Santo Domingo.- The belief in ghosts and supernatural beings has not been exclusive to one society, nor to the most backward peoples on the planet.
Even in societies as advanced as the United States, England, Canada and Germany, there are innumerable testimonies about ghost sightings.
The United States is a leader in cinematographic productions about stories of supernatural entities, and we all know the boom that spiritualism achieved during the Middle Ages in England.
But what is a ghost? I’m driving down a dark road at night, I see a man standing and suddenly, there’s nothing. That would be a ghost.
Many people state that they have experienced situations in which they claim to have “seen strange things”.
«One night in my house we were already in bed, I felt something that fell in the kitchen and I got up to pick it up, because I heard a quite loud noise, it was as if the cabinet where the dishes were kept had come off. When I turned on the light bulb, everything was in order,” said merchant José Domínguez.
Others claim to have lived experiences that they will never forget.
“I once went to a mortuary in my camp when I was 20 years old. An uncle of mine had died and I lasted at the wake until 1:00 at night. When I was going home on a dark road, because it was a rural area, I saw a man standing in the middle of the road. I tried to walk towards the shore to avoid it,” says the plumber Raúl Báez.
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“When I walked towards the shore and looked back at the place where the image was, I saw that the man was no longer there and there was only a strange smell that I had never felt before. I did not drink alcohol that night, no one can claim that I was drunk, I saw it in front of me, “adds Báez, 76 years old.
Are they energy?
Thermodynamics says that energy is neither created nor destroyed, but rather transformed. So, some scholars believe that it is the energy resulting from the soul of people who die.
The stories about appearances of “strange beings” are innumerable.
José Ulloa, a native mechanic from Cotuí, says he has this type of encounter frequently. «I see relatives of mine when they are going to die, they always visit me.
When my grandmother died, I first found out about the whole family when I was in the capital and they were in Cotuí. She went to visit me in my room and she said goodbye to me », she assures.
There are those who attribute these stories to ignorance and drunkenness, but generation after generation, stories about these phenomena have been multiplying.
