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Unsolved Mysteries About Versailles

The most famous and most puzzling time-lapse is the visit of “Miss Ramon and Miss Morrison” to Versailles, as they call themselves on “An Expedition” even though their real names are Anne Moberly and Eleanor · Zhuo Dan. Anne is the headmaster of St. Seuss College, Oxford; Eleanor is the headmaster of a girls’ school in Witford.

In August 1901, they toured the Palace of Versailles and came to the “Glass Promenade” for a short break. The windows were open, and the scent of summer flowers lured them to venture outside again, towards the Royal Cottage of Versailles. This is a small castle originally built on the orders of Louis XV and given to his queen Marie Antoinette by Louis XVI.

In Anne and Eleanor’s own account, they walked some distance along the boulevard, and then came to the large villa, built by the famous “Sun King” Louis XIV. After leaving the building, they turned left onto a wide grassy avenue. Not knowing the road, they crossed the road and followed another alley to its side.

If they followed the grassy path, they would reach the royal cottage they were looking for. The first truly bizarre anomaly they encountered was a woman shaking a white cloth out the window. Anne saw the woman very clearly, and she was somewhat surprised that Eleanor did not stop to ask her the direction to the cottage.

It was only after this that Anne learned that she had never seen the woman shaking the white cloth. Even more disturbing, she hadn’t even seen the windowed building where the woman had appeared.

Up until this point, neither British visitor had found anything entirely bizarre or abnormal. As they passed some buildings to the right, they caught a glimpse of a carved staircase through an open door. There were three paths in front of them at the moment, and they chose the middle one, and they met two men who, according to them, were using a wheelbarrow and a shovel to do their work.

Anne and Eleanor thought they were gardeners, but some were bewildered by their unusual outfits, wearing long grey-green coats and three-cornered hats. The two men, believed to be gardeners, pointed the way forward, and the two friends kept going.

From this point on, they both began to feel inexplicably depressed, even though neither of them told the other at the time. Another very strange thing is the subtle changes in the scenery itself. They describe it as looking like a two-dimensional plane, as if they were walking on a stage surrounded by a set of oil paintings, rather than a normal three-dimensional world.

These feelings got worse and worse, and reached their lowest point when Eleanor and Anne came to a pavilion in a circular garden, where a strange-looking man was resting. They both felt an instinctive fear and disgust at him, and they did not go past the pavilion because that route would bring them closer to him.

When the sound of moving footsteps sounded behind them, they turned eagerly to meet the possible newcomer, but they found that there was no one there. However, Anne now saw another person near them, who had not been there before.

They described him as looking elegant. He was a tall man with large dark eyes and curly black hair. He pointed them to the house, but his smile seemed unusual. When they turned back to thank him for showing them the way, he was gone.

Again they heard the inexplicable sound of running, very close to them, but when they looked for the running man, they couldn’t see anyone.

Finally, when Anne came to the cottage, she saw a woman sitting on the grass, seemingly busy drawing. She seemed to see the two British visitors just in time as they passed by. Annie later described her in detail: She wore a dress with a bottom-cut neckline, a shawl around the neckline, and she had bushy blonde hair and a white sun hat.

As she and Eleanor walked out onto the balcony, Anne felt as if she was walking in sleep, or moving in a trance-like, incoherent dream-like state. When she saw the woman again, it was from behind. She was glad that her companion did not stop to ask for directions. This time, however, it was Anne who saw the woman in the white sunhat, and Eleanor didn’t see her at all.

Another person they both met, and whom they both clearly saw and heard, was a young footman, who asked them if they would let him lead them. A moment later, a raucous group of wedding guests showed up, and Eleanor and Annie felt their inexplicable frustration melted away.

Each of them separately wrote a very detailed account of what they had seen and heard that day: their experiences were different. Fascinated by the whole event, Eleanor made a second visit in January 1902, when several things about the place again seemed to have a strange, unreal, almost ghostly quality, but The details are a bit grotesque.

A long study of Anne and Eleanor’s strange experiences, as well as the acrimonious controversy that followed the publication of “An Adventure,” did not, in the end, resolve what happened to them at Versailles. Rather, they experienced a real time-lapse that allowed them to see and hear events from the past century, which is quite possible.

This event is mostly known in English circles as “Moberly-Jourdain” (moberly-jourdain event), also known as “Ghosts of Trianon” (Ghosts of Trianon Palace)