Mysterious deaths or murders occur regularly, but nevertheless, even among such cases, there are even stranger and apparently paranormal incidents.
One of these is the story of a young girl who was possessed by the spirit of a stranger who wanted to tell who and how killed him.
On a cold day on February 13, 1936, the dead body of a local resident was found under the Morandi Bridge in the Italian city of Catanzaro. The man's name was Giuseppe "Pepe" Veraldi and judging by the nature of the injuries on his body and head, he fell down from the bridge.
The investigation was swift and the authorities soon issued a statement that Pepe had committed suicide. But the victim's family strongly disagreed. According to them, Pepe had no reason to kill himself and it was as if someone pushed him on purpose, that is, it was already a matter of deliberate murder.
The police, however, ignored these protests and declared the case closed.
Three years later, in January 1939, a young teenage girl, Maria Talarico, was walking across the Morandi Bridge. Suddenly she felt a strong urge to go to one specific place (the place from which Pepe fell), and then she felt very dizzy and she lost consciousness.
Passers-by stumbled upon the girl lying unconscious on the bridge and carried her home, where she fell asleep without regaining consciousness and slept for many hours. And when she woke up, even stranger things began.
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Firstly, it was no longer Maria, she spoke in a low male voice and immediately declared that she was none other than Giuseppe Veraldi. Secondly, "Giuseppe" then began to demand to bring him wine and cigarettes, and also to find his mother.
Maria never smoked or drank, she was a very clean and well-behaved girl. Her family was immediately alarmed, but obeyed the request and brought into the house the mother of the late Giuseppe, Catarina Veraldi.
As soon as Katarina began to communicate with "Giuseppe", she immediately declared that it was really her son. In addition, "Giuseppe" wrote several lines on paper, and it was not Maria's handwriting, but the handwriting of Catharina's son.
Things got even darker when "Giuseppe" said that he did not kill himself, but was attacked by his own friends, beaten and thrown from the bridge down.
After that, "Giuseppe" ran from the house to the bridge and fainted in the same place where Maria had fallen earlier. And when the girl woke up, it was Maria again and she did not remember anything that happened to her after her fainting.
Everyone around was puzzled by this story and wondered whether it was true that the spirit of the murdered Pepe was in Maria's body or the girl was simply delirious. However, all this was only at the level of rumors and the story gradually began to be forgotten.
9 years passed and Catarina Veraldi received a letter from which she felt even more uncomfortable. The letter was written by Giuseppe's former friend, Luigi "Toto" Marchete, who moved to Argentina shortly after Giuseppe's death.
In the letter, Luigi fully confessed to killing Pepe out of jealousy of the woman and described in detail how he, along with three other friends of Pepe, attacked him, beat him and threw him off the bridge. That is, exactly what the spirit told Giuseppe, being in the body of Mary.
However, when Catarina decided to contact Luigi, it turned out that he had recently died, and other people found this letter among his belongings and it was indicated on it to be sent to that address to Catarina Veraldi.
In his will, Luigi also wrote that all his belongings and valuables should be given to the Veraldi family as compensation for the crime.
The Catanzaro police considered the letter to be genuine and subsequently arrested three of Luigi's accomplices, who still lived in Catanzaro. All three were found guilty of the murder of Giuseppe Veraldi and received what they deserved.
As for Maria Talarico, they say that she continued to live a normal life and nothing strange happened to her.
This story has many questions. Maria never knew Giuseppe, why was she chosen by his spirit to occupy her body? Did she have any special hypersensitivity, or was it just easier to get into her body? And where was her soul when the body was occupied by the essence of another person?