The invention of electricity, and then the creation on its basis of various transmitting and storage devices: telegraph, radio receivers, computers - not only allowed humanity to reach a new level of development, but also seemingly destroyed the impenetrable wall separating the world of the living from the world of the dead.
In the legends of almost all peoples, the priests managed to talk to the dead without technical means. But the overwhelming number of scientists considered such legends and myths to be just beautiful fairy tales.
The experts did not really trust the stories of people with extraordinary, extrasensory abilities, telling about the "voices of the dead" that sounded in their heads, suspecting this was an elementary deception. The suspicious attitude of people with a scientific mindset towards the voices of the dead began to change since the end of the 19th century.
Under the dictation of spirits
Back in 1895, the inventors of the electric telegraph, Marconi and Edison, predicted that the time would come when humanity would be able to come into contact with the dead. In their opinion, with the help of radio waves those who have left us will themselves find a way to "contact" the living.
They even hinted that they had created such a device. Unfortunately, its descriptions were not found in the papers of scientists. One way or another, but from the beginning of the 20th century, notes began to appear in newspapers that sometimes Morse devices spontaneously began to tap off signals, warning of an impending disaster.
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But such relatively rare cases were perceived by the reading public only as entertaining curiosities. Therefore, the news that with the help of a tape recorder it is possible to record the voices of the dead, which appeared in newspapers in the middle of the 20th century, became a sensation.
The idea of recording the voices of spirits on tape belongs to a certain Drayton Thomas. At first, he assumed that his apparatus had accidentally recorded scraps of radio broadcasts, but after carefully listening to the tape, Drayton recognized the voice of his long-dead father in one of the voices.
But usually this discovery is associated with the name of the opera singer from Sweden Jurgenson. In 1959, the artist participated in the project of recording on a cassette of birds singing in the forest, not far from his home in Melndal. At home, having listened to the tape, the singer, along with the trills of birds, heard a male voice, who clearly pronounced in Norwegian the phrase about “bird voices of the night”.
But Jurgenson was completely alone at the time of recording! Amazed, he made several more notes in the forest. On one of them, the singer heard the voice of his deceased mother, warning him: "Friedrich, you are being watched!"
Mysterious sounds on the cassette interested the singer, and he decided to study them. After analyzing what he had heard, he concluded that the voices speak different languages, often changing them in the middle of the phrase.
However, many mistakes were made in the structure of sentences, in the formulation of stress, in the division into syllables of the voice. The rate of speech changed almost all the time - from a fluid dialect to a tongue twister, in which only individual sounds could be understood.
Years of painstaking research allowed Jurgenson to write and publish in 1963 the book "Voices of the Universe", in 1967 - "Radio Contact with the Dead", which made a real sensation not only among the reading public, but also in the scientific world.
The other world keeps secrets
About 10 years have passed, and the Latvian professor, student of Jurgenson, Konstantin Raudiv presented new films with mystical voices. Many skeptical scientists tried to refute his experiments, which testify that voices are heard on the tapes, speaking mainly Latvian, German and French.
And the topics of conversation were too strange: colors of clothes, household utensils. Therefore, most scientists were convinced that the voices recorded by Raudive were accidentally caught waves of radio and television. An experiment in March 1971 helped to resolve their doubts.
Engineers installed special equipment in the studio to block any accidental hit of radio and television broadcasting waves. The experiment used the best samples of the then existing equipment and the highest quality magnetic film. Raudive used one recorder, while the other, connected and synchronized with it, served as a control.
To avoid counterfeiting, Raudive was not allowed to tweak it himself. He could only give commands to the microphone. A third recorder, synchronized with Raudive's tape recorder, recorded all sounds in the studio. The recording of "the voices of Raudive" lasted 18 minutes, and none of those present heard a single unusual sound in the studio. But, scrolling the tape again, scientists found more than a hundred voices on it.
The experts were stunned. Moreover, the control recorder recorded absolutely nothing. “This is impossible from the point of view of electronics,” admitted the English engineer who led the experiment.
The analysis of the phenomenon of voices on tape recorders allowed scientists to draw interesting conclusions, not only confirming the reality of their existence, but also explaining why it is not always possible to record them. No voice recording occurs if the equipment is operating in an empty room.
In this case, people must be present. Since this is so, there is, of course, always the assumption that they are unconsciously “guilty” of the appearance of these voices.
Despite the sensational results of recording the voices of the dead, obtained in the 60s of the last century, interest in them gradually subsided over the years.
The phone connects to the other world
In the late 90s of the last century, reports of phone calls from the world of the dead began to appear in newspapers in different countries. Such messages seem to be events that are strange and impossible to explain, but nevertheless, calls are happening more and more often.
One might even think that an increase in the intensity of radio waves filling the spaces around the globe "thinns" the wall separating the world of the living and the dead. Most telephone conversations take place between people who have had a close emotional bond during their lifetime: between husband and wife, parents and children, brothers and sisters, and sometimes between friends.
Researchers call such contacts "targeted". As a rule, they come from the other world and are caused by the desire of the deceased himself to say something to the living: to say goodbye to them, to warn them of danger, or to communicate something important to their life.
For example, the father of actress Ida Lupino, Stanley, who died in London during World War II without leaving a will, called his daughter six months after his death with the intention of providing the necessary information about his last will. He pointed out where the secret place where his papers are kept.
People who have received phone calls "from the other world" say that the voices of the dead sound exactly the same as in life. Moreover, the deceased often use pet names and their favorite words.
At the same time, the phone rings as usual, although some people say that the call still sounds somehow sluggish and unnatural. In most cases, the connection during such calls is poor, with a lot of interference and interfering voices, as if crossing lines. In many cases, the voice of the dead can be heard with difficulty, and as the conversation progresses, it becomes quieter and quieter.
Feedback very rarely occurs: when the initiator of the call is a live one. The person making the call does not even realize that at the time of the conversation, his interlocutor was already dead.
One woman dreamed of her friend whom she had not seen for seven years. The dream worried her very much: she saw that her friend was lying on the floor in a pool of blood. Waking up, the woman was worried and decided to call her. When she answered, the woman calmed down. A friend said that she was in the hospital, but now she was discharged and in a few days it would be possible to come to her.
When the woman accepted the invitation, her interlocutor suddenly became nervous and said that she would call back later. After a while, without waiting for a call back, the woman called herself. The friend's relatives answered the call and said that she had died six months ago …
After phones came the time of TVs and computer monitors. World famous specialists in the field of video-audio contact with the world of the dead Magi and Jules Harsch-Fischbach from Luxembourg in 1987 with the help of special equipment received a clear image of a deceased person in contact with them on a television screen.
And a year later, Magee received unique computer images and was able to maintain a short computer contact with her deceased friend.
Around the same time in England, a married couple began to receive unexpected emails from a certain Thomas Harden, who claimed that he had been writing to them from 1545. Experienced linguists have confirmed that the writing language is fully consistent with that era and the possibility of forgery is completely excluded. After receiving 250 letters from Thomas, the same married couple unexpectedly received a letter from 2109.
And here is what the American weekly "Weekly World News" wrote. Over the course of seven months, Phil Schraver, a 56-year-old electronics specialist from Oklahoma, has repeatedly communicated with the dead dear to his heart: his wife and daughter.
During each such conversation, he saw both of them on the color TV screen and heard the voices of the dead through his speaker. It all started with the fact that for two years Schraver unsuccessfully fought over the creation of a fundamentally new design of a television antenna.
After much work, in July 1990, its prototype was finally manufactured. But as soon as Schraver connected the antenna to the TV, a blurry image of the girl appeared on his screen, who immediately spoke.
The inventor was taken aback, because he recognized in the image on the screen his own daughter Karin, who died in a car accident in 1986. A couple of days later, when Schraver tried the antenna again, Alicia appeared on the screen - his long-dead wife. She, too, spoke to him, and Schraver recognized her voice, although he could not make out the words: they were drowned out by the interference.
The Russians also encountered the world of the dead appearing on the TV screen.
“It happened on February 6, 1990,” says E. Nikiforova from Novorossiysk. - I watched the "Time" program on TV. Suddenly the screen was covered with stripes, and then a man's face appeared on it - as if in a haze. It was motionless - something like a photograph.
I looked at him and screamed in horror. My brother Misha, who died in 1985, was staring at me from the screen. A few seconds later, stripes ran across the screen again, and then the TV again began to show the "Time" program.
It would seem that the given examples of cases of recording voices on tape recorders, telephone conversations with the dead, their faces appearing on TV screens clearly indicate that the world of the dead exists and that it is possible to establish contact with them with the help of technical means. But it's not that simple.
Some researchers of anomalous phenomena believe that it is possible to give a different explanation for all these phenomena. The voices and images on the TV screen do not belong to the world of the dead. They are information imprinted in the brains of living people.
At a subconscious level, it is psychokinetically transmitted to a tape recorder, a TV screen or a telephone membrane. The fact that this information can indeed be stored in the brains of the living confirms the fact that was already mentioned in the article: no recording of voices occurs if the equipment works in an empty room: people must be present in it.
Therefore, all the examples given should be considered not as the final point in solving the problem "Does the world of the dead exist?", But only as another step towards its solution.