Criminologists have noticed more than once that the clocks of dead people stop exactly at the moment of their death. This fact is even recorded in the protocol. Moreover, sometimes not only wrist watches stop, but all the clocks in the house of the deceased. This unusual phenomenon is much more difficult to explain.
Historical confirmations
For example, for almost 400 years at Hampton Court Palace in London, the wall clock always stops when one of its inhabitants dies. For the first time such a case was noted in 1619, when Queen Anne died.
The exquisite watch of the King of France Louis XIV, which he received as a gift from the famous Dutch watchmaker Christine Huygens, worked without interruption until 8.15 am on September 1, 1715 - on this day the king died. After he died, no one was ever able to start them again.
Another famous example is Mussolini's castle. During the execution of Mussolini, all the clocks in the building stopped. The clock of US President Abraham Lincoln also stopped at the time of his assassination.
Sometimes the clock in the house of a dying person stops before his immediate death, as if predicting a future death. One famous American judge woke up at night in his house at the beginning of the third night and was surprised to find that his wall clock had stopped working. In the morning he learned that his old friend, who had given him the watch, had died that night.
In Prague, on the Old Town Square, there is an old astrological clock of the 15th century, which shows not only the time, but also the lunar phases, the current calendar, the sign of the zodiac, sunrises and sunsets. Every hour a skeleton figurine, as a symbol of everything earthly and mortal, rings a bell. Locals believe that the stop of the clock portends some kind of misfortune for the whole country. They say that in ancient times, when they did not work, natural disasters, military clashes and so on regularly occurred in the country.
How parapsychologists explain the stop of the clock
Why the clock stops after death, parapsychologists explain in different ways. Some suggest that they somehow “adjust” to the owner’s heart rate and freeze when the owner’s heart stops beating. Others say that a dying person releases a huge amount of psychic energy that throws off the precise mechanism of the clock. Perhaps there are some energy fields that affect the course of the clock. Not without reason, by an effort of thought, the famous psychic Uri Geller was able to stop the mechanical clock on London's Big Ben. There were also cases when, at the sessions, in which people with psychic abilities took part, the viewers started to walk with a broken clock or completely serviceable ones stopped. But supporters of traditional science have a different opinion.
Why the clock stops with death: the opinion of physicists
Scientists explain the phenomenon of a stopped watch by the fact that after prolonged wear it becomes part of the owner's electromagnetic field, is firmly included in his electromagnetic "circuit" and plays the role of a part that reduces electrical stress. For such a technical component in electronics, there is a special term - a plug or terminator. That is, all the energy of the human body flows into this device located on his hand, especially if the watch is metal with an iron or leather strap. The watch receives the energy of the electromagnetic field from the owner and is "charged" by it, and after the death of a person, having lost his energy, it stops.
There is also a belief that if the clock continues to run even after the death of the owner, then relatives, out of respect for the deceased, need to stop it themselves. It is unnatural for the clock to continue counting the time of the owner when it has already stopped for him.
Fans of the detective genre know for sure: if a watch is found on the dead person and it stops, then the exact time of death has been recorded. And the astute "pinkertons" will look for the criminal, taking into account the indications of the arrows frozen on the dial.
Death and stopping the clock: reality or fiction?
All famous literary detectives from Sherlock Holmes to Hercule Poirot know that at the moment of death of a person his watch stops. What is it, beautiful fiction or reality? Is it used in the work of real criminalists?
The first memories of such a strange combination of events date back to the beginning of the 18th century. When Queen Anne of England died, her favorite clock stopped in the palace. A little later, at the death of Louis IV, a large pendulum clock also stopped in the imperial chambers. Moreover, they could not start after.
Similar coincidences were repeatedly observed both by investigators and pathologists. Yes, and ordinary people often notice this feature when their loved ones leave. This phenomenon happens too often to be an accident.
What is the nature of such a phenomenon? The human inquisitive mind, on the one hand, loves to mystify everything, on the other hand, it tries to delve deeper into each obscure situation.
How do experts in different fields explain this phenomenon?
Fukuri Teachings
There is such an entertaining oriental teaching - "Fukuri". According to him, on the hand (just where it is customary to wear a watch) there is a special point "Cun". It is directly connected to our heart channel and is located on the left wrist in men, on the right wrist in women.
Esoteric version
Esoteric mystics give watches a certain sacred meaning. This item symbolizes the transience of time, it is considered a kind of counter of the minutes of life allotted to a person. Therefore, it seems natural to them that the watch stops at the same time as the death of its owner.
Surely, this is where the roots of many signs and superstitions associated with this device come from. You can’t just accept it as a gift, you must certainly lend a coin - “buy” them. It is considered a bad sign to give a watch to the newlyweds or, for example, to the office of the boss. In these cases, they mean the beginning of the countdown to the end of family life or tenure.
Opinion of parapsychologists
Parapsychologists are sure that when a person dies, there is a powerful release of psychic energy, a kind of energy exhaust. It is he who provokes the stop of the mechanisms. For the same reason, even some household appliances can turn off in the house.
According to this theory, it is advised to look at the work of your watch. They can begin to fail with a strong deterioration in health, during serious prolonged depression or other negative conditions. And, if we do not immediately notice our problems in the frantic pace of modern life, our watches can give us a hint about this in advance.
Coincidence according to Jung
A very interesting explanation of the phenomenon can be found in the works of the famous psychologist Carl Gustav Jung. He was interested in the nature of such extraordinary coincidences. Jung called them "synchronicities" and described them in his work Synchronicity and Human Destiny.
The essence of his discovery is that the external and internal world for a person are two sides of one whole. There is a deep relationship between them and these worlds mirror each other. Changes in external, material life depend on our internal mental state, on changes in our consciousness.
This metaphysical principle is very popular in modern psychology (“the theory of positive thinking”, etc.). In the light of this scientific hypothesis, it becomes much clearer why the clock can stop at the same time as a person dies.
Confluence of electromagnetic fields
Physicists did not remain aloof from the problem either. Their version is as follows: mechanical watches with a metal case, as well as quartz or electronic ones, create electrical or magnetic impulses during operation.
It has long been known that man himself is also a carrier and generator of various kinds of biofields, including the electromagnetic field. With prolonged contact, the pulses of the human and wristwatch fields merge into one single electromagnetic field. They interact and feed on each other.
The clock is included in the general electrical circuit of a person and works in it as a ground. Electronics specialists call such a link in a circuit that collects all the energy on itself a stub.
Scientists believe that it is enough to constantly wear a metal watch for about two months for it to accept the charge of the field of its owner. After the death of a person, this ideal symbiosis is destroyed and, left without energy replenishment, the wristwatch stops.
Which of them is right?
It is worth noting that the phenomenon under consideration concerns not only wristwatches. For example, in stories with monarchs, it was about wall paintings. Moreover, facts were observed when the clock stopped and fixed the time of death not of the owner, but, for example, of the donor. At the same time, a sad event could take place in a completely different city or even country.
There are also reports that a broken clock suddenly started to run after the joyful news of the birth of a child in the family. Simple coincidence or synchrony?
And if the version of physicists is correct, then it turns out that the mutual electromagnetic field is so large in size that it works not only on the human body, within its home, but also at a distance of thousands of kilometers?
Impressive scale, agree? Maybe Carl Jung's explanation is still closer to the truth?
As for modern criminologists, it is reliably known that they take note of such coincidences and enter data about them into the protocol.
The world is full of mystical and magical phenomena. Legends tell about them, they are used in literature and, of course, they try to explain. For example, do you know why when a person dies the clock stops? For many it is a mystery. There is a lot of documented evidence of such facts in history, but no one has yet been able to really understand how this happens. Let's try to figure out why the clock stops with the death of a person, using the versions available today.
Very often, after the death of a person, his clock stops. Parapsychologists explain this by the fact that a dying person releases powerful psychic energy, which stops the clock.
Opinion of physicists
The fact is that when a person wears a metal watch on his left hand for a long time, especially if they have a leather or iron strap, they become a component of his electromagnetic field. They seem to be included in the electrical circuit and begin to play the role of grounding. All energy human body flows into the clockwork on the arm. In electronics, such a part that collects energy on itself is called a plug, or a terminator. After a couple of months of wearing it on the hand, the watch receives a charge from the field of its owner, and is fed by it, therefore, after the death of a person, the clock, deprived of the energy of its field, also stops.
When a person dies, his watch stops.
To explain the connection between a person and a watch, specialists such as parapsychologists can. The fact is that in the process of life, the clock begins to depend heavily on the biofield of its owner. This is especially true for watches. If the watch stopped for no apparent reason, then this may indicate that the human biofield is undergoing serious changes, or rather destruction. As a result of the loss of strength and energy, the complex disease of depression, a person's clock can stop.
Based on this, it can be explained why when a person dies, his wristwatch stops. The fact is that the human biofield exists together with the body. When a person dies, his biofield begins to rapidly collapse. Such serious changes have a serious impact on the clock mechanism, which is associated with the human biofield.
Wall Clock
Also, people often wonder why the clock gets up when a person dies. And in this case we are talking not only about wrist, but also wall clocks. The fact is that all the clock mechanisms that are in the house begin to be in some way dependent not only on the biofield of their owner, but also on the house itself. Of course, most of the wall clock stop is associated with problems at home. So, for example, if damage was done to the house, then as a result the clock mechanism may stop, thereby indicating the approach of trouble.
Also, wall clocks and other clock mechanisms in the house can stop after an unwanted guest has crossed the threshold of the house, which in turn negatively affects the biofield of people living in it. Well, the most serious violation of the biofield is the death of a person, which explains the stop of the clock in such cases.
Omen or circumstance
Of course, the dependence of watch mechanisms on the biofield of their owners is a fairly common topic for controversy. After all, not everyone can realize the concept of the human biofield. At the same time, not every scientist can accept the existence of such a theory about the dependence of the clock and the human biofield. But, nevertheless, such facts can be confirmed not only by specialists and scientists, but also by people themselves. After all, such cases were not invented by the most scientists, but came from the people. And the evidence for this is popular belief.
In any case, if the clock in your house has stopped, be it wall or wrist, you should not panic ahead of time. First of all, it is worth determining the reasons for their stop. If the house uses electronic mechanisms, then you can first replace the battery. If the clock does not work, then it is worth taking it to the workshop. It is only on the basis of the results of the inspection that one can judge the seriousness of such a phenomenon. Who knows, maybe you are just winding yourself up and there is no reason to worry.
people stories
“When my grandfather died, the wall clock stopped. And they never went again, no matter how many they were brought in.
“My dad was a submariner in the past (now retired). And when Kursk sank, his clock stopped at night. Although at that time they were resting with their mother in Sochi. He was on vacation... And they didn’t stop at him alone.”
“When I was in college, I had a classmate. In her senior year, she was hit and killed by a car. In her purse she had a watch with a broken bracelet. Stopped at the moment of death. And another case. When my grandmother was dying, all the clocks in the house stopped, from the old grandfather clock to the cheap alarm clock.”
“When my mother was still alive, she asked me to give her a wall clock such that the numbers were black Arabic, not Roman, so that they would not “tick”, but go silently so that they would not “glare” (it’s not convenient to watch ) to match the wallpaper in the living room. In short, I was looking for them for a month, but found. Gave them on March 8th. She liked them very much. After my mother's death, they suddenly stopped. No matter where we go, they can't fix them anywhere. And I want to leave them as a memory of my mother. And they just go to the living room. But one watchmaker, when he heard this story, said: throw them away, don’t accumulate “dead” energy in the house.”
An interesting coincidence: it happens that at the hour of death of a person, the clock stops. Why? How is this possible? They write that the reason is in the human electromagnetic field, which affects the electronics of the watch. And how to explain the cases when not only wristwatches, but also wall clocks stop, and even thousands of kilometers away? When do all the clocks in the house rise? When do they stop years later on the anniversary of death?
Someone explains such incidents as the intervention of supernatural forces. We call it mysticism simply because the nature of these phenomena is incomprehensible to us. Or, they say, coincidence. The famous psychologist Jung investigated such unusual coincidences - synchronicities. In his book Synchronicity and Human Destiny, he wrote that there are two worlds that reflect each other - external and internal. The world of nature, things and the world of the human psyche, its internal images, feelings, aspirations. Jung contrasted the principle of causality with the principle of synchronicity (when physically independent and random events are connected in meaning). Jung emphasized that the phenomena of synchrony should not be treated rationally, perceive them with feelings, as symbols. Synchronizations are the result of a deep connection between consciousness and our material world. But this connection lies beyond our usual logic. Stopping the clock at the time of death is an example of the intersection of two realities, when the outside world addresses us in its own language - unusual coincidences, events, incidents. You just need to be able to feel the meaning of such a message.
“Today, February 3, is the death date of my close friend. We lived together for some time. Then he left for another city. He had a heart defect. He died suddenly at 4.30 in the morning, and then, 11 years ago, at that time, a clock-clock fell from the wall in the kitchen and broke. Surprisingly, the whole nail remained in the wall, and the mount on the clock was also not damaged.”
“On January 27, my grandmother died. She lived with my mom. Today my mother told a story that I cannot explain. The day before yesterday, at exactly 11:00 pm, the electronic alarm clock rang in the late granny's room. Grandmother died exactly at 23-00. Mom turned him off more than once, but he stubbornly called and called. Surprisingly, the last scheduled call time was set to 8:30.
“A friend told me that on the day her mother died, all (three pieces !!!) clocks in the house stopped. And the fix didn't help. And they went by themselves for 40 days ... She told this after I spoke about the tradition of celebrating 40 days of death in the spirit that it was people who came up with why exactly 40, where did they get it from? Now I don't think so anymore. There is something in this, not invented by people. There is something in the beginning."
If such facts do not scare you, then you can read more examples. It's amazing how often stories like this happen! The world is more complex than we perceive it, the line between life and death is thinner than we think. Clock - a device for determining time and measuring the duration of time intervals. This is a symbol of the transience of life, its constant transformation, movement from birth to death. The clock doesn't just stop at the hour of death, it can fall off the wall at that moment, and an old alarm clock set for 8 am can ring at 11 pm, reminding the hour of its owner's departure.
That stopping the clock is an example of the implementation of the principle of synchronicity is demonstrated by this unusual story. Man is not dead, man is born! And the clock recorded this important moment.
“The family says: “We are sitting at home, my mother was taken to the hospital, we are worried. Telephone call. "Apartment like that?" "Yes". "You have a baby girl." They look at the clock, but the clock in the kitchen has stopped. When I returned from the hospital, I looked. We stopped exactly at 19.37, as Nastya was born.