Stories

“A dim oil lamp light is glowing from the cabin window. I turn off the railroad and walk up the hill towards the cabin. Erkki said that this Vanhalampi workers’ cabin was the first one built along the railroad. He said that here also lived some of the Russians who had fled from a fortress in the Gulf of Finland. Erkki said he had been frequently involved with the Russians.” (Ojakangas: Linnunkantaja 2009)

“They say that a Russian pedlar had once drowned in Vanhalampi. His ghost had been seen coming from the pond and entering the cabin to dry his wet clothes at the fireplace.” (Interview with Väinö Myllylä around 1990, Eskolan Metsärata)