"Amerika" and it's surrounding mines are a quite picturesque and romantic place, because there is not much mining today, so many young adventure-seeking people come there. Because it is also a dangerous place, there are often accidents resulting in death. There are some unsolved murders reported, like the death of a young girl or a burned loghouse with three people inside, so the stories about Hagen have soil to grow in. There is also a rut in one of the drifts, hung as a bell, and anyone who beats it and says "Hagen, take me!" dies within a year.
Hagen is quite an interesting example of a modern and still living myth.