Almost a century ago, in 1920, the famous great inventor T. Edison put forward an argument to confirm the reality of the chance of communication with the deceased: “Let us assume for a moment that the human soul is eternal.
There is reason to believe that a person’s memory, his thoughts, his personality itself are preserved in it... So, if the soul does not disappear after the physical death of a person, then it is not surprising that past generations, now living in another, afterlife, want to tell this secret to people still alive." Of course, Edison is one of the most talented scientists in the entire history of mankind. But even he was unable to come up with a device that could receive and record vibrations from the other world.
And yet he was not mistaken in believing that the dead were trying to convince the living of the existence of an afterlife. In the 20th century, ghosts tried every possible way to do this. The most accessible, and therefore the most famous, are spiritualistic seances through mediums on the mental level. Other contacts were made with direct intervention in the material world. The following stories show this very well.
One day, on a cloudless Spanish summer morning in 1971, Senora M.G. Poreira found an incomprehensible portrait on the floor of her house. The image of a stranger did not evoke any particular negative emotions in her, but she did not want everyone to come and admire the mysterious phenomenon. So the woman decided to destroy the half-image that was completely unnecessary to her. But all efforts to clean the tiles from it were in vain. Then she turned to her son Miguel with a request to tear off the damaged tiles from the floor and lay a clean one. He completed the job, but the mistress was not happy for long, because other, much clearer and more expressive portraits began to appear on the new floor. Moreover, the man depicted in one of them was identified by old local inhabitants - he once lived in those places, but died a long time ago. He was buried in a cemetery that is no longer in use. It was in that cemetery that Lord Poreira's house was later built.
This mysterious event that occurred in Spain has attracted many specialists in unexplained phenomena. An examination was carried out, which gave stunning results - the substance with which the portraits were painted has nothing in common with the paints used today. In other words, what happened could only be attributed to inhuman intervention. By autumn, the portraits were carefully removed from the tiles and placed under glass. Then the floor was completely dismantled, and human remains were found under the foundation of the house. The hypothesis about ancient burials was justified. What’s even more interesting is that we found photographs of people who once lived here. As a result of the analysis of these photographs, the conclusion suggested itself that portraits of precisely those dead who were buried near the house appeared on the floor. None of the local residents even wondered if there was an afterlife. If portraits of the dead suddenly appear by themselves in the most diverse corners of the earth, this really shows us that life does not end with the death of the material body.
At the end of the 19th century. England, D. Wabsen, rector of the Landaff temple, died. Some time after the funeral, a damp spot appeared on the wall of the temple, near the place where the ceremony was performed. The contours of the spot resembled the face of a dead abbot. Beneath it, the letters J.V were clearly visible - these were Wabssen's initials. They say this phenomenon was observed only for a couple of days. The phenomenon lasted much longer in Christ's Cathedral in Oxford many years later. Here, in 1923, the image of the famous priest G. Ledel appeared on a clean wall, near a plaque installed in the bright memory of him. According to people who were personally acquainted with the deceased, his portrait definitely appeared on the wall. Moreover, the picture was “made” very skillfully.
Three years later, the number of priestly faces on the wall of the temple increased - they were all located not far from the first one. In addition, it turned out that similar phenomena had already occurred before. Portraits of the dead were noticed in different places of the cathedral.
It is not clear why so many mysterious portraits of the deceased appeared on these walls, but his family attributed the strange phenomenon to the wedding that took place in the cathedral, which thereby ended the quarrels in the Ledel family.
Whatever the occasion, this unusual portrait appeared, it had a solid history. After all, even in 1931, the image of Ledel did not disappear from the wall, as stated by H. Mackensey, the head of the English Union for Physical Studies. The image did not disappear even a year later, when an additional altar was erected right next to the wall. The altar completely hid behind itself a portrait of the deceased priest. No one knows whether he is still there today...
