The mystery of the Dutch cemetery tombstone
moves alone
ALBERTO D'Argenio
site De Volkskrant
BRUSSELS - "It's not an April Fool," assures the police. "There are ghosts," the clerk swears. So all groping in the dark without being able to explain the mystery of Aalsten, a village deep in the north of Holland, 162 souls in all. E 'in the cemetery of the church building that the puzzle has been repeated for months: the lid of a tomb, 450 pounds of granite, leaving only moves from the open tomb. The
all began when a family has found the tomb of a relative uncovered. Thinking about an act of vandalism, has called the police. But the fact was repeated four times without agents were able to identify those responsible. Regularly when the relatives or the clerk went to check the tomb, were open, with the heavy lid displaced laterally over a meter. At this point the police took it to heart and secretly installed a camera in front of the burial.
What happened next explains it better than all of Anna Van der Meer, police spokesman Frisian: "Absurd, thrilling, absolutely incredible. When I saw our video, I was stunned. You see the rock slide to the side, almost fall to the ground. Then it's grave side and stops, leaving the tomb uncovered in large part by a movement of more than one meter. How is it possible? I do not know, weighs 450 pounds. Besides the video shows very well that the stone is firm, then in the blink of an eye from the side shoots. I have never seen such a thing in my whole career. We have no explanation. "
The story has been done now the turn of the Netherlands, with the media triggered the search for the video. But I left empty-handed, as requested by the family secret and the DVD was sent to the science of Amsterdam. Meanwhile, playing the race to solve the mystery of Aalsten. Scientists deny we can deal with landslides, or underground movements of the ground. Some people blame the giant rats, but the theory holds water on all sides. This is known as the temperature changes that may create imbalances in the internal pressure of the grave.
short, few ideas and well mixed. The only apparent certainty comes from the clerk of Aalst, Tjerk Smit: "I certainly was not the ghosts. I do not believe in spirits, otherwise I would not choose this job."
all began when a family has found the tomb of a relative uncovered. Thinking about an act of vandalism, has called the police. But the fact was repeated four times without agents were able to identify those responsible. Regularly when the relatives or the clerk went to check the tomb, were open, with the heavy lid displaced laterally over a meter. At this point the police took it to heart and secretly installed a camera in front of the burial.
What happened next explains it better than all of Anna Van der Meer, police spokesman Frisian: "Absurd, thrilling, absolutely incredible. When I saw our video, I was stunned. You see the rock slide to the side, almost fall to the ground. Then it's grave side and stops, leaving the tomb uncovered in large part by a movement of more than one meter. How is it possible? I do not know, weighs 450 pounds. Besides the video shows very well that the stone is firm, then in the blink of an eye from the side shoots. I have never seen such a thing in my whole career. We have no explanation. "
The story has been done now the turn of the Netherlands, with the media triggered the search for the video. But I left empty-handed, as requested by the family secret and the DVD was sent to the science of Amsterdam. Meanwhile, playing the race to solve the mystery of Aalsten. Scientists deny we can deal with landslides, or underground movements of the ground. Some people blame the giant rats, but the theory holds water on all sides. This is known as the temperature changes that may create imbalances in the internal pressure of the grave.
short, few ideas and well mixed. The only apparent certainty comes from the clerk of Aalst, Tjerk Smit: "I certainly was not the ghosts. I do not believe in spirits, otherwise I would not choose this job."
( February 19, 2009 )
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