omen of doom, or an invitation to be swept away and never seen again. This is the complete story of the Wild Hunt, Europe's oldest and most widespread ghost story, told from the original folklore and traced across the centuries. We follow the Hunt from its ancient roots through the many faces of its leader, the gods, kings and damned souls said to ride at its head, the terror it struck into medieval villages, the real historical chronicles that recorded sightings as fact, and what this haunting legend meant to the people who told it, and why some corner of us still listens for hoofbeats in the storm. Lower the lights, settle in, and stay with me by the fire. If this is your kind of story, the channel is full of them, told the same way, from the source. Chapters and sources in the pinned comment. Subscribe, we return to the oldest myths and legends every week. #thewildhunt #folklore #mythology