Expecting to go to Berlin and would love to learn some more about its past? Look no further! Notably, Berlin is a city not only rich in outstanding sights and exhibits but also vibrant in distinct historical myths and tails and chilling ghost stories. In this blog post, we will help you to add local legends and ghost stories to your walking tours and share the best methods for making your tour more interesting and captivating.
1. As the Legends Read to Be Launched, Research and Discover Them
Bern stories and myths It is important that before starting your walking tour, you delved into the pool of knowledge regarding the legends and myths of Berlin. To learn more about these intriguing stories these people, you can find a great number of books, articles, and websites. You should pay attention to those legends which you find most interesting since you can devote your walking tour to those legends.
Tips:
- Check the references section to find books on Berlin’s dealing with folklore and ghost stories at your nearby library or book store.
- Read downloadable forums and travel websites for other people’s experience and suggestion.
- Talk with people and guides in the area and pick up stories that are not likely to be written anywhere.
2. Plan a Thematic Walking Tour
After you familiarized yourself with Berlin’s folklore and myths, you might want to organoze a walking tour based on these stories. Choose the legends related to the place and build an itinerary that will lead you through the places connected with these legends. With walking tours, you get to stroll through the cities and see some of these sites and find out how the history is brought alive in some of the other areas.
Tips:
- Go to graves and old places which are known as scary, for example, Berliner Dom or the Beelitz-Heilstätten Hospital.
- Make sure that the places selected are those which would not be easily recommended by any guidebook and which would offer one-of-a-kind experience.
- If you would like to, you can book your tour for the evening to make the whole experience even more surreal.
3. Engage with Local Tour Guides
Use a guide who is well acquainted with the history of the place, and with the history of Haunted tours. These guides know all the legends and myths about Berlin, so they can give you interesting stories and histories. These professionals will add flavor to the tales from their great story-telling abilities; therefore, YOUR AND YOUR GROUP’s experience will be richer.
Tips:
- Read more and check for well-established tour agencies that provide legends and ghost tours for tourists in Berlin.
- Look for the reviews and testimonials, although reviewers may not give attention to the guide’s storytelling skills.
- Do not shy to challenge the guide with questions or even to ask him or her to tell more stories on all the places you are being taken to.
4. Record sounds or video from the hotel, restaurant, grocery store .
Of course, telling Berlin’s legends and actual experienced phenomenal scary stories is exciting, however, capturing the mood and being an anecdotal record of viewers is a powerful addition. In addition to your walking tour videos, try to capture audio or video to capture the compelling narrative, eerie sense of the stories and your responses. Indeed this way, you can be able to look at the experience over and over again and even be able to make the experience known by sharing with friends and families back home.
Tips:
- It is suggested that a small portable device that can record audio or your phone to record the audio tour guide.
- If you have a camera with you it would be advisable to take shots of interesting points of the tour to ‘spice up your memory’.
- Do not impose yourself on the other participants to the tour; rather ensure that you ask them if you can have their permission to record them.
5. Share Your Experience
As you enjoy your walk with Berlin’s sidewalks tourists local legends and ghost stories, do not forget to share it with the rest of the people. Sometimes write a blog about it, post something on a social platform, or even just post a video sharing platform. In this way you are also helping other tourists to find the most beautiful overlooked spots, as well as learn about the myths and legends that are associated with Berlin.
Tips:
- Give your blog post title or the Hashtag of your social media post an attractive title to draw the readers’ attention.
- You can add photos, videos or even an audio bite from your tour to the material to make it more interesting.
- I personally tagged relevant travel accounts and tour guides, or any local organization to reach a wider audience of my post.
Conclusion
Using legends and ghost stories of Berlin in your otherwise historical walking tours, lets you explore and embrace a different, mysterious layer of the city’s history. It allows you creating a wonderful journey by researching the legends, planing the thematic tour, communicating with local guides, taking the mood, and sharing your story. Do not just come to Berlin, but discover them and let history tell you where to go next.
Table of Contents