Welcome my friends to a new story but this time will be short and strange as usual.
So are you ready ??????
Let’s go ……………………….
The story of Baron Empain :
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| Baron Edouard Empain |
- Baron Édouard Empain (French: Edouard Louis Joseph Empain, Baron Empain) is an engineer, entrepreneur, financial, industrial, and traveler of the wealthy of Belgium, born on September 20, 1852, awarded by King Leopold II of Belgium in financing the colonies of the Kingdom of Belgium.
- His activity was not limited to commercial activity and economic engineering only but extended to several years, such as Mexico, Brazil, Congo, and India, where he was able to develop his wealth. He ended his travels to Egypt and arrived in Cairo at the end of the nineteenth century, specifically after several years, and succeeded in being taken in the meantime until he fell in love with Egypt. His body was transferred to the Basilica Church in Heliopolis on July 22, 1929, which was built near the palace according to his will.
His palace story :
- Baron Empain Palace is one of Egypt's ancient palaces with a special architectural style. It was built by the Belgian millionaire Baron Edward Empain (French: Édouard Louis Joseph Empain, Baron Empain), who came to Egypt from India at the end of the nineteenth century, shortly after the opening of the Suez Canal. Heliopolis”, and decided to build his palace for it, so he chose a design in the style of European Hindu architecture by the French architect Alexandre Marcel, which was displayed during an engineering exhibition in Paris. The construction of the palace began in 1906 and opened in 1911.
Baron Palace design Baron Palace of 3 floors:
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| Stairs inside palace |
- The ground floor includes a large hall and three rooms
- On the first floor, we reach a marble staircase distinguished by elaborate Indian statues. This floor was dedicated to the bedrooms and their utilities and to the spacious balconies carried on by the statues of Indian elephants.
- The basement or underground floors were for kitchens, servants' rooms, and parking spaces
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| The rotating tower |
- As for the palace tower, it is an architectural masterpiece that we will learn about on its own in the next paragraph
- Of course, the lush gardens were there with their different and colorful flowers
- The Baron Palace tower was also in itself an architectural masterpiece of 4 floors linked to a spiral staircase. This tower was not designed to be the biggest attraction, but rather what was said and rumored that this tower was rotating.
- Archaeologist Basma Selim, the supervisor of the Baron Palace, said in one of her articles that the palace was known to have a rotating tower that rotates on a moving base for a full cycle every hour to enjoy watching the palace in all directions.
So what is wrong with this palace let me tell
you here we come for the horror part.
Are you ready?
Let’s begin………….
- The story starts when Baron starts living in this Palace with his family, especially his sister Helena, who died after falling from her room window.
- Start asking for help and the Baron heard her but thought not dangerous something so didn’t run to help her and she died.
- He felt guilty so he starts to use dark magic to bring her soul to our world to ask her to forgive him.
- In a hidden room under the palace, there is the red room where he starts to use dark magic, and why it calls the red room because its walls are covered with blood.
- and he didn’t let anyone enter the room servants many times said they can hear him talking to someone and there was something that usually answer him with a scary voice.
old picture for the palace
Strange right !!!!!!!!!
- This room has a hidden tunnel to the church where his grave under it land no one discovered it for now
- He success but her soul was angry so from here start the revenge.
- Their first revenge was with his daughter when she fell inside the palace tower and from this moment this tower stopped rotating from sadness for her death.
- And then his turn came he died after many times from seeing his dead sister’s soul.
- All this is normal but what people around this palace saw was stranger than you imagine.
- In 1982 A fire broke out in the room in the main tower of the palace and how thick smoke covered the palace in what looked like a fire, and when firemen came the fires went out and the smoke disappeared without anyone's intervention!
- The Red Room is located in one of the basements of the palace, and its walls decorated with mirrors are said to have become stained with blood, after the death of the Baron, as if a certain curse had fallen on the place!
- In the middle of 1997, a group of young men was sneaking into the palace, and they were holding loud parties, dancing and singing to the tunes of black metal music, and the Egyptian police arrested them, to be the first case of its kind, which is known as the "Satan worshiper" case, and this is the reason for the legends that They were rumored by the neighbors about what they saw the bright lights, the clamor, and the dancing every night inside the mansion and the music emitting from it!
- The sounds of screaming and quarrels come out of the palace at night, as the guards of the neighboring properties confirmed that they hear screams at night, believing that this sound is the voice of the baron himself and his sister who died in the palace 100 years ago!
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| Baron's wife and his son |
At The End:
This palace still exists and people can see but
what is the real story of this palace no one knows what you think it’s haunted
and this is why it’s cursed.