, has been famous for a long time already and for some reason is known as the world center of concentration of various spirits and ghosts.
Stories from people's lives
More than 70 years of Londoners tell the story of about how on the evening of July 13, 1930 8000 people gathered in one of the most luxurious concert halls, namely the most beautiful Royal Albert Hall, not a solemn event that was arranged inHonor of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the famous writer and creator of the famous Sherlock Holmes.
The culprit of the celebration, dressed in a frock coat, entered the hall shortly before the concert and settled in a place of honor next to his wife Jean, and stayed there until the end of the event.
The most interesting thing is that Sir Arthur died six days before the concert, which in turn was dedicated to his memory.
Lady Jean, widow of the writer, took care of booking an entrance ticket and an honorable place for the deceased. This woman was known for being a gifted medium, that is, she could communicate with the spirits of the deceased and organize visits to the living world for them. Therefore, that's why she knew about the appearance in the concert hall of the phantom of the deceased Sir Arthur. Visitors to the concert, who knew Sir Arthur in person, took his appearance at Albert Hall with absolute calm and coolness to the characteristic Englishmen, as it happened directly in London, where meeting with ghosts is not something supernatural and rare.
In some cases, ghosts assist historians of in comparing facts and reconstructing a true picture of the past, and the correctness of the ghost details suggested later is proved by the researchers or the documents found. The most striking example in this case is the death of the second wife of the English King Henry VIII, 29-year-old Anna Boleyn, who was executed in 1536 as a result of her accusation of betraying her husband. Previously, historians believed that the procedure for the execution of Anna was normal for those times, that is, the victim was laying his head on the block, and the executioner cut her neck with an ax. But later it turned out that with Anna Boleyn it was different.
In 1972, took a tour of the castle of the Tower , there was one young girl accompanied by her parents. And during the examination of the place of executions - the Green Tower - before the gaze of the girl there was something that happened here almost four and a half centuries ago. Namely: Queen Anne was kneeling, leaning forward a little. The executioner with a sword( not with an ax) in his hand came up behind her absolutely noiselessly, as he was without shoes, in some stockings. Most likely, he just took off his boots beforehand, so that Anna would not hear how he would approach, and that the horror of death would not engulf her ahead of time. The queen did not even have time to move, as the executioner swung his sword and cut off her head with one blow. In a moment he took the severed head by the hair and picked it up. The crowd saw how the dead face was disfigured with a grimace of horror.
Surroundings perceived the story of the girl with skepticism, because besides her, none of the tourists saw the execution scene anymore. But after a couple of months several historians confirmed that the death of Queen Anne really happened exactly as the girl imagined. In addition, the scientists found that the verdict was carried out by a well-known, rather delicate approach to the convicts, and was specially invited from France for this purpose.
It should be noted that frightening and unexplained incidents outside the Tower walls continue to this day. One day, it so happened that the young guard was making the most common overnight tour of the castle grounds. At that moment, when he passed the chapel of St. Peter in Okowys, he had a great desire to look out the window.
The young man put the ladder against the wall, climbed it and looked inside. From what he saw there, he almost lost his senses.
In the middle of the chapel, a group of historical figures, familiar to the young man through portraits that hung in the castle, walked leisurely. Ahead came a young woman with long black hair, judging by all reminiscent of Anna Boleyn. Behind her was Thomas More, a statesman and writer, who was accused of treason and executed in 1535.They were followed by the Duchess of Salisbury and Jane Gray by the arm with her husband, Lord Dudley. The procession was completed by several participants in the 1745 riot. These people, who were beheaded in the Green Tower, made a rather eerie impression of their appearance: each of them had a red bloody band on the neck, faces that were deadly pale, with a cyanotic shade and with burning eyes like coal.
The question arises as to why ghosts are most often shown to people in London. One version argues that this is directly due to the fact that in the UK capital, many children are born precisely at midnight. In the circle of mediums, it is widely believed that it is such people who can feel and see ghosts, and also communicate directly with them. But still this hypothesis does not explain why the London ghosts appear before tourists who come from all over the world.
Perhaps every Englishman somewhere in the depths of his soul is ready to meet with ghosts, although he hardly ever admits this.
Geek at the University of Coventry , Vic Tandy, also attributed all these legends about ghosts to complete nonsense, not worth any attention. One fine evening he worked, when suddenly he broke a cold sweat. He felt quite distinctly how someone was looking at him, and this look carries something ominous in him. After that, something materialized into a formless mass, ashy-gray, slipped around the room and came close to the scientist. In the blurred outlines it was possible to view the legs, hands, but instead of the head a fog swirled, in the center of which was a dark spot, as if the mouth. In a moment, the vision vanished without a trace in the air.
But, despite the fact that the scientist experienced terrible fear and shock, he began to act as a scientist, that is, to look for the cause of an incomprehensible phenomenon. The easiest way was to attribute this phenomenon to hallucinations. But how could they arise, because the scientist did not use alcohol or drugs. As for the other-worldly powers themselves, the scientist simply did not believe in them. And then he decided that it was necessary to look for usual physical factors.
And it is worth noting that Tendi found them, although it happened by chance. To him, to some extent, helped by his hobby - fencing. Some time after the meeting with the ghost, the scientist took the sword with him home, in order to put it in order for the upcoming match. And suddenly at some point, the blade, clamped in a vice, began to vibrate more and more strongly, as if someone had touched him.
Another person would have thought so. But the scientist has come up against the idea of ​​resonance oscillations, which are to some extent similar to those that cause sound waves. For example, when music plays very loudly, the dishes start to rattle in the closet. But in the laboratory, strangely enough, there was complete silence. But the scientist immediately measured the sound background with the help of special equipment. And as it turned out in reality, there was an unimaginable noise in the room, but it was not audible later that the sound waves had a rather low frequency, which the human ear can not grasp. This in turn was an infrasound. After a short search of the source of sound, it was found, as it turned out, it was not so long ago installed in the air conditioner fan. As soon as the scientist disconnected the "spirit" disappeared and the blade no longer vibrated.
It's worth noting that infrasound is such a thing that carries a lot of surprises. For many years, the seamen were tormented by the mystery of " Flying Dutchman " - ships that wander the seas without crew. At the same time, the ships were in perfect order, but where could the people go? The last of a series of "flying Dutch" was "Maria Celesta" - an excellent schooner, which one day in the ocean saw another ship.
Approaching the schooner, and later landing on it, the sailors from another ship could not understand anything: the galley was still having a hot dinner, the ship's magazine did not have time to dry the ink, which the captain wrote, but there were no people. Everyone disappeared somewhere. For several decades, this mystery was haunted, but then it was unraveled. As it turned out to be responsible for all infrasound frequency of seven hertz, which directly under certain conditions create ocean waves. As for man, this sound makes him simply unimaginable horror. People just go crazy, and in order to escape they throw themselves overboard.
And the scientist wondered if the infrasound was connected with his nightmare. Measurements of infrasound frequency in the laboratory showed 18.98 hertz, and this practically corresponds to the frequency at which the human eyeball begins to resonate. Consequently, apparently, the sound waves made Vick Tandy's eyeballs oscillate and thus caused a visual illusion, that is, he saw a figure that was not in fact.
Subsequent studies have shown that under natural conditions, waves of such a low frequency can occur quite often. For example, infrasound can form when strong wind gusts collide with chimneys or towers. Especially often sound waves of this type begin to roar in the corridors, which directly have the form of a tunnel. Therefore, it is not by chance that people quite often meet with ghosts in such corridors, long and winding corridors of old castles.
Vik Tendi published the results of his work in the journal of the Society for Physical Research. Which was formed in 1822 and uniting British parapsychologists and naturalists, the task of this society is to find a reasonable explanation for the paranormal phenomena. Therefore, it should not be surprising that professional "ghost hunters" embraced Tendi's idea with great enthusiasm. Thus, one of the leading parapsychologists Tony Cornell believes that this idea will explain many mysterious phenomena.
As for other scientists, they have this theory is questionable. Physicists who directly investigate the impact of infrasound on the human body note that people who participate directly in experiments complain of fatigue, severe pressure in the eyes or ears, but that's what concerns hallucinations, especially in the form of ghosts, then no onewas not observed. The drivers of the car, too, do not have any visual illusion, although it has long been known that when a high-speed car overcomes air resistance, the level of infrasonic waves in the cabin is very high.
How do ghosts appear?
As already mentioned, there are many theories of apparition. As an example, let us cite the theory of Vladimir Vitvitsky, head of the Information Technology Department at the Polytechnic Museum in Moscow. This man has been engaged in the study of optical illusions and deceptions for quite some time and he believes that most strange visions are explained by simple physical laws. He believes that in this case, it's all about the world. In his opinion, the human eye perceives not the objects themselves, but only the light that reflects them.
After that, with the help of the retina, the eyes are bright and at the same time dark spots with semitones are translated into digital code or, to put it more simply, into electrical impulses, and they in turn enter the brain. Then the brain deciphers them and, based on the information obtained, creates an image of the object in the mind of the person. This is quite an ordinary, standard scheme for constructing what people think is a representation of the real world. But it is worth noting that it can be broken, it can be done in the following way, the light should be reflected not according to the principles to which the human eye and brain are accustomed.
Thus, many focal points of illusionists in the circus are being built. The simplest way is to do this with a mirror system, which in turn redirects the streams of light reflected from these objects to somewhere else where it is thus produced and appears in front of us.
Nature can create the same tricks. We all know what mirages are - so this is the most famous phenomenon from this series. Sometimes wanderers see a lake in the desert, or even an entire city, they go to it, but this eventually turns out to be just an optical illusion. As the physicist explains, in fact the city or lake does exist, only it is somewhere very far, beyond the horizon, the distance can be even in a thousand kilometers. Naturally, to see from such a distance the city is simply not realistic.
But air, at different heights, has a different density, it directly depends on the distribution of temperature and humidity. Scientists have found out that light is reflected from a denser air layer as from a mirror. This type of mirror at a certain time can be quite a lot, so they take the image of the city away from its real location, and then just focus it in another place.
But explaining only the physical properties can not all. Professor of the Moscow Medical Academy. IM Sechenova, doctor of medical sciences Yuri Sivolap, told that in some cases illusions arise in the mind of a person. With all this, from the point of view of psychiatry, supernatural phenomena arise because of two components, namely: the lack of external information and the play of the person's imagination. A rather big role with all this is the person's readiness to perceive the object. A person is just waiting for a miracle, and one who waits almost always sees what he wants, says Yuri Sivolap. This phenomenon is quite common in people who have a creative mindset, or someone who in turn is passionate about the study of paranormal phenomena.
It also happens that a person does not want to see something, just out of a sense of fear. In this state of fear, for example, he will go through the cemetery at night, and suddenly a certain figure will appear in his place instead of the cross, which will also begin to approach. But a normal person can not see the ghost in detail. To do this, in turn, either a great suggestion or a disease is needed, the professor asserts. To all other things, the main difference between hallucinations and illusions is that illusions do not arise from nothing, they appear as a result of a changed vision of another object. But hallucinations are, in turn, the fruit of a sick mind.
But to see a person what really is not, can make not only a special impressionability. According to Yuri Sivolap, a person was marked with such conditions, when his seemingly waking consciousness burst into dreams, in a literal sense. For example, with fairly long travels to long distances, the weary brain of a person can enter into some state bordering on sleep and reality. Thus, a person can see certain objects with his eyes open, information is fed into the brain, and there is already running a sleep mechanism in parallel, and the images from there are superimposed on the real world.
On the one hand, it would seem, and found the reason for the appearance of ghosts, but on the other hand, only a lot of questions that are not answered. But as for the ghosts, they still meet, and not only in the British Isles. To assert unconditionally that this is a deception of the eyes or indeed guests from the other world can not. Believing in the existence of ghosts or rejecting this phenomenon is directly the right of every person.
