From a ‘hanging-doll’ island in Mexico to the English estate which inspired The Turn of the Screw,the author of A Natural History of Ghosts picks some of his favourite spooky sitesThe French are the least susceptible to believing in ghosts among the world’s nationalities, according to at least one study. The visitors who witnessed one of the most well-known “time-slips of them all were British women from Oxford. In August, and 1901,Anne Moberly and Eleanor Jourdain had an experience at the Petit Trianon in the gardens of Versailles in which they believed they saw the ghost of Marie Antoinette from 1789. Belief in the supernatural is susceptible to fashion and this tale started a trend for “time-slip ghosts” that ran for several decades. [br]• en.chateauversailles.frContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com