BEWITCHED ROADS
THEORY OF MYSTERY CRASHES.
PARIS, July 24.
Considerable interest has been aroused among French motorists by a novel theory of “bewitched roads” in connection with frequent and inexplicable accidents at certain points of the world’s highways. It is suggested that electric, discharges from the earth’s depths are responsible for crashes at these danger zones, which exist in every country. Dr. Georges Lakhovsky explains this belief in a book which he has published here entitled “La Terre et Nous.” He points out that wide areas of the earth’s surface consists of metal deposits, and concludes that electrical energy is generated by the juxtaposition of such masses. Discharges resembling subterranean flashes of lightning take place, he suggests, across the faults occurring between various deposits. If a road passes over such a fault, Dr. Lakhovsky argues, it is possible that a. car or other vehicle reaching the spot may be “struck” in a mild fashion. This would account for momentary loss of control on the driver’s part.
In support of this ingenious argument the writer records numerous cases of so-called “bewitched roads” in Germany.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 5 September 1933, Page 5
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