There are two types of people in our world. People of the first type believe in phenomena such as poltergeists and ghosts. People of the second type, accordingly, do not believe. To justify their point of view, the latter invent all sorts of hypotheses that explain the same poltergeist as the fruit of auditory and visual hallucinations in an overly excited imagination, and the like. They do not deny that people who tell stories about ghosts and apparitions believe that they have seen something inexplicable. However, this inexplicable phenomenon is generated by their own mind and does not actually exist.
Perhaps the occurrence of such phenomena in some way intersects with a person’s inner desire to prove to himself that the afterlife exists even after death and his soul and the souls of his relatives will not disappear forever, but will end up in another world.
Specialists involved in the study of paranormal phenomena are very familiar with this kind of explanation, which is extremely poorly applicable to real encounters with ghosts and poltergeists. However, even such specialists are now beginning to suspect that ghosts are not an objective reality. They really don't appear in this world at all. An idea that is incredibly popular among today's parapsychologists is the following: subtle entities are capable of revealing themselves by “wedging” into the minds of living people and creating their image there. In other words, the ghost seems to draw itself in the mind of the person supposedly seeing it, and it turns out to be so realistic that it is simply impossible to know whether the spirit of a deceased relative is really in front of you, or whether it is just an illusion instilled in you by someone or something .
The two theories are fundamentally different in their interpretation of what gives rise to this phenomenon, but both say that a ghost can expose itself only with the help of a person’s mind. Ghosts and poltergeists cannot be detected beyond the visibility of human eyes. At this point both judgments meet. But the latest information received on this issue seems about to step in and cast doubt on the similarity of the two hypotheses.
Nowadays video surveillance systems are used inside buildings. And although this stuns a lot of specialists, ghosts still appear. On video. This is exactly the short-lived but very spectacular appearance of a poltergeist that took place in an English nightclub in the mid-autumn of 1991. After work, C. Walsh-Walshaw, manager of the Moth Club in Oldham, closed all the doors with employee D. Race. This night became quite stormy and hot - people came to the club in droves and the staff got the most work they didn’t want. However, both workers behaved quite cheerfully. They activated the alarm and CCTV, and then went for a cup of coffee at Race's house, which was just a couple of minutes' walk from the club.
The men were never really able to rest. Already at 4:30 in the morning a bell rang in Reis's home. It was a police officer who said that intruders had probably entered the club, as an alarm had been received. Both workers immediately went to the Moth, where the constables were already there. The alarm system actually went off in the building, but here's what's strange: it was not possible to find the slightest hint of a criminal entering. Everything in the club was the same as after the recent departure of the employees. Looking at the panel, they noticed that the alarm had turned on due to the hacking of the Moth cash register. But at the box office everything was the same. The room itself was locked, and a thorough and complete search of the club found no trace of the intruder. It was completely unclear what happened here.
We decided to study the recordings from security cameras. As a result of this, the questions only increased considerably. Having turned on the recording from a video camera installed right next to the door to the ticket office, people saw that a stranger in black pants and a shirt was walking through the club. But there was something mysterious and inexplicable about him. After all, having reached the end of the corridor, he stepped through the locked ticket office door absolutely unhindered. The manager, his assistant and the constables, speechless, watched this video more than once. No, they didn’t imagine it. It was absolutely clear how someone walked through the door, as if it was not on the way. The mysterious man entered the box office at 4:32 - at the same moment the security alarm in the club went off.
The story described above has given rise to a lot of controversy among experts on unexplained phenomena. And, of course, the first thing they did was commit falsification. However, the authenticity of the video was verified and confirmed. A month later, members of the English Association for Paranormal Research got down to business. They managed to unearth that the building where the “Moth” is located has a rather fascinating mystical history.
Previously, people here have already witnessed the appearance of a poltergeist. In addition, at least two people died while working in this building. In the presented video, it was impossible to make out the ghost’s facial features, so there was nothing to think about trying to compare it with photographs of the dead.
And yet, after what happened appeared in the English press, including a still from the camera footage, a man named D. Lloyd was found. He was sure that his father, who died while renovating the building in 1932, was present on the recording from the club.
Experts in the study of paranormal phenomena were left with an indelible impression by both the words of the club manager and the video itself. There was no reason for anyone to invent anything and generally falsify events. The workers were interviewed very often, so that the researchers, along with the reporters, finally believed in the sincerity of their words.
Thoughts arose about the existence of another, simpler and more “down-to-earth” solution to the problem. Thus, the reason for the fuss and talk about the poltergeist phenomenon could be the banal superposition of two pictures on top of each other: a locked door and a stranger entering an already open room. Manager Walsh-Walshaw looked at this theory with great disbelief: “Any video tape for recording is first demagnetized. The old video is deleted, which eliminates the possibility of overlaying,” he said.
Paranormal experts believed the manager’s categorical statement, but just in case, they organized a technical analysis of the videotape, because it was terribly easy to check everything: if an overlap really occurred, then there would be several video signals. The film was sent to specialists from the BBC, who confirmed that it was not a matter of overdubbing. Everything indisputably indicated that the alarm in the “Moth” was triggered by nothing other than a visit from a ghost, who for some reason wanted to go inside the cash register and leave a memory of himself on a videotape. As the BBC's chief of engineers said: "The recording is truly fantastic!"
Finally, I dare to say that the alarm system in the club was elementary and primitive - it was triggered if an object alternately interfered with the passage of two IR rays sent by a device placed on the door of the room. The sensors responded to the appearance of a poltergeist no worse than to the appearance of a real person. And it is very doubtful that a telepathically transmitted phantom would entail the activation of the security system. So, to a certain extent, a ghost was indeed walking around the Moth Club that night.
