The Mystery of Peru's Ghost Valley

In a deserted coastal valley in Peru, on the night of lightning and thunder, a "ghost sound" of warhorses neigh and killing sounds suddenly appeared. More than ten years ago, in order to uncover the mystery of this "sea devil roar", a father and daughter explorer went deep into the "ghost valley" and came to an astonishing and wonderful conclusion, but was suspected by the scientific community as a "typical fake".

The father died with resentment. In order to avenge her shame, her daughter investigated again. The innovation of her research methods, the perseverance of her exploratory spirit, and the ups and downs of her exploration process are unique. She came to more scientific conclusions, but was more misunderstood. In the end, with superhuman courage and intelligence, she finally convinced the most discerning censors.

The American Society for the Exploration of Strange Natural Phenomena admits that the above conclusions have written a wonderful stroke in the history of human exploration of strange phenomena. Recently, experts from authoritative institutions further determined that this conclusion is a major achievement of human exploration of the mysterious phenomenon of the "Pan Pacific" in recent years...

Ghost noise, creepy

Herinda Coffey, who lives in Cleyland, Ohio, is a senior experimenter at the Physics Laboratory of Clemes College in the United States. He was very interested in mysterious natural phenomena related to the ocean, and later became a member of the American Society for the Exploration of Strange Natural Phenomena ("Strange Exploration Society" for short).

Immersed in her ears and eyes since she was a child, her only daughter, Fondeli Coffey, has a strong curiosity about strange natural mysteries. When she grew up, she also loved wild scientific expeditions, especially in inaccessible places. Father and daughter often travel together, and the two have a deep relationship. After her mother died five years ago, her father became her only loved one. After graduating from Preston University, Coffey engaged in scientific research at the Cocteau Marine Volcano Research Center. Later, she also joined the "Strange Exploration Club".

On February 6, 1992, 28-year-old Coffey set off with his 65-year-old father. They first came to the small mountain village of Yamaladi, more than 100 kilometers northeast of the town of Casque in southern Peru, and then walked dozens of kilometers of rugged mountain roads to the Mayo Valley in the Andes. It is said that this offshore wild valley, when the mountains are quiet at night, lightning and thunder, accompanied by bursts of sea waves, a large group of "monsters and ghosts" will occasionally fly from the sea and dance wildly, so it is called "ghost valley".

They marched deep into the valley, and in the twilight, they found a small cave where they could live. "Oh, the cave is like a long snake," my father said, "then we'll call it the long snake cave." In the evening, the father and daughter returned to the cave after enjoying a picnic on the hillside.

They unexpectedly discovered that the compass, which was still in good condition just now, suddenly failed; almost at the same time, the watch that was still running accurately just now did not leave. The two are not surprised. "Probably it's really Ghost Valley." Old Coffey said with a smile, and his daughter laughed too. Immediately, they found that the electric light flashed over the ocean, and then there were bursts of thunder here. It looks like it's going to rain heavily.

The father and daughter came out of the cave to watch. Oh, lightning bolts took pictures of this empty mountain forest into huge silver "photos".

"It's strange, it's magnificent!" The daughter said, turning on the camera. Lightning is becoming more and more frequent. Old Coffey is worried about being struck by lightning: "Let's go back to the cave!" "No, this sight is too rare!" Little Coffey said.

The electric light was frequent, and it went straight to the ground; the sound of thunder exploded, and the ground shook. "This is'ground flash 'and'ground thunder'! Hurry back to the cave!" the father urged. "Give me two more minutes!, 'The daughter with a strong personality still doesn't listen.

Suddenly, the lightning and thunder stopped abruptly. The two of them are not surprised. The sea breeze "whirring" blew, and the waves in the distance roared softly. The entire valley was extremely silent.

At this time, they heard a strange noise of boiling noise. Little Coffey was horrified. Father said excitedly: "Immediately activate infrared night vision and record them all. Don't talk!" In an instant, Coffey also realized that this is a once-in-a-lifetime moment! So he concentrated on filming. Father turned on the high-intensity concentrating flashlight, and the beam of light stretched out into the dark valley, without anyone. The strange sound became louder and louder: desperately shouting, metal blows, hooves, horse neigh, and screams intertwined. Under the "backing track" of the waves and the sea breeze, it was particularly clear. Simply incredible!

Suddenly, there was an incomparably dazzling flash, followed by a deafening explosion of thunder. After that, the mysterious sound suddenly disappeared.

"What's going on? Are you dreaming?" the daughter asked. Old Coffey's tone was firm: "No, the strange sound did appear just now!" Immediately, the heavy rain fell sharply. The two were drenched like chickens.

When they returned to the cave, they played the video, and the thrilling sound just now reappeared. Little Coffey said, "It's like the ancient two armies fighting!" However, how could the ancient battlefield reappear in the empty valley? They were puzzled. Could it really be that ghosts are floating from the sea?

After returning home, they scrutinized the history of the war in the area and learned that late one night in late January 1354, the Inca Empire fought a tragic battle with the local tribes. The battle hit from the coast of the South Pacific to the Mayo Valley. During the battle in the valley, there were lightning and thunder, and the terrible "ground flashes" continued one after another.

They then asked two Inca civilization experts in the United States to watch the video and analyze the language. They determined that the language of the shouting was ancient Inca, namely shouting to kill, cursing, persuading to surrender and begging for mercy. The Coffey father and daughter thus determined that the Mayo Valley recorded the sounds of the battlefield at that time, and released the recording more than 600 years later.

Overjoyed, they immediately wrote an investigation report, attached with a copied video, and submitted it to the "Strange Detective" on March 7, 1992.

Waiting for ghosts for up to 9 years

However, many experts of the society disagree. The most vehement opposition is Dill, a well-known American expert on "the mystery of marine nature" and a consultant to the "Strange Exploration Society". He said: "As we all know, audio recording, like photography and video, is the crystallization of modern technology, and it can never be a masterpiece of nature. The'facts' depicted in the report are not only contrary to science, but even to common sense. The local people's theory of'sea ghosts entering the mountains' is also nonsense. In fact, the sound in the video can be completely manipulated by humans. I hope conscientious scientific explorers will not falsify and grandstand." This view was agreed by the leaders of the society.

This is a major blow to the Coffey father and daughter. Old Coffey was in great pain and suffered a serious heart attack, and the rescue was ineffective.

As he was dying, he said to Coffey: "I value reputation more than life. You must clear my innocence. Also, it is very scientifically meaningful to explore this strange phenomenon, so you must explore to the end." Coffey agreed tearfully.

After taking care of her father's funeral, she consulted some video experts. They all agreed that, as far as this video is concerned, the difference between "edited sound" and live recording is indeed indistinguishable. For this reason, she was frustrated.

She consulted her lawyer again. He said: "The only way now is to have the local notary accompany you to the valley. When the'ghost sound 'was recorded, they testified on the spot and signed the notary certificate."

However, she knew that the timing of the reappearance of the "sea ghost" was uncertain, possibly a few years, or even more. She may have tried her best to get nothing, and even subjected her father and her to more ridicule. Therefore, she was indecisive.

That night, she tossed and turned, unable to sleep. Her father's dying entrustment came to her mind again. "No. I can't let my father die, and I can't let this strange scientific exploration end here!" She made up her mind to accompany him to the end.

She calmly analyzed the conditions for the "ghost sound" to occur: a high-frequency "flash through the ground" in the middle of the night. The condition for the disappearance of the "ghost sound" is that the "flash through the ground" appears again. The sudden stop of thunder and the sudden quietness of the valley are the environmental conditions under which the "ghost sound" can be heard clearly.

Then, she checked the meteorological data in detail and learned that the typical oceanic climate of the local system, the heavy thunderstorms of the year, is concentrated in late January to early February. She decided to wait during this time.

On January 23, 1993, she went to the local notary office, hired two notaries with a lot of money, and went to the valley together to spend the night in the "Long Snake Cave" where she had stayed with her father before. There was indeed thunder and lightning in the middle of the night, but there was no "ghost sound".

One day, two days... Until February 10, the "ghost" still did not appear. This time it was in vain.

In late January of the following year, Coffey led the notary to the hometown again, but he waited in vain.

It was not until February 9, 2002, that is, nine years later, that they finally waited for the "ghost sound" to reappear. The conditions for reappearance and cessation are exactly the same as expected, and they last longer. On February 14, 2002, she sent the second report and related materials to the "Strange Detective Association". A week later, the president of the association met with her and issued a certificate acknowledging that the discoveries of the Coffey father and daughter were authentic.

After Coffey returned home, he went to his father's statue and "read out" the proof word by word.

After reading it, she looked at her father's "eyes" and had a spiritual dialogue. After her father died, she often had such silent conversations with her father. Suddenly, she felt her father's eyes slowly change from excitement to "pursuit", as if to say: "Never be satisfied with the discovery of phenomena, even the most peculiar phenomena. The task of science is to explore the secrets behind phenomena, and the more peculiar, the more often it is worth exploring." Her heart was shocked: "This is what my father said many times during his lifetime, I will definitely get to the bottom of it!" After repeated consideration, she decided that apart from the valley's sound playback function, logically, there was no other way to explain the appearance of "ghost sounds". So, why does the valley have a recording function? She checked all the relevant materials and asked all the experts she could, but found nothing.

One night, she looked at the tape recorder and tape on the table at home, and her inspiration flashed: "Isn't the principle of tape recording to convert sound into electrical signals, and then record the electrical signals into the tape? Isn't the principle of sound playback to use electrical signals to convert the The signal in the tape is converted into sound? If there is magnetite in the mountains, can't a certain kind of lightning also convert the sound waves on the battlefield into electrical signals? And isn't a certain kind of'ground flash 'also able to transmit this electrical signal into magnetite, thereby recording? Isn't it also possible for a certain kind of'ground flash' to restore the recorded signal to sound?"

The more she thought about it, the more it made sense. She thought again, of course, for natural magnetite to become a recording material, there must be many conditions that other magnetite do not have. These conditions can only be analyzed in depth after finding the mineral deposit. However, where should such a large ravine be dug from?

After thinking about it, she had an idea: "The compass and watch are both abnormal in the hole, and the exit of the hole is back to normal. This means that this hole is likely to be the closest to the magnetite. Why not dig from here?"

Grey hair, sigh

She immediately went to the relevant departments in Kasker Town to inquire about the procedures and fees. The procedure is not difficult, but the difficulty is that the cost is too high. Due to frequent expeditions, the father and daughter have very little assets. She calculated that she was almost going bankrupt, but she did not hesitate.

After intense preparations, on April 5, 2002, she hired someone to dig in the "Long Snake Cave". Three days later, magnetite was dug. To the consternation of local mineral experts, the minerals were very fine, like powder, and all oxidized. Coffey found that the rock layer outside the mine was covered with this powder.

Coffey looked at it for a long time, and his eyes lit up: Isn't the fine magnetic powder on the surface of the tape similar to the magnetic powder on the surface of the rock here? She shouted excitedly: "I found the secret! The excavation can end!" Others were not surprised.

After that, she found a lot of information and learned that the Mayo Valley is located in the extension of the South Pacific stratigraphic fault zone, and the geological movement has been extremely active for hundreds of years. She believes that it is this activity that causes a large number of magnets in the mine to be continuously squeezed and ground, more and more broken, more and more fine, and finally powdered and oxidized. "It seems that the ancient legend of the'valley ghost sound 'comes from'Sea Demon Night Roar', and there is some truth to it," she thought.

After returning, she wrote another investigation report, along with a video of the excavation process and a sample of mineral powder, which was sent to the "Strange Exploration Society" on April 15, 2002.

This time, I can comfort my father in the spirit of heaven. However, what she did not expect was that she was opposed again. The most vehement opposition was Dill. His reason was concise and to the point: "There is no fact that fine ore sand can be recorded and played under the action of lightning."

Coffey was stunned when she found out. She meditated and thought, and in all fairness, Deere's criticism was not vexatious. As a researcher, you should let living facts speak, not inferences. But how can you turn the valley into a tape recorder? She thought for a long time and decided to make a live miniature and conduct a simulation experiment. Due to the high cost, she could only borrow money from the bank with the only real estate as collateral.

In order to simulate realistically, she went to an aviation club in Kasker Town, rented a helicopter, used a high-precision camera in the air to "aerial photography" of the Mayo Valley, and at the same time used an advanced magnetic field sensor to scan the magnetite in the mountains. All-round scan. Then she got off the plane and took dirt from the valley, rocks and magnet powder from the "Long Snake Cave".

After returning home, she rented an empty warehouse and made miniatures with her assistants. Of course, the oxidized magnet sand in the mountains is also buried in proportion. They created artificial lightning again.

She knew that it might take thousands of experiments to succeed. Because all related materials, such as the power of lightning, time and the volume, specific gravity, weight, and even humidity and temperature of the mountains and magnetite in the model, can only be recorded and played when they reach an accurate ratio, which is also the "natural recording and playback phenomenon" rare reason.

The experiment was carried out late at night. Once failed, twice failed... Three months have passed, and more than 1,000 experiments have been carried out, but still failed. The loan was exhausted, Coffey sold everything valuable in the family, and then borrowed money from all relatives and friends who were willing to lend her money. However, all the money obtained is only enough for one month.

After another experiment, it still failed, and there were only 3 days left.

When she looked in the mirror that night, Coffey noticed that she had gained a lot of gray hair. She thought that for more than ten years, she had spent all her spare time exploring the wilderness, exploring the "mystery of the ghost valley", and she was still single. She sighed.

Late at night, the experiment continued as usual. As usual, the recording experiment was carried out first. Coffey put a tape recorder next to the model and released Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, his father's favorite piece of music during his lifetime.

Then, artificial lightning was released. She suddenly noticed that there was an "electromagnetic induction" signal on the recorder that had never existed before. Her heart beat faster. After turning off the recorder, she immediately recorded all the relevant data of this discharge, and then gently pressed the button to release the lightning again.

She held her breath. Suddenly, there was a soft sound of music from the valley, it was the Ninth Symphony!

Tears welled up in Coffey's eyes. The assistant couldn't help cheering, but Coffey stopped it immediately. The music is getting louder and clearer. "Valley Recording" is a success!

She tried her best to control her emotions, changed the value of the internal electricity, and pressed the button again. The "play" disappeared.

The experiment was a complete success! Only then did she burst into tears, tears pouring down her face.

A sudden turn of fate, mixed feelings

After that, she wrote an experimental report, which was sent to the "Strange Detective Society" again on September 16, 2002. Experts admire her perseverance, but are deeply skeptical of her experimental conclusions.

This was what she expected. She asked to verify in person. On September 21, 2002, the experiment was carried out in the physics laboratory of the "Strange Exploration Association", and it was a success. The experts present were taken aback. Dill said coldly: "I asked not to record this piece of music, and to record the voice of the scene." Coffey looked calm and confident: "Yes". The result was successful again. "It's just incredible!" The scene was amazed. However, Dill said: "I suspect that the tape recorder is hidden in the model, and then the remote control is used for recording and playback." Many experts calmly thought about it and nodded their heads. Coffey's self-esteem took a huge hit. She tried her best to control her emotions and said calmly: "You can use a fluoroscopy to scan and check." "There are many ultra-miniature spy recorders on the market. If you disguise them, it will be difficult to scan." Dill refused.

People looked at Coffey. Coffey's face was flushed and her chest was heaving. Suddenly, she rushed out the door. People were puzzled. A few minutes later, Coffey returned to the lab with a gardener's shovel and hammer in his hand. Without saying a word, she shouted: "Everyone look good!" After speaking, she raised the shovel high, and the people were stunned. Coffey smashed the shovel down, and the "valley" suddenly broke in two. Someone shouted: "What a pity!" Coffey smashed the model and dug it open with a shovel, so that the interior of the "valley" was completely exposed. Then, she squatted down, picked apart the pieces of dirt, and used a hammer to smash the small rocks little by little.

Finally, she rubbed the mud into powder and hammered the rock into granules. Obviously, there can't be any tape recorders in the model. At this moment, she slowly stood up and stared at Dill. Dill bowed deeply to Coffey and turned to go out. Suddenly, there was a burst of endless applause from the scene.

After returning home, Coffey was immersed in a complex of emotions. On the one hand, she was elated to win her innocence; on the other hand, she was extremely frustrated. Before the experiment was reported and approved by the "Strange Detective Association", the model was destroyed, and she no longer had the money to do such an experiment!

Three days later, she received a letter, and when she saw the signature, it turned out to be Dill. The letter said: "First of all, please forgive me for my seemingly impersonal nitpicking. I don't know if you know that I have always been very strict about experiments, especially experiments to explore mysteries, whether they are scientific or not. You know, the contemporary world of strange phenomena has heard of falsification from time to time. I hate this. Since your findings are so peculiar, I also suspected you of manipulating at first. When I bowed to you, I was convinced.

"What I want to tell you is that before the experiment, I had secretly installed two miniature cameras on the scene. Afterwards, I watched the video. They clearly recorded the whole process of the experiment. I have handed over the video to the'Strange Detective '. I believe the experts will make the correct judgment." Coffey was surprised.

On September 26, 2002, she received a letter from the "Strange Detective Society". The letter said -

"The experts watched and studied the video sent by Deere many times, and agreed that your experimental process is scientific and the conclusions are credible. The experts believe that the joint inspection report between you and your father, especially the scientific reports you sent three times in the future, are rare and excellent reports in recent years.

"Experts agree that the conclusions you and your father have reached are a major achievement in the exploration of strange phenomena in recent years. It successfully explains the occasional'swarm of ghosts' that occurs in some valleys on earth. It is very important for marine geology, geophysics, electromagnetic induction and other modern scientific fields. In addition, your success is also very meaningful for inspiring people to persevere in exploring incredible and strange phenomena. What we would also like to tell you is that the'Strange Natural Phenomenon Exploration Foundation 'to which I belong has decided to reimburse you for the cost of previous experiments and provide funds for your future explorations..."

On February 1, 2004, the world-renowned South Pacific Association for the Study of Mysterious Phenomena held its regular meeting in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Coffey was invited to attend. During the meeting, the participating experts highly affirmed her achievements, believing that it is a major achievement of human exploration of the mysterious phenomena in the "Pan-Pacific" (the Pacific Ocean and the areas directly affected by its geological activities) in recent years. In addition to expressing his deep gratitude, Coffey also said: "The mysterious phenomena in the'Pan-Pacific 'are as vast as a sea, and they can be called the most mysterious phenomena on earth. Exploring the mysteries in it will benefit mankind infinitely. I have deeply loved this exploration. I will spend the rest of my life trying to interpret a few attractive water droplets in this mysterious sea... "