This hut is haunted!
The landlord of the beautiful alpine hut told me the same morning. The couple had moved into the hut the evening before and wanted to experience something like a romantic hut vacation for the first time in their lives for 14 days. Unfortunately, it didn't work out that way, because during the night the hut began to crack, rustle, creak and creak. The couple were convinced that the hut was haunted and fled in panic into their own car to spend the night there. The landlord's explanations didn't help and the couple left. To the sea, as they reported, still marked by the "haunting", and escaped. This story would actually be funny if it weren't true.
As most of us know, forester Rudi Wirtitsch, confirmed by many years of professional experience, puts it in a nutshell: "Wood works! It absorbs moisture whenever moisture is present. And when the sun from outside or the oven from inside lets the moisture dry out again, the wood starts to crack, creak and make the typical noises." And do you just have to put up with it? Rudi: "Yes, you have to! But there is comfort. If you know where the noises come from, you're certainly no longer afraid of being haunted. What's more, these sounds are not permanent, but only occur when the wood is drying out after the moisture. And thirdly, when you're surrounded by wood, you're definitely surrounded by nature."
Background noise in the alpine hut
While we're at it: Of course, it could also have been a little mouse! So don't leave any food lying around in the hut, then the little mouse will soon have disappeared. Quite apart from the fact that the landlords of the alpine huts want to give you a mouse-free alpine hut out of their own interest. By the way: mice are very cute little animals. If you manage to watch them, it's very calming!
During our mouse and spook talk, forester Rudi points out a sound that can be quite gruesome for people who don't know it. In late fall, it is the roaring of a stag, i.e. its rutting cry. Don't get excited, after this warning you will recognize it, the stag will move on - but will come back very often. Try to observe the fellow, it is impressive. Rudi also tells the story of when Chinese guests in Hallstatt left head over heels because of the rutting cries of deer they didn't know.
An unbearable scratching and knocking in the hut, which can be very annoying, could come from a dormouse. It only rumbles at night, during the day it withdraws peacefully. From my own experience, I can say that he looks adorable - when he's not "working".
If one is active in your alpine hut, please inform your landlord immediately, he will take the rumorant out of the house professionally. Which he will probably have done much earlier anyway, so that the guests can sleep peacefully.
On this occasion, Rudi also tells us how to do the "take-away": "Put dried apricots or plums in a large jar with a capacity of at least five liters and place a suitable board loosely on top of the jar. The dormouse is magically attracted to the trap - it seems to be a tasty eater - falls into the jar and you can release it into the wild a little further away." Please don't do it yourself, leave it to the experts, advises forester and hunter Rudi.
Thunder and lightning in the alpine hut
Other haunting noises that cannot be overlooked or ignored: Thunder and lightning! In other words, only thunder makes noise, but lightning is also scary. Don't worry! Many alpine huts have a lightning conductor. Regardless of this, the builders of alpine huts in past generations have known exactly where an alpine hut is least at risk from lightning. And new builders know this too! And statistically speaking, lightning strikes an alpine hut only once every 600 (!) years. As I know from my own experience, it's not necessarily reassuring when there's lightning and thunder on the mountain pasture. But stay calm, snuggle up and, if you can, take a relaxed look at the natural spectacle. Nowhere else are you so close to nature!
Small, horrible little animals?
I hope you're not scared of spiders. They are quite harmless animals, tarantulas generally don't live in mountain huts. So, keep calm and take them outside. Please do not crush them. Flies can also be a nuisance in an alpine hut, unfortunately. But there are tried and tested remedies that are usually available in an alpine hut. In the case of ants, which are rather rare in an alpine hut, try to lure them to another ant trail with water or other treats. It works, most of the time.
The golden tipIt's not meant so seriously today:
I know the place of the ghost hut described. There is a very nice, extremely comfortable alpine hut there today ... unfortunately I have forgotten its name!
Notburga Samrock
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