An unusual phenomenon in which a person is present at the same time in two places. This phenomenon is called bilocation. One of the explanations is that a double of a person is projected from one point in space to another, and this image becomes visible to people who perceive the double as a real physical body. In some cases, the double turns out to be a ghost, not a solid physical object. People who had a chance to observe the phenomenon of bilocation later said that the doubles behaved somehow strangely or did not speak at all. Cases of animal bilocation have also been reported.
The ability to be in two places at the same time is attributed to people skilled in magic. For example, the history of Christianity contains many stories about the bilocation of saints and monks, for example, Saint Anthony of Padua, Saint Ambrose of Milan, Saint Severus of Ravenna, Father Pio from Italy. Philip Neri, a Florentine merchant who lived in the 16th century, entered the bosom of the Christian church and became known as the "Roman apostle." They say that he was able to “split in two”, bringing himself into a state of ecstasy, while he felt his heart expand. Following this, he felt a rapid heartbeat and warmth spreading through his body.
In 1774, Saint Alphonse de Liguri, who could also lead himself into a state of ecstasy, attracted everyone's attention when he announced that he had sat at the head of the bed of the dying Pope Clement XIV in Rome, four days' journey from the place where the saint lived. Gigolo. People knew for certain that he did not leave his cell, and therefore no one believed him. Imagine the surprise when a message came about the death of Clement, as well as the fact that Saint Alphonse was sitting at the head of the dying Pope.
In the late 19th century, bilocation reports were collected by Frederick W. H. Myers, one of the founders of the Society for Psychical Research in London. Then he included these descriptions in his book Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodity Death (1903).
One of the most significant cases of this kind occurred on February 5, 1887 with one man and two of his daughters. The family went to the forest to hunt, and after a while the girls decided to return home in a carriage. On the way, they clearly saw their father riding a white horse. He waved his hat at them from the top of a hill separated from the road by a ravine. One of the girls insisted that she could clearly see even the label on the hat, although this could not be done due to a fairly decent distance. The horse looked dirty and somewhat frightened, as if it had just experienced some kind of shock. The girls were so afraid for their father that they headed towards him through the ravine. However, as soon as they crossed the ravine, the father and his horse instantly disappeared. Climbing to the top of the hill, the girls looked around, but the rider was nowhere to be seen. After a while, their father came home and said that, firstly, nothing that could frighten the horse had happened to him, and secondly, he didn’t wave his hat from any hill.
The case never received an intelligible explanation.