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True Stories Part 1

By Arwa R.Published 2 years ago • 8 min read

The most frightening thing is something that happens out of time or appears out of place. The strange thing is that if you take the elements of the subject and look at each element individually, you will find that there is nothing strange. But when the elements come together at once, everything changes, even if you don't understand why.

For example, children are generally beautiful creatures, the night, the cool, refreshing breeze, and the quiet are all beautiful things. Empty streets with no traffic jams are also beautiful. But put the three together and imagine walking down a dark street alone after midnight and seeing the figure of a child standing motionless in the middle of the street from a distance. Each element alone is innocent. But when they come together, they create an atmosphere of unease and fear. You start to wonder if there's something wrong, if something is following you. You want to run, but you're afraid to look silly. You don't want to draw attention to yourself. But you can't shake the feeling that something is not right.

The same thing happens with the ringing of the phone in the middle of the night. In itself, there's nothing wrong with a phone ringing. But when it rings at an unusual time, it can be very scary. You wonder who is on the other end of the line, and what they want. You're afraid that it might be bad news.

The fear of the unknown is a powerful fear. It can prevent us from taking risks and exploring new things. But it's important to remember that the unknown is not always something to be feared. It can also be a source of wonder and excitement. It's the unknown that keeps us coming back for more, that drives us to explore and discover.

In the fall of 1967, a series of strange events began to unfold at the law office of Sigmund Adam in the German city of Rosenheim. The telephones in the office started ringing incessantly, but when the employees answered, there was no one on the other end. At the time, there were no caller ID services, so the only way to know who was calling was to answer the phone and wait for the other person to speak. However, when the employees answered the phones, all they could hear were strange clicking sounds.

The office manager filed a complaint with the telephone company. After all, this was a prestigious law firm, and it was unacceptable for the phone lines to be malfunctioning. However, when the telephone company engineers came out to investigate, they found nothing wrong with the lines. The problem persisted, and to make matters worse, the office's phone bills started showing an alarming number of outgoing calls – as many as six per minute. In 1967, technology was not advanced enough to support such rapid call rates. Six outgoing calls per minute was simply a mystery.

To add to the strangeness, all of the outgoing calls were to the same number: 119. This was the number for a time service, where you could call and hear a recorded voice telling you the exact time. However, the problem wasn't just the malfunctioning phones. Even though the telephone company engineers and technicians insisted that everything was fine, the situation escalated when the lights in the office also started to behave strangely. The lights would flicker on and off on their own, and the intensity of the light would change suddenly and without reason. It was clear that something strange was going on, and it was likely connected to the strange behavior of the phones.

Sigmund Adam summoned the electricity company's experts to investigate the matter. They also found no problem with the wires or connections, but they recorded an unjustified increase in electrical voltage, an increase whose exact cause is not known, and it may have been possible for all of this to occur.

But the issue developed because the office tools began to go crazy as well. The paintings attached to the wall moved on their own. The ink beats from the printing devices in the office. The lamps began to move from their place. Someone was holding them and directing them. It is clear that engineers and electrical and communications technicians are not the ones who can explain phenomena like this.

Usually, when abstract science fails to explain something, it opens the door for a second type of science to try to explain, and the story begins to take on another dimension. And all of this started from something that happens every day, something very natural, but it happened at the wrong time. All of this started from a phone ring. I am Karim Andeel, and this is a House - Secrets. The German word poltergeist is derived from two words, the verb poulten means to make noise, and the word “geist” means a ghost or spirit, similar to the English word “ghost” with the same meaning.

The use of this word or term began when it is said that it began in the 19th century, but there are very many stories, the oldest of which date back to the sixth century AD, that talk about strange phenomena that have common elements, knocking or knocking sounds, things that move on their own, that fly in the air and symbolize the furniture of the house, that moves, disturbances in electricity, the intensity of the current. It is illuminated with a light and sometimes goes out on its own. There are also unpleasant odors of unknown origin, and in some violent cases there are reports of people who found themselves being lifted into the air or even being attacked by an invisible being.

If you like horror movies, you have surely missed more than one movie that tells stories about this phenomenon. Of course, stories that did not necessarily happen in reality, and there are claims that they happened, but that does not prevent the idea from being very exciting in these movies. Often the story takes place in an old house in which a small family is isolated, and the exciting events begin, such as things moving on their own, and events escalate until this family discovers that there is a real danger to their lives, and that the issue will not stop at just things moving . The plots of the films differ, some of which are good and most of which are cheap, but they often come together in the idea that this is happening in an old house. Whether it is abandoned, new or clean, it does not matter, the important thing is that it is inside a house.

That's why it was very strange when this base was broken and noisy ghostly events began taking place kilometers above sea level. December 1972. The weather on Flight 401 was beautiful. The pilot was heading to Florida, which was warm and sunny for most of the year. The passengers were escaping from New York's harsh weather. There was nothing to call for but optimism, joy, and the salvation of the plane.

It started preparing to land, but it seemed that something strange was going on. The passengers heard a strong roaring sound from the plane, an unusual sound. Many of them who travel do not think that they have heard a sound like this before. As usual, anything unusual that happens in the wrong place or time can be frightening. The pilots saw the cause of the problem.

They were completely shocked. The indicators for opening the plane's wheel as it was preparing to land all refused to light up in a beautiful, reassuring green color. The wheel did not open at first. The pilots thought that this might be a malfunction in the indicators in front of them, but the captain of the plane gave an order to the flight engineer, Donald Ribot, or Don, to lower the electronics room known as the Pit Hell under the cockpit to see if there is a real malfunction in the wheel, the pilots are completely busy with the malfunction and trying to explain it. Moreover, the autopilot feature also stopped suddenly and the plane was gradually descending. This is all the information that the investigators were able to obtain after the plane crashed on December 29, 1972. Plane 401 fell into swamps full of crocodiles near the city of Miami, Florida. 1,001 people lost their lives in this accident. Investigations said that this was the pilot’s fault. He was not monitoring the altitude while he was trying to explain the malfunction in the plane’s wheel. It was a painful accident, but it was not the beginning of the strange events that happened later. The problem began when the airline company decided to recycle the intact parts that survived the wreckage and uses them in other planes in the company’s air fleet, such as the ovens for heating meals in the plane’s kitchen, for example. These were completely intact, and these parts are really expensive. Why were they thrown away? Months after the accident, it began to tell of strange events that happen on board planes preparing for take-off first. An Eastern Airlines plane was preparing to take off from JFK Airport in Miami. Among the passengers was one of the vice presidents of the company. Personally, of course, as an important person, he boarded the plane before anyone else and of course headed to the first class cabin. On his way to the seat, he was surprised by the plane’s captain in his distinctive uniform, exchanging greetings. And the quick compliment, but the man was to himself wondering something about the pilot’s appearance that was not exactly well-groomed, and his words and greetings were polite, but he could not understand the reason for his feeling except that he suddenly did not remember the name of the pilot who was speaking to him. He knew this pilot well. This was Captain Bob Loft. The problem is that Captain Bob Loft had died months ago, in the plane crash 401, at the moment when the man thought who this was, the ghost of the pilot disappeared in front of the representative of the head of the company. The man was terrified for more than one reason, not only because he was surprised that a few seconds ago he had been talking to a ghost. They examined the entire plane and went around very carefully, and of course they did not find anything that raised suspicions.

Months later, similar events were repeated with one of the crew of a second plane belonging to the same company. He also found the captain of the plane in front of him and spoke to him. He was a little surprised because he knew that this was not the captain of their flight, but his surprise did not last long because the person suddenly disappeared in front of him and the flight was cancelled. The entire crew of the plane was terrified.

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    Written by Arwa R.