THN's Top 5 Haunted Places: France

Time to start looking further abroad, where else other than our closest ex-european neighbours France. As with all places in europe this land is steeped in history with some things dating over a thousand years old. I'm excited to dig into this countries history and find some of the most haunted places in all of their lands.

Top 5 places in France:

1. Paris Catacombs, Paris

Okay probably one of the most famous creepy haunted places on the entire bloody earth. Been in film, book cinema for years such as as above so below. The place is stacked floor to ceiling with bones, skulls and other assorted freaky shit.

Now you know I'm not a believer of ghosts etc but I think just being here would even freak the hell out of me. Now the main reason for it, is not that spooky at all, it was just a place to stick remains when space ran out. Though certainly from some stories some of the residents didn't like being moved to their new resting place as often moans and other creepy noises are heard.

As I mentioned As Above So Below, the supposed or at least one of the inspirations for this movie was when a group of regulars to the catacombs found a camera, on there the footage of a man clearly lost is going mad, he drops the camera and wonders off. No one knows if the man ever made out of the catacombs and if he did, if he's okay.

2. Palace Gardens, Versailles

Okay so the lovely garden of Versailles are a beautiful place to visit but wow do they hold a great story. From ghosts and spooks to possible time travel?

Listen to this, In 1911 two writers wrote of their times in the gardens. In it they felt that they had traveled back to the 18th century and the gardens as they were then. They also claimed to have seen the ghosts of Marie Antoinette, though their story was at the time ridiculed and mocked.

Though other people since have also made claims to have seen Marie doing things like mundanely walking around or even sitting and sketching the gardens.

3. Chateau De Brissac, Angers

This amazing looking disney-esque castle or Chateau is just south of a city called Angers, it was originally built in the 11th century as a small castle. Then in the 15th century the Duke of Brissac built it into pretty much what it is today.

A double murder in this time gave birth to one of the more popular ghost type haunting's. A green lady! the terrifying thing about this one however is the people who have seen her say that looking at her face it looks like her eyes and nose were cut away. Not only that her moans are often said to be heard echoing through the halls of the Chateau in the night.

4. Foret De Broceliande, Brittany

This forest as you can see from the picture has damn freaky shaped trees, that is literally just one type there. For some unknown reason, to me at least, i'm sure I could go check why, a lot of the tree just grow oddly.

Now here's the multitude of bizarre things about this forest. It's said to be haunted by none other than Morgana Le Faye of Arthurian legend, bewitched and home to many creature of the elven variety. It has an amazing castle in it's grounds and some spectular, yet mysterious fountains also.

If you don't go for the spooky/fantasy stuff this place is great to visit just for how it looks.

5. The Bleeding House, Aisne

Also known as just the haunted house of Saint-Quentin, this is like the catacombs is one of the most famous haunted places in the whole world not just France. Subject of a few films and documentaries it's walls are supposed to exude blood.

The owners obviously didn't like this and decided to move, the house was later demolished and the bodies of 50, count em 50 german soldiers were found inside it's walls. The house has since been rebuilt but there is no longer any bleeding walls, still though some ghostly sounds and sightings have still been reported about the site!

Okay there we have it folks, another 5 haunted places, this time slightly further abroad than the UK, next up should be Germany, though depends what order I post these in...