Ghosts take revenge. Alternative view 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.

Have time to reach the grave

Thus, the Romans not only believed that the spirit of the murdered man appears and takes revenge on the murderer. They also avoided lemurs in every possible way, which they considered the ghosts of people who had committed many bad deeds during their earthly life and were now disturbing poor mortals.

To scare away the monkeys, special holidays were held, at which the inhabitants of Rome beat huge drums, trying to scare the lemurs and drive them away from their homes. And if they were not afraid of noise, bonfires were lit at the graves of those who rose from oblivion and ritual black beans were burned in them, the smell of which the evil spirits really did not like and were forced to move away.

Similarly, the Indians of South America believed that the rhea ostriches they hunted would pursue their killers after death. They believed that only a special ritual could scare away bird ghosts. Immediately after the hunt, they plucked feathers from the rhea carcass and laid them out in small piles along the entire road to the village.

The Indians believed that the spirit of the ostrich stops at each pile and counts whether all the feathers are there or just some, since it wants to regain its body. In the meantime, the bird ghost was counting feathers, the hunters managed to return home.

According to Eastern legend, an evil ghost - an ifrit - is born from the blood of an innocently murdered Arab. And if a murder occurs, you urgently need to drive a new nail in the place where his blood dripped. Even if it is land. In this case, the ifrit will not be able to be born and take revenge on the killer.

In Malaysia, there is still a belief that if a woman dies in childbirth, she turns into a hideous spirit known as "pe-nangal", which translates to "that which is removed."

According to tradition, the Malays believe that in the dead of night the head of a dead woman and some part of her entrails rises from the grave and flies over the ground, and the open mouth sucks the blood and life from every man who loses strength in the face of this spirit.

This ghost exists only at night and returns to its grave before dawn. If it gets lost and loses its bearings or is delayed on the way, it ceases to exist immediately, at the first rays of the sun.

Malay legends often say that sometimes people found the remains of the Penangal spirit, which, before reaching the grave, got stuck in the bushes or in the tall grass.

Universal Evil

In Rus', the bird-shaped souls of people who died in a foreign land or, more simply, people of other faiths or foreigners, in the old days were called navya-mi - from the ancient Russian word nav - spirits of death.

The malevolence of the Navi was universal: they sent various ailments and diseases to people and livestock, and also caused numerous natural disasters. At the same time, the Navyas themselves were invisible.

At night, in rain or storm caused by themselves, the Navyas flew over the ground or rode on ghostly horses and screamed like hungry hawks. Their scream always foreshadowed only death. Sometimes they sucked blood from sleeping pregnant women and children, and milk from cows and goats.

This is how the Navi invasion of Polotsk is described in the ancient chronicle of 1092: “A wonderful miracle took place in Polotsk. At night, stomping was heard; demons, like people, were scouring the streets, groaning. If anyone left the house, wanting to see, he was immediately invisibly wounded by demons with a wound and died from this, and no one dared to leave the house. Then the demons began to appear on horses during the day, but they themselves were not visible, only the horses’ hooves were visible. And so they wounded people in Polotsk and its region. That’s why people said that it was the Navy who beat Polotsk residents.”

The chronicler also points out a sure way to protect yourself from navi - under no circumstances leave the house when ghost birds are rampaging on the street. The house, in turn, was protected from evil spirits by various enchanted objects that ward off evil spirits.

While remaining outside the confines of their homes, our ancestors, in order to protect themselves from the influence of evil navias, wore various amulets, used spells, and decorated their clothes in those places where navias could penetrate the body (collar, clasp, sleeve cuffs, hem) with special embroidery , consisting of protective magical signs.

It was believed that navyas, if you accidentally forget to close the windows in the house at night, could determine the fate of an unborn child. They say they gather at the bedside of the woman in labor and decide whether the child will live or die. A navya doomed to death was given a special “sign” on his body.

You can't climb over the fence on the rainbow

There was only one way to see the invisible Navii: to contrive and sprinkle them with ash from the stove. And then a person imagined a natural miracle with feathers, or rather, without feathers at all: a huge naked bird with chicken paws and the head of a hawk or kite!

Navii could have been appeased. On a special “navi day” - Radunitsa, which is still celebrated a week after Easter and is considered the day of remembrance of the dead, a special ritual treat was prepared for them, which was placed on the table in the room and then the windows were opened. On this day they were invited to wash themselves in the bathhouse, laying out food for them under a canopy or on the roof. And in the bathhouse itself, you should definitely leave at least some soap, at least a little water at the bottom of the gang.

At the same time, it was strictly forbidden to wash yourself in the bathhouse on Radunitsa. Even if Navii were not invited to take a steam bath, they could come on “their” day without asking. And God forbid we met them! If a bather suddenly heard a quiet whisper behind him and saw chicken tracks appearing in the ashes near the stove, the only thing that could save him from inevitable death was to quickly cross himself and run from the bathhouse in the clothes his mother gave birth to! According to legend, you should also not climb over fences in Radunitsa, otherwise the so-called navya bone will begin to grow in your foot. It appears at the butt of the finger and sometimes protrudes somewhat under the skin. Her appearance indicates imminent death.

By the way, if any of the navias caused particular harm, it was necessary to dig up the grave of the deceased foreigner, remove from the corpse under no circumstances a rotting “navia bone”, burn it, and throw the ashes on the grave. After this ritual, the evil spirit stopped bothering the living.

Over time, the Navi's tricks began to wane and soon stopped completely. Apparently, Satan called them to permanent residence in the underworld - to perform other tasks.

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.

Translation — Beara

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 due to 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.

Revenge of the giant spirit.

Avenged the torment.

Threw stones.

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.

Ghost of Kuznetsky Bridge.