Manuela Maer lives nearby. She is an author and sometimes comes up here at night for inspiration. Maer, whose real name is Claudia Mutschler, is an IT expert, who also writes fantasy stories. She has incorporated the Giersteine into the plot of her latest novel, using the strange rock formations as a mystical setting. Here is an exerpt from her book: “All of a sudden, her father‘s body began to float. He moved gently towards the face of the rock and, when his head was above the hollow, with its deep crevices, he floated downwards. The dark-robed men lingering below the rock had begun a terrifying chant. Maledin‘s will was more and more under their spell.” While reading this extract, the light on the Giersteine has changed. The warmth has faded; twilight heralds nightfall. Suddenly, it is easy to imagine that there is a grain of truth to the mystical stories.