Among the most large-scale anomalous phenomena that science cannot yet fully explain, chronomirages are in the first place. These are phenomena that allow, under certain conditions, to observe events that took place in the past. The time interval of events can vary from several hours to thousands of years. Sometimes hundreds of people see them, so we are not talking about any kind of visual illusion or hallucinations.
A temporary transition can be from the future to the present. On this score, there is a hypothesis according to which time - apparently the most mysterious property of the physical world today - is capable of influencing all kinds of events. However, time is inseparable from another substance - space. Probably, this unity can show us many amazing, unexplained effects.
The famous Soviet astrophysicist, Professor Nikolai Kozyrev came to the conclusion: time, manifesting itself in the entire Universe at once, binds together absolutely all objects of the world around us.
The visions were such an intrusive reminder of themselves that the scientific community, in the end, ceased to deny them the right to exist. The incredible pictures were nevertheless recognized by experts as one of the facets of our reality. But it didn't go any further. No, people have not stopped observing the phenomena that have received the name "chronomirazh". But it has not yet been possible to explain their nature. A number of researchers believe that we are talking here about an unusual property of psychic energy. It, persisting and accumulating in space-time, is supposedly capable of “manifesting” under certain circumstances, conveying pictures of the past or future.
The scientist Genrikh Silanov, who studied the Novokhopersk zone for many years, proposed an interesting version of the origin of different chronomirages. In his opinion, there is a field (noosphere) that can store living images and events. Under the right conditions, you can simply observe this picture. G. Silanov's American colleague Harry Hart, conducting a study of the anomalous zones of Sedona, concluded that in such anomalous zones there are temporary portals to parallel dimensions and time loops. The Sedona zone is known not only for its chronomirages, but also for deviations in the speed of the passage of time and in terms of measuring the magnetic field.
Optical physicists, having familiarized themselves with the next message about strange visions, usually frown in annoyance: the effect of fata morgana has long been explained and there is no secret in the emergence of "heavenly pictures". One could easily agree with representatives of this field of science, but here's the trouble: no laws of physics can explain the strangeness of the behavior of some mirages. Unlike quite respectable and disassembled "by the bones" Fata Morgan, they reflect events far from the place of the "premiere" not only in space, but also in time. By the way, there are the majority of such “wrong” visions …
The plots of the "heavenly movie" are as varied as in the documentary chronicle. Very often, various geographical realities are demonstrated in it: cities, areas of the area and even individual houses.
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Cities in the sky
Chronomirage, which is known all over the world - the ghost of the city of Kitezh - is located on the territory of Russia. Some chronomirages, unlike their heavenly brothers, descend to earth, or are born directly on it. The Kitezh chronomyrage is just that. Its place of action is Lake Svetloyar in the Novgorod region. In its waters, no, no, let the reflection of the domes appear. At these moments you can even hear their ringing. The legend about Kitezh as presented by V. L. Komarovich sounds like this:
“There is a lake in the Vetluga forests. It is located in the forest thicket. The blue waters of the lake lie motionless day and night. Only occasionally a slight swell runs over the lake. There are days when lingering singing is heard to the quiet shores of the lake and distant bells are heard.
A long time ago, even before the coming of the Tatars, the glorious city of Kitezh stood on the site of the lake. In the center of the city were six heads of churches. Coming to Russia and conquering many lands, Batu heard about the glorious Kitezh-grad and rushed to it with his hordes … The Tatars surrounded the city with a thundercloud and wanted to take it by force, but when they broke through to its walls, they were amazed. The inhabitants of the city not only did not build any fortifications, but did not even intend to defend themselves. The Tatars could hear only the bell ringing of churches. Residents prayed for salvation.
And as soon as the Tatars rushed to the city, high-water springs suddenly gushed out of the ground, and the Tatars retreated in fear. And the water kept running and running …
When the noise of the springs died down, there were only waves in the place of the city. In the distance the lone head of the cathedral glimmered with a gleaming cross in the middle. She slowly plunged into the water. Soon the cross also disappeared."
In June 2011, residents of the city of Huangchang, located on the Xin'an River in eastern China, witnessed another wonderful natural phenomenon. A grandiose mirage that spreads across the entire horizon.
The spectacle of a huge city with trees, skyscrapers and mountains emerged from the fog over the river in the evening at sunset after a series of heavy torrential rains. Surprised residents recorded the phenomenon on video and took photos. No one could identify the city and people believe that it is something from an old lost civilization. The photos and videos perplexed even the experts, who were also unable to identify the city.
Timeline in Huangchang city
I recommend watching the video, it boggles the mind … (trees and glowing lights in houses are the same mirage)
Another event took place on May 9, 2011, a fabulous picture appeared in the sky over the bay near the Chinese city of Haikou on the island of Hainan. For almost an hour, the multitude of people gathered on the shore could observe the whole ghostly city hanging over the sea.
Mirage in Haikou
Judging by the modern buildings, the chronomire belonged to our days, although there were no characteristic features, Asian or European, in it.
A similar case was observed in China in 2010. At about 6:00 a.m. on July 26, a sailor on duty on one of the Chinese Navy patrol ships stationed in the roadstead near the city of Sanya unexpectedly saw a city block of several strange high-rise buildings that arose in the distance between the sky and the sea.
He reported to the commander of the ship about an unusual phenomenon. When the captain himself was convinced that this was not an optical illusion, he gave the order to move in the direction of the chronomire. When the ship approached him, the sailors clearly saw a whole ghostly city of skyscrapers. At the same time, at 6:45 the mirage became very clear and distinct, many began to photograph it, after which it began to fade, and at 7:12 it completely dissipated.
In the past, there have been many such "geographical" chronomirages. So on July 18, 1820, the captain of the ship "Baffin" Scorsby, watching through a telescope the west coast of Greenland, was surprised to see "a huge ancient city". He hurried to sketch it, but later it turned out that there was no city in this place at all, and the very realistic drawings of the captain with temples, monuments and castle ruins were declared a figment of the imagination.
The same verdict was passed regarding the painting of an unknown city with very beautiful white buildings, which was seen in the sky by the inhabitants of Sandy Island in the Orkney archipelago in 1840 and 1857. However, sometimes scientists had to admit the reality of celestial mirages, because they were observed by a large number of people who were at a considerable distance from each other.
In 1881-1888, a number of unknown islands were observed over Sweden, and their landscapes were the same each time.
A few years later, on one sunny spring day, an unknown city appeared over Ashland (Ohio, USA).
Hundreds of eyewitnesses saw it perfectly, but their opinions differed: some claimed that it was one of the nearby cities, others thought they were watching … Jerusalem, and others - a non-existent settlement.
Already in our time, the image of a certain ancient temple or city is often observed in the morning on the Zhiguli peninsula, formed by the bend of the Volga in the Samara region. Avid fishermen and mushroom pickers report about domes with turrets around, the location of which is different each time: either on the shore of a lake, then at a steep cliff, then on a hillside, or just above the water of a reservoir.
Moreover, the observation points of the same "picture" are separated from each other by tens of kilometers. Historians have not found in the local chronicles even a hint of such structures, which may not have existed for many hundreds of years.
Combat chronomirages
Ghost battles, impressive in their drama and a large number of characters, battle pictures of battles that took place in the past, began to be chronicled in the Middle Ages.
There are so many testimonies about "combat" chronomirages that it is impossible to tell about all of them. Therefore, here are only the most reliable and significant of them. Let's start with the fact that often in the sky there are not battles themselves, but what preceded them.
Throughout the 17th-18th centuries in England and Scotland, ghostly marching warriors were repeatedly seen among the clouds. In 1624, not far from the English city of Keyton, a heavenly battle was observed - with shots, horses neighing and groans of the wounded. The battle lasted several hours and was watched by many people.
In 1888, for several hours in the sky over the town of Varasdin in Croatia, cavalry detachments passed, led by officers with sparkling blades in hand.
Finally, on August 7, 1914, soldiers of the retreating British army watched as ancient knights and archers, glowing angels and cavalry squadrons moved parallel to it in the sky.
Similar chronomirages are repeated in our time. One of them, about which the press wrote a lot, was registered in November 1956, when the British Peter Zinoviev and Patrick Skipwith went on a hike to the Quillin Mountains on the Isle of Skye. At 3 o'clock in the morning, hearing a strange noise, they looked out of the tent and saw in the sky "dozens of Scottish riflemen who were firing at an invisible enemy."
Less than five minutes passed, and the arrows melted into the darkness of the night. And in the morning the friends were awakened by strange sounds again. This time they saw the same Scots in the sky, but retreating, stumbling over invisible stones. Having gone down to the town of Slaygachan, eyewitnesses told the hotel administrator about the strange "heavenly movie" they had seen.
To which he calmly said that they were not the first to observe the mysterious phenomenon, and that it was "a reflection of the battle that took place in 1745 between the rebellious representatives of the mountain clans of Scotland and the English army, led by the king's son William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland."
The most famous ghostly battle in the sky takes place periodically in the skies over the castle of Franca-Castello on the southern coast of the Greek island of Crete. This chronomyrage has a name - Drossolides (Greek - drops of moisture). Known about it for a long time, but for the first time it attracted serious attention during the Second World War.
One night, the German soldiers stationed in the castle were awakened by the approaching loud shouts and the clang of weapons that came from the shore. Then obscure figures of a mass of people appeared there. The sentries opened heavy fire, but the bullets did no harm to the ghostly warriors marching over the sea.
Since then, this strange phenomenon has been repeated in the middle of summer, usually in the early morning hours. Numerous eyewitnesses describe how, in front of their eyes, a blurry vision appeared more than once over the sea near the old castle: hundreds of people who came together in mortal combat.
Sometimes guttural screams and the clink of weapons are heard, sometimes the battle takes place in complete silence. A mysterious vision slowly approaches from the sea and disappears into the walls of the castle. Historians have established that in the middle of the 19th century, a battle took place on this site between the Greeks and the Turks. It is possible that the ghostly battle picture of these fighting troops appears in the morning haze near the castle.
The most tragic chronomyrage happened to be observed by a group of Tver search engines, who in the late 90s for two years were engaged in the search and burial of the remains of Soviet soldiers who died in the bloody battle near Rzhev.
Three times early in the morning, when they went out to the edge of the forest in front of a huge field, the same picture suddenly appeared in front of us … Along the field, six kilometers wide, one after another, a chain of fighters in greatcoats with skinny duffel bags behind their backs attacked.
They were clearly advancing to a height surrounded by several rows of barbed wire. Ahead, waddling, a lone tank was crawling, around which explosions raised fountains of earth.
Maneuvering, he fell with one caterpillar into a deep trench and settled firmly on the ground, and the next minute flared up with a bright smoky torch. But the soldiers' chains continued to advance to the height, which all flashed with the lights of machine guns. It was seen how their fire mowed down dozens of soldiers, falling in rows to the ground. However, the next doomed chain did not lay or turn back, but continued to go forward to cover the ground with hundreds of bodies.
Each time the show of this eerie silent "meat grinder" lasted 15-20 minutes and always ended unexpectedly. But it was clear that a picture of one of the countless attacks that took place on the Rzhev salient from February 1942 to March 1943 was painted in the sky and took about one and a half million lives.
Timeline from the future
In 1932, German journalists Bernard Hutton and Joachim Brunt went to the Hamburg Shipyard to write an article about it. Having done their job, they got into the car and were about to set off on their way back, when a very strong hum was suddenly heard in the sky.
Raising their eyes to the sky, the journalists saw there … a dive plane of a rather unusual design. Soon bombs began to explode around them. And all this was accompanied by equally loud claps of anti-aircraft installations. Recovering himself, Brant took out his camera and began to photograph this end of the world. Soon it was all over, and the newsmen set off. At the same time, they were very surprised when they noticed that despite the bombing, no traces of it remained. When the discouraged journalists returned to the editorial office, and the film was developed in the darkroom, there was nothing on it.
Twelve years later, in 1944, Bernard Hutton once again witnessed the same "end of the world." He saw him in a newspaper photo, where during the war years, the raid of British aircraft on the Hamburg shipyard was captured.
Materialization of chronomirages
We are talking about a completely inexplicable phenomenon - the materialization of mirages, or rather, their individual parts and objects. For example, Jacques Valais, a researcher of such a phenomenon, mentions an unusual phenomenon when a real ship was sailing across the sky. When the ship dropped anchor, he buried himself in the ground. Then a sailor began to descend from the ship along the cable. Seeing that people were watching him from the ground, he cut the rope and returned to the ship. The anchor stuck in the ground was raised, and since then it has been kept in the London Museum.
Historical records also show that in 1686 in England there was a heavenly procession of armed soldiers. It was sometimes accompanied by weapons falling to the ground, which, unlike the warriors themselves, were real and real. And in 1880, after a heavenly battle, broken trees and numerous traces of blood on the grass remained on the ground. Studies have shown that human blood …
No answers, only questions …
There are hypotheses regarding chronomirages, although they are too vague. Like, all these are "grimaces of time". Some researchers note that they are most often in the early morning hours, when droplets of fog condense in the air.
The Strait of Messina in the Mediterranean is cited as a typical example. There, when the sun rises high in the sky above the waves of the strait, fabulous cities and palaces suddenly appear. Camel caravans march along the streets, people scurry.
In short, the enigmatic vision is filled with movement and life. One fantastic picture is replaced by another, then everything suddenly disappears. Such cases are quite numerous. But if we take the total number of chronomirages, it turns out that during the day they are seen not less, but more than in the morning.
At night, the number of potential observers is simply immeasurably reduced. Thus, after analyzing hundreds of visions, it turns out that there is no regularity, a kind of "schedule" here. They happen at any time of the day: in the morning, in the afternoon, in the evening, and at night.
The analysis of a possible connection between chronomirages and atmospheric conditions did not give any results either. They occur in any weather and at any time of the year. For example, the famous Portuguese "session" took place during a rainstorm.
It happened on a September evening in 2004. Near Lisbon, the sky suddenly became overcast, and a severe thunderstorm began. It was so dark that cars were driving along the highway with their headlights on.
A lightning strike in the middle of an olive grove suddenly illuminated a luxurious palace, which at that very second was engulfed in powerful fire. This glow illuminated everything around. Hundreds of motorists witnessed the terrible fire.
The side of the road was instantly clogged with onlookers. The fire department and the police received numerous calls. However, by the arrival of the firefighters - about 12 minutes after the first bell - not only the fire had stopped, but the palace itself had disappeared, as if it had never existed.
As for the "cinemas", where people see the "heavenly movies", the number of such places is quite large, and they are scattered in many countries.
Among the places of the most frequent occurrence of chronomirages are traditionally: Isle of Tanet (Great Britain), Biggin Hill (Great Britain), Versailles (France), Valley of the Dead (Caucasus, Russia), Zhiguli (Samara region, Russia), Crete (Greece), Medveditskaya ridge (Volgograd region, Russia), Myasnoy Bor (Novgorod region, Russia), Nikandrovsky monastery (Pskov region, Russia), Novokhoperskaya zone (Voronezh region, Russia), Protasove (Tula region, Russia), Shailokh (USA) and others.
The trigger mechanism of chronomirages, most likely, is an external influence on the energy-informational field of the Earth, which reflects everything that happened and is happening on our planet. There is also a hypothesis that time is not divided into past, present and future. All these segments exist simultaneously.
Maybe chronomirages cause magnetic storms or geomagnetic disturbances in some small area of the terrain. To find out, further research is needed taking into account the possible impact of these factors.
If you are not quite tired yet, then this video contains interesting explanations of the occurrence of chronomirages.
Seeing over your head fighting medieval knights, you involuntarily think from the point of view of a modern sane person that such phenomena should not exist in nature, since they contradict all physical laws and scientific theories known to people. Conclusion: either you need to continue to hide behind the salutary expression: "This cannot be, because this can never be," or to figure out, finally, what the chronomirages really are. It seems that the second way out of the situation is still preferable …
And finally, a little "information for thought." Recently Stephen Hawking, the most respected theorist in the world, head of the famous Newtonian department, and always skeptical about the reasoning about time travel, suddenly declared that not only does it not contradict the laws of physics, but is quite feasible in practice. What is it for?