Three times by chance
This was probably the strangest chain of unexplained phenomena that ever happened in the world. It includes 3 ships that crashed with a time gap of about 100 years off the coast of Wales in the Menai Strait. 1664, December 5 - the first ship went down, out of 81 passengers who were on board, only one survived, a certain Huo Williams. 1785, December 5 - exactly 121 years later, a ship wrecks again in the strait, and again all the passengers die, except for one person named Huo Williams.
The fact that two ships sank on the same day of one month is not the most inexplicable phenomenon, and it can happen, but when in both cases only one person named Huo Williams is saved, one can already see something of mysticism in this. But the story did not end there.
1860, December 5 - in the same strait, the ship again goes to the bottom, a small schooner, only 21 passengers, and again only one escaped - named Huo Williams.
Death of hunger in the palace
In the 15th century, a peasant boy named Robert Nixon, a quiet, mentally retarded teenager, lived in Cheshire (England). No one paid attention to his chatter. His gift was appreciated only in royal service.
One afternoon Nixon was working in the field and suddenly started shouting for no apparent reason: “Come on, Dick! Come on Harry! No, that won't do, Dick! That's right, Harry! Harry won! The people working nearby did not understand anything and did not attach any importance to this strange incident. But the next day, a courier from London announced that King Richard III had been killed in a battle with his rival Henry Tudor. The battle took place the day before, just at the time when Nixon was shouting something incomprehensible.
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When Henry Tudor, then already Henry VIII, heard about this case, he just sent for the mentally retarded clairvoyant. Nixon went into hysterics when the king's order was passed to him. He was terribly afraid of London and simply begged not to be taken there. After all, there, as he said, he would die of hunger. Ignoring his protests, Nixon was brought to the palace.
Heinrich wanted to test the boy's abilities, hid a very expensive diamond and told Nixon that he had lost the stone and asked him to find it. But Nixon's gift exceeded the king's expectations. Nixon calmly and intelligently quoted an old adage - said that whoever hides a stone should be able to find it. And therefore he will not look for a stone.
According to legend, this made a strong impression on Henry, and he left Nixon in the palace and ordered the predictions of the new seer to be recorded. While in royal service, Nixon foresaw the English civil wars, the war with France, death and abdication of the throne of kings. One of his predictions that the city of Nantwich would be destroyed by a great flood was yet to come true.
Despite all this, the fear of starving to death continued to torment Nixon. To rid his seer of fear, Henry ordered that Nixon be given food no matter when or what he wanted, and this could hardly make him a favorite with the kitchen servants. And when Henry was absent from the palace, he entrusted Nixon to a soldier, who looked after him.
The soldier took on the task with such a responsibility that he imprisoned Nixon in a closet to protect him from any harm. Once, during the king's next absence, the soldier was summoned from his post and he simply forgot about Nixon. When the cabinet doors were opened, Nixon had already died … of hunger.
Wandering feelings
There is a general idea that people who have lost their eyesight or hearing compensate for this physical disability by exacerbating other senses. In separately recorded cases, the lost feelings were restored on another part of the body.
The most famous case of feeling transference is reported by Dr. Lombroso, a renowned neurologist and psychiatrist. After suffering three months of a serious illness, a 14-year-old girl lost her sight. But she insisted that she could see it anyway. Unable to understand her parents brought her to Lombroso, and he conducted a series of experiments, trying to determine whether the girl was telling the truth.
Having blindfolded the girl's eyes, the neurologist put various objects in front of her. Surprisingly, she actually named the color and even read the letter. When a ray of light suddenly fell on the earlobe, she flinched in pain, and when the doctor touched the tip of her nose with a finger, she even cried out: “Do you want to make me blind?” It was evident that the girl's eyesight was restored on the earlobe and the tip of the nose. But not only the sight found another place for itself: the girl could smell smells under her chin.
Clairvoyants find ships
1977 - Scientists from the Moebius Society, Los Angeles Research Institute of Parapsychology, investigated the ability of clairvoyants to find sunken ships. Institute director Stephen Schwartz sent 4 navigational maps of the Pacific Ocean to five volunteers who claimed to have psychic abilities. They had to use their gift to see at a distance, find and describe the sunken ships. To find the ship, they only had a map of the place and their inner vision of the ship.
The fact that 4 out of 5 showed to the same place is striking. In their opinion, a wooden ship with a steam turbine exploded on an area of 16 square kilometers near the island of Sanga Catalina from 82 to 93 years ago. In addition, psychics described various ship items, a steering wheel, a stone slab, which would later be found at a depth of 84 meters, next to the sunken ship.
In June of the same year, Schwartz and two clairvoyants decided to check the correctness of the predicted. Al Whitcomb, the helmsman of the Taurus 1 submarine, was also on board. After searching in vain for 3 hours, Whitcomb lowered the radar at the search point. And the tentacles of the "Taurus" took out from the sand on the seabed the first of the four items from the sunken ship.
Three subsequent days of searching were crowned with overwhelming success. All objects that were described by psychics - among them the steering wheel and a stone slab - were found on the seabed. The location of the finds at the bottom and their condition confirmed the assertion of psychics that the ship was indeed wooden and sank due to the explosion. And the marine vegetation that covered the wreckage indicated that it had been underwater for decades.
An inexplicable calendar
The Mayan calendar, despite being over 5,000 years old, is surprisingly accurate. Its almost computer complexity is confusing for archaeologists and astronomers alike. So, the Maya calculated, among other things, that the Sun, Moon and Venus are in one row only once every 104 years. Of all the peoples of antiquity, only the Maya managed to determine the longitude of the solar year most accurately. According to modern calculations, it is 365.2422 days, while the Maya at the tops of their pyramids calculated a longitude of 365.2420 days. The difference is only two ten thousandths, and this is millennia before other astronomers, with more sophisticated means of calculation, were able to achieve a similar result!
But how long before the invention of the telescope were they able to make such accurate astronomical observations?
If you trust the legends about this civilization, then the calendar was a gift from aliens from the stars.
What happens when we leave the body
People of all ages, races, ages, denominations and cultures have known about intentional or accidental exits from their bodily shells. Writers and artists believe that going beyond their bodies is a source of creative inspiration, and communicate their experiences in great detail. Famous out-of-body travelers have included Aldous Huxley, Emily Bronte, Jack London, and Johann Wolfgang Goethe.
The American writer Ernest Hemingway, for example, served as an ambulance in the United States corps on the Italian front during World War I. One July evening in 1918, he was sitting in a trench near the village of Fossalta, tormented by the heat and cramped conditions. Suddenly he heard the whistle of a flying grenade. Numerous shrapnel hit his feet. Later, he told friends that the pain was so terrible that he already thought that he would soon die, and suddenly felt his spirit leave his body. Hemingway captured his feelings in 1929 in the novel In Another Country. “I tried to inhale, but my breathing did not obey me,” says his hero Frederick Henry, “and I felt myself slipping out of the body outward, to freedom, feeling the air around the body. And now I am outside, all I am, and I knew that I had died and that people are mistaken when they think that after death there is nothing. Then I was carried away somewhere, but suddenly I felt that I was returning to myself. I breathed in and woke up."
Psychic wolves
When Jack Lynch took over the project for the protection of American coyotes, he could not have imagined that his pets would show incredible psychic abilities, although he had worked a lot with coyotes before. The project and the reserve were founded by E. McCleary, who did a lot for his pets, for which they were imbued with sympathy for their savior. After McCleary fell seriously ill and could no longer perform his duties, Lynch took his place.
1962, May 23 at night, Lynch listened in amazement as all the coyotes howled in unison. “If something bothers them, then they usually howl for 20 seconds, but this time they are howling for 10 minutes,” he thought.
The next day, Lynch learned that just as the coyotes were howling, McCleary had died. “I can't explain it,” Lynch said, “especially since McCleary was in a hospital 36 miles away from the reserve. I only know what I have seen and heard."
Flamethrower Man
At first it was all very entertaining, but over time, 24-year-old A. Underwood from America, got tired of his ability to light objects with his breath. It was a real talent that he had to handle with care and which made him famous in the end. And no tests, no matter how long they lasted, no experts could substantiate this inexplicable phenomenon.
L. Woodman, the physician who first investigated Underwood, reported that subjects such as cotton handkerchiefs and dry leaves were brought to their mouths and ignited for a second. The doctor rinsed his mouth with various solutions, forced him to wear rubber gloves, but neither this nor other complex tests helped Woodman and his colleagues to convict Underwood of lying, they also could not explain this phenomenon.
Roger Williams' apples
Roger Williams was one of the most revered and beloved of the early settlers in the New World. 1631 - He arrived from Cambridge to Massachusetts, England, from where he was later exiled to Rhode Island for his unwavering religious views, where, in his new homeland, William founded a tiny colony that became famous for its unparalleled religious freedom. Williams died in 1683, and a modest stone was placed on his grave. A few years later, the authorities of Rhode Island decided to build a more worthy monument. When the coffin was opened, to everyone's surprise, no remains were found there. Initially, members of the Roger Williams Memorial Commission thought that the remains of their leader had been stolen. But in reality, everything was explained more simply: the roots of an apple tree growing nearby penetrated the coffin, wrapped around the body,sucked all the organic nutrients out of it and dissolved it. As proof, the shape of the intertwined roots was remarkably similar to the human body. The commission decided to cut down the tree. Its roots are now in the possession of the Rhode Island Historical Society.
Lick in the smoke
1986, January 28 - the Challenger spacecraft exploded and the whole world saw with horror the death of seven American cosmonauts, six men and one woman - an American teacher. On the evening of the same day, an eyewitness watched a video of the tragedy, and what she saw deeply moved the staff of the Kennedy Space Flight Center. Debi Hall, the doctor of this center, was at the time of the launch of the "Challenger" along with journalists and members of the families of astronauts and was a direct witness to the disaster. When she, shocked by the events of the day, sat in front of the TV and watched the tape, she at first thought that she was hallucinating. She looked over the scene over and over until she was finally convinced that she saw the image of Jesus Christ in the puffs of smoke during the explosion of the spacecraft.
The next day, Debi Hall again settled in front of the TV, but this time with her husband, and the husband also saw a large face with a beard. And when Hall brought the tape to the space center, the others also saw the face, it was not even necessary to tell them about it. What did Debi Hall say about this? "I believe the hand of God has intervened here."
The name is fate
To better understand this story, the reader needs to know that in the context used here, the English word chance (chans) means "lucky chance."
Frederick Chance was driving at high speed down a deserted street in Storbridge, Worchester, when he suddenly saw the headlights of an oncoming car. The cars were going so fast that a collision was inevitable. Chance got out with minor damage from the wreckage of the car, looked into another and was relieved to see that the other driver had escaped with only fright. Chance, delighted that everything had ended so well, introduced himself to the other driver. He opened his eyes wide in surprise - his name was also Frederick Chance.
Lightning Rod Man
Almost all of us are wary of lightning striking us during a thunderstorm, but the likelihood that this will happen is generally quite negligible. But the fact that lightning strikes the same person more than once is a completely inexplicable phenomenon. But for Betty Joe Hudson, this risk is very high. After all, this woman from Winburn Chapel, Mississippi is convinced that she is a real lightning rod.
Mrs. Hudson discovered her tendency to attract electricity as a child when lightning struck her in the face. Soon, her parental house was damaged by a strong lightning and as a result burned down in 1957 from another blow. When Betty married Ernest Hudson, the lightning changed its focus and now hit her new home. Three times the lives of its inhabitants were endangered, lightning burned trees and a water pump in the yard and even killed the Hudson's dog. The houses of neighbors were also damaged. The last case was this: the Hudsons were shelling peas on the veranda and went into the house as a storm was approaching. As they sat in the living room, they heard a terrifying crack: lightning destroyed their bedroom.
Nikolai Nepomniachtchi