When it comes to ghosts, many of us immediately imagine figures wrapped in robes, silently floating at night through the empty corridors of ancient castles. However, there are other varieties of ghosts. Guests from the other world can appear to people in a completely unusual form, move into the most unexpected objects and behave truly surreal.
Ghost in the elevator
In 1969, Wales decided to demolish an old seaside hotel that had fallen into disrepair. When the builders got down to business, inexplicable things began to happen in the empty hotel, as if the building were protesting against such an inglorious end. The de-energized elevator began to ride through the floors by itself. Shocked workers chopped off the cables, but the booth continued to spontaneously move without them. And only when the experts completely destroyed the mine, the elevator collapsed down and no longer showed signs of life.
Ghost fighter
It is said that over London's Biggin Hill airport, you can sometimes see the translucent silhouette of the famous Supermarine Spitfire and hear its engine roar. The airport was once an air base, and according to legend, an inexperienced pilot accidentally crashed on it during the Second World War. After that, the ghost of the plane with the spirit of the pilot at the helm began to be seen here quite often. The striking phenomenon was last witnessed by three airport employees four months ago.
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Ghost cars
The myth of the ghost machine is international and occurs in almost every country in the world. In Russia it is Pobeda, driving around Moscow at night, in America - Buick of the thirties, cutting through the forest roads of Minnesota at night, in Great Britain - the pre-war Hillman, blinding drivers on the M62 highway connecting Kingston-upon -Hull and Liverpool. All these urban legends feature the phantoms of old cars that once crashed on certain sections of the road and since then periodically appear there as a sad echo of the past.
Ghosts of animals
Animal ghosts are also found around the globe. For example, the American writer Ellen Glasgow bequeathed that after her death the corpses of her dogs should be exhumed and buried with her. When the woman died in 1945, the writer's request was fulfilled by burying the remains of two animals with her. Since then, it has been rumored that dogs howl at night at Glasgow's grave, and sometimes pale dog silhouettes can be seen there.
In 1987, a fire broke out in one of the private houses of the Australian city of Kalgoorlie. The hostess woke up feeling her cat scratching her breasts, trying to wake her up. The woman instantly jumped up, ran to her children and led them outside. Unusually, the family's cat, William, died a few months before the incident. Perhaps this is the best proof that animals, like us, have an immortal soul.
Haunted trees
Surprisingly, even plants can be ghosts. So, in the north of Spain there is a small village of Santillana del Mar, where you can find a seemingly unremarkable meadow. Once upon a time, a lush olive grove grew here, but by mistake of officials, the centuries-old trees were cut down in 1991. After that, the inhabitants of Santillana del Mara began to claim that at night in the meadow you can see the smoky silhouettes of trees that slowly sway their branches in the wind. Do plants have a soul too?..
Ghost painting
In the summer of 1977, dentist Kirk McAlpin of Edinburgh acquired a painting of a woman standing in a darkened gorge at a fair. The canvas turned out to be very skillfully written and completely inexpensive, so the Scot bought it without hesitation. Over time, the dentist began to notice a strange detail behind the painting. The woman on it suddenly began to move across the canvas. Night after night passed, and every morning McAlpin realized that the woman was in a new place. Soon she began to approach, and the Edinburgh saw an unpleasant smile on her face.
Frightened, Kirk took the painting to a nearby wasteland and burned it there. Nevertheless, from time to time he still noticed the canvas hanging on the wall, while the entire canvas was now occupied by the woman's sinister grin. Fortunately, the dentist soon moved, and the eerie work of art disappeared, although the man could not forget the terrible female grin for a long time - he either dreamed of it or even dreamed it in reality …
Ghost gallows
In Danish Helsingor there is a place where a gallows stood centuries ago, on which criminals were executed. Now there is a beautiful park, but many residents of the city claim that on Saturdays (it was then in the old days that hangings were performed) at this place you can see in the evening the vague outlines of a pillar with a crossbar on which a rope with a noose hangs.
Ghost window
This legend has been around in Coquitlam, Canada for over twenty years. On the outskirts of the city, there is an abandoned warehouse that has not been used since 1994. One of the walls of the building is completely devoid of any windows. In 1995, local teenagers stated that at night they saw a luminous window opening on this very wall, in which some human shadows flickered. Since then, many Coquitlam residents have claimed to have also seen such a window at night. The warehouse was repeatedly searched for a secret room, but on the opposite side of the wall there was only a huge empty room. At the same time, the ghostly window, which eyewitnesses talk about, always appears at the level of the third floor.
