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International Business Times
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Jan FLEMR

The Many Chilling Myths Of Prague's 'Lunatic Graveyard'

Jiri Vitek, voluntary caretaker of Prague's spooky 'lunatic graveyard' (Credit: AFP)

It was the setting of the chilling graveyard scene in "Amadeus", may have held the bones of Gavrilo Princip -- the man who started World War I -- and Margaret Thatcher paid a mysterious visit there when she was British prime minister.

An overgrown "lunatic graveyard" on the outskirts of Prague has become the Czech capital's strangest attraction, drawing ghost hunters, scandal seekers and Satanists and other less than welcome visitors lured by the supposedly strange energy of "Europe's scariest cemetery".

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