Château Verdure
In the middle of a posh neighbourhood we found the beautiful abandoned Château Verdure aka Manoir Pavlovich. The people who live in this neighborhood live in fancy villas on neverending domains and drive with ultra expensive cars. This mansion was built in 1935 and it got abandoned around 1998. A company started renovating but they stopped as it was in a very bad state. I’ve seen several piano’s in abandoned places but this has to be my favorite so far in combination with the beautiful staircase. Since the 70’s many past owners died due to a deadly curse, they all died in their sleep and got to ashes by self-combustion. Paranormal investigators investigated those inexplicable phenomena and found the origin of it. Edgard and his wife where married for 20 years and lived there. Edgard was a renowned doctor and Lucie was a seamstress. They lived in the manoir very happy untill she had a terrible accident. The morning of 8 may 1941, Lucie drove with her husbands car to the market in the village. She slipped with her car, bumped on a tree and her Citroën got on fire. Lucie got trapped inside and almost burnt alive crying. A brave man defied the fire, people around her started to extinguish the flames on her body. They brought Lucie to the hospital and she was comatose for many months. Suddenly she woke up, distressed she saw her new face and body with it’s never ending pain. She was a living carbonised woman, with face with no nose, no ears, no hair, nothing, only a burnt body. It took long weeks to let her walk again with a wheelchair and eating alone. Nobody was waiting, her husband disappeared, he decided to flee and gave her the Pavlovich manor. Her life was staying at home and looking through the livingroom window, watching how her garden got absorbed by weed and blackberries. Lonely she could only wait till a male nurse brought her food and helped her. His health deteriorated and Lucy got isolated, she lost all power and desire and died. Since then all new owners that died from self-combustion could smell as strong fire odor a few hours before the tragedy. It was the odor of the spirti of Lucy returning to the manoir, the mystery stayed unsolved…