From abandoned amusement parks to a devilish bridge, Germany appreciates spooky season year-round. Germany doesn’t hold back with adrenaline-pumping spots. Filled to the brim with dark, brooding forests, historic castles dating back hundreds of years, abandoned relics of the past, and colorful stories to match, it’s hard to visit any part of this country without hearing a tale or two. While Germany may not generally celebrate Halloween with big parties and costumes, it sure does set the scene with a large number of creepy places.  If you’re looking for thrills of the more realistic type, you’ll fall in love with Germany during the spooky season. Expect ghosts, spirits, and a shiver down your spine as soon as you set foot in any of these supposedly haunted places. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Schlosshotel Waldlust (@denkmalfreunde_waldlust_e.v) The Waldlust hotel has been abandoned for years now with its location in the heart of the Black Forest it almost seems a given that it would feature some less-than-savory haunted characters This eerie hotel has featured on haunted holiday TV shows and has a name for being more than a little odd the Grand Hotel Waldlust was home to beautiful rooms and even its banqueting hall and paired with the horrors of the Second World War the hotel quickly fell into disrepair and eventually closed its doors scientists from Freiburg spent three months exploring its unusual phenomena from flickering lights to squeaking floorboards While some of the tales could be attributed to everyday life The stories of Kirchlengern forest span all kinds of horrors: from ghost hauntings dating back to the 12th century through to family pets from nearby Osnabrück going missing and eventually being discovered in terrible states in the forest It’s almost impossible to walk through Kirchlengern forest without feeling eyes following you and only a few people have chanced their luck and stayed in the forest overnight Often called one of Germany’s most haunted spots it’s feared by locals and tourists alike Berlin’s Natur-Park Südgelände was a thriving railway yard until 1952 when it was shut down and left to decay it’s a top spot for those looking to explore the darker side of Germany’s tourism Many of the buildings were left fully intact when the yard closed so you’re free to explore abandoned train carts from the 1930s Decathlete and Croc enthusiast Niklas Klei of Kirchlengern did something remarkable in a pair of foam clogs last weekend He broke the Guinness World Record for the fastest lap of a track in Crocs clocking a ridiculous 51.84 seconds at a track at Mississippi College in Clinton A post shared by Niklas Klei (@niklas_klei) Klei shattered the previous Crocs record of 52.06 seconds, set by his friend and NCAA competitor Will Eggers in June 2020. 2012 Olympic 800m finalist and YouTuber Nick Symmonds first put the record on the map in early 2020 when he ran 55.65 seconds. Symmonds’s original record-breaking video has been viewed more than 300,000 times Klei told us that he did not practise running in Crocs before attempting the record and accidentally ordered his record-breaking black pair one size too big “I wore three pairs of socks to fill the extra space and my feet were still sliding,” Klei laughs “Even ‘sport mode’ didn’t help me.” (Crocs commonly have two modes The causal mode has the strap up (over the upper) and is more commonly used for kicking around or grabbing milk from the corner store Klei expressed that doing this challenge in causal mode would be extremely difficult “Running in Crocs is harder than you think,” he laughs The 23-year-old holds a personal best time of 47.10 over 400m (wearing spikes) and finished third in the decathlon at the 2022 NCAA Division II Outdoor Track and Field Championships “I think a time under 51 or 50 seconds is possible but with some proper fitting Crocs,” Klei says Klei and Eggers hope to meet after the 2023 indoor season to settle who the faster runner in Crocs is.  Get the digital edition of Running for your chosen platform: The SES noted that the vehicle has a four-wheel drive and can carry 2,400 liters of water and three rescuers Such features will help the rescuers of Kharkiv district in their work Nils Thal organized the help from the municipality of Kirchlengern in North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany The vehicle was delivered to Ukraine in cooperation with the German-Romanian NGO Johanniter Mission Siret and the German NGO Water for Ukraine volunteer Nils Thal also assisted Ukrainian rescuers by handing them fire and rescue equipment As reported by the press service of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration, the Kharkiv Oblast received a batch of humanitarian aid from Germany for the needs of the suffered and the deoccupied territories of the Oblast. 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