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THE TRUE TALE OF THE DEVIL'S CASTLE
The Count of Ghent (Flanders, Belgium) has a son by the name of Gerard. On his 13th birthday, his father has to leave on a crusade, but Gerard refuses to go with him to the Holy Land. He beats his father to death and from that moment of everyone calls him Gerard the Devil...
He builds a castle with a dark crypt and a Red Tower, where he lives with his wife and son, also named Gerard. The boy has a dark skin and black hair and that's why people call him The Moor.
Gerard the Devil dislikes the colour of his son's skin and hair. So he tortures his first wife to dead in the Red Tower, and his second, and his third, and fourth, and fifth, and sixth, and seventh wife too...
Gerard the Moor falls in love with a young girl that had to be wife number 8 of Gerard the Devil. 'Go to the Red Tower, my son,' says the father. 'I have arranged an overseas honeymoon for you!'
In the Tower there are two sailors waiting to tie up the hands and feet of Gerard the Moor, put him in a bag and throw him in the water. But the son doesn't trust the father and instead of him, it's Gerard the Devil himself who shows up in the Red Tower to pay the murderers. They mistake the Devil for the Moor and they put him in a bag and throw him in the water.
Gerard the Moor dies at the end of the 13th century and since that moment, every 13th year, in the Devil's Castle a child is born, as a true son of the Devil.
The castle is cursed, because the ghosts of father and son find no rest and haunt each other forever... There were many women found in the water near the Red Tower and an old legend says that, before there will be peace in the Devil's Castle, 6 times 111 women have to fall or jump or have to be thrown from the Red Tower into the water, hands and feet tied together.
The castle is haunted too, because it was for many years a prison and an asylum for the very dangerous and mentally unsane.
THE MYSTERY OF THE DEVIL'S CASTLE
A singer-songwriter was fascinated by these true stories and adopted Gerard the Devil as his stage name. Some say he was the reborn Devil. Some say he made charcoal sketches of the impression on a girl's face at the moment she reached an orgasm (and that was the moment when he liked to chop off her head with a chainsaw).
The 'newborn' Gerard the Devil disappeared without leaving a trace… Couldn't he live with the idea of being a son of the Devil? Or did some lunatic with a chainsaw chopped off his head because he or she thought he really was the Devil? It's all up to you to find out in The Mystery of the Devil's Castle.
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MEMOIRS OF LORD HALLOWEEN
Desiree D. was found in a derelict building nearby the Devil's Castle, together with the decapitated body of the poet also known as Lord Halloween. Miss D. handed over to the police a map, titled Memoirs of Lord Halloween and containing various poems. Miss D. said the motive for the ritual murder was to be found in the Memoirs. She resides now in a closed psychiatric facility. The head of Lord Halloween is still missing. You'll find the whole dark ballad, together with some great urban exploration pictures and free musical soundscapes here:
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