Hungary, Kolontár village. One of the unplanned excavations we made on our return from Expedition Romania in 2017. By sheer coincidence, on our departure from Balaton, we passed through the village where the red toxic mud from the ruptured dam of the aluminum plant near Ajka broke in 2010. People affected by this disaster were burned, injured and ten did not survive the tragedy. The soil was contaminated and had to be excavated. However, the consequences of the disaster are not so evident here. The houses are mostly new, clean water flows through the Torna stream again and the fields are green with agricultural crops.

We stop at one of these fields, pitch our tents with the aim of spending the night there and walk to the village of Kolontár after dark to do some research.

Ondřej Bezouška takes his camera and goes to film the last shots of the day for a documentary. He is greeted in the village by the local dogs barking and defending their territory. In the very centre there is also a beautiful rural cemetery, which we can also use during the night for our measurements.

During this time, however, drama engulfs our main camp. Ondřej Bezouška is unaware of this, but we are discovered by a local gamekeeper who does not speak English or German very well and tries very hard to inform us that the place we have chosen for our overnight stay is not ideal, as the hunting route of the hunters who will be shooting field game will lead through here.

With the help of a Hungarian friend on the phone, we managed to clarify everything using English and landed an offer to spend the night on private land right in the village of Kolontár, just a few dozen meters from the cemetery.

"Wow, we'll take it now!" was our response. The whole team piled their stuff back into the car and headed into town. It was a double surprise for Ondrej Bezouska. Not only did he not expect that we would be camped at the hunting site, but he also had no idea that we had managed to negotiate an overnight stay at the location we were exploring. Well, lucky coincidence played its role here.

But any good news has to be balanced by equally proportionate bad news. Richard Hotovy, an impartial observer and member of the Romania expedition, had been so sunburnt the previous day that every movement had caused him pain and, in addition, he had caught heatstroke. Neither he nor two other external members were able to participate in the research for health reasons.

So the monitoring of paranormal phenomena was left to Kamil Valešek and Ondřej Bezoušek. Two members of the Paranormal Team z.s. It is through their eyes that we will now look at the whole research.

But any good news has to be balanced by equally proportionate bad news. Richard Hotovy, an impartial observer and member of the Romania expedition, had been so sunburnt the previous day that every movement had caused him pain and, in addition, he had caught heatstroke. Neither he nor two other external members were able to participate in the research for health reasons.

So the monitoring of paranormal phenomena was left to Kamil Valešek and Ondřej Bezoušek. Two members of the Paranormal tým z.s. It is through their eyes that we will now look at the whole research.

Phase 1. measurement of natural values in Kolontar

Since Kolontar was affected by a catastrophe with chemical mud, there is a possibility that this mud left its imprint in the electromagnetism. If so, our instruments will certainly detect it.

We walk through both the land where we are camping and the village centre. We're measuring the electromagnetic field with several instruments that have different frequency ranges. But they all agree on one clear conclusion... there are no abnormal fluctuations in Kolontar. All EMF field values are completely within normal limits and there is no reason to believe that the tragedy of 2010 has left any electromagnetic trace.

Phase 2. research at the cemetery in Kolontár

Knowing the local values of the electromagnetic field under natural conditions, we can try to find out how the temperature, electromagnetic or even sound values will vary in the very place where many would expect paranormal phenomena. The Kolontar Cemetery is an ideal location for this measurement.

With the utmost reverence, we walk among the graves, record the readings. The night is windless, the sky is starry, clear, without a cloud. It's the kind of dry summer that makes wrinkles not only for farmers but also for ordinary people.

But again, we're not seeing any changes in the electromagnetic field. There is complete calm and peace. Only the barking of the village dog and the screeching of cicadas pierce the silence of the night.

Just like the night we experienced a few days ago in Hoia Baciu, Romania.

Phase 3 intervention

The last lights in the windows in the village go out and we decide to do the last section of the research. Through questions, instruments, simply intervention, we will try to find out if there is something present that can shift the recorded still values from their status quo.

For this intervention we will also use our not so popular PSB, or also called Ghost Box. Why is it unpopular with us? Well this device scans AM or FM radio frequencies at a rate of one per tenth of a second. So in the intermittent noise you suddenly hear part of a radio editor's words or a piece of a song. But so-called ghost hunters (we don't count ourselves among them) believe that the dead from beyond the grave are speaking to them through this path, so when part of a voice is heard in the noise, they automatically take it as a message from the dead to them. Only... these voices are most often frequencies from radio transmissions that are many hundreds of kilometers away. So using this device not only introduces a rational element into the research, but also significantly exceeds the area being monitored. These are two significant reasons for not using it. There are also two exceptions.

The first exception, in which it is objectively possible to use this instrument, is in areas that prevent the intrusion of distant radio frequencies. These are locations deep underground where even a cell phone signal cannot reach, or when using any static enclosure that creates Faraday cage-like conditions around the device.

We did not have these conditions, but we knew that the AM frequency was completely empty and no radio or other transmissions were present. That's why we decided to use this instrument in Kolontar.

However, after more than half an hour of analyzing it, asking questions in Czech, English and a few words in Hungarian (since we do not speak it), we concluded this third part with the verdict that we could not detect or otherwise record any energy abnormalities that would confirm that there are possible paranormal phenomena. Later detailed analysis of all the recordings from image to sound only confirmed these conclusions.

Conclusion

The research in Kolontár, Hungary, from 18 to 19 July 2017 has brought us very clear conclusions. During one night, we were unable to confirm the occurrence of paranormal phenomena and other energetic abnormalities in this tragedy-stricken village, which we had previously observed in the Hoia Baciu forest. In a way, this is a completely opposite result in the investigation. Kolontár, Hungary, is a quiet village where the past tragedy is no longer visible and has left no trace in the energy field. During the investigation, nothing even approaching paranormal phenomena has haunted or taken place here. This is also a success for us, because in the world of paranormal investigation groups, reality through their lens appears to be a set of haunted locations wherever the machines are turned on. We're refuting that thesis with a whole series of investigations where we've picked up nothing. But the columnist is giving a new name to this calm. If you want to live in a truly energetically peaceful place, you're not likely to find better than this in our experience.

video of the investigation

• in Czech, without English subtitles