Fighting armies, cavalcades of knights on white horses, unknown ancient cities surrounded by fortress walls, distant tropical islands with palm trees, water spaces with ships and seagulls - all these pictures have been periodically appearing for centuries … in the air in front of the amazed gaze of many people.
Science has tried to explain these phenomena by the optical reflection of real pictures in different layers of the atmosphere, or, more simply, by mirages. But the fact is that such an explanation does not apply to all cases of this order. So, the pictures often visible in the sky represented events that happened tens, or even many hundreds of years ago …
Many people know about the famous Battle of Marathon. Then, in 490 BC, the Greeks defeated the large army of the Persians. So, one of the legends tells that for many years after this battle on the field near Marathon, people continued to see vague pictures of that mortal battle.
In October 1642, near the English city of Edgehill, a battle began between the troops of Prince Rupert and Oliver Cromwell. After the battle, at least five thousand dead bodies were left lying on the cold autumn ground. And as if to demonstrate the horrors that wars bring with them, literally a few weeks later, the locals in the sky of Edgehill again saw the recent battle of two armies, but now ghostly. Just as in reality, the beat of drums, cannon fire and blows of swords on the shields and armor of the soldiers were clearly audible.
Among such incredible performances that unfold in the sky like on a gigantic stage, many people have also seen a huge army regularly appearing in the skies over the city of Inverary in Scotland; cavalry, infantry and many carts that moved to Souther Fell, in the English county of Cumbria, as well as a Viking flotilla off the coast of Iona.
Sometimes there are reports in the literature that the famous battle of Waterloo on June 18, 1815, some time after its completion, was observed by residents of the Belgian town of Verviers …
An unusual incident happened in 1785 in Silesia in the town of Ujest: during the funeral of General von Kosel, ranks of soldiers suddenly appeared in the sky, marching as if on a parade ground during a review. When the coffin with the body of the general was interred, the ghostly warriors reappeared, as if paying the last honors to their commander, and then disappeared.
A whole army of soldiers marching in the sky, many witnesses observed in 1848 near Vienna. And in 1888, many residents of the Croatian village of Varasdin saw a detachment of dragoons in the sky, commanded by a young officer with a saber in his hand.
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Of course, serious researchers do not have much confidence in the stories set forth in the old manuscripts. Although most of these cases took place in front of numerous eyewitnesses.
But it turns out that people watched a strange "movie" in our time. For example, here is the testimony of two geologists who in November 1956 went to the Scottish mountains of Cuillin in the Skye Archipelago.
The men, who were resting after a hard day, were suddenly awakened at three o'clock in the morning by strange sounds, similar to rifle fire. Looking out of the tent, the geologists saw the figures of the running shooters who fired their rifles on the move.
As soon as dawn broke, the terrified geologists moved the tents up the slope. But in the morning of the next day they again heard shots, and when, emboldened, they parted the flaps of the tent, they again saw the Scottish soldiers, but now they were barely wandering, stumbling over stones, and the soldiers looked already half-dead.
When geologists told local residents about the events of the past two nights, they heard in response that similar incidents occur quite often in these places. As for the Scottish riflemen, they are either ghost soldiers who died in the battle of the 13th century, or participants in the Jacobite uprising of 1745, raised by Carl Stewart …
On a January morning in 1951, Mrs. Smith was driving home by car. But since the road was slippery, the woman lost control, and the car was driven straight into the ravine. But since the frost was slight and the sun was shining brightly, the woman left her car and decided to walk a few kilometers to the house.
Having moved away from the car at a distance of several hundred meters, Mrs. Smith suddenly saw on the road ahead of her a group of people with torches in their hands. All of them, some squatting, some bent over, carefully examined the bodies of people lying on the ground, most likely dead. At the same time, no one paid attention to the woman, as if she was not nearby.
Subsequently, Mrs. Smith claimed that the whole scene lasted about 10 minutes, and during this time she managed to quite clearly see their clothes: it was the same as that of the ancient peoples. When historians found out about this case, they, after conducting appropriate scientific research, came to the conclusion that one of the episodes of the battle at Nachansmir, which took place in this place in 685 BC, appeared in front of the woman …
And here is another, no less curious, incident, witnessed by two Englishwomen who came to rest in the small village of Puy, stretching a few kilometers from the port city of Dieppe.
This event happened on August 65, 1951. At about four o'clock in the morning, the women were suddenly awakened by a strange rumble like thunder. However, the women did not see the lightning.
Listening more closely to the sounds that came, they clearly heard human cries, interrupted by a roar similar to the roar of flying planes and exploding bombs.
The sounds of the battle continued for about an hour. Then they were cut short by sudden silence. But the lull did not last long: the strange sound cacophony resumed again and lasted almost until dawn. It was only just before sunrise that the rumbling stopped, and the exhausted women were finally able to fall asleep.
Waking up and talking with several guests and the hotel staff, the women, much to their surprise, learned that no one had heard any rumbling sounds last night.
On their return home, the women contacted the local newspaper. A journalist interested in their story found out that they heard echoes of the battle that took place in the area in the early morning of August 19, 1942, between the Allies and the Germans, who were trying to hold the port of Dieppe in Normandy. In this battle, which lasted about four hours, out of 6,000 people, almost 4,000 were killed and seriously wounded …
Faced with a ghost army in November 1960, and a certain Dorothy Strong. She saw the soldiers from the window of her own car. The woman later told about this incident: “Suddenly the engine stalled, the speedometer needle darted, and the impression arose that the car had hit an invisible wall. It seemed that the soldiers were surrounding the car, but then everything melted into thin air. It happened in the very north of England, at Otterburn. A little later, it turned out that Mrs. Strong had seen fragments of a grand battle between the British and the Scots, which took place in 1388.
Several hypotheses have been put forward to explain these and other similar phenomena. For example, some experts on anomalous phenomena believe that participants in real battles release a huge amount of psychic energy into the environment.
It is this clot of pain, despair and fear that is fixed on certain spatial matrices and then, even many years later, forms fragments of past events in the brains of people with a sensitive psyche.
A similar view on the problem of "visions" was expressed by American scientists Owen and Prett. Having studied more than a hundred such cases, they came to the conclusion that those of the eyewitnesses who had a chance to see the "heavenly battles", most likely, at that moment were in a very agitated state. It is possible that it was precisely this state that allowed them to see what other people could not see.
However, this version cannot explain the strange materialization of objects during ghost battles, as reported in some sources.
So, in 1686 in Great Britain, during the heavenly procession of armed soldiers, rifles, sabers, helmets fell to the ground …
In 1800, after the "battle in the sky" near the town of Kilcanny, broken trees appeared on the ground, as well as drops of blood on the grass …
Other hypotheses also fail to explain the "visions" in the sky. Modern optical theories also fail to cope with this task. Therefore, while it remains only to believe in one thing - in the miracles that the sky demonstrates to earthlings.