Case file · Haunting

Museum of the Souls of Purgatory

After a fire in a chapel of the Sacro Cuore del Suffragio in Rome in 1897 left a face-like scorch mark, the French priest Victor Jouët gathered objects said to bear burned handprints of souls in purgatory; a small museum shows them.

1897 CE · 41.90, 12.47 · status: claim

The sceptical view

The marks have never been tested; they can be faked with a hot iron.

Sources

  1. Wikipedia: Sacro Cuore del Suffragio
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