In January 1929, a new expressway between Bremen and Bremerhaven was opened in Germany. With two carriageways on either side, the new highway was much wider than its predecessor and therefore considered safer for drivers.
However, in a short time, the road acquired the reputation of being “strange”, as it became the site of numerous accidents that sometimes could not be explained in any way. In the twelve months after the opening of the highway, more than a hundred cars crashed there, all tragedies took place in the same place - near the road sign indicating 239 km.
If this were the only oddity, it would not interest parapsychologists around the world. Answering the questions of the police, the surviving drivers of the crashed cars said that when approaching the sign, they suddenly began to feel that some invisible force was driving the car.
On September 7, 1930, nine cars turned over at once at the ill-fated sign. The road was dry, and nothing could explain such a tragic turn of events.
Reflecting on the Bremen-Bremerhaven highway riddle, German scientists decided that the source of the tragedies was the electromagnetic force of the underground road, but their version had no evidence. And only after the road sign "239 km" was removed, and the road at this place was sprinkled with holy water, the accidents stopped.
The idea that a certain place on the road can become unhappy due to the concentration of the power of evil on this site may seem ridiculous to many, but not to the English exorcist Dr. Donald Omand. In 1960, he presented a number of pieces of evidence explaining this type of traffic accident.
His theory, described in The Experiences of Today's Exorcist, is that some demonic forces have the ability to take power over the driver, directing him to an imminent accident, for example, forcing him to deliberately turn into the oncoming lane, right under the wheels of oncoming traffic. While many scholars fell on Omand's theory, he was unexpectedly supported by a leading Austrian psychiatrist.
Several years ago, Donald Omand first came to the conclusion that the phenomenon of sworn places really exists. A maid once told him a story about a driver who got into a car accident and died in her arms. According to this man, it turned out that when he was driving along the highway, there was good visibility, but white spots that appeared from nowhere began to come across.
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He felt a completely inexplicable urge to turn the car towards an oncoming truck. Curiously, the truck driver, who escaped with minor bruises, said the same, as if someone from above ordered him to crash into an oncoming car. Donald Omand became interested in this and has since studied about a hundred road traffic accidents, visiting city hospitals, talking with victims and reviewing police interviews.
In some cases, drivers felt as if they were being forced to steer the car towards their own death. All these cases Omand explained by the instillation of evil spirits into people. In places where accidents were especially frequent, Omand conducted ceremonies to exorcise the evil spirit.
In 1971, BBC television produced a documentary about Donald Omand's research. Together with him, the television crew also visited the Charmouth and Morcombileake Highways, in Somerset, England.
This place has gained a gloomy reputation, as for completely inexplicable reasons there were a large number of accidents along this section of the route. The film shown on television noted that before the ceremony of exorcism, seventeen accidents occurred on the road in a year, and after it during the year - not a single one.
The Reverend Donald Omand's point of view was laughed at by scientists, but they could not explain why there are more accidents in one place and fewer in another. However, more accidents continued to occur on one section of the track and fewer on the other.
Soon the new road, this time built in Davon, leading to the small village of Postbridge, was called "strange" after several cars crashed on it in good weather for no apparent reason.
It was 1921. In March, Mr. Helby, a doctor at nearby Dartmoor Prison, fell on his motorcycle and broke his neck; a few weeks later, a small bus fell off the side of the road at the same spot, killing seven passengers. The bus driver said that he suddenly lost control of the steering, as if invisible hands took possession of the steering wheel.
In July, a motorcycle driver, who only miraculously survived, experienced the same feeling along the way. On August 26, a young officer turned over on a motorcycle here. Having survived, he claimed that he clearly saw how another pair of hands in black leather gloves grabbed the steering wheel, and felt that he could no longer control and the motorcycle was flying to the side of the road.
He considered himself lucky to have survived, and believed that some evil spirits were determined to kill him. Perhaps he was right.
