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In early July 2012, the research sector for the poltergeist study in ONIOO “Cosmopoisk” received a message about the events of a poltergeist nature that unfolded this summer in private house in one of the villages near Bryansk.
A photo from open sources
In this case, it was a case of the so-called “fiery poltergeist “- spontaneous spontaneous combustion of various objects. The hot pursuit gave a chance to find manifestations of the phenomenon in active phase and conduct a study of its immediate manifestations, not residual traces.
According to preliminary data, fires in the house began immediately after the death of one of the family members – 89-year-old grandmothers. Estimated start date for the poltergeist is June 16 – fell at the beginning of the peak of geomagnetic disturbances: maximum the aa-index values reached 137 on June 16-18. However, as was found out later, this information did not match reality.
The visit of the working group to study this case took place July 14-15, consisting of three representatives of Ufokom. Of technical equipment there were: cameras (Canon EOS 1000D, Canon EOS 450D, Canon EOS 5D Mark II), voice recorder (Olympus DM-420), miniature video cameras (MiniDV-D005 camcorder, 2 pcs. in full complete sets), pyrometer (ADA TemPro 300), two detectors low-frequency electromagnetic field of different models (development and assembly of the Gomel laboratory “Analit”), dosimeter (assembly Analit laboratory), infrared sensor (LS-IR2), sensor on tungsten-based (4.3 ohm resistance), digital multimeter (DT-838).
The exit tasks included: 1) collecting as much as possible full information on the existing case of fire poltergeist; 2) in in case of poltergeist activity at the time of arrival of the working group to monitor its manifestations with photo and video fixation, instrumentation, try to determine the nature of the data poltergeist manifestations; 3) identification of a possible focal face, to which these poltergeist manifestations are attached; 4) search physical abnormal artifacts and recorded by technical means of physical anomalies in a poltergeist medium.
TOTAL INFORMATION
The family affected by the poltergeist consists of four people: A.V. (42 years old), head of the family; O.P. (34 years old), mistress; their daughter M. (14 years old) and son A. (6 years old). The house where the main events, there are about 40 years. Previously, the same one lived in it. grandmother who died on the eve with whom they are about six years ago swapped houses. Grandmother passed away 24 days before the start fires. Therefore a direct connection of both events like this supposed by initial erroneous information, It seems not quite obvious.
The family living in the poltergeist house did not produce the impression is dysfunctional. Living conditions are quite normal for rural areas, one might even say – slightly above average. IN The house has modern appliances and a number of amenities. The owners of the house consider the psychological situation in their family normal, deny the presence of any internal conflicts and significant issues. They themselves seem calm, balanced and adequate people.
THE BEGINNING AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE POLTERGEIST
The poltergeist active phase began on Wednesday May 16, 2012. IN On the night of May 15-16, the mother-in-law stayed in the house with the children. The next day, it all started – at about 16.30 flared up a dirty towel lying on logs in a woodcutter behind the house. First the fire was noticed by a neighbor who came running and reported this to the household. Then, at 9 p.m., hay lit up under a roof in a stable. On the the next day the trash in the “temporary hut” caught fire moment is used as a warehouse for unnecessary things and building materials. It was then that they called the priest who arrived, he consecrated the house and the yard, left the owners with icons, candles and more. However Church intervention in this situation did not help, since the next day (May 18) after the visit of the priest, fires began already directly in the house.
In general, one can notice a clear tendency of origin poltergeist phenomenon outside the house – in farm buildings during courtyard – with their further transfer to the residential area space. The subsequent chronology of events by date is not recoverable. The hosts did not keep any diary entries. character. They only note the intensity of fires, that happened almost every day with some lulls, the longest of which were confined mainly to the end months.
There were foci of fires and other events of the poltergeist process in almost all areas of the house. Any patterns with the spread of fires in the house by the owners was not noted It was. In their opinion, the process developed randomly both in time and and in space. Various things – objects were ignited clothes, bedding, upholstery, curtains and curtains, soft toys, school notebooks. Even a wet towel caught fire hung on the heating pipe in the bathroom. Fire marks on ceiling in one of the rooms, on the floor, on window sills, wooden parts of furniture (laminated particleboard), etc. are secondary in nature as traces of fire from flammable objects. Character the flames in the fires did not have any specific properties. The flame was quite ordinary, burning.
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There were fires throughout the house.
A photo from open sources The scheme of the centers of ignitions in the house
Many flaming things and furniture were brought out of the house during courtyard, which was observed by the visiting research team. By According to the owners, some of these things flared up repeatedly, being in the yard. It is worth noting that none of the household items The equipment in the house was not affected by the poltergeist. True, the owners decided from sin away to take for a while from home to acquaintances available at them computer.
The described poltergeist events aroused a sense of fear and panic in family members. At the same time no oddities in the behavior of existing pets (two cats, also seen in neighbor’s dog) was not observed, despite the incident with tanning the hair of one of the cats. Besides this incident with a cat and a case of tanning a lock of hair in a girl (both escaped just a fright), in general, the nature of the poltergeist was not violent, mostly limited to spoilage property.
The last case of spontaneous combustion of objects was noted on July 9. After that there was a lull. It’s possible that on this fiery poltergeist is over.
MATCHES AND MESSAGES FROM THE POLTERGEIST
An interesting point in the poltergeist case under consideration is the following circumstance. As stated by the owners dysfunctional home, on the first day of the start of fires showed up loss box of matches. Subsequently, on the site of a separate focus fires – either before the incident, or after it – was detected burnt match. Moreover, only match was charred the head, and its wooden part itself remained virtually completely whole. This suggests that matches were not used as a long source of fire for setting fire to certain things. Did that, only as an initiation of the combustion process flammable materials and substances.
By the way, on the second day of the working group – July 15 – upon returning to the scene in the morning, the owners of the house were demonstrated another such charred match found on the kitchen floor. Half an hour later, the children discovered a second such a match in the room near the bathroom. However, neither on this day nor later fires in these places did not occur. There was a feeling that these incidents were in the nature of a staging with the aim of play along with the poltergeist during the presence of researchers.
Due to the detection of used matches in the field In case of fire, the hosts took appropriate measures. All the matches those in the house were under the control of adult family members – always carried in their pockets to exclude access to them children. However, this did not bring any results – fire continued on.
Another interesting aspect in this case was related to written messages from poltergeist, which were laid out from matches – both whole and broken. The appearance of these inscriptions was connected with an intuitive attempt of the owners to enter into a certain dialogue with an unknown force by asking aloud questions. Then and these specific “answers” were revealed. So marked the appearance the inscriptions “HA HA HA” (to the question “Who are you – he or she?”), “PROSTI”, “FOOD” (to the question “What do you want?”), “ANYA FOOL”.
A photo open source poltergeist writing
The only atypical case in the series of such “answers” poltergeist was the case of a broken raw egg on the floor at the baseboard in one of the living rooms. This happened after the appearance of the answer “FOOD” and the asked question: “What kind of food?”. By assurances of the owners, that day in the house there was not a single raw eggs. After that, residents began to leave on the windowsill in in the same room a saucer with a raw egg broken into it, which was recorded by the visiting working group.
At the time of the arrival of the research group, more or less generally match condition “PROSTI”, which was in temporary construction in the yard. It is worth noting that on the second day group stay this inscription was someone consciously “adjusted” to recreate, as expected the original form of “response”. There were matches from the ruined inscription “ANA DOOR”. Moreover, used for these match inscriptions were intact, not burnt. In the same makeshift was found empty matchbox manufactured by CJSC “PLITSPICHPROM” (Balabanovo, Kaluga Region).
It seems that there were only two cases described detecting “messages” from matches. Other incidents have already taken place. in home. In particular, the first “inscriptions” appeared in the kitchen. IN in particular, the inscription “HA HA HA” is on the windowsill in the kitchen, and the word “FOOD” – in the girl’s room where the egg broke. In these two cases, words were laid out from burnt matches.
In general, the content left by the poltergeist “notes” from matches did not contain aggression.
TAKE ACTION
As is usually the case with poltergeist cases, suffering from him people always try to take various kinds of measures to its elimination or appeasement. In this case, it was used following:
1. For the consecration of the house and the yard, as mentioned above, a priest was invited, but this is not to eliminate fires led.
2. An attempt was made to control the available in the house matches, but also to no avail. But it’s worth noting that matches are not so hard to obtain item, even for children.
3. In accordance with folk mythological ideas and folk methods of appeasing a mischievous “brownie” the latter was presented with a treat (apparently, here you can also include refreshment in the form of the contents of a raw egg left in a saucer on windowsill). Also without a positive result.
4. The owners of the poltergeist house turned to three “grandmothers” (Obviously, from the category of healers, witches, etc.). From their submission was water sprinkled by them was used to sprinkle the house. ABOUT a positive result is not known.
5. To get rid of the poltergeist, the hosts also used the services of a “parapsychologist” (his identity is not succeeded), who put some kind of “protection” and took 10.000 for it Russian rubles. Despite the fact that the fires continued and further, this “parapsychologist” appeared on the scene again and demanded a supplement for his ongoing work.
6. The fire brigade arrived during the poltergeist activity from Bryansk. According to the owners of the house, they did not establish a reason. fires. White Paper on the Nature of Emerging they refused to provide fires in the house, but verbally expressed the opinion that this is clearly not a human factor.
7. Also for three days behind the poltergeist house looked after a local representative in the fire department, however, nothing happened in his presence.
FOCAL FACE
During a survey of a poltergeist-affected family the visiting working group identified the alleged focal face – 14-year-old M. First, she is a teenager at the stage of sexual ripening and social formation. This type is most characteristic. as a focal face, which has been repeatedly noted in the world poltergeist research practice. Secondly, in favor of this assumptions indicate comparisons of the collected factual material. In almost all cases, the girl either directly present in the house during fires, or was somewhere nearby. There are also others circumstances indirectly or directly pointing to it:
1. In this case, it was possible to identify the alleged “harbingers” poltergeist, which took place a year and a half before described events. Then one day a case was noted constant knocking of traffic jams in the electric meter, which prevented the girl complete school homework. To make M. normal I was able to prepare for the next school day, she was sent to neighboring house to grandmothers. But with her arrival there were also traffic jams, and she had to come back. On the other hand, it is the incident can be attributed to a random combination of circumstances.
2. The second case took place at the height of the poltergeist process. At one time, the mother of the family went with their young son spend the night with neighbors, while father and daughter remained in their house. IN one of the evenings (around 23.00) A.V. with M. went to the neighbors to visit of their own, and at the same moment, the umbrellas that were on the neighbors lit up in the hall. Again, the presence of the girl, for whom poltergeist followed into another house.
3. Another of the incidents was related to the burning of a lock of hair. to the right of M.’s face when she walked down the street. IN in principle, this was the only case when a physical impact from poltergeist on a person, however, without serious consequences. As an exception, perhaps cat inflammation can also be considered, which also happened outside the house (in the courtyard) is actually in front of people. Animal virtually no damage, all damage limited to singeing mustache.
It is worth saying, as adult family members admitted, first they they themselves suspected their daughter M. of arson, but the nature and circumstances of fires that also occurred in their presence, made them abandon this thought.
INSTRUMENTED MEASUREMENTS AND OBSERVATIONS
During the two-day work at the scene of the exit group was measured radioactive background in most rooms of the house in the mode x0.001 dosimeter operation (ten measurements). Maximum values background did not exceed the value of 15 μR / h, which was within normal limits. Quite low values (6 μR / h) were recorded in two rooms – in the kitchen and in the room of a teenage girl.
Inspection of home premises with low-frequency detectors electromagnetic fields did not reveal any unexplained anomalies. Devices reacted standardly to wiring, heating pipes and household electrical appliances. Also, no positives were recorded for used IR sensor and tungsten-based sensor.
A pyrometer purchased specifically for this trip intended primarily to measure the temperature of the foci fires, however, by the time the group arrives poltergeist activity ceased. Examination with it premises for areas with temperature anomalies did not reveal any.
Installed at night mini-cameras for video surveillance were connected to an external power source (electrical outlets), as the battery life of the batteries attached to them for many hours shooting was not enough. This was the reason that their use in this case was useless. At night in the electricity was cut off in the village, so the video were automatically saved.
DISADVANTAGES OF THE INVESTIGATION
1. Unfortunately, it was not possible to involve a specialist psychologist (whose departure was planned, but was not carried out because of his employment) to compile the psychological profile of each of family members and the alleged focal person in particular identify possible psychological conflicts within the family.
2. Due to the limited working hours of the visiting group (two days) failed to collect the most detailed information to clarify chronology of events, clarification of the specific circumstances of each of fire incidents (when and at what time the fire occurred, who and where was at the time of ignition, who was the first to notice fire, who took what measures, etc.). Not all spoiled by fire, things were counted and placed in their former locations. This is partly due to the inability to recover from memory two months of accurate chronology due to lack of relevant records since the start of the poltergeist process.
3. As it turned out during the consultation with fire engineers, it was very few photographs were taken for each of the fire sources. By each of the centers of ignition needed to do the maximum the number of shots at different angles (20, 30, 45 90 degrees), above and below, as well as pictures of the ceiling above the place of ignition, even if visually no traces of soot were observed there. According to specialists, this is necessary for an accurate reconstruction of the event, so as, according to the practice of fire investigation, testimony fire victims almost always do not correspond reality.
4. It would be desirable to draw up a wiring diagram (open and hidden) in the house, if possible specify the brand of wiring and electrical appliances. This possibility was meant by the presence of low frequency electromagnetic field detectors.
CONCLUSION
The calculation that it will be possible to catch a poltergeist in the active phase and directly observe its manifestations, not justified. Last thing the fire took place on July 9 – a week before arrival researchers. Accordingly, I had to confine myself to a survey eyewitnesses and the study of the remaining traces of fires.
As a result of the two-day trip, the working group gathered fire poltergeist information material Bryansk, clarified a number of points that have statistical significance in in the framework of the general analysis of poltergeist cases, I determined the possible focal face with which all described phenomena can be associated, a house diagram was drawn up with foci of ignition in each of premises. Samples of materials subjected to fire, however, after the limitation of incidents with their ignition their analysis for the identification of flammable substances turned out to be pointless. The conducted instrument measurements did not reveal any anomalies.
It was not possible to establish the nature of the poltergeist that took place the inability to conduct his research during active phase of its course with appropriate video control. Thus, the only source of information remains eyewitness accounts and remaining traces of fires. By residual no artifact was discovered that could testify to the clearly anomalous nature of what was happening.
A number of shortcomings, both objective and subjective, were taken into account. nature of the thoroughness of the collection of necessary information and fixing traces of fires, which will allow for future investigations of similar cases at a higher level.
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