Has anyone else noticed how haunted the Whiterun plains are? I can think of three ghost encounters off the top of my head. The first is the ghosts from the book of love quest, then the ghosts from the farming CC (debatable whether that's technically canon but I'll count it), and also the headless horseman.
A lot of people also think Rorikstead is weird, even weirder that these are all in Rorikstead's general vicinity (or rather that Rorikstead is also in the Whiterun plains). Maybe some of Rorikstead's 'weirdness' (timeline discrepancies, theorised deadra worship, etc.) is just to do with it being in one of the more haunted areas of the game?
Nearby there's also a bunch of Forsworn with a hagraven, and also a vampire lair, as well as lots of ruined ancient Nordic structures dotted around the area. The ancient Nordic ruins especially might help explain the ghosts? (With the ancient Nords using a lot of necromancy, hence why their ruins are filled with draugar and skeletons. It seems like there was a larger Nordic ruin there at some point that hasn't quite survived? If I remember right that vampire lair also seems to have a lot of ancient nordic architecture in there, and looks like it might have been a small ancient nordic burial ground, or part of a larger ancient nordic ruin that has since been mostly destroyed? Especially if most of it was on the surface, or it's been slowly exposed for whatever reason?
Idk what specifically I'm getting at, just that I wish more people would focus on how weird the Whiterun plains are as a whole instead of just focusing on Rorikstead. It's like the whole area is cursed or something.
