Ghosts have one curious characteristic. Many of those who came from the darkness of the grave are silent, as if they are typing water in their mouths.
There is no way to get from them at least some information about these or those signs, characteristic features of the afterlife.
That something incredible is actively functioning on the other side of death, many researchers have no doubts. Certain grandiose most complicated processes, the essence of which we cannot even speculate about, are definitely taking place there.
And those whom we call ghosts, ghosts, those who come from the posthumous reality, probably serve as some kind of "cogs", "elements" to the mind of incomprehensible "afterlife" processes. They know something about them. Let, say, they know little, even very little, but they still know.
However, they prefer to keep quiet about their knowledge. They are probably forbidden to share the secrets of the afterlife with living people.
Church leader Wilhelm Nubrig, who lived in twelfth century England, recounts the frequent ghost visits of a dead man. The ghost of the deceased, who did not utter a single word, regularly visited his wife and children, terribly frightening them at the same time.
He could appear not only at night, but even during the day. V. Nubrig's notes contain a strange phrase: "To prevent the ghost from causing any harm, it was necessary to raise a terrible noise."
Does it not follow that loud noise effects, that is, forced acoustic measures, can be a sure way to scare away ghosts? It looks like it is. In shamanic practice, as well as in the rituals of African sorcerers, the same technique is used to this day.
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After the death of a person, one or another, shamans and sorcerers gather their fellow tribesmen around a plague or hut in which the body of the deceased lies. And together with their fellow tribesmen they raise a truly terrible noise, sometimes lasting for several days. The purpose of such noise acoustic influences is to scare away the spirit of the deceased, force him to leave forever in another world, not to return again and again "to visit" living people …
Let's return, however, to the story told by W. Nubrig. The Lincoln bishop called a council to discuss what to do in this case, in order to permanently wean the ghost of the deceased from this bad habit of visiting his wife and children every now and then and frighten them with his parishes.
It was reported at the Council that such phenomena were by no means uncommon in twelfth-century England. And the only sure way against the stubborn, persistently appearing ghost again and again is the burning of the corpse of the deceased.
For reasons unknown to us, the bishop found such a remedy inapplicable. He acted differently. He wrote the absolution of all sins to the deceased. The grave was excavated, the coffin with the body was opened. And the bishop personally put a piece of paper on which the absolution of all sins was written on the chest of the corpse in the coffin.
“After that, the ghost stopped appearing,” says V. Nubrig.
The Italian clergyman Turifor was personally present in 1701 at the opening of a grave. In the grave lay a coffin with the body of a man, whose ghost raged for a long time, raged on the island. Perpetrating various dirty tricks on living people, he did not make any speeches at the same time. He was just as silent as the ghost that V. Nubrig told about.
“During his lifetime he was a gloomy and uncompromising peasant,” writes Turifor. - He was killed by someone unknown and found lifeless in the field. He was buried, but two days after the funeral, the deceased began to appear in the houses of local residents, carry out various atrocities there, overturn furniture, put out lamps, and so on. The most serious and respected people began to complain about the unceremonious deceased.
On the tenth day after his burial, in the chapel, where the deceased was buried before burial, a panikhida was served to drive out the demon from the body of the deceased. Then the body was removed from the grave. They opened him with a knife and removed the heart from the chest of the corpse.
And then suddenly everyone saw a thick smoke go from the body of the dead man in all directions! The panic began. When people calmed down a little, it was decided to burn the removed heart. The heart was burned, and the coffin with the body was again buried in the ground.
However, this measure did not help. The deceased continued to visit people's homes at night. He beat their owners, tore their underwear on and, along the way, continually emptied the bottles of water that were available in this or that house. It was a very strange ghost: it seemed to be tormented by an unquenchable thirst. So he wandered from house to house.
The residents were in terrible confusion. Whole families left their homes and moved with their belongings to the city square. Others, from those who are richer, left the city completely with all their belongings. The townspeople walked in processions through the streets and cried out to God for help.
Finally, they decided to completely burn the corpse, whose ghostly double did not allow them to live in peace. A pitch fire was prepared on the shore of the island. The corpse was removed from the coffin and burned at this fire. And the ghost stopped appearing."
Metropolitan Platon of Mogilev, who lived in the last century, also saw the silent ghost.
“In my life,” the Reverend recalls, “there was one case when I saw the shadow of another person vividly and distinctly! This was in the thirties of the nineteenth century, when I was an inspector of the St. Petersburg Theological Academy. Among other students we had Ivan Krylov from the Oryol seminary. He studied well, was of good behavior, good-looking.
One day he comes to me and asks me to allow him, who suddenly fell ill, to go to the hospital that was at our academy. Some time passes, I don't hear anything about him, the doctor says nothing. But then one day I was lying on the couch and reading a book.
I looked - Krylov was standing and looking straight at me. I can see his face clearly, but his body was as if in a fog or a cloud. I looked at him. Is he. I shuddered! The ghost rushed to the window and disappeared. I was still wondering what that would mean, when suddenly I hear a knock at my door.
The hospital watchman comes in and tells me:
- Student Krylov gave his soul to God.
- How long? I ask in amazement.
- Yes, five minutes ago …
Here, if you please, solve this mystery. All this undoubtedly proves to us some kind of mysterious connection between us and the souls of the dead."
Folklorist V. Zinoviev wrote in the Chita region a story about the phenomenon of a ghost today on the fortieth day after the death of a person:
“Our grandfather died. And on the fortieth day, a friend of my grandfather came to visit us to remember him. He drank a little from the glass, left the rest and said:
- This is the deceased. On the fortieth day he comes and looks at how they live here without him.
Said that and left. And we all went to bed. Suddenly at two o'clock in the morning we hear: someone knocking hard at the door that leads from the entrance to the courtyard.
Father got out of bed, went to the door, asked:
- Who?
Nobody is answering.
Then we hear: someone went around the house. Footsteps were heard well. It was winter. The snow crunched loudly under the feet of the one who walked. He went to the bathhouse, then to the barn. I walked around the whole garden. I walked for a long, long time. And then again footsteps were heard near the house, and again he banged on the door.
Father again jumped out into the hallway, asks:
- Who's there?
He wanted to go out into the street, but his mother would not let him.
In the morning we all went to see the tracks in the snow. But there is nothing! There are no traces! Meanwhile, there was no snow that night."