The death of a child is always terrible, because it is too early for someone, but for children! And it is not surprising that there are so many stories around the world of ghosts of children whose lives ended so early. Their souls seem to get stuck between our and the other worlds, as if they are unable to leave the place where their heart stopped.
Ball of Azzurina
The ancient castle of Montebello in Switzerland is famous for the ghost of a little girl named Gwendalina. She was born around the 1330s and was the daughter of the owner of the castle. The girl was born albino. She had marbled white skin and exactly the same white hair. In the Middle Ages, albinos were immediately declared satanic children and often burned at the stake. Parents tried to dye their daughter's hair, but there were no dyes in those days, herbal tinctures were used. As a result, the hair turned light blue, and the girl was nicknamed Azzurina, which means "blue girl".
Parents were forced to constantly hide their daughter, fearing that she would end up in the hands of the Inquisition.
Montebello Castle.
She was not allowed to go anywhere; the servants constantly looked after her. One evening Azzurina was playing with her ball and he rolled down the stairs to the basement. The girl ran downstairs after him. One maid heard a blow, and then a girl scream. When the maid went down to the basement, there was no one there. However, there is a version that the servant found the body and hid it, so as not to receive punishment from the parents for not looking after the girl. According to another version, the girl's father himself gave Azzuina into the hands of the Inquisition, so as not to be at the stake themselves, for hiding the devilish child.
Meanwhile, once every ten years, an incomprehensible crying of children and the sounds of a ball appear in the walls of the castle.
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Frozen nephew
In Sweden, in one of the suburbs of Stockholm, there is the Haringe castle, built around 1100. Now there is a hotel there. It is said that several ghosts live in the castle, and one of them is the boy Axel Horn. According to legend, Axel froze to death under the walls of the castle - he was kicked out for bad behavior on the street by his aunt.
One of the guests saw the boy by his bed late at night. In the dark, he mistook him for his nephew, but noticed that the boy's skin was blue, as if he was cold.
The ghost of a girl from Tarragona
The old Villa Castellarnau is located in the Spanish city of Tarragona. Now the building houses a museum. Before that, no one had lived in the villa for several decades, and it was at that time that rumors spread that at night the sounds of a piano were heard from the villa, and a little girl appeared in the windows.
Villa Castellarnau.
Carolina was the name of a girl who was born at the beginning of the 20th century into the family of a successful merchant. The girl was born with a mental illness, and she lived locked up in her room, playing the piano, and only for a short time she was allowed to walk in the courtyard of the villa. Caroline died at the age of 12. In the former room of Carolina, her portrait still hangs above the piano. Local residents are sure that she still plays the piano and wanders through the rooms of the villa.
Tower Princes
This is a famous prison where the ghosts of Edward the Fifth and his brother the Duke Richard of York are seen, who lived in the middle of the 15th century. They see Edward and Richard always together, they walk in white robes, holding hands. Thanks to William Shakespeare, it is believed that the children were killed by order of King Richard III, but there is no direct evidence. By the way, in 1953 the graves of the children were opened for examination, but she did not determine who the remains belonged to.
The boy who fell from the roof
In the town of Goshen, near New York, there is an abandoned building that used to house a Catholic school. In 1955, an accident occurred here: one of the students, eight-year-old Paul Reimos, crashed to death, falling from the roof of the building. The investigation revealed that the boy was pushed, but the killer was never found. And the boy still reminds of himself to those who like walking through abandoned buildings.
Crying in the theater
At the Rialto Square Theater, Joliet, Illinois, USA, children's voices are regularly heard at night. In 1975, near the theater building, a car knocked down one boy to death, and since then his ghost has been walking around the theater. The boy's name was Kevin. Local ghostbusters were even able to establish contact with the phantom. And they called the boy crying for the reason that the guards hear crying from the basement with enviable regularity.
Fireplace boy
The Philadelphia Press published a startling story in the summer of 1988. It was about an old New York mansion that had been empty for many years. In 1986, the mansion was acquired by the Richardson family, which consisted of spouses and a five-year-old girl. The parents gave the girl a separate room on the first floor, but she was constantly drawn to another - on the second. One day the girl confessed that in that room on the second floor she was playing with a boy. According to the girl, her friend lived in the fireplace. The girl even described in detail the appearance of her friend. Angry, the girl's father undertook to dismantle the fireplace, that room still needed repair. And there, in the fireplace, he found the mummified body of a child, dressed in a blue jacket with copper buttons. But the daughter said that it was in such a jacket that her friend was wearing.
The investigation revealed that the Adams family lived in that house until 1977. It is known that one of the children was born mentally retarded. The parents decided to do the simplest way - to kill the boy and hide the corpse in the fireplace. By the way, exactly a year later, the Adams family had an accident, none of them survived.