The Rosenkrantz Tower in Bergen Norway is one of the oldest buildings still standing and was once the house for kings. Today it is used as a museum and perhaps they also have some of the oldest ghosts still lingering in the dungeon.
On the old dock in Bergen city you mostly find old buildings dating all the way back to the middle ages when Bergen was the capital in Norway throughout the city’s time as a Hanseatic trading city. Today the fortress the Rosenkrantz Tower is a part of a museum and is considered one of the most important renaissance monuments in Norway.
One of the old buildings is Rosenkrantz Tower, which still is one of the taller buildings in the city and was once known as “The Castle by the Sea” as it used to be a residence for kings when Bergen was the capital in Norway.
The Kings Tower
Rosenkrantz Tower was originally built for the king Magnus Lawmender in 1270 and a lot of the original building can still be seen today. King Magnus Lawmender got his nickname after working extensively on the laws in his country, and much of today’s Norwegian constitution comes from his work.
After the capital in Norway was moved to Oslo and Norway became a part of the Danish kingdom, the keep the tower is part of lost its importance as a royal seat, but was still used as a military keep.
Although the cannons in Rosenkrantz Tower have only been fired one day during war in 1665, the tower has seen its fair share of war. In 1944 during world war two the Rosenkrantz Tower was heavily damaged when a cargo ship with explosives exploded right outside. The upper floors collapsed, but the foundations of the tower still remained, like the dungeon in the tower. And deep down in the darkness of the dungeon in the tower, some former prisoners are said to still linger.
The Haunted Dungeon
The dungeon in Rosenkrantz Tower was added on to the tower around 1500 and the final tower as we see it today was finalized in the 1560s by Erik Rosenkrantz who was a governor of Bergen Castle during a time when Norway was under Danish reign. He was at the time one of the wealthiest men in Denmark-Norway and work on the tower was done by Scottish builders, explaining the Scottish look from the time.
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The dungeon served as a prison where they kept the prisoners who were considered to be very violent and often some of the poorest. These are the prisoners that are rumored to be still haunting the dungeon.
An architect named Peter Blix reported in 1884 that old people living at the time still remembered the last prisoner in the cell in Rosenkrantz Tower. So perhaps the dungeon was used in the early 19th century?
You can walk inside of the tower and follow the hollowed and wobbly stairs down to the basement where you can barely stand up straight. The cells are small and the only light is from the cracks in the walls. Still to this day you can see claw marks from the prisoners that were confined into the dark small cells when it was used from the 16th to the 19th century.
The irony of it all is that so many of the prisoners were convicted by the laws that the original builder, King Magnus Lawmender, made during his reign just a couple of floors above the dungeon they are forever kept.
Built on supposedly cursed ground, this theater in Barcelona has faced many tragedies. After several fires trying to close the doors of Gran Teatre del Liceu, people have come to believe that the building is haunted possibly by a curse they have no idea how to break.
Spain is known for its ancient theaters and the stories of ghosts that haunt them. Many people have reported sightings of strange figures and other paranormal activities in these theaters that just don’t want to let the past go.
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The haunted theaters in Spain are an interesting subject to explore. They offer a glimpse into the history of the country as well as a chance to explore the supernatural world. From tales of ghostly apparitions to mysterious sounds and unexplainable events, these theaters have something for everyone who is interested in exploring the unknown.
Oftentimes, the cursed places call for attention to the places history, and the street where this cursed theater is located, has a long one.
The Bustling La Rambla in Barcelona
All the way since the middle ages La Rambla has been a center of Barcelona’s urban life with markets, festivals and sports as well as more serious and sinister things.
The Haunted Gran Teatre del Liceu: The theater in Barcelona is thought to be built on cursed ground and have gone through many difficulties and mysterious incidents.
According to legend, this old theater in Barcelona was built upon cursed ground in 1847. During the middle ages, it is said that the place was used for executions and was therefore haunted and cursed.
What we do know is that the gallows in La Rambla, las forca de la Rambla were placed by the entrance to La Boqueria on the same street right around the corner from where the theater is today.
Gran Teatre del Liceu – the Oldest Running Theater in Town
The Grand Theatre of the Lyceum is usually only known as El Liceu located on La Rambla and is the oldest running theater in Barcelona and from its opening until 1989 the Liceu was the largest opera house in Europe that could seat 2 338 people.
The theater was built in an unused Monastery and ended up being associated with the aristocracy and upper-middle class. This also drew people to the theater that wanted to end the upper class regime.
The Killed Monks in the Ground
Long before it turned into a theater, the place was an abandoned convent. The Virgen de la Buena Monastery of the Trinitarian order was built in 1662.
The Trinitarian order was begun for their mission to free christian that were in captivity by muslims. This was a time with many crusades to the middle east and Spain were also overtaken several places south in Spain by muslims.
There is also a legend that it was the place where there was a convent there with Trinitarian monks that were killed during a riot that happened there. The dead monks were buried under the ground where they were killed.
Whether this legend is true, is uncertain, but there certainly were riots happening in Barcelona that targeted religious buildings. When there was riots in Barcelona in 1835, the convent was lit on fire and burned and the monks left the place.
The Trinitarian convent building was then rebuilt into the theater. No matter if the story of the execution grounds or the murdered monks are true, it is used as a base to explain the legend that the theater is cursed and the reason why the building has seen so many tragedies over the years.
The Many Fires in the Cursed Theater
The first major tragedy that happened was when the building was severely damaged by a fire in 1861 that started in the tailor workshop, the people blamed it all on the curse. Was perhaps it from the curse of the monks? Were they fed up by the celebration of something so pagan like the carnival? Were their graves disturbed when they built the building?
It was in the middle of the carnival celebrations and everyone wore masks and it could have been anyone. Among the smoking ruins the police found an ominous note that said: An owl I am, alone I am. If you build it again, I’ll burn it again.
Could it just be a paper from the many plays in the building? could it be something more ominous and connected to the curse? Despite the warnings, they quickly rebuilt the opera house and opened again on 9th of April 1861. Only the facade, the entrance hall and the foyer called Mirrors Hall remained from the old theater and the building awaited its curse to hit once again.
The Bombing of the Anarchist
In 1893 tragedy struck again when 20 people died as they were killed by an anarchist named Santiago Salvador. He threw two Orsini bombs into the stalls and watched it all explode and the bombing shocked Barcelona and became a symbol of the turbulent time of social unrest the country was in.
The theater opened again on 18th of January in 1894, but the seats that those who were killed in the bombing were not used for many years after this.
Could we really put this terrorist act on the supposed curse of the building?
The Last Fire of the Theater
In 1994 the building burned to the ground because of another fire. Apparently it happened when a spark accidentally fell on the curtain during a respiration. The theater was once again being rebuilt in 1999 with new and improved facilities.
During the almost 30 years since its last reopening the theater has had no more damaging scandals and the building has remained intact.
Is the curse now lifted, or will the place in fact burn down once again? There is an additional legend about the place. During the riots, the nearby convent of Mount Sion shared the same fate as the Trinitarian monastery. According to the legend, the prioress had a ring that was buried in the foundations of the new theater and cast a curse upon the place.
It is said that the danger will continue to loom over the theater until someone finds the ring of the prioress of Mount Sion in the foundations, and as of yet, there are no one that has found it.
A long time ago, there were seven sisters that made a pact to die together in Tsat Tsz Mui, Hong Kong. And according to legend, there were also reports of them haunting swimmers from the depth of the sea.
In North Point there is a road called Tsat Tsz Mui Road (七姊妹道) that means Seven Sisters Road. Today the road is a place of office and residential buildings as well as shopping malls and restaurants. But there used to be beaches there.
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The road on Tsat Tsz Mui is built on reclaimed land, and underneath it all, there hides a tragic tale of seven sisters that are haunting the place because they never got a chance to live on their own terms.
The Seven Sisters Pact of Life and Death
According to legend, there was once a group of Hakka women, a group of Han Chinese people that fled from the north from social unrest in the Qing Dynasty and sought refuge in the Cantonese provinces.
The seven women who had been playmates all their life decided to become blood sisters and would die on the same day. The sisterhood lived in the same area and all swore a vow of celibacy and would never get married.
One day, the third sister’s family decided it was time to marry her off. She didn’t want to, but didn’t dare to oppose her parents.
The sisters were desperate, but saw no way to live their life as they had swore on. All of the seven sisters drowned themselves in the ocean the night before her wedding.
Tsat Tsz Mui Rocks on the Beach
Their bodies were never recovered, but when the tide receded they found seven boulders in a row. These were named the Tsat Tsz Mui Shek (七姊妹石), Seven Sister Rocks, and the village Tsat Tsz Mui Tsuen (七姊妹村), Seven Sister Village.
The Ghost of the Seven Sisters
Later the Chinese Recreation Club built the Seven Sisters Swimming Club in 1911 and hosted large bathing platforms that were destroyed during the Battle of Hong Kong in 1941.
Problem was the male swimmers though. Many went for an evening swim but there were so many cases of the male swimmers drowning, even though they were known to be strong swimmers.
Ever since then, there have been legends that it is the spirits of the seven sisters in the water, taking their revenge on the men that wouldn’t leave them alone.
In 1934 the rocks were buried under the reclamation for urban development and the seven sisters with it.
The Hello Kitty Murder Case shocked Hong Kong and the world to the core when the skull of a woman was found sewn inside of a Hello Kitty Doll. One of the participant in the torture of the victim claimed that she was haunted by her and for years after the murder, the place itself was said to be haunted.
In 1999, a young girl walks into a Hong Kong police station alone, riddled with nightmares and guilt. The 14 year old teenager claims to be haunted by this dead woman for the last couple of weeks, and she truly believes she won’t be at peace until the girl confesses to what happened to the ghost that is haunting her.
At first the police disregards her statements, thinking she is delusional and making stuff up, but when she tells them about the horrible torture and murder she witness and even took part in, the police couldn’t ignore it.
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When the police started investigating the address the girl gave, they came to find something truly shocking and horrible. The apartment had been the sight of a crime were a woman had been held imprisoned, tortured and raped for over a month before she died. The body had been mostly disposed of, but stuffed inside of a huge Hello Kitty plush doll, they found the woman’s head. Therefore the murder case was called The Hello Kitty Murder Case.
Granville Road in 2016 in the Tsim Sha Tsui area were the gruesome Hello Kitty Murder took place.
The Harsh Life of the Kidnapped Hostess
The place of the Hello Kitty Murder was in a third-floor flat in the downtown area on No. 31 Granville Road (加連威老道) in Tsim Sha Tsui area in the Kowloon district. The inside of the apartment was filled with Hello Kitty memorabilia, including the big Hello Kitty Mermaid Plush Doll.
Fan Man-yee: The victim of the Hello Kitty Murder Case.
The victim was the 23 year old nightclub hostess and young mother, Fan Man-yee (樊敏儀)who had been missing for a month.
Her life had never been easy, and it ended in the most gruesome way imaginable. She had been abandoned as a child and grew up in an all girls orphanage in Hong Kong. When she got kicked out at 15 because she was too old to be there, she supported herself through sex work.
Over the years she turned into a drug addict and barely got by. She ended up marrying one of her clients who also were a drug addict, and lived with him despite their abusive relationship.
Then she got pregnant and had a child and decided to turn her life around. She got clean, left her husband and quit being a prostitute. Instead she started working as a nightclub hostess at the Romance Villa and hoped for a better future together with her son.
The Murderous Pimp and Drug Dealer
Her hopes got crushed fairly quickly however as bills were piling up and her nightclub was frequented by criminals, drug dealers and addicts as well as the Chinese crime syndicate, The Triads.
One of these seedy types she met was the 34-year old Chan Man-lok. He was both a drug dealer and a pimp and had a sexual relationship with Fan-Man. She once stole his wallet that had around $HK4,000 (roughly $500 USD) inside of it, but even if she gave it back at once Chan Man-lok realized she was the thief, he demanded more money from her that she was unable to pay. And because of this, he decided to kidnap her, thinking he would make money out of her by pimping her out.
A Month of Sadistic Torture
Instead he ended up rounding up his other accomplices, and ended up just torturing her in what seemed to be for no other reason than perverse and sadistic enjoyment.
The teenage girl given the cover name Ah Fong because of her young age testified that three men Chan Man-lok, Leung Shing-cho and Leung Wai-lun, all in their 30s and 20s abducted Fan Man-yee and tortured her until she died over the course of a month. She was the quote on quote: “girlfriend” of Chan Man-lok who also worked as a sex worker for him and she admitted that she even joined in on the beating on occasion.
Over the course of that month the men got high on drugs while they beating her with iron bars, raped her, burning her by dripping melting plastic on her, pouring chili oil on her wounds, stringing her up hanging from the ceiling for hours and other sadistic acts they came up with. She was even forced to smile and say she enjoyed the torture. If she didn’t it would only get worse.
The Horror of the Hello Kitty Murder
Hello Kitty: The Hello Kitty Murder got its nickname after where they placed some parts of the body.//Source
After she died they dismembered her body, boiled them and disposed of it as household trash or feeding it to stray dogs. Some of her internal organs were found in the refrigerator. The head they sew in the head of the Hello Kitty doll, although their motive for this is still unclear.
The exact cause of death is not known because of how little of her remains they found, and therefore there was also too little evidence to sentence the men for murder with intent, although it was clear she had died because of their abuse.
“Never in Hong Kong in recent years has a court heard of such cruelty, depravity, callousness, brutality, violence and viciousness,” said Hong Kong Justice Peter Nguyen after the trial, who sentenced the defendants to life imprisonment Wednesday after they were convicted of manslaughter. “The public is entitled to protection from people such as you.”
The three men were convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to life in prison without chance of parole for 20 years. Hong Kong does not have the death penalty, but if it had happened on mainland China, they would have likely been executed.
The Ghost of Fan Man-yee at Court
Who really knew what would have happened to the case if the teenage girl known as Ah Fong hadn’t been convinced she was haunted by Fan Man-yee, and because of her torment and remorse, she ended up walking into the police station and at least helping to find the victim. Because of her young age and corporation she never received any punishment for her involvement in the Hello Kitty Murder case.
Many unusual events have occurred that are regarded as supernatural by the public. And rumors about something paranormal and strange going on started already during trial.
The forensic doctor in charge of the case revealed that when the evidence including the skull of the deceased, the Hello Kitty doll, and the clay pot used to cook the body were presented to the court, the entire court was filled with the smell of the corpse. No matter where the Hello Kitty doll was presented, nearby lights would flicker. The same light disturbance happened when the defense lawyer argued that the only illegal thing happened when they were disposing of the body. An observer of the trial refused this rumor though and said it only happened when the police played the defendant’s confession.
The Haunted Building
The building where the murder happened had strange things going on. A woman rented a unit on the fourth floor without knowing about the murder. Her friend often heard women crying at night, and at that time, there were no people living downstairs. It’s worth noting that this woman had suffered from sleep paralysis while sleeping.
Granville Road: The building were the horror of the Hello Kitty Murders took place in 2010. The murder occurred in Block B on the third floor, which was demolished in 2012 and rebuilt into the Soravit on Granville in 2016.
The hair salons on the first and second floors of the building had discovered Hello Kitty dolls of unknown origin when they came to work in the morning. When looking at the CCTV footage, they even saw that after the salon closed at night, there were figures walking around in the salon. The manager of the hair salon denied that unusual incidents had occurred in the store.
The wife of Hong Kong metaphysician Chen Dingbang said that in 2013, when she was relaxing in a bar on Granville Road, she saw a woman’s head staring at her from the opposite building. Later she learned that the unit was where the case took place.
The apartment building where Fan was tortured has since been demolished as no one wanted to buy or rent the infamous apartment that everyone in Hong Kong knew the backstory behind. It was empty for years and eventually, no one wanted to live in the other apartments in the building either.
Some claimed that after the Hello Kitty Murder the building itself was haunted by Fan and there were many who claimed to have seen her haunting the area.
In the end someone bought the empty building and demolished it in 2012. Instead they built a hotel there in 2016 named Soravit. As a memorial to what happened there, they placed three Buddha portraits in the hotel.
After a gruesome murder at the Teatro Eslava in Madrid, it is said that the ghost of one of the playwrights is haunting the backstage of the theater. Strange sounds and shadows backstage together with the theater’s dark past have made people believe it has been cursed ever since.
Spain is known for its rich culture, beautiful architecture and fascinating stories. One of the most interesting stories about Spain are the tales of haunted theaters and their ghosts. From the 16th century to modern times, these theaters have been a source of mystery and intrigue for locals and tourists alike.
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The stories of hauntings in these theaters range from mysterious lights that appear on stage to strange noises heard backstage. While some believe that these are just urban legends, others believe that there is something more to these tales than meets the eye. Whether you believe in ghosts or not, one thing is certain – haunted theaters in Spain will always be a source of fascination and mystery.
Teatro Eslava Turned into a Haunted Nightclub
Today the Teatro Eslava in Madrid, Spain is used as a nightclub as well as a concert venue that opened in 1981 as a part of the Madrid Movement. It is found between Puerta del Sol and Opera and is therefore in one of the most central spaces in the capital. In 2020 it closed with everything else and underwent a major renovation. So when it reopened in 2022 it was ready to welcome live musicians, clubbing with dj’s and flamenco dinner shows.
The Haunted Teatro Enslava: The facade of the Teatro Enslava in Madrid, Spain. It is believed that the old theater is haunted by a former playwright that was murdered by a colleague.//Source: Luis García
The Old Theater Salon Eslava
Located on Calle del Arenal, it first opened up as a theater in 1872 and was called Salon Eslava that could house a thousand people. It became a very popular theater that experimented with different genres like Zarzuela, a Spanish musical theater form with spoken dialogue, singing and orchestra.
In the 1920s the theater housed many of the celebrated and much discussed bohemian writers at the time.
The Murder of the Playwright
In 1922 and 23 there were two playwrights that were fighting over their chance to get their writings on stage. One was Alfonso Vidal y Planas who was described as a bohemian and an unbalanced author. The other playwright, Luis Anton de Olmet from Bilbao came and wanted his play to premiere first. And so the first argument happened.
Alfonso Vidal y Planas was the first to premiere though, but his play was a failure. He was sure that Luis Anton de Olmet had something to do with that and had sabotaged it somehow. So when the play by Luis Anton de Olmet was about to premiere, Alfonso Vidal y Planas showed up to the Teatro Eslava for revenge.
Not only did they argue about the work, they also argued about a woman they were rivals over. Allegedly Luis Anton de Olmet had an affair with Catalina, the wife of Alfonso Vidal y Planas.
The Theater Ghost: Luis Anton de Olmet pictured in 1909. He was murdered inside of the Teatro Enslava and is thought to haunt the theater.
According to Alfonso Vidal y Planas he was trying to defend himself when Luis Anton de Olmet was strangling him, and he pulled out his gun and shot him.
Luis Anton de Olmet died of his injuries and Alfonso Vidal y Planas were sentenced to 12 years in prison. He only served three years and continued his writing career until he died in Tijuana, Mexico.
After the murder the theater entered the dark period and didn’t see much success until a few years later when the Argentine star Celia Gamez, one of Spain’s most popular stars in the first half of the 20th century, came and gave the theater new life.
Ever since the murder though, even though the Teatro Eslava continued to host stage performances, it has been considered cursed and it is said that the ghost of has been said the ghost of Luis Anton de Olmet is haunting the place to this day.
The Haunting of the old Teatro Eslava
It is said that today, his ghost is haunting the upper part of the building and isn’t often seen in the club. He is most seen during the theatrical performances and concerts that remind him of the old times at the Teatro Eslava, the light flickering on and off to show his presence.
The cleaning staff cleaning up after a show and the security by the doors talk about hearing a sad wailing and seeing a shadow passing through the empty and dark corridors.
At the The Waldniel Hostert School, a former school and Nazi Institute bears a tragic story and the ghosts of so many of the mentally disabled children that were murdered during the War.
Kent School, or as it was known back in the day, The Waldniel Institute was a school with a tragic backstory and is said to have left a haunted expression on the building.
When The Waldniel Hostert School was operating as a secondary school for children of military personnel it was a boarding school as well as a day school. The school was open from 1963 to 1986 and one of several schools operated by the Service Children’s Education organization, catering to the children of the British Armed Forces.
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At its peak The Waldniel Hostert School housed over 6000 students at one point. The gothic appearance of the school made the British nicknamed Colditz after the war camp in East Germany.
From the students there were rumors about what had happened here before, as it was the site where the Nazis murdered countless of mentally disabled children as a part of their racial purification program.
And among the rumors, they started talking about seeing and hearing those unfortunate children in the form of ghosts, still lingering within the compound of their old school.
The Horror School
Before The Waldniel Hostert School was a school it was a monastery operated by monks since the 14th century.
The school was first a Franciscan priory called St. Josefsheim was built in 1913 by the Order of the Franciscans of the Holy Cross. Here they housed mentally handicapped children and around 600 mentally and physically disabled people lived in the monastery.
In 1937, it closed its doors and the last of the brothers left the house on 23rd May, and it would no longer be the safe haven for the disabled as it had been up to then.
From then on the The Waldniel Hostert School was operated by the Nazis. They called it The Waldniel Institute. The nationalists had a different philosophy about whose life was worth anything than the Franciscan monks had, and the mentally handicapped were far down on that list.
In 1939 there was a law that every disabled newborn had to be reported to the government. And during the war they put a race purification program to rid themselves of these children. The program ended up killing more than 200 000 people and St Josefsheim, now The Waldniel Institute, was not spared.
The Waldniel Institute was a place that was part of their child euthanasia programme and at least 30 children were murdered within its walls, and more than 500 patients were reported dying. The rest of the over 1000 people living there were transported to other institutions where many of them met their death as well.
After the war, the building was given back to the brotherhood, but they sold it to the Allies as they no longer could operate as they had used to.
The Waldniel Hostert School After the War
The Allies took over the country and The Waldniel Institute where these horrific crimes had been committed. They removed the traces of the program and turned it into a secondary school for their children that would end up being Kent School.
While they renovated the school they uncovered human remains of the patients who had died and were killed when the Nazis ran their institute.
There are many stories about the haunted stuff happening at the school. They say the children are heard weeping from the corridors where they wander restlessly, fearful of the horrendous end they met with.
At the end of the Cold War The Waldniel Hostert School closed its door for good in 1993 and handed the building back to the German authorities.
Today The Waldniel Hostert School is privately owned, but abandoned.
In the luxurious theater in Barcelona it is said that the former actress, Margarida Xirgu, that performed at the stage of Teatre Romea is haunting the place. Moving objects around in the lobby and being seen as strange shadows backstage, this actress has yet to have her last performance.
In 2018 there was a production of a show called La Familia Coleman at Teatre Romea in Barcelona, Spain. The company director came with her family in the early afternoon to visit the theater. They were in the sitting area and looking at the first floor when the daughter asked who the lady on the stage was. The company director looked up to the stage, but there was no one there. It was another incident of the ghost haunting the old theater.
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Spain has a long history of storytelling and theatrical performances, and the country is home to many haunted theaters. These theaters are said to be haunted by the ghosts of actors who have performed on their stages. This is the case of Teatre Romea, said to be haunted by the ghost of an actress that was sent in exile but returned after her death to the stage.
The Teatre Romea in Barcelona
Teatre Romea: The facade of the theatre from the street.
This theater is located in the El Raval neighborhood in Barcelona, Spain. The Teatre Romea was built in 1863 to represent productions in Catalan, one of the official languages spoken in Catalonia.
Performing in Catalan was actually forbidden from 1939 to 1945 during the Franco regime after the Spanish Civil War and the language that has declined over the years has been something the Catalonians have been fighting for. Today the language is something the people of Catalonia is especially proud of.
The Teatre Romea was made to be a luxury theater of high art and catered to the upper class with over 600 people can be seated to watch the performance on the brightly lit stage from the dark chairs. Many famous actors, actresses and playwrights got their moments on the stage, and some have thought to linger in the old theater even after their death.
The Ghost Haunting the Theater
People that have visited Teatre Romea have sometimes claimed to have seen shadows when no people are there, or even found electrical equipment messed with even though they knew very well they were plugged in.
On several occasions when they were about to film something, like when they tried to film the theater with a drone, the battery drained immediately twice, even if nothing was wrong with it.
They also tried to shoot a report of the backstage production in 2012 where the same thing happened, also twice. When they watched the interviews they managed to get on tape a series of noises and interferences that no one had heard while filming.
Strange Shadows Backstage
According to stage managers and the people working in the bar, there were strange noises that could be heard in the theater in the dead of night as well as these strange shadows in the empty corridors backstage. A piano is playing by itself when the theater is empty in the morning except from the administration as well as voices singing in the empty hallway, almost as if rehearsing for an oncoming play.
The Teatre Romea: The stage of The Teatre Romea in 1914. The stage itself as well as the backstage is thought to be haunted by the ghost of a former actress working there.
On All Saints Eve the safety staff refused to work during a time when the paranormal activity was at an all time high. Heavy palm trees in pots were seen moving by themselves in the theater lobby and in 2012 when the batteries were drained during the interview there was also a wastebasket that moved by itself up and down that was witnessed by two technicians.
The Ghost of a Famous Actress
One day in 1995 the child of one of the people working there claimed to have seen something strange in her bedroom. The three year old said there was a lady in a white dress and pink bow in her bedroom. Earlier that evening, the parents had made the rounds of the theater before going on and had felt chills after leaving the stage and felt something wasn’t right.
So when the daughter told about the lady, the next day working in the theater the parent didn’t feel at ease. When flipping through photographs of the stage famed actress Margarida Xirgu she posed in a white dress with a pink bow. Problem was, she had already been dead for decades.
The most popular theory is that the theater is haunted by someone who was close to the theater and many have speculated that the ghost haunting the place could be Margarida Xirgu. She was a famous actress in the early 1900s and used to perform at this theater as well as stages nationwide and in Latin America.
The Life and Death of Margarida Xirgu
She was born in 1888 and moved to Barcelona in 1896. She played her first character Blanca in the play Mar i Cel at this very theater and ended up being quite a successful actress after making an appearance on Teatre Romea numerous times.
During Franco’s dictatorship in Spain, she was forced into exile and had to live in America. She died in Maldonado in Uruguay in 1969. However in 1988 the Catalan government retrieved her remains and brought her back to bury her in Molins de Rei outside of Barcelona, were she was born.
Could it be that the once famous actress chose to return to the stage where she got her start in the afterlife, as she was banned from returning to her country in life? It is said she didn’t get to act as much as she wanted on this stage before being sent away, and many believe she returned to get more time on the stage. Now however, time is all she has.
Those believing that the theater is haunted feels like they don’t need further proof. What they now want is to prove that the ghost really is Margarita Xirgu and that she is still on stage on the Teatre Romea.
The theme song from a horror movie turned out to be scarier than the movie itself, after the so-called forbidden song called Nights of Entanglementshaunted the radio stations that played it.
Nights of the Night, perhaps also known as Nights of Entanglements (夜夜痴纏) was the theme song for one of Hong Kong’s horror films, and although the movie won’t scare you, the theme song of it will.
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The movie soundtrack was said to conjure up strange paranormal things when the radio DJ’s were playing it on their late night broadcasts and it was in effect banned and listed as a forbidden song after it because they didn’t want to take the risk.
The Occupant the Movie
The movie The Occupant (靈氣逼人), also known as The Tenant from 1984, was a Cantonese horror-comedy about Angie who goes to Hong Kong from Canada to work on a Master’s thesis focusing on Chinese superstitions. She rents a spacious apartment, without knowing it’s haunted by the ghost of a singer.
The song was sung by the cantopop singer, Connie Mak Kit-man (麦洁文) and the sound would play in the movie in scenes at night where the old cassette player is mysteriously turned on and plays the song.
Haunting Late Night Radio
From its release the song was called The Forbidden Song by radio DJ’s that reported about supernatural things that happened every time they played it on late-night radio.
They heard strange voices on top of the track and the lights in the studio switched on and off as shadows danced on the broadcasting room. Record players were also moving on their own.
DJ Cai Kangnian played this song on one of his late night shows and heard a female voice humming along with the melody in a crying voice, a part of the track that usually wasn’t there.
One DJ also claimed that he mysteriously wrote ‘I Quit’ on a notepad after listening to the song.
The singer herself has refuted the claim of her song being haunted several times in interviews and continues to perform it in concerts. She has also played along with the urban legend behind her song and sort of accepted the legend it turned out to have.
Even to this day though, there is no radio DJ that plays this allegedly cursed song on the late night radio.
Here is the Unofficial English Translation of the Cantonese lyrics of the song:
Misty night sky with rain and fog In the middle of the night, lying between the window screens obsessed with night and night long nights in your arms have my smile I pray you can stay let me love a thousand times But I know in the morning mist I will be alone and you will disappear like this night I just ask you to know that this moment is too short Please spread this body with kisses I only ask you to know that love is hard to break Across a lifetime of tears If I can be reborn in this world, may I never have to be alone again If I meet you again in another life Can you spend every night with me
Explore the breathtaking Château de Bonaguil in south-western France. Take a journey through history as you uncover this majestic 12th century fortified castle where a Woman in White is said to haunt the castle every November.
Marvel at the majestic 12th-century fortress of Château de Bonaguil in Saint-Front-sur-Lémance in south-western France! Located near the Lot and Dordogne rivers, this spectacular castle is filled with tales and secrets of centuries past.
The name comes from bonne aiguille (good needle), referring to the pointy rock it is built upon. From its impressive architecture to the stunning views of its surrounding landscape, Château de Bonaguil offers an unforgettable adventure into history and culture.
Château de Bonaguil was first built in the 12th century by knight Arnaud de la Tour of Fumel, who later became Lord of Bonaguil. During the Hundred Years War, the Lords of Bonaguil sided with the English and was a location that saw a lot of battle as the castle was taken and retaken by the fighting sides.
The castle underwent renovations and reconstructions throughout its rich history – most notably, in the late 15th century by the House of Bérenger de Roquefeuil family, it was modified to become an impressive fortress with formidable defenses and it is one of the last fortified castles in France from the Middle Ages.
Over the last century, the castle’s many towers and bastions have been restored and reinforced, giving visitors a chance to experience the castle’s fascinating heritage firsthand.
Paranormal Investigation of the Haunted Castle
The castle is old, has a bloody history as well as being riddled in centuries of ghost stories and legends. Haunted rumors were so many that a paranormal team once went to do a thorough investigation. People have reported about a burning sensation as well as pressures on their shoulders and temperature drops.
They have also reported strange sounds around the castle grounds as well as there are photographs people mean captured the ghost on camera. Who can it be that is haunting the old castle?
Dame Blanche of Bonaguil
Château de Bonaguil is said to have its own unsettling paranormal story, in the form of the White Lady or the Dame Blanche in french. It is claimed that a ghostly figure appears both around the grounds of the castle, as well as wandering along its courts and galleries.
The story of Dame Blanche is plentiful in French folklore and as a sight in old castles especially. In French mythology or folklore, Dames Blanches were female spirits or supernatural beings, comparable to the Weiße Frauen of both Dutch and German mythology.
November Hauntings
Legend has it that there’s a mysterious white lady haunting the Château de Bonaguil known as the Dame Blanch or Dame de Bonaguil. She is thought to be the ghost of Marguerite de Fumel who spent much time in the Château de Bonaguil to fix it up and keep it.
For unknown reasons she is said to return in the middle of the night during November month to haunt the castle. Can it be that the castle she spent so much time on were looted and robbed during the French Revolution?
The Legend of Marguerite de Fumel
It is said that Dame Blanche once was a noble lady and daughter of Béranger de Roquefeuil, a cruel and vicious man that took great pleasure in executing people during the peasant rebellion.
Marguerite de Fumel was sick of her tyrant father and wished to run away with her lover. But her father set her up for marriage with a wealthy and old count. The legend goes that she fled tearfully from the castle never to be seen alive again, only as the ghost haunting the grounds.
We do know however that Marguerite de Fumel died in Paris after years of marriage in 1699. But the ghost story about the White Lady haunting the castle in November continues to persist.
The now abandoned school of San Ramón School in Agost has been left since the 90s and it is believed that it is haunted by its former students, eager to play with those that visits.
In the last years of the Franco regime, there was a school built on the outskirts of Agost in 1967, for mentally handicapped children and with disabilities of various degrees. It could accommodate between 250 to 300 children and was seemingly a wonderful place.
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It had all the latest technology and techniques in education and had professional assistance, its own gym, theater, swimming pool, garden amongst other things. But for some reason it was closed down quickly and people started to wonder why.
The San Ramón School in Agost was in operation for a few years, and in the 90s it was abandoned, due to the new law that dictated the right of integration in education for students. That was how it was totally abandoned.
Currently the San Ramón School in Agost is in ruins and has become a frightening place, and a regular searching area for cacophonies and other paranormal phenomena. To this is added that it has a dark past of ill-treatment and deaths in strange circumstances. The most narrated is the one of a student who tried to escape from the school in search of her parents, and when running down the access road to Agost, she was accidentally hit by a car.
Another story that seems to be more legend than reality is that of another student who was locked in the basement during a fire, could not escape the flames and died. For all this past, there are those who say that their spirits still remain in the place.
Haunted legends and stories surrounding the San Ramón School
Now in ruins, the San Ramón School has gained a reputation as a fearsome place, attracting thrill-seekers and paranormal enthusiasts alike. Its eerie atmosphere, combined with its dark history of ill-treatment and deaths under mysterious circumstances, has spawned numerous chilling tales.
One of the most commonly recounted stories involves a student who attempted to runway from the San Ramón School in Agost to search for her parents that sent her there. When she reached the road though, she was struck by a passing car and died. According to this legend, this was the real reason the school had to shut down so abruptly.
Another haunting legend, though more likely to be fiction than fact, revolves around a student who was supposedly locked in the basement during a fire, unable to escape the engulfing flames, resulting in a tragic demise. These haunting tales have led many to believe that the spirits of those who suffered within the school’s walls still linger in the abandoned halls.
Playful Ghosts Haunting the Grounds
The haunted reputation of the San Ramón School has garnered attention from visitors and locals alike. Many have shared their testimonials, recounting spine-chilling encounters and the palpable sense of unease they experienced within the school’s dilapidated walls.
Some visitors have reported capturing strange anomalies in their photographs taken at San Ramón School in Agost, such as orbs or unexplained lights, further fueling the belief in the presence of supernatural entities.
Once a group of people came for a game of soft gun, when they suddenly encountered a person that wasn’t from his team, nor was he from the opponents. It was like the play drew out the spirits that lingered there, still ready to play.
There are also those that claim that they have heard children laughing and a voice whispering “Do you want to play?”
The enduring mystery of the former San Ramón School in Agost
The former San Ramón School in Agost remains shrouded in an enduring mystery. Its haunting history, combined with its dilapidated state, has created an atmosphere of intrigue and fear. Whether you believe in the supernatural or seek to uncover rational explanations, a visit to this forsaken place is sure to leave an indelible impression.
As preservation efforts continue and restoration plans take shape, the future of the San Ramón School holds the promise of both preserving its haunted past and embracing its potential for new beginnings.
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