Gilles Garnier: how Dole tried a wolf-man
Attacks on children prompted a werewolf hunt and then prosecution of a hermit living near the forest.
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Attacks on children prompted a werewolf hunt and then prosecution of a hermit living near the forest.
A botanist witnessed an exhumation and disputed villagers’ attribution of night-time disorder to a murdered peasant.
A dead neighbour supposedly wandered for sixteen years; villagers ended the terror by opening his grave and cutting off the corpse’s h…
The bathhouse owner reserves a washing turn of his own and supposedly meets intruders with boiling water, stones and blows from a bath…
Stories of a nun and moving objects made the rectory famous; scrutiny later questioned witnesses and investigator alike.
Investigators recorded knocks and a harsh voice in the Hodgson home; their observations coexisted with detected tricks and disputed ev…
An invisible speaker torments children, argues with visitors and allegedly claims responsibility for a farmer’s death.
An apprentice recalled Roman soldiers walking through a cellar wall, visible only from the knees upwards.
Castle staff recount footsteps, touches and a little boy supposedly holding visitors’ hands without their noticing him.