Rockfall, or stone throwing, is a relatively rare type of poltergeist. Sometimes it is just a rain of stones falling from nowhere (like other abnormal rains, for example, from fish, coins, mice, etc.).
More often, however, a mysterious rockfall shows some signs of intelligence: stones can fly not only from above, but also from the side, penetrate walls, speed up or slow down their movement, do not fall into people, disappear, appear …
The maid is to blame
A typical case of a stone-throwing poltergeist took place in April 1959 in the city of São Paulo, Brazil, in the house where the De Ulhoa family lived.
On Sunday afternoon, the head of the family, Don Sid, read the newspaper as usual. Suddenly, three of his children come running from the hallway and shout that someone is throwing stones at them. Indeed, the sounds of blows came from the hallway. Don Sid, his wife and the maid decided that someone was throwing stones at the windows and at the open door.
But those were closed. Meanwhile, stones were lying on the floor in the hallway. Don Sid thought it was the tricks of the children, when suddenly the blows of stones rang out behind him. Stones thrown by whoever and from where, ricocheted from the walls and rolled on the floor …
After a while, the mysterious rockfall intensified. Despite the tightly closed windows and doors, stones flew into all the rooms of the hacienda. De Ulhoa called the neighbors, called the police. The rockfall in their house was observed by many eyewitnesses.
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People could not determine where the stones were falling from. The very moment of their appearance eluded the attention of observers. Stones flew both from above and from the side, and at the same time did not hit people.
In the following days, the stone-throwing poltergeist continued, sometimes increasing, then subsiding. Witnesses agreed that stones fly into the house from somewhere outside, freely passing through walls and ceilings.
After the start of the rockfall, the movement of objects began. The priest, Father Matos, saw how the egg lying on the table took off and hit the wall, while remaining intact. He lifted it off the floor and put it in the refrigerator. After a while, the egg hit the wall again. Father Matos looked into the refrigerator. There was no egg in it. It looks like it hit the wall. To verify this, the priest made a mark on the shell and put it back in the refrigerator. From that moment on, the refrigerator was closed all the time and was under observation. Again, an egg hit the wall and again miraculously did not break. It was a marked egg. There was no egg in the refrigerator …
The priest tried to drive out evil spirits with the help of prayers and holy water, but nothing happened. The poltergeist in De Ulhoa's house ended on its own after a month.
Subsequently, recalling the events of those days, the inhabitants of the house came to the conclusion that the young maid Francesca was to blame for the "spoiling". She was the only one who remained calm under the hail of stones, and when asked about the reasons for her behavior, she stated that the stones would not harm her. But the main "evidence" - the stone throwing ended when she was fired and removed from the house.
Pebbles came from the jungle
30 years before Father Matos's experience, the American naturalist Ivan Sanderson did the same marking trick. He encountered a stone-throwing poltergeist in 1929 on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia.
Sanderson was staying there with a friend of his, whose house was in a remote country. During the third week of his visit, the American began to find pebbles and small stones at the door of the veranda, which were not there the day before. It turned out that at night someone had thrown them here. This was also a surprise for the owner of the house. He and Sanderson watched from the windows all night and, in fact, in the morning heard the sound of stones being thrown. They flew from the side of the jungle, which were 80 meters from the house.
The jungle was thoroughly searched, but no trace of the night throwers was found. Meanwhile, the stones continued to fly. The accuracy of the mysterious throwers was amazing. They contrived at dusk to throw pebbles from a distance of 80 meters on the same little patch by the veranda. At first, Sanderson could not understand anything, but when the same stones and pebbles began to appear on the veranda itself and in the adjoining room, the doors and windows of which were closed, he suspected the presence of a poltergeist.
Deciding to be convinced of this, he did as Father Matos did: he marked a few pebbles and threw them back into the jungle. The next morning he found them on the floor of a tightly closed room. On the same day, late in the evening, he set off with these stones to the edge of the jungle and threw them away into the thick of trees, where it was difficult to find them in the darkness. Returning to the house, he found these stones there. He was told that they flew here, even when he was walking from the forest to the house.
The fallen stones disappeared by morning
A stone-throwing poltergeist, in which flying stones freely pass through walls and ceilings, is sometimes called the "Grotttendieck rockfall" in special literature. That was the name of a Dutch engineer who encountered a similar poltergeist in 1903 and described it in detail.
It happened on the same island of Sumatra. After spending the night in one of the farmhouses, Grotttendieck woke up in the middle of the night from strange sounds that were heard near him. He lit a kerosene lamp and found that round pebbles less than an inch in size were falling from various parts of the ceiling, made from several layers of large dried leaves. Grotttendieck woke up his Malay servants and masters of the house. The owners swore that there were no holes in the ceiling, and explained what was happening by the machinations of the devil. They left the house almost immediately. The engineer sent the Malays to inspect the surroundings, and at the same time the roof. They found nothing suspicious. There was not a single crack on the roof through which stones could penetrate.
Those meanwhile continued to fall. Grotttendieck noticed that their fall was unusually slow and they never hit people. He tried to catch some of them. The stones inexplicably changed direction and slipped past the hands.
Soon the entire floor of the house was littered with them. The fallen stones were warm to the touch. Nothing could stop their methodical fall, not even shooting at the ceiling. Eventually the Malays also left. Grotttendieck spent the rest of the night in the house alone. Waking up in the morning, he found that the falling of the stones had stopped and almost all the stones had disappeared somewhere. There were no more than a dozen of them on the floor. And all this time, no one could enter the house, because Grotttendieck locked all the doors from the inside.
In the morning, he once again, more carefully, examined the house and the roof and made sure that there were no holes anywhere. The engineer sent a detailed account of this case to the London Society for the Study of Psychic Phenomena.
Pointless business
To date, several dozen cases of stone-throwing poltergeist are known. Each of them has been investigated and confirmed by at least five eyewitnesses.
Perhaps the most famous case occurred in France in 1923, when a whole squad of police officers watched for almost four months as stones, as if emerging from the air, fired at a farmhouse near the Ardèche River. The rockfall in the American city of Garrisonville in 1901 also received resonance. Then rather weighty stones suddenly flew into the city from the forest, pretty much frightening the inhabitants. The distance to the forest was considerable, and the stones were too heavy to be thrown by hand. An attack on the forest, undertaken by armed townspeople, gave a discouraging result: not only were they not found stone-throwing weapons in the forest, but also no traces of intruders. Newspapers later wondered: who needed to be engaged in such a pointless business, because the stones in the end not only did not touch a single person, but did not even damage a single house.
Buried alive
Stone throwing is just one of the many-faced poltergeist antics. Now the prevailing version among experts is that the poltergeist is caused by the human subconscious. In most cases, its appearance is unknowingly provoked by children and adolescents who have not reached puberty. The actions of the invisible ones often resemble the actions of hurt children. With those around them, they begin to act as these children would do. Moreover, apparently devoid of any control from the adolescents who caused them, the invisibles often unleash their rage primarily on these adolescents themselves.
The English traveler S. Davis reported about a stone-throwing poltergeist that occurred in 1920? e years in Africa. One village was hit by a "magic rain" of stones. As it turned out, his target was a boy playing in the yard, since he did not touch anyone else. The stones fell so quickly that the boy did not have time to escape. They completely covered him and even formed a small mound above him. Only then did the rockfall stop.
The screams of a child came from the hillock. Having disassembled the hill, the parents and villagers were surprised to find that the boy was not injured: the stones had erected something like a chamber around him, inside which the air passed. The rockfall then repeated, again pouring the same pyramid around the unfortunate with a camera inside. A local sorcerer managed to calm down the otherworldly stone throwers.
Poltergeists "children" and "adults"
However, not all poltergeists are caused by children. The age of the poltergeist carrier can be judged by the nature of the course of the latter. For example, a stone-throwing poltergeist belongs to the category of "primitive", "rough". These include all kinds of abnormal "rains". In addition to the loss of some objects with such poltergeists, nothing else usually happens. This suggests that "gross" poltergeists are caused by the subconscious of adults. By the way, in the famous stone-throwing poltergeists in Sumatra, France in 1923 and most others, the presence of children and adolescents is not mentioned.
“We observe a completely different picture in typically“childish”poltergeists. "Childish" poltergeists in their desire to intimidate others often act incredibly sophisticated, with great imagination, with invention. Here, not only movements and flights of objects are used, but also the appearance of threatening notes, drawings, dead fish, knocks, footsteps, hoarse voices, jumping brooms, flying blankets, etc., etc. The behavior of such poltergeists largely depends on the child's worldview - its carrier. In atheist children, it has the character of an absurd and cruel game.
Poltergeists are one of the hidden capabilities of a person, along with telepathy, clairvoyance, telekinesis, and going out of the body. Now these opportunities appear spontaneously in people. Most people cannot control them. But someday they will learn this. First, of course, they must change morally, otherwise the mastery of supernormal abilities will bring to humanity universal destruction instead of universal happiness.