Patrick Bernauw

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!

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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...

At midnight, this haunted house in Bruges-la-Morte is completely deserted. In each of the rooms, it is pitch black, apart from the room in which the grand piano plays the same wonderful melody, night after night, caught in a web of white light... But you can't see a piano player... The keys of the piano are touched by invisible fingers...

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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