First we reported about the mysterious
spontaneous fires that were taking place in Italy.
Now we've learned this is happening in India as well.
Rohit Ghosh reports that people in the Madhya Pradesh area
of the country have been rushing to put out mysterious fires
that seem to spring up on their own. One villager says, "Our
wells have started drying up fighting the fires."
It began when a fire suddenly broke out in a small farming
community without warning or explanation. The villagers put
it out and didn't think any more about it. But soon this
started happening on a regular basis. "Fire breaks out
anywhere in the village and at anytime of the day," says
village leader Sardar Singh Gurjar. "We draw water from the
wells of the village to douse the fire. The wells have started
drying up. Major fires have broken out in the villages 11 times
in a span of few days."
It's not only fires: "Stone pelting is another problem," says
Gurjar. "Many people have been injured in the stone pelting
till now."
"I was going to my fields in a usual manner a couple of days
back when suddenly the stones started hitting me from all
directions. I ran for cover," says farmer Ram Deo. "I thought
that it was a mischief. But the same thing happened on the
following day also."
When district police chief Yogesh Deshmukh investigated, he
and his men were also pelted with stones and had to run for
their lives. Police superintendent N.P. Varkade says, "We
have deployed policemen in plainclothes in the village.
Secondly we have decided to take scientists to the village to
allay the fears of the villagers. We have also deployed
cameramen on rooftops."
How can we avoid fires and falling stones? Maybe we have to
get lucky.
Click "Mysterious Powers" on our masthead to hear Anne
Strieber's interview of author Richard Wiseman, who tells how
you can get lucky too!
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