Patrick Bernauw

One of my favorite (and very prolific!) online writers is the awsome Mr. Ghaz, a 40-year-old free lance insurance surveyor who is living in Johor Bahru, Malaysia and is "currently experimenting" with his skills, in this case: writing.

The Strange Obsession of Dr. Carl Von Cosel, Ed Gein The Wisconsin Grave Robber and Butcher of Plainfield, The Infamous and Bizarre Vampire of Brooklyn Albert Fish and The Bizarre and Twisted Evolution of HH Holmes Castle of Horrors...

Here are some links to stories and articles about the medieval ghost city of Bruges in Flanders, Belgium!

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This is part of a script, with which you can organize all by yourself a Murder Mystery as a Halloween or Dinner Party Game, Murder Weekend, etc. Based upon the Halloween movie series!

This monologue of Michael Mayer is part of a script for a Murder Mystery Dinner, Party Game, Halloween Party, Murder Weekend, Role Playing Game... for 10 to 30 players.

Excellent "magical mystery" music for your Halloween Party, with creepy sound effects.

This is a creepy musical soundscape, excellent stuff to scare the people at your Halloween Party!

Haunting Music, Horror Soundscapes, Halloween Atmospheres, Creepy Folksongs, a Musical Halloween Tale... and an audio drama compilation of The Night of the Living Dead!

The song captures the bitter irony and emotions of Mary Magdalene who fell in love with the one man who had to die for the salvation of everyone else. Her unconditional love survived time through the secret Book Jesus left her...

One John V. Kemm states he has found the legendary Lost Dutchman Gold Mine, using Google Earth. According to some versions of the tale, the most famous lost mine in American history is either cursed, or protected by mysterious guardians.

A top model has been murdered and the usual suspects try to prove their innocence... This free online murder and mystery game starts and ends here: http://hubpages.com/hub/Free-Online-Murder-Game-Top-Model-Murder-Case

A celebrity gossip columnist is being suspected of murdering a former top model. He now organizes an online investigation with detective teams from all over the world, because he not only wants to prove his innocence, but also reveal the truth.

Author Patrick Bernauw reveals "a secret part of his biography". Here is the true story of how he saw Christopher Marlowe for the first time... really.

This is an answer to an article of Lucas Dié concerning the Continuing Story of the Chris Marlowe II Whodunnit.

August 16, a Sunday, was a day to never forget for poor old Patrick Bernauw... A Grim Stalker hijacked some of his blogs and accounts!

First Post of this Patrick Bernauw account, taken over by Patricia Bernauw, aka Chris Marlowe II!

A short story of horror and lust, a little demonic fairy tale...

Joris-Karl Huysmans and his descent into 19th century Satanism together with the demonic chaplain of the Holy Blood in Bruges and abbé Saunière of Rennes-le-Château...

The abbey of Orval, in Belgium's Ardennes Forest, is truly a place of mystery. The name "Orval" means "Valley of Gold", there were some treasures lost and Maeterlinck found some true inspiration here.

According to a 1908 article in The New York Times the Belgian city of Furnes (Veurne) celebrates a Medieval Procession of Penance. But why are the origins erased from contemporary records?

Banksy is a nearly anonymous, but nevertheless very famous English graffiti artist. Wikipedia says "his artworks are often satirical pieces of art on topics such as politics, culture, and ethics."

Albert Dauzat told a fascinating legend from World War One in a book published two years after the Great War. Civilian skeptics laughed at the soldiers' tales of the murderous giant hound, but to the soldiers it was a gruesome reality...

Was the Just Judges Panel out of the masterpiece of Jan Van Eyck, The Mystic Lamb, stolen because it was incorporating documents leading to the Holy Blood of Christ?

Here are some really great ancient myths and modern legends collected by the Mythbuster!

The very learned Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa always got himself in trouble...

At last, in that grey winter of 1918, the guns in France and Flanders fell silent and an eerie stillness dwelt on the battlefields where the dead lay unburied in sodden trenches...

Had the spectre of an Egyptian Princess something to do with the Curse of Tutankhamen? And why was this story revealed by an occultist named "Cheiro", which is Greek for hand?

The Holy Blood of Christ seems to have turned medieval Bruges (in Flanders, Belgium) into a Holy City... that could be... well, pretty unholy too!

I'm a big MySpace lover. And I am fascinated by writers and their writings and how online writing nowadays is mixed with offline writing. So here is my Top Ten List of Writer MySpaces, in no particular order:

Hampton Court Palace, on the banks of the Thames, is considered one of the most haunted buildings in the United Kingdom.

In his anxiety to rid himself of a wife wo could not give him a male heir, Henry VIII said Anne Boleyn was a witch who committed adultery. She was beheaded... and thus became a famous phantom of the Bloody Tower.

An old man had insulted the Count of Flanders. He had the choice: his son would be beheaded by him, or he would be beheaded by his son. The old man said that he choose himself to be beheaded... but when his son raised the sword, God broke it to pieces...

She weaved a web With her golden hair And there he lives now With his Lonely Love Until Death will do Them Part.

Featuring a cursing gypsy woman, a phantom black dog, a mysterious pink lady, a traffic ghost and the spirit of a harpsichord player.

The Unbelievable but True Story of a Plagiator Who Got Caught Because He Spammed The Article He Plagiarised.

The legend of Gerard the Devil, Lord of the Devil's Castle (Ghent). An old Fleming folk tale told by Anton Cogen in an audio drama, words by Patrick Bernauw, music and sound effects by Fernand Bernauw.

"One day, this land will be drowned and the sand will be under the sea. So go with me," said the Mermaid to the Monk, "And dance with me on the sand under the sea." And she took him by the hand and if you listen carefully you still can hear them singing forever happily in the land under the sea.

Flemish folk song composed in the trenches by Belgian soldiers in Flanders Fields during the Great War: The Kaiser is sick, He's got a colic And there's gas Coming out of his High Ass Hole! What has he got? Trouble, a lot And all too little Petrol!

This is a poem written for the woman I said "I will" to, 25 years ago.

A dark and gothic poem, accompanied by some ghostly music...

The 19th century Belgian princess Charlotte was for a short time Empress of Mexico. During the Mexican Civil War, when the Mexican peasants rose up to fight against Emperor Maximiliano, she fled to Europe seeking aid for her husband, but she had no success. While she was in Europe, her husband was captured and executed at Queretaro. Charlotte lost her mind and "Mama Carlota" became "Crazy Carlota". But she still remembers the wonderful tunes of her glory days...

The 19th century Belgian princess Charlotte was for a short time Empress of Mexico. During the Mexican Civil War, when the Mexican peasants rose up to fight against Emperor Maximiliano, she fled to Europe seeking aid for her husband, but she had no success. While she was in Europe, her husband was captured and executed at Queretaro. Charlotte lost her mind and "Mama Carlota" became "Crazy Carlota". But she still remembers the wonderful tunes of her glory days...

The 19th century Belgian princess Charlotte was for a short time Empress of Mexico. During the Mexican Civil War, when the Mexican peasants rose up to fight against Emperor Maximiliano, she fled to Europe seeking aid for her husband, but she had no success. While she was in Europe, her husband was captured and executed at Queretaro. Charlotte lost her mind and "Mama Carlota" became "Crazy Carlota". But she still remembers the wonderful tunes of her glory days...

From the Music Theatre Play about "Mama Carlota", the 19th century Belgian princess Charlotte who became Empress of Mexico. During the Mexican Civil War, when the Mexican peasants rose up to fight against Emperor Maximiliano, she fled to Europe seeking aid for her husband (without success). While she was in Europe, her husband was captured and executed. After that, the Empress of Mexico lost her mind...

In a haunted house in Bruges-la-Morte, you can hear a ghost playing the piano. Children from all around climb each other's shoulders to catch a glimpse of the grand piano that was left in the house by the last occupants. The lid is always open, a piano stool in place. And every night, the whole street can hear that wonderful music... But where is the pianist?

Everywhere, from western Texas to the Sierras of California, and from Chihuahua to Colorado, there are stories of treasure. Where do these stories come from?

There are ghosts in the Pink Room, the Music Room, the Dressing Room and the Silver Vault Room.

At night, you can hear Sir Robert Wynne still pacing the floor of this damned Lantern Room.

The true stories of Mylady Greensleeves, the Drummer Boy of Cortachy and the Phantom Piper of Culzean Castle.

Featuring the Creatures of Glamis Castle, the Red Room of Borthwick and the Ghosts of Culloden.

Horror writer Howard Phillips Lovecraft created this book and it was a fiction, but many people thought the Necronomicon was a fact.

How helpful it could be if you only had to talk about quatrain 20, century 9... and would be fully understood by your fellow conspirators...

Was Edgar Allan Poe not only a brilliant author, but also a demonic killer who wrote The Mystery of Marie Roget, to boast about the crime he committed?

If you consider a fine insurance fraud, you have to possess something valuable. And then I don't mean your wife... or your life ('cause you don't wanna lose that, I guess).

You don't want to commit a not so perfect murder, do you? Better ask a pro to get a dirty job done!

A beautiful young lady dances to the tunes of this ghostly music through the walls of a haunted house in Bruges-la-Morte. She disappears very slowly into the night and into the mist. Do you see her? Can you hear it?

This is a possible solution to the Free Online Murder Game "The Mystery of the Devil's Castle".

You don't want to commit an imperfect murder, do you? Better ask a pro to get the dirty job done. And don't forget to complete your plumbing.

Being a Hilton in Paris is not that simple. People are thinking you are just another dumb blonde, but you are not Britney Spears or something like that.

Being famous is not that simple. People are thinking you're just a dumb blonde... but you are not!... Are you...?

The "Court of Miracles" was a Paris district where in the 16th and 17th century all the crookes of the French capital were looking for a refuge.

A ghost poem, featuring Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

A poem about visiting the medieval city of Bruges (Flanders, Belgium) that looks very much like a ghost town.

Sticks and stones can break your bones, but words can cause permanent damage... A Dutch "cabaret" song, like Erik Jan Hanussen used to sing during roaring twenties, in Germany.

New age, ambient and spiritual music. Hear the Birdman fly free!

Free (and very Dutch) Interpretation of an Indian Spiritual Dance. New Age Music.

Dit is een vertaling van de authentieke heksenvervloeking, die ervoor gezorgd heeft dat "Macbeth" de reputatie kreeg "een vervloekt stuk" te zijn. Benieuwd of het in het Nederlands ook lukt. Shakespeare went too far in his desire for authenticity, by using genuine black magic recipes in his play "Macbeth". The foul ingredients of the witches' brew in Act I, Scene 3 - scale of dragon, tooth of wolf,... - were not solely the product of Shakespeare's imagination... This is a translation (in Dutch) of the genuine black magic incantations of the three Shakespearian Witches, that invoked a fatal and irrevocable curse on the play. Does it work also in Dutch? Imagine a group of witches dancing around a black cauldron on a devastating Bo Diddley Beat, throwing ingredients into the cauldron and shouting out strange phrases...

Een van de liedjes uit het muziektheater "Scharpenelle" van Compagnie de Ballade, naar het boek "De Engel van Mons" (Patrick Bernauw), in 2005 bekroond met de Visser Neerlandia Prijs voor Musical. A song from the musical "Scharpenelle". In 1930, the British newspaper The Daily News had a story that first was published by a New York newspaper. If a former member of the Imperial German Intelligence Service was to be believed, British troops had in 1914 really seen what they called The Angels of Mons...

'Papa, how is it at the Yser?' asked the Crown Prince, said the Kaiser. 'Too bad, my son, we can't get through. These little Belgians are there too. With their weapons in the hand they are defending their homeland. We will all die here 'cause we can't win, I feel it in my brass pin! If I had known this I had preferred shitting my pants and be in the dirt. You wash it out and it's all done, but now we're gonna be all dead and gone!'

"The Court of Miracles" - some streets in medieval Paris were named that way, because of all the blind or cripple beggars (and thieves)... who as by miracle could see and/or could walk there. "Wees welkom heer, en zit neer in het Hof van Mirakelen, waar de lamme loopt en de blinde kijkt en niets nog is wat het lijkt." Uit de gelijknamige jeugdroman van Patrick Bernauw.

Een van de liedjes uit "De Sterke Verhalen Blues", geschreven door Patrick Bernauw en gebaseerd op een urban legend/broodje aap verhaal. "Motel Droomoord" vind je ook terug in zijn jeugdroman "Spookrijders", maar dan als verhaal. A Dutch blues ballad based upon an urban legend about a Motel RedRuM...

"Where do we spend all our money?" the French medieval poet Francois Villon asked himself. He gave the answer himself: "In the bars... with the barmaids..." Translated in Dutch by Patrick Bernauw. Waar gaat het allemaal naartoe? Naar de kroegen en de meiden...

"The Ballad of Fat Margot" is a poem by the French medieval vagabond Francois Villon, in which he describes his love for a prostitute. It was translated in Dutch by Patrick Bernauw. Dit lied maakt(e) deel uit van het muziektheater "De Liederlijke Levensliederen van Francois Villon" van Compagnie de Ballade.

"Lord Halloween" was a medieval serial killer... but his last victim, a beautiful young girl, was too fast for him. She chopped off his head and placed it on a table... A medieval Dutch Bluebeard legend. Heer Halewijn zong een liedje klein, en al die dat wilde wou bij hem zijn. En dat vernam een koningskind, die was zo lief en welbemind... Het verhaal eindigt met: Er werd gehouden een groot banket. Zijn hoofd werd op tafel gezet.

"The Two King's Children" is a Dutch Romeo and Juliet ballad, and legend. They were in love, but they couldn't marry each other... Het waren twee koningskinderen, zij hadden elkaar o zo lief... Zij konden bijeen niet komen, het water was veel te diep.

May Colven: False Sir John a wooing came To a maid of beauty fair; May Colven was this lady's name, Her father's only heir.

"It happened In the Middle Ages"... You didn't want to be a knight in a boat, then... 'cause if there was a storm, and you were there sitting in your harness... "Het was al in de Middeleeuwen, zo rond een uur of twee, twee uur..." Een liedje uit de schoolmusical "De Duistere Middeleeuwen", door Patrick Bernauw ook tientallen keren gebracht in het gelijknamige muziektheater met Compagnie de Ballade. Het muziektheater was/is gebaseerd op het kinderboek van Patrick Bernauw en Guy Didelez: "Duistere Middeleeuwers".

This guy thinks he is Rambo and loves hard rock, but there is something wrong with his voice... as you can hear in the song! Een gedicht van Guy Didelez over "Rambo de Paracommando", door Patrick Bernauw bewerkt tot een liedjestekst, door zijn broer Fernand op muziek gezet, en sindsdien een onderdeel van de schoolmusical "Het Infernaat". Patrick vertolkte het liedje honderden keren tijdens voorstellingen van "De Sterke Verhalen Blues".

An urban legend ballad about a guy who wants to make love to a woman while he's wearing a Zorro suit and she is all tied up... But he gets a heart attack and dies... leaving his woman all tied up in this lonesome house... Het is algemeen geweten dat variatie en fantasie het samenspelen stimuleren, zei de heer tot zijn lady...

A song about a girl who loves to dance and who would even dance with the Devil himself...

A horror soundtrack produced for the Murder and Mystery City Game "The Spirits of Bruges".

An original eerie horror road-song by Patrick & Fernand Bernauw and Luc Borms, based upon an urban legend about a spooky hitchhiking girl... Een verhaal van Patrick Bernauw, gezongen door Luc Borms, in een productie van Fernand Bernauw.

A Halloween horror soundtrack of The ArteFarce Project.

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