CHAPTER 194: FIRESTARTER OF ÎLE SAINT-PAUL

ORIGIN: France

This is a haunting urban legend connected to the remote Île Saint-Paul, a small, uninhabited volcanic island in the southern Indian Ocean, belonging to France.

In the early 20th century, a small group of workers was left on the island as part of a failed attempt to create and establish a fishing and canning operation.

Supplies were promised but never ever arrived, leaving the workers totally stranded. 

Over time, desperation turned to madness, and one of the men, driven by hunger AND insanity, became something far more dangerous than hunger itself.

As the months dragged on, that one man started setting fires in the abandoned settlement, not for warmth but for hunting 

He hunted down his fellow survivors, using the flames to trap them and eat them.

When a rescue ship finally arrived, they found only one man left, looking emaciated, wild-eyed, and surrounded by multiple burnt ruins. 

Some versions say he had murdered the others; others say something spiritual had possessed him.

Today, sailors passing Île Saint-Paul report of seeing strange lights from at night— probably the ghostly flames of the Firestarter still burning.