USS Hornet で起きる怪奇現象 : 40kg のレンチが浮き上がって床に落下
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戦艦 USS Hornet は退役し、今は博物館に流用されているが、乗組員の幽霊が頻繁に目撃されることで有名。過去記事でも取り上げた
興味深いのは、就役中から幽霊目撃が続いていること。つまり、移動する戦艦なので、場所の座標や地理的な特徴とは無関係に幽霊が出没していることが明白な事例。
しかも出没する幽霊はかつての乗組員たちだが、彼らはこの戦艦では死去していない。
幽霊のメカニズムを理解する上でこの戦艦の事例は貴重。
以下、Jimmy Akin の解説動画から。
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しかし、個々の体験の多くを見てみると、例えば犬とレンチが止まり木から落ちたとか、海軍の制服を着た人を見たような主観的な印象など、自然な説明ができるものばかりです。船内で超常現象が起こっているという最も説得力のある証拠は何だと思いますか？ いくつかあります。 (0:24:54)
まず、目撃者の数が多いことです。場合によっては、目撃者の質です。 特に元海軍特殊部隊の隊員や、他にも何人か、そのような人たちがいました。 もし、5人の目撃者が、手を振ったり、振り向いたり、遠ざかったり、消えたりする将校の幻影を見たとしたら、それは自然な説明ではあり得ない。 (0:25:44)
ドッギングレンチがハンドルから飛び出すような、なんとも言えない、うーん、何か自然なことがあったのかもしれない。ボーイスカウトのイブニングがあったので、ボーイスカウトの何人かと一泊するようなことをしていました。FOCSOLには巨大な鎖があり、ある柱には大きな、大きな、大きなレンチがありました。 (0:26:21)
レンチは80ポンドもある。そう、80ポンドもあるんだ。試しに1つ持ち上げてみたんだけど、ダブルフックみたいなやつにかかってるんだ。(0:26:35)-そう、80ポンドもあるんだ。 (0:26:35)
つまり、地震では動かない。船が揺れても動かない。何もない。でも、彼が近くに立っていた時、説明員の一人、ボブという男が報告した。 (0:27:00)
彼は実際に持ち上がるところは見ていない。彼はそれを聞いたし、落ちた後に床でガタガタ言うのを見た。あのレンチは絶対にあの柱にあったんだ。あの子たちには動かせなかった。 ボブは自分で動かしたかもしれないが、多くの人が見ている。実際に倒れるのを見た人も何人かいた。 (0:27:19)
彼らは持ち上がるのを見てない。80ポンドのレンチが、フックを乗り越えるために30センチほど上がって、固定され、そして落下した。その通り。その通り。 そうだ。それはかなり印象的だ。その時、彼らは怪談話をしていたんですか？怪談話をしていた。そうです。 (0:27:37)
But when you look at a lot of the individual experiences, like just a dog and wrench falling off its perch, or a subjective impression of, I thought I saw someone in a Navy uniform, that could have a natural explanation. What do you think is the most convincing evidence that something genuinely paranormal is happening aboard the ship? Well, several things. (0:24:54)
First is the number of witnesses having, you know, the multi-witness experiences is number one. In some instances, the quality of the witnesses. I mean, some of these guys, one in particular I can think of who was an ex-Navy SEAL, and there's a few others who were of that ilk, you might say. The things that were described could not have been a natural explanation if they're, you know, if you have five people seeing an apparition of an officer who, you know, waves at them or turns around or moves away or disappears, for that matter, in a lit area the size of a hangar bay with nowhere to run, I'd say that's pretty good subjective evidence with that multiple witness situation. (0:25:44)
There have been times, it's hard to say, the dogging wrench kind of popping off a handle, um, maybe there was something natural there. But in the forecast or FOCSOL, one of the experiences, which was witnessed by many people, actually, including some kids, they were doing, there was a Boy Scout evening, so they were doing kind of an overnight with some of the Boy Scouts. And in the FOCSOL, there were these huge chains, and you'll see in certain, on certain posts, these big, big, big wrenches, because there's big lug nuts in various places. (0:26:21)
The wrench is like 80 pounds. Yeah, they're 80 pounds. I tried, I mean, I lifted one off and they're on kind of a double hook. So you have to raise them up, put them up, put up and over, and there is no way for that to move off that. (0:26:35)
I mean, an earthquake wouldn't do it. The ship rocking wouldn't do it. There's nothing. And yet, as he was standing nearby, one of the docents, this guy Bob, reported, and I talked to others who actually heard it, saw that he wasn't, nobody was near it, came off. (0:27:00)
He didn't see it actually lift up. He heard it and saw it kind of rattling on the floor after it fell. And that wrench was absolutely on that post. Those kids could not have moved it. I mean, Bob could have moved it himself, but enough people saw it. A couple of people actually saw it fall. (0:27:19)
They didn't see it lift up. Okay. So we've got an 80 pound wrench that has to come up something like six inches in order to get over the hooks, holding it in place, and then it has to fall. That's right. That's correct. Yeah. That's pretty impressive. And do I understand correctly that they were actually telling ghost stories when this happened? They were telling ghost stories. Yes, they were. (0:27:37)
Youtube 動画(1:36:37)
The Ghosts of the USS Hornet (Paranormal, Haunting, Ghosts) - Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
(2025-04-08)