Case file · High strangeness
The ghosts of the Petit Trianon
Two Oxford college heads said that on 10 August 1901, walking to the Petit Trianon at Versailles, they saw the gardens as they were in the 1780s, and perhaps Marie Antoinette.
1901 CE · 48.82, 2.11 · status: claim
The account
Charlotte Anne Moberly and Eleanor Jourdain of St Hugh's College published the story in 1911 as An Adventure under false names, which were not revealed until 1931. They thought they had seen events from August 1792. The book caused a sensation and is a classic 'time-slip' case.
The sceptical view
Eleanor Sidgwick's review for the Society for Psychical Research suggested they had misread normal events; critics point to the inconsistencies in their accounts.
Connections in the atlas
- Petit Trianon, Versailles
- The 'Oz factor'