Bringing a woman in white to see. Family Affair
They have appeared from time immemorial, all over the world, and continue to appear to this day. We have encountered similar cases at least a dozen times since childhood. Most often it looks something like this: A young woman, in a fit of melancholy and hopelessness because of her husband’s cruelty and beatings, kills her children. Or she kills them because they prevent her from marrying the man of her dreams. Either way, when she dies, she becomes a ghost. The most famous version of this story most likely comes from Mexico:
- A long time ago, the legend says, a beautiful Indian princess, Doña Luisa de Laveros, fell in love with a handsome Mexican nobleman named Don Nuno de Montesclaro. She fell in love deeply and sincerely, and bore him two children, but Montesclaro refused to marry her. When he finally left her and took another woman as his wife, Donna Luisa went mad with rage and stabbed both of her children to death. She was found wandering down the street, sobbing, her clothes stained with blood. The authorities accused her of infanticide and sent her to the gallows.
They say that after this the ghost of La Llorona ("the mourner") wanders at night in bloody clothes and mourns her murdered children. If she comes across a child on her way, she can take him with her to the Lower World, where her spirit usually lives.
But even this is only a modernized version of an older legend, perhaps dating back to the days when conquistadors rampaged along the banks of the Rio Grande - a clear indication of how long this type of ghost has been hanging around. Closer to home, in the Dallas area, they tell a different story. The local spirit is known as the White Rock Lake Ghost. The story of La Llorona combines here with another famous urban legend - the legend of the disappearing hitchhiker. Sometimes a driver (almost always at night) picks up a person voting on the highway, and then this person either suddenly disappears, if, for example, the car passes a cemetery, or gives an address that leads to an abandoned house. Our father had a very definite opinion about the disappearing hitchhiker:
- This ghost is all the more dangerous because it plays on one of the best human qualities - the need to help out a person in need of help. The problem with the disappearing hitchhiker is that he doesn't always disappear without a trace, sometimes he leaves behind a souvenir - a burning desire to meet him again. Usually this search leads straight to the cemetery and there is one less Good Samaritan in the world. Some spirits just cannot get closer to the right place themselves, but others just love to playfully use the best sides of human nature.
Around White Rock Lake, you'll see mysterious lights, hear strange noises, and the locals will probably tell you a lot of stories if you stick around long enough to listen. You will learn about a pretty girl in soaking wet white evening dress, voting on the road and then disappearing before the car takes her to her address. And about another girl who can be seen near the coast. She asks to make a phone call and then disappears, leaving behind only a puddle of water and a fading echo of screams.
We have heard of other sightings of La Llorona - in the cemetery area in Chicago, at Fort Monroe in Virginia, on the Mourner Bridge in Dublin, Indiana, on the Calumet Bridge in Gary, Indiana - and in general, they flock to the Chicagoland like flies to... honey. But we've heard that the woman in white/disappearing hitchhiker has been spotted as far away as Singapore. But all these ghosts are completely harmless. So we don’t bother with them yet, why: each of them is just a wandering ghost, a tramp, no harm from him.
The last time we met the woman in white was in Jericho, California, several years ago. Just like the White Rock Lake Phantom, she was a "vanishing hitchhiker." She asked to take her home and, if you picked her up, you would soon find yourself at an old empty house in a deserted place and no longer have to worry about returning home.
Furthermore, in this case the spirit - Constance Welsh - was suicidal. She drowned her children and jumped off the bridge. Sometimes suicides turn into evil ghosts, taking revenge on people who harmed them during their lifetime. They are confused and desperate, and over time the darkness becomes so overwhelming that they begin to haunt anyone who even remotely resembles the people who drove them to suicide.
Our father, after banishing the woman in white at Durant, Oklahoma in 1991, wrote in his diary that he thought La Llorona was a type of spirit called in Ireland bean cid, or banshee.
- Sometimes they are dressed in white, sometimes in a shroud or other funeral clothing. They scream, scream, and sometimes they foretell the approach of death for one of those relatives who hears them. They usually appear in one of three guises, which correspond to the three degrees of femininity (and perhaps have something to do with the age of the person whose death they foretell). A banshee can appear as a beautiful young girl, as a mature woman, or as a decrepit witch. The latter appearance is likely distantly related to the infamous English witch known as Black Annie, a one-eyed crone who was physically strong and demon-like in appearance: long teeth, steel claws, and a blue face. She was hiding in a huge oak tree, the last thing left of the ancient forest. Like many other witches, she fed on human flesh, preferring children, which she chewed after flaying them alive. She hung these skins in her hole under the roots of a tree. Baba Yaga from Russian folklore is another type of witch who lives in a dense forest in a hut on chicken legs. She also loves children, but, unlike Black Annie, Baba Yaga, on occasion, could provide important magical assistance to the hero or find a child. If you ask her nicely and kindly or catch her in good mood, then she can help you in your business instead of making you a chop.
- The banshee was often seen crying while washing bloody clothes in the river - usually the clothes of someone who was about to die. She may appear as a raven, a rabbit, or a weasel.
WHITE LADY is the collective name of one of the most famous ghosts in the world.
As a rule, eyewitnesses describe long-haired women in a white dress, with dark sad eyes and a thin, pointed face. Sometimes they also talk about bloody hands and face.
Unlike most other ghosts, the Czech White Lady has a real prototype: Perchta Rožemberk (lived around 1429 - 1476), her letters to her father and brothers are kept in Czech archives to this day, and in South Bohemian castles - lifetime portraits of Perchta.
Castle "Rožnberk nad Voltavou", where the ghost of the White Lady appears. 19th century drawing
Her story could have happened to any noble young woman who lived in the Middle Ages: young Perchta was forcibly married to a man much older than herself, the aristocrat Jan Lichtenstein. Jan Perkhta did not like him and kept reproaching him that the dowry was paid in “small portions.” The unfortunate woman was mocked with pleasure by her husband's mother-in-law and sisters. ABOUT bad attitude The entire Czech kingdom knew Liechtenstein and his wife. The unfortunate woman endured bullying for 20 years, because the morals of that era did not allow her to leave her despot husband and return to her family, and the church would not give permission for a divorce.
They say that before his death, Count Liechtenstein asked his wife for forgiveness, but she could not forgive him. Then the count cursed his wife with the words: “May you have no peace after death!”
Since then, Perchta has appeared in the former possessions of the Rožmberks: the old castle of Sovinec and the nearby town of Cesky Krumlov. The family lost the protection of the White Lady almost by accident. When one of the Rožemberks, Peter Vok, was still a baby, Perkhta often appeared near his cradle. The nurses were used to this, and were even glad: they knew that the baby was safe. But then a new one was on duty at the cradle, still not knowing anything - having woken up at night and seeing a white female figure bending over the baby, she began to scream in fear, cross herself, and angrily drive away the ghost. And she couldn’t stand it: “Who will take care of him better than me? If you drive me away, then raise him yourself from now on!” - and offendedly passing through the thick wall of the castle, she left it forever. Years later, Peter Vok discovered a treasure at the site of her disappearance. However, even the treasures did not help Peter Vok: he turned out to be the last of the Rožemberks - he did not leave an heir, and the noble medieval family died out.
A portrait of Perkhta with a signature in an unknown language has survived to this day. There is a legend that the White Lady in person will appear to anyone who can decipher the signature and tell where the huge treasure is hidden.
From the notes of Nikolai Verbin, 189*
This happened during my trip to Poland. The weather suddenly deteriorated sharply, the road to the nearest town remained long, and I decided to stay at a roadside hotel. I was not mistaken, a blizzard soon arrived. It was already evening when I settled into my room. Suddenly the door of my room opened slightly due to a draft. When I went to close it, to my surprise I saw a white silhouette on the stairs female figure, who, slowly going downstairs, disappeared into the darkness of the hallway.
Thoughts flashed through my head: “I hope I’m not falling into madness? Did I really see a ghost?” It is curious that the mysterious figure did not cause me fear or any other unpleasant sensation, which was mentioned by people who saw ghosts. Having settled down at the table, I tried to read in order to drive away obsessive thoughts. I couldn't concentrate on reading. In the shadows of the candle I began to imagine all sorts of devilish things, and the howling of the storm outside the window only intensified my excitement. I decided to go down to the living room, hoping to find company for conversation.
White Lady of the Rožmberk family
In the living room I met the military man Michael von Rosemberg, about whose noble family I had heard a lot (he descended from the wealthy Czech aristocrats of the Rožmberks). Mikhail was smoking a pipe, sitting in a chair at the coffee table. The captain's face looked thoughtful. Not afraid to seem crazy, I told him about my recent vision.
- And you saw White Lady? - the interlocutor perked up.
His question gave me hope that I was not the only witness to the supernatural.
- Yes, she came down the stairs... Did she come to you? - I suddenly realized.
The interlocutor nodded.
“She was wearing black gloves,” he added sadly and thoughtfully.
Castle "Rožnberk nad Voltavou", where the ghost of the White Lady appears. 19th century drawing
Not wanting to guess what "black gloves" means. I asked my interlocutor to tell a story about the ghost of the Rožmberk family. Fortunately, the situation was conducive, the illuminated living room seemed like a special safe place, and the dark corridor seemed like a gloomy road to another world. How darkness intensifies children's fears!
Modern look to the castle, photo from the guidebook
My new friend happily began the story.
The White Lady of the Rožmberks, more often called the White Panna, usually appears in the places of the former possessions of the Rožmberks, but sometimes she comes to representatives of the clan regardless of the distance.
She is kind and does not instill fear. Although sometimes it is a sad message. If she comes wearing black gloves, it means death awaits one of the family members; if she wears red gloves, beware of fire. But if there is a smile on the ghostly face, it means there will be good luck.
Now I understood Mikhail’s excitement; he was clearly worried about one of his relatives. Seeing me as an understanding interlocutor, Rosemberg continued the story.
Perchta Rožmberk (lived around 1429 - 1476) - White Panna.
According to legend, her soul will be freed by the one who can decipher the mysterious inscription on the portrait.
As a reward to the savior, the lady will indicate where the treasure is kept
Curse of the Villain
Her name is associated with the sad story of the Rožmberk family of Czech nobles, which occurred during the wild Middle Ages, in the 15th century. The noble girl Perchta from the Rozhmberg family was forcibly married to the evil aristocrat Jan Lichtenstein, who had influence in the royal court. The husband turned out to be a villain and in every possible way mocked his young wife, who turned 20 in the year of her marriage. He also dared to have orgies in the castle without being ashamed of his young wife. Liechtenstein's evil sisters also humiliated their new relative.
Perkhta tried to escape from her husband, but the wild customs of that era did not allow her to return to her father’s house. The unfortunate woman was forced to stay with her husband. She lived with him for more than 20 years, enduring tyranny. Before his death, her husband asked her for forgiveness, but the honest, proud wife refused to forgive the bullying. Then the scoundrel cursed Perkhta: “may you have no peace after death,” after these words his black, sinful soul fell into Hell.
Drawing in the interior of the castle, 17th century
Alas, the curse came true. After death, Perkhta's soul did not rest. She appears in a white dress with keys in her belt.
Guardian of the family
The lady was always kind to the Rožmberks. She came to nurse the children of the family and protected them from all evil. The maids knew that the lady visited the children at night, and were not afraid of her. One night, while the ghost was lulling little Peter Vokov to sleep, the nanny, recently hired, woke up. The foolish woman screamed and the White Lady slid through the wall and disappeared. She did not visit Peter again. He became the last owner of Rožmberkov Castle. Perhaps a careless servant angered the keeper of the clan.
Portrait of Peter Vokov (lived 1539-1611) as a child
Treasure of the White Panna
The grown-up Peter Vokov was told about his childhood meeting with the White Panna. Out of curiosity, he ordered the wall through which the ghost had passed to be broken down. A treasure was found in the wall. Since then, foolish treasure hunters have been roaming the former possessions of the Rožmberks, wanting to meet the White Lady and find out from her about the treasure. Some people think that the treasure should be looked for where the ghost disappears. You can only laugh at human stupidity.
Coins of Rožmberk
Funny case
One day, the White Panna scared a group of students staying in the castle. After drinking too much local beer, they started making stupid jokes about the ghostly mistress. One said that he was ready to hug the lady and confess his love to her. Perkhta came to teach the impudent man a lesson, who, out of his stupidity, decided to do what he was told, and tried to hug the ghost. He got off lightly; the noble lady only knocked him unconscious. They say that there are ghosts more severe to such antics, and he could not avoid madness.
Interior of the castle "Rožmberk nad Voltavou", photo from the guidebook
White Panna in the town of Cesky Krumlov
In addition to Rozmberkov Castle, there is another favorite place for the appearance of the White Lady - the town of Cesky Krumlov. After the death of her husband, Perkhta remained in this city for the rest of her life. She was remembered by the townspeople for her kindness and mercy. When Perkhta died, the whole city mourned her. They say that the White Panna often visits her beloved town. There were stories of eyewitnesses who encountered a white figure leisurely walking along the narrow streets.
City of Cesky Krumlov, My photos are from 2005 (enlarge when clicked). Note
Rozmberkov Castle in the town of Mikulov, where the appearance of the White Panna was also noticed
The alleged narrator is Michael von Rosenberg, a military engineer who received the rank of major general (life 1861-1928). Representatives of the Rožmberk family appeared in Russian service in the 18th century under Tsarina Anna Ioannovna
A few days later I received a letter from Rosemberg in which he wrote that they had died close relative. The death of a relative occurred on the very evening when the White Panna appeared to him.
Addition to the story. The appearance of the White Lady was noticed during World War II in 1944. The Nazis set up a Nazi school for girls in the castle. One day, schoolgirls raising a fascist flag saw a ghostly woman who shook her finger at them. The frightened girls ran away, and the raised flag tore off the pole and fell to the ground. An explanation was quickly found for the incident, blaming saboteurs for everything. However, no strangers were ever found in the castle. So the ghost spoke out against fascism on her estate.
The picture is just about me :))
In summer, the castle hosts a night tour dedicated to the White Lady. No one met the ghost, but the excursion was very interesting. I hope that when I visit the Czech Republic again, I will definitely visit the White Lady.
You can find out about the Rozmberks (Rosenbergs) here http://rosenberg-i.ru
Photo materials from the site were also used
They climbed Elbrus. A small group who decided to conquer one of the most beautiful peaks in the world. The penultimate in the chain was a 28-year-old climber, who had conquered more than one peak. They had already reached the snowfield when the girl suddenly felt an irresistible urge to turn around...
200 meters from her stood a dazzling beauty in a shining white dress. Long hair slightly swayed from the wind, bare feet and arms bare to the shoulders, it seemed, did not react in any way to the piercing cold... The girl was overcome by a feeling of incredible, unearthly, stunning happiness “such happiness simply does not exist,” she later recalled. There was, however, a slight feeling of something tricky, but somewhere far away, on the periphery of consciousness, it flashed like a light haze and disappeared, as if it had never happened... Meanwhile, the woman raised right hand and beckoned her over.
And she went. She went, like a somnambulist, straight into the abyss. And she stopped only after calling out to her husband, who realized that his half was wandering somewhere clearly in the wrong direction. Waking up from the eclipse on the edge of the abyss, into which her legs had already begun to slide, the climber fell on her back and slowly crawled away from the edge... The moment she woke up, the girl heard her own broken cry at the bottom of the hole.
The climber was immediately expelled from the group and taken down, accompanied by a guy: the one who was dating White Woman, should no longer go to the mountains, the next ascent will result in death for him, says the unwritten law of the mountains.
...An experienced 30-year-old climber was descending from the mountain. A blizzard began, and in the clearing of the snowy swirl he suddenly saw a blond woman in white dress, sitting, hugging her knees, right in the snow. She was young and beautiful, and at the same time old and decrepit, she gave off a feeling of unearthly happiness and at the same time menacing danger... Not for a moment, according to the climber, did he lose control over himself, all the time, analyzing what was happening. True, this analysis, as it turned out, was in itself, and reality in itself. His climbing comrades suddenly saw that he had deviated from the route and went somewhere in a snowstorm... Only after a loud call from the climbers did he wake up and return to the “bosom of the detachment.”
According to researcher Dmitry Gromov, who collected many cases of observation White Woman, their plot does not shine with variety. The woman is clearly acting according to a well-worn pattern: she attracts attention, evokes a state of unearthly bliss, and then lures her into the abyss. The Two-Faced Woman of Speleologists operates according to a similar plan: upon meeting, she turns to the explorer with her young and beautiful face, leads him into some trap and immediately turns old and ugly. Some of her colleagues, however, act more honestly: scary old women took upon themselves the responsibility of leading speleologists out of traps, and young and beautiful maidens, on the contrary, lure them there. So to speak, division of labor...
There are a lot of similar characters in hiking folklore: Black and White climbers, Crying Boy, Calling Old Man... And in the mythology of different nations they occur with suspicious frequency. These are Greek sirens, who with their own voices deprive sailors of a sense of reality and direct their ships to the rocks, and Russian mermaids, luring swimmers to the bottom, and Romanesque vampires who bewitch their victim, and she goes under his fangs with great pleasure...
In my opinion, the most important thing in these descriptions, says Dmitry Vyacheslavovich, is that the phenomenon simultaneously occurs both in reality and, so to speak, in the observer’s head. In reality, apparently, there is a certain object that is the source of the event, but it also feels quite comfortable in the human mind, manipulating it in strict accordance with its script. Which is very significantly different from the description of “ordinary” anomalous phenomena: most descriptions boil down to the fact that someone is observing something, while experiencing some feelings that do not at all dominate the consciousness of the observer... That is, we are talking about some kind of a phenomenon that goes beyond our picture of the world.
However, it fit very organically into the picture of the world of our ancestors. From the point of view of Russian old witches, we live in a certain field, which is made of the same “substrate” as human soul. And many of the phenomena that we observe do not just occur in the material world or in our consciousness, they must be considered as a consequence of some (subjective and objective) complex within the framework of this special field.
"THE GHOST IN WHITE"
Muscovite Olga Blinova is forty years old. And at the time when the alien suddenly invaded her life, she was exactly thirty.
It was in this very room that everything happened,” she told me when, at Blinova’s invitation, I ended up at her house. - I wake up late at night because someone loudly called my name. I see a figure standing near the foot of the bed in a white robe, similar to a nightgown, falling from the shoulders in folds. Judging by the specific features of the figure, it was a woman. I didn't have time to really see her face. The figure slowly disappeared into the air... I'm screaming at the top of my lungs! The whole house was alarmed. My husband calmed me down for a long time, and my mother gave me valerian. The next night, the “ghost in white” visited our house again. Instead of a head, the ghost had something like a foggy oval, which especially struck me and was especially memorable. I woke up with a jolt, and the “ghost in white” was standing near my bed. Suddenly it disappeared. The next moment I felt something small, round, the size of a tennis ball, touch the sole of my right foot, sticking out from under the blanket. It was warm. The ball, spinning, began to slowly roll up the leg and rolled under the blanket. And I lost consciousness. In the morning I woke up feeling extremely bad. My head was pounding with pain, my whole body was terribly tired.
Someone visits me at night two or three times a month,” says Olga Ukolova from the city of Stupino, Moscow region. - I wake up every time from a strong feeling of fear. I look, “he” is standing nearby, looking like a smoky shadow, and his hand is extended to my head. I feel that hand clutching my braid... How he pulls the braid! And I’ll scream! And he’ll pull again! And - he is not there. Disappeared...
An excerpt from a letter from Lyudmila Kosenkova, sent to me from the city of Zarafshan, in Uzbekistan:
"My elderly neighbor is in a panic. The other day a ghost appeared to her twice. Both times in the middle of the night... The woman woke up because she wanted to go to the toilet. She goes out into the corridor leading to the kitchen. Lo and behold, in the kitchen there is a tall big guy. His head is hidden behind the door lintel. Only his shoulders and body are visible. The old lady was so scared that she rushed out of her own apartment and began knocking on the door of the next apartment - ours. My husband and I had to leave her to spend the night with us. The next day late in the evening At the request of this frightened old woman, her daughter and her husband came to spend the night with her. And again I was woken up in the middle of the night by a knock on the door. I open the door. All three are standing on the threshold - the neighbor, her daughter and the latter's husband. In a friendly chorus, interrupting each other, they say that some noises coming from the kitchen woke them up. The three of them went, shoulder to shoulder, to the kitchen, and there they saw a giant towering, motionless and silent, as tall as the ceiling. They watched his motionless figure for three to four seconds. Then the vision disappeared, disappearing without a trace... This is such a strange story.”
And another equally strange story told by Elena Kozlenko from Chelyabinsk:
Within a month, miracles happened to me when I lived in my old apartment. Frightened by them, I hastened to exchange the apartment for the one I live in now. And the miracles were cut off like a knife. They did not follow me to my new place of residence... In the evenings, around eleven o’clock, a certain creature began to visit me in that old apartment, appearing from God knows where. Generally resembling a man, it was naked and hairy from head to toe. Even this demon’s face is covered with thick hair. When he suddenly - out of the blue! - appeared out of nowhere, a strong smell of burnt electrical wiring arose in the room. The hairy monster came up to me and carefully stroked my arm with its fur-covered paw. Then the creature disappeared, melting into thin air. And so it went on day after day.
But here is a letter that literally just arrived - precisely on that March day in 1998, when I was completely retyping the materials presented on the two previous pages of this book of mine. Alexander Bocharov writes from the city of Bratsk, Irkutsk region:
“My father has a close friend, whose life recently came into great trouble. His wife died suddenly. All of us, the Bocharovs, knew this woman well. Together with her husband, she visited us several times... Two weeks have passed since her death. "On August 10, 1997, my grandmother lay down to rest on the sofa during the day. Near the opposite wall in the room there was a bed covered with a blanket. My daughter-in-law was in the next room. And no one else was in the house at that moment."
So, the old lady was lying on the sofa... Suddenly the door opened, leading to the room where the daughter-in-law was, and a certain lady stepped over the threshold. According to the grandmother, “she was wearing a long white robe that went above the shoulders into a conical cap, also white, that hid her face.” The lady silently approached the old woman lying on the sofa, threw up her hands, hidden in the wide folds of her robe, and parted the equally wide folds of the white cap sticking out above her shoulders. The grandmother saw a woman’s face in the crack that had formed on the cap.
She instantly recognized the one who was now staring at her with a heavy, unblinking gaze. This was the late wife of a friend of her own son, the father of Alexander Bocharov! Grandma gasped quietly and, raising her hand to her forehead, crossed herself earnestly. The “Ghost in White” immediately disappeared, as if it had fallen through the floor.
The next second the door opened again and a short, stocky middle-aged man entered the room. He was dressed all in black. Throwing a frown at the old woman, the “man in black” asked quietly:
Where is she?
Grandma realized that he meant “the woman in white.” Confused, not understanding what was happening, she began to look around in confusion. Indeed, where " white woman"? Where did you go?
Granny glanced at the bed standing in the room near the opposite wall. And he sees someone lying on it, covering his head with a blanket, although a minute earlier there was no one on that bed. The “Man in Black” also looked where the old woman was looking.
He quickly walked to the bed and lifted the covers on it. The grandmother saw a “white lady” lying on the bed under the covers.
The “Man in Black” spoke loudly and clearly:
Yeah! Gotcha!
What happened next - how the “showdown” between a man and a woman ended, the grandmother does not know. Despite her advanced age, she took off like a bird from the sofa and rushed headlong out of the room. She ran into the next room. And there the daughter-in-law was sitting in an armchair near the window, reading a book. Grandmother asked in a trembling voice:
Why did you let these two into the house? And who are they, huh?
Which “these”? - the daughter-in-law asked in surprise. - I didn’t let anyone into the house.
The old woman became thoughtful, not knowing what to say. And the daughter-in-law suddenly squealed quietly in fear.
Grandma turned around. She saw: the door leading to the room that our old lady had just left in panic stood wide open. And on her threshold the same stocky “man in black” froze. Some kind of nasty, crooked grin froze on his lips.
Well, here granny was completely at a loss. After her daughter-in-law’s surprised response to her question, she decided that both mysterious visitors had simply been her imagination. But then he sees the daughter-in-law staring in horror at the stranger. Therefore, he is a real being, and not some kind of senile hallucination.
Looking at the mysterious stranger, absolutely not understanding the essence of what was happening, the grandmother, in her own words, “blurted out in fear”:
Why did she come? Well, this... Dead woman...
"The Man in Black" chuckled. Then he said:
She came for the debt. Your son, a friend of the deceased’s husband, borrowed money from her a month ago. So she wanted to collect a favor from him.
The stranger laughed briefly.
What kind of debt can you get from your completely impoverished son now? - he said sarcastically. - You know, he’s sitting without money. He hasn’t received a salary for six months now, like all his colleagues... These are tough times in Russia! Moneyless for ordinary people! They are not paid salaries. Almost all simple people they are starving... So I rushed from the other world after this fool to bring her, the greedy thing, to her senses. Well, the woman was completely stunned! He wants to demand a debt from a beggar, from a starving person.
Both women rushed into the next room, but did not find the “ghost in white” there. It, too, like the “man in black,” disappeared.
A. Bocharov writes: “You can imagine what an impression this wild incident made on the grandmother and daughter-in-law, what a shock they were both in! More than six months have passed since that day, and they still cannot forget what happened - every now and then remember him."
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From the book Symbol Language [Collection of articles] author Team of authors From the book Prophecies of famous clairvoyants author Pernatyev Yuri SergeevichA young man on a white horse This story began a long time ago - almost 17 centuries ago. Then, in 303 AD, a noble Cappadocian youth named George, who held a high position in the Roman army, was tortured and executed for preaching Christian teachings... And
From the book “Plates” over the Kremlin author Nepomnyashchiy Nikolai NikolaevichRider on a White Horse In 1925, Vanga was assigned to a home for the blind in the Serbian city of Zemun, where she lived for three years. Here the girl was taught to knit, sew and cook, taught the alphabet for the blind and studied music with her... However, after the death of her stepmother, she had to return home,
From the author's bookVISION OR GHOST? This was in 1949. In the Khmelnitsky region, in the village of Platno, five kilometers from Shepetivka. There is a hollow in the village where they come close The groundwater, and a well was built there. Its depth is no more than 50–70 centimeters: everything that lies at the bottom is visible, and even
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