"Maria Renata Singer von Mossau was born in 1679, and as a daughter of a lesser noble, became the prioress of the Unter Zell convent, close to the Czech border in Bavaria. Most of her tenure as the prioress was uneventful, even if many of the nuns thought she was a very strict leader. That all changed in 1746, when one of the nuns began to have fits of convulsions, screaming and meowing like a cat."
"The phenomenon spread throughout the convent until almost all of the nuns were experiencing similar symptoms. Maria was then placed under investigation, and searches allegedly turned up occult objects. A series of 'interviews' then turned up a confession - Maria told her interrogators that she had been pledged to Satan since childhood, and had been poisoning nuns and causing trouble for decades."
Germany contains numerous eerie and spooky locations reputedly haunted by figures from local history. Five little-known haunted places include sites with ghostly histories tied to specific individuals. Festung Marienberg in Würzburg was the seat of regional prince-bishops and became associated with a vengeful nun. Maria Renata Singer von Mossau, born in 1679, served as prioress at Unter Zell. In 1746 convulsions and strange behaviour spread among the nuns, triggering an investigation that allegedly uncovered occult items and produced a confession. She was executed in 1749; contemporary broadsheets shocked Europe and her spectre is said to roam the fortress and convent.
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