Marseille, the oldest city in France with its 2,600 years, could it be the place of a door to other universes?
It's an urban legend from the 1990s, according to which this gateway to elsewhere is located around the church of Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, nicknamed "church of the Reformed", in the district of the Chapter, at the top of the Canebiere.
Welcome to "Mysteries from here", the secret series of the "Summer in your ears" podcast dedicated to the extraordinary stories, tales and legends of our regions.
Our guide today is Alexandre Vella, journalist for
20 Minutes
in Marseille, who conducted the investigation.
Story popularized by an author and ufologist
The initiator of this supernatural and paranormal story is Jimmy Guieu, prolific science fiction author, ufologist and videographer, native of Aix-en-Provence.
In a pseudo-documentary from his collection “Les Portes du Futur” devoted to vortices, produced in 1993, the man interviews three witnesses.
The first, fortune-teller and painter, recounts having walked her dog in the neighborhood and being thrown with her animal into "a garden" with "four-meter-high roses".
Two other people, two men, also projected into another dimension, report an encounter with "green-eyed, luminous-looking" entities, while the environment seemed to have been suspended around them. 'them.
Jimmy Guieu died on January 2, 2000, and the Reformed vortex then seemed to have fallen into oblivion.
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It was without counting on the Internet and fans of Jimmy Guieu videos.
A few blogs have reported more recent testimonials.
Our journalist Alexandre Vella continued his investigation, interviewed several people, before trying the experiment on the forecourt of the Marseilles church.
The rest, told by him, in this podcast…
See you very soon for a new story!
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