The curious abound in a cemetery in Bas-Saint-Laurent after the publication on TikTok this summer of a video in which a Tesla driver shows that her car detects a “corridor of entities”.
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Tesla cars are equipped with sensors that detect things around the vehicle, such as pedestrians, cyclists and other cars.
But while driving through the Sainte-Luce cemetery, arriving at a specific location where no one is, several human or bicycle silhouettes appear in the Tesla screen.
This mysterious appearance of “entities” attracts fans of paranormal phenomena who flock to the burial site.
The mayor of Sainte-Luce, Micheline Barriault, also noted that the cemetery attracted many curious people.
“Indeed, we heard about it from a lot of people and there are people who also come to the cemetery with equipment, ghost detectors,” she told TVA Nouvelles.
She even met ghost hunters who told her they detected the presence of entities.
“Myself, personally, I met two ghost seekers who had a detector and the lights were flashing more and more intensely, so they said to me: ‘there is one, it’s coming.’ And there, at one point, they told me: ‘ah, he has just changed course’,” she says.
Not ghosts, but…
Journalist specializing in paranormal phenomena Christian Page does not believe that the Teslas actually detect ghosts in the Sainte-Luce cemetery.
Rather, he believes that vehicles simply cannot identify headstones correctly.
“The detection system which is mounted on the vehicle sends a wave and this wave will reflect on the tombstones. When the wave returns to the vehicle, the vehicle tries to look in its data parameters, in its programming, to see what it could be and the most likely view is that it must be a pedestrian,” he believes.
If the detection of “ghosts” is done in only one place in the cemetery, it is probably due to the arrangement of the tombstones, according to Christian Page.
This means that “we have a sort of mirror effect which reflects the wave back to the vehicle. If [la conductrice] had traveled in the opposite direction, it is possible that it would not have detected these presences because the tombstones do not have the same arrangement on one side as on the other.
Our journalist, however, did the test and was able to detect the mysterious pedestrians by driving a Tesla in both directions.