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Fr H L performed an exorcism in the castle. He bought two watch-dogs, but the animals whimpered when they heard the strange noises.
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Monsieur X thought someone was trying to scare him out of the castle because they wanted it for themselves. Even more weirdly were the sounds of animals heard inside the house, especially a sound like a bull roaring. Most of the time it seemed to be roaming the corridors of the castle, randomly banging on bedroom doors, (strongly reminiscent of the terrifying nocturnal hammerings in Shirley Jackson’s ‘The Haunting Of Hill House’). It insisted on playing the organ, even when it was locked up, and galloped through the castle at night yelling “Ha! Ha!” in a man’s voice. The poltergeist got noisier as the weeks went on. The following morning he had to dig the bullets out of the wall with a knife. This tug-of-war went on for some time, until the army officer got exasperated and fired his gun three times at thin air. In the night he woke up to hear the sound of silk rustling inside the room, and then someone violently tugging on his bedclothes.
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He took his loaded revolver with him, and slept with it by his pillow. He was a no-nonsense army officer, and volunteered to sleep in the notorious Green Room, the epi-centre of the haunting. One afternoon, at about 5 o’clock, he was reading by the fire when a shower of water came down the chimney and put it out.
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His furniture was often found moved, his windows opened, and books were thrown off the shelves. The Abbe Y was subjected to some unnerving occurrences in his room. The sobbing woman was also heard inside the castle, both at night and during daylight hours. When investigated, nothing and nobody was found. The haunting intensified in the run-up to Halloween, and often seemed to centre around the Green Room.įrom out in the grounds came the sound of a woman crying for help during a heavy rainstorm in November. Monsieur X recorded in his diary that at 2 o’clock one morning everyone heard someone stamping up the main staircase from the entrance hall, followed by loud hammering on the door of the Green Room. On that evening loud bangings shook the rooms, and someone was heard running up and down stairs at superhuman speed. Like all old buildings the castle had been prone to mysterious nocturnal noises for years, but on 12 October 1875 things became very frightening indeed, and puts Calvados as one of the most terrifying hauntings of all time. He lived at the castle with his wife, Madame X, their son, the boy’s tutor the Abbe Y, and four servants. The haunting was documented in a diary kept by the owner, known only to us as Monsieur X, as he insisted on strict anonymity for himself and his family. It already had a legend in place about how a previous owner had died penniless, and was doomed to roam the castle for eternity, but it is the short, violent burst of poltergeist activity which broke out in the autumn of 1875, for which it is most famous in the paranormal field. This remote, gloomy castle in norther France was built in 1835 on the ruins of a previous building.