Our Lady Of The Attic

True Weird Stuff

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🗓️ 12 September 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Today's True Weird Stuff - Our Lady Of The Attic

Blanche Monnier’s story is one of the most chilling true tales from 19th-century France. Once a vibrant young woman from a respected family, Blanche mysteriously vanished—only to be discovered 25 years later, imprisoned in a dark, filthy room by her own mother. Malnourished, covered in filth, and hidden away from the world, Blanche’s shocking ordeal became headline news across Europe, exposing the horrifying secret that had been kept behind closed doors for decades.

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0:43.5	The judicial authorities visited the place and found in the top room a woman about 50 years old,
0:52.4	whose fearful appearance and loathsome surroundings filled them with
0:58.0	horror. They saw before them a crouching and an abject human figure reduced to the state of a skeleton.
1:09.2	The figure mumbled and chattered as the law officials approached and then
1:15.3	implored them for mercy. A haggard near skeleton found locked in an attic room. It sounds like
1:24.8	something out of a Grimm's fairy tale or a horror movie.
1:29.4	But this is no dark bedtime story made up to frighten children into behaving.
1:35.4	The pitiful creature police found that day had once been a beautiful, wealthy young woman.
1:43.0	The toast of the town, much in demand at every ball,
1:47.7	every party, every salon that mattered in the French city of Poitiers, until she made a terrible
1:56.6	mistake. She fell in love. Shall I ever regain my freedom? Or am I to be forever consigned to this
2:05.5	living tomb?
2:12.9	And they got a small beam of light against the mirror.
2:15.7	No, real, right, right, right. And they got a small beam of light against me.
2:33.2	True, weird, stuff. Love and marriage, love and marriage,
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