In Jöns-Per's barn in Kölsillre, a haunting...

In Jöns-Per's barn in Kölsillre, it was also haunted constantly. In the barn building, there was a so-called barn chamber. Between this and the barn, there was a door that had been nailed shut for many years. If one stayed in the chamber, one could almost always hear through this door how someone was making a racket and moving things around in the barn. Whether it was the farm gnome or some other supernatural being, nobody knew. However, the ghost rummaging in the barn was of a quiet kind and never caused any mischief; it was only heard puttering and arranging things. It was only the hens that the ghost did not like or approve of. Many times at night, one could hear how the ghost or gnome chased the hens down from their roosts, so that they flew screeching around the barn and were found the following morning, one in one corner and another in another corner. Halt-Lotta, who lived in the barn chamber, had recounted all this countless times, but no one wanted to believe her. But then, one winter, two lumberjacks also lived in the barn chamber. They heard precisely the same commotion in the barn, and furthermore, every evening it sounded as if someone was closing the nailed-shut door and throwing down the hay fork inside the barn. They could not believe anything other than that the ghost passed through the barn chamber where they lived, and then through the nailed-shut door and into the barn. They watched evening after evening for the ghost, which they believed would come, but they never got to see it. It was as if they only woke up after the door slammed shut behind the ghost.