People often view ghosts as dead people with unfinished business here on Earth. However, not all of these unfinished business are positive, which is why every culture's history has myths and legends about ghosts who seem to want nothing more than 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 found out about the betrayal of his wife, who also cheated on him in their family bed. Mad with betrayal, he grabbed the chain and strangled her while the other man fled. As soon as he realized what he had done, Pruitt committed suicide and was buried away from his wife in another cemetery. Locals have begun to report that the tombstone appears to have had a chain in it, even though it wasn't there when it was first placed. That's when the victims began to appear.

The first victim was a little boy who threw 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 bike broke off and strangled the boy. A few weeks later, the boy's mother took an ax and destroyed the tombstone. When she hung out her washed clothes to dry at her home some time later, the clothesline broke off and wrapped around her neck, suffocating her (her clothesline was also made of chain, not rope). When the authorities arrived at the cemetery, they found that the tombstone had not been damaged.

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

9. Sundel Bolong
Folklore: Malaysian


One of the most popular ghosts in Malaysian folklore is the sundel bolon spirit of a beautiful woman who died while pregnant and then gave birth to her child while in her coffin. Some versions say that she died in childbirth. The ghost roams the land, wearing a long white nightgown with long, buttock-length black hair that serves to cover the hole in her back where the baby crawled out of her body.

Her main prey are men, and it is believed that her charms are very difficult to resist. Her name means "hole prostitute", which should give you an idea of ​​her method of seduction. As soon as a sundel bolon lures a man, she castrates him, and usually 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, from which she turns into a sundel bolon in the form of a curse.

8. Churel
Folklore: Indian
Also known as chudail or chudel, this ghost in the folklore of India, especially in North India, is famous for its scream. Usually taking the form of a woman, the churel appears when a pregnant woman dies during the Divali festival, which is the Hindu "Festival of Lights" (Hindu Festival of Light). In some stories, the ghost appears when a woman dies in childbirth. Either way, the creature returns to the world of the living as a vampire, a creature fixated on vengeance out of bitterness over the death of its unborn child.

Have churel, often wandering in wild nature, the legs flip 180 degrees, which allows him to walk backwards, captivating the victim with his eyes. If you do not get rid of the look of the churel, as a rule, by throwing a cloth or a blanket over your eyes, it will lure the victim to a secluded place and drink all their blood. Churela's favorite victim is her own family, because she is angry at her family members for not giving her 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 a malevolent ghost who usually returns to the world of the living to deal with the grievances he experienced in past lives. As a rule, they are women, although there are also male onryo. The spirits take great pleasure in torturing their former loved ones and families, and they often drive the living to the point of committing suicide. Onryo usually wait days, and even months in some cases, before attacking their relatives because they want to see who mourns them and who doesn't.

Onryō is very similar to grief, which is another type of ghost in Japanese folklore. He also returns to the world of the living to attack and take revenge, but a gore is usually a person who comes from a noble or aristocratic family and usually dies as a martyr. Conversely, onryō often appears due to some kind of trauma, such as being abused by a husband, but their rage tends to be non-specific, meaning they may attack family members who had nothing to do with their death. In fact, sometimes the onryō doesn't even punish the killer.

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 hongi. The pregnant woman is considered the most powerful variant of this ghost, as she combines the power of two thanks to her unborn child. Places of extreme violence, such as a terrorist attack or a natural disaster, are great breeding grounds for phi tai hong, as these places often kill young people whose time has not yet come. Shrines are often built in these places to convince the ghosts to leave.

As a rule, phi tai hongs stay 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 bondage. Mangraisat ("Laws of King Mengrai") is a collection of laws written in the 14th century that details the specifics of murder. When someone killed another person, especially a child, he was often forced to keep the corpse in his house for a predetermined period of time. It was an attempt to create a phi tai hong, which then had to 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 half of her body resembling a woman and the lower half a goat (similar to a satyr). Her human half covered in gray skin, with long blonde hair that covers most of her body. In addition, she often tries to hide her animal side by wrapping herself in her green robe, which is how she got 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 sometimes be mischievous, throwing rocks at passers-by or leading people on the wrong trail, only to laugh at their misfortune when they realize they're lost. There are many legends about its origin. One of the most common states that she was an aristocrat who was killed by one of her employees and stuffed up a chimney. It is in this version that the Green Lady lures men to their death with her singing. She is fairly easy to appease, as she is a great lover of milk and is therefore usually seen as the protector of cattle.

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 look beautiful from afar, but hideous up close. She adopted the name La Siguanaba, or "terrible woman," and was also condemned to roam the wild in hopes of trapping men.

In El Salvador, it is believed that she washes her clothes in the river and is forced to spend the rest of her life in search of her son, who was given immortality. Men who boast of their escapades with many women, or those who engage in adultery, are often the object of La Siguanaba's wrath and can also be seen bathing in moonlight, a rather attractive sight in the jungle. As a rule, the unfortunate man dies of fear, but if he manages to survive, then he finds himself 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 protection from La Siguanaba is biting a piece of metal or a cross and saying 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, the chindi is made up of everything bad that was in the deceased person. Chindi can also be invoked without observing the proper burial rites of a 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 Chindi can terrorize an entire family for decades, as is the case with the Long Salt family, who are said to have been tortured for over 100 years.

The house or possessions of a deceased person are the most likely places for chindi to appear, so they often isolate or destroy them outright. Because of this, the Navajo try to die outside the house so that the chindi does not appear in the house. Witch doctors can send a curse on people who treated them badly and the damned will be tormented by chindi. In addition, the Navajo believe that the 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 common in Japanese folklore, and their name literally translates to "ship ghost". They are believed to have supernatural powers, and can cause any number of ghost ships to appear. The Funayurei then use them to force the living captains of nearby boats to veer off course and usually meet their deaths as a result.

According to some versions, the Funayurei are trying 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 looks like a ladle. If the request is granted, the Funayurei will turn it over and water will start flowing out of it magically, stopping only when the boat starts to sink. On small fishing boats, the Funayurei uses a tool to scoop up ocean water until the boat sinks.

1. La Sayona
Folklore: Venezuelan


Another ghost, which, according to legend, comes from one person, La Sayon, 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. When she bathed in the river, which was common, 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 down the entire house, killing them both. Melissa then went to her mother's house, where she stabbed her to death with a knife. Right before her death, her mother cursed her, telling Melissa that she would be forced to walk the Earth killing husbands who cheated on their wives. Today it may be beautiful woman walking up and down the highway, luring men into her nets. She sometimes assumes the form of a loved one to deceive men, and then reveals a rotting skull where her face used to be.

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 were broadcasting on the radio that a dangerous criminal had escaped, who was easy to identify, because he had a metal hook instead of one hand. 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 door handle.

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. Mustering up the last of her courage, she looked outside and found her friend - dead and suspended from a tree, directly 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, 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 everywhere acted vengeful ghost, somewhat preoccupied 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 understand where we are driving, and his daughter, preoccupied with such immorality, unwittingly called the Hook Man 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. 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.

Doesn't 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 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 your hair in a special way, 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.

Translation — Beara

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

Pictured: A strange legend surrounds a railroad crossing in south San Antonio, Texas. It is said that there was an accident in which several schoolchildren died, whose ghosts remained in this area and from time to time they push the parked cars to the crossing, although the road goes up. Daughter Andy and Debi Chesney and a few friends recently went on a move to test the legend. The girl took several pictures - on one of them you can see a transparent figure.

Once upon a time there were aborigines on Palm Island, big and good people, but sailors from an American ship arrived, captured a group of savages, took them to their homeland 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 body of the giant 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 natives, bought a museum exhibit, moved it to the island and buried it. After some time, a real panic began among the white population of the island. The young men began to complain to their parents that a terrible, huge native 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 special significance until one by one young people began to voluntarily die, choosing death by hanging. Rumors began to spread that it was the spirit of Tambo who was taking revenge for the humiliation and forced separation from his homeland. Families in which boys grow up leave the island in droves ...

Revenge for the pain.

St. Petersburg schoolboy Vasily B., together with his friend, decided "for the sake of experiment" to throw a homeless cat into the stairwell from the twelfth floor. They dropped it and slowly finished off the dying animal with a stick. Two weeks later, both friends were standing on a half-empty suburban platform, to which the train was approaching. Suddenly, a cat appeared on the platform about ten meters from them - an exact copy of the dead one. The schoolchildren had not yet had time to realize this fact, and the cat was already heading straight for them, increasing in size with each step. The guys couldn't move. Approaching them for three meters, the monster cat with fiery burning eyes crouched to the ground and jumped forward. Vasily B., who was standing on the edge of the platform, fell right 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 kept an entire military garrison at bay until they were put to flight by silver-plated bullets and the prayers of chaplains. The Salem witches also liked to occasionally throw "rocks out of nowhere." So the "devil" stone-thrower from Portsmouth is part of a tradition that has a history of more than two centuries. Since such phenomena most often turn out to be an act of revenge carried out by an angry spirit, it would be unfair to throw all responsibility on the “main” Devil.

But first things first. A certain widow lived in a small house on a piece of land not far from the New Hampshire port. The site, because of its convenient location, appealed to John Walton; since the woman had neither money nor influential friends, he accused her of witchcraft and - either through judicial tricks or brute force - took possession of someone else's property. Having received what he wanted, he removed all charges from the widow, but she cursed her former home, promising that the new owner will not know happiness in him and will not make wealth.

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

Walton stepped over the threshold, but was immediately forced to retreat: a real stone flurry fell on his head. The family rushed to board up the doors and windows, but it did not help. Hot boulders began to roll down the pipe, which it was impossible to even touch. Moreover, the 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 after another, various objects began to fly into the air and fly out. A “disembodied” hand appeared behind the glass and began to knock 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. Stacks in the field scattered, and hay hung on 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 broth - nothing helped.

The ghost of the Kuznetsk bridge.

Charming Zhuzhu worked as a fashion model in one of the fashion houses on Kuznetsky Most. She was the mistress of the famous businessman and philanthropist Savva Morozov. One morning in 1905, Zhuzhu was riding in a carriage along Kuznetsky Most when she suddenly heard the cries of a newspaper boy: “Savva Morozov committed suicide in Nice!” Zhuju jumped out of the carriage to buy a newspaper, and got hit by 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, in the gateway to the Kuznetsky Most, they found the corpse of a young newspaperman, 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, paperboys have never been on this street again. Yes, and the cab drivers, fearing the revenge of the fashion model, reluctantly agreed to call on the Kuznetsky Most after dark. Now Zhuzha can be seen as warm spring and summer nights. A tall, slender girl in white seems to be gliding along the street without touching the pavement with her feet.

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0 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 at all, 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 a translucent whitish man with empty eye sockets right next to my bed. 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 for 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 barbs, but it seems to me that this is not the case, it hurts evil spirits we were visited, 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. In the place of many of these "death sectors" in the past there 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 state of 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 on it. 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 dangerous area 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.

Pictured: A strange legend surrounds a railroad crossing in south San Antonio, Texas. It is said that there was an accident in which several schoolchildren died, whose ghosts remained in this area and from time to time they push the parked cars to the crossing, although the road goes up. Daughter Andy and Debi Chesney and a few friends recently went on a move to test the legend. The girl took several pictures - on one of them you can see a transparent figure.

Experts say that ghosts are not vindictive, but there are exceptions. For example, a series of suicides by 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 natives 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 body of the giant 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 natives, bought a museum exhibit, moved it to the island and buried it. After some time, a real panic began among the white population of the island. The young men began to complain to their parents that a terrible, huge native 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, one after another, young people began to voluntarily die, choosing death by hanging. Rumors began to spread that it was the spirit of Tambo who was taking revenge for the humiliation and forced separation from his homeland. Families in which boys grow up leave the island in droves ...

Revenge for the pain.

Petersburg schoolboy Vasily B., together with his friend, decided “for the sake of experiment” to throw a homeless cat into the stairwell from the twelfth floor. They dropped it and slowly finished off the dying animal with a stick. Two weeks later, both friends were standing on a half-empty suburban platform, to which the train was approaching. Suddenly, a cat appeared on the platform about ten meters from them - an exact copy of the dead one. The schoolchildren had not yet had time to realize this fact, and the cat was already heading straight for them, increasing in size with each step. The guys couldn't move. Approaching them for three meters, the monster cat with fiery burning eyes crouched to the ground and jumped forward. Vasily B., who was standing on the edge of the platform, fell right 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 kept an entire military garrison at bay until they were put to flight by silver-plated bullets and the prayers of chaplains. The Salem witches also liked to occasionally throw "rocks out of nowhere." So the "devil" stone-thrower from Portsmouth is part of a tradition that has a history of more than two centuries. Since such phenomena most often turn out to be an act of revenge carried out by an angry spirit, it would be unfair to throw all responsibility on the “main” Devil.

But first things first. A certain widow lived in a small house on a piece of land not far from the New Hampshire port. The site, because of its convenient location, appealed to John Walton; since the woman had neither money nor influential friends, he accused her of witchcraft and - either through judicial tricks or brute force - took possession of someone else's property. Having received what he wanted, he removed all charges from the widow, but she cursed her former home, promising that the new owner would not know happiness in him and would not make 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, there was a terrifying roar: the roof and doors cracked under a hail of stones. The Waltons woke up at once.
At first, everyone thought that the house had been attacked by the Indians, but looking outside, the owner did not see a soul in the deserted fields. It seemed strange to him only that the gate seemed to rise from its hinges.

Walton stepped over the threshold, but was immediately forced to retreat: a real stone flurry fell on his head. The family rushed to board up the doors and windows, but it did not help. Hot boulders began to roll down the pipe, which it was impossible to even touch. Moreover, the 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 after another, various objects began to fly into the air and fly out. A “disembodied” hand appeared behind the glass and began to knock 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. Stacks in the field scattered, and hay hung on 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 broth - nothing helped.

The ghost of the Kuznetsk bridge.

Charming Zhuzhu worked as a fashion model in one of the fashion houses on Kuznetsky Most. She was the mistress of the famous businessman and philanthropist Savva Morozov. One morning in 1905, Zhuzhu was riding in a carriage along Kuznetsky Most when she suddenly heard the cries of a newspaper boy: “Savva Morozov committed suicide in Nice!” Zhuju jumped out of the carriage to buy a newspaper, and got hit by 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, in the gateway to the Kuznetsky Most, they found the corpse of a young newspaperman, 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, paperboys have never been on this street again. Yes, and the cab drivers, fearing the revenge of the fashion model, reluctantly agreed to call on the Kuznetsky Most after dark. Now Zhuzha can be seen on warm spring and summer nights. A tall, slender girl in white seems to be gliding along the street without touching the pavement with her feet.