6 Haunted Places in France
Every case file on record in France — each with the full legend, the documented sightings spine and the skeptic’s file. Browse the archive below, or open the world map.
Abbaye de Mortemer — Mathilde's Candle in the Ruin
B · Lisors, Normandy, France — A Cistercian abbey founded in 1134 in the forested valley of the Eure stands roofless and legend-heavy — the ruin where Normandy's folklorists set the ghost of a woman with a candle, and where three m…
Château de Brissac — The Green Lady
A · Brissac-Quincé, Loire Valley, France — France's tallest castle hides a double murder — and a Green Lady whose groans are said to be heard through the walls.…
The Catacombs of Paris
A · Paris, France — Six million skeletons stacked in old limestone tunnels beneath Paris — the world's largest grave, and a magnet for the lost.…
Père Lachaise Cemetery — The Most Visited Dead on Earth
B · 16th / 20th Arrondissements, Paris, France — The world's most visited cemetery — a city of the dead holding Chopin, Oscar Wilde, Edith Piaf and, in Division 6, Jim Morrison — carries a modern ghost canon headlined by the Doors' singer: a celebra…
Petit Trianon — The Ghosts of Versailles Time Slip
B · Versailles, France — On 10 August 1901 two Oxford academics walked into the Trianon gardens and, they insisted, into 1789 — the most famous time-slip account ever published.…
Château de Trécesson
B · Campénéac, Brittany, France — A red-schist moated castle on the edge of Brocéliande forest, keeper of Brittany's grimmest printed legend: a bride buried alive at her own wedding night, and card players who never finished their gam…