The sinking of the largest sea liner named "Titanic" is the most famous and discussed tragedy of this kind. An infinite number of documents have been examined on this topic, the memories of thousands of witnesses are cited, hundreds of works and books have been written, documentaries and feature films have been shot …
Nevertheless, the mystery of the sinking of the "unsinkable ship" has not yet been fully solved and, moreover, the echo of the greatest tragedy reaches our times.
The place of death of this "unsinkable" liner, which sank in the cold waters of the Atlantic after colliding with an iceberg on April 15, 1912, is located at 41 ° 43'55 "north latitude 49 ° 56'45" west longitude, which is 600 kilometers from the island of Newfoundland. During this disaster, 1,513 people out of 2,224 passengers and crew members drowned.
Only 711 unfortunates were rescued by the Carpathia ship that picked them up. Currently, the Titanic is located several miles from the coordinates transmitted by the radio operator at the time of the crash, and therefore it was only recently discovered.
The search was also hindered by the enormous depth at which the ship's wreck, which was fairly rusted and covered with algae, lies - 3,750 meters. Technologies for searching at such depths simply did not exist before.
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Let's say right away that the mystical prehistory of this event associated with the name of the ship began 2,000 years ago with an ancient myth, which says that Zeus threw the titan giants who rebelled against him into the dark depths of Tartarus …
The Titanic catastrophe has become legendary and is associated with various unexplained incidents, coincidences and prophecies. Alas, they paid attention to them only after the death of the ship.
So, for example, even at the stage of construction of a ship at a shipyard in Belfast, frightening rumors constantly circulated among dockers that the liner would face a bad fate, since they repeatedly heard strange knocks in the part of the ship where it has a second bottom.
They were associated with the presence in this confined space of a whole brigade of shipyard workers, accidentally walled up inside and unable to get out. Gradually the knocking became quieter, and then disappeared altogether, but the talk about this not only did not stop, but became even more active, since the ghosts of those walled-up dock workers began to appear at the shipyard.
SICK TO SURVIVE
About a hundred passengers who had difficulty getting a ticket for this ship, on the eve of departure, suddenly returned the tickets. None of them then could clearly explain the reason for this decision.
Moreover, even the owner of the ship, the millionaire Pearson Morgan, refused to sail on the ship "for health reasons." Despite his "poor health", in the following days he was seen smiling and cheerful at one of the French resorts, arm in arm with his mistress.
Revenge of the Egyptian
There were also obvious prophecies. For example, in 1912 the newlyweds Ted and Blanche Marshall spent their honeymoon on the Isle of Wight, which was passing by the Titanic. When Blanche saw the ship, she trembled all over and, shouting "The ship will not reach America, it will drown, and many passengers will die!", She lost consciousness.
She later told the doctors and her husband that her vision was the cause. At first, they did not pay attention to this, deciding that the woman was simply in trouble with the psyche.
And even earlier, in 1874, a certain American poetess wrote a fatal song about the collision of a large ship with an iceberg. But the most famous is the case when, 14 years before the Titanic disaster, Morgan Robertson published the novel Futility, in which he described the internal structure of the ship with surprising accuracy, even predicting its name (Robertson called it Titan).
Even all the scientific and technical data of the fictional and real ships, the number of passengers and the number of lifeboats, as well as many other details coincided. But what is most impressive is that the fictional Titan also died from a collision with an iceberg.
Many attribute the curse of the ancient Egyptian soothsayer to an additional mystical reason for the death of the ship. Her mummy was removed from the tomb and sent on the Titanic to an exhibition in Los Angeles. She went to the bottom with him.
TITANICAL JOKES
It is believed that otherworldly activity associated with the Titanic has intensified in our time, when parts of the sunken ship and personal belongings of passengers began to be raised from the bottom. Many visitors to the exhibition of these objects told with horror how ghosts who came from nowhere tore photographs from the walls or dropped exhibits on the floor, pushed the tourists and grabbed them by the hair …
But the tricks of the ghosts can be attributed to the impressionability of the visitors. But there is also a real continuation of this story, which certainly cannot be explained by anything but mysticism. For example, a ship with a similar name - "Titanian" - collided with an ice block in 1939, which frightened the crew to death, having heard about the aforementioned tragedy.
As a kind of transcendental joke, one can regard the fall of an out of nowhere ice block on the roof of one of the houses while watching a movie about "Titanic", as well as the "drowning" of the heroine of the cinematic "Titanic" - actress Kate Winslet, who played the role of Shakespeare's Ophelia in the film "Hamlet" …
Or the "water" theme of another protagonist - actor DiCaprio in the movie "The Beach". Thus, everything that is somehow connected with the tragedy of the ill-fated ship or its name carries a mystical threat …
SIGNAL FROM THE PAST
However, the most surprising thing in all this long history is that radio signals from the sinking Titanic are still received. One such case was recorded on April 15, 1972, when the radio operator of the American warship Theodore Roosevelt received a signal for help from a long-sunken ocean liner.
The radio operator initially decided that he was hallucinating or that someone had decided to prank him. Lost in conjecture, he asked for the shore. The answer turned out to be surprisingly phlegmatic: do not respond to the SOS signal, continue on the same course. Already in the port, the command of this battleship was strongly explained that the long-sunken ship, for obvious reasons, could not give signals.
However, the ship's radio operator, who caught the SOS signal, thought it strange that the FBI representatives, and not his immediate superiors, gave explanations about his illusions or an unidentified prankster on the air. He did not believe it and began his investigation. It turned out that in different years, with a frequency of once every six years, many other radio operators heard similar signals from the sunken "Titanic".
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The following story also looks absolutely inexplicable. In early August 1991, the research vessel "Larson Naper" in the very place where the Titanic once sank, allegedly picked up a lifeboat.
There was a bearded man in it, dressed in a naval officer's uniform from the beginning of the century and claiming to be the captain of the Titanic. Since the man persistently insisted that it was 1912, he was placed in a psychiatric clinic. What happened to him next is unknown …
In the same 1991, a deep-sea robot pulled from the bottom of the ocean from the ruins of the "Titanic" some things that could not be there, since they belonged to another time. It was the gun the captain was believed to have fired to stop the panic, but released in 1928, and a suitcase with $ 10,000 dated 1996!..
In 1992, a Norwegian ship was fishing herring in the North Atlantic. Suddenly, his engine failed, and at the same time, the fishermen saw a huge ship emerge from the depths of the sea on their starboard side in their line of sight. People could be seen rushing about on its deck and falling into the water. The inscription on the side of the ship said that this is the very "Titanic"!
But after two minutes, the ghost ship in the blink of an eye disappeared into the waters of the Atlantic. On the surface of the water, passengers from the sunken ship were seen fighting the elements. However, the trawler's fishermen could not swim to them due to a breakdown of their engine, so they gave an SOS command on the air, to which the US warship responded.
He lifted about a dozen people aboard, wearing life jackets that read Titanic. It is noteworthy that these were indeed people, and not the ghosts of the dead. However, in the future, all information about what happened was also classified.
In 1994, again in the waters of the Atlantic, where the Titanic sank, the sailors of a Danish fishing vessel saw in a lifebuoy a girl about two years old who had turned blue from the cold. They took her out of the water, warmed her up and provided medical assistance.
It is noteworthy that the circle also bore the inscription: Titanic. They tried to investigate this case, but to no avail. The girl was too young to tell anything. And when she grew up, she no longer remembered anything about what happened to her …
DEATH LOOP
It is clear that the appearance of people from the past at the site of the shipwreck seems absolutely impossible and does not correspond to any of the existing scientific theories.
And so parapsychologists got down to business. According to them, time in this place has lost its meaning, forming a kind of loop. As a result, some of the passengers on the Titanic end up in our time.
In other words, the Titanic collided not so much with an iceberg as with a portal in time, as a result of which not only objects, but also people fall from the past into the future and vice versa. True, there are no cases when our contemporaries have fallen into the past. And how can you fix them? Perhaps they were in this place, but they drowned along with other passengers of the Titanic …
NOT KNOWING FORD …
As you know, all feature films about the sinking of the "Titanic" were shot in safe conditions on land, were modeled on models and dummies and using computer technology. Until now, there have not even been any attempts to create a complete copy of the Titanic. This idea, it seemed, could never find its creator - the mystical attack emanating from the name of this ship turned out to be too terrible …
However, the daredevil was found. It turned out to be the Australian millionaire Clive Palmer, who in April 2012, when the centenary of the sinking of the Titanic was celebrated, suddenly announced to the whole world that he would order the Chinese company a complete copy of this liner, but with modern filling - the engine and other navigation equipment.
The name of the future ship is "Titanic II", which, in his opinion, will distract the mystical threat from the liner. The estimated date of launching the ship is 2016. However, according to some reports, the "Titanic II" still will not be built, apparently due to the same mystical fears …
Arkady Vyatkin