The Ghost Girl on the Curve at Jafre

Right outside of the abandoned town of Jafra in Spain there are tales about a ghost girl haunting the place called the Ghost Girl on the Curve. After she was chased from the house by her father she was never seen again until she started to appear in front of lost hikers, helping them find their way home.

Nestled amidst the picturesque landscapes of this abandoned Spanish town lies a legend that has intrigued locals and visitors alike for generations.

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The abandoned town is Jafre and right outside it is said a ghost girl appears for hikers sometimes to guide them. She is today called The Girl on the Curve, but before she died she was called Melinda.

The Haunted Town in Garraf Natural Park

Jafre Spain, an abandoned town forgotten within the Garraf Natural Park, is a place of enchanting beauty. Its rolling hills, dense forests, and winding roads create an otherworldly atmosphere that seems to be frozen in time.

Jafre is a Catalonian town that was abandoned in the 1980s or perhaps so far back to the 1960s according to some, and left beyond only ruins of the village, legends of murderers, mysteries and ghosts.

Right outside of the abandoned town of Jafra in Spain there are tales about a ghost girl haunting the place called the Ghost Girl on the Curve. After she was chased from the house by her father she was never seen again until she started to appear in front of lost hikers, helping them find their way home. — **Garraf Natural Park:** The Ghost Girl on the Curve is said to haunt the Garraf Natural Park, outside of the abandoned town of Jafre in Catalonia, Spain. She is said to guide lost hikers back on their paths.//Source//joan ggk/wikimedia

From a distance, the park’s dense foliage appears as a dark, foreboding mass, casting an eerie shadow over the landscape. As you approach, the twisted branches and gnarled trees seem to take on a life of their own, whispering secrets to those who dare to listen. It is within this hauntingly beautiful setting that the legend of the Ghost Girl on the Curve unfolds.

Locals believe that the park is inhabited by restless spirits, trapped between this world and the next. The air is thick with an inexplicable energy, and visitors often report strange sensations and unexplained phenomena. It is within this ethereal landscape that the Ghost Girl on the Curve is said to roam, forever trapped in her tragic fate.

The Legend of the Ghost Girl

Once, a wealthy Austrian family moved there a century ago with three children. They moved into an abandoned farmhouse a bit outside of the town, and seemed to have a lot of money.

The father spent the next three years building a huge garden for them to play in. It had a huge maze of trees and shrubs.
No one from the outside was allowed to enter. The children suffered from a skin disease and the parents didn’t want anyone to see them.

Time went by and a fourth child named Melinda was born in the farmhouse and her mother died that very night.
The three older children were also dying one by one because of this unspecified skin disease. Some of the darker rumors were that the father was poisoning the children with frog soup.

Both the garderes and household workers in the big house of the Austrian family started leaving one by one as the father started to behave strangely, bordering on a maniac at times, and he kept getting worse.

In the end all was dead or had left the house except Melinda and her father. Because he had lost almost his entire family is said to be the reason why he slowly lost his mind completely.

We don’t have much info about what happened inside of the old farmhouse once everyone left, but we do know it ended in tragedy. Melinda was six years old when one October fled to the garden with her father following her, chasing her.
According to the legend she fell into a well in the garden and both she and her father were never seen again.

The Girl on the Curve

After this, the ghost of little Melinda has been reported to appear in the forest, helping lost hikers and visitors finding their way.
People have also said that Melinda can be seen on the curves of the winding pathways in Garraf National park, which have given her the name, The Ghost Girl on the Curve.

Reports of encounters with the Ghost Girl on the Curve have been documented throughout history. Witnesses describe a young girl in a flowing white dress, her ethereal form glowing in the moonlight. Her eyes, filled with sorrow and longing, seem to pierce through the veil of reality, leaving those who see her in a state of awe and terror. Some claim to have heard her plaintive cries, carried on the cold night breeze, echoing through the trees.

More Than a Ghost Haunting Jafre

The girl is not the only thing that is said to haunt the abandoned town of Jafre though. Several claims of UFO’s have also been called in as in several of the other abandoned cities across Spain.

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There are also rumors about black masses happening in the town filled with the spirits. It is even a rumor about them desecrating the cemetery where they dug out the bones buried there and scattered them across the town.

The Enduring Mystery of the Ghost Girl on the Curve

The legend about Melinda or the Girl on the Curve continues to captivate the hearts and minds of those who dare to venture into the Garraf Natural Park.

Is the Ghost Girl a figment of collective imagination, a product of the human need for the supernatural? Or is she a real manifestation of a tragic soul, forever trapped in the realms between life and death?