On May 27, information appeared in the press about a ghost in Pyatigorsk. Near the educational institution on the street of the Collective video cameras, an unidentified foggy entity was recorded. The strange thing was white lumps of mystical content. Later, the video was posted on the Internet. Opinion about this object was divided among people: some decided that these were real ghosts, while others - that it was just fog or a play of light from the headlights of cars that passed by.
A little earlier, on May 4, information appeared about the "ghost" of Voronov College. This was also recorded on a video camera. In the footage, a certain white silhouette seems to be walking around the college grounds at night. However, the fact that this is a ghost was denied even by a local specialist who believes in them. According to him, just in front of the camera a cobweb hung, so it created such an effect, swinging.
The Kashpagai highway in the direction of Almaty in Kazakhstan is also famous for its "ghosts". Here is a mystical story about how 20 years ago a maniac brutally deprived a young girl of her life, and since then her soul cannot rest. They say that she allegedly votes on the road at night and asks her for a ride. When someone agrees, she gets into the car and suddenly asks to also inform her parents about where she is, giving her a phone number. He calls, but it turns out that the girl died long ago, after which she herself disappears from the car. The frightened driver will surely lose control after that and crash into something. Actually, local law enforcement officials say that the ghost is a fiction, just many people drive along this highway in the evening, thoroughly taking it on their chest or even using drugs.
There are tons of other ghost stories out there. So do they really exist? Let's start with how they are trying to prove their existence. First of all, they show photographs where in the background there is a certain silhouette of a supposedly already deceased person. They say that these pictures were taken when almost a photograph had just appeared, so there can be no catch. Actually, no - the "ghost shot" effect was invented back in the 1860s by the American William Mumler, an engraver from Boston. He accidentally took two pictures on the same photographic plate, resulting in a clear image of one person, and in the background - the silhouette of another person. In 1869 he was almost convicted for this, but there was not enough evidence.
Actually, then in the United States there was a civil war, thousands of people died, and the hysteria of spiritualism began - the relatives of many of the deceased wanted to communicate with their spirits. In 1862, William Mumler decided to capitalize on this by developing technology with a silhouette in the background of the image. He then received for such a tidy sum - three thousand dollars (in modern terms) and this in just one day of work. The fraudster worked with his wife, who declared herself a medium.
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Actually, the "old photo with a ghost" can be made even now. It is enough to find any picture with a person on the Internet, make it black and white in a photo editor, and attach the second picture on top with a layer, processing it through the layer properties so that it is more transparent and significantly merges with the background. This technique is called the "double exposure effect" and has been tried and tested by many users.
What do scientists say about this?
The great physicist Albert Einstein argued that if ghosts really exist, then this should be subject to the first law of thermodynamics. That is, if energy cannot be created or destroyed, but only to change its shape, then the energy of our body after death is in the environment. Thus, even ultra-modern technology can hardly detect ghosts, and all "ghost hunters" are more often engaged in, in fact, deception.
In 2014, information appeared about the experiment of scientists from Switzerland. They scanned the brains of 12 people with neurological diseases. It was noted that these individuals suffer from impaired self-awareness, their movements are poorly coordinated and their body position in space is poorly controlled. People were taken to a room with a "mystical" atmosphere - and they saw ghosts there.
Further, experts, with the voluntary consent of 48 more healthy people, deliberately slightly influenced their brain so that disorders similar to those of the above mentioned group appeared, and they also brought them into a special room. 14 people after that actually stated that they felt there were ghosts nearby. Thus, it was concluded that the feeling of otherworldly forces depends on the mental state of a person. When he is very nervous or he has some kind of neurological disease, the brain actually winds itself up, and involuntarily one sees or feels something like that, for example, some sinister ghost.
Actually, this is not surprising. Most of the stories where people tell that they see something supernatural, and are primarily associated with the peculiarity of the places where this happens. For example, an old house, especially an abandoned one, or a castle - the previous owners must have died there somehow and cannot calm down after death. A person, approaching such a structure, begins to involuntarily think about what could have been there, partly panics, fearing simply the unknown - and as a result most often "sees" ghosts.
Irina Letinskaya