The Great Haunting of Calvados Castle (quite long, but worth it)

In the year 1875 AD a terrible poltergeist struct the old castle of Calvados, a medieval castle in the apple orchards of Normandy, France. The occupant of the castle, an unknown French aristocrat, kept a diary of the horrors.

They began suddenly, when one night everyone in the castle had settled down in bed when they heard rapping of walls and disembodied wailing echoed through the stone walls. Everyone in the houshold - the lord of the house (herebly noted as X), his wife, son, the abbe and tutor of the child, the coachman Emile and the three servants Ameline, Auguste and Celina - heard the eerie disturbances. Over the nights the noise grew louder, until X decided to place threads in every entrance to the castle. they were unbroken, thus dispelling his theory that someone was entering and trying to frighten them out of the castle.

On Wednesday the 13th of October 1875, X began a diary of the horrors he and his family and servants were experiencing. That night, when the abbe was alone in his room when a candle stick floated into the air on its own accord and tapped the wall. The terrified priest ran to X, and as he did he saw an armchair had moved from its fixed posititon.

For two days pounding, footsteps and the ethereal wailing continued in horrible detail in the diary of X. He and the priest armed themselves and searched the castle. They found no sign of the horror. The nights grew more and more full of demonic intervention, and on October 31st recorded, "A very disturbed night. It sounded as if someone went up the stairs with superhuman spped from the ground floor, stamping his feet. Arriving at the landing, he gave five heavy blows so strong that objects rattled in their places. Then it seemed as if a heavy anvil or a big log had been thrown at the wall so as to shake the house. Nobody could say where the blows came from, but everyone got up and assembled in the hall. The house only settled down at about three in the morning."

The following night everyone was awoke to the sound of a heavy body rolling downstairs. Then came blows that seemed to rock the castle. The castle believed it could not get wose. They were wrong.

November 10th 1875, "Everyone heard a long shriek and then another as if a woman outside calling for help. At 1:45 [presumably in the morning] we suddenly heard three or four long cries in the hall and then on the staircase."

This ordeal was followed by "the cries of the damned" that seemed to pierce all rooms of the castle. Windows oppened, furniture moved and bibles and other holy works were torn apart amongst the hideous chaos by the demonic force. X and the other occupants of the castle wondered if the demons and devils of hell had conqured the castle.

X's wife was smacked on the hand by an invisible force as she aprroached the abbe's room. The abbe, who was behind her, claimed that her hand was bruised for two days. That night her room's door was hammered so hard she feared it would break down.

On January 26th, 1876 the noise was thunderous. "It sounded as if demons were driving herds of wild cattle through the rooms." was entered in the diary. Demonic laughter echoed through the castle. The family called in a priest to excorsise the castle the next day. They put every religous relinc in their possession in full view. The horrors seized.

However, shortly after the treatment, all relics and medalions of religous significance dissapeared. One morning, the lady was writing in her diary when the relics suddenly apparated one by one before her. Then a burst of noise echoed throught the castle, and the uproar ceased.

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