Discover the real ghost cellar in action in the center of Utrecht

While working on the Haverstraat in the center of Utrecht, a real haunted cellar is accidentally discovered. “This is also the first time for me to experience something like this. One of the workers who first entered the basement said.

in the summer of 2020 It was already known that there might be around 200 cellars under the historic center of Utrecht, and their existence is no longer known. Due to the restoration of the dock area, the so-called ground radar was used to map the underground.

Another haunted cellar was discovered while working on Haverstraat. There was another room behind a wall. Jacques van Dongen, an employee of the contracting firm carrying out the work, was the first to enter and, in his own words, found it “extremely exciting”. “We made a very small hole in the wall before and slid my mobile phone through the hole with a rope. But now that I’m in it, the room is much longer and bigger than I expected.”

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According to the municipality, the reason why there are so many haunted cellars in Utrecht is that people have not always been as meticulous as they are now. “In the Middle Ages, the first dock vault was built in Utrecht. After centuries of carpentry, renovation, woodcutting, restoration, alteration and arrangement again, you can imagine that not all alterations and renovations are meticulously recorded in the land registry.”

It is not yet known exactly what this vault was used for. The room will be examined this week and at the same time it will be examined whether the masonry is strong enough, so that, for example, no duct can be formed.


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