lunes, 25 de agosto de 2014

Borley rectory

The murder, specifically that of a couple of clergymen, a monastery priest and a nun of the cloister of Bures, located 13 kilometers away, that after a passionate affair tried to flee and make a 180 degree turn to their lives. The end, as usual, had an outcome fatal. They were captured and executed cruelly: him beheaded him and she emparedaron it on the walls of the building.It was after these gloomy sets when they began to happen the apparitions, according to observers, a ghostly figure dressed in religious habits.

The phenomena that occurred were varied: the inexplicable tinkling of bells and chimes, the observation of a luminous figure dressed in nun attire through the garden, the characteristic movement of objects, sounds of steps for the hosts, keys to doors that jumping of locks, stones flying from the roof and even be able to hear harrowing screams and the passage of non-existent carriages in the surroundings of the place.Harry Price, three days after his first visit and overwhelmed by the events, decided to organize a Spiritism session to try to clarify the enigma. The Reverend Smith, his wife, a medium and own investigator participated in the experiment. The result ended sow confusion: the spirit of the priest Henry Bull, former Regent and constructor of the building, reported on the gruesome past of the place.

Sanatorium Beelitz-Heilstâtten

Located in Germany, southwest of Berlin, near Potsdam, in the interior of a dense pine forest was built, there by 1898, this complex Hospital of about sixty buildings and which is distributed over two hundred hectares. The architects of the original project were Heino Schimieden and Julio Boethke and subsequent reforms and additions were made by Fritz Schultz.

The complex had separate for different applications and specialty buildings. Chronic, contagious diseases, rehabilitation, etc. alongside the buildings for the staff and the administration. It even had its own plant for power generation, an Assembly Hall and Chapel.During the first and the second world war, the sanatorium became hospital of war coming to host, between 1914 and 1915, until nursing 17500. One of them was Adolf Hitler, who spent a season there in 1916 to recover from wounds suffered during the battle of the Somme


After the partition of Germany, in 1945, the complex was in charge of the U.S.S.R, and so continued until 1995. During all these years, the complex was the largest Russian military hospital outside their land.When the Russians left, only some of the buildings were rehabilitated and are used in our days. Some as museums, others still for medical purposes and rehabilitation. But most of the complex remains in total abandonment, without any provision for use at the moment.In this impressive place movies were filmed as: pianist, Polanski, the House of Wolfgang Becker patients or the last of Tom Cruise, Valkyria.