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However demonic this sounds, the story then begins to fall apart
for me, maybe because of the way that Fammarion continues
to expound the story. He says that the source for the story
is the Annales des Science Psychiques of March 1910.
That's to the good, I think.
He goes on to elaborate that Christo came to believe
in what was happening, and then collaborated to produce a book
about it. Here the originating events appear to change.
To me the variations make the whole thing suspect,
because the elaborations are dramatic and yet do not match
the accounts given above.
First of all there appears to be an issue with a shuttered window
in the guest room, which falls first on his friend, then
on himself, when he does a vigil there.
This seems to have come out of nowhere, and the hearing
of noises seems to be lost. Then their baby is abducted from his crib,
and found downstairs. Surely such a happening
would have been reported to the police, as well
be in the original report? Worse perhaps
the scratching of his face seems to have happened
before the police were called in the "full version "
I admit that my feeling of discomfort about these alterations
could have more to do with Flammarion precising the book,
and I haven't read a translation of Christo's story in full.
Like the Amittyville book, the tale appears to have been
elaborated to be made into a saleable commodity,
and that tends to put the original account in a bad light.
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