What would be your reaction if you closed your eyes and after a moment found yourself in an unfamiliar place, many thousands of kilometers from home?
Spanish guard from the 16th century entered world history under very strange circumstances. Many people still doubt the veracity of this case, since it became known only after a hundred years. Gil Perez was an ordinary Spanish soldier who served in the Civil Guard at the court of Governor General Don Gomez Perez Dasmarinas in Manila, Philippines. On the night of October 24, 1593, he conscientiously fulfilled his military duty, but during one of the guards, the unexpected happened.
The day before this event, the rebellious Chinese rowers made a fatal attempt on the governor. It was not possible to save the life of the general, who received a fatal blow to the head with an ax. The guards continued to guard the palace until the appointment of a new governor.
Perez felt very tired after the shift, so he decided to lean against one of the columns of the palace and take some rest. And when I opened my eyes, I did not recognize the place where I found myself. Surprised, Gil, nevertheless, continued to guard the palace wall until a man in strange armor approached him and began to ask questions that he did not understand. It turned out that Perez had somehow mysteriously teleported across the Pacific Ocean, over 9,000 nautical miles (14,211 km).
Naturally, nobody believed Peres. He was jailed as a deserter and charged with collaborating with Satan. The Inquisition questioned every word the soldier tried to say in his defense. “Faster than the crow of a rooster,” was the definition given by an inquisitor named Gaspard de San Augustin, describing the speed with which the Spanish warrior he was interrogating moved from Manila to Mexico. Even under torture, wearing a "Spanish boot", Perez could not explain how he managed to make this trip. The interrogation protocol has survived to this day in the Mexican State Archives.
While the Inquisition was deciding which type of execution is best for 2 months, a galleon arrived from the Philippines. The news of the murder of the governor was confirmed. The people on the ship knew Gil Perez and were very surprised that he was in Mexico. Numerous witnesses claimed that on October 23, the day of the pirate assassination attempt, Perez did indeed stand guard. By a lucky coincidence, among the guards accompanying the cargo on the galleon, there was even his colleague, who also carried a battle watch near the governor's palace. The Inquisition believed this testimony, and the unfortunate soldier was released home.
Despite the fact that the case was documented, many scientists did not believe in the veracity of the incident. Historian Mike Desch called the interrogation protocol a "remake" and a legend.
Astral researchers have their own opinion. They believe that Perez accidentally entered the astral plane, and then returned back to his physical body, which somehow moved thousands of miles.
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Be that as it may, and this story is one of the most mysterious examples of teleportation. Naturally not the only one of its kind. A century later, John Aubrey wrote about a man who fell on the inquisitorial bonfire in 1655 because an unknown force teleported him from eastern India to Goa. In 1671, a certain Major Henton of Scotland, who had a talent for instantly covering a distance of one or two miles, disappeared in front of the amazed soldiers.
Teleportation is the movement of people, animals or material objects from one space-time point to another using supernatural methods or technical means (in science fiction). The zoologist I. Sanderson believes that ants have long mastered this method and, if necessary, can materialize into an anthill everything that is necessary for their vital activity. Alas, people are not doing so well. To date, mechanisms have not yet been invented with the help of which it would be possible to move instantly, with superluminal speed, in space and time. This question is inextricably linked to the ability to travel from one dimension to another.
Elena Muravyova