Ravenwood Paranormal Research Society

LA1898-Plague Ghost Town

Case # LA1898

Clearance Level: 5

Location: Réserve Naturelle de l'Île de Rhinau, Alsace, France

Date: Feb. 1923; June 26, 1939; Sept. 19, 2006

Inspector(s): Guille Descarte; Ronald Daily; Cassy Seward

Summary:

The first reported disappearances in this area began in 1923. Before then, there were several unreported unexplained disappearances.

(Feb. 1923; Translated from French) Missing Persons reports came to the Strasbourg Chapter with legends of the ruins of a small village lying in the Nature Reserve which had lay abandoned and undisturbed since 1347. From reports of the locals, it is unwise to walk the area at night. Those who do hear the sounds of children laughing and singing an old nursery rhyme.

According to locals, a group of five teenagers went into the forest at night earlier in the month only to not return home. No team was sent into the forest.

(June 26, 1939) This investigation was delayed for several months due to France's declaration of War on Germany. However, an investigative team was sent to the area at the request of local authorities due to the disappearance of a French family of four who had decided to camp in the area.

Upon returning from the forest, Agents were stunned to find a small abandoned village that had been reclaimed by nature. Three of the seven houses were still standing, however, were deemed structurally unsafe to enter. The church's front wall was also standing with the village's well out front of it. No bodies were discovered.

It should be noted that investigators went in during the day.

(Sept. 19, 2006) Three foreign exchange students went for a walk into the forest and did not return to their host families homes. The host families reported the missing persons to the local police, who have since experienced the effects of a Neural Omitter. This case resulted in one Agent going missing. Local authorities have been alerted to keep the area off limits after the sun goes down.

This area causes parapsychological symptoms of auditory hallucinations which caused one Agent to wander into the town before vanishing. The well and the church are highly suspect. We suspect that all the people who went missing experienced this symptom.