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The Ghost In My Machine

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Two black and white portraits of white women, one with dark hair and glasses (Moberly) and one with blonde hair (Jourdain), flanking a portrait of Marie Antoinette.

Creepy Wikipedia: The Moberly–Jourdain Incident, Time Slips, And The Ghosts Of Versaille

January 4, 2021 by Lucia

Previously: Weegee. Have you ever been to the Palace of Versaille? I haven’t — not yet. (Ironically enough, despite being the only member of my family to have studied French, I am also the only Continue Reading > about Creepy Wikipedia: The Moberly–Jourdain Incident, Time Slips, And The Ghosts Of Versaille

Filed Under: Tales Tagged With: Charlotte Anne Moberly, Creepy Wikipedia, Eleanor Jourdain, European history, France, haunted places, hauntings, history, Moberly-Jourdain incident, residual haunting, time slip, time travel, Versaille, weird history, Wikipedia

An abandoned building covered with graffiti in Celles, France.

Abandoned: The Un-Drowned Village Of Celles, France (Photos)

June 29, 2020 by Lucia

Previously: The Forgotten Fairy Village. On the shores of Lac du Salagou in the South of France lies a village that, for many years, sat abandoned. Its inhabitants, however, didn’t abandon it by Continue Reading > about Abandoned: The Un-Drowned Village Of Celles, France (Photos)

Filed Under: Places Tagged With: Abandoned, abandoned places, Celles, disappearing town, France, ghost towns, Lac du Salagou, Lake Salagou, photography

a wall of skulls in the Paris catacombs

Unresolved: The Missing Man In The Paris Catacombs

April 23, 2018 by Lucia

Previously: Gef The Talking Mongoose. A quick Google search is all it takes to find it: Alleged video footage of a man who disappeared in the Paris Catacombs in France in the early 1990s. It’s Continue Reading > about Unresolved: The Missing Man In The Paris Catacombs

Filed Under: Places, Tales Tagged With: Catacombs, found footage, France, Paris, Paris Catacombs, reality TV, Scariest Places On Earth, Unresolved, unresolved mysteries

Creepy Wikipedia: Christine And Lea Papin, The Murderous Maids Of France

May 31, 2017 by Lucia

The truth often really is stranger than fiction, and the creepy parts of Wikipedia prove it. Weird history, scientific oddities, otherwise unclassifiable Things that you wouldn’t believe actually Continue Reading > about Creepy Wikipedia: Christine And Lea Papin, The Murderous Maids Of France

Filed Under: Tales Tagged With: Christine Papin, Creepy Wikipedia, France, history, Lea Papin, murder, murders, Papin sisters, psychology, The Maids, Wikipedia

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