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Mirror glass enclosed in a massive frame of red tree. At the top of the frame are two angels blowing into the pipes. At the bottom parts engraving “Louis Arpo. 1743.” This mirror takes lives their owners. The names of 38 of his victims are known. List probably not full. And he continues to replenish.
The magician and alchemist Louis Arpo
Louis Arpo was considered one of the best mirror masters Paris Dozens of countesses, duchesses and baroness admired their beauty, looking in the mirror of a famous mirror.
But he had another glory. Everyone in Paris knew Louis Arpo also a magician, sorcerer, alchemist and is known with evil spirits. Fathers Inquisition hands itched to get this sorcerer in their basements, but the omnipotence of this church institute is a thing of the past, Louis Arpo was favored by the Marquise de Pompadour, the favorites the king, under her protection felt completely safe and continued to hobnob with the devil.
It is not known what he invested in his product, but he created in 1743 year, the mirror was very different from everyone else – it killed. A many victims simply disappeared without a trace.
Missing banker
The first reliably known victim of the mirror is Kirakos. Gandzaseki. Paris banker of Armenian descent acquired it at the exhibition and was very proud of my purchase.
On September 30, 1769, he got into a carriage and set off for the day. the birth of his sister. As a gift, Kirakos drove a luxurious mirror famous master. The birthday of the brother on his holiday never waited. The banker did not return home either.
After several days of searching, an empty carriage was found in the forest. Police had to abandon the “robbery” version – robbers they didn’t look at either the expensive carriage or the things in it, nor on an expensive mirror. Only the passenger and coachman disappeared. A business remained unsolved.
Further, the Arpo mirror disappeared for almost a hundred years, surfaced only in 1853, and again as a gloomy birthday present.
Laura’s death
The young woman Laura Noel celebrated her 23rd birthday. IN in a luxurious room surrounded by guests, she accepted gifts. Servants brought a large mirror and the donor pulled it off with a spectacular gesture the cloth. The woman peered for several seconds at the mirror surface, and then without words fell onto its side. Standing next to her husband barely managed to pick up his wife.
The woman was taken to the bedroom. The doctor who arrived could only record the death of Ms. Noel from a brain hemorrhage.
The mirror was returned to the owner, and he tried as soon as possible from him get rid of. Soon the mirror gained notoriety: after him into the house death surely came. Mirror owners were dying of a stroke or just disappeared.
In 1910, when the number of strange deaths and disappearances exceeded several dozen, police commissioner investigating another dark matter, ordered to remove the mirror and send to science lab to study. The experts did not find anything, but the mirror remained in the warehouse of the Paris police as a material evidence. And 40 years old the world was breathing calmly.
Vanished Marquise
In 1943, the Marquis de Fornaroli received guests in his villa. Among the guests were Wehrmacht officers and SS. Marquis collaborated with occupiers and made good fortune. Using one of Marquis officers and acquired a mirror of the XVIII century from a warehouse of evidence Paris police.
An orchestra played, footmen scurried among the guests, delivering drinks and all they were waiting for the decoration of this holiday to appear – the marquis’s wife. De Fornaroli himself decided to go up to his wife’s room to hurry her out to the guests. The door to the bedroom was closed due to no one answered the door. Hacked the door. On the floor in front of the dressing table lay scattered makeup, the chair was overturned. The windows were tightly closed from the inside. There were no marquises.
One of the guests called the Gestapo. Worked for several weeks investigators, but the disappearance of the marquise remained a mystery. A month after the incident, a car drove up to the villa from which came out a gloomy man in a black cloak. He introduced himself as Franz Schubach, an employee of Anenerbe, an organization that has studied besides other paranormal phenomena.
As soon as he saw the mirror in the bedroom, Shubakh ordered to close it dense fabric and declared confiscation. Regarding the missing marquises, I’m sorry marquises, but you will no longer see your spouse never”.
The list of victims of the mirror is not closed
After the war, Arpo’s mirror returned to the Paris police warehouse and decades lay quietly until in 1997 the warehouse was robbed. Among other valuable things, criminals took away the ancient mirror.
19 years have passed, the mirror is still not found. Mystical artifact still walks the world. But if you ever get anyone will offer to buy a mirror of the XVIII century with the above engraving, not take whatever ridiculous amount you are called, otherwise you You have a chance to replenish the sad list of victims of the killer mirror.
Posted by Klim Podkova
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