Paranormal record / 1849
Paris. Early 1849. In the Latin Quarter, workmen were tearing down old buildings between the Sorbonne and the Panthéon. Then the rubble began to fly. Every evening and all through the night, one house on the rue des Grès was struck by a hail of projectiles. Whole rubble stones. Paving stones. Pieces of neighbouring walls. Window frames were smashed to dust. Passers-by were hit. Police agents and soldiers of the 24th regiment kept watch from the rooftops, and still the stones came, arcing high overhead and landing with mathematical precision. Then it stopped, as suddenly as it had begun. The mystery was never solved, said the press. Eleven years later, a newspaper claimed otherwise.
Paris, 1849. The rue des Grès was a narrow street in the Latin Quarter, also called the passage des Jacobins. Demolition crews were cutting a new street through between the Sorbonne and the Panthéon. Rubble lay everywhere. One house stood back from the street, beside a vacant lot where the old church had been. It was linked to M. Lerible, a coal and wood merchant. Some accounts make him the target. Others say his timber yard stood next to the house that was struck.