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Atlas Obscura had a link for Castle Frankenstein and the man behind the legend.
and also links to the site where Odysseus and others may have visited the dead.
Johann Konrad Dippel was rumored to create potions, perform electrical therapies, and partake in gruesome experiments involving stolen body parts from the graveyard. Born in the Castle Frankenstein in 1673, it’s disputed whether or not he was the inspiration for Mary Shelley’s mad scientist of the same name, who did some cadaver experiments of his own.
Although there were many oracles in ancient Greece, there is only one known oracle of the dead. It was an entryway to the underworld, and a place where the shades of the dead could - under special circumstances - reveal the future to the living. It was the place that Homer sent Odysseus to seek advice from a long-dead oracle, and where he was horrified by visions of Hades, and it also appears in a sordid chapter of Herodotus' Histories.
The site rests atop a hill near the confluence of the Acheron ("River of woe" in Greek), Pyriphlegethon ("Flaming with fire") and Cocytus ("River of wailing"), three of the five rivers associated with Hades, was identified in 1958 by the Greek archaeologist Sotirios Dakaris.
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