Ernest Hemingway suffered from delusions of persecution. After his death it turned out that it really haunted Bashny.Net

Early in the morning, 50 years ago, while his wife, Maria still asleep in the bedroom upstairs, Ernest Hemingway walked into the lobby of his home in Idaho, choose your favorite shotgun from the rack with hunting rifles and suicide.

There are many theories and explanations of his action, starting from the version that the day before had quarreled with Mary Hemingway, ending with the fact that he had inoperable cancer in stage. But close friends knew that in recent years, the writer suffered from severe depression and paranoia.





Hemingway was constantly complaining to friends and family that he was being followed by FBI agents that everywhere in the house and car are placed bugs, phones are tapped, mail someone opened and read before you deliver the bank accounts checked by unknown persons. From the street, the writer nervously glancing around, often turned around to look over his shoulder at what happens behind. I talked low voice so as not to be overheard. In general, he showed all the signs of persecution mania.

It's not just sent to the psychiatric clinic, where he also called and complained that everywhere apart bugs and telephone conversations tapped. As treatment Hemingway appointed elektorshok, which at that time were treated with all mental disorders. From electroconvulsive therapy brilliant writer, outstanding talent recognized by his time, completely lost the ability to write and even clearly articulate their thoughts. However, the treatment did not help him, Hemingway and the rest of his days tormented by "paranoia».





After a few decades, it was made an official request to the FBI about the case of the writer, in response to which the FBI has provided information that, since 1940, for Hemingway was under surveillance. The government suspicious of his activities in Cuba, so agents have hidden bugs in the house, the car and the ward of the writer, tapped telephone conversations, opened mail, checking bank accounts. To their credit: the surveillance was carried out so well that none of the family could not afford, and the thought that Hemingway was right.

via factroom.ru