Nowadays, every now and then you come across stories about some mysterious things: anomalous phenomena, flying saucers, ghosts, about people with phenomenal abilities. It seems that our life is literally crammed with all sorts of mysterious incidents.
However, it would be wrong to think that any beyond is a product of our days. Therefore, we have prepared a selection of strange events that happened in the past and are documented, and not just rumors and legends.
The first story is related to the possession of the spirit of a deceased person. In February 1936, the body of Giuseppe Veraldi was found under a bridge in the Italian town of Catanzaro. Apparently, he jumped off the bridge, broke his head on the rocks at the bottom of the river, and then drowned. The police decided that it was suicide, but the family of the deceased did not agree with this: there was no possible reason for Giuseppe to commit suicide.
Three years later, in January 1939, Maria Taraliko was walking near where Giuseppe's body was found. Suddenly, the teenage girl passed out. When she came to, she spoke in a man's voice. She said her name was Pepe (short for "Giuseppe") and demanded that her mother, Catarina Veraldi, be brought to her.
While waiting for the women, Maria asked for wine, cigarettes and playing cards and invited the men in the room to play with her. This was completely unusual for a girl. She named some of the men present by the names of four friends of Giuseppe. When Signora Veraldi arrived at Taraliko's house, she was deeply impressed by the voice of her son emanating from the girl's lips.
Pepe said his friends killed him by throwing him off a bridge and beating him to death with an iron bar. After that, Maria ran out of the house, ran to the bridge and lay down just as the body of Giuseppe lay. Signora Veraldi followed her and insisted that her son leave the girl's body. Maria fell asleep, and when she woke up, she did not remember anything about the events of that day. Nine years later, Signora Veraldi received a letter from Luigi Marchete, one of her son's friends, who left Italy shortly after Giuseppe's death. Luigi admitted that he killed Giuseppe out of jealousy of a woman.
Three other mutual friends of theirs, whose names were called by Maria, helped him, and otherwise everything was just as Pepe said. Since one of the friends had died by that time, and Luigi was living in Argentina, two other accomplices were arrested by the police. Neither Maria herself nor her family members knew Giuseppe, and she could not even know the cause of his death. Some believe that Mary was possessed by the spirit of the murdered, but the clue has never been found.
The second story is related to the poltergeist. It began in January 1959 in the American Springfield on Butler Street, where 80-year-old Karla Papino and her 13-year-old grandson lived. On that day, suddenly, for no apparent reason, window panes began to break, but not all at once, but one after another. Both the grandmother and the grandson claimed that they always heard some kind of knock before the next glass broke right in front of their eyes.
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This went on for a week. During this time, 39 glasses were broken, they did not have time to be inserted. The glazier told the reporter that all the debris fell inside. It seemed that the windows were beating from the outside, as if someone was hitting something heavy exactly in the middle of each glass. The police failed to find the culprit and the case was closed. But the architect John S. Parker, who investigated the poltergeist, began his own investigation. He proposed to conduct scientific research, tk. hoped to prove that temperature changes - and this was the official version that scientists put forward - had absolutely nothing to do with it. After a week, everything stopped. It was not possible to find out who was to blame for this.
Of course, there were many hypotheses, mystically inclined citizens even argued that ghosts were to blame. Karla Papino did not believe in ghosts, so she immediately discarded this version. And the results of Parker's independent investigation remained unknown to the public.
The third story is related to unexplained phenomena at sea. In March 1867, the Danube mail steamer anchored at the mouth of the San Juan River near Greatown, where the river empties into the Caribbean Sea. All of a sudden, all passengers and crew, including Captain Dannehy, heard a strange, indefinable sound at sea.
Later, sailors from other ships said that they heard a similar noise in this area. An article was published about what was happening in the magazine "Nature", where Charles Dannehy spoke about what he witnessed. The phenomenon was observed only on ships with iron hulls, and never on wooden ships. Everything happened only at night, but not every night, and before the appearance of a sound on the water, strong ripples were always noticed. Eyewitnesses described the noise as a loud, shrill, monotonous sound, accompanied by vibration, and the entire metal hull of the ship vibrated.
This could go on for several hours and then suddenly stopped. On the shore, no one heard anything unusual. Captain Dannehy said that for at least three-quarters of the time, the sound was perfectly clear. The sound was also clearly audible a couple of meters from the vessel, but the source could not be found.
After the article, numerous hypotheses began to appear, trying to explain what happened. It was said that croak fish, sharks, crocodiles, turtles, manatees, changes in underwater currents in the harbor, sea earthquakes, an underwater source of gas, a previously unknown form of electricity, and even a new type of hypnosis were to blame.
As a result, the riddle of Greytown noise was never solved. After 1871, there is no mention of Greattown specifically in print sources, but strange noises are noticed in various parts of the world to this day. The fourth story is about UFOs.
What was observed in the skies of Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland in 1946 - flying saucers, meteorites, experimental military aircraft - no one knows for sure, but the fact that unidentified fiery objects often appeared there is a fact. The phenomenon was dubbed "Scandinavian ghost rockets" and was simultaneously seen in the sky by large groups of people.
Their first appearance took place in Switzerland in February. Then messages began to come from everywhere - high in the sky people saw lights in the form of coils or cigars. In June, in Finland, witnesses saw a bright light leaving a smoky trail in the air. At first, everyone decided that it was a meteorite, but then a second such object was noticed, making a turn in the air and flying back to where it came from. Many have seen lights in other parts of Europe make dead loops, fly straight up, dive down, and perform other aerial acrobatics.
In hundreds of reports, they are mostly described as objects with long, flaming tails, emitting a quiet hum and flying at high altitudes at speeds of about 640 km / h or more. In August, a Swedish Air Force pilot spotted a torpedo-shaped object. He stated that he saw him very close, about a kilometer away, and did not notice any signs of an ordinary plane. The pilot began pursuit, but the "rocket" flew at such a speed that an ordinary bomber could not keep up with it. The Swedish government took the pilot's license seriously, and as a result, an investigative committee was formed.
Many of its members believed that perhaps the USSR took possession of the secret German weapon after the victory in World War II and is now sending guided missiles to Europe for intimidation. The American and British governments showed interest in the version, but it later turned out to be incorrect.
After 1946, objects began to appear less frequently, but they were nevertheless noticed for several more years. So what was it? The Swedish government has not found a single solid evidence to support the theory of UFOs or Soviet missiles.
The fifth story is associated with mythical creatures. Around 1890, mysterious events began to take place in Japan: men who worked in the field or in any other open space, and sometimes even at home, were suddenly knocked down from their feet by an unknown source of strong wind. After that, narrow cuts 1-1.5 cm long remained on the legs. In the first minutes, the wounds did not bother the victims, but after about half an hour, blood began to flow, the wounds became inflamed and began to hurt. They always healed for a long time.
Scientists have suggested that the wounds appeared due to "an inexplicable drop in atmospheric pressure through the creation of a temporary vacuum" (what would that mean?). Locals believed that the wounds were the work of the legendary kama-itachi creature. According to legend, it looks like a weasel with razor-sharp claws, spinning in a furious whirlwind and cutting the skin on the legs of people on the way. Sometimes it is described as three such creatures at once, appearing everywhere together. The kama-itachi move so fast that they cannot be seen by the eye.
The attacks later stopped. At least in the newspapers of that time, mentions of such cases ceased to appear. It was not possible to find out what it really was, and it is unlikely that it will ever succeed. The last story tells about a woman with phenomenal abilities. It all began in 1980 in Manchester, when Mrs. Jacqueline Priestman, during a quarrel with her first husband, Ron, cried out in her hearts: "You must break your neck!" Unfortunately, that is exactly what happened to him: Ron had an accident and broke his neck and spine. He passed away, leaving Jacqueline alone with a sense of guilt.
Soon after, a light bulb in the bathroom exploded. Jacqueline was there at that time, and the fragments severely cut her hand. She decided that the light bulb was of poor quality. When her vacuum cleaner burned out for no apparent reason, and then another light bulb exploded with her, the woman suspected that she was being haunted by the ghost of her deceased husband. The move did not help: electrical appliances in her presence continued to fail or turned off by themselves. Jacqueline was shocked several times. The owners of some shops tried to forbid her to come there, because with her appearance something always broke.
Soon, Jacqueline married a second time, but strange incidents did not even think of ending - on the contrary, they began to happen more and more often. The Electric Lady began to suffer from depression, frequent headaches and fainting, and contemplated suicide. Mediums and researchers of the paranormal phenomena have not been able to find the reason for the nightmares that occur to her.
A reporter who once came to an unusual lady for an interview accused her of fraud and made her so angry that the vacuum cleaner in the living room burst into flames. Finally, a specially invited professor offered a key to solving the problem: he suggested that Jacqueline suffers from the fact that for some reason static electricity accumulates in her body, and its amount is 10 times higher than normal.
The professor developed a special diet and exercise program for Jacqueline, which included walking around the house every day with light bulbs in hand to release excess electricity. Surprisingly, it helped. However, in 1985, Jacqueline gave birth to her fourth child, and her daughter immediately began to show the same properties as her mother: she twice electrocuted the midwife holding her.
*** Based on materials from the magazines "UFO-world" and "Riddles of the XX century"
O. BULANOVA