Outskirts Shelomy village(Novozybkovsky district, Bryansk region) has become a place of pilgrimage for lovers of mysticism for several months now. People come with whole families to see with their own eyes a mysterious glow over the graveyards and luminous balls appearing out of nowhere.
Local residents claim that this continues almost every evening, but not everyone manages to see the unusual phenomenon with their own eyes. One of those who was convinced for herself that the stories about the Shelomov poltergeist are not fairy tales - the head of the regional department of culture Olga Sannikova.
Shelomy village cemetery
“When I first saw the multi-colored glow over the old cemetery and the mysterious balls that were either approaching each other or moving away, I felt quite creepy,” Olga Vladimirovna told our editorial correspondent. The woman admitted that she tried to find an explanation for what was happening, but so far she has not succeeded.
“There is an opinion that the luminous balls seen in the distance are the headlights of passing cars,” explained Olga Sannikova, “but I still think that this is not so.” It doesn't look like car headlights at all. Mysterious balls appear out of nowhere and also suddenly disappear, sometimes they freeze for a while, sometimes they merge with each other, sometimes they move away to a considerable distance.
The head of the Shelomovsky rural settlement, Alexander Atroshenko, also sees something mystical in what is happening. He himself has never been able to see the luminous balls that local residents vying with each other about, but he believes that it is impossible to rationally explain what is happening, and the fact that several people witnessed the unusual phenomenon at once deserves attention.
Alexander Viktorovich said that the first burials in this cemetery took place back in the 18th century. According to local legends, three women are buried here, who during their lifetime gained fame as possessors of occult knowledge. The last burial here was about a year ago.
With a request to explain what was happening from a religious point of view, we turned to the rector of the Temple of the Miracle of the Archangel Michael in Khoneh, Vladimir Pokhozhay. The priest did not comment on this phenomenon, saying only that he himself went to Shelomy and did not see anything unusual there. If inexplicable phenomena do exist, their nature needs to be studied,” explained Father Vladimir.
By the way, on the World Wide Web there was found a completely rational explanation for the glow over burials: when human bones are destroyed, the phosphorus released passes through the soil layer and creates a slight glow in the dark. It turns out that this phenomenon is not so rare. So, in Washington, at Arlington Cemetery, greenish glows were noticed three times over military graves within one month.
Local residents who came to the cemetery in the village of Shelomy to look at the phenomenon
Those who witnessed this phenomenon claim that the glow has no obvious source and does not illuminate surrounding objects. Sometimes it wanders around the cemetery, moving low above the ground as a shapeless light spot.
Search engines for the query “glow over a cemetery” return dozens of photographs taken in different parts of the world. But it has not yet been possible to photograph the “Shelomov poltergeist”. In any case, no one presented such photographs to the public. Eyewitnesses say that the camera, set to a mysterious glow, ends up photographing the darkness.
Meanwhile, local residents seem to have become so accustomed to what is happening that, when they see the mysterious balls once again, they treat them as something ordinary. Well, for those who want to see this unusual phenomenon with their own eyes, the locals give advice: come to Shelomy not as soon as it gets dark, but later, and do not leave after 10-15 minutes, but wait longer.
Newspaper "Bryansk Region"
Photo: Newspaper "Mayak" (Bryansk region. City of Novozybkov)
Why do the graves in the cemetery glow at night? and got the best answer
Answer from Critic[master]
One of the interesting phosphorus compounds is hydrogen phosphide gas, the peculiarity of which is that it is highly flammable in air. It is ignited by self-igniting liquid hydrogen phosphorous, which is usually formed together with gaseous hydrogen. This property of hydrogen phosphide explains the appearance of swamp, will-o'-the-wisp, or grave-fires.
Source: http://www.aam.front.ru/otdohni/anomal/2/index.htm
Answer from Anatoly Gorbachev[newbie]
What lights up in the cemetery at night?
What can glow at night? The cemetery is a mysterious place; explanations for this phenomenon were given entirely mystical. or that these are unrestrained souls of suicides living between worlds, or those who did not have time to finish some business on earth.
It's not just the cemetery that lights up at night. Will-o'-the-wisps are often found in thickets of woods or swampy areas, and also terrify eyewitnesses. Although it is easy to explain the swamp glow - the decay of organic matter is always accompanied by a glow.
So why does the cemetery glow at night, how is this phenomenon explained? And why do lights come in different colors? After all, if we accept the hypothesis that this is phosphorus, which is released during the decomposition of organic remains, then the light should be constant, greenish, and fade as the burial site “ages.” And the lights in the cemetery tend to wander, appearing either above the surface of the earth or at the height of human growth. Their colors can be white and green, red and blue. One can guess. That the multi-colored glow has different origins.
Legends were formed depending on the color of the lights. Small, clean, light or blue lights, as they believed in Ukraine, standing motionless above the ground are the souls of babies who died unbaptized. The tall lights rising up are the souls of girls who decided to commit suicide because of a “sin” they committed. If you go to this fire and succumb to temptation, you will destroy your soul and will also lure travelers.
A bright fire that constantly stands over one place - white or the color of a flame - is evidence of the burial of a large sorcerer. Such lights are often found in desert areas or on the very outskirts of the cemetery, near abandoned plots. What can glow with blue fire? The cemetery is not intended for burying suicides, so similar lights can be seen on its outskirts.
The British preferred to avoid lights of any color. For them, such a phenomenon was considered a harbinger of death.
You committed a sin, and the forces of hell sent the soul of a wicked man for you.
What is shining in the cemetery, if we look at what is happening not from the point of view of mysticism, but look for a scientific explanation? Surprisingly, scientists still have not given a definitive answer to this question.
There are many theories. Phosphorus compounds that are released from graves as they decompose. But the experiment was carried out - rotting organic matter was placed in a hole approximately the same depth as the grave and covered with a layer of earth - there was no glow.
Methane released again from decay. But again, such a fire quickly disappeared when the gas burned out.
The rotting is not of bodies, but of rotten bodies; the coffins are made of wood. Some studies of old burials have confirmed this theory.
Other versions of the glow are also available. Since they tried to avoid cemeteries at all times, animals went there to die. And it is not the buried organic matter that glows, but the one located on top of the burials.
In old cemeteries, colonies of fireflies gather at night, and they emit such a glow. Therefore, when a person approaches, the lights change shape, move away, and beckon.
The lights above the monuments are reflections from clouds, which, in turn, glow due to distant lightning and moonlight.
Even the explanations concern the towers cellular connections, radioactive radiation and flying airplanes! Considering when people started seeing lights in the cemetery, the airplane explanation is “very credible.”
English scientist Jack Pettigrew interestingly explained that the light in the cemetery was shining. After analyzing many cases, he summed it up - this is a mirage that occurs due to distant strong light sources. He didn’t say anything about the sources – where they came from.
Experiments and tests could not fully explain why the cemetery glows. Are the lights in the cemetery that daredevils see when visiting
Answer from Uslana Mashtakova[newbie]
phosphorus can be seen on a fresh grave at night!!
Answer from Hermann[active]
The appearance of will-o'-the-wisps in old cemeteries and swamps is caused by the ignition in air of released phosphorus hydrides: diphosphane and phosphine. These gases are formed during the decomposition of organic compounds containing phosphorus. In air, diphosphane spontaneously ignites and ignites phosphine. The product of their combustion is tetraphosphorus decaoxide, which, when interacting with air moisture, forms tiny droplets of tetrametaphosphoric acid, giving unclear, blurry white ghost contours.
Answer from Laura[active]
Only if homeless people smoke on them. The rest is fantasy in the spirit of W. Irving.
Answer from GENRIK[guru]
phosphorus gradually comes out
Answer from Nuclear Nick[guru]
I just drove past four cemeteries and there’s not a damn light on there. To be clear, I was driving at night. Maybe I was going in the wrong place?
Answer from Dmitry Morozov[newbie]
It's actually an illusion in Hollywood films! It's all bullshit!
The American Association for the Study of Anomalous Phenomena has established a foundation that will study the phenomenon of glowing over graves. Recently, such phenomena have been observed more and more often, and in different parts of the globe.
Thus, a mysterious phenomenon has been observed for many years near the town of Asheville (South Carolina). It was called "Brown Mountain Lights". Hundreds of people saw a mysterious glow on the mountainside. David Mull, who lives a few miles away, has been recording his sightings since the 1980s, as well as collecting information about the phenomenon from other eyewitnesses.
In November 2000, a research team led by Joshua Warren managed to capture this phenomenon on video. The shooting took place in the area of Highway 181 north of Morganton. In the frames taken with an infrared camera, luminous spherical objects are clearly visible. Here they appear, now they arrange a “dance” around the mountain slope, and then, gathering in an orderly chain, they move to the top of the mountain. Very similar to ordinary UFOs...
Meanwhile, David Mull and other observers believe that the spherical lights on the videotape have nothing in common with the descriptions of previous eyewitnesses. According to the testimony of the latter, the phenomenon was simply spots of flickering light at the foot of the mountain. There was even an assumption that Warren’s video was nothing more than a fake...
By the way, the Lights of Brown Mountain are mentioned in the myths of the Cherokee Indians. According to them, this phenomenon has been seen here since time immemorial. The lights are the souls of warriors who died on the mountain during a battle between Aboriginal tribes, and now they wander, restless, and cannot find peace for themselves... And some legends say that these are torches in the hands of the ghosts of Indian girls grieving for their murdered fiancés ...
Thanks to these legends, the Lights of Brown Mountain have become an integral part of modern folklore. In the 1960s, a song was written that is called “The Legend of the Brown Mountain Lights.” In addition, one of the latest films in the X-Files series is dedicated to the phenomenon.
At Arlington Cemetery in Washington, D.C., greenish glows were recorded three times over war graves over the course of a month. At the Fiura family grave in Augusta (USA, Georgia), every night one of the tombstones emits a greenish light. This always happens at the same time. It turned out that the last of the Fiura family, named Josephine, who died in 1899, poisoned her two brothers and sister and committed suicide...
At the Radi cemetery in Tartu (Estonia), a glow was repeatedly observed over the mass grave of Soviet soldiers. Supervisor local Club lovers of the unknown, Janis Perkman saw it with his own eyes. But when the researchers installed video equipment, the camera did not record anything - it did not have enough sensitivity.
Similar phenomena occur in Russia. Thus, multiple cases of glowing over graves were recorded at the Malookhtinskoye cemetery in St. Petersburg, founded in the 17th century and closed for burials about 60 years ago. Perhaps the reason is the Sabbaths that Satanists regularly organize here. Strange phenomena are also associated with the grave of actor Alexander Abdulov, who died in January 2008. On the night before the ninth day after his death, a strange swaying cloud was captured above the grave mound. And now a mysterious glow can be observed on frosty nights.
At the Igumenskoye Cemetery (Valaam Island), on dark nights you can observe a radiant light green light, which seems to flow from underground, rising to a small height—up to a meter. Sometimes he wanders around the cemetery in the form of a light, shapeless spot. For a long time, they tried to explain the phenomenon of glow over graves by the fact that phosphorus compounds are released during the decomposition process.
However, scientists have proven that the phosphorescent light from the remains cannot penetrate the thickness of the earth (as a rule, the depth of the graves is at least two meters). Many experiments have been conducted in which a wooden box with a large amount of phosphorus was buried underground. But no glow appeared above. So we still have to lean in favor of the irrational version - in this way, they say, the dead make themselves known...
Glow over the graves. Ghosts or scientific fact?
A group of scientists from the United States for the study of anomalous phenomena has established a fund that will study the phenomenon of glow over graves. The fact is that this phenomenon is observed more and more often in different parts of our planet.
Scientists tried to explain the glow by natural causes, but nothing could be confirmed.
For many years, this phenomenon has been observed in the cemetery in Asheville, South Carolina. Locals call this phenomenon “Brown Mountain Lights.” David Mall, who lives ten kilometers from the cemetery, records his observations. Since 1984, he has been collecting all possible information and eyewitness testimony.
In the fall of 2000, Mall managed to make a video using an infrared camera. The film shows luminous objects that appear and disappear.
It is also interesting that the “Fires of Brown Mountain” are mentioned in the ancient legends of the Cherokee Indians. Ancient legends say that the lights are the souls of warriors who died in battle against an enemy tribe. Now, these are restless souls who cannot find peace. By the way, one of the episodes of the film “The X-Files” is dedicated to the phenomenon.
At Arlington Cemetery in Washington DC, light green glows were also recorded over war graves. Over the grave of the Fiura family in the American city of August, the tombstones emit a green light every night. The most interesting thing is that this always happens at the same time: from about 2:00 to 2:30 am. At the Radi cemetery in the Estonian city, a glow is often observed over the mass grave of Soviet soldiers. The head of the local paranormal club, Janis Parkman, saw the glow in person. But when the researchers installed a video camera at the cemetery, it did not record anything - perhaps it was not sensitive enough.
Similar phenomena are observed in Russia. Thus, glows over the graves were repeatedly recorded at the Malookhtinskoye cemetery in St. Petersburg. Perhaps for this reason satanists They organize covens here.
At the Igumenskoye Cemetery (Valaam Island), almost every night a radiant light green light appears, which seems to flow from underground. The height of the beam is about a meter. Sometimes the beam wanders around the cemetery.
Theories, hypotheses
For a long time, scientists explained the green glow over the graves by the fact that phosphorus compounds are released during the decomposition process.
However, other studies show that the phosphorescent light from the remains cannot penetrate the two-meter thick soil and the coffin lid. What kind of soil and wooden coffin lid is there? Very often, the glow appears above concrete tombstones. A huge number of experiments were carried out in which a wooden box with a large amount of phosphorus was buried in the ground. But no glow was observed on the surface.
Today there can be only one version - the dead remind of themselves...
The American Association for the Study of Anomalous Phenomena has established a foundation that will study the phenomenon of glowing over graves. Recently, such phenomena have been observed more and more often, and in different parts of the globe.
Until recently, they tried to explain them by natural causes, but experiments did not confirm this... From time immemorial, a strange light phenomenon was associated with ghosts.
Thus, a mysterious phenomenon has been observed for many years near the town of Asheville (South Carolina). It was called "Brown Mountain Lights". Hundreds of people saw a mysterious glow on the mountainside. David Mull, who lives a few miles away, has been recording his sightings since the 1980s, as well as collecting information about the phenomenon from other eyewitnesses.
In November 2000, a research team led by Joshua Warren managed to capture this phenomenon on video. The shooting took place in the area of Highway 181 north of Morganton. In the frames taken with an infrared camera, luminous spherical objects are clearly visible. Here they appear, now they arrange a “dance” around the mountain slope, and then, gathering in an orderly chain, they move to the top of the mountain. Very similar to ordinary UFOs...
Meanwhile, David Mull and other observers believe that the spherical lights on the videotape have nothing in common with the descriptions of previous eyewitnesses. According to the testimony of the latter, the phenomenon was simply spots of flickering light at the foot of the mountain. There was even an assumption that Warren's video was nothing more than a fake...
By the way, the Lights of Brown Mountain are mentioned in the myths of the Cherokee Indians. According to them, this phenomenon has been seen here since time immemorial. The lights are the souls of warriors who died on the mountain during a battle between Aboriginal tribes, and now they wander, restless, and cannot find peace for themselves... And some legends say that these are torches in the hands of the ghosts of Indian girls grieving for their murdered fiancés ...
Thanks to these legends, the Lights of Brown Mountain have become an integral part of modern folklore. In the 1960s, a song was written called “The Legend of the Brown Mountain Lights.” In addition, one of the latest films in the X-Files series is dedicated to the phenomenon.
At Arlington Cemetery in Washington, D.C., greenish glows were recorded three times over war graves over the course of a month. At the Fiura family grave in Augusta (USA, Georgia), every night one of the tombstones emits a greenish light. This always happens at the same time. It turned out that the last of the Fiura family, named Josephine, who died in 1899, poisoned her two brothers and sister and committed suicide...
At the Radi cemetery in Tartu (Estonia), a glow was repeatedly observed over the mass grave of Soviet soldiers. The head of the local Club of Lovers of the Unknown, Janis Perkman, saw it with his own eyes. But when the researchers installed video equipment, the camera did not record anything - it did not have enough sensitivity.
Similar phenomena occur in Russia. Thus, multiple cases of glowing over graves were recorded at the Malookhtinskoye cemetery in St. Petersburg, founded in the 17th century and closed for burials about 60 years ago. Perhaps the reason is the Sabbaths that Satanists regularly organize here. Strange phenomena are also associated with the grave of actor Alexander Abdulov, who died in January 2008. On the night before the ninth day after his death, a strange swaying cloud was captured above the grave mound. And now a mysterious glow can be observed on frosty nights.
At the Igumenskoye Cemetery (Valaam Island), on dark nights you can observe a radiant light green light, which seems to flow from underground, rising to a small height - up to a meter. Sometimes he wanders around the cemetery in the form of a light, shapeless spot. For a long time, they tried to explain the phenomenon of glow over graves by the fact that phosphorus compounds are released during the decomposition process.
However, scientists have proven that the phosphorescent light from the remains cannot penetrate the thickness of the earth (as a rule, the depth of the graves is at least two meters). Many experiments have been conducted in which a wooden box with a large amount of phosphorus was buried underground. But no glow appeared above. So we still have to lean in favor of the irrational version - in this way, they say, the dead make themselves known...
