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The castle is calling you.

And for a second, Patricia just had no idea what this meant.

Couldn't make sense of what this even said.

But then she realized there was actually text messages that she had received earlier from this number, and she realized who it was.

So the person texting Patricia this strange message was this middle-aged woman named Bérenger.

About eight months earlier, Bérenger had approached Patricia while she was out in public and told her that she desperately needed Patricia's help.

Because, Beranger said, she worked in a castle, and that castle was haunted.

So Patricia, in addition to being a local news reporter, was also a self-proclaimed psychic medium, meaning she basically believed that she had the ability to contact the dead.

That was something she was really passionate about.

And in fact, she was fairly famous for being a psychic medium in France.

So this request was actually not that bizarre for Patricia.

But because of Patricia's status, both because she was, you know, a famous medium and also because she was on the news, you know, she was sort of well-known and it drew a lot of people to her claiming that they had, you know, paranormal issues ranging from, you know, thinking they saw a ghost to their house is haunted or whatever.

And

Almost all the time, when Patricia would follow up with some people who claimed they had issues, she would discover that, you know, despite her best efforts, there clearly was nothing going on that was paranormal.

There was no dead to talk to.

It was just like, you know, drafty windows or a house settling or, you know, just a shadow that looked really eerie or something.

So the vast majority of times people approached Patricia, she really didn't take them that seriously.

So a couple of months ago, when Bérenger had approached Patricia, you know, her reaction to it was basically like, oh, your castle's haunted.

Yeah, I bet, you know, but she was polite about it.

But realistically, she didn't believe it was true.