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Videos can use content-based copyright law contains reasonable use Fair Use ( HAUNTING photographs show a mountain of over 100,000 crosses - the origins of which remain a shrouded in mystery. Eerie images capture Lithuania’s epic Kryžių Kalnas (Hill of Crosses) including a dramatic shot of countless wooden and metal crucifixes 14 No one knows the exact origin of the eerie Hill of Crosses in LithuaniaCredit: Mediadrumimages/Anne-MarieVermaat 14 Located just outside Lithuania’s fourth largest city Šiauliai, the mound attracts thousands of pilgrims every yearCredit: Mediadrumimages/Anne-MarieVermaat 14 Over 100,000 crosses can be found on the mound in the Eastern European cityCredit: Mediadrumimages/Anne-MarieVermaat They also show a panoramic shot showing the scale of the remarkable national monument as wll as a woodcarving of Jesus, draped in rosary beads. The tale of the Hill of Crosses dates back to early stages of the 19th century. Located just outside Lithuania’s fourth largest city Šiauliai, the mound attracts thousands of pilgrims every year who visit the site to pay their respects to the dead, pray, or to leave a set of rosary beads or another cross to the ever-massing collection of religious icons. Dutch photographer Anne-Marie Vermaat was fascinated by the bizarre collection where, according to local legend, an apparition of the Virgin Mary once held the baby Jesus aloft whilst surrounded by crosses. 14 The tale of the Hill of Crosses dates back to early stages of the 19th century.Credit: Mediadrumimages/Anne-MarieVermaat 14 The mound attracts thousands of pilgrims every year who visit the site to pay their respects to the dead, pray, or to leave a set of rosary beadsCredit: Mediadrumimages/Anne-MarieVermaat 14 In 1993, Pope John Paul II visited the hill and called it "a place for hope, peace, love, and sacrifice".Credit: Mediadrumimages/Anne-MarieVermaat 14 The exact number of crosses on the hill is unknown, but it is estimated at 100,000, although a visitor to the hill would soon assume more than a million.”Credit: Mediadrumimages/Anne-MarieVermaat “There is a heavy atmosphere at the Hill of Crosses, but also a sense of persistence and hope,” said Vermaat, 52. “You can feel the history of this special site." She explained the origins of the site are unclear but it's generally assumed that the first crosses were placed on the hill after the November Uprising of 1830-1831 when it was used as a defensive post. This has been and continues to be done by Catholic pilgrims today. Mention of the Hill of Crosses dates back to approximately 1850, but it appears that the crosses were left by mourning relatives of the victims of revolts against the Russian regime in 1831, and later in 1863. 14 Dutch photographer Anne-Marie Vermaat was fascinated by the bizarre collectionCredit: Media
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