The American Association for the Study of the Supernatural has set up a foundation with the sole purpose of studying the phenomenon of grave lights. In recent years, this strange phenomenon has been increasingly seen in cemeteries around the globe. People of official science have long "found" a logical explanation for the anomalous glow, but numerous experiments do not confirm the scientists' hypothesis.
Mysterious wandering glow
From time immemorial, the unpredictable and inexplicable appearance of the so-called demonic lights causes superstition, complicating the scientific study of these anomalies. Wandering fires have given rise to a great many legends and stories.
Centuries ago, travelers told that, having lost their way in the swamps, they found a safe way thanks to the blue glow moving low above the ground. Other travelers argued that the mysterious lights, on the contrary, tried to lead them into deadly swamps. For this reason, the attitude towards this phenomenon has always been twofold and very cautious. It is still unknown why some people are trying to save the wandering fires, while others are trying to bring destruction.
The color of the lights is pale blue, dull yellow, greenish and transparent white. Mostly, the ominous glow appears at night in cemeteries and swamps, less often it can be seen in the fields. Sometimes it does not look like a candle flame, but sometimes it resembles a ball in its shape. Lights, as a rule, burn at the height of a raised human hand and spontaneously move from side to side.
Moreover, many who have become an eyewitness to this phenomenon argue that the wandering lights move as if they were endowed with consciousness. They can float in the air strictly above the path, cross the river over the bridge, fly into the cemetery without fail through the gate …
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European legends say that demonic fires represent the souls of children, drowned and unfortunate people who died a violent death. It is believed that these spirits, stuck between the world of the living and the world of the dead, try to lure people into bogs or other dangerous places. The British believe that the o 'wisps are the harbingers of death. If they were noticed at the patient's house, this meant that he would soon die.
Our ancestors also believed that we are talking about the spirits of the dead, especially if the glow appears over the grave. Slavic legends say that special vigilance should be shown after midnight: they say, at this time the spirits are especially active. Slavic myths also say that wandering lights can indicate places where treasures are buried, but it is better not to touch the treasures hidden there, since they are cursed and can only bring misfortune to a person.
Notable sightings of cemetery lights
In the eighteenth century, a Scottish priest told a startling story. The house of this confessor was not far from the church cemetery. One dank autumn night, the altar attendant went outside and suddenly noticed a luminous point behind the fence of the churchyard. Our hero thought that the grave robbers came to the cemetery with a lantern. The shepherd decided to discreetly track the alleged robbers.
When the priest cautiously approached the cemetery, he was surprised to find that there were no thieves with a lantern, and a fist-sized yellowish light hovered in the air by itself. Then this light suddenly went to the side, left the cemetery and flew through the woods to one of the local farms. Intrigued, the confessor followed him. The light approached the farm, circled around it, and then went back to the cemetery and hid there in the crypt.
A day later, the owner of this farm invited the pastor to service his daughter, who had died of scarlet fever. The altar clerk, who reasonably connected this event with the mysterious wandering light, asked the cemetery guard who owned the above-mentioned crypt. As you might guess, its owners turned out to be the family of the farmer whose child died. It turns out that the spirit of her ancestor came for the sick girl.
In the Australian state of Queensland, you can find Alexandria railway station, which enjoys a bad reputation among locals and travelers. So, in 1940, a local resident, driving here by car past an abandoned cemetery, saw many glowing bluish-green balls above the lopsided crosses. The road passed very close to the churchyard, and when the car approached it, all the balls suddenly flew to the car at once. The frightened driver gasped, but the lights almost did not lag behind. Only when the car approached the nearest town of Baulia did the pursuers lag behind.
In our country, a similar phenomenon also takes place. For example, the St. Petersburg Malokhtinskoye cemetery, founded in the seventeenth century and closed for burial six decades ago, is known for the fact that the air above the old graves here at night shines. And the Igumen cemetery on the Russian island of Valaam attracts lovers of mysticism by the fact that on especially dark nights one can observe a bright green radiant light streaming from the ground and rising to a meter height.
What are the American specialists planning to do?
According to the official scientific version, the wandering fires are nothing more than phosphorus compounds formed underground as a result of rotting corpses, seeping out and burning when in contact with air.
However, some researchers have experimentally proven that this theory is wrong. The gas released by rotting remains and plants simply cannot penetrate the two-meter thick earth. Scientists specially took containers of phosphorescent gas and buried them in the ground. Even if the vessel passed gas abundantly, no glow was observed above the ground, and when a lighted match was brought to the air, nothing happened.
And how can demonic lights move to the side over great distances, continuing to burn just as brightly all this time? And then still clearly have consciousness?
American researchers of paranormal phenomena intend to find a quiet cemetery, where wandering lights appear especially often, and install the most modern and expensive equipment there, which will allow to record the phenomenon as much as possible and prove its mystical nature. And perhaps to understand something else …