Ghosts sometimes resemble cockroaches in their habits. They also suddenly turn on and then it can be very difficult to get rid of them. Such a "permanent tenant" was wound up in 1916 on board the German U-65 submarine.
The day after the submarine was launched into the water, a torpedo exploded on its deck. Five sailors and a lieutenant were killed. And soon the most natural devilry began on board! The crew members repeatedly saw the deceased lieutenant, who appeared on the deck in the bow.
“He stood there and looked at us with his arms crossed on his chest,” witnesses reported to the command of the floating base.
The commander of the German submarine fleet, Admiral Schroeder, said that all this is "superstitious nonsense." As if hearing the words of the admiral, the ghost stopped appearing.
However, exactly one year later, he returned. And for days on end wandered through the compartments of the submarine when she was on a combat voyage. The crew was demoralized. The captain had to give the order for a hasty return.
The sub has returned home. The crew left her at a rush pace. Alas, the lieutenant's ghost did not follow the crew ashore. He stayed on board the submarine, which received the name "sworn" as a result. In silent melancholy, the ghost continued to stagger through the compartments, passing from one to the other right through the tightly sealed metal doors.
Admiral Schroeder pounded on the table with his fists in impotent rage when he was informed about this …
And in 1913, a biplane crashed while landing at the Montreuse military airfield in Scotland. Three years have passed. And just at that time, when a ghost began to appear on board the U-65 submarine, their otherworldly passions-muzzles began at the Scottish airfield.
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The first world war was going on. In the fall of 1916, in the middle of the night, an alarm was announced at the airfield. People have heard - no one knows whose plane is circling over the take-off field. Maybe this is a German intelligence officer ?!
An interceptor fighter was immediately lifted into the air. For half an hour, he chased an unidentified airplane in the black night sky, but he could not overtake him. Stopping the chase, which did not yield any results, the fighter pilot took his car towards the landing.
All the air base pilots watched the landing. As soon as the wheels touched the ground, the fighter suddenly soared up again. He made a circle over the airfield and went down again. And then for the second time he flew into the sky from a well-lit landing strip, rolling along it no more than ten meters. This was followed by a third approach to the landing strip - this time a successful one.
The fighter pilot, barely getting out of the cockpit, was indignantly curious:
- Guys, what kind of idiot was stopping me from landing? As I approach the landing, I see an old biplane rolling towards me along the runway …
Meanwhile, none of the airbase pilots who watched the landing of the fighter saw the "old biplane".
From that day it all began! Up to 1940, inclusively, at the Montreuse airfield, an "old biplane" was trying to land from time to time at night. Unlike its first appearance, it was observed later by many people. The "old biplane" went to land, landed and … then disappeared into the air every time.
According to the assumptions of the pilots of the air base, this ghost of the pilot, who died here in 1913, tried again and again to return on his old airplane to his home airfield. However, at the very last moment, the idea of breaking through on a ghost plane from the other world to this one suddenly fell apart.
Some unknown forces were pulling the fugitive from the underworld back. An attempt to make the most, perhaps, fantastic flight in the history of aviation - a flight from behind the grave to the world of living people! - ended in failure every time …
On the evening of October 4, 1930, the giant R-101 airship, the largest airship of the time, departed from Britain on a non-stop flight to India. The next day, at two in the morning, the airship crashed in the pouring rain onto a hillside near the town of Beauvois, north of Paris. At the moment of hitting the ground, 142 thousand cubic meters of hydrogen instantly flashed, filling the cylinders of the ship. The blaze killed forty-eight of the fifty-four on board.
Two days later, another experimental spiritualistic session was held at the National Laboratory for Psychical Research in London. The female medium Eileen Garrett fell into a trance. Lab chief Harry Price and his colleagues were trying that day to connect with the spirit of the late writer Conan Doyle. Instead of the spirit of Conan Doyle, a completely different spirit came in contact with them!
The medium woman spoke with anguish in a husky male voice:
- I have to do it. The total mass of the airship, especially for such low-power engines, is prohibitively large … And the engines themselves are heavy. Five times because of this, during the tests, I barely managed to dock the car. The lifting force is incorrectly calculated - all this can be seen from the readings of the instruments. And this elevator of the latest modification is sheer madness … The rudder is jammed. The oil line is clogged. We flew low - failed to gain altitude. Free lifting force turned out to be completely unrealized. And the load was great for such a long flight. The cruising speed is low, the car is thrown from side to side … The pressure in the shell has sharply increased - the fabric is pinched … The engines are useless - heavy and low-powered. They did not reach the cruiser height, as well as during the tests.
And the tests were few. No one really understood the design features. And then, in such weather, in the pouring rain it is generally unacceptable to go on a long voyage … The shell swelled from moisture … We walked, constantly diving with our nose. Neither align, nor gain height … The investigation will show: the frame turned out to be too rigid and the shell's own weight is too large. They also shoved this middle section, completely unnecessary … Only extra weight from it, and for weak engines - an extra load …
When G. Price published a report on this session of spiritualism, engineer Charlton, who took part in the development of the P-101 airship, immediately turned to him for a complete transcript of the session.
He subsequently told the public:
“This amazing document, which contains a detailed description of everything that happened to the ship on that fateful day, contains more than forty purely technical details, the meaning and importance of which can only be assessed by a specialist. The very idea that someone who was present at the session could have received all this information somewhere in advance seems absolutely absurd to me and my colleagues.
As unambiguously it followed from the transcript of the seance, all this purely technical information came from the other world from the captain of the P-101 airship Carmichael Irving, who died in the explosion and fire of an airship …
And now a message about strange events on board the sea ship this time. In January 1996, the Moscow newspaper Megapolis Express puzzled its readers with the sensational news:
“Sevastopol was stirred up by rumors of a ghost on the huge anti-submarine cruiser Moskva. Staff admirals equipped a group of officers on board the cruiser. Their report stunned the command: a ghost had actually wound up on the ship! It was an unknown sailor in an outdated white robe with bleeding wounds on his face. It was observed only in the ship's hold. Silently moved through the hold and disappeared into its depths, seeping right through the ship's bulkheads.
About a month later, the newspaper reported further, the ghost disappeared from the cruiser. But it turned up … at the local naval school named after Admiral Nakhimov. The alarm was announced at the school. In response to the shooting in the air, the ghost disappeared … in order to appear on board the cruiser "Leningrad", which was moored next to the cruiser "Moscow". For many months this story became the main urban sensation in Sevastopol.
