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Cripta
of Barbados, the mystery of the removed coffins.
9 August 1812 the coffin of the member of parliament
Thomas Chase, one schiavista of the caraibiche
islands Barbados, came made to come down in cripta
of family. As soon as borne away the great marmorea
slab that closed the tomba, the light of the torches
illuminated something of strange. One of the three
already contained coffins in the burial room was
turned upside down. An other, that one of a child,
lay sottosopra in an angle. It appeared to all
obvious that cripta it had been profanata. Nevertheless,
very to watch, not there was some sign of manomissione.
Remittances the sepolcri to their place, the tomba
had been accurately richiusa. When the news is
diffused, people of the place did not have doubts:
they had been sure the enslaved black persons
to arrange that pandemonium, from the moment that
Chase and its family did not deserve other, cruel
and without scrupolo com' they were. Not for null,
third of the tombe already present in cripta was
that one of the daughter of Chase, Dorcas Chase,
killed only a month before for sottrarsi, mormorava,
to the brutal violence of the father. Four years
pass and this time - september of 1816 is the
25 - hardly touches to the very small coffin of
a child eleven months, Samuel Brewster Ames, to
being lead in the tomba of family. Once again
the room is all to soqquadro. Some ignota hand
has placed to earth the four coffins, comprised
that one of Thomas Chase who only with difficulty
eight sturdy men were resolutions to arrange the
day of the funeral. Of new one recovers all to
place and cripta it comes risigillata with cure
and attention. After approximately two months
it was still hour to reopen it in order to receive
the emains of Samuel Brewster, one of the family
killed in you elsewhere open them in the course
of one turned of slaves and temporary buried.
All the sepolcri were in disorder. Once again
it was believed next to the vendetta about the
enslaved black persons; but the mystery was equally
unsolved: how they succeeded to penetrate? The
great marble slabs had been every time cemented
and every time not was effrazione trace. One of
the coffins - that one of mrs. Thomazina Goddard,
before to to have been introduced in cripta -
had all the scompaginate tables, like if someone
had raged with one extreme violence. In order
to make forehead temporary the situation, the
wood aces had been remittances with with of the
ropes and the coffin supported against one wall.
Then, inasmuch as cripta it was of reduced dimensions
(3,5 m in order little less than 2), the smaller
coffins had been risistemate over those largest
ones. To the end, for ennesima the time, the place
had been locked up and sealed. To this point macabra
the history had made the turn of the islands,
provoking great emotions. In short the Church
of Christ and its chancellor, the reverend Thomas
Orderson, found itself to the center of the popular
worry. If with the onlookers and towards those
who they were to the hunting of sensazionalismi,
the reverend showed itself somewhat intransigente,
to who he interrogated it without morbidity, he
told that, being pure expectant it to resolve
the singular mystery, had not hesitated to receive
invites it of the local magistrate and together
to he he had completed some reconnaissances that
but had not given some outcome. As the vandali
could be slipped into cripta continued therefore
to remain a mystery. Some secret passage did not
not only exist, but, it is the walls that the
pavement and the ceiling to botte, turned out
very dig to you in the solid limestone cliff vein.
And if the disorder had been provoked from some
water infiltration they would be senz' other found
unquestionable traces; without to forget that
it was of all the improbable one that heaviest
sarcofaghi they could float. In merit then to
the theory that was little little making road
near the aboriginal NATO to you, it is worth to
say that cripta it was cursed and that in it supernatural
forces of order agissero, obviously Orderson could
not that to make ear from merchant. When an other
member of the family died, the wait for that new
inumazione was febrile. The 7 July 1819 (someone
filler date del 17) touched alla mrs. Thomazina
Clarke to be introduced nel sepolcro, very locked
up in one beautiful case of precious wood of cedar.
In order to remove the abundant concrete that
sealed the income door it wanted us quite a lot
of time, but also once removed the door did not
want to know some of schiudersi. Immediately behind,
in fact, it was supported the coffin of Thomas
Chase, than the last time in which it was come
down in cripta had been arranged to good distance.
Also all the others sacelli had been viola you,
with the single exception of the coffin of mrs.
Goddard, that estate with with of ropes. Ulterior
test that could not however be spoken about flooding,
because otherwise it could not have explained
like never heavy sarcofaghi of stone had been
able to float on the water and one coffin of wood
not. One of first penetrating in the tomba had
been the governor, Lord Combermere, which in front
of much disaster it had immediately arranged an
inquiry. But in order to only verify that that
the Orderson reverend already knew: some passage
did not exist or rintracciabile transit that concurred
with chicchessia penetrating in cripta, neither
a trap door from the pavement and not even some
cavity from which it could be infiltrated of the
water. _ before richiudere the tomba, the governor
have give order to leave a often layer of sand
on the pavement, to the aim of can record the
print of who be furtive introduce. Then, of new,
the access door had been richiusa with abundant
concrete. Like last touch, Combermere had quite
place just seals staff on the jamb, therefore
that nobody could have passed from lì without
forcing the door and leaving a sign inequivocabile.
Eight months after, the 18 you open them of 1820,
in the held course of a party near the room of
the governor, the argument, as sovente she happened,
newly had been focused on the constantly violata
enigma of the tomba. Excited from the memory,
Combermere it had decided, seated being, to go
to giving a glance on the place, in order to verify
if the adopted precautions had been revealed effective.
The group was composed of nine persons, between
which the governor, the chancellor and two expert
masons. The concrete that stopped the access door
was intact and therefore I seal, therefore nobody
violato the passage. Opened the door they were
come down in cripta. Every thing was sottosopra.
The small coffin of a child had been transported
quite on the descendent perron and obstructed
the transit, while that one of Thomas Chase had
been turned upside down. Of new, the single one
intoccata turned out that one of mrs. Goddard,
withheld with the ropes. The sand deposited on
the pavement did not reveal some print. To along
the two expert masons they had searched carefully,
striking with the hammerings, walls, ceiling and
pavement to the search of some secret passage
or hidden trap door. The mystery could not find
some solution. Then the governor had ordered to
extract all the coffins and to bury them in some
other place. Therefore it had been made and cripta
it was remained completely desert. Nobody between
the many authors and investigators who bring back
this strabiliante case is never successful to
offer one convincing solution. More logical the
natural explanations are those of the flooding
or earthquakes. But the first cause also would
have not only moved the case in wood of the Goddard
but it would have carried via the sand on the
pavement, without to count that rains therefore
consisting to provoke a flooding would not be
sure unnoticed passages. The same one is said
for the earth tremors, than in order scoperchiare
and to ribaltare heavy, sballottandole coffins
therefore like dice in a glass, they would have
been perceived ovunque in the island. Conan Doyle
suggested the hypothesis of outbreaks to the inside
of cripta, provoked from the influences denied
to you concentrates you of the enslaved black
persons, able to blow up the coffins priming the
gases exploded to you originates to you from the
decomposition. Obviously, not more absurdity is
nothing. However, an explanation, we say therefore,
supernatural could be the only one in a position
to giving reason of the mystery. Voice near people
ran, than the strange phenomenon it had begun
to only manifest after that in the tomba of family
had been placed a woman who had killed. Being
to the supernatural theory, the spirits of the
other buried persons would not have accepted it:
from here the continuous sconvolgimenti. But,
as very we know, the movimentazione of slabs and
coffins involve the fenomenologia of the poltergeist
and all the investigators are of agreement in
supporting that in order to activate a similar
event strong "energetic source" is necessary
one as, as an example, the instability of one
personality in phase of formation as that one
of an adolescent. But, evidently, one cripta full
only of died cannot in some way to supply a similar
energetic first motor. For the local black persons
it was dealt, obviously, of voodoo in full rule,
that is the manifestation of one powerful put
magical force deliberately in motion from the
action of a wizard or of one sciamano, with the
scope to favour the vendetta of the slaves soggiogati
from Chase and its family. Sure, draft of a hypothesis
that less the most risked sound for, but remains
only the available one still today, in some credited
way.
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