What is the unexplained fact? This is a case in which a person is faced with some phenomenon, which have no obvious explanation. Usually this fact comes to researchers and the curious in the form of an oral or written retelling of the event. Sounds like something familiar, right? Indeed, this description resembles the definition of this genre of oral tradition, as bilicki, i.e., an eyewitness account of the encounter with the evil force. Such a comparison puts the unexplained fact on a par with other folklore: rhymes, jokes, fairy tales, etc. But correctly this comparison? From the perspective of paranormal investigators - no. At least, not right away. Why? Let's face it.
In order for the story about some mystical event could be seen as a message a fait accompli (and, for example, to add to the archive on this site), it must contain certain mandatory details:
- information about the witness (or group of witnesses);
- information about the scene;
- the date or period when the event occurred
Compare the styles of narration.
Bilicki: the Husband of my friend, when summer went on a fishing trip, saw in the water a mermaid.
Fact: 16 Jun 2006, Victor Melnikov went fishing with friends on the pond "Semidesyati" Khokholskiy district. When he reached for the water to get the outside mounted on the side of the boat, near his hands in the clear water they saw the outline of a female head. He straightened the arm, and the woman turned to him the back of his head and disappeared.
In addition the fact can be supported by photographs and videos from the event. For the researcher, these details are important because their combination gives him the opportunity to verify the authenticity of the incident, to find additional witnesses, etc.
All these details may be present in the bilicki, because it is based can also lie really happened. However, over time or as a result of multiple retellings of the details of the story can be lost or modified, and she acquires new details, absent in the original version. So it is a real case, initially only the distorted perception of the witness, it becomes urban legend creepypasta or a horror story, not only losing important details of history, but acquiring new items through frequent retellings of different people. Therefore, researchers prefer to work with official documents and direct witnesses of the events.
It even happens that the real event that formed the basis of the little stories, originally had little mystical overtones. For example, anthropologist and folklorist Nikita Petrov in an interview cites the example of how the Director of the Museum of the revolution once mentioned in an interview that he saw a huge black cat that appears near the building of Moscow city hall at midnight, walking on Tverskaya and after disappearing in the alley. After that, this story traveled to various people, blogs, articles, and gradually developed into a full-fledged urban legend. Known opposite cases.
Fans to tickle your nerves horror stories quite a lot. They found among children and among adults, and especially among adolescents. In any country, you can see a whole layer of children-teenage folklore in the form of horror stories. In the Soviet Union it was a story about a coffin on wheels, red biscuits, black hand, etc. In America popular Ghost stories around the campfire about the Bloody Mary, the Black lady and the flying coffin. Despite the differences in the cultures, stories often converge. They also form the basis of horror films, books and of course new horror stories. Now quite popular creepypasta - various scary stories published in the Internet in order to tickle the nerves of readers. It can be as personal experiences and retellings of other stories, urban legends, reprints from Newspapers or imagination.
In today's world, where information dissemination is very fast, and can fly around the world in a matter of hours, pretty easy to find the source of a story. Sometimes it turns out that the story that news agencies serves as a fresh news that was posted online many years ago. The same is true for the stories of eyewitnesses. As example is the following story:
A guy met a girl, took her to the cafe. There's a girl accidentally spilled red wine on the dress. At the end of the evening, finally, after much persuasion, she told him the address. The next day he went to her house and the girl's parents found out that they already several years dead and buried her in that dress, which the man described. Then they went to the cemetery, dug a grave, and there on the dress she has a red spot.
This story is notable for the fact that it is sometimes found in various publications and stories (with some variation of the described events) as the author, sometimes even containing the exact date and place of the incident. While it is urban legend, published in the book by Eduard Uspensky "Red hand, black sheet, green fingers: a Scary story for fearless students" in 1991, which is based on the horror stories sent to the writer children. And before this story met several times, for example, in the Folklore archive of the Novgorod state University. N. And. LOBACHEVSKY.
It turns out that the real story can be transformed into a "horror story" and "horror story" to take the form of an unexplained fact.
Thus, it is impossible to make a decision about reality to a story based only on the eyewitness account. To determine the authenticity of the incident, it is necessary to take history as a basis to understand its details: to seek additional witnesses, any physical evidence, etc. And only on the basis of their (or their absence) can be concluded about the authenticity of the events described.
Translated by «Yandex.Translator»
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