Case file · Haunting
The little red man of the Tuileries
Legend says Catherine de' Medici, building the Tuileries palace from 1564, had a butcher called Jean l'Écorcheur killed, and his ghost, a little man in red, appeared before disasters.
1564 CE · 48.86, 2.33 · status: legend
The account
He was said to have warned Marie-Antoinette and Napoleon; he was last 'seen' when the Tuileries burned in 1871.