Ghosts can take revenge. Vengeful Spirit Vengeful Ghosts

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.

Numerous eyewitness accounts and studies 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. Seeing in front of them or feeling 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.

Natalia Smirnova, who was “lucky” to settle in this ill-fated place, shared her most interesting observations with us: “One night I woke up and was horrified to see, 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.

DEADLY SECTORS

CHAIN REACTION

MURDER BY THE HANDS OF OTHERS

Nikolay NEPOMNYASCHY

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.

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.

Revenge of the giant spirit.

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 body 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.

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.

People often view ghosts as deceased people who have unfinished business here on Earth. However, not all of this unfinished business is positive, which is why every culture's history contains myths and legends about ghosts who seem to want nothing more than to take revenge on the living, and usually for no reason at all. apart from malice or anger.

10. Carl Pruitt
Folklore: American

In June 1938, a man named Carl Pruitt learned of his wife’s infidelity, who also cheated on him in their marital bed. Distraught at the betrayal, he grabbed the chain and strangled her while the other man escaped. Once he realized what he had done, Pruitt committed suicide and was buried away from his wife in another cemetery. Local residents began to report that there appeared to be a chain in the tombstone, although there was none there when it was first installed. That's when victims began to appear.

The first victim was a small boy who was throwing stones at a tombstone. While he was riding his bike home, he lost control, as if something (or someone) was controlling the bike, and crashed. During the tragedy, the chain on the bicycle came off and strangled the boy. A few weeks later, the boy's mother took an ax and destroyed the tombstone. When she was hanging her washed clothes out to dry in her home a short time later, the clothesline came loose and wrapped around her neck, strangling her (her clothesline was also made of chain, not rope). When authorities arrived at the cemetery, they found that the tombstone was undamaged.

Three more people, all of whom disturbed Pruitt's grave, died in similar ways. Eventually, after all the other corpses were moved, his grave was forgotten and overgrown with weeds. In the 1950s, Pruitt's grave was destroyed during open-pit mining. At the moment, no one has been punished for this crime.

9. Sundel Bolong
Folklore: Malaysian

One of the most popular ghosts in Malaysian folklore is the Sundel Bolon, the spirit of a beautiful woman who died while pregnant and then gave birth to her child while still in the coffin. Some versions say that she died in childbirth. The ghost wanders the earth, dressed in a long white nightgown with long, black hair reaching to her buttocks, which serves to cover the hole in her back where a child crawled out of her body.

Her main prey is men, and her charms are said to be very difficult to resist. Her name means "prostitute with a hole," which should give you an idea of her method of seduction. Once a sundel-bolon lures a man, she castrates him, and, as a rule, leaves him alive to suffer. Over time, her origin stories began to include rape as the reason for her pregnancy; in some versions she commits suicide due to the resulting pregnancy, which causes her to become sundel-bolon as a curse.

8. Churel
Folklore: Indian
Also known as chudail or chudel, this ghost in Indian folklore especially in North India is famous for its scream. Typically taking the form of a woman, the churel appears when a pregnant woman dies during the festival of Diwali, which is the Hindu Festival of Lights. In some stories, a ghost appears when a woman dies during childbirth. Either way, the creature returns to the world of the living as a vampire, a being hell-bent on revenge due to the bitterness caused by the death of his unborn child.

The churel, which often roams in the wild, has legs that flip 180 degrees, allowing it to move backwards, captivating its prey with its eyes. If you do not get rid of the churela's gaze, usually by throwing a cloth or blanket over its eyes, it will lure the victim to a secluded place and drink all their blood. The churela's favorite victim is her own family because she is angry at her family members for not providing her with proper care during her pregnancy. If the body is buried with care and respect, the churel's bloodlust may also dry up.

7. Onryo
Folklore: Japanese

Onryo is an evil ghost who usually returns to the world of the living to deal with the grievances he suffered in past lives. They are usually female, although male onryo are also found. Tormenting their former loved ones and families brings great pleasure to the spirits, and they often drive the living to commit suicide. Onryo usually wait several days, and even in some cases months, before launching attacks on their relatives because they want to see who is mourning them and who is not.

Onryo is very similar to goryo, which is another type of ghost in Japanese folklore. He also returns to the world of the living to attack and take revenge, but the grief is usually a person who comes from a noble or aristocratic family, and usually dies the death of a martyr. Conversely, onryo often appear due to some kind of trauma, such as abuse from a husband, but their rage is usually non-specific, meaning they may attack family members who had nothing to do with their death. In fact, sometimes the onryo does not even punish the murderer.

6. Phi Tai Hong
Folklore: Thai

In Thailand, people who die excessively violent deaths, or are left unburied or buried without proper burial rites, turn into ghosts known as phi tai khongs. The pregnant woman is considered the most powerful variant of this ghost, as she combines the power of the two thanks to her unborn child. Places of extreme violence, such as those of a terrorist attack or natural disaster, are great breeding grounds for phi tai hong, as young people whose time has not yet come are often killed in these places. Shrines are often built in these places to persuade the ghosts to leave.

As a rule, Phi Tai Hongs remain near the place of their death, waiting for a living person to pass by. If possible, the ghost will attempt to kill the unfortunate mortal, hoping that he will take his place and free him from spiritual slavery. Mangraisat ("Laws of King Mengrai") is a collection of laws written in the 14th century that detail the specifics of murder. When someone killed another person, especially a child, they were often forced to keep the corpse in their home for a predetermined period of time. This was an attempt to create a fi tai hong, which would then torture the killer.

5. Green Lady
Folklore: British, Scottish

Known in other areas as a glaistig, the Green Lady is a water spirit, with the upper part of her body resembling a woman and the lower part of a goat (similar to a satyr). Her human half is covered in gray skin, with long blonde hair that covers most of her body. Additionally, she often tries to hide her animal side by wrapping herself in her green robe, which is how she earned her nickname. The Green Lady is able to change the shape of her body and takes many forms, depending on the intention of the narrator.

She can be mischievous at times, throwing pebbles at passers-by or leading people down the wrong trail, only to laugh at their misfortune when they realize they are lost. There are a huge number of legends about its origin. One of the most common ones says that she was an aristocrat who was killed by one of her employees and stuffed down a chimney. It is in this version that the Green Lady lures men to their deaths with the help of her singing. She is quite easy to appease, since she is a big lover of milk and is therefore usually considered the patroness of livestock.

4. La Siguanaba
Folklore: Central American

La Siguanaba, originally known as Sihuehuet, meaning "beautiful woman", is believed to have had an affair with the son of the Aztec god Tlaloc. However, she was a terrible mother, and often left her son alone to meet her divine lover. As soon as Tlaloc found out about this, he cursed Sihuehuet, making her appear beautiful from afar, but disgusting up close. She took the name La Siguanaba, or "the terrible woman," and was also condemned to roam the wilderness in hopes of luring men into a trap.

In El Salvador, it is believed that when she washes her clothes in the river, she is forced to spend the rest of her life searching for her son, who has been given immortality. Men who brag about their affairs with many women or those who commit adultery are often the targets of La Siguanaba's wrath and she can also be seen bathing in the moonlight, quite an attractive sight in the jungle. Typically, the unlucky man dies of fear, but if he manages to survive, he ends up lost in the wild. From time to time, she also appears to children in the form of their mothers, luring them to their deaths. The best way to protect yourself from La Siguanaba is to bite a piece of metal or a cross and say a prayer to God.

3. Chindi
Folklore: Navajo people

In the Navajo belief system, there is a special type of spirit known as a chindi. Usually a by-product of violence, whether accidental or during warfare, chindi consists of everything bad that was in the deceased person. Chindi can also be invoked without following the appropriate burial rites for the person. In addition, chindi appears when the name of a deceased person is mentioned, so Navajos never talk about their deceased relatives or friends. Sometimes the Chindis can terrorize an entire family for decades, as in the case of the Long Salt family, who were said to have been tortured for over 100 years.

The house or property of a deceased person is the most likely place for chindi to appear, so they often isolate it or destroy it outright. Because of this, Navajos try to die outside the home so that chindi does not appear in the house. Healers can cast a curse on people who have treated them poorly and the cursed will be tormented by chindi. In addition, the Navajo believe that a disease known as "ghost disease" is caused by contact with one of these spirits.

2. Funayurei
Folklore: Japanese

The spirits of those who died at sea, funayurei are a common sight in Japanese folklore, and their name literally translates to "ship ghost". They are believed to have supernatural powers and can make any number of ghost ships appear. The funayurei then use them to force the living captains of nearby boats to veer off course and usually meet their death as a result.

According to some versions, funayurei try to get on board the ship of the living, where they feed on the emotions of unsuspecting sailors. Once on board, the ghost will ask for a special tool called hisyaku, which is similar to a ladle. If the request is granted, the funayurei will turn it over and water will magically begin to flow out of it, stopping only when the boat begins to sink. On small fishing boats, the funayurei uses a tool to scoop ocean water inside until the boat sinks.

1. La Sayona
Folklore: Venezuelan

Another ghost, which, according to legend, comes from one person, La Sayona, lives in Venezuela and other nearby countries. Originally a mortal woman named Melissa, she was very beautiful and found a loving husband with whom she had a son. While she was bathing in the river, which was a common occurrence, a strange man approached Melissa and told her that her husband was sleeping with her mother. In anger, she ran to her house, where her husband and son were sleeping peacefully in bed.

Blinded by rage, she burned the entire house, killing them both. Melissa then went to her mother's house, where she stabbed her to death. Right before she died, her mother cursed her, telling Melissa that she would be forced to walk the Earth killing husbands who cheated on their wives. Today, she may be a beautiful woman walking up and down the highway, luring men into her web. She sometimes takes the form of a loved one to deceive men, and then reveals a rotting skull where her face used to be.