Get to the grave

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

To scare away the monkeys, special holidays were held, on which the inhabitants of Rome beat huge drums, trying to scare the lemurs and drive them away from home. And if they were not afraid of noise, bonfires were made at the graves of those who had risen from oblivion and ritual black beans were burned in them, the smell of which the evil spirits did not like very much and were forced to go away.

Just like the Indians South America it was believed that the Nandu ostriches they hunted pursued their killers after death. They believed that only a special ceremony could scare away bird ghosts. Immediately after the hunt, they plucked feathers from the carcass of the nandu 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 only a part, since he wants to regain his body. In the meantime, the bird ghost counts feathers, the hunters managed to return home.

According to an Eastern legend, an evil ghost, ifrit, is born from the blood of an innocently killed Arab. And if a murder happened, an urgent need to drive a new nail in the place where his blood dripped. Even if it is earth. In this case, 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 disgusting spirit known as "pe-nangal", which means "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 the entrails rise from the grave and fly over the ground, and the open mouth sucks blood and life out of every man who loses strength in the face of this spirit.

This ghost exists only at night and returns to the grave before dawn. If it gets lost and loses its orientation or lingers on the way, it ceases to exist right there, at the first rays of the sun.

In Malay legends, it is often said that sometimes people found the remains of the spirit of the penangal, which, before reaching the grave, got stuck in bushes or in tall grass.

Universal Evil

In Russia, the bird-like souls of people who died in a foreign land, or, more simply, infidels or foreigners, in the old days were called navy-mi - from the old Russian word nav - the spirits of death.

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

At night, in rain or storm, caused by themselves, the Navi 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.

Here is how the navy invasion of Polotsk is described in an old chronicle of 1092: “An amazing miracle was imagined in Polotsk. At night there was a clatter, demons, as if people, groaning, roamed the street. If someone went out of 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 horseback during the day, but they themselves were not visible, only the horses and their hooves were visible. And so they wounded people in Polotsk and its region. That is why people said that it was the Navi who were beating the Polotsk people.

The chronicler also points out the surest way to protect yourself from navia - in no case should you leave the house when ghost birds were outrageous on the street. The house, in turn, was protected from evil spirits by various charmed objects that drive away evil spirits.

Staying outside the home, our ancestors, in order to protect themselves from the effects of evil navi, wore various amulets, used spells, and their clothes in those places where the navi could penetrate the body (collar, fastener, sleeve cuffs, hem) were decorated with special embroidery , consisting of protective magical signs.

It was believed that the Navi, if inadvertently forgetting to close the windows at night in the house, could determine the fate of not yet born child. Like, they gather at the bedside of the woman in labor and decide whether the child will live or die. The Navi, doomed to death, was given a special “sign” on the body.

You can’t climb over the fence on the rainbow

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

Navi could have been propitiated. On a special “Navi day” - Radunitsa, which is still celebrated a week after Easter and is considered the day of commemoration 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 take a bath, laying out food for them under a canopy or on the roof. And in the bath itself, one should certainly leave at least a remnant of soap, at least a little water at the bottom of the gang.

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

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

Over time, the tricks of the navi began to decline and soon completely stopped. Apparently, Satan called them to a permanent place of residence in the underworld - to perform other things.

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, at that time they broadcast on the radio that a dangerous criminal had escaped, who was easy to identify, because instead of one hand he had a metal hook. This, of course, frightened the girl, and she began to whine for the guy to take her home. The story has two endings. According to one, the guy listened to his girlfriend, took her home and, deciding to demonstrate good manners by opening the door in front of her, found a hook caught on the doorknob.

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

Such a little edifying story, in order to discourage the desire to fall into sin after going to the movies, don't you think? Let's say some ghosts use ready-made stories, plagiarists, in order to manifest themselves. But there are a few cases that involve real, non-supernatural serial killers stalking couples in love. Remember, for example, the sensational story of 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 will talk about them later. Before the Son of Sam came along, right after World War II, another love-killer was out in Arkansas. We have read that similar cases have happened before: in Los Angeles, Oklahoma, and just about everywhere. After some research, we came to the conclusion that a vengeful ghost was at work everywhere, somewhat overly concerned with adolescent morality.

Once we had a chance to cross paths with the Hook Man. Of course, instead of one arm, he had a healthy dirty hook. At one time he arranged a whole bloody show in the name of piety, when he went out to his craft at night in order to kill anyone he considered immoral. Basically, it went to 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 the chain that the father gave to his daughter. as a father in this case the parish priest is speaking, who did not always follow his own sermons, if you know where we are driving, and his daughter, preoccupied with such immorality, unwittingly called the Hook Man through her chain. Classic obsession, 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. You may be doing this at exactly midnight. Possibly by candlelight. Perhaps you are spinning in place. Or step 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 to whom this nickname went perfectly well. For example, Mary Worth, who was accused of killing her own children. In a word, no one can be one hundred percent sure who exactly that Bloody Mary was. Maybe even your compatriot, who committed atrocities many years ago. Or maybe Bloody Mary is the ghost of a woman who was murdered right after her wedding without looking at her pregnancy and you remind her of someone who killed her and her unborn child.

Does not matter. In any case, if you have already called her and she came to you, two scenarios are possible. Either she is going to tell you something about your future, or she will rip out your eyes and deprive you of this very future in such a simple way. The mirror in general often appears in various legends, as it happened historically. Here's what dad said:

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

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

Breaking a mirror is a bad omen because it reflects your soul. Thus, you are provided with seven years of misfortune, because you have broken your future.

And here's how Bloody Mary fits into the story with mirrors. Sometimes the girls, having gathered for a bachelorette party, for fun, send one to call Bloody Mary. This may not have happened to you yet, but if you find yourself in a similar situation, our advice to you is: DON'T THINK! And then it will come...

How do we know?

Because we met. Rather, we ran into a ghost who used urban legend about Bloody Mary to penetrate the material world. Finding out the past of the malevolent ghost, we learned that it is the murdered Mary Worthington. The killer cut out her eyes. Her spirit moved into 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 went to her grave. Wherever the mirror was moved, 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 is black and white for them: guilty / not guilty. To be honest, we are somewhat similar in this. It doesn’t matter to us with what joy the ghost got angry, went berserk and generally hung between the worlds. What drives him - evil or good, black or white. But if he annoys people, we will expel him from this world.
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The son of Sam is the pseudonym of the serial killer David Berkowitz, who terrified the inhabitants of the United States in 1976-77.

Among the undead, there is no creature more disgusting than one that is driven by nothing but fierce hatred. This hatred is concentrated and accumulated, multiplies over the years and becomes more and more powerful. But initially only the desire for revenge possesses this creature - the thirst to restore justice after his death, to punish the killers or shed light on their actions. But over time, especially if the killers cannot be punished, revenge turns into hatred for all living things and turns into a disgusting likeness - a vengeful spirit.

Appearance and habitat

Most often, human betrayal is described as the cause of the emergence of vengeful spirits. If the dying person, before dying, manages to curse the killer, 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 sole purpose of the existence of a vengeful spirit is to fulfill the curse that he imposed on his killer. Such a spirit has every chance to end its existence in the form of undead, as soon as the killer pays for his deed.

But sometimes it also happens that a vengeful spirit does not know whom to take revenge on. He remembers that he was killed, but does not remember the details. In such cases, this spirit simply hopes that sooner or later he will be able to meet with the killer, but for now he kills everyone in a row who wanders to his habitats.

Basically, vengeful spirits are tied to the place where their life ended. They remember little about her and most often remember only 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 to their "home".

Similarities and differences with ghosts

Vengeful spirits differ from ordinary ghosts at least in their appearance. An ordinary ghost may know who he was during his lifetime and even try to help people in search of something important (for example, a treasure that he hid during his lifetime) 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 will rather kill him.

The appearance of these creatures also differs. An ordinary ghost tends to retain the features that he had in life. Often, ghosts appear the same as they were in 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 he is and the greater the extent of betrayal he knew during his lifetime.

Path to liberation

The vengeful spirit has only one priority - killing. This is his liberation from existence between the worlds of people and spirits. But for real liberation, the vengeful spirit must kill the one who is guilty of his death or the descendants of this person. It is extremely rare for a vengeful spirit to be granted peace by punishing those responsible for its death or by performing final rituals on its body.

The legends mention cases when people took on the mission of a vengeful spirit, taking an oath over his burial place to avenge the guilty. It is vengeance - mere punishment is not enough - the killer must be killed. But even in such cases, the vengeful spirit found peace only when it felt that its killer was dead.

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

Ghosts send people to another world different ways. Most often, weak-nerved and overly impressionable natures become victims of spirits. Seeing or feeling the “touch” of a creepy-looking ghost in front of them, 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 steel nerves are not immune. This is regular and purposeful bringing to 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, through the fault of people, mass grave sites are destroyed. 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 tenants who settled in them turned into a living hell.

At first, the houses were completely covered with cracks. Seismologists and geologists just shrugged their shoulders, unable to give an intelligible explanation for this strange phenomenon. The builders somehow patched up and strengthened the walls, filled up the cracks. However, this did not make it any easier for the residents.

Devilry happened from time to time in almost every apartment: for no reason, dishes were smashed to smithereens, things fell, creaks, rustling and howls were heard at night, ghosts appeared.

Natalia Smirnova, who was “lucky” to live in this ill-fated place, shared with us the most curious observations: “One night I woke up and was horrified to see right next to my bed a translucent whitish man with empty eye sockets. At my screams, my son ran into the room. He, too, saw this incomprehensible 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 intruder nearly killed me. I woke up with a terrible feeling. It seemed that instead of air there was some heavy and nasty gas in my lungs. 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 hung under the ceiling and began to take the form of a person. I crossed myself again and crossed the ghost, after which he 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 the same or another ghost did a lot of trouble with the neighbors on the landing: their sixty-year-old grandmother died suddenly, who never complained about her health, and her seventeen-year-old son ended up in a mental hospital, according to them, not without the help of a ghost who visited the house.

Later, I learned that some of the other tenants also had various problems with ghosts. Someone thought that these were brownies or drummers, but it seems to me that this is not the case, painfully evil spirits visited us, downright devilish messengers. Over time, all the residents of our house consecrated their apartments, and the house itself was consecrated. Everything went back to normal after that…”

DEATH SECTORS

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

Motorists have to pay for the indiscretion and carelessness of road builders.
Alexander Pestrukhin had a terrible accident on the "road of death", located in the Rostov region, and gave the details of the emergency that happened to him: “It was a late summer evening. It's already dark. Cape my friend Sergei was 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 reason, the headlights suddenly went out, and some smoky object hovered in front of the windshield. He went through the glass and ended up between me and a friend.

I managed to see that he has something like a head with holes instead of eyes and a mouth. There was a terrible laugh. I pressed the brakes, but it was too late: the car flew into a ditch and crashed into a tree. From my "Muscovite" there was a pile of twisted metal. My friend died: he flew out through the broken front glass, and his head was cut off by a rearing hood, like a knife.

Luckily, I was rescued by people passing by. 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, all because once upon a time people were buried there ... "

CHAIN ​​REACTION

It happens that ghosts appear on highways and in those places where there have never been cemeteries as such. For example, a motorist or motorcyclist crashed to death. And after a while, his restless spirit appears in front of some unfortunate driver and provokes 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 "death road".

There are about a dozen such places 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 sections appear. But this can be avoided. Almost always, relatives of the deceased put up all kinds of monuments near highways in places of death, and this attracts new misfortunes. At the site of the tragedy, you can read prayers, light church candles, so that the soul of the deceased will soon find peace. Then no ghosts will appear.

MURDER BY PROPER HANDS

And finally, some ghosts have the ability to materialize for a while in someone else's body. This leads to dire consequences. Having taken possession of the human 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 at midnight from a neighboring village. Were a little tipsy.

On the way, we decided on a dare to go to the cemetery in order to test ourselves. Suddenly, near one of the graves, Andrei noticed an incomprehensible creature that did not look like a ghost. Friends froze in place in horror, and the ghost began to quickly approach them. Pavel took to his heels, and Andrei lost consciousness. The next morning he woke up in a ditch four hundred meters from the cemetery and saw with horror that his hands, face and clothes were covered in blood. Nearby lay the lifeless body of his comrade: 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 the same day, accused of murder. The explanations of the poor fellow that Pavel was killed by a ghost that had inhabited Andrei, and that under no circumstances could he raise a hand against a friend, seemed unconvincing to the criminalists.

True, they were struck by the very method of murder - Voloshin was first gnawed through his throat, and then his head was torn off with brutal force. As a result, forensic doctors recognized Dorokhov as insane, and instead of prison, he will have to spend several years in a psychiatric clinic. Before, he had no mental disorders.

According to parapsychologists, the stronger the degree of intoxication of a person at the time of meeting with a ghost, the more likely he is to fall under his 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 light. Unfortunately, this did not save him from the evil spirit.

Nikolay NEPOMNYASHCHY

10. Ghost in the Colosimo family

In the summer of 1986, the Colosimo family moved to a house in Spotsylvania County, Virginia (USA). Shortly after moving in, they noticed that there was a constant cold draft in their youngest daughter's bedroom, and no matter how much they fought with it, nothing helped. The neighbor suggested that a ghost might live in the house 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 flew 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 the manifestation of violent disturbances, the family invited a psychic to the house, but he was unable to drive away the spirit. Two weeks later, they brought in 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 earlier invited a ghost. She said that trying to drive the ghost out really only scared him, and that was the reason for all the problems in the house. After the sorceress communicated with the spirit of the teenage soldier, the strange happenings ended.

9 Amherst's Great Mystery

In 1879, Daniel Teed lived in a large house in the city of Amherst, in 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 off to the side. When one of the family members tried to put the sheet back on, she flew away again. The next night they asked the doctor to watch Esther. He sat in the room and waited for her to fall asleep. After a while, when the doctor realized that Esther was asleep, he saw her pillow begin to move.

He tried to hold on to 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 you!". After this incident, small fires constantly broke out throughout the house. Also, somehow the spirit communicated with the family, threatening to burn down the house if Esther didn't leave. For the safety of the whole family, Esther had to check into a local inn, but apparently the ghost followed her there as well. While she was at the hotel, a knife flew out of the janitor's son's hand and landed in her back. The infection that entered the body from a stab wound almost killed the girl.

After recovering from the infection, Esther met a man who created a small play with her, playing with paranormal problems, but, as one might expect, while Esther was sitting on the stage, nothing happened, and the play failed. The next job she got was a freight forwarder. 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, had a family, and died in 1912.

8. Ghost 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 he was thrown out of bed one night when no one was around. On another occasion, something lifted his bed to the point where it was almost perpendicular to the floor. Constance's wife also fell victim to the ghost, but in a much more cruel way.. One day, an invisible force pushed her down the stairs. Another time, when she was in the garden, she was attacked by a creature that looked like a black goat.

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

7 Ghost Town Flat Rock

In November 1954, the Parson family 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 down then was the dictionary. A few days later, all the family members smelled smoke and, upon inspecting the house, found that a sack of sugar was on fire. When Mike Parson touched the bag, the fire went out instantly.

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

Skeptics believed that the Parsons set the fire 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 Parson farm fires is still officially a mystery.

6. Oldnell Road Ghost

In the West Midlands region (England) there is a short country road called " oldnell road". At first, a small section of the road seems inconspicuous, but at the same time, an unnaturally large number of car accidents happen on it. It could be assumed that the road was simply dangerous in itself, if not some strange sightings showing the possibility that it was inhabited by a ghost. For years, drivers have claimed that the reason they swerved off the road was a young girl in Victorian era standing right in the middle of the road.

After they got out of the car, the girl disappeared. The authorities were confused appearance girls, and believed that all accidents were due to slippery roads. However, the 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 home to a strange, violent ghost that took up residence on the farm around 1900. One night in January, Janet MacDonald yelled at her elderly mother that she hoped the devil would come and take her away before 9:00 am the next morning. Unfortunately, by morning the mother was dead, and it was then that strange things began to happen in the house. Items disappeared from the house, and they were found on the border of the site. In other cases, agricultural machinery somehow moved, and sometimes even the tails of the horses were intertwined.

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

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

4. Bell Witch Ghost

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 that wasn't loud enough to make out the words. After that, 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 could never find it.

Over time, the atmosphere in the house only got worse. Loud knocking sounds could be heard from outside. John's daughter Betsy, a favorite target of the spirit, was attacked in her sleep, after which the girl was covered in bruises and bites. When a neighbor came to the family to become the first outside witness of 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 the woman that John Bell called Kate, and she was quoting Scripture, and she began to call all family members by their first names. One of her messages was that she was going to kill John Bell.

In addition to the Bell family, many other people also witnessed a strange phenomenon. One of the prominent figures who visited the homestead was General Andrew Jackson, who visited the Bell family in 1819. The three eldest sons attended to Jackson, who came because of the ghost rumors. On the approach 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. Together with his entourage, Jackson entered the house, planning to stay for a week, but, frightened, they all left the house the next day.

In 1820, John died at the age of 70. While inspecting his room, family members found a small vial containing an unknown liquid. Deciding to experiment, they gave some of the liquid to the cat, who died immediately. After the death of the cat, Kate stated that she had finally killed John. During his funeral, she laughed and sang. A year after her death, Kate turned to John's widow and said that she would haunt her for another seven years. True to her word, Kate was last seen in 1828, when she turned to John Jr. and predicted civil war. Today, Bell's farm and nearby caves entertain local tourists.

3. Poltergeist from Jaboticabal

Since 1965, the Ferreira family of Jaboticábal, Brazil has apparently been the victim of an incredibly cruel spirit. It all started with bricks in their house falling seemingly out of nowhere. After a while, it became apparent that the spirit focused on 11-year-old Maria José. In order to drive the spirit away from the girl, the family invited a priest for the exorcism ceremony, but as it turned out, this only aggravated the situation. More bricks began to fly around the house, then eggs began to fly

and even furniture. But this story of the herd is really scary from the moment the ghost began to be cruel to Mary. She was often attacked by an unknown force that 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 were mysteriously pierced into her skin. There was a case where 55 pins were removed from her ankle.

The persecution continued for a year, and then the family decided to contact the 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 persecution began, Maria took her own life by ingesting poison, and there have been no other reports of a ghost in the house since her death.

2 Cursed Tomb Of Carl Pruitt

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

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

The boy's mother was heartbroken and decided " win back» on the tombstone. She took an ax and hit the slab several times. The next day, when, after washing, she hung clothes on a rope, she mysteriously got tangled around her neck and killed the woman. During the investigation of the death, an ax was found, on which there was a stone crumb, it was also dented, but Pruitt's tombstone remained intact. After some time, a farmer rode in a wagon with his family past the cemetery. For some stupid reason, he decided to fire his pistol at Pruitt's tombstone. The shooting frightened the horses, and they sharply accelerated their pace. The farmer's family managed to jump out of the wagon, but he himself remained inside until he was thrown from there, and the leash wrapped around his neck, leading to strangulation.

A couple of policemen were next, convinced that the curse was a fabrication. They went to the cemetery and took pictures near Pruitt's grave. On the way back, a bright light began to chase them and they tried to accelerate, but this caused them to go off the road and crash into a fence. The man sitting in the passenger seat was thrown out of the car, but he survived. His colleague, however, was almost decapitated by a chain between two fence posts.

By the time the 1940s rolled on, most people stayed away from the cemetery for fear of losing their own lives. But not everyone did that. One man went to the cemetery and began to crush the tombstone with a hammer. People heard hammer blows on the gravestone, but suddenly they were replaced by blood-curdling screams. The townspeople explored the cemetery and found a man at the gate. That one was dead. Apparently, he was afraid 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. After this incident, the bodies were exhumed and all marks, including Pruitt's angry tombstone, removed.

1. Death of Eliza Lam

On January 26, 2013, 21-year-old university student Eliza Lam traveled alone from her native British Columbia to California. After staying in San Diego for some time, 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 into the hotel lobby.

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

Two weeks passed with no sign of Lam until the residents of the hotel 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 took showers and drank 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 captured by some kind of evil spirit or that she 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 have stayed at the hotel: Richard " Night Stalker» Ramirez and the Austrian killer of prostitutes 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 associated with a budget hotel - there have been many other murders and suicides.

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

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