Calvados Castle, Francia 
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http://www.ghost-story.co.uk/index.php/hau...normandy-franceCalvados Castle in Normandia fu luogo di serie attivita' legate a poltergeist dal 12 ottobre 1875 al 30 gennaio 1876 cosicche' coloro che vi abitavano furono costretti a fuggire.
Con strani rumori notturni , il suono di qualcuno che correva giu' x le scale , squilli di tromba violenti ed una donna che urla chiedendo aiuto facevano in modo che i residenti non potessero dormire.
Il pianto di una donna ed i suoi singhiozzi, e la triste melodia proveniente da un organo chiuso che nonostante tutto suonava.... creavan problemi ai residenti.
Mobili ed altri oggetti lanciati fuori dal castello da forze invisibili....
Quando varie cerimonie ed esorcismi si sono rivelati inutili x scacciare il poltergeist , il castello fu messo in vendita e gli abitanti traslocarono.
Lo spirito che causava ogni tipo di disturbo si credeva fosse un vecchio residente una donna molto arrabbiata che volle tornare nel castello x causare danni.
1875
Calvados Castle- conosciuto anche come Calvados chateau - fu costruito sulle fondamenta di un'antica struttura gia' apparentemente infestata da quando inizio' la sua costruzione.
Nonostante cio' l'esatta natura di queste infestazioni non si conoscevano e non sono mai state registrate.
Un uomo che nel 1865 eredito' il castello scrisse un diario sotto lo pseudonimo di Monsieur de X . Poco tempo dopo comincio' a sentire strani rumori ma fu soltanto 10 anni dopo che M. De X mise a conoscenza questi strani fenomeni facendolo pubblicare , Nel 1893 alcuni di questi fatti vennero pubblicati da M. J. Morice nel "Annales des Sciences Psychiques " insistendo pero' che il nome della famiglia non venisse menzionato.
All'epoca nel castello risiedevano la famiglia di M. de X e Mme. de X, e il loro figlio Maurice.
Altri residenti furono: Abbe Y., tutore di Maurice; Emile, il cocchiere ; Auguste, il giardiniere; Amelina, la cameriera e Celina, la cuoca.
"Ottobre 1875. Mi sono proposto di trascrivere e registrare ogni giorno cio' che succede durante le varie notti . Mi sono reso conto che i rumori uditi intorno alla tenuta sono stati coperti dalla neve non ho trovate tracce di impronte attorno al castello.
Ho segnato con dei passi tutte le entrate , segretamente. Non sono mai state calpestate.."
"Una notte davvero disturbata...... il suono sembrava quello di qualcuno che saliva le scale dal pianterreno a velocita' sovrumana , facendo un gran rumore coi suoi piedi.. Una volta arrivato sul posto dava cinque colpi secchi contro le pareti talmente forti che gli oggetti appesi al muro tintinnavano...."
"A volte pareva precipitarsi su x le scale dall'entrata diretto al primo piano ...Con rumori di passi che non avevano nulla di umano...
Tutti li hanno sentiti.... erano come due gambe prive dei piedi che camminavano sui propri moncherini degli arti... "
Altri rumori uditi dalla famiglia furono il suono di un corpo che rotolava giu' dalle scale , le sedie si muovevano intorno alla stanza di propria volonta'"
"...tutti hanno sentito urlare, come se ci fosse una donna fuori che chiedeva aiuto.. All' 1:40 [am] si potevano udire quattro pianti nell'entrata , e lungo la scalinata..."
"...non era il semplice pianto di una donna , ma era acuto, furioso disperato, il pianto di demoni o di dannati....."
Porte e finestre si spalancavano , e le Bibbie venivano distrutte.
Mme de X venne colpita e picchiata violentemente , lasciandole un marchio ben visibile che non scompari' per molti giorni... Inoltre la casa venne "scossa 20 volte". Si credette che la casa fosse vittima di influenze demoniache.
M. de X vi fece fare un esorcismo . E non funziono' fino al secondo tentativo.
under costruction!!!!!!
devo finire la traduzione!!!La sera del 13 ottobre , Abbe Y. scese nella sala di disegno e racconto' a M. e Mme. de X. che la sua poltrona si era mossa. Insistette dicendo di averla vista muoversi con la coda dell'occhio . M. de X. lo calmo' e ritorno' con lui nella stanza. Attacco' carta adesiva sotto i piedi della poltrona fissandola al pavimento dicendogli di chiamarlo in caso di bisogno .
Dopo le 10 di sera , il padrone del castello venne svegliato dal suono della campana di Abbe.. Si precipito' nella stanza dell'uomo e trovo' il tutore che si nascondeva dietro le coperte...
M. de X. noto' che la poltrona si era mossa e molte statuette e portacandele erano cadute a terra.
La sera successiva , le manifestazioni non si fermarono solo alla stanza di Abbe. Forti rumori si udirono fuori dal castello,
M. de X. armo' i suoi servitori e li condusse in una ricerca nell'intero castello. Ma non trovarono nulla.
Questo fu solo l'inizio che prese a ripetersi ancora, ancora ed ancora dando cosi' inizio ai fenomeni d'infestazione.
Notte dopo notte ,udirono battere colpi alle porte e e lungo le scale.
Gli abitanti del Calvados Castle non riuscirono a dormire a causa dei rumori molesti per oltre tre mesi.
il curato della parrocchia fu testimone di questi fenomeni ma non ne fu preoccupato.
Nonostante cio' Marcel de X., voleva determinare l'origine di queste manifestazioni .
Si udi' il suono di una palla di metallo che scendeva le scale dal secondo piano al primo , saltando passo x passo.
Il sacerdote della parrocchia venne invitato a rimanere una notte nel castello . Udi' il suono metallico rimbalzare lungo le scale e proclamo' che vi era attivita' soprannaturale.
Marcel de X. fu daccordo con il parroco. Capi' in breve tempo che questo fantasma sarebbe stato difficile da cacciare decise cosi di lasciare Calvados Castle allo spirito rumoroso.
Auguro' a M. de X. buona fortuna x il ritorno a casa.
Ad Halloween, i fenomeni durarono x parecchio tempo costringendo gli abitanti ad andare a dormire alle tre del mattino.
Il centro di queste attivita' e' diventata cio' che chiamano la " green room", ed i fenomeni parevan sempre iniziare da questa stanza vuota.
Il fantasma pareva camminare con passo non umano come detto piu' sopra....
Fu durante un violento e tempestoso novembre che il fantasma acquisi' voce Assieme al soffio del vento ed al rombo del tuono si poteva udire un lungo lamento simile alla voce di una donna che chiedeva aiuto .
Il pianto successivo risuono' dal castello , gli abitanti udirono altri lamenti lungo le scale....
Gli uomini di Calvados lasciarono il salotto x ispezionare il castello,ma non trovarono niente.
Non vi era alcuna donna e nessun segno di rumori causati dalla tempesta.
Non si udirono altri suoni finche' tutti vennero svegliati alle 11:45 la notte successiva da un terribile singhiozzo e pianti provenienti dalla terrible green room. i pianti parevano quelli di una donna che pativa orribili sofferenze.
Durante le notti seguenti l'attivita' semro' intensificarsi ed il pianto di quella donna disperata nella green room divennero strazianti..
Shortly after the "weeping woman" had arrived to add to the confusion at Calvados, a cousin of Mme. de X., an army officer, appeared to pay them a visit. He scoffed at the wild stories the members of the household told him, and against all their pleas, he insisted upon sleeping in the green room. They need not worry about him, he assured them, he always had his revolver at his side.
The officer strode boldly to the green room, left a candle burning as a night light, and went straight to sleep. He was awakened a short time later by what seemed to be the soft rustling of a silken robe. He was instantly aware that the candle had been extinguished and that something was tugging at the covers on his bed. In answer to his gruff demands to know who was there, he felt a cold breath of air blow out the candle he had relit and the rustling noise seemed to become louder, and something was definitely determined to rob him of his bedclothes. When he shouted that whoever was there must declare himself or he would shoot, the only response to his demand was an exceptionally violent tug on the covers.
It was a simple matter to determine where his silent adversary stood by the sound of the rustling and the pull on the bedclothes, so he decided to shoot three times. The lead slugs struck nothing but the wall, and he dug them out with a knife that next morning.
The abbe fared the worst of any member of the household throughout the duration of the phenomena. Whenever the cleric left his room, he always made certain that the windows were bolted and his door was locked. The key to his room was secured to a leather thong that he kept belted to his waist. These precautions never accomplished the slightest bit of good. Upon returning to his room, the abbe would inevitably find his couch overturned, the cushions scattered about, his windows opened, and his armchair placed on his desk. Once he tried nailing his windows closed. He returned to find the windows wide open, and by way of punishment, the couch cushions were balanced precariously on the outside windowsill. Such pranks the abbe could bear with much more patience than the time the invisible invader dumped every one of his books on the floor. Only the Holy Scriptures remained on the shelves.
The most vicious attack on the clergyman occurred once when he knelt at his fireplace stirring the coals, preparatory to placing new kindling on the andirons. Without warning, a huge deluge of water rushed down the chimney, extinguishing the fire, blinding the abbe with flying sparks, and covering him with ashes. The tutor woefully concluded that such actions could only be the work of his satanic majesty, the devil.
The only other person who actually suffered physical pain dealt out by the haunting phenomena was Mme. de X., who was in the act of unlocking a door when the key suddenly disengaged itself from her grip and struck her across the back of her left hand with such force that she bore a large bruise for several days.
One night the invisible creature roamed the corridors as if it were a lonely wayfarer seeking admittance to the rooms of each of the members of the household. It knocked once or twice on the doors of several bedrooms, then, true to pattern, it paused to deal 40 consecutive blows to the abbe's door before it returned to thump about in the green room.
The weary household had its only respite during the long siege when the reverend father H. L., a Premonstrant Canon, was sent there by the bishop. From the moment the Reverend Father entered the castle until the moment he left, there was not the slightest sound from the noisy nuisance. But after the clergyman had made his departure there was a sound as if a body had fallen in the first-floor passage, followed by what seemed to be a rolling ball delivering a violent blow on the door of the green room—and the haunting had once again begun its devilment in earnest.
On January 20, 1876, M. de X. left for a two-day visit to his brother, leaving his wife to keep up the journal of the haunting. Mme. de X. recorded an eerie bellowing, like that of a bull, which bothered everyone during the master's absence. A weird drumming sound was also introduced and a noise much like someone striking the stairs with a stick.
Upon the master's return to Calvados, the ghost became more violent than it had ever been before. It stormed into the rooms of Auguste the gardener and Emile the coachman and turned their beds over. It whirled into the master's study and heaped books, maps, and papers on the floor. The midnight screams increased in shrillness and urgency and were joined by the roaring of a bull and the furious cries of animals. A rhythmic tapping paraded up and down the corridors as if a small drum and bugle corps were conducting manuevers. For the first time, the rappings seemed to direct themselves to the door of Maurice, the son of M. and Mme. de X. Terrible screams sounded outside his room, and the violence of the successive blows on his door shook every window on the floor.
On the night of January 26, the parish priest arrived with the intention of conducting the rites of exorcism. He had also arranged for a Novena of Masses to be said at Lourdes that would coincide with his performance of the ancient ritual of putting a spirit to rest. The priest's arrival was greeted by a long, drawn-out cry and what sounded like a stampede of hoofed creatures running from the first floor passage. There came a noise similar to that of heavy boxes being moved, and the door to Maurice's room began to shake as if something demanded entrance.
The rites of exorcism reached their climax at 11:15 on the night of January 29. From the stairway came a piercing cry, like that of a beast that had been dealt its deathblow. A flurry of rappings began to rain on the door of the green room. At 12:55, the startled inhabitants of Calvados Castle heard the voice of a man in the first-floor passage. M. de X. recorded in his journal that it seemed to cry Ha! Ha!, and immediately there were 10 resounding blows, shaking everything all around. A final blow struck the door of the green room; then there was the sound of coughing in the first-floor passage.
The family rose and cautiously began to move about the castle. The priest slumped in exhaustion, sweat beading his forehead from the long ordeal. There was no sound of the hammering fist, no raucous screams, no shaking of doors, no shifting of furniture. They found a large earthenware plate that had been broken into 10 pieces at the door to Mme. de X.'s room. No one had ever seen the plate before that night.
Although it appeared that the haunting was over, several days after the exorcisms had been performed, Mme. de X. was sitting at a writing desk when an immense packet of holy medals and crosses dropped in front of her on her paper. It was as if the ghost had but suffered a momentary setback and was announcing that it must retreat for a time to recuperate and lick its wounds.
Towards the end of August, soft knockings and rappings began to be heard. On the third Sunday in September, the drawing room furniture was arranged in horseshoe fashion with the couch in the middle. A few days afterward, Mme. de X. lay terrified in her bed and watched the latch to her room unbolt itself. M. de X. was out of the castle for a few days on business, and she was alone with the servants.
The duration of the phenomena was much briefer this time, and the restless ghost seemed to be content to play the organ and to move an occasional bit of furniture about the room of Maurice's new tutor. Eventually the phenomena became weaker and weaker until the only thing that haunted Calvados Castle was the memory of those terrible months when the haunting phenomena had run rampant.
Edited by Valene - 14/8/2017, 13:15
