In the depths of Haute-Marne, in Graffigny-Chemin, is a strange presbytery, built on an old cemetery. At first, the inhabitants of this village of 220 inhabitants found the new owner a bit curious. Because David Galley, 51, does not have the profile of the stressed urbanite who comes to his country house to recharge his batteries. For two years, the Nantais has been organizing, during the weekends from April to July, dinner-conferences for paranormal enthusiasts, who stay for one night in one of the cleverly decorated and moderately creepy rooms of this building bought in 2019.
This journalist has been traveling the roads of France for twenty-five years to investigate unexplained phenomena, these sleepy stories that have fed the legends of the territories for decades. A long-term work that has served to unravel a number of erroneous interpretations of the manifestations of “spirits”. In summary, for David, ghosts are like an ant 18 meters long with a hat on its head, ” it does not exist ” ; even if he admits that some mysteries resist human comprehension.
Journalist and television consultant, this former collaborator of Sophie Davant and Christophe Dechavanne started at RTL at the age of 27. It was during a report, meeting a “ guy in the Meuse who had seen a UFO in a field”, let him flush out his first scam. The man in question had the sole purpose of being filmed in front of his pizzeria, in need of customers. Since then, David Galley has produced a number of documentaries and written several books, including Mysterious France (Editions de l’Opportun, 2017). The cursed armchair number 32 of the French Academy, the damned lighthouse of Tévennec, the hoard of Abbé Bérenger Saunière of Rennes-le-Château or the Marian apparitions of Fatima have no more secrets for him.
Human bones under the terrace
When the Nantes resident came across this presbytery for sale on Leboncoin in 2019, he did not hesitate for long. The town hall sells for a pittance the house of the priest of the Jeanne-d’Arc church, who has just died at the age of 95. Above all, the village has housed a few celebrities, including Françoise de Graffigny, one of the most illustrious women in 18th century literature.e century, as well as Henry de Graffigny, a pioneer of science fiction in France. Its two volumes From the earth to the stars are prefaced by the astronomer Camille Flammarion, who lived a few minutes away, in Montigny. A place that is full of promise for David Galley, a fan of Lewis Carrol and Michael Jackson, who loves to solve puzzles related to the invisible.
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