The Devil's Muse

Category: haunted

  • The Cost of Battle 💔

    “In Montmorency [Quebec], the ghost is thought to be Mathilde Robin. In 1759, in the middle of the Seven Years War, Mathilde had found her true love in Louis Tessier, a local farmer and member of the militia who asked for her hand in marriage. Her father approved of the match and the two were to be married at the end of the summer in 1759.

    “However, this was a turbulent time in Québec and Louis was soon sent to fight in the Battle of Beauport, which took place at the base of the Montmorency Falls on July 31, 1759.

    “The English forces were controlled by General James Wolfe who is famous for taking Québec during the Plains of Abraham. He would not be victorious during this battle; wet air from the falls and a sudden storm ruined the English gun power and the British troops were forced to retreat. Wolfe recorded 210-deaths in this journal. The French leader, Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, recorded 60.

    “However, for poor Mathilde, the French were victorious but her beloved Louis was one of the 60-militiamen who were killed. In her grief, it’s believed that she put on her wedding dress and threw herself from the top of the falls, where they had met the evening before. People have claimed to have heard her cries or to have seen her ghost in a white dress falling from the top of the falls.”

    From The Travel Geek: Montmorency: La légende de la Dame blanche

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  • Spooky Moments Compilation

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  • The Dargle Lovers

    “A young lady of the locality was faithless to her lover giving her attentions, instead, to another young man who had started to woo her with dash and charm. But while she was singing a favourite song to please him, as she paused between verses, she heard the distant toll of a church bell, unmistakably signifying a death. On inquiring, and with a terrible fear clutching her heart, she discovered that her former lover, stricken by her unfaithfulness, had died of a broken heart.

    “Overcome by remorse, she left her new admirer and hurried to the graveyard where they had just buried the youth who had died for her. There, despite the entreaties of her friends, she spent a night of sleet and rain at his graveside. On each following night she came again and, although her worried family tried to dissuade her, she continued her lonely vigil, only going back to her home during daylight hours.

    “Indifferent to the pleadings of those who loved her and the entreaties of her new admirer, who had been responsible for her desertion of the dead youth, she continued to spend each night at the graveside determined, it seemed, to die for him who had died for her.

    “Eventually, inevitably, her mind collapsed and she told her distraught sister that her lover had risen from the grave and walked with her through the Dargle glen, promising to meet her again and take her to a place where they would be together forever.

    “Much alarmed, the girl’s family tried to keep her confined to the house, but she managed to escape. Her absence was discovered a few minutes later and her brother quickly followed her, heading with all speed to the churchyard, where he knew he would find her.

    “He arrived too late, only in time to catch a glimpse of her scarf fluttering in the breeze as she ran towards the river. Trying desperately to overtake her, he saw her climb up the huge crag surmounting the Dargle, pause a moment on its treacherous brink and then plunge into the swollen river below, doubtless lured to her death by the phantom lover conjured up by her tortured imagination.” (p. 86 – 87)

    From J. Dunne’s Haunted Ireland: Her Romantic and Mysterious Ghosts (1977), online source: County Wicklow Heritage.

    “The symbol of the clasped hands were often accompanied with words: ‘farewell’, ‘goodbye,’ and ‘until we meet again.’ The carved hands were almost always portrayed as right hands and they represent a husband and wife sharing a last handshake. One hand is usually flat and loose, its fingers extended, which may be interpreted as either a final embrace, or the deceased leading the living to follow them.”
    – arlene stafford wilson: Irish Graveyards
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  • Top 15 Most Haunted Places in Brazil

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  • SHOCKING GHOST Videos Caught On Camera !

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  • Horror Cinema: The Crone

    On more than one occasion while watching The Crone, I exclaimed, “What the heck is going on right now?” Some of the visuals were surreal and others were body horror, which were super gross, but that is what I want from a horror movie, so it was great. The movie, overall, was spooky as sh*t, and I loved it. For a supernatural movie and a Japanese horror film, this one is a classic!

    Naito, Eisuke. The Crone, Travis, 2013.

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  • Love Spell

    I love the ghosts on this Sabrina the Teenage Witch comic cover, but I think I like Sabrina’s spell on Ethel more. Ethel deserves some action! Go, girl! It would be about time she got to go out with Jughead. 😋💖

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  • Chelsea Hotel Ghost Story

    I’d love to visit the Chelsea Hotel some day! I’m a big fan of lots of its visitors, namely Janis Joplin, Joni Mitchell and Patti Smith ❤️

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  • Elvis Ghost Sightings

    According to The Ghosts of Famous Musicians by Ashley Watson of Notebook of Ghosts, the ghost of Elvis is said to haunt various locations, including:

    Old RCA Recording Studios (Tennessee). People have reported weird noises coming out of sound equipment, lights blowing out, objects being moved, and the apparition of The King himself.

    Room 1016 of the Knickerbocker Hotel (Hollywood). Elvis stayed here when he filmed movies. Visitors and staff attribute the eerily cold temperature of the room to his spirit.

    Graceland (Memphis). There’s a couple photos circulating online that supposedly capture Elvis looking out the window.

    Las Vegas Hilton. People have seen his spirit in the penthouse, the basement where he hung out with his band, and the elevator he used to avoid screaming fans.

    The Ryman Auditorium (Nashville). Lisa Marie Presley claims she heard her father, Elvis, while there. After a performance at the theatre she went to her dressing room, but the door was stuck and she could not get it open. Suddenly, she heard the distinct laugh of her father and the door opened.

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  • Japanese Ghost Girl in Mirror

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