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Mysterious rumors spread about Volgograd three years ago a ghost frightening drivers on local roads.
According to a new urban legend, a phantom appearing on the tracks in the dark, looks like a terrible old woman, moving at high speed on all fours. Coming from of the world has the habit of suddenly jumping out of the curb onto the roadway part, causing unsuspecting drivers to shock, and then Chasing cars, running like a beast on four limbs. Creepy, isn’t it?
Volgograd residents are actively discussing a ghostly woman in the city forum and social networks. Many residents of the Volga stronghold claim to have personally encountered a nightmare old woman and barely saved from her. Soon there appeared the first ones who wanted to meet with phantom specially. Imitating Western Researchers supernatural, local students armed with cameras, began to set off at night in search of this devilry. It was alleged that one of such expeditions even crowned success.
Even the regional media who were interested in writing about the old woman mystical myth.
No one would ever know where the roots of this city come from. legends: maybe a queen running on all fours really exists, or maybe someone from Volgograd motorists accidentally launched a rumor about her after he took for a ghost some bizarre branch on the road or real the beast. However, now the authors suddenly decided to show their faces this “duck”, who deliberately introduced superstitious compatriots into misconception.
Why Volgograd scientists launched a rumor about a ghost
Surprisingly, the supernatural old woman was invented together local scientists. People of science wanted to explore the phenomenon of rumors and determine how gossip not confirmed by facts affects minds people. The results of the experiment exceeded all the expectations of specialists: thanks to talkative languages (word of mouth) and communication Volgograd residents on the World Wide Web information about nonexistent a ghost has scattered throughout the region, if not across the country and even beyond its limits. Now thousands of Russians and many many believe in a terrible old woman of them are really afraid to meet the elderly poltergeist chasing cars.
The authors of the experiment were scientists working in Volgograd The New Look Research Group. Psychologist Eugene Kovalenko – one of the project managers – says that so An unusual idea arose from specialists in the fall of 2014. The experts studied the features of the distribution of unverified information on informal communication channels, as well as modification of this information through the so-called “spoiled phone.”
Psychologists report that the two factors that led to their success experiment, there was an increased interest in the audience the subject matter of this gossip and the inability to prove falsehood. Many people are very interested in mysticism, therefore, with joy pick up and share similar information. A refute the existence of something that comes to us from the other world, just impossible.
One step from experiment to real ghost
The study, according to experts, was to some extent and applied character. His goal, among other things, was drawing the attention of Russians to the acute problem of injuries on the roads at night. Annually from road transport accidents in our country kill up to 20 thousand people, and such statistics are much worse than any phantoms.
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It is noteworthy that initially scientists launched a rumor about a beautiful a woman in a white robe walking slowly along dark tracks quite ok, on two legs. However, over time, this bike, word of mouth transformed and overgrown with new details. Now the mythical ghost on the roads is ugly old woman running like a beast. Here you have a clear result spoiled phone.
Despite the fact that psychologists consider their experiment successful complete and do not hide falsehoods, the legend continues to live my life. Now the main thing is that on the roads of Volgograd not real devilry appeared. After all, thought, as you know, material …
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