Calvados Castle The Haunting
The Sons tutor suffered the worst of the haunting more so than any other member of the household. Whenever the cleric left his room, he always made certain that the windows were bolted and his door was locked, and the key to his room was secured to his waist. Upon returning, the cleric would inevitably find his couch overturned, the cushions scattered about, his windows opened, and his armchair placed on his desk. Once he tried nailing his windows closed. He returned to find the windows wide open, and by way of punishment, the couch cushions were balanced precariously on the outside windowsill. On another occasion he came back to his room to find every one of his books on the floor, only the Holy Scriptures remained on the shelves.
The most vicious attack on the cleric occurred once when he knelt at his fireplace stirring the coals. Without warning, a huge deluge of water rushed down the chimney, extinguishing the fire, and blinding the cleric with flying sparks, and covering him with ashes. The tutor woefully concluded that such actions could only be the work of the devil. Most of the events recorded are what is now considered as classic Poltergeist behavior.
One night the invisible creature roamed the corridors as if it were a lonely wayfarer seeking admittance to the rooms of each of the members of the household. It knocked once or twice on the doors of several bedrooms, then, true to pattern, it paused to deal 40 consecutive blows to the cleric's door before it returned to thump about in the green room.
The household only received respite during the stay of reverend father H. L., a Canon, sent there by the bishop. From the moment the Reverend Father entered the castle until the moment he left, there was not the slightest sound from the poltergeist. But after the clergyman had made his departure there was a sound as if a body had fallen in the first floor passage, followed by what seemed to be a rolling ball delivering a violent blow on the door of the green room and the haunting began again.
On January 20th, 1876, The Master left for a two day visit to his brother, leaving his wife to keep up the journal of the haunting. Madame. de X. recorded that she heard an eerie bellowing, like that of a bull, which bothered everyone during the master's absence. A weird drumming sound was also heard, and a noise much like someone striking the stairs with a stick.
Upon the master's return to Calvados, the ghost became more violent than it had ever been before. It stormed into the rooms of Auguste the gardener and Emile the coachman and turned their beds over. It whirled into the master's study and heaped books, maps, and papers on the floor. The midnight screams increased in shrillness and urgency and were joined by the roaring of a bull and the furious cries of animals. For the first time, the rapping's seemed to direct themselves to the door of Maurice, the son of the Master and Madame. de X. Terrible screams sounded outside his room, and the violence of the successive blows on his door shook every window on the floor.
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