Whether you have an open mind or a Cartesian, the paranormal fascinates.
A study published by YouGov for the Obs on April 29, 2019 revealed that one in three French people believe in ghosts.
No wonder then that old legends persist.
In Île-de-France, many sites still have the reputation of being haunted, from the most famous such as the catacombs or the Paris Opera, to abandoned houses.
Little mysterious walk around three legends and three places.
Read also“Ghosts appear in our apartments”: in Fontenay-aux-Roses, tenants want to be rehoused
In the heart of the City of Light, rue de Bièvre (Ve), where François Mitterrand lived, a dark legend persists.
In this pretty little street, there is an empty space, not built for decades.
In "Rue des Maléfices", the poet and resistance fighter Jacques Yonnet evokes the history of this "house that no longer exists".
He says that in the past, there was an old inn run by a couple.
One day, a gypsy came in, he wanted to draw the cards from the innkeeper's wife who, jealous, chased him away.
The gypsy then returned for several days in a row and cast a spell on the husband.
His dog died a few days later.
He suffered from a kind of leprosy, and his wife disappeared.
The house, eaten away by a “fungus”, was reduced to nothing in 1943. Since then, the plot has remained empty, a tree has grown there and the wall has been replaced by railings.
This small plot of rue de Bièvre, in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, has remained empty since the collapse of an old inn eaten away by a fungus.
Legend has it that she succumbed to the spell of a gypsy.
LP/Marjorie Lenhardt
Let's take the road to Pigalle, still in Paris.
There is this neo-Gothic style house at number 1, avenue Frochot (9th).
According to the guide to unusual visits organized by Sous les Pavés, created by Guillaume Bertrand, a specialist in the legendary Parisian, this "evil house" is haunted by the spirit of a maid who was murdered there on the stairs. poker, early 20th century.
Successive owners would have been victims of his torments.
Like Sylvie Vartan, who had acquired the house in the 1970s but ultimately never moved in.
Read alsoHLM "haunted" in Fontenay: "It's neither madness nor hysteria, it's a phenomenon of collective belief"
Far from the hustle and bustle of the city, lost in nature, another mysterious residence has become one of the highlights of urban exploration.
The Manoir Pavlovich, which is located somewhere in Seine-et-Marne, has been abandoned for about ten years.
Its address remains secret because the risks of collapse there are real.
This house built in 1863 would have been cursed by its former owner.
She would have lived there alone, abandoned by her husband following a road accident which had severely disfigured her.
A curse would then have fallen on all the other couples who tried to invest the mansion.