Creepy and unexplained paranormal stories. The most mysterious paranormal phenomena Paranormal and mystical

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.

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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, etc.
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 common name for the personal experiences of people 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 your own body and observing 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 an 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.

Ghost stories and other paranormal stories represent tens of hundreds of cases that defy material reality. From time to time we encounter such mystical horror that it is impossible to believe.

I'll tell you paranormal stories, good ghost

The next few "fairy tales" range from mildly creepy to downright frightening, but they all have one thing in common: there is no reasonable explanation for them. - Please don't read Mystic stories before going to bed - take care of your psyche.

Voices in a woman's head.

In 1984, a woman was quietly reading a book while at home. Suddenly a clear voice sounded in her head, speaking to her with the words: Please, do not be afraid. I know how shocking this kind of conversation is for you, but this is the simplest way to communicate. My friend and I worked at Children's Hospital, and we would like to help you. You are sick.

After a series of medical tests, including psychological tests, the patient was diagnosed with a large benign brain tumor. Moreover, the mysterious voice continued to speak to her during medical testing.

After completing the operation to remove the tumor, the patient, having come to her senses, heard a voice for the last time: We were glad to help you. Farewell.

The woman did not report any post-surgical problems and no longer heard the voice. A study of a patient diagnosed with a brain tumor and a mysterious voice in her head was published by the British Medical Journal (BMJ).

Imaginary friend or relative?

My grandfather passed away a few weeks after I was born. You understand, I have never seen what he looks like. When I was 5 years old, I started seeing a man in a rocking chair. My parents thought it was an “imaginary friend” from dreams. But they were increasingly surprised when I told them the details of the communication.

Finally my parents asked me more about this. I told them every detail I could remember and they showed me a photograph of the man. This was my grandfather.

Today I'm 22, and I feel my grandfather somewhere in the background. I remember when I dreamed of graduating high school, and looked at the stands, I saw him next to his parents. I like to think that he is watching over me from wherever he is.

Past life experience?

Several years ago, when my daughter was just over three years old, my husband and I watched a television show about the horror of 9/11. It was the day of the anniversary of the event. My daughter, coloring pictures nearby, looked up when a plane appeared on the screen, hitting one of the World Trade Center buildings. Suddenly she told us: “I died there.”

Then she just went back to her pictures as if she hadn't said a word. We never talked to her about the concept of death and we never discussed 9/11.

My daughter hasn't talked about it since, but now if something comes on TV about 9/11, she says, "I don't want to watch it."

Skeleton of Hampton Court Palace.

Hampton Court Palace is considered one of the most frequently visited buildings in England. According to their website, the castle is haunted by at least three ghosts.

Skeleton from Hampton Court Palace. England - a world of conservatism, a palace without a ghost - a shack

Catherine Howard - was repeatedly noticed by palace staff and guests. Sybil Penn, a ghost wandering around the palace, is apparently worried that her grave was moved back in 1829.

However, the palace's most notable "occupant" has to be "The Skeleton", a creepy apparition caught on the palace's CCTV cameras in 2003. Palace officials explain on their website:

For three days in a row, palace security personnel were forced to close one of the fire doors... On the first day, CCTV footage showed the doors swinging wide open with great strength, but nothing was visible.

On the second day the same thing happened, but this time she suddenly appeared on the screen in an evening dress and closed the doors. They add: The doors opened again on the third day, but there was no further sign of the ghostly “gatekeeper.”

Maybe it's the ghost himself famous resident Henry VIII's palace? You can watch the video yourself on YouTube.

Papa Doppelganger (double)*

About ten years ago (I was 8 years old at the time), I visited my father at his house. My stepmother was in the kitchen and I was in the family room. We both saw him walking up the stairs in a red flannel shirt and blue jeans. I called my father and followed him. Father turned and looked at me, climbed to the top step and turned the corner.

I called my father again. Suddenly, unexpectedly, from the living room, dad raised his head over the couch and asked what I wanted. He slept on the couch the whole time, but my stepmother and I saw him coming from the living room up the stairs.

It was the most impossible thing I've ever seen. Both my stepmother and I still remember this and talk about it to this day. Moreover, everything happened in good daylight, so it was not some kind of supernatural illusion of the night.

Wilson Hall, Ohio University.

Room 428 in Wilson Hall is permanently closed. To students from Ohio University, the ninth oldest state university USA, no one is allowed to look into the room due to numerous reports of ghosts and dangerous ghostly activity.

Wilson Hall was reportedly built on an Indian burial ground (that always ends badly). Spiritualists claim; the building is located in the center of a pentagram formed by five ancient cemeteries, giving it geographical location additional forces of either security or evil.

In the 1970s, a student died under mysterious circumstances in room 428. Years later, a student used what she perceived as "energy" in the room to practice "astral projection" rituals.

In this practice, the human spirit (or consciousness) is said to leave the body and can travel at will. One day she cut her own wrists.

Since the two deaths occurred here, everyone in the room has reported horrifying sightings at all hours of the day and night. Objects flew across the room and crashed against the walls. Students heard voices whispering and even heart-rending screaming, although no one was there.

The door would often open and then close on its own. Even worse, demonic faces appeared right on the wooden door of the room. And although the school changed the door several times, the exhausted, disgusting faces appeared again.

Eventually, the room became too frightening, and the university, fearing that another student death might occur, decided to close the door permanently. This is the only one famous case, when the room is closed due to up to this day.

We are used to believing, or rather, we are convinced that the world around us lives according to established and familiar laws, but is this true?

• (German: Doppelganger - double) a mysterious creature with the ability to polymorphism. The creature is able to recreate the image of a person indistinguishable from the original.

Very often people pronounce the word “mysticism”, although they do not always understand what it means.

Mysticism and supernatural

Mysticism is a belief in the supernatural, and practically, the sister of religion. This concept comes from the Greek word “mysterious” and means a set of phenomena and actions that somehow connect a person with secret forces world, regardless of what time and space it is in. Such mysticism is called real or experienced, which in turn is also subdivided:

Divinatory mysticism. It allows you to see objects and phenomena that are not visible, that is, not located in a given space and time. It includes the following forms: fortune telling, clairvoyance, oracles, astrology, etc.;

Active or operational. Such mysticism allows one to act at a distance, create phenomena, produce or stop life processes only with the help of suggestion, and also transform the spiritual into the material or vice versa. This may include magic, necromancy, sorcery, sorcery, spiritualistic phenomena, mediums, etc.

Christian point of view: real mysticism is natural, divine and demonic. Usually alchemy is also classified as mysticism, but there is not enough reason for this, since alchemists proceed from the principles of science.

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Meaning of the word

The word “mysticism” or “matter” itself means something mysterious, mysterious and exciting. While in our material life there are many worries, every day is the same, we get tired, we want some kind of miracle. And, having touched mysticism, a person becomes the creator of these very miracles, because he was created for creation and happiness.

You can find answers to your questions if you immerse yourself in the flow of information and penetrate the subconscious into the other world. Gradually you begin to understand that the laws physical world depend on our actions and thoughts, and they are open to both the visible world and the invisible.

The physical world is very mobile and its elements consist of very thin particles, so you understand that everything created by God is indestructible. It is eternal, and we can be wherever we want if we develop our abilities.

In general, the concept of “mysticism” does not have a strict definition; it has more differences than commonalities, depending on the conditions of understanding and manifestations. If we try to systematize the ideas of different cultures and thinkers, then common feature turns out to be “inexplicable” because the relationship between physical reality and what mystical people expect is uncertain.

This trait refers to the prognostic mechanisms of the psyche. Thus, the question arises whether it is possible for the existence of something not cognizable by science, regardless of human consciousness, such that it contradicts normal laws probabilities, ability to predict the future, etc.

At all times, various scientific laboratories conducted research concerning mystical phenomena, but they were never able to record a single mystical case, while there were imaginary phenomena. But, despite this, evidence of such mystical manifestations as reincarnation (transmigration of souls) and spiritualism, which psychics began to develop, cannot be ruled out.

As it turns out, there is always an explanation for all this, and an attempt to attract help, for example, to quantum physics will be unsuccessful. As we see, there is not a single reliable documentation that would explain supernatural phenomena, and what is passed from hand to hand does not in any way confirm the evidence of mystical phenomena.

Mysticism and its manifestations

There are a large number of materials that show specific mystical cases; literally everyone who has reliable materials will declare this. There is even a special fund that is ready to pay a million dollars to anyone who demonstrates something normal or supernatural.

But since this foundation has existed (30 years), no one has yet managed to show such a phenomenon. Of course, all this does not mean that supernatural manifestations do not exist; it only means that all documentation about mysticism is closely related to psychic nature. Any theorist will say that mysticism is a special state of consciousness of a person who gives preference to the spiritual rather than the material.

What is said above calls for the localization of the understanding of mystical manifestations by the phenomena of the psyche, something for which no one has yet been able to give reliable justification. And the very understanding of the essence of mysticism will develop as the understanding of the development of manifestations of mysticism in the human psyche from ancient times to today becomes stronger.

Everything mystical originates from primitive times. For example, tools with the help of which it was possible to make a large catch of fish (nets) or successfully hit the target twice (arrows) were considered lucky. They were given special attention and carefully looked after, and anything that was unsuccessful was avoided.

Any person today can observe various mystical manifestations, willy-nilly. Mysticism has found its manifestation in religious practice, here everything connected with the Lord is considered bright and good. The goal of spiritual practice is to achieve truth through insight. This practice includes special psychotechnical techniques that allow you to change a person’s consciousness and turn off his individuality, in other words, to enter a state of “peace of mind.”

Attitude to mysticism

IN modern world people treat mysticism with irony, attaching greater importance logical thinking. But there are also those who strive to excel over others, expanding consciousness with a sleeve of darkness. Not everyone succeeds in this. So, when receiving information, it must take root, enter matter, and not destroy it. Everything mystical in our lives is connected with darkness. Modern man sees that the world is very unstable and depends not only on our actions, but also on thoughts and feelings. But this is why the world was created, to satisfy all our wishes and requests, to make our consciousness material.

Mysticism is a religious practice that connects a person with secret forces and beings regardless of time and place. There is such a type of mysticism as real. In turn, real mysticism includes prophetic and active. Divinatory mysticism consists of such forms as fortune telling, clairvoyance, astrology.

Active magic includes sorcery, necromancy, and all spiritualistic and mediumistic phenomena. Real mysticism is divided into such types of mysticism as natural, divine and demonic. Previously, alchemy was considered a mystical phenomenon, but it cannot be said that all alchemical experiments are mystical. After all, alchemists used real substances.

Religious and philosophical mysticism is also called cognitive activity. Such activities show that there is communication between man and deity. Such communication is recognized the only way knowledge of the truth, and all other methods are neglected. This interpretation of thought is called mysticism.

Regardless of this interpretation, human communication with the deity is recognized as knowledge of truth. As a result of this, such philosophical and religious teachings as theosophy, mystical philosophy and mystical theology appeared.

There is also practical mysticism. These include spiritualistic seances, fortune telling, superstitions, witchcraft, and magic.

Mysticism and man

The term “mysticism” itself speaks of something mysterious and unusual. All people want a little magic in our lives. By coming into contact with mysticism, a person gets the opportunity to create magic. It beckons and fascinates. The other world can provide a lot of answers to questions that torment all people on earth. Gradually a person understands that everything depends on thinking and imagination. Everything that God created cannot be destroyed. Everything that is created is eternal. A person can be where his heart and soul want to be.

Any mysticism consists of a moral moment of self-improvement, purification, patience, forgiveness. Philosophers have long distinguished the “moral-ascetic” type of mysticism. They also distinguished ethical (the mysticism of the Christian Aztecs) and gnostic mysticism (the mysticism of Kabbalah). Although many philosophers do not consider “moral-ascetic” mysticism as a separate type of mysticism.

This type is considered to be of an applied nature. At the highest level of mystical knowledge, the soul withdraws; it does not distinguish between the boundaries of good and evil. This is what Plotinus said. Eckhart argued that at the highest level of knowledge of mysticism, the soul renounces God. The thinker Schweitzer considered a lot in mysticism itself. He viewed the fact of unity with the infinite as unity with something living.

Practical mysticism consists of psychophysical exercises (yoga) and hypnotic influence on the human mind with the help of paraphernalia (crosses, mandalas). Some, in order to understand mysticism, recommend a special method of breathing in certain poses (psychasm, yoga).

No type of mysticism can do without trance and hypnosis (Satanism, Gnosticism). Mysticism involves the transfer of knowledge from teacher to student in various psychological states. As a result, the concept of “mentor” arose. For example, a tzaddik in Hasidism, a guru in Hinduism, an elder in Hesychasm.

The origin of the concept

Mysticism originated a long time ago. Shamans, healers, and sorcerers also used various magical devices and rituals in their rituals. They were conductors between people and gods, spirits. But, despite this, from a scientific point of view, mysticism began to emerge in India, China, Greece, but much later.

Mysticism implies the presence of supernatural abilities in a person. They can be varied. For example, clairvoyance or clairaudience (a person’s ability to hear and see the present and future). Telepathy is special kind intuition, the ability to read other people's thoughts, look into the past and future.

There is also such a gift as teleportation - this is the ability to be invisible and move at high speed over vast distances, speak any language in the world, control the beating of the heart. Anima's unusual ability makes it possible to make everything living and non-living very small, without causing any harm. But Mahima does the opposite, she can turn everything into huge sizes. The superpower of levitation is widely known. This is the ability to become lighter than air.

Today, many psychologists use such a mystical ability as hypnosis. Hypnosis allows you to look into a person’s past, help you remember certain moments in your life and relive them. Modern medicine often resorts to treatment with hypnotic sessions.

There is a well-known mysterious unidentified flying object. This is a mystical phenomenon that many have seen. Many films have been made about him, a lot of literature has been written. Research in this area is still ongoing and scientists have already achieved good results.

We also must not forget about such mystical phenomena as ghosts and poltergeists. We have heard a lot about them, many have seen them, but few can really tell what it is and where it comes from. It is believed that ghosts warn people of danger. Although many images can only be seen by children. Mostly ghosts appear to people in the form of a person.

The poltergeist is considered the least studied and most mysterious paranormal phenomenon. WITH German language Poltergeist is translated as “noisy.” There are several types of poltergeists: acoustic (knocking, howling, roaring); pyrolysis (spontaneous combustion) and hydration (water).

Mystical phenomena

Today, mystical phenomena are being studied very quickly by science in closed laboratories. True, materials and information in this area of ​​​​knowledge are classified. Today it is the twenty-first century. And the time is not far off when all the research and data will become known to a wide circle of people, after which the study of mystical phenomena will be considered a treasure for all of humanity.

Today there is no strictly defined concept of “mysticism”. Mysticism can never be verified. In today's time, all mystical phenomena have no scientific proof. There are many laboratories that are trying to give mystical phenomena at least some possibility of existence.

At the Princeton Institute there was a laboratory (now closed), which over the 28 years of its existence was never able to prove scientifically mystical phenomena. As for today's time, mysticism is something that exists on its own and is not subject to documented data.

Of course, there is a lot of evidence that represents mystical phenomena (spiritism and reincarnation, photographs of spirits and auras). But over time, rational explanations for these facts appear. Even when researchers involve science quantum physics, then this leaves rather unsuccessful attempts at explanation.

That is, today there is no scientific evidence that supernatural beings can really exist. All the rumors and speculations that people tell are not subject to any scientific fact. But mysticism still has little influence on the modern world around us.

There is also a special fund that is ready to pay a large sum of money to a person who will scientifically prove the existence of supernatural phenomena. Of course it shouldn't be too scientific evidence and explanations, but there must be confirmation of this. During the entire existence of the foundation, there was never a person who could prove this phenomenon.

Mysticism as practice

Mysticism is a religious sacred practice that is aimed at directly achieving supernatural unity and communication with God in an experienced ecstatic act of revelation. It is also a whole system of doctrines that aims to regulate and conceptualize this system.

One of the first cycles of development of mysticism is considered to be orgiastic archaic cults, which are realized through the goal of withdrawal at the moment when ritual actions take place between the world of spirits and the human world. Also, mysticism is considered a phenomenon that occurs on a real level from the spiritual to the material, and it defies traditional explanations.

But at the same time, it can become everyone’s experience and reality. Outside material world expanding your boundaries of perception is also considered mysticism.

Translated from Greek, “mysticism” means hiddenness and mystery. This is a religiously sacred practice that implies a belief in the existence of supernatural beings, which are mysteriously able and connected to communicate with humans. This practice represents the experience of union with God or spirits, as well as immaterial entities.

Mysticism in this system means a set of philosophical and theological doctrines that are devoted to the understanding and justification of this system.

If we consider the concept of “mysticism” in a figurative sense, then it is a set of actions and phenomena that uniquely connect a person with supernatural forces and independent of space, physical causality and time. Mysticism itself can also be prophetic.

Divinatory mysticism is the desire to discern objects and phenomena that do not have the right to exist in a given space or time horizon. Such subjects include: astrology, clairvoyance, oracles or fortune telling.

But this does not mean that if a person witnesses such a phenomenon, this is necessarily a mystical action. Such phenomena will be considered mysticism if such actions can call upon or stop certain life processes from a distance through suggestion, or create materialized spiritual beings and plastic forms.

Mystical phenomena also include magic, necromancy, magnetism, theurgy and all methods of sorcery and sorcery, as well as spiritualistic and mediumistic phenomena.

If we consider mysticism from the Christian side, then it is divided according to the meaning of the subject and its dignity. Also in this sense, mysticism will include demonic and natural interactions. Many researchers attribute the science of “alchemy” to mysticism. But there are no sufficient reasons for this.

For the reason that alchemists in their science try to use natural substances and are guided by the principle of combining matter, which today is considered a positive science.

In other senses, mysticism is considered a philosophical-religious activity. In addition to natural ways of knowing the truth, metaphysical and religious possibilities of communication with supernatural forces and man have always been allowed. IN in this case This method is considered the most worthy and correct, because other methods are considered unsatisfactory. Therefore, a wrong line of thought may arise, which is called mysticism.

Mystical phenomena are quite interesting actions. But many researchers do not trust this science, since it is impossible to confirm more than one mystical action scientifically. Not every person believes that supernatural forces exist, but if this is noticed, some simply do not believe their eyes.

Such phenomena are a combination real world with supernatural beings. Psychics, mediums, and witches have always found mutual language with the other world. They can communicate with spirits and look into a person's past and future. But, as you know, such sessions do not happen without leaving a trace.

It’s not for nothing that an ordinary person cannot look into his future. For this reason, not all people want to turn to psychics and witches. Because over time, fate can play a cruel joke and fundamentally change not in better side. It is up to each person to believe in such phenomena.