Top 10 Scary Paris Urban Legends.
Hello and welcome back to the Most Amazing Channel on the internet.
I am your host, Rebecca Felgate and today we are talking about the Top 10 Scary Paris
Urban Legends.
Ah oui.
I would like to go back, I was just 19 the last time I went, so I would be keen to go
again…although I have to admit, a few of these urban legends are pretty terrifying…maybe
there are few places I would
stay away from!
10 - The Legend of the Barber and the Pastry Cook
Forget the Demon Barber of Fleet Street!
Meet The Demon Barber of Rue de La Marmousets.
Long before Sweeney Todd was slaying the people of Victorian London, a barber and a pastry
seller had a little understanding.
The barber would slit the throats of some of his customers, often students of Notre
Dame.
He then allegedly sent the flesh in a hatch to the cellar of his neighbour, a popular
pastry chef who made pies for high flying Parisians, including King Charles the 6th.
One day, a German student called Alaric visited the barber and was to be the unscrupulous
duos next victim.
Alaric brought his dog along with him and the canine sensed something was amiss and
barked non stop until people came to investigate what was going on.
When the police arrived, they searched the barbers and found out about the whole affair.
They found the cellar and the tools used to skin the corpses and cut up their flesh.
The barber and the pastry chef confessed and were burned alive in a cage for their crimes.
9 - The Ghost of Jim Morrison Jim Morrison of the Doors is a famous member
of the 27 Club.
He was a rock and roll star and frontman of the American Band The Doors.
There is much to be said about Jim, his life and his legacy… but he is perhaps best summarized
as sex drugs and rock n roll personified.
In the last few months of his life, he moved to Paris, where he seemed to find some semblance
of peace.
Sadly, on July 3rd 1971, he was found dead in the bathtub of his and his wife Pamela
Courson’s apartment.
He was buried in Pere Lachaise Cemetery, a popular tourist attraction.
Also buried there are Oscar Wilde and Edith Piaf.
Anyway, back in 1997, American Rock Historian, Brett Mesiner went to visit Jim Morrison Grave
and he took this picture.
Oh… look….it’s Jim Morrisons ghost.
The picture was evaluated and declared legit.
Morrison is in one of his classic poses.
It gets weirder, Mesiner was plagued by bad luck since visiting the cemetery.
8 - The Man In The Black Coat I love a fun time ghost, and the Man in Black
seems to be just that….he’s bringing good times to those that dare take up his offer.
In 1925, Jean Romier reported a strange evening that began at the Jardin Du Luxembourg.
He said that a polite man in a black coat asked if he wanted to come to a chamber concert
at his home.
Totally all about the fun times, Romier decided, you know what, why not, and he went for it.
He enjoyed an evening of music and poetry, albeit slightly haunting.
After he left, he realised he had left his zippo lighter in the apartment and popped
back to get it.
When he returned to the apartment on the Rue de Vaugirard, a neighbour heard the knocking
and informed him the apartment had been unoccupied since its previous tenant, a musician, passed
away 20 years ago.
The legend of the man in the black coat has been going strong for nearly 100 years.
While others have reported seeing the man in the Jardin, few have accepted the offer
of a private chamber orchestra.
7 - The Street of the Fishing Cat There is a very, very narrow road in Paris
now called Rue Du Chat Qui Peche, Street of the fishing cat.
This alley was built in 1540 and used to be called the Street of ovens.
It leads straight down to the River Seine.
The legend goes that in the 16th Century, an Alchemist lived along this street along
with his jet black cat.
The cat, it seems, was a very gifted fisher, who was able to catch fish out of the Siene
with one swipe of his paw.
The cat was often spotted prowling by the river looking for fish.
Local students took a disliking to the cat, deciding they thought it was evil.
For this reason, three students decided to murder the cat and throw its body in the Seine.
Weirdly, once the cat disappeared, so did the Alchemist it belonged to.
Some years later, a man that looked a lot like him was regularly spotted walking along
the Seine looking like a ghostly traveller.
Others reported spotting a phantom cat, still pawing at the water hoping to catch a fish.
6 - Forest of Rambouillet Ah, the French Forest of Rambouillet is home
to a classic urban legend, the one about the boyfriend dying while the girl is in the car….it
is told in some variation across the world.
This variation says that a couple were driving through the forest in the 1960s in search
of a spot to park up and make out.
Once they find a spot, they hook up.
The guy gets out of the car to go for a pee.
When he doesn’t come back within five or so minutes, the girl gets nervous and starts
looking around for him.
Getting out of the car, she sees a scary looking man in the shadows and what she thinks is
the glimmer of a knife.
She gets in the car and tries to drive away to look for her boyfriend….
She hears some muffled sounds …some squeaking and tapping….but she drives off….when
she looks in her rearview mirror, she sees her boyfriend hanging from a tree.
The tapping was his feet on the roof of the car…as she drove off…she pulled the plinth
out from under him and ensured his death.
Brutal.
5-The Catacombs of Paris Put it this way, we could do a whole Top 10
on the Legends of the Parisian Catacombs.
Under the city of Paris, lay the remains of more than 6 million people spread over 200
miles of intricate tunnels.
Only a very very small section is open to the public, which has set imaginations WILD.
Apparently the creepy underground body tunnels were built to deal with the cities problem
of overflowing cemeteries.
You know – I think about this a lot.
As populations increase, more and more people die.
If they aren’t cremated, their bones are left in the ground.
How long til the ground is full?
Are we going to start using bodies as building material?!
Anyway, because of the mystery and morbid nature of the catacombs, many many rumours
have cropped up as to what is happening down there!
Sine say they’re home to Albino Aligators, others say they are the home of a number of
serial killers, the meeting place for masonic cults, a spooky gathering spot for Satanists…some
even say that they housed the Nazis during the second world war.
Speaking of Nazis, have a listen to this Urban Legend from the Pont Marie Bridge at number
4 World War Two era Europe was filled with treachery,
sacrifice and heartbreak.
There were spies everywhere.
Legend has it that during the French occupation, a Parisian woman was married to a resistance
fighter but was having an affair with a Nazi officer who she was using for information
to feed back to the resistance.
Now I don’t know if you know Paris in the winter, but it is COLD.
Cold!
One night, the woman was meeting her husband on the Pont Marie Bridge, but he never showed.
She waited and waited for him but he never came.
She froze to death and died on the bridge.
Her Phantom is said to still haunt the bridge to this day – people have reported seeing
an apparition of a sobbing woman.
When they go to console her, she disappears.
3 - The Bodies of the River Seine The River Seine is one of the most famous
and romantic bodies of water in the world.
Endlessly romanticised in paintings and literature, the river is synonymous with the city of love.
That being said, the river is jaaaanky.
The water has flowed through the city for over a thousand years, and has seen its fair
share of sewage, so much so that some people refer to it as an open sewer.
That isn’t the only thing scary about the Seine though…locals will tell you it is
filled with bodies…and this is one urban legend that unfortunately is pretty true.
Not only is the Seine a popular suicide spot, it is a popular body dumping spot for murderers.
In 2008, Supermodel Katoucha Nian’s body was pulled out of the water after she fell
into the river, drunk.
In 1961 The Parisian Police carried out a massacre on the pro national Liberation Front
– killing between 40 -200 people and dumping their bodies in the river.
The mass murder was covered up, but the bodies of the dead Algerians still remain, lost in
the water.
2 - The Red Man of Tuileries Palace Different Variations of this Urban Legend
suggest the Red man spotted outside Tuileries palace in Paris was a local butcher, whereas
other say he was a henchman of 16th Queen Catherine de Medici.
Both legends agree his named was Jean and that the Queen had him killed because this
man held way too many of the crowns secrets.
A while after his death, a man was spotted in blood red attire wandering the gardens.
One man who spoke to his ghost, Neuville, reported Jean swore vengeance in the Queen
and the crown.
Aristocrats of the palace thought the he was a sign of bad luck to come – indeed Marie
Antoinette supposedly saw him shortly before meeting the guillotine.
Napoleon, however, quite liked the fellow and would talk to him about war strategy.
Those visiting the old palace today occasionally spot the man in red.
Oh dear.
1 - The Phantom of the Opera Not only is it in my Top 5 Musicals of all
time, Phantom of the Opera is actually based on a real urban legend.
Andrew Lloyd Webbers musical is based on the novel by Gaston Leroux, but in turn, Leroux
based his novel on real life reports of strange goings on at the Opera Garnier.
The famous Opera house, now home of the National Opera, was built in 1875 and reportedly is
reportedly haunted by a ghost, ghoul or Phantom.
In 1896, one of the theatres grand chandelier’s did indeed break and kill someone, like in
the novel and musical.
Strange reports of other worldly goings on still exist to this day, and it was said for
a long time the theatre was built on some kind of watery underground lair, like the
Phantoms.
In actuality this is kind of true, the opera house is built on a water tank.
Who knows what is happening down there in the watery depths.
So guys, that was the Top 10 Scary Paris Urban Legends!
Let me know which you found the scariest!
Man, even those these were spooky, I still really want to go back to the city of love!
Have some Macarons and a really good coffee….get to the Pompidou art museum…ahhh.
Where would you most like to travel to.
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