Vengeful ghosts. Family Affair

You've all heard of the Hook Man, right? Come on, a well-known story: a guy and a girl decided to retire, went out of town, and at that time the radio broadcast that a dangerous criminal had escaped, who was easy to identify because he had a metal hook instead of one hand. Naturally, this scared the girl, and she began to whine for the guy to take her home. The story has two endings. One by one, the guy listened to his girlfriend, took her home and, deciding to demonstrate good manners by opening the door for her, found a hook caught on the door handle.

According to another, the boy showed character by refusing to return, but to prove that there was no danger, he got out of the car to examine the surroundings. He did not return for quite a long time, the girl began to get nervous and suddenly heard a strange sound, as if something was scratching the roof of a car. Gathering up the last of her courage, she looked outside and found her friend, dead and hanging from a tree, right above the car. As the wind swayed his body, the guy's nails scraped along the roof of the car.

This is a little edifying story to discourage you from falling into sin after going to the movies, don’t you think? Let's say that some ghosts, in order to manifest themselves, use ready-made stories, plagiarists of sorts. But there are a few cases that involve real, non-supernatural serial killers targeting couples. Remember, for example, the sensational story of the Son of Sam? And how did the Son of Sam later swear that a black dog ordered him to kill? By the way, about black dogs...however, we’ll talk about them later. Before Son of Sam came along, just after World War II, another lovers' killer was at work in Arkansas. We've read that similar cases have happened before: in Los Angeles, Oklahoma, and practically everywhere. After some research, we came to the conclusion that there was a vengeful ghost at work everywhere, somewhat overly concerned with teenage morality.

Once upon a time we had the opportunity to cross paths with the Man with the Hook. Of course, instead of one hand he had a big, dirty hook. At one time, he staged a whole bloody performance in the name of piety, when he went out at night on his business in order to kill anyone he considered immoral. Basically, he got it from prostitutes, who were easy prey for him. His evil remained in the world even after his death thanks to the hook, which was melted down and used to make various items, including a chain that the father gave to his daughter. The father in this case is the parish priest, who did not always follow his own sermons, if you understand where we are going, and his daughter, concerned about such immorality, unwittingly called the Man with the Hook through her chain. Classic possessed object, classic vengeful spirit.

Here's some more classics for you. You stand in front of a mirror in a dark room and say “Bloody Mary.” Repeat this three times, or three times three, or a hundred or two times. Perhaps you do it at the stroke of midnight. Perhaps by candlelight. You may find yourself spinning in place. Or you walk up the stairs leading down.

Who is Bloody Mary? There is an opinion that we inherited this name from the English Queen Mary Tudor, who was famous for her particular cruelty towards that part of her people that professed Protestantism. However, even after Queen Mary there were people for whom this nickname suited them perfectly. For example, Mary Worth, who was accused of killing her own children. In short, no one can be one hundred percent sure who exactly that Bloody Mary was. Maybe it’s even your fellow countrywoman who committed atrocities many years ago. Or maybe Bloody Mary is the ghost of a woman who was killed right after her wedding without looking at her pregnancy, and you remind her of someone who killed her and her unborn child.

Doesn't matter. In any case, if you called her and she came to you, there are two possible scenarios for the development of events. Either she is going to tell you something about your future, or she is going to rip out your eyes and in such a simple way deprive you of this very future. In general, the mirror often appears in various legends, as it happened historically. This is what dad said:

Fortune telling on a mirror is very common in all cultures, wherever mirrors were used. Before their appearance, some peoples used the smooth surface of water, trying to discern the future in the reflection. The Aztecs invented Tezcatlipoca, the “smoky mirror,” by spraying mercury onto balls. Queen Elizabeth's court magician, John Dee, specialized in mirrors. In the folklore of many nations you can find stories that if you, standing in front of a mirror, voluntarily or involuntarily perform a certain ritual - eat an apple, comb your hair in a special way, call on one of thousands of “wise women” - you will see your future spouse. At the same time, there is a belief that if you see the Grim Reaper in the reflection, you will die before your wedding.

There is also a custom to cover a mirror if there is a dead person in the house, so that it does not draw in the soul of the deceased.

Breaking a mirror is a bad omen because your soul is reflected in it. Thus, you are guaranteed seven years of misfortune, because you have ruined your future.

But how does Bloody Mary fit into the story of mirrors? Sometimes girls, having gathered for a bachelorette party, send one to call Bloody Mary as a joke. This may not have happened to you yet, but if you find yourself in a similar situation, our advice to you: DON’T THINK! And then he will appear...

How do we know?

Because we met. Or rather, we ran into a ghost who was using the urban legend of Bloody Mary to penetrate the material world. Finding out the past of the malicious ghost, we learned that it was the murdered Mary Worthington. The killer cut out her eyes. Her spirit inhabited the mirror in front of which she died. Before her death, she tried to write the name of the killer on the wall, but did not have time, and the secret of her death followed her to the grave. Wherever the mirror was transported, Mary followed it and killed everyone who had a dark secret in their souls.

Yes, that's how ghosts work. They do not divide crimes into more serious/less serious, the world for them is black and white: guilty/not guilty. To be honest, in this we are somewhat similar. It doesn’t matter to us with what joy the ghost became angry, went berserk, and generally hovered between worlds. What motivates him - evil or good, black or white. But if he bothers people, we will throw him out of this world.
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Son of Sam is the pseudonym of serial killer David Berkowitz, who terrorized the people of the United States in 1976-77.

Experts say that ghosts are not vengeful, but there are exceptions. For example, a series of suicides of young people on Palm Island, 60 kilometers north of Australia, is explained by the revenge of the black spirit.

Photo: A strange legend surrounds a railroad crossing in south San Antonio, Texas. They say that there was an accident in which several schoolchildren died, whose ghosts remain in this area and from time to time they push stationary cars to cross, although the road goes up. Andy and Debi Chesney's daughter and several friends recently went on a moving trip to check out the legend. The girl took several pictures - in one of them you can see a transparent figure.

The Aborigines lived and lived on Palm Island, big and kind people, but sailors from an American ship arrived, captured a group of savages, took them home and sold the unfortunate Australians to the circus. Tambo, the tallest but also the most vulnerable of all, could not bear the shame and died. The giant's body was embalmed and exhibited in one of the museums in New York. A century later, an Australian millionaire, obsessed with the idea of ​​atonement for the sins of white people before the Aborigines, bought the museum exhibit, transported it to the island and buried it. After some time, real panic began among the white population of the island. The young men began to complain to their parents that a scary, huge aborigine with burning eyes came to them at night. In one hand he holds a spear, in the other a rope loop. These stories were not given much importance until young people, one after another, began to voluntarily take their own lives, choosing death by hanging. Rumors began to spread that Tambo's spirit was taking revenge for the humiliation and forced separation from his homeland. Families with boys growing up are leaving the island en masse...

Avenged the torment.

St. Petersburg schoolboy Vasily B., together with his friend, decided “for the sake of experiment” to throw a stray cat that caught their eye into the stairwell from the twelfth floor. They threw it down and slowly finished off the dying animal with a stick. Two weeks later, both friends stood on a half-empty suburban platform, towards which a train was approaching. Suddenly, a cat appeared on the platform about ten meters from them - an exact copy of the murdered one. The schoolchildren had not yet had time to realize this fact, but the cat was already heading straight towards them, increasing in size with each step. The guys couldn't move. Having approached them three meters, the cat-monster with fiery burning eyes fell to the ground and jumped forward. Vasily B., standing on the edge of the platform, fell directly under the wheels of an approaching train.

Threw stones.

“A special place in American folklore is occupied by legends about “demons of darkness” attacking people and destroying homes. In Gloucester, Massachusetts, these invisible aggressors held an entire military garrison at bay until they were put to flight by silvered bullets and the prayers of chaplains. The Salem witches also sometimes liked to throw “rocks out of nowhere.” So the “devil” stone thrower from Portsmouth is part of a tradition whose history lasts more than two centuries. Since this kind of phenomenon most often turns out to be an act of revenge carried out by an angry spirit, it would be unfair to put all the responsibility on the “main” Devil.

But first things first. In a small house on a piece of land not far from the New Hampshire port there lived a certain widow. John Walton liked the site because of its convenient location; since the woman had neither money nor influential friends, he accused her of witchcraft and, either with the help of judicial tricks or brute force, took possession of someone else’s property. Having received what he wanted, he dropped all charges against the widow, but she cursed her former home, promising that the new owner would not know happiness in it and would not acquire wealth.

Walton laughed, advised the old woman to get out and moved to a new house with the whole family. One Sunday, at one o'clock in the morning, when the household was sleeping peacefully, a terrifying roar was heard: the roof and doors cracked under a hail of stones. The Waltons immediately woke up.
At first, everyone decided that the house had been attacked by Indians, but when the owner looked outside, he did not see a soul in the deserted fields. The only thing that seemed strange to him was that the gate seemed to be lifted from its hinges.

Walton stepped over the threshold, but was immediately forced to retreat: a real barrage of stones fell on his head. The family rushed to board up the doors and windows, but this did not help. Hot cobblestones began to roll down the pipe, which were impossible to even touch. Moreover, stones began to somehow fly into the house through the windows without breaking the glass. All the candles in the house immediately went out. One by one, various objects began to fly into the air and fly out. A “disembodied” hand appeared behind the glass and began knocking on the window. Locks, keys and bolts began to bend and flatten as if under the blows of an invisible hammer. The cheese press hit the wall, and the cheese disappeared without a trace. The haystacks in the field scattered, and the hay hung on the bushes and trees. For a long time Walton could not leave the house: the invisible man immediately began to fire stones at him. A bell, a candle, a witch’s brew - nothing helped.”

Ghost of Kuznetsky Bridge.

Charming Zhuzhu worked as a fashion model in one of the fashion houses on Kuznetsky Most. She was the mistress of the famous entrepreneur and philanthropist Savva Morozov. One morning in 1905, Zhuzhu was riding in a carriage along the Kuznetsky Most when she suddenly heard the cries of a newsboy: “Savva Morozov committed suicide in Nice!” Zhuzhu jumped out of the carriage to buy a newspaper and fell under the wheels of a carriage passing in the oncoming lane. The girl was taken to the hospital, but despite the efforts of doctors, she died. After dark, the corpse of a young newspaperman was found in a gateway on Kuznetsky Most, strangled with a woman's stocking. As the examination established, the stocking belonged to Zhuzhu, although her body was already stored in the morgue. Since then, newspaper delivery men have never appeared on this street again. And the cab drivers, fearing the fashion model’s revenge, reluctantly agreed to drive onto the Kuznetsky Most after dark. Now Juju can be seen on warm spring and summer nights. A tall, slender girl in white seems to be gliding down the street without her feet touching the pavement.

10. The Ghost in the Colosimo Family

In the summer of 1986, the Colosimo family moved to a house located in Spotsylvania County, Virginia (USA). Soon after moving in, they noticed that there was a constant cold draft in their youngest daughter's bedroom, and no matter how they fought it, nothing helped. A neighbor suggested that the house might be haunted and advised him to hang a rosary in the room. Being devout Catholics, they listened to the advice, and after that they even invited a priest to bless the house.

However, after about a week, things in the house went much worse: books were flying off the shelves, the door was torn off its hinges, the rosary was thrown across the room, and the part where the crucifix was located was sealed into the wall. After violent disturbances manifested themselves, the family invited a psychic to the house, but he was unable to drive away the spirit. Two weeks later, they invited a witch who reported that the spirit was the ghost of a 16-year-old Confederate soldier. According to her, a child living in the house previously invited the ghost. She said that trying to drive the ghost away actually only scared it, and that was what was causing all the problems in the house. After the witch communicated with the spirit of the teenage soldier, the strange incidents ended.

9. The Great Amherst Mystery

In 1879, Daniel Teed lived in a large house in Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada. He lived there with his family, two daughters-in-law, son-in-law and brother. One of the daughters-in-law - a young girl named Esther - was haunted by a seemingly violent ghost. The story began one night when the girl’s body swelled unnaturally, and the sheet from the bed flew to the side. When one of the family members tried to put the sheet back on, it flew off again. The next night they asked a doctor to observe Esther. He sat in the room and waited for her to fall asleep. After a while, when the doctor realized that Esther was sleeping, he saw her pillow begin to move.

He tried to hold the pillow, but an invisible force pulled it out of his hands. Then the doctor heard a strange scratching noise, and when he looked at the wall, an invisible hand had already engraved the words: “ Esther Cox, you are mine to kill!" After this incident, small fires constantly broke out throughout the house. In addition, somehow the spirit communicated with the family, threatening to burn down the house if Esther did not leave it. For the safety of the whole family, Esther had to check into a local hotel, but apparently the ghost followed her there. While she was at the hotel, a knife flew out of the hand of the cleaner's son and ended up in her back. An infection that entered the body from a puncture wound almost killed the girl.

After recovering from the infection, Esther met a man who created a small play with her participation, playing up paranormal problems, but, as one might expect, while Esther was sitting on stage, nothing happened and the play failed. The next job she got was freight forwarding. Unfortunately, a few months later, the girl was arrested for arson - a barn caught fire on the estate where she lived. She was found guilty and sentenced to four months in prison. After leaving prison, Esther married, started a family, and died in 1912.

8. The Phantom of the Red Palace

In May 1908, a French diplomat living in Constantinople, Turkey, known as M. Constance, asked to be transferred back to France. The reason for this, according to sources, was that the diplomat and his wife in their summer residence called Red Palace terrorized by a ghost. Apparently, it was the ghost of Prince Ypsilanti, who hanged himself in Red Palace many years before.

Constance, who was described as a very large man, said that one night he was thrown out of bed while no one was around. Another time, something lifted his bed to the point where it was almost perpendicular to the floor. Constance's wife also became a victim of the ghost, but to a much more cruel extent.. One day, an invisible force pushed her down the stairs. Another time, while she was in the garden, she was attacked by a creature that looked like a black goat.

Having rammed her, it knocked the woman off her feet and seriously injured her. Even people from the embassy where the diplomat worked did not escape the ghost of the cursed palace - four mysterious deaths were recorded among them within a month. Ambassador Constance claimed that he was not superstitious, but simply tired of Turkey and fighting ghosts.

7. The Ghost of Flat Rock Town

In November 1954, the Parson family from the city of Flat Rock (Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada) began to notice that some objects on the farm began to suddenly ignite. The first was a dictionary, lying in a wooden box, where there were other flammable things, but the only thing that burned was the dictionary. A few days later, all the family members smelled smoke and, upon inspecting the house, discovered that a bag of sugar was on fire. When Mike Parson touched the bag, the fire immediately went out.

Among the burning objects were a doll and a Bible, and in a room where there was neither electricity nor a fireplace, the ignition began in the corners. Parson invited the press to the house, and they took photographs of arson scenes scattered throughout the house. Some time later, the family asked the priest to bless the house, and this seemed to calm whatever was causing the fires - after which they stopped.

Skeptics believed that the Parsons set the fires themselves, but the Royal Canadian Police did not believe this could be true. Their farm was not insured, and it is highly doubtful that they would have started a fire that could have destroyed their livelihood. As a result, the cause of the fires on the Parson farm is still officially a mystery.

6. The Phantom of Oldnall Road

In the West Midlands region of England there is a short country road called " Oldnall road" At first, the small stretch of road seems inconspicuous, but at the same time, an unnaturally large number of car accidents occur on it. One would assume that the road was simply dangerous in itself, if not for some strange sightings showing the possibility of it being haunted. For years, drivers have claimed that the reason they swerved was because of a young girl in Victorian-era clothing standing in the middle of the road.

After they got out of the car, the girl disappeared. The authorities were confused by the girl's appearance and believed that all the accidents were caused by slippery roads. However, drivers each time claimed that the road was dry in those days.

5. Fire Spirit from Caledonia Mills

Caledonia Mills is a rural community in Nova Scotia, Canada that was haunted by a strange, violent ghost that took up residence on a farm around 1900. One night in January, Janet McDonald screamed to her elderly mother that she hoped the devil would come and get her before 9:00 the next morning. Unfortunately, by morning the mother was dead, and that's when strange things began to happen in the house. Items disappeared from the house and were found at the property line. In other cases, farm equipment was somehow moved, and sometimes even the tails of horses were intertwined.

The worst thing happened at night in January 1922. During a snowstorm, 16-year-old Mary Ellen McDonald went to a nearby house for help. When she and her neighbors returned to the house, traces of fire were visible everywhere, various objects were burning with a blue flame. There were a total of 38 fires in the home. That terrible night led to the family leaving the house, never to return.

Some believed that the poltergeist's target was Mary Ellen, but others believed that Janet's late mother had cursed the house. In May 1971, the house mysteriously burned to the ground.

4. The Ghost of Witch Bell

John Bell, his wife, their 12 children and servants had been living near Adams, Tennessee (USA) for about 13 years when unusual things began to happen in the family. It all started with a strange noise and the faint sound of an old woman singing, which was not loud enough to make out the words. After this, while hunting in the forest, John Bell came across a strange animal with the head of a dog and the body of a rabbit. John continued to go on hunting expeditions in search of the animal, but was never able to find it.

Over time, the atmosphere in the house only became worse. At times, loud knocking sounds could be heard outside. John's daughter Betsy, the spirit's favorite target, was attacked in her sleep, leaving the girl covered in bruises and bites. When a neighbor came to the family to become the first outside witness to strange incidents, he saw various objects flying around the house. The voice was louder that time, and everyone could hear it clearly. It was the voice of a woman whom John Bell called Kate, and she quoted Scripture, and she also began to address all family members by name. One of her messages was that she was going to kill John Bell.

Besides the Bell family, many other people also witnessed the strange phenomenon. One of the prominent figures to visit the estate was General Andrew Jackson, who visited the Bell family in 1819. The three eldest sons waited on Jackson, who came because of rumors of a ghost. On the way to the house, his horses suddenly stopped and could not go further. At that moment, the ghost woman turned to Jackson and ordered him to leave the horses behind. Jackson and his entourage entered the house, planning to stay for a week, but, fearful, they all left the house the next day.

In 1820, John died at the age of 70. When family members inspected his room, a small vial containing an unknown liquid was discovered. Deciding to experiment, they gave some of the liquid to the cat, who died immediately. After the cat's death, Kate stated that she had finally killed John. During his funeral she laughed and sang. A year after her death, Kate approached John's widow and said that she would pursue her for another seven years. True to her word, Kate was last seen in 1828, speaking to John Jr. and predicting a civil war. Today, Bella Farm and the nearby caves provide entertainment for local tourists.

3. Poltergeist from Jabotikabal

Since 1965, the Ferreira family from Jaboticabal, Brazil, have apparently been victims of an incredibly cruel spirit. It all started with bricks in their house falling seemingly out of nowhere. After some time, it became obvious that the spirit was focusing its attention on 11-year-old Maria Jose. In order to drive the spirit away from the girl, the family invited a priest to perform an exorcism ceremony, but, as it turned out, this only made the situation worse. More bricks started flying around the house, then eggs started flying.

and even furniture. But this story of the herd is truly scary from the moment the ghost began to show cruelty to Mary. She was often attacked by an unknown force, which left bruises and bite marks on the girl's body. One day, while she was at school, her clothes began to smolder and then caught fire while she was with a group of other students. Eventually, needles mysteriously pierced her skin. There was an incident where 55 pins were removed from her ankle.

The persecution continued for a year, and then the family decided to contact a medium. The medium said that Mary was being haunted by a vengeful ghost. Apparently, in a past life, Maria was a witch and killed a man who became a spirit. The medium said that the ghost would never have mercy on the girl. Unfortunately, five years after the haunting began, Maria took her own life by taking poison, and there have been no further reports of a ghost in the house since her death.

2. Carl Pruitt's Cursed Grave

The story of the curse of Carl Pruitt's grave dates back to lunchtime one day in 1938 in Pulaski County, Kentucky (USA). Pruitt returned home after a day of work and expected to find his wife in the kitchen, but found her in the bedroom with another man. Becoming enraged, Pruitt grabbed the chain and began to choke her, and her lover took the opportunity to flee the scene. After she died, Pruitt took his own life.

Pruitt's wife's family refused to forgive him, so he was buried in a separate cemetery in another city. Cemetery visitors passing by Pruitt's grave noticed something strange going on there. They saw strange spots that looked like circles and then began to connect, and the image on the gravestone became like a chain. The strange image attracted the attention of some people, including a group of boys who rode bicycles to the grave about a month after the chain appeared on the headstone. To impress his friends, one boy threw a stone at the tombstone, which cracked it. On the way home, the boy had an accident; a bicycle chain jumped off and wrapped around his neck, strangling him.

The boy's mother was heartbroken and decided " get even"on the gravestone. She took an ax and hit the slab several times. The next day, when she was hanging the clothes on the line after washing, it mystically got tangled around her neck and killed the woman. During the investigation of the death, an ax was found with stone chips on it, it was also dented, but Pruitt's tombstone remained untouched. After some time, a farmer and his family were driving past the cemetery in a cart. For some stupid reason, he decided to shoot his gun at Pruitt's tombstone. The shooting frightened the horses, and they sharply quickened their pace. The farmer's family managed to jump out of the cart, but he himself remained inside until he was thrown out of there and the leash was wrapped around his neck, leading to strangulation.

Next came a couple of policemen, convinced that the curse was a hoax. They went to the cemetery and took photos near Pruitt's grave. On their way back, a bright light began to follow them and they tried to speed up, but this led to them leaving the road and crashing into a fence. A man sitting in the passenger seat was thrown from the car, but survived. His colleague, however, was nearly decapitated by a chain between two fence posts.

By the time the 1940s rolled around, most people stayed away from the cemetery for fear of losing their own lives. But not everyone did this. One man went to the cemetery and began to crush the gravestone with a hammer. People heard the hammer hitting the gravestone, but suddenly they were replaced by blood-curdling screams. The townspeople explored the cemetery and found a man at the gate. He was dead. Apparently he got scared of something and ran away. At the exit from the cemetery, the chain with which the gate was closed strangely wrapped around his neck and strangled him to death. Following the incident, the bodies were exhumed and all markers, including Pruitt's angry headstone, were removed.

1. Death of Elisa Lam

On January 26, 2013, 21-year-old university student Elisa Lam was driving alone from her native British Columbia to California. After spending some time in San Diego, on January 28, for unknown reasons, she checked into a historic hotel Cecil Hotel, located in a disadvantaged area of ​​​​Los Angeles. On February 1, she was supposed to leave. She was last seen alive three days after checking in in the hotel lobby.

While in California, Lam kept in contact with her parents every day, and after they were unable to contact her, they called the police. The police investigated the girl's disappearance and a few days later found CCTV footage from the hotel elevator, which showed Lam behaving very strangely: pressing buttons and sticking her head out of the elevator several times, as if looking for someone. She also periodically enters and exits the elevator, and even appears to talk to herself.

Two weeks passed, but no trace of Lam was found until hotel residents began complaining about black water from the taps and lack of pressure. Climbing to the roof, a hotel employee found Lam's naked body in one of the closed water tanks. Unfortunately, people were showering and drinking water from this tank. An autopsy was performed which showed that the girl had drowned. No drugs or alcohol were found in her blood. The death was determined to be an accident.

Ghost fans believe that Lam was actually possessed by some kind of evil spirit or was under the influence of a ghost. They point to the fact that there are many tragedies associated with this hotel. Two active serial killers stayed at the hotel: Richard " Night Stalker"Ramirez and the Austrian prostitute killer Jack Unterweger. Elizabeth Short, victim of the infamous case " Black Dahlia" was also seen at the hotel on the night of her death. And these are just some of the sensational deaths linked to the budget hotel - there have been many other murders and suicides committed there.

As evidence that Lam was possessed, people point to the fact that it is still unclear how she managed to get to the roof. There are two accesses to it: the fire escape or the door, which was always locked. Additionally, the locked door was in a location that only long-term guests (such as the ghost) or hotel staff knew about. Then, while on the roof, Lam, who was a frail girl, somehow managed to open the heavy door and close it behind her. Skeptics do not believe that Lam spoke to a ghost or was possessed, but believe that her death was due to bipolar illness.

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Among the undead, there is no creature more disgusting than the one that is driven by nothing but fierce hatred. This hatred concentrates and accumulates, multiplies over the years and becomes bigger and stronger. But initially this creature is possessed only by the desire for revenge - the thirst to restore justice after its death, to punish the murderers or shed light on their actions. But over time, especially if the killers fail to be punished, revenge turns into hatred of all living things and turns into a disgusting likeness - a vengeful spirit.

Appearance and habitats

Most often, the cause of vengeful spirits is described as human betrayal. If a dying person, before his death, manages to curse a murderer whom he knew well during life, then most likely this will lead to the appearance of a terrible creature from the camp of the undead. And the only purpose for the existence of a vengeful spirit is to fulfill the curse that he imposed on his killer. Such a spirit has every chance of ending its existence as an undead as soon as the killer pays for his act.

But sometimes it also happens that a vengeful spirit does not know who to take revenge on. He remembers being killed, but doesn't remember the details. In such cases, this spirit simply hopes that sooner or later he will be able to meet the killer, but in the meantime he kills everyone who wanders into his habitat.

Basically, vengeful spirits are tied to the place where their life was cut short. They remember little about her and most often only remember that they were killed, sometimes - who killed them. Often such ghosts appear at the sites of past battles or mass graves. Not inveterate and forever damned, they kill all living things that wander into their “home.”

Similarities and differences with ghosts

Vengeful spirits differ from ordinary ghosts at least in their appearance. An ordinary ghost can know who he was during his life and even try to help people, in search of something important (for example, a treasure that he hid during his life) or simply in some important matters that he himself did not have time to do. The vengeful ghost, in turn, remembers little about life and since all his thoughts are occupied only with death, he cannot offer people anything else. An ordinary ghost can help a person who solves the mystery of his death (for example, a policeman), but a vengeful spirit blames this person for his death and is more likely to kill him.

The appearance of these creatures also differs. An ordinary ghost tends to retain the features it had during life. Often ghosts appear the same as they were during life, simply deprived of the ability to interact with the material world. Vengeful spirits can easily interact with the physical world, but their appearance is more like a shapeless shadow, not even similar to the deceased, sometimes a black ball, and less often they have no appearance at all. The less human remains in a vengeful spirit, the stronger it is and the greater the scale of betrayal it has experienced during its lifetime.

The Path to Liberation

A vengeful spirit has only one priority - killing. This is where his liberation from existence between the worlds of people and spirits lies. But for true liberation, the vengeful spirit must kill the one responsible for his death or the descendants of this person. It is extremely rare that a vengeful spirit can be given peace by punishing those responsible for its death or by performing the last rituals over its body.

Legends mention cases when people accepted the mission of a vengeful spirit by swearing an oath of vengeance on the guilty over its burial. It is revenge - mere punishment is not enough - that the murderer must be killed. But even in such cases, the vengeful spirit found peace only when it felt that its killer was dead.

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0 Numerous eyewitness accounts and research conducted by parapsychologists prove that ghosts are not a figment of the imagination or ordinary hallucinations, they really exist. And not all of them are safe for people. According to experts, in the 20th century alone, spirits were responsible for the deaths of several hundred people.

Ghosts send people to another world in different ways. Most often, weak-hearted and overly impressionable people become victims of spirits. Having seen in front of them or felt the “touch” of an eerie-looking ghost, some poor fellows die of a broken heart.
But in the arsenal of ghosts there are also more sophisticated and dangerous methods, from which even people with nerves of steel are not immune. This is a regular and purposeful induction of mental insanity and death, provoking accidents, as well as temporary materialization and murder on the physical level.

Ghosts usually resort to the second of the methods listed above when mass grave sites are destroyed through the fault of people. So, in the north-east of Moscow, near one of the metro stations, several new houses were built on the site of an old cemetery. The life of most of the residents who moved into them turned into a living hell.

At first, the houses were completely covered with cracks. Seismologists and geologists just threw up their hands, unable to give this strange phenomenon a clear explanation. The builders somehow patched up and strengthened the walls, filling up the cracks. However, this did not make it any easier for the residents.

In almost every apartment, from time to time, devilish things happened: for no apparent reason, dishes were broken into pieces, things fell, creaks, rustling and howls were heard at night, ghosts appeared.

Natalia Smirnova, who was “lucky” to settle in this ill-fated place, shared with us the most interesting observations: “One night I woke up and with horror saw right next to my bed a translucent whitish man with empty eye sockets. My son came running into the room in response to my screams. He also saw this strange creature and reached for the switch to turn on the light.

And then the ghost almost instantly lost its shape, turning into a white cloud, and when the light was turned on, it completely disappeared. A week later, the same uninvited guest almost killed me. I woke up from a terrible feeling. It seemed as if there was some kind of heavy and nasty gas in my lungs instead of air. A little more and I would have suffocated.

I crossed myself, mentally asking: “Lord! Save me!" And at the same moment something like smoke came out of my mouth, it hovered under the ceiling and began to take the form of a person. I crossed myself again and crossed the ghost, after which it disappeared.

On the advice of the priest, I then consecrated the apartment, placed icons in each room and several times a day, especially before going to bed, fumigated the room with incense. The ghost did not appear again. But for the neighbors on the landing, this same or another ghost caused a lot of trouble: their sixty-year-old grandmother, who never complained about her health, suddenly died, and their seventeen-year-old son ended up in a mental hospital, according to them, not without the help of a ghost who visited the house.

I later found out that some of the other residents had various problems with ghosts. Someone thought that these were brownies or drummers, but it seems to me that this is not the case, very evil spirits visited us, downright devilish messengers. Over time, all the residents of our building consecrated their apartments, and the house itself was consecrated. After that everything returned to normal...”

DEADLY SECTORS

The desecration of cemeteries can lead to other, no less terrible consequences. There are areas on Russian roads where accidents regularly occur. These places seem to be enchanted - one disaster follows another, the number of victims is growing, and no one can explain why this is happening. On the site of many of these “deadly sectors” in the past there were graveyards, forgotten and abandoned.

Motorists have to pay for the carelessness and careless attitude of road builders.
Alexander Pestrukhin had a terrible accident on the “road of death” located in the Rostov region, and reported the details of the emergency that happened to him: “It was a late summer evening. It's already dark. My friend Sergei and I were driving along the highway at a speed of about 80 km per hour. I drove the car. The weather was warm, dry, the road was in good condition... For no apparent reason, the headlights suddenly went out, and a smoky object hovered in front of the windshield. He passed through the glass and ended up between me and my friend.

I managed to see that he had something like a head with holes instead of eyes and a mouth. There was a terrible laugh. I pressed the brake, but it was too late: the car flew into a ditch and crashed into a tree. What was left of my “Muscovite” was a pile of twisted metal. My friend died: he flew through the broken front window, and the rearing hood cut off his head like a knife.

Luckily for me, people passing by saved me. I was unconscious. Then I had to spend several months in the hospital... I will never forget this ghost. The place where we crashed is notorious - there have been many accidents there. Apparently, this is all because once upon a time people were buried there..."

CHAIN ​​REACTION

It happens that ghosts appear on highways and in places where cemeteries as such have never existed. For example, a car enthusiast or motorcyclist crashed to death. And after a while, his restless spirit appears in front of some unfortunate driver and provokes a new accident. As a result, a kind of chain reaction may occur, accidents will become a regular occurrence in this place, and thus a new deadly section will appear - the “road of death.”

About a dozen such places are known in the Moscow region alone. For example, on the highway near the village of Pekhorka on the Lyubertsy - Lytkarino highway... Every year more and more dangerous areas appear. But this can be avoided. Almost always, relatives of the deceased erect all kinds of monuments near highways in places where people died - this attracts new misfortunes. At the site of the tragedy, you can read prayers and light church candles so that the soul of the deceased can quickly find peace. Then no ghosts will appear.

MURDER BY THE HANDS OF OTHERS

And finally, some ghosts have the ability to materialize for a while in someone else's body. This leads to terrifying consequences. Having taken possession of a person’s body, an ominous ghost turns off the human mind and commits atrocities. A similar incident occurred not so long ago in the Leningrad region.
Two friends, Andrei Dorokhov and Pavel Voloshin, were returning to their village from a neighboring village at midnight. Were a little tipsy.

On the way, we decided to go to the cemetery on a dare in order to test ourselves. Suddenly, near one of the graves, Andrei noticed an incomprehensible creature that did not look like a ghost. The friends froze in horror, and the ghost began to quickly approach them. Pavel ran away, and Andrei lost consciousness. The next morning he woke up in a ditch about four hundred meters from the cemetery and saw with horror that his hands, face and clothes were covered in blood. The lifeless body of his comrade lay nearby: Pavel’s head had been torn off.

It turned out that at the moment when Dorokhov was unconscious, he caught up with Voloshin and brutally killed him. All the evidence pointed to him, but Andrei himself remembered absolutely nothing. Naturally, he was arrested that same day and charged with murder. The poor fellow’s explanations that Pavel was killed by a ghost that possessed Andrei, and that he himself could not, under any circumstances, raise a hand against his friend, seemed unconvincing to criminologists.

True, they were struck by the method of murder itself - Voloshin’s throat was first gnawed out, and then his head was torn off with brutal force. As a result, forensic doctors declared Dorokhov insane, and instead of prison, he will have to spend several years in a psychiatric clinic. He had never had any mental problems before.

According to parapsychologists, the stronger the degree of intoxication of a person at the time of meeting a ghost, the more likely he is to fall under its influence. This is confirmed by numerous examples when drunk people turned into notorious villains, committed terrible crimes and at the same time did not remember anything about what happened. True, in the case of Dorokhov and Voloshin, as the examination showed, the degree of intoxication of the killer was mild. Unfortunately, this did not save him from the evil spirit.