Ålesund
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This large, mythical rock is dramatically placed on the edge of a crag. Several generations of people from Ålesund have found their way here, because the “Pengesteinen” (Money Rock) has a lot of mysterious and strange superstitions associated with it. Some say that thieves have dug down a large amount of money under the rock, which they were to pick up at a later time, and never did. But you could also achieve riches if you threw a coin under it, on the north side of the rock; this was supposed to bring you luck and financial luck, maybe not at once, but in time. And at the end of the 1890s, there was a rumour that a German watch merchant staged a robbery in his own store, and that the loot was hidden, of course, under the “Pengesteinen”. It is likely that most of the rumours are just that, rumours, stories affected by youthful imagination. But who know what is really underneath the “Pengesteinen”?