J'ai bien aimé ce film, The Mist.
J'ai trouvé ça à propos de cette
brume mortelle :
L'incident de Malte est utilisé à titre d'exemple des effets pouvant être redoutables de ce qui est appelé "nuage électrique" dans un ouvrage daté de 1815: "A Philosophical And Mathematical Dictionnary", de Charles Hutton. Exemple cité à côté d'un autre "incident" du même type, survenu sur l'île de Java le 11 août 1772, qui laissa derrière lui, hormis les destructions, 2140 victimes:
Citation:
But whether the clouds are produced, that is, the atmospheric vapours rendered visible, by means of electricity or not, it is certain that they do often contain the electric fluid in prodigious quantities, and many terrible and destructive accidents have been occasioned by clouds very highly electrified. The most extraordinary instance of this kind perhaps on record happened in the island of Java, in the East-Indies, in August, 1772. On the 11th of that month, at midnight, a bright cloud was observed covering a mountain in the district called Cheribou, and several reports like those of a gun were heard at the same time. The people who dwelt on the upper part of the mountain not being able to fly fast enough, a great part of the cloud, eight or nine miles in circumference, detached itself under them, and was seen at a distance, rising and falling like the waves of the sea, and emitting globes of fire so luminous, that the night became as bright as day. The effects of it were astonishing; every thing was destroyed for 20 miles round ; the houses were demolished; plantations were buried in the earth; and 2140 people lost their lives, besides 1500 head of cattle, and a vast number of horses, goats, &c. Another remarkable instance of the dreadful effects of electric clouds, which happened at Malta the 29th of October 1757, is also related in Brydone's Tour through Malta.
Vous pourrez retrouver cette citation dans une copie de l'original, via Google Books, en faisant une recherche avec les termes : "Malta the 29th of October 1757" (avec les guillemets); à la page 319 de l'ouvrage. Parmi d'autres sources.