Pousada do Obidos
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In the shadows of the ancient Pousada do Obidos, whispers coil around the stone walls, echoing remnants of long-dead souls trapped in the 12th-century embrace of their twisted past. Guests have often recounted the chilling scrape of footsteps trailing behind them, only to turn and find nothing but the suffocating silence of the night, while flickering candlelight dances over the faintest glimpse of apparitions clad in the somber garb of centuries past. Here, in this haunted refuge, the sense of being observed claws at the back of ones mind, as if the very walls are hungry for the warmth of the living-each stay becomes a delicate waltz with the unseen, and many have left with more