Stories from Enfield, Grande Londres, Reino Unido

The Enfield Poltergeist: the house, the tapes, and the disputed accounts

In 1977 an Enfield family reported knocks, moving furniture, and a deep voice. Police officers, journalists, and researchers recorded parts of the episode; other investigators identified tricks and evidential gaps. This dossier follows the documents and the family’s experience to ask what the evidence actually establishes.

357 km · Paris

The Paris Catacombs: the city that moved its dead below

Beneath Paris, former quarries became a municipal ossuary in the late eighteenth century. This dossier follows the stone that built the city, overcrowded cemeteries, nighttime transfers of human remains, the creation of a monumental visitor route, and the boundary between heritage, memory and legend.

504 km · Nantes

Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès: five deaths in Nantes and an unknown whereabouts

Agnès Dupont de Ligonnès and her four children were found dead beneath the terrace of their Nantes home in April 2011. Xavier, husband and father, became the main suspect and disappeared after staying in hotels in southern France. This dossier traces the records, letters explaining the family’s absence, the last confirmed sighting and the public mistakes that kept the mystery alive.

560 km · Dumbarton

Overtoun Bridge: dogs, falls and the “suicide” legend

Scotland’s Victorian Overtoun Bridge is known for reports of dogs falling into the gorge. Identifiable witnesses and animal-welfare officials support the occurrence of accidents, but widely repeated totals of hundreds of jumps lack a verifiable count. This dossier follows the evidence, architecture and proposed explanations without sensationalising injured animals.