The ancient genetic disc

Biological knowledge in ancient times. Since the beginning of the new millennium, the human genetic plan of life is deciphered. But the function of many genes is still unknown. The sceptics are afraid of unscrupulous scientists that might create cloned “wonder-children” that could be ordered in a catalogue. But genetics are sure that the knowledge is enough for a revolution in medicine. In ancient times people connected the evolution of life with the “tree of life”. But what is a “tree of life”? In many texts of  ancient cultures is written about gods that once created men and other creatures. Who have been those creating gods? Do stories of fabulous beings, amphibious creatures and mythical creatures are based on real experiences or are they only results of fantasies?

This disk from South America is one of the most interesting and confusing finds of archaeology. The unique relic is made of black stone and measures about 22 cm in diameter. It weights about 2 kg. On the disk, there are carvings that describe the astonishing knowledge of our ancestors. The object has been examined in the Museum of Natural History, Vienna, Austria. It was not made of artificial materials like cement but of lydite.

Lydite / radiolarite / silex:

These three terms refer to the same rock, where the notation "Lydite" is often used for Paleozoic forms and "radiolarite" for the Mesozoic rocks of the Alps.  The useful term for this rock regardless of the age is "radiolarite".

It is a marine sedimentary rock that is formed in the deep sea and from the siliceous (SiO2) remains single-celled radiolarians - is built - the radiolarians. This sink to after her death in the sea in the deep sea and form under favorable conditions (especially low or missing other items of sand, clay, etc.) the Radiolarienschlamm. This mud is known for its extremely slow growth, sedimentation rates of a few millimeters per thousand years appear to be common.

It's way on land and in the handpieces is the rock in the course of subduction and mountain building. This leads to dehydration, compression, and compaction. The fine sediment layers remain only sometimes receive and are rarely seen in the handpiece. In general, the as Lydite (or chert) denotes pieces are characterized by the following properties:

·        Extremely hard, splintery or conchoidal breaking rock that is always found in small dimensions. Finds rarely reach more than a decimeter, usually, they remain under fist size.

·        Most deep black or gray (Palaeozoic), but also greenish to red (Mesozoic radiolarites of the Alps). Very fine-grained  to dense structure, no fossils on radiolarian size. Even the latter are small only in exceptional cases recognizable and less than a millimeter.

Often the rocks are highly folded and crossed by many breakthroughs that are regularly filled with quartz veinlets.

Radiolarites are so hard that they often have a much lower curvature than the surrounding sediment. The splintery, angular fracture remains long recognized.

Moreover, a lot of information on human genetics are strung on the outside of the disc, Strange is that this information could not be seen with the naked eye but under a microscope or other optical instrument. The current level of knowledge of humanity does not allow such a possibility, which induces a certain aura of mystery on how to obtain the information by a culture that did not have the technology to access such information.

The sculptures are really amazing because they are made with extraordinary precision.

The disk, known as "genetic disc", it was dated in a prehistoric epoch, scientists estimate that the disk has been made almost 6000 years, and assigned to the Muisca-culture. Dr. Vera M. F. Hammer, the expert for precious stones and minerals, analysed the object. The symbols on the disk are very impressive.

For a logical structuring of the interpretations, researchers divided the disc into four areas giving them red, green, blue and yellow color. Let's take each in turn.

In the section marked reddish color can be identified easily, without fear of fat, a man and a woman with a fetus. Această secţiune semnifică naşterea

The yellow section that probably represented childhood, an important first step in human life, we see a man and a woman with a child. Perhaps theirs.

The blue section is the genitals and semen.

The green area is divided into twelve segments and appears to be an evolution of which is the man. In the first stage, I was tempted to think that is presented intrauterine human development but puzzles me that it was divided into twelve segments, not new as it was natural.

The sequence of segments that can only represent what those who believed they did, that is the human evolution from amphibians until man appeared. But they believed that we evolved from amphibians? Is it all a science of our development work without cause. What is truly remarkable is that these people had no concept related to creationism, though perhaps worshiped certain gods. Accepted and taught that human evolution in a show that their faith in God was not based on the fact that they created us. Or maybe they knew that the gods created us but what we've got from a development that has twelve stages.

Another interpretation which we must pay due attention is that the twelve segments correspond to 12 signs. In support of this interpretation, we find that the May box corresponding Gemini is a sign that resembles the one we know today. Other signs, however, have no connection, nor how it would be about another culture much older, so that's unlikely to have the same names of the planets. However do not forget that the signs as we know them, have resulted from the interpretation of the settlement stars who certainly were the same for them and for us.

The obverse and reverse side are decorated with carvings and ornaments, separated with single vertical stripes. On the edge of the disk, there is a symbol of a snake. In the middle, the disk shows a hole, maybe a hint that the disc originally was fixed on a stick and then turned around. One side shows biological details like male sperms, female egg cell and the genitals, the fertilized egg, foetus and the growing embryo. The other side shows scenes that could be interpreted as the cell division and depiction of frog creatures in different stages. Dr. Algund Eemboom MD and his colleges analysed the different segments of the disk. His result was that it is possible to recognize the phases of evolution of human life on the disk. Very significant are the distant lying eyes and the broad nose. This is a characteristic of the embryonic structure of the head.Univ. Prof. Dr. Rudolf Distelberger internationally recognized expert on precious stones and director of the Schatzkammer, Vienna, said that the disk has a very complex content. That is the reason why many scientists cried fraud as the disk appeared. It cannot be classified in the known South American system of cultures. But why should a forger forge something that does not fit into any scheme we are familiar with? If he wants to sell a forgery this would not be the right way. But what shall we do with this mysterious disk if it is not a forgery? Is it maybe a ludicrous find of a sunken culture? The “genetic disk” with the depictions of biological processes is not the only archaeological relic with that thematic. A long time before the Chibcha and Muisca there lived different cultures in the savannah of Bogotá in Columbia. There have been found huge towers of stone: 7 meters high and 70 cm in diameter. Those monuments are interpreted as phallus-symbols. They remind of Egyptian obelisks and pillars. Also, human skeletons have been found that are 14.000 years old. At that time the region of Bogotá was a huge lake. Also, sculptures of men with frog heads have been found.

The dancing plague - a mass hyisteria

Known as choreomania (from Greek "choros" which means dance, and "mania" - madness), Dancing St. John or Dance of St. Vitus, this strange epidemic has been recorded numerous times during the Middle Ages in Europe (especially in period XIV – XVII century). Symptoms of this disease presented in these written sources were unable to provide a clear, contemporary researchers, from poverty to detail, but also because the authors inability to understand disease from the perspective of modern medicine. Most accepted doubts about this dance craze were assigned amid mass hysteria or nerve diseases, such as epilepsy. Unfortunately, this argument can not be considered because epilepsy is not a contagious disease. As such, we can not accept reasonable motivation that those who joined the craze were only comprised of the people already affected by epilepsy.

After studying various medieval sources about this disease, it has seen a pattern which met at all. Thus, most "dance epidemics" were characterized by collective manifestations in groups that varied in number from a few to several hundred people. During dances, participants sang, screamed and laughed frantically. Hours dance continue to induce a trance participants and ecstasy, followed by a faint, or even their death. It managed to identify specific medical conditions such as seizures, chest pain, hyperventilation, hallucinations and attacks with symptoms similar to epilepsy.

It was also observed that most of those who participated in these dances were foreigners zones, often erupted during a pilgrimage and attracting even some of the locals. These events collectively could break out and gather participants during their deployment or from one sufferer may collect dozens if not hundreds of other dancers around him.

According to sources, those affected by these epidemics dance would have reacted violently to any observer refusal to join them, which explains why healthy people participating in these epidemics purely recreational reasons. Dances were condemned by religious authorities of that time because participants often eliminate the clothing accessory, made obscene gestures and carried out acts of a sexual nature. Clerics describes how chaotic and savage behaves, like that of animals, attributing blame Satan's evil actions.

Other features typical of those participants were intolerance for red and pointy shoes with a masochistic pleasure to hit the legs. The descriptions displayed on this medieval dancers wearing colorful clothing and having strange wooden sticks.

The most important dance epidemics

The first record of such an epidemic was in century X. A report from 1021 tells how Kolbig 12 peasants in Germany today would have danced around a church for months, after being cursed by a priest to lament for the whole year for Christmas service interruption. During the dance, 4 of the 12 peasants died, being stopped only with the help of two local bishops and prayers. The fact that these people needed time to feed and satisfy theirs at least physiological needs, there is no information. Because regardless of their physical and mental capabilities of these men could not last more than 2 days without food and water. But it was a huge effort to dance for hours and all energy resources are quickly exhausted.

In 1278, in Utrecht, a group of 200 people danced across the river Meuse bridge, causing its collapse and death of many of those dancers. A century later, in 1374, it held the largest outbreak of this kind, the disease called St. John, because it was held on the feast of this saint. Thus, Aix-la-Chapelles (Aachen) gathered a crowd of people outside the city, led by a certain visual illusion (according to sources). This heretical dance, some being under the influence of hallucinations, so faint, finally, because of exhaustion. In the coming years, epidemics have spread outside the German area, it is set in France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Belgium. Priests and clerics appeal to service of exorcism to treat patients who thought they were possessed. Ordinary people attempt to appease patients that turned violent applying them hard blows to the abdomen, but often, the dancers like to be hit. Tried and bringing musicians to accompany the sick, but this method attracts, even more, participants to dance, worsening the situation.

Later, it began in a seemingly ordinary summer day in mid-July, the year 1518. Then more than astonished eyes of its neighbors, Mrs. Troffea, a middle-aged woman, started dancing convulsively and without controlling the narrow streets of the city Strasbourg, France (then the settlement was part of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation). It could hear no music, and grimaces, his gaze fixed and facial expression, shows no sign of joy or happiness. Thoughts that flared in the heads of the crowd that gathered more frightened and suspicious revolves around suspicions of insanity or demonic possession, the only explanation of the time for such a bizarre how she Mrs. Troffea output. The woman did not seem able to stop dancing, or what seemed to dance and began to frighten more and more viewers.

The first week it came with 34 people, and three weeks after 400 people gathered the crowd. Most dancers fainted after a few days due to exhaustion. Things went from bad to worse, for a period of one month, the number who had started from nowhere to dance, hop and jump instantly to falling killed by exhaustion, exceeded 400 people. Doctors in those days were all declared powerless, for unfortunates were dancing as if in another world, no longer able to communicate with others. A priest came shortly turn to state inefficiency after jobs and exorcism sessions proved equally ineffective. And some, and others, like the nobles and the common people, they soon realized that unwittingly dancers do not dance on their own initiative, which has fueled aimed opinion namely that Satan is involved in everything that happens. Were recorded deaths caused dance without stopping, heart attacks and fatigue are the main culprits. Concerned by this event, local nobles, clerics, and scholars were polled to find out the cause of these strange events. Upon learning that the disease had been caused by "hot blood", the authorities decided to let people dance day and night, hoping they would eventually get tired and stop. The central city has been released and a wooden stage was built in the middle of them to facilitate the dances. The authorities have decided to employ to musicians, dancers hope that helps.

 Sufferers of this disease in the city of Strasbourg went on the pilgrimage to the relics of St. Vitus, the rumors saying that they had the miraculous power to treat this disease. Thus, St. Vitus became attached to John the Baptist, patron sufferers dancers. In the seventeenth century, Professor of Medicine Gregor Horst observe an event held each year at the chapel of St. Vitus in Drefelhausen: "Every year, the day of St. Vitus, women who come on pilgrimage dancing day and night until captured by ecstasy and faints. They then return to their normal lives to resume next year habit. "

Dance Mania seems to have disappeared somewhere in the middle of the seventeenth century. A specific phenomenon called tarantism and Italian space strikingly resembles the disease described above. Tarantism habit would be started in the thirteenth century, the Italian space when it was thought that the antidote to scorpion bites and tarantulas was tarantella dance. One of these dances is found today in Italian folklore. The dance is called "pizzicarella" and the video Alla Bua is an edificatory band.

With time, Tarantism has become a local tradition, accompanied by dances being sprayed with red wine parties. The phenomenon stopped abruptly in 1959, no longer practiced since.

Possible explanations

The explanations of this phenomenon have been hard to find, the answers to which data from multiple perspectives, especially in the medico-psychological and sociological. The most plausible explanation may be the boundary between these areas. Analyzing the periods in which these outbreaks occurred, the researchers found that they were held in intense periods of famine and poverty in the peasantry. Hunger, poor health and psychological stress affecting ordinary people would be produced mental instability, causing them to burst into fits of dancing, often violent.

The famine that bears peasants would be forced to consume and broken grains, which sometimes were infected mushroom hallucinogen effect. They were infecting them, in turn, consumers, and those under the symptom of mania dance.

Other explanations that do not belong to the scientific, presents these epidemics as some secret religious cults ceremony. Although in those days to be a heretic was a crime that was punishable by death, it is believed that these ceremonies pagan Greco-Roman inspiration and would have kept the guise of "plague of dance" to avoid repressive actions of the Catholic Church.

The laughter epidemic fever

"It is well said that people think of as a flock; we can see that a freak in the head, but recovered slowly, one by one, "noted Charles Mackay, in 1841, in a book devoted to the social sciences.

A related experiment was conducted under the supervision of a group of scientists put five monkeys in a cage in the middle of a ladder cage. Above the staircase was placed a bunch of bananas. When a monkey climbing the stairs to take bananas, scientists threw a bucket of cold water that remains on the other foot. After some time, when a monkey tried to climb the stairs, the other did not allow her to climb. After long no monkey no longer climb the ladder, despite the temptation bananas.

  

Then the scientists replaced one of the monkeys. The first thing that made it was trying to climb the ladder, but was held back by others and beaten. After a few beats, any member of the new group is no longer climb the ladder. A second monkey was replaced and the same thing happened. The first monkey replacement enthusiastically participated in the beating novice. A third was changed and things were repeated. The fourth and fifth were changed. Finally, scientists were left with five monkeys that had not received although never a bath with cold water continued to hit monkeys trying to reach the banana.

    

If it was possible that monkeys be asked why he beat those who tried to climb the ladder, the answer would probably be "do not know. Things have always been like this ..."

Herd thinking explains, in part, a series of general mania that erupted over time. Crowds began to act strange phenomenon is degenerating quickly and just as quickly forgotten.

One of the strangest manifestations of herd thinking is epidemic in Tanzania and Uganda laughed. It appeared at the end of January in 1962 at a school for girls in Kashasha. The laughter started from three students who have overreacted to a normal joke that appeared to have been actually affected by a strange epidemic, whose causes have not been elucidated completely until today.

Shortly epidemic has affected 95 of the 159 students in the school and so was stopped classes, teachers are unable to control this situation more capable. Symptoms were lasting, may take several hours or even up to 16 days. Laughter was it is stronger to tears, but would be accompanied by rash, fits of fear or aggression, and sometimes patients experiencing pain, feeling panting because of respiratory problems, cry, cries involuntary and even unconsciousness. After seizures unexplained and unexpected laughter became weaker and stopped completely.

Ten days after the closure of the institution, the disease reappeared in a nearby village where they lived some of the girls who were sick. In total, about 217 residents were affected by the epidemic in April-May. Laughter epidemic has spread to other areas, every time there is a connection with a person on school girls. In total, they were affected by the epidemic over 1,000 persons in the two countries.

Experts who have analyzed the phenomenon not found other symptoms that clear up the mystery disease and thus hypothesized that the epidemic was due to razor impact of psychoactive mushrooms, although evidence has never been found. The fact is that those affected were perfectly healthy people showed no abnormality to explain the disease, so the epidemic has still remained a mystery elucidated.

Outbreaks of infection ended only after a period of six months and has not been detected before. Of all happened because shaving epidemic in Tanzania concluded that came true adage "laughter can be contagious."

Gregariousness deeply tied to our species associated, contagion is a feature of human emotions, a result of the evolutionary process by which species strengthened adaptive resources and survival. When we respond and resonate with the emotions of our fellows, not only as we cultivate relationships with them, but we assure you that, under the universal principle of reciprocity will respond similarly when we need them, either to celebrate or for help when we are in difficulty.

A French film short film circulating on “YouTube” under the name of "Merci", trying to reproduce razor epidemic in Tanzania, in the Paris metro. The scenario is simple: an actor laughed without an obvious reason to be - maybe a bench and recalled that or a funny situation just lived it. Soon, all the passengers will follow in a laughing micro-epidemic.

Laughter is healthy, even those without reason. During shaving, the microbiological level, emissions occur hormones are beneficial emotional state and health and there was even laughter therapy that promises an improvement in emotional and changes the set of perceptions dramatic that keep us in a state of persistent sadness.

Unexplained increase of Nomura jellyfish

Earth is changing. It is a reality that we can not deny and I began to accept, especially after the media onslaught we announced almost every day new and new phenomena that, after four decades, you rather, the field of science fiction. Storms of the increasingly powerful tornado that suddenly arise in areas where it should not be formed, volcanic eruptions, the disappearance of glaciers and arctic snow, snow in African deserts, huge waves and disappearance of species of plants and animals are just some of the effects of what today we call global warming.

Yet, despite studies and apocalyptic forecasts of researchers around the world, we are not even close to understanding and predict the magnitude bizarre phenomena of recent years. In the face of change so rapid and profound, even scientists remain helpless, unable to offer solutions and explanations for what happens to us. I propose now to analyze a phenomenon little known, that happens far from our eyes, in the depths of the seas and oceans, but whose consequences can be catastrophic for the environment and even the existence of marine life, as we know now: Invasion Nomura jellyfish.

Nomura jellyfish is a large, falling from this point of view, the class jellyfish reddish, popularly called "lion mane", whose tentacles reach even 15 meters and represents the largest cnidarians in the world.

Nomura jellyfish was named after the Japanese Ken-ichi Nomura, director general of fisheries experimental station of the province of Fukui, who in early December of 1921 sent a specimen of this species in a tank of 72 liter timber , by Kishinouye, where it was found that the jellyfish was not yet known, although it inhabits oceans before dinosaurs.

It lives mainly in the waters between China and Japan, especially in the Yellow Sea and East China Sea. The Nomura jellyfish which closely studied, providing information about their life cycle, growth rates and feeding habits by the expert Japanese Shin-ichi Uye. It rose more specimens in captivity, noting that Nomura jellyfish grow very quickly, depending on the amount of food we consume is made up of zooplankton.

Stories about giant creatures from the depths arise from the distant past of Japan. However, given their occurrence so rare, Rising Sun Country residents had come to consider them rather than being legendary real creatures living in the depths of the seas.

Nomura is one of the largest jellyfish species on Earth. Normally its dimensions do not exceed 25 to 30 cm in diameter and lead lives deep in the seas and oceans. Observations made by specialists over time, evident that their occurrence in upper areas of ocean is a cycle of about 40 years, which is why the thorough study of their behavior was quite difficult to achieve. In recent years, however, it was found that this species was a development that led to the emergence of huge specimens of 6-10 m diameter and tentacles that reach even 35 meters. But caught were caught only copies 2-2.5 m in diameter and tentacles of 12-15 m. the specialists in marine biology believe that evolution has multiple causes such as global warming, pollution of the seas and oceans with toxic waste especially phosphates, capturing in excess of that species fed with these jellyfish and we refer to tuna, sea turtle and lizards.

In early 2000, the Japanese accused the Chinese that have spilled into the sea for a long time, knowingly, residues of certain chemical plants, which could be due to the emergence in the area of real sea monsters that destroy everything.

With cylinder diameter of about 2 meters, a length of tentacles over 30 meters and a weight exceeding 220 kg, they can be cataloged, without exaggeration, as veritable ocean monsters. Their food consists mainly of phytoplankton or small creatures, creatures you kill them with venom huge jellyfish tentacles. Even if it is not strong enough to kill a man, reaching Nomura can cause agonizing pain careless fishermen or swimmers. In fact, one of the greatest dangers that present huge jellyfish to humans is the condition of the eyeball, which can lead to permanent blindness. In official records, there are only nine deaths, nearly all of them due to venom allergy victims creature.

Instead, the rapacity of jellyfish is one legendary. Japanese specialists have calculated that a single mature tree can consume in one day equivalent of an Olympic pool filled with plankton, action catastrophic for hundreds of marine species that are seen as lacking the main source of food.

If in the past colonies of jellyfish occurs every 40 years, since 2002 they appear annually. It is not clear to what are the causes that have condos to increase the frequency of their occurrence, specialists' opinions are divided. Thus, some consider that the frequent earthquakes in the area have enabled Japanese submarine hot springs that attract the jellyfish at the surface, some even making an association with jellyfish occurrence prediction of earthquakes.

Worthy of notice is the fact that each of the females deposit eggs over a billion a day, the number of specimens of this species in recent years becoming worryingly high. Eggs laid by females in the water reach the ocean floor in the form of polyps that remain inactive until environmental conditions change and the water warms then turn into millions of jellyfish ready to devour large quantities of phytoplankton. This species of jellyfish has a strange ability that at least reflected in the fact that when you are caught in water releases all the eggs making them totally ineffective combat fishing or catching

Catastrophic effects are not immediate. In recent years, Nomura jellyfish have increased so much that fishermen became alarmed, thousands of tons of such creatures taking place fish in their nets. The few fish caught by them were injected with the venom of giant jellyfish, it was impossible to eat. The Chinese were the ones who found a temporary solution to this problem, turning meat Nomura jellyfish in delicious traditional cuisine.

In August 2009, the Japanese fishing vessel sank due weight Diasan nets full of jellyfish Nomura having 2 m in diameter and weighing 200 kg each. Most jellyfish have captured a capsule diameter of 2.5 meters and a length of 35 meters.

Before this incident, last major invasion of giant jellyfish in Japan occurred in 2005. Then, however, produced only damage jellyfish nets and poisoned fish, causing them to become inedible for humans. Two years later, in 2007, the Japanese authorities have received more than 15,000 claims for damage fishing gear, a figure comparable to the destruction in 2009, might seem insignificant.

It seems a great influence on the evolution of this species also had Japanese nuclear accident at the plant in Fukushima, meaning that occurred in the area of 10-15 m diameter specimens.

  Sensational enthusiasts have had the pleasure to enjoy sensational underwater photos, which many have believed false start. And in this material are some of them.

Japanese experts fear that if pollution will cease in less than 10 years, giant jellyfish will deplete food sources in their habitat and will migrate to other seas and oceans, which would lead to an ecological catastrophe on a planetary level.

A desperate attempt of the authorities was to introduce Japanese food giant Nomura jellyfish, without having, however, very successful. Pressed, salted, tofu or even in the form of snacks, marine creatures do not seem to please the Japanese. Not the same can be said about the Chinese, for whom jellyfish are an important food source, and Nomura invasion can be an important source of income.

Nomura jellyfish is a problem facing the underwater world and due to the increasing number of individuals but also of their organization in colonies, to which we add pollution but global temperature warming, World Ocean ecosystem is likely to become history. Experts warn that if over the next 10 years, no action is taken to stop increasing pollution, a new species to rule the seas and oceans, jellyfish Nomura.

AOKIGAHARA - the japanese suicide forest

Aokigahara is a forest of 35,000 square kilometers, stretching from the foot of Mount Fuji. It is a forest that has existed for 1200 years. Since the 50s, the forest became the place causing most cases of suicide by strangulation.

The soil of the forest is composed of lava. In 864, Fuji erupted ten days in a row, forming a large amount of lava. Every year, nearly 400 Japanese put their suicide in the forest. Statistics show that in Japan every year, over 40,000 people commit suicide. We have created many legends about evil spirits that haunt the woods.

Called "the perfect place to die," the Aokigahara forest has the unfortunate distinction of the world's second most popular place to take one's life. (The first is the Golden Gate Bridge.) Since the 1950s, Japanese businessmen have wandered in, and at least 500 of them haven't wandered out, at an increasing rate of between 10 and 30 per year. Recently these numbers have increased even more, with a record 78 suicides in 2002.

However, Japan is not first in suicides. The first place is occupied by Russia, followed by Belarus and Latvia.

Why Japanese choose this place to commit suicide?

Japanese spiritualists believe that the suicides committed in the forest have permeated Aokigahara's trees, generating paranormal activity and preventing many who enter from escaping the forest's depths. Complicating matters further are the common experience of compasses being rendered useless by the rich deposits of magnetic iron in the area's volcanic soil.

In 1956, Japan was a real current, supported even by intellectuals, to die by suicide, a dignified death in Japanese culture.

Forest looks bizarre. Sunlight does not penetrate inside the forest and the forest access roads are true mazes.

Japanese legends speak of spirits of the dead can be seen in the forest. Spirits of the dead by violence do not find peace nor can pass into another world. Spirits remain between the two worlds. In 1990, two guardians of the forests found the body of a hanged. They approached the scene and saw several ghosts that swirled around suicide. Residents of the area who argue that sank in the forest not find the way back.

The compass does not point north in the woods accurately. They say it's a difference of 90 degrees to the true position of the north. Many groups of tourists went in circles for hours, because compass does not work correctly. It took the intervention because these tourists can be recovered. Japanese experts have recognized that a strange phenomenon happens. It is the distortion of orientation to person, but the compass.

The plot apparently seems to be right. In fact, under vegetation pits are up to one meter deep, which is an impractical advance.

Aokihagara awakens a sense of fear among the Japanese. It is considered the most cursed place in Japan.

The evil spirits are called Yure and can come from anywhere. Sounds strange cries and that yureii can not leave the suicide, have made this a cursed forest. Nobody in Japan did not want to invest in this area, arguing that businesses would fail. Those who have ventured into this forest argue that there is a maximum voltage that marks the human body. Panic, exhaustion, headaches, all these experiences have made fewer Japanese to venture into such hikes.

Due to the vastness of the forest, desperate visitors are unlikely to encounter anyone once inside the so-called "Sea of Trees," so the police have mounted signs reading "Your life is a precious gift from your parents," and "Please consult the police before you decide to die!" on trees throughout.

This does not deter determined people from committing suicide in this dense forest. Annually about 70 corpses are found by volunteers who clean the woods but many are forever lost in the very thick woods. Japanese authorities discounted publishing exact suicide numbers in order to not make the place even more popular.

Contemporary news outlets noted the recent spike in suicides in the forest, blamed more on Japan’s economic downturn than on the romantic ending of Seicho Matsumoto’s novel Kuroi Jukai, which revitalized the so-called Suicide Forest’s popularity among those determined to take their final walk. (The novel culminates in Aokigahara as the characters are driven to joint-suicide.)

Locals say they can easily spot the three types of visitors to the forest: trekkers interested in scenic vistas of Mount Fuji, the curious hoping for a glimpse of the macabre, and those souls who don’t plan on returning.

What those hoping to take their lives may not consider is the impact the suicides have with the locals and forest workers. In the words of one local man, "It bugs the hell out of me that the area's famous for being a suicide spot." And a local police officer said, "I've seen plenty of bodies that have been really badly decomposed, or been picked at by wild animals... There's nothing beautiful about dying in there."

The forest workers have it even worse than the police. The workers must carry the bodies down from the forest to the local station, where the bodies are put in a special room used specifically to house suicide corpses. The forest workers then play jan-ken-pon—rock, paper, scissors—to see who has to sleep in the room with the corpse.

It is believed that if the corpse is left alone, it is very bad luck for the yurei (ghost) of the suicide victims. Their spirits are said to scream through the night, and their bodies will move on their own.