She haunts Schallenburg Castle
in lower Austria
beautiful black hair, about 5’5” tall
a young woman from the neck down
a snout like a dog’s from the neck up
she’s a ghost known as the hundefraulein
the dog maiden of Schallenberg Castle
who roams the castle but means no harm
Johannes Ertl, custodian of the castle
for 28 years, said he’s seen her many times
once she passed through him like a fog
and he felt his body lit up with positive energy
supposedly, when she was alive
her family kept her locked away in a cellar
because of her deformed, dog-like face
she might be what is called a residual ghost
an imprint of an event that plays over and over
like watching an actor on a screen
the ghost not real, the spirit moved on.
Bob Boyd