Duporth Manor

Duporth Manor
The sorce of this story is from ghostdatabase ghost database

The ancient manor house at Duporth is said to have been haunted by the ghost of a nun known affectionately as "Flo" prior to it's demolision.. In the past she has been heard striking matches in adjoining rooms and clicking open the lock on the cabinet in the drawing rooms. On the site of the manor house, now stands Duporth Holiday Village, where "Flo" is still said to reside. Many strange happenings have been witnessed in recent years. One of the most frightening, especially for the younger gernration was when the roundabout in the children's playground was seen turing by itself, first one way then the other without a any wind on a still calm day. A kettle is also said to have boiled itself in a locked room whilst a sewing machine which whirred into life without human assistance stopped instantly when a member of staff said "No thanks Flo - I don't need you today"! The old farmhouse, formally owned by the manor, is also beleived to carry Flo's presence. An elderly woman staying at the village with her young granddaughter heard the child talking to someone on the landing. The grandmother could see no-one and when she asked the child what she had been doing the girl replied by saying she had be chatting to a nice old lady wearing a black dress!

The manor was demolished in the 1960's after it had burned down.

Willington Mill

This was once regarded as the most haunted building in the north of England. The mill was owned by George Unthank and Joseph Procter, who lived at the adjoining house with his wife and children.


Built in 1800 near the River Tyne at Willington, there were rumours of 'evil doings' during the construction but there have been other stories of haunting on the same site for 200 years.

The family, including Mr. Procter's brother, had experienced numerous unearthly sounds and sights including heavy footsteps and thumping from the upper floor (which was not used). Mrs. Procter underwent the alarming experience of having her bed lifted during the night and feeling a cold pressure on her eyes.

The family were slightly reticent to share their experiences until, in 1840, Edward Drury asked to visit the house accompanied by his friend Dr. Hudson. The events that followed that night are told in a letter to Joseph Procter. At first they only heard some noises but around 1.00 a.m. a door opened and the figure of a woman in grey approached - some accounts reveal that she was without any eyes. One hand was pressed against her chest and the other pointed towards Dr. Hudson who had fallen asleep. Mr. Hudson screamed and fell upon his friend but then remembered nothing for three hours afterwards.

A certain Mr. Howitt also undertook investigations and found accounts from a number of witnesses who had seen a bareheaded man in a flowing robe, like a surplice, at a window. He appeared to glide backwards and forwards about three feet from the ground. This male figure was known to neighbours as 'Old Jeffrey'.

The family left the house in 1847 and the ghosts apparently left with them. However, Strange tales of the North Country by C.T. Oxley suggests that the disturbances may have continued, and a tenant in 1874 reported having seen an animal shaped liked a cat in the furnace room which wriggled like a snake and disappeared into the wall!!!

The Procters moved to Gosforth and a story was told that one of the servants there reported that when she first arrived her case was locked but the contents were scattered about the room. The old cook told her that the ghost did this to every new arrival. Perhaps the ghosts went with them.

In Catherine Crowe's book The Night Side of Nature, which was originally published in 1848, she collected and researched stories of hauntings, apparitions and other cases of the supernatural and paid a visit to the mill herself. The book includes the letters of Edward Drury and other witness accounts.
Some of the mill buildings still exist and form part of the Rope works.

Dragsholm Slot, Denmark

This is a tale from a famous castle in Denmark, called Dragsholm Slot (slot=castle in Danish). It is in Hørve in Sealand, Denmark and was built in 12th century by the Roskilde bishop. When the building of the castle was completed, it became the residence for both kings and several noble families. Now it is owned by the Bøttger (since 1939) family who has converted the castle into a hotel. However, as many other castles from that age, it has its own story to tell. Actually, the castle has three ghosts: A gray lady, A white lady and the ghost of the Earl of Bothwell. The gray lady is said to be a woman who once worked there as a maiden. Unfortunately, she got she got a serious toothache which caused her great pain. She was cured though, and the story goes that after her death she returns to the castle every night to see if everything is in the right order, as a thanks for her cure. But the gray lady is almost never seen, and less known than the two following ghosts: The white lady is said to be the daughter of one of the many owners of the castle. When she was young , she fell in love with common man who worked in the castle. And they had a relationship that went on for some time. Since the father was a rich and noble man, they kept their love secret, but one day the father caught them and was furious. He was so angry that he actually made the servants of the castle imprison his daughter inside a thick wall of the castle! It is said that because of the tragic event, she every night returns to the castle and walks around the corridors. In the 1930s new tiolets were being built in the castle. In order to do this they tore the old walls down. When doing this, the workers actually found a little hole in the wall with a skeleton with a white dress in it! The castle also has old cellars for prisoners. In the 1500s the famous Earl of Bothwell was captured there. He was captured there about 5 years and died in 1578 in the cellar. Some say that he was mad his last years-it's pretty understandable! He is one of the castles three ghosts-every night he comes riding in the court yard of the castle with his horse carriage.

Banff Spring Hotel

Nestled in the heart of the awe inspiring Canadian Rockies, Banff Springs Hotel is world famous for it's regal ambiance and sumptuous accommodations. This incredible 100-year old castle is also a historic landmark. Built in 1886 by William Cornelius Van Horne, then General Manager of the Canadian Pacific Railroad. Van Horne oversaw the challenge to drive the historic railway through the Canadian Rockies. Banff Springs Hotel opened in 1888, and has been a favourite haunt of the rich and famous ever since. With such a rich and colourful history, it is not surprising to hear tales of guests and loyal employees who have lingered on, even beyond their departure from life.One very sad and tragic tale involves a young bride and her elegant wedding party in the hotel's grand ballroom. It seems that on the day of the young woman's wedding, she was descending the ornate marble staircase in her beautiful flowing white wedding gown. And, as the story goes, an unexpected breeze (presumably from an open door or window) twisted the gown's flowing train into her path, causing her to stumble. Attempts by the groom to catch-hold of his young wife were in vain, and she fell to her death on the polished marble tiles below. To this day, there are recurring reports of a fleeting vision of a beautiful girl in a long flowing white dress dancing in the ballroom or descending the staircase. At other times, people have commented on brief but chilling breezes brushing past them on the grand staircase. In another tale, guests over the years have encountered a helpful and courteous bellman named Sam, who has opened locked doors, helped with lighting, and even parcels. When the guests of the ninth floor (Sam's favourite floor) try to engage Sam in conversation or attempt to tip him for his services, he very quickly departs, "almost into thin-air" as one guest put it. Guests who inquire about Sam are always stunned to learn that Sam passed-away many years ago.

Borley Rectory

To any ghost hunter, Borley Rectory has always been one of the most intriguing and fascinating residences on the face of the planet as regards paranormal occurrences. Described as being the most haunted house in England, Borley Rectory has been the subject of intense investigation by hundreds of researchers and experts over the years, and even to this day, people are still profoundly interested in the creepy stories that have, for so long, surrounded the property and its location.
Borley Rectory was erected on the site of an ancient monastery, and the ghost of a sorrowful nun, who strolled along the so called "Nun's Walk", was already well known to the villagers at that time. The story goes that she was a wayward sister from the nearby nunnery at Bures who had fallen in love with a monk from the Borley Monastery. The two lovers had tried to elope together, but had been quickly tracked down. The monk was executed and the nun bricked up in the cellars of the monastic buildings!
The Rectory was built back in 1863 by Reverend Henry Bull, but was later destroyed by a large fire in February 1939. The house was located in Essex near the river Stour, and it was reported that a great deal of poltergeist and related phenomena did occur there even before anyone had moved in.
In 1930, Reverend Lionel Foyster and his family moved there, but left only 5 years later after a staggering 2000 accounts of unexplained paranormal phenomena. From strange writing which appeared on a regular basis on the walls, to unusual apparitions and figures appearing to be moving through the gardens at night - the family were constantly plagued by these disturbing supernatural occurrences and events.
The spirits haunting Borley Rectory were believed to be responsible for strange messages scribbled in pencil on the walls. The words in capital letters were written by investigators trying to communicate with the spirit entity.
The most famous ghost hunter in all paranormal history, Harry Price, investigated the Rectory extensively. However, much controversy has surrounded his findings, and the debate about exactly what he experienced there still goes on even to this day.
The last people to reside in Borley Rectory were Captain William Gregson and his family, and after the fire it was thought that the ghosts had actually moved across the road to the nearby Borley Church. One thing is certain, however, and that is the extent to which these hauntings had occurred after and during the time when the Rectory had been occupied. There were dozens of mysterious photographs taken throughout the years, some of them showing what appeared to be strange dark figures and apparitions in the grounds around the Rectory.
Were these pictures nothing more than exaggerated remnants of someone's overactive imagination, or perhaps something of a much more paranormal nature ? Nobody will ever really know for sure, and Borley Rectory will probably remain one of the most haunted houses in the history of paranormal research.

Amityville

The Amityville Horror is one of the most well-known cases of a haunted house in the history of paranormal Phenomena.
The story - which was supposedly to have happened to the Lutz family when they moved into a large Dutch colonial house at 112 Ocean Avenue in Amityville - The house and its supposed events has been the subject of a series of best-selling books and a string of movies.
When George and Kathy Lutz, along with their three children, first moved into their new house in Amityville on December 18th, 1975, they thought they had found their dream home. That is, of course, until that dream became a nightmare, as they started experiencing the strange paranormal occurrences which eventually drove them out of the house.
Prior to the Lutzes' occupation of the Amityville house, the residence had been the scene of a horrific murder spree. On November 13th, 1974, 23-year-old Ronald DeFeo shot dead his father, mother and four younger siblings. However, not being superstitious, the Lutzs still bought the house.
By January 14th, 1976, when the Lutzes fled the house forever, they claimed to have been terrorised for 28 days by an unspeakably evil entity. Their horrific experiences included ghostly apparitions of hooded figures, swarms of flies in the sewing room and the children's playroom, breaking window panes, spine-chilling cold alternating with suffocating heat, personality changes, nightly parades by spirit marching bands, levitations, green slime oozing down the stairs, foul odours, nausea, inexplicable scratches on Kathleen's body, objects mysteriously moving, constant disconnection of the telephone service, and even communications between the youngest, Melissa, and a devilish spirit pig by the name of "Jodie". But more shockingly, even the Devil himself is said to have actually appeared in the house.
Even visitors to the house were affected by the strange atmosphere permeating through the place. Kathy's brother, Jimmy, and his new bride mysteriously lost $1,500 in cash. And Father Mancuso, the local priest who gave the house his blessing, suffered a horrible bout of sickness that left him physically drained. As a result, he eventually transferred to a distant parish. He is said to have heard a voice from an unseen entity ordering him to "get out" when he sprinkled the house with holy water.
In 1977, The Amityville Horror by Jay Anson was published. The book became an instant bestseller, and led to a top-grossing movie in 1979, starring James Brolin and Margot Kidder. More Amityville Horror books followed, written by different authors, which gave alleged accounts of the demonic entity still following the Lutzes, even after they had fled the Amityville house.
As is often the norm with cases like this, many skeptics claimed that the Amityville haunting was just a big hoax, and they were quick to point out various discrepancies in Anson's book. Even Jerry Solfvin, of the Psychical Research Foundation, who was contacted by George Lutz in early January 1976 about paranormal activity at the house, found the whole case rather questionable. All the evidence was subjective. Also, Father Mancuso was regarded as being a poor witness, as he had visited the house only the once. It took Anson three or four months to write his book, and he worked mostly from tapes of telephone interviews. Apparently, he made only a superficial effort to verify the Lutzes' account.
The most significant aspect of the case is the interview that Ronald DeFeo's lawyer, William Weber, gave a local radio station in 1979. He claimed that the Lutzes' concocted the whole Amityville Horror saga around their kitchen table whilst drinking bottles of wine. He also said that after approaching them with the idea, the Lutzes broke away from him, and so he decided to sue for his share of the book and movie royalties. But the Lutzes countersued, arguing that their experiences were genuine. Mrs Lutz's story was later analysed on a Psychological Stress Evaluation. The results of the test confirmed her claims.
Although it's possible that the hauntings at the Amityville residence may have actually happened, many observers have deemed the Lutzes' story to be over-dramatic when compared to other cases of paranormal activity.
When the Lutzes moved out, the house became quiet. The subsequent owners, Jim and Barbara Cromarty, reported no incidents of paranormal activity whatsoever. But they became so annoyed at the large amounts of tourists and thrill-seekers who were repeatedly converging on the place that they eventually sued the Lutzes for $1.1 million. They won a settlement for a lesser amount.
Thirty years on, the current owners of the Amityville house maintain that they have not experienced a single instance of ghostly activity, a fact which only gives added weight to the arguments of the skeptics who claim that the Lutzes' story was phoney.
To this day, the worldwide fascination with The Amityville Horror continues, as unabated and as intense as ever, and the debate still rages on as to whether there was even a grain of truth in the Lutzes' claims that their house was infested by some demonic entity. Whether it was true or not, one thing is certain: The Amityville Horror will go down in history as one of the most controversial and terrifying stories ever written.
The Official Amityville Horror Website

Auschwitz

We have all heard or read about this so so tragic place and the atrocities that went on there.We all know it was a concentration camp where millions of Jews, Poles, Gypsies and Soviets prisoners of war lost their life.The camp was in operation from May1940 until its liberation in January 1945 by the Soviet forces. Jews were forced by the SS to work and help in the killing of their own kind, which I don't think any one could possibly imagine what that must been like.Auschwitz is now a museum and memorial to those who lost their lives there and every year it is visited by many. some of the visitors have reported cold spots, clothes being tugged and there was even a report of a voice saying "please leave" which infact is hardly surprising is it if these reports are accurate, surely the spirits of these unfortunate people wouldn't want people being there.This reported phenomenon is reported to have taken place in the underground bunkers where the gassings and cremation of the bodies took place. All told there were five underground cremation ovens, before these were added bodies were were burned in very large deep pits near by.As it stands as a reminder to us all of the atrocities that went on, would it really be right to investigate paranormal phenomena there as in morally right, though groups have been in Auschwitz but their findings have not been released.Photographs taken over the years have had what look light anomalies, apparitions on them, are these the manifestation of spirit, who really knows, and given the history of Auschwitz and not forgetting the sister camp Birkenau, which was built to cope with the over flow of Hilters mass destruction, would it really surprise us if this place was haunted ? or is it, could it not just be that because of the terrible things that went on in there it is our own human imaginations and thoughts of these poor souls and the natural ability to be able to imagine what it must have been like, that makes us think it is haunted.Personally I think the place should be left as it is, and that's a memorial and a reminder to those that died there and that these tragic events like this should never be allowed to happen again !!

The Bell witch,Tennessee

The Bell WitchTennessee, is the scene of one of America's most famous haunting's...The Bell WitchThe ghost of Kate Batts, commonly known as the Bell Witch, haunted the Bell family, especially John Bell and his 12 year old daughter.Kate Batts was known as a spiteful and vengeful woman, who on her death bed vowed she would haunt and torment the Bell family.Kate believed that she had been cheated by John Bell on a land purchase and vowed to get revenge.After her death she certainly stuck to her word, it is reported that she tormented the family,poked them, pinched the children's noses, stuck needles in them, threw kitchen objects around, but her anger was mainly aimed at John and his daughter Betsy. The rest of the family got off lightly. She took great pleasure and delight in mentally and physically torturing those two, with her shrieking voice and or physically punishing antics.As we all know gossip spreads very quickly in small towns, and the farming town of Adams was no different. Word soon spread about the ghostly goings on in the Bell house hold and folk started travelling from miles away to visit the house, not all were greeted with friendly handshakes either, some got shrieked at !!The story became that well known that general Andrew Jackson, who was also to be the future president of the United states, decided to gather a few friends and travel to this mysterious house hold. He wanted to either dispel this evil nasty woman or debunk the whole ghost story theory.Jackson's journey to the dwelling was certainly not uneventful, they had been jesting about the witch, when their journey came to a halt, not matter how they tried they could not get the wagons moving again, they whipped and cursed the horses, but nothing, they wouldn't move it is almost as if they were frozen. The surprising this was there was no earthly reason why they should have been stuck, they were on a flat dry pathway, nothing for the wheels of the wagon to get stuck in.It is believed that after the General declared it was the witch that was stopping them and there jesting had stopped, that a voice could be heard by all, saying " All right General let the wagons move on" and with this the horses began to pull the wagons once more. No one could see anywhere or one one who could have spoken those words.By all accounts Kate did not spare the General and his men that night, they were subjected to the same taunts as the Bell family, pokes, prods, shrieks and bed covers ripped from them as they tried to sleep, she spared them no mercy.Jackson and his men left the following morning.Kate haunted John Bell till the day he died, for a fact some believe she was infact the actual cause of his death.It was in the year of 1830, the month of October that John Bell was believed to have suffered a stroke, and whilst lying bed ridden his family found him in a poor state. Shocked and alarmed by this his son went to the medicine cabinet to fetch what he thought was his fathers medicine, which infact turned out to be something very poisonous.It is alleged that after the medicine was administered, Kate could be heard with great delight saying that she herself had poisoned John the night before and the the last amount that had just been given to him, had then sealed his fate, and true to her word it was. The contents of the vial were examined and it was concluded that it was infact a very poisonous mixture.Kate obviously delighted at the demise of john bell, is said to have been heard singing happily at his graveside, and the singing could still be heard as the last person left.Was john Bell the first person to be killed by a poltergeist ? who really knows for sure.This is believed to be a true story and the famous American film " An American Haunting" and the " Blaire Witch Project" were born of this tales, many books have also been written as it became so popular.

Faces of Belmez,Spain

An elderly woman and her infant grandchild were sitting in the kitchen of their village home when suddenly the child cried out excitedly.
The innocent eyes of the child had seen nothing more than a diverting new game. But it was a game that terrified the old lady, and developed into a mystery for which scientists, despite every test, have as yet been unable to find any natural explanation.
It happened in the village of Belmez not far from the city of Cordoba in Southern Spain, on a hot morning of August 1971.What the child had seen was a human face, which had spontaneously imprinted itself on the pink floor tiles a face with trouble features, infinitely sad. No recognisable pigment of any kind had formed the image, and when the family tried to rub it out, they were horrified to find that the eyes only opened wider and the expression grew even more sorrowful.Alarmed and bewildered, the owner of the house tore up the floor and replaced the sinister tiles with concrete. But three weeks later a second face emerged; this time with even more clearly defined features. The local authorities became involved. They ordered a section of the floor to be cut away. Workmen dug the floor up, uncovering the remains of a medieval cemetery. Meanwhile a third apparition took place, then a fourth then a series of faces all together. The kitchen was locked and sealed. Four more faces, including that of a woman, appeared just as mysteriously in another part of the house. But they were the last: the phenomenon melted away as inexplicably as it had begun.
No one has yet come forward with a really satisfying explanation of the Faces of Belmez. All the experts have been able to suggest is that the house was once the scene of some tragic and terrible incident.

Chillingham Castle

Chillingham castle is based in the heart of Northumberland just off the northeast coast of England. Reportedly one of the most haunted castles in Britain.
The castle is owned by Sir Humphrey Wakefield, who has spent many years and is still doing so, restoring the castle back to a close as possible to its original state.
The castle itself was a mere ruin when Sir Humphrey took it over, and he began rebuilding it with a lot of the origin materials that was found amongst the ruins and basically had to go by any old documents found on the place.
The grounds and gardens of the castle are beautifully set out, consisting of flower and herb beds. There is also a lake a few yards down from the castle which can be accessed via a walk in the woods or a direct path. When standing near the lake from a personal point of view there is a feeling of mystery and enchantment.
One of the towers at the castle is apartments where the public can book up for short holiday breaks, though warned they are supposedly haunted.
It is said that there is a "grey lady" and a "blue boy" that roams the castle, he boy was said to have been bricked up in one of the rooms at the castle and the lady Lady Mary Berkeley, searches for her husband, who ran off with her sister. Lady Mary, desolate and broken hearted lived in the castle by herself with only her baby girl as a companion. The rustle of her dress can be heard as she passes you by in the turret stairs.
I have visited the castle on many occasions and have to say it is one of my favourite haunts, pardon the pun !!!
The minstrels gallery certainly has a weird feel to it and it overlooks what is now the cafe, which is also said to have a few ghostly visitors, yet I have also felt the cafe had a nice welcoming feel to it, especially when the have the big wood burning fire going.
Chillingham is very popular for weddings, Halloween and ghost walks and has been featured on various paranormal sites and TV programs. So if your ever in the Northumberland area, Chillingham is well worth a visit, just for the grounds alone

Paris Catacombs

The City of Light harbours a city of darkness, a vast network of subterranean tunnels that once gave refuge to bandits, smugglers and saints, and cradles the bones of some 6 million Parisians. Today, this eerie maze is the haunt of living spirits, from youths looking for adventure to urban explorers carving out a new frontier. An underground movie house replete with bar and phone service, recently discovered by police, is but a slice of the thriving underworld below Paris. Some 185 miles of tunnels and underground passageways honeycomb the underbelly of the city, most old quarries for the Lutecian limestone used to build the French capital. Others house electricity and telephone cables. In the deepest sphere, some 100 feet under, lie the catacombs, holding ancient bones from overstocked cemeteries. Part of the catacombs are open to the public, but dropping into the rest city of darkness is illegal and can be hazardous. This is not a journey for the faint of heart. One way is a middle-of-the-night descent through a manhole and down a ladder. Once inside, a sand-colored maze of galleries, nooks and crannies unfolds. Ominous holes seem to descend to the center of the Earth. It's an all-weather trip that includes strolling, sloshing through mud and slithering through narrow tunnels. "Paris is a Mecca" for underground exploration, said Lazar Kunstmann, a spokesman for the group that set up a cinema across the Seine River from the Eiffel Tower. The group has seven other subterranean sites, he said, refusing to give details. In the eternal night of underground Paris, secrecy is sacrosanct, creating a subculture with its own code and names. Slipping into the underground, social classes melt away, and "there's a sense of having a double life," said Patrick Aalk, a photographer with more than two decades of experience as an urban explorer. Like Lewis Carroll's Alice discovered when she fell through a rabbit hole, fear, intrigue and wonder await the subterranean traveler. Instead of a tea party with the Mad Hatter, there are parties by flashlight in dank, musty quarry rooms bearing names like "Byzance," "the Cellar" or "Room Z." But this strange universe is being increasingly scarred by "cataphiles" who daub graffiti on walls or leave beer cans behind. Some quarry rooms are covered in paint, irking another breed of subterranean spirits who call themselves urban explorers. The police chief in charge of subterranean Paris fears the new generation of fun-seekers is on a collision course with the urban explorers who regard the underground as part of Paris' patrimony. "It's a milieu that is becoming more and more mixed ... with some people who can be in opposition to others," Commander Luc Rougerie told The Associated Press. Cataphiles have haunted the Paris underworld for decades, but the Aug. 23 discovery by police of the cinema, set up by an urban explorers' group calling itself The Perforating Mexican, revealed just how sophisticated life below ground has become. The cinema seated about 30 people on benches carved from rock — and covered with wood for comfort, according to Kunstmann. The complex included a bar, a restaurant and some annex rooms for privacy. A toilet drew water from the Trocadero gardens above, where "there was a permanent leak," said Kunstmann. Electricity was siphoned off by wrapping wires around the state power company's cables, he said. "The problem is not to leave a trace on the electricity counter." According to Kunstmann, the cinema, finished some 18 months ago, was a renovation of a crude theater built three years ago. "There was a certain surprise" when police found the movie house, Commander Rougerie conceded. A less sensational but more worrisome discovery was made across town, under the high-security La Sante prison. There, several tunnels, once shut, were partially reopened. Fears that prisoners were plotting an escape or, worse, that terrorists had invaded the underground set off alarms. In the end, "we think it's amateurs of the underground looking for an old passage," said Catherine Briguet, judicial police spokeswoman. There have been no arrests, she said. Rougerie warns of dangers, from thin air that can cause queasiness to cave-ins. He cited cases of people falling into 30-foot-deep wells or getting lost. There are no known deaths. The catacombs have inspired writers from Victor Hugo to Gaston Leroux, whose "Phantom of the Opera" hid in "that infernal underground maze." "When you go down, you enter the city's past. It's a voyage into the bowels of the city," said Aalk, the photographer. Through the ages, the catacombs have harbored an eclectic lot. In the 13th century, bandits hid under the Chateau de Vauvert, now the Luxembourg Gardens, and sorcerers used the quarries for black masses during the 1348 plague. St. Denis, patron saint of France, said Mass in the quarries during the Christian persecution, according to Simon Lacordaire's "The Secret History of Subterranean Paris." During World War II, Resistance fighters used the network as hideouts. Scoundrels still haunt the underworld. People have been caught stealing telephone cables, "to resell the copper by the kilo," Rougerie said. Some have also been found carrying old bones from the catacombs. Nearly two decades ago, there were reportedly 300 accesses to the quarries. Most have been sealed, but new entryways are uncovered by enterprising explorers. Asked how many accesses exist today, Rougerie, the police official, conceded: "There are those I know and those I don't.