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Last week we did a strange find on the social network Instagram. A new account had just been created, “Gendarmerie de Vieux-Rouen-sur-Bresle”.

Strange, since there is no no police station in this town from Seine-Maritime. Looking closer, the description mentions “a fictitious account”, which further draws our curiosity.

False disappearances

Some photos had already been posted on this account, but some fake newspaper clippings – of Daily newspaper Vallée de la Bresle – report disturbing disappearances in the community for around thirty years, always around Halloween. It is by looking in the comments of these mysterious posts that we understand who we are dealing with.

This account was created by the team of the magazine “Affaires Criminelles”, specializing in news items, which is releasing its first issue next December.

It was the first time that Pauline Pavotmarketing manager, launched into this type ofescape game online. “I am very fond of this type of escape game to do at home », Explains the young woman.

As Halloween approaches, the team had the idea to make this escape game to enliven the community. “It was necessary more than two weeksto organize everything,” explains the manager, who created everything: false accounts of residents of Vieux Rouennais, false suspects, false testimonies… but real places, like the abandoned mill of Saint-Germain-sur-Bresle .

Surveys were created for Internet investigators to find out who the next suspects to be questioned would be.

Abandoned mill

The question remains why did you choose Vieux-Rouen-sur-Bresle, a town of 570 inhabitants, when the magazine is based in Paris?

“I searched for abandoned places on sites dedicated to urbex [exploration urbaine, NDLR]. »

In her research, Pauline Pavot came across the abandoned mill of the neighboring townfrom Vieux-Rouen-sur-Bresle.

“The advantage is that GPS coordinates were easy to decipher » adds the young woman. To guess these GPS coordinates, it had to solve the previous riddle .

Clues were placed in all elements of the account to find the culprit: testimonies, drawings, newspaper clippings.

The puzzles, which spanned three days to discover who was behind the various (false) kidnappings and murders, attracted many Internet users. “We had more than 6,000 interactions in one weekon the account,” rejoices Pauline Pavot. A first, which will not be the last for her.

And why not in another mill in the Bresle valley?

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