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Da un patto con il Diavolo all'incidente ufo, misteri e leggende intorno all'origine della Bisalta

Non solo racconti popolari, ma anche un tragico fatto di cronaca: nel 1960 un fulmine colpì la croce in vetta mentre era in corso una funzione religiosa: morirono in quattro

 La Bisalta, con i suoi 2.231 metri di altezza, si erge in tutta la sua possenza sulla pianura cuneese fin da quando non era abitata dagli uomini che così la battezzarono.

 

In passato i modi per trascorrere il tempo che separava il calar del sole e il momento del riposo non contemplavano Netflix e Sky, ma si era soliti trovarsi con la famiglia intorno al focolare. Un momento per condividere antichi saperi e, talvolta, vecchie leggende. Fu così che vennero trasmesse, di generazione in generazione, antiche storie intorno all’origine del monte di forma trapezoidale che si erge tra le valli Vermenagna e Pesio. 

 

Molte delle favole che girano intorno alla Bisalta (o Besimauda) sono legate alla forma bifida e a strani esseri che hanno ispirato molti racconti nelle nostre valli: le masche e i sarvanot. 

 

A dire il vero la fervida fantasia dei cuneesi non si è arrestata con il passare del tempo. A contribuire alle nuove storie la radioattività dell’area, in quanto nelle viscere della terra è presente il gas radon e soprattutto l’uranio. Nel primo dopoguerra la particolare composizione del terreno attirò addirittura l’attenzione della scienziata polacca Marie Curie, premio nobel per la Fisica e per la Chimica, mentre negli anni successivi venne aperta una miniera di estrazione, attiva fino all’inizio degli anni ’60. Mentre molti degli operai impiegati morivano per patologie legate all’esposizione al materiale radioattivo, tra la gente si diffondevano nuove dicerie, per esempio che la punta fosse doppia a causa dell’impatto con un Ufo e che questo causò la variazione del terreno.

 

Un’altra verità piuttosto diffusa in zona, questa volta fattuale, è che le rocce del monte abbiano tendenza ad attirare fulmini e che durante i temporali estivi sia piuttosto pericoloso transitare sul crinale.

 

Il 3 luglio del 1960 quello che fino ad allora era un luogo comune entrò tragicamente nelle pagine della cronaca. Un gruppo di fedeli salì in pellegrinaggio in vetta al Bric Costa Rossa per assistere all’installazione di una piccola statua della Madonna in una nicchia posta nel pilastro che sostiene la croce metallica. Subito dopo la celebrazione della funzione religiosa da parte del vescovo di Cuneo, monsignor Guido Tonetti, l’improvviso peggioramento del tempo provocò una strage. Un fulmine si scaricò sulla croce, lasciando a terra quattro vittime e una ventina di feriti. A perdere la vita anche una bambina, Claudia Serra, di 10 anni, oltre a Giuseppe Vezzetti, 29 anni, e due chierici della Consolata, Sergio Andreoli di 22 anni, e Enrico Canal di 25.

 

Bis alta, vale a dire due volte alta, è l’etimologia del toponimo, tramandata di padre in figlio. Secondo un racconto tradizionale (ufo a parte) non è sempre stato così, ma c’è stato un tempo in cui il monte aveva un’unica grande punta. Certamente non racconteremo nulla di nuovo alla gran parte dei nostri lettori, ma lo riportiamo per i più giovani o per i forestieri che non avessero contezza di questa storia.

 

Si racconta che un giorno un contadino di San Giacomo si recò al mercato di Boves per vendere del formaggio. L’uomo fece buoni affari e soddisfatto per l’incasso della giornata, decise di far tappa all’osteria prima di incamminarsi verso casa, in onor del detto “Non ti mettere in cammino, se la bocca non sa di vino”. Si sa, un bicchiere tira l’altro e il formaggiaio si ritrovò presto ebbro, ma dovette comunque intraprendere la via del ritorno. Sulla strada era calata l’oscurità in quanto la punta della Bisalta oscurava la luna piena. L’uomo avanzava insicuro, senza vedere dove poggiava i piedi. Cadde più volte, un po’ per il buio un po’ per la sbronza. All’ennesimo scivolone l’uomo inizio a imprecare e rivolto alla montagna esclamò: “Venderei l’anima al diavolo pur di farti sprofondare la punta”. 

 

In un battibaleno si palesò dinnanzi a lui Satana in persona. Il popolano strabuzzò gli occhi, incerto se quell’essere fosse realmente il demonio o soltanto il frutto del troppo alcol tracannato. Rivolgendo lo sguardo verso la Besimauda si chiarì le idee, la sbornia gli era passata in un sol momento: un gruppo di diavoli, armato di pale e picconi, stava demolendo la vetta del monte. In breve tempo, mentre grandi massi rotolavano verso la pianura, la montagna acquisì il profilo che noi tutti conosciamo, con la parte centrale più bassa e le due punte alle estremità.

 

A quel punto Belzebù, che non proferì parola secondo la consuetudine del silenzio-assenso, gli porse carta e penna e lo invitò con la mano a firmare il contratto per formalizzare l’accordo (evidentemente secondo il diritto infernale è necessaria la forma scritta affinché il contratto di cessione dell’anima sia valido). L’uomo, con la mano tremolante, prese in mano la penna e cominciò a scrivere nell’unico modo che conosceva. 

 

Una volta ritirato il foglio e buttatovi lo sguardo il Diavolo trasalì: il contadino, che si era rivelato analfabeta, nello spazio della firma aveva tracciato una croce. Quel simbolo, per lui nefasto, lo fece tornare all’Inferno con tutti i suoi demoni: la terra si aprì e li inghiottì. 

 

Il buon uomo ci mise un momento per riprendersi dall’esperienza trascendentale, ma una volta capito che poteva mettersi in cammino con la strada illuminata dalla luna s’incamminò di buona lena verso casa. 

 

Durante il tragitto ripensò a quanto accaduto e sulla sua bocca comparve un sorriso: per una casualità la sua ignoranza l’aveva salvato dalle pene dell’inferno, ma promise comunque a se stesso di non cadere più nelle tentazioni delle cose terrene. Mentre nel cielo la luna sembrava quasi sorridere incastonata tra le due punte della Bisalta.

 

Samuele Mattio

 

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Explore the Unexplainable At These Mysterious Sites in New England ( Boston Magazine )

 UFOs? Strange phenomena? You'll find it all at these destinations.

 

From day trips to weekend getaways, our biweekly Traveler newsletter shows you the best of New England and beyond.

Sure, tourists flock there every fall to see the sights, but Salem doesn’t have New England’s exclusive rights to the mysterious, and October doesn’t have a monopoly on spooky. And while the thought of aliens likely brings to mind the arid landscapes of the American south west, in the Northeast, we have our own close encounters.

If you’ve got a taste for the strange—nay, the unexplainable—and are looking for literally any reason to get out of your house, consider this list of (visitable) events and sites around New England. And they’re all outdoors, too, so you can enjoy them while you enjoy some fresh air (and also run away easily if you get spooked).

  

America’s Stonehenge in Salem, NH. America’s Stonehenge, NH by jazzmodeus on Flickr/Creative Commons

 

America’s Stonehenge, Salem, NH

Mystery Hill. America’s Stonehenge. This 74-acre site in Salem, N.H. has consistently changed names and owners, and frequently been the cause of archeological disputes. The current owners claim that the stone formations and man-made caves and tunnels are evidence of Irish druids who arrived in New England before other European colonists arrived. Others think the site was made by Native Americans. The most credible theory is that America’s Stonehenge was the site of a lye extraction outfit in the 1800s.

Now, with the purchase of a $12 ticket, the public can tour and view this roadside oddity, which is either an ancient Native American astrological site, the creation of pre-Columbus Europeans (probably not), or a conglomeration of 18th and 19th century agricultural practices. Go, and try to figure it out for yourself. Oh, and as a non-new-age-conspiracy-added-bonus, they’ve got alpacas.

$12, 105 Haverhill Rd, Salem, NH, stonehengeusa.com

  

America’s Stonehenge in Salem, NH. America’s Stonehenge, NH by jazzmodeus on Flickr/Creative Commons

Betty and Barney Hill UFO Site Marker, Lincoln, NH

In 1963, the Hills were driving in rural New Hampshire, heading home from a vacation in Niagara Falls, when Betty observed a bright light moving erratically across the night sky. Barney, who was driving the car, pulled over so they could get a better look. The light promptly advanced until a UFO, in all its disc glory, was hovering just in view. From there, the Hills say their memories become spotty, though they claim to have been abducted by extraterrestrials from the Zeta Reticuli system.

This close encounter is one of the earliest to receive major news coverage, and was eventually adapted into a book and then a movie titled The UFO Incident starring James Earl Jones and Estelle Parsons. The Hill’s experience garnered so much notoriety, in fact, that New Hampshire gave the site of their abduction an official historical marker along US Rt. 3, which you can visit and await further visitors from the great unknown.

It’s just a small historical marker, but we say the Old Man of the Mountain’s got nothing on this.

US Rt. 3, NH, just past the Indian Head Resort

  

Covered Bridge Ln., where Thom Reed and his family experienced their encounter. Photo via Wikimedia Commons

Thom Reed UFO Monument Park, Sheffield, MA

Another abduction! And what Atlas Obscura refers to as the first “historically true” UFO encounter. In 1969, Thom Reed and his family were driving over a covered bridge in Sheffield, MA, when something rose from the water, shining, promptly teleporting them to an open space, where they saw large creatures. Reed alleges he was separated from his grandmother and mother, who had also been transported to that space until, suddenly, they were all back in their car.

If you fancy a ride out to Sheffield, there is now a Thom Reed UFO Monument Park, and a bench sponsored by the International UFO Museum in Roswell, NM, to commemorate the event. Also viewable is the covered bridge where the encounter allegedly occurred.

There’s an extra element of spookiness to this event, too. It’s considered “historically true” because that same night, numerous people made calls to the local radio station and reported seeing an unidentified flying object.

Covered Bridge Ln, Sheffield, MA 

Gravity Hill, Greenfield MA

Sir Isaac Newton is probably rolling in his grave. Out in Greenfield, MA, there’s a road where you (yes, you!) can defy gravity. All you’ve gotta do is put your car in neutral. Underneath the Route 2 overpass, where Old Greenfield Rd meets Shelburne Rd, cars began moving uphill while in neutral.

Drive out there, put your car in park, and defy the laws of physics! Or, more prosaically, enjoy an optical illusion involving a slight downgraded road and roadside scenery that moves uphill. But where’s the fun in that?

Old Greenfield Rd, Greenfield, MA

Bridgewater Triangle

This lesser known triangle, overshadowed by that diva Bermuda, is also a place where the seemingly unexplainable occurs. The Bridgewater Triangle is a 200 square mile area between Bridgewater and Fall River with a number of documented urban legends and spooky happenings.

Within the triangle, you can find Hockomock swamp, or “the place where the spirits dwell;” Profile Rock, where the ghost of a man has been seen sitting on the rock; an alleged pterodactyl sighting; and the Ghost Trucker of Copicut Road, a phantasm truck that runs drivers off the road.

200 square miles between Freetown, Rehoboth, and Abington

  

Spider Gates cemetery. / Quaker Cemetery (“Spider Gate”) Leicester MA by janhatesmarcia on Flickr/Creative Commons

Spider Gates Cemetery, Leicester MA

Out in Leicester, MA, lies a quaint Quaker cemetery that has inspired a number of urban legends. Friends Cemetery, its official name, is well kept, and located at the end of a dirt road. With headstones from the 1700s, it’s also known as Spider Gates Cemetery because the iron fence has a curling design that resemble a spider’s web.

The cemetery is home to the usual ghost stories. Quaker spirits supposedly haunt the grounds, and satanic rituals are said to take place within the graveyard. Oh, and legend has it, the iron gates are a portal into the fires of hell!

Earle Street, Leicester, Massachusetts

Dover Demon, Dover MA

Imagine this: You’re driving down the road, you’re seventeen, and suddenly your car’s headlights reveal an enormous, alien-like monster with long spindly fingers crawling along a rock wall on the side of the road.

In 1977, in Dover, MA, three teenagers independently reported seeing such a creature within the span of two days. First, William Bartlett saw the creature on Farm Street in Dover. Then, that same evening, John Baxter said he saw a similar creature on Miller Road. The following night, Abby Brabham reported spotting the creature on Springdale Avenue.

The Dover Demon has garnered some national recognition, later appearing in a 2009 Animal Planet episode, and shows up in the comic book series Proof. Try driving out to Dover on a foggy night, and see if it still prowls the roads.

Miller Rd, Springdale Rd, and Farm St, Dover, MA

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The truth is out there …

Since starting his podcast/Youtube channel, “The Ethan Clerc Show” and the crew has invited people from all backgrounds in the southern Minnesota area. Periodically, Clerc and the crew have brought individuals from a certain niche — the paranormal. 

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Clerc has interviewed ghost and demon hunting experts, UFO field investigators and psychics.

“I’m definitely a skeptic and I want to believe.”

Though a nonbeliever, he believes that bringing in people like Mr. Wolf (a demon hunter), Adrian Lee (psychic and author) or Michael Cimino (UFO field investigator) gives people a chance to research into the subject more.

“You have to do your research,” Clerc said. “It’s good to be open minded about it because if you are, then you have a better chance of discovering something you don’t believe in.”

Being a skeptic, he said, allows one to ask better questions, which then might provide more evidence in a particular subject.

Clerc is right. So we decided to sit down with a few of these folks to ask some of those questions.

And we found that, sometimes, you can come out with more questions than answers.
Demons, beware …

Mr. Wolf had no choice, he said, but to learn how to read the energy around him. It was for protection.

He recalls unexplainable activity in his Mapleton family home as early as age 3. The house was haunted, and whatever was there took every opportunity to mess with him.

Late at night, Mr. Wolf (not his real name) would hear what seemed like dragging nails in the attic. Eventually, he heard whatever had been tormenting him drag itself across his bedroom floor.

It wasn’t until he was 16 that he started to piece the information together that some kind of paranormal being was in the attic.

“I wanted to fight back.”

He began to learn how to protect himself — and eventually others — from the unknown.

The easiest way to describe it, Mr. Wolf said, would be magic.

“But I don’t really call it magic because there’s really no ceremony to it.”

He realized he could manipulate the energy around him. The idea became more profound for Mr. Wolf when he began to read epic fantasy novels by author Terry Goodkind. The more he read, the more the world of magic made more sense.

“But I was raised Lutheran,” he said. “So it’s like, ‘Oh no, magic is bad.’ It just got to a point where I had to do something.”

He continued to self-educate, especially in alchemy and shamanism. He found a common link between the two practices.

Mr. Wolf explained the common link is changing our perception to other worlds.

“At the same time, like Tesla said, everything is energy,” he said. “There’s the alchemic principle of the duality material. For every physical, there is a metaphysical.”

Through years of training and education in both practices, Mr. Wolf said he has learned to make different tools combining metaphysical properties. These tools are used in his demon hunting, including a gun with an apple wood frame filled with crystals.

“I got a crystal. It’s kind of like the trigger. That’s the contact point. Then it’s pushing my energy through the contact point and into the frame.”

The combination of the crystals and his own energy, he said, helps focus in on a target energy — basically cornering an evil spirit.

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He’s been investigating for 22 years, always keeping a toolbox full of crystals, a Pandora’s box, essential oils and a Happy jar on his person.

The Pandora’s box is the first thing that comes out during an investigation. It has magnets, a variety of salts, several different types of obsidian and a black tourmaline.

“The Pandora’s Box absorbs negative energy. If you think about it in terms of science, humans are on the plus spectrum, anything else is in the negative spectrum.”

This serves as a magnet to draw in the negative spectrum, again cornering the negative spirits.

He then pulls out the Happy Jar — full of Frankincense, Palo Santo, celestite and selenite — to counterbalance the negative energies attracted to Pandora's box.

“If that’s not how happy smells, I don’t know what is,” he said. “This is putting positive energy out.”

He uses these tools during his investigations, including the time he helped his friend’s son whom they believed was possessed by a demon. It was in the Twin Cities when Mr. Wolf was in his late 20s. At the time, he made use of what was in his friend’s kitchen to whip up a version of “Voodoo goofer dust,” which is a hexing technique for good intentions. This particular goofer dust — made of sea salt, basil, oregano, black pepper and cayenne — was concocted to target bad energies.

“We went through what she had, and I found anything that had exorcism-breaking and protection properties.”

For two weeks he had the victim place the mix on the middle of his forehead, then on his chest.

“Because that’s the soul core. That’s why when you feel emotions, it always comes from right there first.”

The main idea is to make the host —in this case the victim — be incompatible. That night, Mr. Wolf said the demon that had latched onto the victim had been standing only a couple feet away from him all night.

“It was the shadow of it, really. And it was just staring daggers at me. It was so mad that I cut that kid loose.”

Ultimately, Mr. Wolf said demon hunting comes down to energy.

For as long as he can remember, he’d been able to pick up and identify different spirits.

“In this room right now, there’s seven ghosts and three nonhumans.”

This particular night, he said, the three nonhumans were a fairy, a very old soul and an angelic spirit.

Thankfully, nothing malicious. But that’s not always the case, he said.

“It’s not an issue of a spirit. There are people here that are not human. Not everything that wears a meat suit is human."
Ghostly historian

Matthew Kohler was a fireman when the Schmidt Brewery was up and running in St. Paul.

Not a firefighter, a fireman — one who lit the fires in the furnaces and the lamps in the basement’s brewery. He died April 16, 1904. Spilled oil on himself, set himself on fire and wasn’t able to put the fire out.

Kohler burned alive at the Schmidt Brewery.

Adrian Lee, author, historian, psychic and paranormal investigator (among other things) was able to unearth the death of Kohler during an investigation he had done at the brewery in St. Paul in 2008.

It took Lee nearly two years to figure out who Kohler was. During the investigation, a disembodied voice was picked up through the equipment — “Matt,” the voice said — and when asked who Matt was, the voice reportedly replied, “A fireman.”



A historian by trade, he began to research using digitized newspapers dating to the 1860s. He searched until he discovered a news clipping confirming Kohler’s death and profession, now immortalized in Lee’s book, “Mysterious Minnesota.”

Lee moved to Minnesota about 10 years ago from London, discovering and investigating different parts of the state. Many of his investigations led to his aforementioned book, of which one includes Mankato and can also be purchased on Amazon. (You can also check out his show “More Questions than Answers” every Friday at 10 p.m. on the Dark Matter Digital Network.)

“That was the moment I suddenly realized that we can talk to the dead to gain information from them to do historical research and use them as a tool to bring back history that’s been lost,” Lee said.

He has been a paranormal investigator for more than 20 years and has investigated all over the globe. But it was Kohler’s compelling story that lit the idea to rediscover untold history.

He thinks that learning and interviewing the dead are vital in humanity's history. In investigating, there’s a primary source in the event that happened.

And sure, there are paranormal teams investigating that are happy to get activity or an EVP (electronic voice phenomena), and that’s it.

“What a waste of time,” Lee said. “How are we learning from them? How are we furthering ourselves? What can we solve? What can we bring back historically?”

Lee’s work is distinct in searching for those answers.

“Uniquely, about the work I do, is that I’m using (the dead) to further history. I’m bringing back history from the lips of the dead.”

He explains that, as a historian, one can simply make an educated guess based on the information left in history from newspapers or death certificates and banking details. It is all secondary material.

“Could you imagine, via the equipment and psychic skills, being able to talk to somebody that was actually there? Because you could interview them,” Lee said. “I’ve interviewed the dead and asked them what it was like in the fire. How often do you get to use primary material as a historian? That’s like asking your granddad what he did during the war.”

Ghosts aren’t the only thing Lee has encountered. In 2017, during a separate investigation in a Redwood Falls cemetery, he said the team experienced UFOs.

“I was actually talking, or trying to talk to Maude Kleeman. That was the woman who was killed by William Kleeman with an ax,” Lee said. “I was at the cemetery talking to her, asking if her husband had killed her.”

The investigation had barely started with niceties, Lee said, then the activity above ground started.

“There was the most mad UFO activity and we had everything recording. We were running the equipment and the first thing that happened was all the equipment went just nuts.”

The ghost box they were using (a tool to communicate with spirits through radio waves) began to make noises Lee didn’t recognize. Then the compass they had started to act up and all their EMF (electromagnetic field) meters started to light up like Christmas trees.

They looked up and there was a big, yellow, fiery ball of light that moved around the sky.

“This was one of the most important sightings in American UFO history because it’s the first time ever that there’s empirical data attached to a UFO sighting,” Lee said.

The UFO then left. Then came back but red this time. Then left and came back orange.

It has been reported and investigated by the Mutual UFO Network.
Artist by day, UFO hunter by night

MUFON was founded in 1969 and is a nonprofit organization in which volunteers investigate submitted reports of UFOs around the country.

One volunteer is local artist Michael Cimino.

His interest in ufology began early as a kid, picking up books about UFOs and aliens. It wasn’t until two years ago that Cimino began to pick up the subject again and revisited it as a real hobby.

He began doing amateur investigating, which led him to join MUFON during one of his research sessions.

“All of this information (on MUFON) is available to the public, and once I started seeing this, it’s still a very modern phenomenon,” he said. “Most people think that ufology, or the study of UFO, it ends at Roswell, but that was genuinely the beginning of it and the reports that are coming in now are staggering.”

Cases like the Redwood Falls UFO that Adrian Lee and his team had incidentally captured are just one example.

There are other forms of finding UFO videos, too — YouTube. However, Cimino said the front pages are usually flooded with clickbait videos with no merit. It does a disservice.

“We've totally lost like the human nature of it, or the human phenomenon, and then that's kind of what led me to MUFON.”

There was one video, however, that was filmed in Mankato during a terrible thunderstorm in 2011.

“Gusts of winds 40 mph with heavy lightning activity,” Cimino said.

The video shows clouds moving sporadically, among a few balls of lights that pop up in the video. To this day, Cimino hasn’t been able to explain what was occuring in those clouds.

Cimino is still a “trainee” in field investigating but has taken on a few in the MUFON database.

Each trainee receives the field investigators manual that is purchased from the MUFON website, in which the trainees must study and then can take a test.

“The book is extensive and the test was either 150 or 200 questions,” Cimino said. “We’re talking about knowing your categories, how to classify a UFO, how to collect physical evidence without tampering.”

Other categories include making radiation surveys, using Google Earth, using a compass and learning how to use Madara, a magnetic anomaly radar. Cimino received his certification last year.

Anyone that has access to the internet is able to share their experience with MUFON by submitting a report, which is then fully investigated by a field investigator, such as Cimino.

There are about 100 cases in a year’s span in Minnesota. It begins by verifying the identification of the reporter, which can be done by researching online. An interview with the reporter follows.

“The most important part is the initial interview. We try to get it as soon as possible so that no memories either disappear or distort. Then there is evidence.”

If there’s physical evidence claims, like a scorch mark or cattle mutilation for example, the investigators go together to check out the area. All data is then collected. Videos and photos submitted, to prevent hoaxes, are then analyzed by Cimino. Then another interview is conducted with those who reported.

“We have the scientific method, a hypothesis, test the hypothesis, analyze the data and come to a conclusion. Every single case we go through that,” Cimino said. “If the person reported this and they saw it, we are always trying to put together a genuine scientific method to all of our approaches. We speculate as little as humanly possible.”

Because, after all, when people report anomalies or experience a UFO, most people didn’t want to encounter that.

“A lot of these people genuinely believe what they see in the sky is something. Some people are scared, very scared and unsure and insecure about what they saw. We do everything we can to build a solid case on every single person who makes a report, that’s the important thing.”

One way to corroborate a story is by calling local police stations and airports. Cimino has done both. And … well, he’s not particularly liked at particular police stations. Mainly because of his incessant research; if they don’t respond to Cimino’s request, he calls again.

He does introduce himself as a MUFON investigator, which at times can be difficult to explain.

“It’s so easy to certain people to come off like a person with a tin foil hat. You don’t want to be. You’re just trying to piece a story for another person’s peace of mind.”

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