In December 2022, a British singer-songwriter named Brocarde, 40, from Oxfordshire, England, made headlines for her unusual marriage to a ghost named Edwardo. She said she met Edwardo, a Victorian soldier, when he “burst” into her bedroom one stormy night in 2021, sending shivers down her spine. They fell in love, and on Halloween 2022, they got married in an abandoned chapel called The Asylum in London. Brocarde invited both living and dead guests, and she claimed famous spirits like Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, and Henry VIII showed up to celebrate.
After the wedding, Brocarde and Edwardo went on their honeymoon to Barry Island, a seaside town in Wales. But things didn’t go as planned. Brocarde said Edwardo ruined the trip with his bad behavior. She tried sharing an ice cream with him on the beach, but it ended up all over her, making her look like she’d been attacked by a seagull. She also said Edwardo got “drunk” somehow and tried to get romantic, leaving her covered in sand and sticky mess. Brocarde felt frustrated and embarrassed, saying the honeymoon was a disaster because of him.
Brocarde’s story got weirder when she said Edwardo became obsessed with Marilyn Monroe’s ghost during the trip. He’d disappear for days and come back smelling like Chanel No. 5, Marilyn’s famous perfume. This made Brocarde jealous and upset. She tried to fix things by talking to a psychic medium to set rules for Edwardo, but it didn’t work. Instead, he got angry and started haunting her with the sound of a screaming baby whenever she did something he didn’t like. Brocarde said it was like being stuck in a nightmare with a jealous, annoying ghost.