No question, all the inhabitants of the Earth have heard of ghosts and ghosts. True, the academic teaching does not confirm the existence of a civilization of ghosts, since not a single inhabitant of the other world has been studied under the microscope of science.
However, many people are convinced that ghosts and ghosts are the reality of our world. And indeed, if the existence of God and his antipode, the Devil, is permissible, then why cannot otherworldly entities live in our neighborhood?
Again, speaking of ghosts and ghosts without focusing on the differences between these concepts, let's look at the fifth anniversary of the earthquake that shook the whole of Japan. And although they recovered economically, the consequences were greater.
Residents of the affected areas do not stop talking with chills about supernatural phenomena, such as the appearance of ghosts, or the spirits of dead people. Numerous press reports surfaced a few months after the Great Earthquake tragedy left more than 15,000 dead.
According to experts, according to a report on the BBC website, the storytellers may have suffered from some kind of psychological distress, say due to trauma, having survived one of the worst natural disasters that happened in Japan.
However, a sociologist from Tohuko University, Yuka Kudo, conducted a study polling taxi drivers and people associated with these kinds of phenomena. In a summary, he stressed these stories are not the result of mental illness.
Over the 10 months between 2014 and 2015, over 200 random interviews were conducted in the city of Ishinomashi, where the deadly tsunami wave hit. Fifteen of these people said that they had direct contact with the spirits of the deceased, thus experiencing unexplained situations.
“I have no interest in discussing whether the testimony is really true or not. There is a social phenomenon and this is the subject of my research,”he said in an interview with BBC Brazil. "The question of life after death got me interested, giving me a message to search for more information, so I decided to investigate."
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One of the taxi drivers who took part in the investigation told the sociologist: one night I gave a ride to a very strange girl. The taxi driver asked the young passenger where her parents were, and she replied that she was alone. Arriving at the right place, the driver helped the worried girl out of the car with something. She smiled, thanked him and, turning … disappeared after a couple of steps! The driver swears he was not drunk, he held the girl's hand and talked to her.
Another taxi driver told the sociologist how he “picked up” a woman a few months after the tragedy. She asked to be taken to Minamihama district, a place that lay in the ruins of tsunami-torn buildings. When the driver asked what can be done in the ruins at night, the woman explained - here she died! Looking back, the taxi driver realized that he was driving alone in the car.
Another taxi driver, who told the story of a young man about 20 years old, climbed into a car, also experienced no less terrible minutes. When he looked in the rearview mirror, he saw a boy pointing his finger forward. Dumbfounded by such a metamorphosis, the driver mechanically asked - where are we going?
When the taxi driver, thinking about the strange vision on the way, looked in the mirror again, he was really struck by - he saw the empty rear seats. By the way, even after this adventure, he is skeptical of ghosts and ghosts, the spirits of dead people, and in general all this otherworldly nonsense, although he cannot explain the incident in any other way.
According to official figures from the Japanese government, 15,894 people died in the earthquake-triggered tsunami that devastated Japan's northeastern coast on March 11, 2011. 2,572 people are still missing.
Talking about the survey, sociologist Yuka Kudo took a lot of criticism for his work, mainly for obtaining data regardless of the psychological health of his interlocutors, as experts point out.
“But the purpose of my research is not to determine if spirits exist or if the drivers are sick,” the author replied. “There is a sociological phenomenon, there are people who claim to have seen ghosts, and this is interesting to me,” he told the BBC.
Indeed, the other world and ghosts in particular are an exciting issue of sociopsychology. As a culture of a technogenic nature, we grew up brought up on the realism of things, and then suddenly it turned out that we were faced with a mind-boggling task, to understand the independent civilization of the afterlife.