Top 10 Scary Paris Urban Legends. Hello and welcome back to the Most Amazing
Channel on the internet. I am your host, Rebecca Felgate and today
we are talking about the Top 10 Scary Paris Urban Legends. Ah oui. I would like to go back, I was just 19 the
last time I went, so I would be keen to go again…although I have to admit, a few of
these urban legends are pretty terrifying…maybe there are few places I
would stay away from! 10 - The Legend of the Barber and the Pastry
Cook Forget the Demon Barber of Fleet Street! Meet The Demon Barber of Rue de La Marmousets. Long before Sweeney Todd was slaying the people
of Victorian London, a barber and a pastry seller had a little understanding. The barber would slit the throats of some
of his customers, often students of Notre Dame. He then allegedly sent the flesh in a hatch
to the cellar of his neighbour, a popular pastry chef who made pies for high flying
Parisians, including King Charles the 6th. One day, a German student called Alaric visited
the barber and was to be the unscrupulous duos next victim. Alaric brought his dog along with him and
the canine sensed something was amiss and barked non stop until people came to investigate
what was going on. When the police arrived, they searched the
barbers and found out about the whole affair. They found the cellar and the tools used to
skin the corpses and cut up their flesh. The barber and the pastry chef confessed and
were burned alive in a cage for their crimes. 9 - The Ghost of Jim Morrison
Jim Morrison of the Doors is a famous member of the 27 Club. He was a rock and roll star and frontman of
the American Band The Doors. There is much to be said about Jim, his life
and his legacy… but he is perhaps best summarized as sex drugs and rock n roll personified. In the last few months of his life, he moved
to Paris, where he seemed to find some semblance of peace. Sadly, on July 3rd 1971, he was found dead
in the bathtub of his and his wife Pamela Courson’s apartment. He was buried in Pere Lachaise Cemetery, a
popular tourist attraction. Also buried there are Oscar Wilde and Edith
Piaf. Anyway, back in 1997, American Rock Historian,
Brett Mesiner went to visit Jim Morrison Grave and he took this picture. Oh… look….it’s Jim Morrisons ghost. The picture was evaluated and declared legit. Morrison is in one of his classic poses. It gets weirder, Mesiner was plagued by bad
luck since visiting the cemetery. 8 - The Man In The Black Coat
I love a fun time ghost, and the Man in Black seems to be just that….he’s bringing good
times to those that dare take up his offer. In 1925, Jean Romier reported a strange evening
that began at the Jardin Du Luxembourg. He said that a polite man in a black coat
asked if he wanted to come to a chamber concert at his home. Totally all about the fun times, Romier decided,
you know what, why not, and he went for it. He enjoyed an evening of music and poetry,
albeit slightly haunting. After he left, he realised he had left his
zippo lighter in the apartment and popped back to get it. When he returned to the apartment on the Rue
de Vaugirard, a neighbour heard the knocking and informed him the apartment had been unoccupied
since its previous tenant, a musician, passed away 20 years ago. The legend of the man in the black coat has
been going strong for nearly 100 years. While others have reported seeing the man
in the Jardin, few have accepted the offer of a private chamber orchestra. 7 - The Street of the Fishing Cat
There is a very, very narrow road in Paris now called Rue Du Chat Qui Peche, Street of
the fishing cat. This alley was built in 1540 and used to be
called the Street of ovens. It leads straight down to the River Seine. The legend goes that in the 16th Century,
an Alchemist lived along this street along with his jet black cat. The cat, it seems, was a very gifted fisher,
who was able to catch fish out of the Siene with one swipe of his paw. The cat was often spotted prowling by the
river looking for fish. Local students took a disliking to the cat,
deciding they thought it was evil. For this reason, three students decided to
murder the cat and throw its body in the Seine. Weirdly, once the cat disappeared, so did
the Alchemist it belonged to. Some years later, a man that looked a lot
like him was regularly spotted walking along the Seine looking like a ghostly traveller. Others reported spotting a phantom cat, still
pawing at the water hoping to catch a fish. 6 - Forest of Rambouillet
Ah, the French Forest of Rambouillet is home to a classic urban legend, the one about the
boyfriend dying while the girl is in the car….it is told in some variation across the world. This variation says that a couple were driving
through the forest in the 1960s in search of a spot to park up and make out. Once they find a spot, they hook up. The guy gets out of the car to go for a pee. When he doesn’t come back within five or
so minutes, the girl gets nervous and starts looking around for him. Getting out of the car, she sees a scary looking
man in the shadows and what she thinks is the glimmer of a knife. She gets in the car and tries to drive away
to look for her boyfriend…. She hears some muffled sounds …some squeaking
and tapping….but she drives off….when she looks in her rearview mirror, she sees
her boyfriend hanging from a tree. The tapping was his feet on the roof of the
car…as she drove off…she pulled the plinth out from under him and ensured his death. Brutal. 5-The Catacombs of Paris
Put it this way, we could do a whole Top 10 on the Legends of the Parisian Catacombs. Under the city of Paris, lay the remains of
more than 6 million people spread over 200 miles of intricate tunnels. Only a very very small section is open to
the public, which has set imaginations WILD. Apparently the creepy underground body tunnels
were built to deal with the cities problem of overflowing cemeteries. You know – I think about this a lot. As populations increase, more and more people
die. If they aren’t cremated, their bones are
left in the ground. How long til the ground is full? Are we going to start using bodies as building
material?! Anyway, because of the mystery and morbid
nature of the catacombs, many many rumours have cropped up as to what is happening down
there! Sine say they’re home to Albino Aligators,
others say they are the home of a number of serial killers, the meeting place for masonic
cults, a spooky gathering spot for Satanists…some even say that they housed the Nazis during
the second world war. Speaking of Nazis, have a listen to this Urban
Legend from the Pont Marie Bridge at number 4
World War Two era Europe was filled with treachery, sacrifice and heartbreak. There were spies everywhere. Legend has it that during the French occupation,
a Parisian woman was married to a resistance fighter but was having an affair with a Nazi
officer who she was using for information to feed back to the resistance. Now I don’t know if you know Paris in the
winter, but it is COLD. Cold! One night, the woman was meeting her husband
on the Pont Marie Bridge, but he never showed. She waited and waited for him but he never
came. She froze to death and died on the bridge. Her Phantom is said to still haunt the bridge
to this day – people have reported seeing an apparition of a sobbing woman. When they go to console her, she disappears. 3 - The Bodies of the River Seine
The River Seine is one of the most famous and romantic bodies of water in the world. Endlessly romanticised in paintings and literature,
the river is synonymous with the city of love. That being said, the river is jaaaanky. The water has flowed through the city for
over a thousand years, and has seen its fair share of sewage, so much so that some people
refer to it as an open sewer. That isn’t the only thing scary about the
Seine though…locals will tell you it is filled with bodies…and this is one urban
legend that unfortunately is pretty true. Not only is the Seine a popular suicide spot,
it is a popular body dumping spot for murderers. In 2008, Supermodel Katoucha Nian’s body
was pulled out of the water after she fell into the river, drunk. In 1961 The Parisian Police carried out a
massacre on the pro national Liberation Front – killing between 40 -200 people and dumping
their bodies in the river. The mass murder was covered up, but the bodies
of the dead Algerians still remain, lost in the water. 2 - The Red Man of Tuileries Palace
Different Variations of this Urban Legend suggest the Red man spotted outside Tuileries
palace in Paris was a local butcher, whereas other say he was a henchman of 16th Queen
Catherine de Medici. Both legends agree his named was Jean and
that the Queen had him killed because this man held way too many of the crowns secrets. A while after his death, a man was spotted
in blood red attire wandering the gardens. One man who spoke to his ghost, Neuville,
reported Jean swore vengeance in the Queen and the crown. Aristocrats of the palace thought the he was
a sign of bad luck to come – indeed Marie Antoinette supposedly saw him shortly before
meeting the guillotine. Napoleon, however, quite liked the fellow
and would talk to him about war strategy. Those visiting the old palace today occasionally
spot the man in red. Oh dear. 1 - The Phantom of the Opera
Not only is it in my Top 5 Musicals of all time, Phantom of the Opera is actually based
on a real urban legend. Andrew Lloyd Webbers musical is based on the
novel by Gaston Leroux, but in turn, Leroux based his novel on real life reports of strange
goings on at the Opera Garnier. The famous Opera house, now home of the National
Opera, was built in 1875 and reportedly is reportedly haunted by a ghost, ghoul or Phantom. In 1896, one of the theatres grand chandelier’s
did indeed break and kill someone, like in the novel and musical. Strange reports of other worldly goings on
still exist to this day, and it was said for a long time the theatre was built on some
kind of watery underground lair, like the Phantoms. In actuality this is kind of true, the opera
house is built on a water tank. Who knows what is happening down there in
the watery depths. So guys, that was the Top 10 Scary Paris Urban
Legends! Let me know which you found the scariest! Man, even those these were spooky, I still
really want to go back to the city of love! Have some Macarons and a really good coffee….get
to the Pompidou art museum…ahhh. Where would you most like to travel to. Before I go I just want to read a few comments
from one of my most recent videos, the top 10 scariest Tsunamis caught on camera – this
is what you had to say. Jordan 96 HD said: This's so sad... Tsunamis can cause absolute devastation and
heartbreak - as seen in this video. God bless the people who lost their lives
or their property.? Tori V said: #2 the guy wasn't stunned with
fear, he accepted the fact that there was no way he could out run the waves so he stood
there in the face of nature and took the impact.?. Annabel Blossom said: I remember how I found
this channel: a few years ago I searched up stuff to say to Siri: and it was Rebecca doing
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