Unexplained natural phenomena: what are they? Mysterious natural phenomena not explained by science.
The history of planet Earth is full of amazing, inexplicable mysteries. And a lifetime is not enough to solve them. But you can look through the keyhole of the door, behind which lies a whole world of unexplained secrets on our planet.
12 photos of inexplicable things on planet Earth:
1. Obelisk, Egypt
They began to cut the obelisk right into the rock, but cracks appeared along it. It was left unfinished. The sizes are simply stunning!
2. Gate of the Sun, Bolivia
The Gate of the Sun is located in Tiwanaku - the oldest and mysterious city. Some scholars believe that in the first millennium AD it was the center of a huge empire. There is still no idea what the drawings on the gate mean. Perhaps they carried some astrological and astronomical value.
3. Underwater city, o. Yonaguni, Japan
The complex was accidentally discovered by diving instructor Kihachiro Aratake. This underwater city destroys all scientific theories. The rock in which it was carved sank under water about 10,000 years ago, that is, much earlier than its construction. Egyptian pyramids. By modern ideas According to some scientists, in that distant era people huddled in caves and only knew how to collect edible roots and hunt wild animals, and not build stone cities.
4. L'Anse aux Meadows site, Canada
This settlement was founded by the Vikings about 1000 years ago. Which means they got to North America much earlier than Christopher Columbus was born.
5. Moa Bird
Moas are flightless birds that lived in New Zealand and became extinct around 1500, destroyed (according to one theory) by the Maori aborigines. But during one of the expeditions, scientists came across a huge part of a bird’s paw, which was incredibly well preserved.
6. Longyu Grottoes, China
These grottoes were carved out of sandstone by humans - it was a complex task that definitely must have involved thousands of Chinese, but nowhere is there any mention of these grottoes and the hard work that went into creating them.
7. Temple complex of Sacsayhuaman, Peru
This temple complex amazes with its impeccable masonry without a single drop of connecting mortar (even a piece of paper cannot be inserted between some of the stones). And how perfectly the surface of each block is processed.
8. Stone Age Tunnels
The discovery of a vast network of underground tunnels (spanning across Europe from Scotland to Turkey) suggests that Stone Age people spent their days doing more than just hunting and gathering. But the real purpose of the tunnels still remains a complete mystery. Some researchers believe that their task was to protect people from predators, while others believe that people traveled through this system, protected from weather conditions and wars.
9. Mohenjo-Daro (“Hill of the Dead”), Pakistan
For many decades now, archaeologists have been concerned about the mystery of the death of this city. In 1922, Indian archaeologist R. Banarji discovered ancient ruins on one of the islands of the Indus River. Even then, questions arose: how was this destroyed? Big city, where did its inhabitants go? The excavations did not answer any of them.
10. Giant stone balls of Costa Rica
Mysterious rock formations perfect round shape They intrigue not only with their appearance, but also with their incomprehensible origin and purpose. They were first discovered in the 30s of the 20th century by workers clearing the jungle for banana plantations. Local legends said that there was supposed to be gold hidden inside the mysterious stone balls. But they were empty. It is unknown by whom and for what purpose these petrospheres were created. It can be assumed that these were symbols heavenly bodies or marking the boundaries between the lands of different tribes.
11. Golden Incas figurines
Golden figurines found in South America, look like aircraft, and it’s hard to believe. What served as the prototype for the creation of these figures is unknown.
12. Genetic drive
An incredible artifact - a genetic disk depicts things and processes that modern man can only be observed under a microscope. The disc most likely shows the process of the birth and development of the embryo. Also one of the strange drawings is the head of a man of incomprehensible shape. The disc is made of a durable stone called lydite. Despite its exceptional strength, this stone has a layered structure, and, despite the presence of this ancient artifact, it seems impossible to make something similar to it both practically and theoretically.
What our ancestors once called “devilishness” is considered by modern scientists to be in the realm of the unidentified. However, they still cannot explain the reason for this most unidentified thing.
"Taos Noise"
Have you heard the engine or drilling rig running? It is this kind of unpleasant noise that disturbs the peace of residents of the American city of Taos. An incomprehensible humming sound coming from the direction of the desert first appeared almost 18 years ago, and since then it has reappeared regularly. When city residents turned to the authorities with a request to conduct an investigation, it turned out that the noise seemed to come from the bowels of the earth, it could not be registered by location devices, and only 2% of the city population heard it. A similar phenomenon is observed in other regions of the planet. It occurs especially often in Europe. As in the case of the Taoist hum, the reasons for its occurrence and the source have not yet been discovered.
Ghostly doppelgängers
Cases when people meet their doubles are not uncommon. Stories about dopplegangers (this is to avoid writing “doubles” twice in a row) are present both in medical practice, which is not at all surprising, and in historical documents and literary works. Guy de Maupassant told his friends about meeting his double. Mathematician Descartes, French writer George Sand, English poets and the writers Shelley, Byron, Walter Scott also encountered their copies. We won’t even mention Dostoevsky’s story “The Double.”
However, doppelgängers also visit people of prosaic professions. Here are the stories collected by Dr. Edward Podolsky. One woman saw her double while putting on makeup in front of the mirror. A man working in the garden noticed next to him an exact copy of himself, repeating all his movements.
Scientists suggest that the secret of doppelgängers may be hidden in our brains. By processing information, our nervous system creates a so-called spatial diagram of the body, which, due to reasons unknown to science, is divided into real and astral images. Alas, this is just a hypothesis.
Life after death
A light at the end of a dark tunnel, an unusual luminous creature, a calling voice, the ghosts of deceased loved ones - this is what awaits a person in the next world, according to the words of the “resurrected”. In other words, those who suffered clinical death.
One of the proofs of reality the afterlife was the research of William James, which he conducted with the participation of the medium Leonora Piper. For about ten years the doctor organized seances, during which Leonora spoke on behalf of the Indian girl Chlorin, then Commander Vanderbilt, then Longfellow, then Johann Sebastian Bach, then the actress Siddons. The doctor invited spectators to his sessions: journalists, scientists, and other mediums so that they could confirm that communication with the world of the dead actually occurs.
Unfortunately, no scientific facts there is no such thing yet. However, maybe this is for the better?
Noisy Spirit
Poltergeists are an inexplicable phenomenon and at the same time a constant hero of yellow press materials. “Barabashka stole the family’s salary from Kapotnya and wrote a swear word on the wall,” “Poltergeist became the father of three children,” these and similar headlines still regularly attract an audience.
Poltergeists were first mentioned almost two thousand years ago by the historian Titus Livius, who described how someone invisible threw stones at Roman soldiers. After this, cases of poltergeist appearances were described many more times. Mentions of this phenomenon are even present in the chronicles of a French monastery. According to the chronicler, on September 16, 1612, something incredible happened in the house of the Huguenot priest François Perrault. It all started when, at midnight, the curtains began to close on their own, and someone was pulling the bed linen off the beds. A loud noise was heard in various parts at home, and in the kitchen someone was throwing dishes. The poltergeist not only methodically destroyed the house, but also cursed desperately. The Church decided that the devil had taken up residence in the house of a Huguenot sinner, and Martin Luther later suggested calling the “obscene spirit” a poltergeist. After 375 years in the USSR they will call him the drummer.
Heavenly signs
According to history, clouds are not only white-maned horses. Since time immemorial, eyewitness accounts have been preserved telling about whole pictures, meaningful signs and numbers that suddenly appeared in the sky. According to legend, one of these heavenly visions predicted victory for Julius Caesar, and another - a blood-red flag with a white cross - gave strength to the retreating Danish troops and helped them defeat the pagan Estonians.
Scientists are skeptical about such pictures in the sky and name several reasons for their appearance. Today, various figures in the sky can form aircraft exhaust. After aircraft fuel burns out, water vapor enters the atmosphere and immediately turns into ice crystals. Caught up in air vortices, they behave very unpredictably and can create various shapes. Aerosols based on carbon dioxide and barium salts sprayed during weather experiments can also cause such phenomena. In addition, air, due to its specific properties, sometimes acquires the ability to reflect what is happening on Earth.
The phenomenon of wandering graves
In 1928, all Scottish newspapers were full of news about a grave that had disappeared from the cemetery small town Glenysville. Relatives who came to visit the deceased found an empty space instead of a stone tombstone. It was never possible to find the grave.
In 1989, on a Kansas farm, a grave mound with a lopsided and cracked headstone appeared overnight right in the middle of a barnyard. Due to the poor condition of the slab, it was impossible to read the name on it. But when the grave was excavated, a coffin with human remains was found in it.
All this devilry is considered commonplace in some African and Polynesian tribes. There is a tradition there of dousing a fresh grave with tree sap and covering it with shells. This is done, according to the priests, so that the grave “does not leave.”
Pyrokinesis
Cases where people engulfed in flames of unknown origin turned into a handful of ashes in just a few minutes have been known for a very long time. Although this phenomenon occurs infrequently: throughout last century Only 19 cases of pyrokinesis have been recorded in the world. Scientists cannot explain why this happens, and most importantly, why the flame often does not spread to surrounding objects.
In 1969, he was found in his car dead man. His face and hands were burned, but for some reason the fire did not touch his hair and eyebrows. A completely fantastic incident occurred in the Canadian province of Alberta. The two sisters burst into flames at the same instant, being in different parts cities, at a distance of a kilometer from each other.
Versions of the origin of pyrokinesis are increasingly fantastic. Some doctors are trying to link spontaneous combustion of people with their internal state, since it is known that most victims were depressed for a long time. Others believe that it is mainly alcoholics who are affected by pyrokinesis. Their body is so saturated with alcohol that it can burst into flames at the slightest spark, especially if the deceased smoked. There is a version that the flame arises under the influence of either ball lightning that happens to be nearby, or energy beams unknown to science. And recently a completely incredible theory was put forward. Allegedly, the source of energy in a living cell is a thermonuclear reaction, that is, under the influence of an unknown force, inexplicable energy processes begin to occur in the cell, similar to those that occur during the explosion of an atomic bomb.
Incredible facts
Scientists have been trying for centuries to unravel many secrets natural world , however, some phenomena still baffle even the best minds of humanity.
From strange flashes in the sky after earthquakes to rocks that spontaneously move across the ground, these phenomena seem to have no particular meaning or purpose.
Here are the 10 most strange, mysterious and incredible phenomena, found in nature.
1. Reports of bright flashes during earthquakes
Light flashes that appear in the sky before and after an earthquake
One of the most mysterious phenomena are the inexplicable flashes in the sky that accompany earthquakes. What causes them? Why do they exist?
Italian physicist Christiano Feruga collected all observations of flashes during earthquakes dating back to 2000 BC. For a long time scientists were skeptical about this strange phenomenon. But everything changed in 1966, when the first evidence appeared - photographs of the Matsushiro earthquake in Japan.
Nowadays there are a great many such photographs, and the flashes on them are so different colors and shapes that it is sometimes difficult to distinguish a fake.
Among the theories explaining this phenomenon are heat caused by friction, radon gas and piezoelectric effect – electric charge, which accumulates in quartz rocks when tectonic plates move.
In 2003, physicist NASA Dr. Friedemann Freund(Friedemann Freund) conducted a laboratory experiment and showed that perhaps the flashes were caused by electrical activity in the rocks.
The shock wave from an earthquake can change electrical properties silicon and minerals containing oxygen, allowing them to transmit current and emit light. However, some believe that the theory may only be one possible explanation.
2. Nazca Drawings
Huge figures drawn on the sand in Peru by ancient people, but no one knows why
The Nazca Lines extend over 450 square meters. km of coastal desert, are huge works of art left on the Peruvian plains. Among them there are geometric figures, as well as drawings of animals, plants and rarely human figures, which can be seen from the air in the form of huge drawings.
They are believed to have been created by the Nazca people during a 1000 year period between 500 BC. and 500 AD, but no one knows why.
Despite the status of the object World Heritage, Peruvian authorities are having difficulty protecting the Nazca Lines from settlers. Meanwhile, archaeologists are trying to study the lines before they are destroyed.
It was initially assumed that these geoglyphs were part of the astronomical calendar, but this version was later refuted. Researchers then focused their attention on the history and culture of the people who created them. Are the Nazca Lines a message to aliens or represent some kind of encrypted message, no one can say.
In 2012, Yamagata University in Japan announced it would open a research center on site and intend to study more than 1,000 drawings over 15 years.
3. Migration of Monarch Butterflies
Monarch butterflies find their way across thousands of kilometers to specific locations.
Every year millions of North American monarch butterflies migrate over a distance of more than 3000 km south for the winter. For many years no one knew where they were flying.
In the 1950s, zoologists began tagging and monitoring the butterflies and discovered that they were found in a mountain forest in Mexico. However, even knowing that monarchs choose 12 of the 15 mountainous sites in Mexico, scientists still can't understand how they navigate.
According to some studies, they take advantage of the position of the Sun to fly south, adjusting to the time of day using the circadian clock of their antennae. But the Sun gives only general direction. How they settle in is still a mystery.
One theory is that geomagnetic forces attract them, but this has not been confirmed. Only recently have scientists begun to study the features navigation system these butterflies.
4. Ball lightning (video)
Fireballs that appear during or after a thunderstorm
Nikola Tesla supposedly created ball lightning in his laboratory. In 1904 he wrote that he had "never seen fireballs, but he managed to determine their formation and reproduce it artificially."
Modern scientists have never been able to reproduce these results.
Moreover, many are still skeptical about the existence of ball lightning. However, many witnesses, dating back to the era Ancient Greece, claim to have observed this phenomenon.
Ball lightning is described as a sphere of light that appears during or after a thunderstorm. Some claim to have seen ball lightning passes through window panes and down the chimney.
According to one theory, ball lightning is plasma; according to another, it is a chemiluminescent process - that is, light appears as a result of a chemical reaction.
5. Moving stones in Death Valley
Stones that slide along the ground under the influence of a mysterious force
In the Racetrack Playa area of Death Valley, California, mysterious forces push heavy rocks across the flat surface of a dry lake when no one is looking.
Scientists have been puzzling over this phenomenon since the beginning of the 20th century. Geologists tracked 30 stones weighing up to 25 kg, 28 of which moved over a 7-year period of more than 200 meters.
Analysis of the stone tracks shows that they moved at a speed of 1 m per second and in most cases the stones slid in winter.
There were speculations that it was all to blame wind and ice, as well as algae slime and seismic vibrations.
A 2013 study tried to explain what happens when water on the surface of a dry lake freezes. According to this theory, ice on rocks stays frozen longer than the ice around them because the rock releases heat faster. This reduces the friction between the stones and the surface, making them easier to push around in the wind.
However, no one has yet seen the stones in action, and Lately they became motionless.
6. The Rumble of the Earth
An unknown hum that only some people can hear
The so-called "hum" is the name given to the annoying low frequency noise, which worries residents around the world. However, few are able to hear it, namely only every 20th person.
Scientists attribute the "hum" ringing in the ears, distant waves, industrial noise and singing sand dunes.
In 2006, a researcher from New Zealand claimed to have recorded this anomalous sound.
7. The return of the cicada insects
The insects that suddenly woke up after 17 years to find a partner
In 2013, cicadas of the species appeared from underground in the eastern United States Magicicada septendecim, which have not been shown since 1996. Scientists don't know how the cicadas knew it was time to leave their underground habitat after 17 year old dream.
Periodical cicadas- These are quiet and solitary insects that spend most of their time buried underground. They are the longest-lived insects and do not mature until they are 17 years old. However, this summer, they woke up en masse to reproduce.
After 2-3 weeks they die, leaving behind the fruits of their “love”. The larvae burrow into the ground and a new one begins life cycle.
How do they do it? How do they know after so many years that the time has come to emerge?
Interestingly, 17-year cicadas appear in the northeastern states, while in the southeastern states, cicada invasions occur every 13 years. Scientists have suggested that this life cycle of cicadas allows them to avoid meeting their predator enemies.
8. Rain of Animals
When different animals, such as fish and frogs, fall from the sky like rain
In January 1917, the biologist Waldo McAtee(Waldo McAtee) presented his work entitled "Rains from organic matter", where it was reported cases of falling larvae of salamanders, small fish, herring, ants and toads.
Rains of animals have been reported in various parts of the world. For example, frogs rained down in Serbia, perches fell from the sky in Australia, and toads fell in Japan.
Scientists are skeptical about their animals' rain. One explanation was proposed by a French physicist back in the 19th century: winds lift animals and throw them to the ground.
According to more complex theory, waterspouts suck out aquatic inhabitants, transport them and force them to fall in certain places.
However scientific research There have been no studies to confirm this theory.
9. Stone balls of Costa Rica
Giant stone spheres whose purpose is unclear
Why the ancient people of Costa Rica decided to create hundreds of large balls of stone is still a mystery.
Costa Rican stone balls were discovered in the 1930s by United Fruit Company when workers cleared land for banana plantations. Some of these balls having perfect spherical shape, reached 2 meters in diameter.
Stones that local residents called Las Bolas, belonged to 600 - 1000 AD What makes this phenomenon even more difficult to understand is the fact that there is no written record of the culture of the people who created them. This happened because the Spanish settlers erased all traces of cultural heritage indigenous population.
Scientists began studying the stone balls in 1943, charting their distribution. Later, anthropologist John Hoopes refuted many theories explaining the purpose of the stones, including lost cities and space aliens.
10. Impossible fossils
Remnants of long-dead creatures that appear in the wrong place
Ever since the theory of evolution was proposed, scientists have encountered discoveries that seem to challenge it.
One of the most mysterious phenomena was fossil remains, especially human remains, which appeared in unexpected places.
Fossilized prints and traces were discovered in geographic areas and archaeological time zones to which they did not belong.
Some of these discoveries may provide new information about our origins. Others turned out to be mistakes or hoaxes.
One example is a discovery in 1911, when an archaeologist Charles Dawson(Charles Dawson) collected fragments of a supposedly unknown ancient man With big brain, dating back 500,000 years ago. Big head Piltdown man led scientists to believe that he was the "missing link" between humans and apes.
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Mysterious murders at the Hinterkaifeck farm
In 1922, the mysterious murder of six people committed in the small village of Hinterkaifeck shocked the whole of Germany. And not only because the murders were committed with horrific cruelty.
All the circumstances surrounding this crime were very strange, even mystical, and to this day it remains unsolved.
More than 100 people were questioned during the investigation, but no one was ever arrested. Not a single motive that could somehow explain what happened was identified either.
The maid who worked in the house ran away six months ago, claiming that there were ghosts there. New girl arrived just a few hours before the murder.
Apparently, the intruder had been on the farm for at least several days - someone was feeding the cows and eating in the kitchen. In addition, neighbors saw smoke coming from the chimney over the weekend. The photo shows the body of one of the dead, found in a barn.
Phoenix Lights
The so-called “Phoenix Lights” are several flying objects that were observed by more than 1,000 people on the night of Thursday, March 13, 1997: in the skies over the states of Arizona and Nevada in the United States and over the state of Sonora in Mexico.
Actually, two strange events happened that night: a triangular formation of luminous objects that moved across the sky, and several motionless lights hovering over the city of Phoenix. However, the latest US Air Force recognized the lights from the A-10 Warthog aircraft - it turned out that at that time military exercises were taking place in southwest Arizona.
Astronaut from Solway Firth
In 1964, the family of Briton Jim Templeton was walking near the Solway Firth. The head of the family decided to take a Kodak photograph of his five-year-old daughter. The Templetons assured that there was no one else in these swampy places except them. And when the photographs were developed, one of them revealed a strange figure peeking out from behind the girl’s back. The analysis showed that the photograph had not been subject to any changes.
Falling body
The Cooper family just moved into their new house in Texas. In honor of the housewarming it was laid out festive table, at the same time we decided to take some family photos. And when the photographs were developed, a strange figure was revealed on them - it seemed that someone’s body was either hanging or falling from the ceiling. Of course, the Coopers didn’t see anything like this during filming.
Too many hands
Four guys were fooling around, taking pictures in the yard. When the film was developed, it turned out that out of nowhere one extra hand appeared on it (peeking out from behind the back of a guy in a black T-shirt).
"Battle of Los Angeles"
This photograph was published in the Los Angeles Times on February 26, 1942. To this day, conspiracy theorists and ufologists refer to it as evidence of extraterrestrial civilizations visiting Earth. They claim that the photo clearly shows that the beams of the searchlights are falling on the alien flying ship. However, as it turned out, the photo for publication was heavily retouched - this is a standard procedure that almost all published black and white photographs were subjected to for greater effect.
The incident itself, captured in the photo, was called a “misunderstanding” by authorities. The Americans had just survived the Japanese attack, and in general the tension was incredible. Therefore, the military got excited and opened fire on the object, which, most likely, was a harmless weather balloon.
Lights of Hessdalen
In 1907, a group of teachers, students and scientists set up a scientific camp in Norway to study a mysterious phenomenon called the Hessdalen Lights.
Björn Hauge took this photo one clear night using a shutter speed of 30 seconds. Spectral analysis showed that the object should consist of silicon, iron and scandium. This is the most informative, but far from the only photo of the “Lights of Hessdalen”. Scientists are still scratching their heads as to what it could be.
Time Traveler
This photo was taken in 1941 during the opening ceremony of the South Forks Bridge. The public's attention was attracted by a young man whom many considered a "time traveler" - due to his modern hairstyle, zip-up sweater, printed T-shirt, fashionable glasses and point-and-shoot camera. The whole outfit is clearly not from the 40s. On the left, highlighted in red is a camera that was actually in use at that time.
9/11 attack - South Tower woman
In these two photographs, a woman can be seen standing on the edge of the hole left in the South Tower after a plane crashed into the building. Her name is Edna Clinton and, not surprisingly, she ended up on the list of survivors. How she managed this is beyond comprehension, considering everything that happened in that part of the building.
Skunk monkey
In 2000, a woman who wished to remain anonymous took two photographs of a mysterious creature and sent it to the Sarasota County (Florida) Sheriff. The photographs were accompanied by a letter in which the woman claimed that she had photographed a strange creature in the backyard of her house. The creature came to her house three nights in a row and stole the apples left on the terrace.
UFO in the painting “Madonna with Saint Giovannino”
The painting “Madonna with Saint Giovannino” belongs to the brush of Domenico Ghirlandai (1449-1494) and is currently in the collection of Palazzo Vecchio, Florence. A mysterious flying object and a man watching it are clearly visible above Mary's right shoulder.
Incident at Lake Falcon
Another meeting with an alleged extraterrestrial civilization occurred at Lake Falcon on May 20, 1967.
A certain Stefan Michalak was relaxing in these places and at some point noticed two descending cigar-shaped objects, one of which landed very close. Michalak claims he saw the door open and heard voices coming from inside.
He tried to speak to the aliens in English, but there was no response. Then he tried to get closer, but came across “invisible glass”, which apparently served as protection for the object.
Suddenly, Michalak was surrounded by a cloud of air so hot that his clothes caught fire. The man received serious burns.
Bonus:
This story happened on the evening of February 11, 1988 in the city of Vsevolozhsk. There was a light knock on the window of the house where a woman who was fond of spiritualism lived with her teenage daughter. Looking out, the woman saw no one. I went out onto the porch - no one. And there were no footprints in the snow under the window either.
The woman was surprised, but of great importance didn't give it. And half an hour later there was a bang and part of the glass in the window where the invisible guest was knocking collapsed, forming an almost perfectly round hole.
The next day, at the woman’s request, her Leningrad acquaintance, candidate of technical sciences S.P. Kuzionov, arrived. He examined everything carefully and took several photographs.
When the photograph was developed, the face of a woman appeared on it, peering into the lens. This face seemed unfamiliar to both the housewife and Kuzionov himself.
This article brings to your attention several paranormal phenomena that scientists and skeptics have been puzzling over for many years and cannot come to a definite conclusion.
Taos rumble
The Taos hum is a low-frequency noise of unknown origin. This phenomenon got its name thanks to the city in which it was recorded - Taos, New Mexico. In fact, such phenomena are characteristic not only of this small town: the appearance of inexplicable noises was noticed in different countries Worldwide.
Audio recording of the Taos Rumble:
Often, these sounds are attributed to industrial origin. And yet, the situation in Taos is somewhat different: only 2% of the local population hear the noise. In addition, people who have heard the Taos hum note that it is amplified inside buildings, and in the case of ordinary noise of industrial origin the opposite would be true.
Basically, the nature of this phenomenon is explained in different ways:
1. Ordinary industrial or other noise produced by machines, acoustic systems and so on.
2. Infrasound, which can be of geological or tectonic nature.
3. Pulsed microwaves
4. Electromagnetic waves
5. Sound waves from low-frequency communication systems (for example, communications on submarines)
6. Radiation in the ionosphere, including that produced within the framework of HAARP (High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program)
It is important to note that the source of the noise has not been conclusively determined, despite numerous studies carried out by local universities as well as individuals.
Near Death Experiences
Near-death experiences are the general name for the personal experiences people have at the time of their clinical death. The following phenomenon may answer questions about the possibility of life after death. Many people who have experienced clinical death claim that such life exists.
NDEs include physiological, psychological and transcendental aspects. Although different people describe the events that happen to them after clinical death in different ways, many elements are common to all:
- The first sensory impression is a very unpleasant sound (noise);
- Understanding that he has died;
- Pleasant emotions: calm and tranquility;
- The feeling of leaving the body, floating above own body and observation of others;
- A feeling of moving upward through a bright tunnel of light or narrow passage;
- Meeting with deceased relatives or clergy;
- An encounter with a being of light (often interpreted as a deity);
- Consideration of past life episodes;
- Reaching a boundary or boundaries;
- Feeling of reluctance to return to the body;
- Feeling warm despite lack of clothing.
It is also known that in some cases the experiences following the seventh stage, on the contrary, are extremely unpleasant.
Communities of people who experience or study the paranormal are more open to interpreting near-death experiences as evidence of the existence of afterlife. In turn, scientists often interpret this phenomenon as hallucinations or fiction.
In 2008, a study was launched in the UK that will study 1,500 patients who experienced clinical death. The study will involve 25 hospitals in the UK and US.
Doppelgangers - ghostly doubles
In literature, doppelgängers (German doppelganger - “double”) are demonic doubles of people, the opposite of a guardian angel. The appearance of a doppelganger often foreshadows the death of the hero. Despite the fact that they are generally considered to be literary characters, there are several historical sources that indirectly prove the existence of these creatures.
One of these is the testimony of Queen Elizabeth I, recorded by a chronicler shortly before her death. According to the queen, she saw herself lying on the bed of her bedroom, or rather her double, who, according to her, was very pale.
Johann Wolfgang Goethe saw his own double, dressed in a gray suit trimmed with gold, while riding on a horse towards Drusenheim. At the same time, the double was driving in the opposite direction. Eight years later, while traveling from Drusenheim along the same road, Goethe noticed that he was wearing the exact same suit as the one he had seen on the double.
It is known that Catherine II also saw her copy moving in her direction. Frightened, she ordered the soldiers to shoot her.
An unusual incident of a similar nature also happened to Abraham Lincoln: the reflection he saw in the mirror had two faces. Being a superstitious person, Lincoln remembered what he saw for a long time.
The sudarium from Oviedo is a piece of fabric measuring 84 x 53 cm with blood stains. Some people are inclined to believe that this sudarium was wrapped around the head of Christ after his death, as mentioned in the Gospel of John (20:6-7). It is believed that both the sudarium and the shroud were used in the funeral ritual. During the study, the purpose of which was to confirm or refute the authenticity of the sudarium, blood stains remaining on the fabric were examined. As it turned out, the blood on the sir and the shroud belongs to the fourth group. In addition, most of the stains on sudariya come from fluid from the lungs. This is explained by the fact that often people who were crucified died not from loss of blood, but from suffocation.
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