The world around us is full of secrets and supernatural phenomena. Not everything can be attributed to the upset imagination of people, illusions, hallucinations and other paradoxes of the psyche.
Some, to put it mildly, strange facts have been observed for a long time in the presence of respected citizens, the authorities, and lately, and police representatives, are recorded in writing. Science denies their existence and tries to explain everything by natural reasons, but this is often impossible.
Self-propelled coffins
With the advent of funeral service organizations, coffins made from a variety of materials began to be offered to the deceased. Once, when the buyer asked which coffin is better, an employee of one funeral home answered:
- It's hard to say, wood is healthier, but metal, of course, is more reliable.
In the 19th century, coffins made of lead were in vogue. Sometimes unexplained phenomena happened to them. In one of the crypts of the cemetery of the village of Gretford in Lincolnshire, England, upon examination, it turned out that all the coffins were standing upright or were leaning against the wall.
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In the burial vault in the cemetery of Antsla in Estonia, when they were going to bury one of the members of the Bunsgewden family, the lead coffins were scattered around the crypt like matchboxes.
But a classic example of this well-known phenomenon in the early 19th century was the story in the crypt of the Chase-Eliots and their relatives in the Christinchurch cemetery on the island of Barbados, where family members of wealthy planters were buried in lead coffins.
The crypt was constructed of bricks and large blocks of coral stone, and the entrance was covered with a blue marble slab. In August 1812, the fourth "guest" was brought to him - Thomas Chase.
When the stove was removed, a nightmarish picture was revealed to those present. One of the coffins was moved from one corner of the tomb to another and turned upside down, the other was turned 90 degrees and lay on its side. The planters accused black workers who hated them of vandalism, but they denied any involvement in the sacrilege. The coffins were replaced in their original places.
On September 25, 1816, the coffin with the body of S. Ames was brought to the tomb. When the crypt was opened, it turned out that the coffins were again scattered in disarray. They were placed in their places and the crypt was closed.
Search for intruders
A month and a half later, a new deceased was brought to the tomb - S. Brewster. The members of the funeral team first carefully examined the slab covering the entrance. She looked undisturbed, but the coffins in the crypt were once again out of place. The most thorough examination of the premises yielded nothing.
In 1819, Mrs. T. Clarke was buried, and the picture was repeated, only now three smaller coffins lay on three large coffins. The governor of the island, Lord Cambermeer, took up the investigation personally. He ordered to fill the floor of the crypt with sand so that you could see the traces of those who "run" there. The entrance was cemented, and the governor and several respected citizens of Barbados left their seals on the not yet frozen solution.
Without waiting for the next deceased, the governor in 1820 decided to inspect the tomb. Although the seals on the cement were in perfect order, most of the coffins were again moved from their places.
There were no tracks on the sand poured on the floor. The governor ordered to bury the dead in other places, and the ill-fated crypt was closed for a long time.
Several versions were put forward explaining the phenomenon of moving coffins, but they did not satisfy the scientists, and this story is still waiting for its researchers.
But there are even more incredible facts that do not fit into our consciousness. Nobody knows how to explain them.
Not without evil spirits?
Let's start with an incident in western Kansas (USA) in 1989. Joe Burney, owner of a farm in the village of Foley Creek, in the morning in his yard suddenly saw a small earthen embankment with a stone tombstone and called the police. The first assumption of the arriving law enforcement officers was the version that someone made fun of Bernie.
The tombstone slab was old, it was impossible to make out the words written on it and find out where it was brought from. This version disappeared when the police began to tear apart the grave mound and found a coffin with human remains destroyed by time. It is impossible to move a decent amount of earth with a coffin and bones under the owner's windows without noise and vehicles, so there was no smell of a rally.
It was not possible to find out where the grave was "dragged" from, and the coffin with the remains was reburied at the local cemetery. Eyewitnesses of this phenomenon involuntarily had the idea that it was not without evil spirits, and the case remained unsolved.
In the fall of 1928, a resident of London, Arthur Hazelm, finding himself in the town of Glensville (Scotland), decided to visit the grave of his relative Roger Hazelm, who was buried 15 years ago. He remembered the place well and was surprised to see, instead of a mound with a tombstone, a flat piece of land covered with withered grass. The watchman could not explain anything, and the annoyed Sir Arthur turned to the city council, where he was shown a diagram of the cemetery and the site on which Roger's grave was supposed to be.
But she was not there either. The watchman became interested in the strange situation with the grave and, after spending half a day, found Roger Hazelm's tombstone about 200 meters from the place where the grave had been located earlier. Sir Arthur hired workers who excavated the site of the previous burial, but the coffin was missing.
It was decided to excavate the grave under the tombstone found by the watchman. At a depth of 1.5 meters, the coffin lid appeared. The official authorities have invited close relatives of the deceased to the exhumation. When the decayed bones were examined, a ring with the RH monogram worn by the deceased was found on the ring finger. That is, the remains of Roger in an incredible way moved along with the tombstone 200 meters! Similar stories have happened before.
From past
In the archives of the Church of St. Thomas in the Austrian city of Linz, a record of the 16th century has been preserved that the grave of the burgher Stetenberg moved from one place to another. The agitated population in this incredible incident saw a bad omen. Considering the deceased to be the bearer of evil and saving the city from possible disaster, the body was removed from the grave and burned. The pit was filled up with cobblestones and sand, and an aspen cross was erected on top.
In 1627 in Spain a massive stone tombstone with a large volume of earth and the ashes of a certain Pedro Asuntos was moved to another place.
In 1740, in Germany, near the town of Ravensburg, a grave with a tombstone was moved from the cemetery to the river bank. According to the inscription on the slab, it was established that this was the grave of Christina Bauer, who was distinguished by decorous behavior, during her lifetime made generous donations to the church and was buried in the most prominent place of the church cemetery.
The local priest at first did not believe that such a thing could happen, but there was no grave mound or tombstone in the place of honor. In the presence of a large number of eyewitnesses, the earth was excavated in the place where Bauer was buried, but her remains were not found.
When they dug up a grave mound on the banks of the river, they found a coffin with human bones. Considering that this is the will of God, the coffin and remains of the parishioner, sprinkled with holy water, were buried at the place of the find on the river bank.
Coffin Navigator
The famous theater actor Charles Francis Coglen (1842-1899) died of a heart attack while on tour in Galveston, Texas (USA).
This happened after the premiere of the play in the dressing room, and Koglen was buried in the local cemetery.
In 1900, a hurricane of unprecedented strength struck this town, killing several thousand people. Huge waves destroyed the cemetery and carried many coffins out to sea. Among those carried away was a ninety-kilogram sealed zinc coffin with Coglen's ashes.
His posthumous voyage lasted eight years, the coffin circled America and, having swum more than six thousand kilometers, was thrown ashore one of the Prince Edward Islands in southeastern Canada.
Such incredible and inexplicable cases are mysterious for you and me. But among the indigenous population of Polynesia and in a number of African tribes, such stories do not cause much surprise. There, so that the graves in the future could not leave their place, after the completion of the funeral rites, they are doused with the sap of special plants and surrounded by sea shells.
Valery KUKARENKO, "Secrets of the XX century" magazine, September 2016