Russia is rich not only in oil, gas, diamonds, Tchaikovsky, Aivazovsky and Dostoevsky (unlike exhaustible minerals, our cultural values will never end). A lot of strange things are happening in the vast expanses of our Motherland, mysterious and inexplicable but nothing to worry about. On 1/6 of the earth's land area there is enough room for everyone: aliens, ghosts, prehistoric animals, psychics and supernatural monsters like nothing else in the world.
1. Meeting of astronauts with UFOs
The pioneers of space exploration had a hard time: the technologies of the beginning of the space age of mankind left much to be desired, so emergency situations arose quite often, like the one that Alexei Leonov encountered, almost left in outer space.
But some of the surprises that lay in wait for the space pioneers in orbit were not related to the equipment at all. Many Soviet cosmonauts who returned from orbit spoke about unidentified flying objects that appeared near terrestrial spacecraft, and scientists still cannot explain this phenomenon.
Twice Hero of the Soviet Union, cosmonaut Vladimir Kovalyonok said that during his stay at the Salyut-6 station in 1981, he observed a bright, luminous object the size of a finger, rapidly enveloping the Earth in orbit. Kovalenok called the crew commander Viktor Savinykh, and he, seeing unusual phenomenon, immediately went for the camera. At this time, the “finger” flashed and split into two objects connected to each other, and then disappeared.
It was not possible to photograph it, but the crew immediately reported the phenomenon to Earth.
Observations of unknown objects were also repeatedly reported by participants in the missions of the Mir station, as well as employees of the Baikonur Cosmodrome - UFOs appear quite often in its vicinity.
2. Chelyabinsk meteorite
On February 15 of this year, residents of Chelyabinsk and the surrounding settlements observed an extraordinary phenomenon: the Earth's atmosphere entered celestial body, which, when falling, was 30 times brighter than the Sun. As it turned out later, it was a meteorite, although the most different versions phenomenon, up to the use of secret weapons or the intrigues of aliens (many still do not exclude such a possibility).
Exploding in the air, the meteorite split into many pieces, the largest of which fell into Lake Chebarkul near Chelyabinsk, and the rest of the fragments scattered over a vast territory, including some regions of Russia and Kazakhstan. According to NASA, this is the largest space object that has fallen to Earth since the Tunguska fireball.
The “guest” from outer space caused quite significant damage to the city: the glass in many buildings was shattered by the blast wave, and about 1,600 people were injured of varying severity.
The series of "space" adventures for Chelyabinsk residents did not end there: a few weeks after the meteorite fell, on the night of March 20, a huge luminous ball hovered in the sky above the city. It was observed by many townspeople, but there is no exact explanation of where the “second Sun” suddenly appeared from, and even at night. However, some believe that the ball arose due to the reflection of the lights of the city on specially located ice crystals in the atmosphere - that night Chelyabinsk was covered with thick cold fog.
3. Sakhalin monster
The remains of an unknown creature were found by the Russian army on the coast of Sakhalin Island in September 2006. According to the structure of the skull, the monster somewhat resembles a crocodile, but the rest of the skeleton is completely different from any other. known to science reptile. It also cannot be attributed to fish, and the locals, to whom the soldiers showed the find, could not identify in it any creature living in these waters. The remnants of animal tissues have been preserved, and, judging by them, it was covered with wool. The body was quickly picked up by representatives of the special services, and its further study took place "behind closed doors."
Now most experts are inclined to believe that these were the remains of some kind of cetacean, according to some versions, killer whales or beluga whales, but others object that the creature differs from both of them in its skeleton. As an alternative to the "accepted" point of view, one can name the opinion that the remains belonged to a prehistoric animal, which probably still survived in the depths of the oceans.
4. Seeing off the mermaid
Mermaids are one of the main characters of the Russian folklore. According to legend, these spirits living in water bodies are born as a result of the painful death of women and children, and rumor has it that meeting with a mermaid does not bode well: they often seduce men, luring them into the abyss of a lake or swamp, steal children, scare animals and generally behave not too decently. According to tradition, in order for the year to be successful and fertile, the villagers brought various gifts to the mermaids, sang songs about them and danced in honor of these restless souls.
Of course, now such beliefs are far from being as common as in the old days, however, in some parts of Russia, rituals associated with mermaids still take place. The most significant of them is the so-called Mermaid Week (also known as Trinity Week or Seeing the Mermaid) - the week preceding the Trinity (50th day after Easter).
The main part of the ritual is the making and destruction of a stuffed mermaid, accompanied by fun, music and dancing. During Mermaid Week, women do not wash their hair to protect themselves from spirits, and men carry garlic and walnuts with them for the same purpose. Of course, at this time it is strictly forbidden to enter the water - so as not to be dragged away by some bored mermaid.
5. Russian Roswell
Rocket military range near the village of Kapustin Yar in the northwest Astrakhan region often found in reports of the most strange and inexplicable incidents. Various UFOs and other curious phenomena are observed here with surprising regularity. Because of the most high-profile case of this kind, Kapustin Yar was nicknamed Russian Roswell by analogy with the city in the US state of New Mexico, where, according to some assumptions, an alien ship crashed in 1947.
Almost a year after the Roswell incident, on June 19, 1948, a silvery cigar-shaped object appeared in the sky over Kapustin Yar. On alarm, three MiG interceptors were raised into the air, and one of them managed to knock out a UFO. The "Cigar" immediately fired a beam at the fighter, and it crashed to the ground, unfortunately, the pilot did not have time to eject. The silvery object also fell in the vicinity of Kapustin Yar, and it was immediately transported to the bunker of the landfill.
Of course, many have questioned this information more than once, but some documents of the State Security Committee, declassified in 1991, indicate that the military has repeatedly seen something over Kapustin Yar that does not yet fit into the framework of modern science.
6. Ninel Kulagina
During the Second World War, then Nina Sergeevna Kulagina served as a radio operator in a tank and participated in the defense northern capital. As a result of her injury, she was commissioned, and after the blockade of Leningrad was lifted, she married and gave birth to a child.
In the early 1960s, she became famous throughout Soviet Union like Ninel Kulagina - a psychic and the owner of other paranormal abilities. She could heal people with the power of her mind, determine color with the touch of her fingers, see through the fabric that lies in people's pockets, move objects at a distance, and much more. Her gift was often studied and tested by specialists from various institutions, including secret scientific institutes, and many testified that Ninel was either an extremely clever charlatan or actually possessed anomalous skills.
There is no conclusive evidence for the former, although some former employees The Soviet research institute assures that when demonstrating "supernatural" abilities, Kulagin used various tricks and sleight of hand, which was known to the KGB experts investigating her activities.
Until her death in 1990, Ninel Kulagina was considered one of the most powerful psychics of the 20th century, and those associated with her unexplained phenomena received the designation "K-phenomenon".
7. Dragon from Brosno
Lake Brosno, located in the Tver region, is the deepest freshwater lake in Europe, but it is known to the whole world mainly because of the mysterious creature that the locals believe lives in it.
According to numerous (but, unfortunately, not documented) stories, an animal about five meters long, resembling something like a dragon, has been seen in the lake more than once, although almost all observers describe it differently. One of the local legends says that a long time ago, the "dragon from Brosno" was eaten by the Tatar-Mongolian warriors, who made a halt on the shore of the lake. According to another story, in the middle of Brosno, an "island" suddenly appeared, which disappeared after a while - it is assumed that it was the back of a huge unknown beast.
Although there is no reliable information about the monster supposedly living in the lake, many agree that some oddities do sometimes occur in Brosno and its environs.
8. Space Defense Troops
Russia has always sought to protect itself from all possible external (and internal) threats, and recently the security of its space borders has also been included in the defensive interests of our Motherland. To repel an attack from outer space, the Space Forces were created in 2001, and in 2011, the Space Defense Forces (VKO) were formed on their basis.
The tasks of this branch of the military include mainly the organization of missile defense and the control of military satellites coordinating it, although the command also considers the possibility of aggression from alien races. True, in early October of this year, answering the question of whether the East Kazakhstan region was ready for an attack by aliens, Sergey Berezhnoy, assistant head of the Main Test space center named after German Titov, said: "Unfortunately, we are not yet ready to fight extraterrestrial civilizations." Let's hope the aliens don't know about it.
9. Ghosts of the Kremlin
There are few places in our country that can compare with the Moscow Kremlin in terms of mystery and the number of ghost stories that are found there. For several centuries it has served as the main stronghold of Russian statehood, and, according to legend, the restless souls of the victims of the struggle for it (and with it) still roam the Kremlin corridors and dungeons.
Some say that in the Ivan the Great Bell Tower you can sometimes hear the cries and groans of Ivan the Terrible, atoning for his sins. Others mention that they saw the spirit of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin in the Kremlin, moreover, three months before his death, when the leader of the world proletariat was seriously ill and no longer left his residence in Gorki. But the most famous ghost of the Kremlin is, of course, the spirit of Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, who appears whenever shocks await the country. The ghost is cold, and sometimes he seems to be trying to say something, perhaps warning the leadership of the state against mistakes.
10. Black bird of Chernobyl
A few days before the infamous accident of the fourth power unit Chernobyl nuclear power plant four station personnel reported seeing what appeared to be a huge dark man with wings and glowing red eyes. Most of all, this description resembles the so-called Mothman - mysterious creature, which allegedly appeared repeatedly in the city of Point Pleasant american state West Virginia.
The workers of the Chernobyl station who met the fantastic monster claimed that after the meeting they received several threatening calls and almost everyone began to have vivid, incredibly scary nightmares.
On April 26, the nightmare happened not in the dreams of the employees, but at the station itself, and the amazing stories were forgotten, but only on a short time: while extinguishing the fire that raged after the explosion, survivors of the flames said that they clearly saw a 6-meter black bird, which flew out of the clubs of radioactive smoke that fell from the destroyed fourth block.
11. Well to Hell
In 1984, Soviet geologists started ambitious project drilling an ultra-deep well on the Kola Peninsula. The main goal was to satisfy scientific research curiosity and to test the fundamental possibility of such a deep penetration into the thickness of the planet.
According to legend, when the drill reached a depth of about 12 km, the instruments registered strange sounds coming from the depths and most of all resembling screams and groans. In addition, voids were found at great depths, the temperature in which reached 1100 ° C. Some even reported a demon flying out of a well and a flaming "I have conquered" sign appearing in the sky after terrifying screams were heard from a hole in the ground.
All this gave rise to rumors that Soviet scientists drilled a "well into hell", but many of the "evidence" does not stand up scientific criticism: for example, it is documented that the temperature at the lowest point reached by the drill was 220 °C.
Perhaps David Mironovich Guberman, one of the authors and project managers of the Kola super-deep well, told the best about the “well”: “When I am asked about this mysterious story, I don’t know what to answer. On the one hand, stories about the "demon" are bullshit. On the other hand, as an honest scientist, I cannot say that I know what exactly happened here. Indeed, a very strange noise was recorded, then there was an explosion ... A few days later, nothing of the kind was found at the same depth.
There are many fans in the world who watch films about paranormal phenomena, poltergeist and other supernatural things. Even scientists cannot unravel them, they make the blood run cold, but still pictures about these psychophysical phenomena continue to gather full halls in cinemas. So it was with the first part of the film "Paranormal Activity", filmed by the Americans in 2007 and demonstrated to the public in 2009.
After viewing, the audience dubbed the horror movie itself scary picture. But what is the secret of this film? Why does he scare the audience so much? Is it really based on real events, or is the plot of the picture all just a figment of the (and very violent) director Oren Peli's imagination? We may be able to answer some of these questions.
At the core storyline life lies ordinary at first glance married couple. Katie and Mika moved to live in a house in the vicinity of San Diego and then strange things began to happen to them, which can be called paranormal. For several weeks in a row, the couple hear strange sounds in the house and feel someone's presence.
It turns out that for main character from the age of eight, a certain entity walks. But as soon as the couple sets up a camera in their bedroom to film it, terrible things begin to happen in the house: objects are turned over, doors open, inhuman sounds and bites. When the couple invites a psychic, he says that a demon lives next to the heroes. However, Mika does not want to call a specialist, but tries to get in touch with evil spirits.
An angry demon chasing Cathy frightens the spouses, and eventually, having moved into a woman, kills Mika. The film has several endings, one of which is official, and the other two are alternative options. In the first ending, Micah flies into the room in a blood-stained robe, while Cathy walks up to the camera and smiles terrifyingly. This is where the film ends. In the credits, it is later written that in the morning the police, called by the neighbors, find the body of Mika, and Katie does not remember anything about the events of the previous night.
The opinion of film critics and ordinary viewers
For film critics strange picture Shot with one camera, I liked it. Most of them gave her a positive assessment. Overall, Paranormal Activity received 88% "good" reviews. WITH technical side, the film is shot very realistically, there are sound and special effects, there is a sense of documentary, a gradual and unhurried development of events.
Viewer reviews were divided into two categories. Some claimed that they were absolutely not afraid to watch the film. Others said they had never seen anything worse in their lives. It is strange that the picture was low-budget, and before and after it, the “filmmakers” shot more than one horror movie that could scare and interest much more.
Among the reviews, one can also find opinions that everything in the film looks “cheap and feigned”, and there are only two main characters, which also does not capture. Experts called the picture a very successful project of the director, on which only 15 thousand dollars were spent, and ten times more was collected.
The veracity of the facts from the picture
According to director Oren Peli, who also wrote the script for the film, the film is based on events that supposedly happened to him in reality. However, experts called "Paranormal Activity" pseudo-documentary. Why? Because documentaries are filmed based on proven facts, using the assessments of scientists and specialists, in this issue- psychics. In the same case, none of the physicists, parapsychologists, sorcerers and other professionals confirmed the presence in the house of Mr. Peli, who rented his "brainchild" in his own country home, of any otherworldly entity.
The first part of the film shows usual life average American family. These frames do not resemble an excerpt from a horror movie, but rather scenes from a sitcom or a reality show in general. However, the transformation begins later. All special effects become more obvious and frightening. This is the "realism" of the film.
Theoretically, such events can occur in real life. Mainstream science has confirmed that there may be non-material things that we cannot see with the naked eye. Electromagnetic fields, ghosts or demons - all these specialists and curious people have repeatedly tried to fix with the help of powerful equipment. But such attempts were rarely successful. It is hard to believe that some otherworldly entity showed itself on a regular camera or a person like Mika from the film could record his voice.
There is some truth in Paranormal Activity, because the events described in the film could actually happen. But everything that happens in the picture scares us by the fact that it is shown close to reality, but is not shown “in all its glory”, completely, and therefore, as it were, stands on the verge between two worlds - the real and the other world.
Since the human psyche tends to fantasize and give out various images that appear in dreams, sometimes there is an obsessive feeling of the presence of someone else if the person is himself in a room in a completely enclosed space. All of the above tricks and "did their job." As a result, such an objective reality appeared before the viewer, which can “hinder the brain” and frighten in earnest.
Recall that most often films show fictitious facts that, in order to attract the public, can be veiled and hidden under the mask of realism. As for paranormal activity, then experts say that of all the reports of poltergeist, ghosts and demons that "played pranks" in the houses different people, only no more than 10 percent have been proven.
Ghost stories and other paranormal stories are tens of hundreds of cases that defy material reality. From time to time we encounter such mystical horror that it is impossible to believe in it.
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The next few "fairy tales" range from slightly creepy to downright scary, but they all have one common feature: there is no reasonable explanation for them. - Please don't read. Mystic stories before going to bed - take care of your psyche.
Voices in a woman's head.
In 1984, a woman was quietly reading a book while at home. Suddenly, a clear voice sounded in her head, saying to her, Please don't be afraid. I know how shocking this conversation is for you, but it's the easiest way to communicate. My friend and I worked at the Children's Hospital and would like to help you. You are sick.
After a series of medical tests, including psychological tests, the patient was diagnosed with a large benign brain tumor. Moreover, the mysterious voice continued to speak to her during medical testing.
After the completion of the operation to remove the tumor, the patient, having come to her senses, heard a voice in last time A: We were glad to help you. Farewell.
The woman did not report any post-surgical problems and did not hear her voice again. A study of the patient and the mysterious voice in her head that diagnosed the brain tumor was published by the British Medical Journal (BMJ).
An imaginary friend or relative?
My grandfather passed away a few weeks after I was born. You know, I've never seen what he looks like. When I was 5 years old, I started seeing a person in a rocking chair. My parents thought it was an "imaginary friend" from dreams. But they were more and more surprised when I told them the details of the conversation.
Finally, my parents asked me more about it. I told them every detail I could remember and they showed me a photograph of the man. This was my grandfather.
Today I am 22, and I feel my grandfather somewhere in the background. I remember when I dreamed of graduating high school, and looked at the stands, I saw him next to his parents. I like to think that he watches over me from where he is.
Past life experience?
A few years ago, when my daughter was just over three years old, my husband and I watched a TV show about the horror of 9/11. It was the day of the anniversary of the event. My daughter, who was coloring pictures nearby, looked up as a plane appeared on the screen, hitting one of the buildings of the World shopping center. Suddenly she told us: "I died there."
Then she just went back to her pictures as if she hadn't said a word. We never spoke to her about the concept of death and never discussed 9/11.Since then, the daughter has never spoken about it, but now, if something appears on TV about 9/11, she says: "I don't want to watch it."
Skeleton of Hampton Court Palace.
Hampton Court Palace is considered one of the most haunted buildings in England. According to their website, the castle is haunted by at least three ghosts.
Skeleton from Hampton Court Palace. England is a world of conservatism, a palace without a ghost is a hut
Katherine Howard - was repeatedly seen by palace employees and guests. Sybil Penn - a ghost wandering around the palace, apparently worried that her grave was moved back in 1829.
However, the most notable "inhabitant" of the palace has to be the "Skeleton", spooky ghost, caught by the Palace's CCTV cameras in 2003. Palace representatives explain on their website:
For three consecutive days, palace security personnel were forced to close one of the fire doors… On the first day, CCTV footage showed the doors being thrown wide open with great force, but nothing could be seen.
On the second day, the same thing happened, but this time on the screen unexpectedly in evening dress and closed the doors. They add: The doors opened again on the third day, but there was no more sign of the ghostly "gatekeeper".
Maybe it's the ghost famous resident palace Henry VIII? You can watch the video on YouTube for yourself.
Papa Doppelganger (double) *
About ten years ago (I was 8 years old at the time), I visited my father at his house. My stepmother was in the kitchen and I was in the common room. We both saw him in a red flannel shirt and blue jeans coming up the stairs. I called my father and followed him. My father turned and looked at me as he climbed the top step and turned the corner.
I called my father again. Suddenly, unexpectedly, from the living room, dad raised his head over the couch and asked what I wanted. He slept on the couch all the time, but my stepmother and I saw him coming up the stairs from the living room.
It was the most impossible thing I have ever seen. Both my stepmother and I still remember it and talk about it to this day. And everything happened in good daylight, so it was not some kind of supernatural illusion of the night.
Wilson Hall, Ohio University.
Room 428 at Wilson Hall is permanently closed. To students from Ohio University, the ninth oldest state university United States, it is not allowed to look into the room due to numerous reports of ghosts and dangerous ghost activity.
Wilson Hall was reportedly built on top of an Indian burial (that always ends badly). Spiritualists argue; the building is located in the center of a pentagram formed by five ancient cemeteries, giving this geographic location additional strengths of either security or evil.
In the 1970s, a student died under mysterious (unexplained) circumstances in room 428. Years later, a student used what she perceived as "energy" in the room to practice "astral projection" rituals.
In such a practice, the human spirit (or consciousness) is said to leave the body and can travel at will. One day she cut her own wrists.
Ever since the two deaths here, everyone in the room has reported a terrible terrible phenomena at any time of the day or night. Objects flew through the room and smashed against the walls. The students heard voices, whispering and even hysterically screaming, although no one was there.
The door often opened and then closed on its own. Worse than that, demonic faces appeared right on the wooden panel of the room's door. And although the school changed the door several times, the exhausted, disgusting faces reappeared.
Eventually, the room became too intimidating, and the university, fearful that another student death might occur, decided to permanently close the door. It's the only one famous case when the room is closed due to up to this day.
We are used to believing, or rather we are convinced that the world around us lives according to established and familiar laws, but is it so?
- (German: Doppelganger - doppelgänger) a mysterious creature with the ability to polymorphism. Creation is able to recreate the image of a person indistinguishable from the original.
When I thought about meeting Slavka Firsov during the first years of his imprisonment, I kept wondering: would I be able to shake his hand after my release? He is not just my neighbor in the stairwell, we got up with him at three o'clock in the morning, so as not to miss the first bite, climbed other people's gardens, played football and fought "yard to yard" in one team, clung to freight wagons on the go. Sorting is a shebutny microdistrict, living side by side brings them together tightly. But over time, in the turmoil of affairs, I remembered my childhood friend less and less, I had enough of my own problems. Yes, and our paths diverged long before that terrible crime. Different interests after school led to different companies - a common thing. I studied at the institute, he was a driver, sometimes they drank at each other's birthday party ... And yet, belonging to the same team made itself felt. Everyone could count on the help of a neighbor. After midnight let in and understand. But… when a police UAZ car took him away in the morning, and ominous rumors spread along the street, something turned over in me.
Various concepts of time
When, last year, the freed Slavka suddenly appeared in front of me at the entrance, I remembered my experiences. He extended his hand first, and I automatically reached for it. Embarrassed by the handshake, he rubbed his fingers, which had become numb from his “pincers,” and filled the pause with a stupid question: “Did you come at all, or did you go on vacation for good behavior?”
The undersized, strong man slashed his gray narrowed eyes with a blade: “But what, twelve years is not enough? Has it gone fast? Indeed, for me, these years passed like one day. To him, they must have been painfully slow. But neither I nor he talked about it anymore.
In the life of Slavka, everything was collected little by little, as, indeed, with everyone in our company. His father drank heavily, but he did not attack his son with his fists, he moderately quarreled with his wife, an eternally sloppy woman, crammed with work on a piece of iron.
At school, Slavka studied for solid triples, but as for the street ... Here we all behaved rather wildly: we smoked bulls, put huge nails under the wheels of the train, so that later we could turn them into knives, fired at sparrows from slingshots.
But what is surprising is that Slavka not only did not show cruelty to, he always felt sorry for them. Which means it was kind person, in fact. At home, he kept a cat, which he fattened so that it was terrible to look at.
Once I saw Slavka's minion and the lazy one nimbly crawling along the birch trunk to the birdhouse, from which the voices of the chicks were already heard. I attached the birdhouse and therefore decided to teach the cat a lesson properly. Slavka was not at home. We caught him Senka and whipped him with a rod.
But when the cat, distraught with fear, was released, he was intercepted by a hooligan guy of about sixteen, he threw a rope loop around the neck of the heart-rendingly meowing poor fellow. The cat still escaped. Dragging a rope behind him, he jumped onto a tree, but suddenly fell off the branch and hung on this noose ...
We buried Senka outside the gardens and wept bitterly together with Slavka. They thought for a long time how to take revenge on the lanky one. They decided to throw stones at his windows at night.
Warbler threw fragments of bricks with a special frenzy. By the way, maybe after that he became very hardened? Probably not. Soon he got himself another cat ... Our life was so fast-paced, stormy, eventful, that no one was confined to one, even a very sad incident.
From Slavkin's short letters from the army, I learned a lot of interesting things about his life. After training in Mulino, he ended up in Kizil-Arvat, where instead of moonshine, sergeants bought half a liter of water for a dime, and scorpions threatened the servicemen with instant death during the mating season.
Then Slavka froze twice in Nerengi. But the Yakut frosts did not break his cheerful character. Everywhere he was a "social" person, a "zainschik", ready for a friend to give the last piece of bread. In his heart, he was still a noisy kid, a thrill-seeker.
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Slavka not only did not show cruelty to his younger brothers, he always felt sorry for them, which means he was a kind person
Scary unexplained facts
Maybe they arrested him for the first time because of this craving for adventure. Having settled down at the motor depot as a GAZik driver, a month later he was caught stealing spare parts. They gave me two years of chemistry. Worked in Dzerzhinsk as a driver. For a week he lived under supervision, and on weekends he was allowed to go home.
By that time, he managed to get married, and at home, in addition to his parents, his wife was waiting for him with baby. Sometimes Slavka didn't come home for the weekend and warned his family in advance: don't worry, they say, the police won't let him go. And at that time he himself was resting with his mistress Lida. He met her there, in Dzerzhinsk.
Warbler, apparently, liked this way of life very much: they are waiting everywhere, meeting everywhere, not burdened with worries. Suddenly, Lida admitted that she was expecting a child from him.
The neighbors later said that she flatly refused to have an abortion. Maybe from the heart of Vyacheslav. Yes, and she, a girl from the countryside, in a huge city with black and orange smoke, had no one but Vyacheslav.
Financially well-off, she expected from him, above all, moral support. And then the most mysterious thing happened, which, it seems, is impossible to decide in your right mind.
Released on Friday after a day's work, Vyacheslav went home to see Lida. I had a hearty supper, drinking several glasses of vodka to appetise. After the caressed and tired Lida fell asleep soundly, he strangled her with a pillow. And, as if nothing had happened, he returned to his home. A week later, the police came for him.
Police - detention The body of the strangled woman was not immediately found. Neighbors smelled a suspicious smell from the room. They called the police, who broke down the door. Finding the killer was no big deal.
Less and less often, Nina Ivanovna, Vyacheslav's mother, came out to chat with her neighbors at the entrance. And if she met someone, she immediately started a conversation about him. And she usually ended it like this: “Maybe for exemplary work they will knock off three or four years old ...”
The neighbors winked, gloating over the eccentric "upstart" ... Vyacheslav's father did not wait for his son from the zone. He turned yellow, emaciated face. Returning from treatment, he would say: “I drank my liver, I drank it clean ...” Cirrhosis quickly twisted it.
And Nina Ivanovna, left alone, increasingly began to leave somewhere early in the morning, returning by late evening. No one knew where she was disappearing for days, when suddenly one of the gossips explained: “Ninka is begging!”
It turns out that one of her acquaintances in the Middle Market saw her in a patched robe. Nina Ivanovna deliberately chose a place away from the Sorting. Carried overalls in a bag. She changed clothes behind the trading tents and begged alms from compassionate citizens near them.
Terrible life events
When Slava returned from prison, he was 36. And still he looked young. Unless the wrinkles spoiled the "sign" a little. He cheerfully, as if nothing had happened, began a new life.
He moved his wife and 12-year-old son to his mother's apartment. It remains only to guess what his "half" experienced, having learned about the infidelity of his spouse and such a heinous crime. And yet they connected. They almost became a friendly family. Almost. Because the past unwittingly avenged itself. No one else saw even a hint of a smile on the faces of Slava and Lyuda.
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And then the most mysterious and terrible thing happened, which, it seems, is impossible to decide in your right mind
One evening Slavka came to me with a bottle. We sat and drank, but I saw that he was not comfortable, something was eating him.
- You, Slavka, if you want to tell something, do not be shy, you know, I can. I took him by the shoulder reassuringly.
And then he told me another one of his.
You know, bro, I thought this murder story was forever in the past. What came over me then, I don't know. All the years of imprisonment I thought about it, but I never figured it out. I was definitely not myself then. And only recently began to understand.
You see, in those days I was painfully loving. Yes, you yourself know. Couldn't let a pretty girl pass by. Although I knew that I was doing it wrong, it was as if a demon was pushing me from the inside. Then I met another girl - Larisa. I rarely met her, you know, his wife, Lidka.
In short, three months later, I told Larisa that I could no longer maintain a relationship with her. She didn’t ask, didn’t cry, she just glared angrily, said: “Do you really just want to get rid of me? No, it won't work!"
- What are you going to do to me?
- I'll break your life! She got up, slammed the door and left.
After some time, I began to observe strange things. Believe me, I periodically began to fall out of real life. One day I woke up, I was standing near my truck in the field, some village in the distance. How did I get here, why did I come here. The time is seven o'clock in the evening, and the last thing I remember was washing the glass in the garage in the morning. I drove up to the village, it turned out that I was a hundred kilometers from the city.
It happened again: I went to work, woke up in the evening in a pub. At work, it turns out, was not, where he spent time, I do not know. I had to go to a doctor I knew the next day, so that he would make a certificate for me, otherwise absenteeism would be counted. Several times similar stories happened to me.
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After the caressed and tired Lida fell asleep soundly, he strangled her with a pillow. And, as if nothing had happened, he returned to his home
Strange unexplained cases
When this mess with Lida happened, I also fell out of reality. I remember when I came to her. And then ... I'm already sitting at home in front of the TV. I began to remember what was there? Nothing... black abyss... And only then I was arrested. But at the time I had no idea why.
By the way, during the investigation, I told the investigator about these cases. They even took me to a psychiatric examination, but they recognized me as sane. Yes, I myself knew that I was sane, but I could not explain these memory lapses.
But, most importantly, then I completely forgot about this Larisa, whom I had so vilely abandoned, I forgot literally the next day, when we parted. It's like she never existed. I forgot not only her, but in general everything that was connected with her. But that doesn't happen either. Although they did not know each other for long, they had to remember from time to time. No, not once in all my years of imprisonment. Although there all my life in seconds I rewatched more than one hundred times.
And then the day before yesterday I was on the bus, I saw a woman standing at the bus stop. And I got shot. After all, I know her. Something in her life is connected, something extremely important and disturbing. All day long I couldn’t find peace, it doesn’t appear in any way. And only at night I remembered, I woke up covered in sweat. It's Larisa! The one that I abandoned, and which promised to break my life!
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When Slava returned from prison, he was 36. And still he looked young. Unless the wrinkles slightly spoiled the "sign"
Deal with an unknown entity
And then I realized one more thing - it's not my fault for the murder, but she! How she did it, I don't know. Maybe she herself possesses some, maybe she asked someone to bring damage or cast a spell, or maybe she entered into a contract with an unearthly force, an entity unknown to us. But it's definitely her!
- And what are you going to do? I was shocked by his story.
- You know, he nervously lit a cigarette, it seems to me that she also saw me and recognized me. Now we have to leave, the whole family. Otherwise, something terrible might happen again.
We sat a little longer, finished our vodka, and he was going home.
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It's not my fault for the murder, it's that girl! How she did it, I don't know. Maybe she herself has some kind of unearthly power, or she cast a spell, or maybe she entered into a contract with an unearthly power
A month later, Slavka ran again.
- I came to say goodbye. Found a job in Khabarovsk. I'm leaving tomorrow. While my wife is here, she will deal with the exchange of an apartment and then with her family to me.
I nodded in understanding.
- Are you afraid?
- Afraid. Not for myself, you know, I'm afraid for my family.
I nodded again. Someone, but Slavka was never a coward.
Time has passed. The Firsov family has been living in Khabarovsk for five years now. All of them are good. Slavka became the head of his car depot. True, small, even by the scale of the car depot.
We sometimes call back, but every year less and less. Everyone has their own life.
When humanity stands at a crossroads, most often its fate is decided by forces beyond the comprehension of mortals. By the way, usually those who have power control everything, and this is the government and military leaders, they can influence many things. Basically - unleashing wars among themselves, making great scientific discoveries or spying on the population.
The most important historical events- the flight of the first man into space and two World Wars - occurred under the influence of forces inaccessible to ordinary people. Sometimes these forces treat the world like a toy for their own whim. Sometimes they even have an intangible origin ...
Most stories about paranormal phenomena can be explained by optical illusion, the play of light, calling fiction and outright lies. People don't believe what they don't understand. However, such phenomena can leave their deepest mark in the annals of history, changing the world, even if most people do not believe in their existence.
A person tends to doubt incomprehensible things. And if many people are witnessing phenomena that cannot be explained, the world often has to accept the fact that such things exist. So, here are ten unexplained paranormal phenomena that have changed the world: from UFOs, the existence of which the Pope himself admitted, to the damned Bermuda Triangle.
10 The Miracle Of The Sun Recognized By The Catholic Church
How long does it take to admit that an event has changed history? And what about the recognition of it by the Roman Catholic Church itself? Yes, even with the subsequent canonization? The Miracle of the Sun was finally recognized as a valid biblical miracle on October 13, 1930, twenty years after the event itself. It became a sensation.
Around noon on Sunday, October 13, 1917, in the city of Fatima in Portugal, thousands of people who were at that time on the street witnessed the appearance of an opaque rotating disk against a stormy sky, directing a blinding beam of light at a crowd of onlookers, many of whom could distinguish in the center of the disk image of the Holy Virgin Mary.
This phenomenon actually happened, 30,000-100,000 people were observed different ages, was recognized as a true miracle by the Roman Catholic Church. Despite some attempts to explain it with cosmic dust or the play of light, science still failed to unravel the nature of this phenomenon.
9. Curse that takes lives
The butterfly effect has been described in many fantasy stories about time travel, which doesn't necessarily mean that someone has to die. Kill Hitler, save Abby Lincoln or whatever, history will change immediately. As soon as someone dies, the influence of this person on the course of history is immediately forgotten.
Which is why the poltergeist curse doesn't seem so special. Most have heard of this curse from various sequels or a remake of Toby Hooper's classic haunted house, or from a know-it-all friend talking about how Steven Spielberg actually made this movie.
Spielberg is certainly responsible for the untimely death of dozens of people who starred in his films. And all due to the fact that in his first film he used real human bones, not props. Since then, an inexplicable curse has claimed the lives of the main cast as a result of various tragic or violent circumstances, even the screenwriter died in a car accident.
8. Forever locked haunted room
Even if room number 428 left a very small mark on history, it is still no less significant. The stories about the presence of ghosts in one of the rooms of the student dormitory at the Ohio University in Athens have a ten-year history, starting with the construction of Wilson Hall, a residence not only for students, but also the ghost of a person who died during mysterious circumstances in the seventies.
Stories still differ, according to some, the spirit of a young woman killed in a cruel occult ritual lives here, according to others, astral projections of former residents were seen here, and, of course, ending with stories about ghosts seen by students and teachers, and paranormal activity - objects raised and thrown into the air.
Since then, Room 428 of Wilson Hall has been tightly sealed. This is not a joke or a publicity stunt by Ohio University, this room is in all seriousness declared uninhabitable, which is why it is closed, and no one has ever entered it since. Not counting, of course, the crew of SyFy's haunted house reality show.
7. The Roswell disaster turned the world upside down
If you've ever heard of Roswell, it's either because you're a child of the nineties, when the quality of talk shows left much to be desired, or because you're aware of the conspiracy theory that fueled the love of soap operas in the first place. scientific stories about aliens. Nearly seventy years later, the story still gives me goosebumps.
Many still do not believe that the Roswell incident can be explained by the fall of a meteorological probe (or a Soviet spy satellite), being sure that the presence of a state secret in the case of an unidentified flying object that suddenly fell to the ground proves that the United States made contact with aliens. Area 51 is hidden from outsiders for a reason.
Even if the UFO was not involved, and there was no autopsy of the alien body, which the popular hosts Ant and Dec talked about in their programs, the incident itself became a landmark for lovers of the paranormal and changed pop culture so much that the mere mention of the word "Roswell" causes association with flying saucers. On this occasion, Google even came up with a new doodle!
6. SWAT guys win success
The American military, in order to defeat enemies, often resort to all sorts of strange, esoteric, incomprehensible common man methods. Not so long ago they tried to create a "gay bomb" that, when exploded, would force the enemy armies to drop their weapons and start making love to each other, then there are cases when the CIA drugged people with LSD to brainwash them, and finally, a small project called Stargate.
Unfortunately, this project has nothing to do with the unexpectedly long-running series (by the way, a remake by Roland Emmerich is expected soon). Its details came to light through John Ronson's nonfiction book, The Goat Staring People, later adapted into the film Mad SWAT, starring George Clooney, Jeff Bridges, and Kevin Spacey.
In the seventies, many representatives of the hippie movement were accepted into the ranks of the US Army in order to study possible ways application of software and remote control programs in weapons. Including the method of continuously watching goats until they die. It is obvious that the common soldier or hippie soldier was not trained in the use of such weapons, but their innovative methods were applied at the siege of Mount Carmel.
5. Ancient Artifacts- evidence of ignorance of history
According to current estimates - based on paleontological data, etc. It is believed that humanity appeared on Earth about 200,000 years ago. However, it took us a very long time to evolve from primitive primates.
But then how to explain the Dropa stones, discs, whose age is 12,000 years old, covered with fine hieroglyphic symbols? Or even more obscure spheres from Klerksdorp, found in mines in South Africa, which are about 3 billion years old, as well as consisting of pyrophyllite and having depressions and carved grooves around the entire circumference? Pay attention to 10 historical mysteries.
No one knows. Seriously, scientists have been puzzling over these mysteries for years. Ufologists say that these things came from extraterrestrial guests who once arrived on the nascent planet, but why didn’t they take evidence of crafts and language with them? Perhaps they left them to inspire the first people to develop civilization.
4. Morgellon's disease, or a disease that is not recognized
A large number of stories about zombies - movies, books, games, etc. - have an inspiring effect on a person, it begins to seem to him that not everything is in order with him. News that tells about another infectious disease that the world has not seen before is most often accompanied by speeches by representatives of the US Center for Disease Control, saying that they have not encountered anything like this before.
What is happening now. CDC officials set the record by saying they are not sure if Morgellon's disease is really a disease that causes painful sores all over the body, if it is contagious, and that for now it has been defined as "unexplained dermopathy."
Changes are inevitable, they will occur along with a change in the physiology of the sick. Some tend to consider Morgellon's disease to be complete nonsense, that people actually think that they are sick, only the cause of the occurrence of real boils all over the body is still unclear. A terrible disease that no one really understands.
3. Disappearances in bermuda triangle
There is still heated debate about what is really happening in the Bermuda Triangle (according to some estimates, its size is from 804 to 2,430 square kilometers, located in the ocean between Miami, Puerto Rico and Bermuda), but it is possible with confidence say that a huge number of boats, aircraft and other modes of transport that have ever fallen into this area have never been selected from it.
Despite a large number of disappearances, he was never included in last list Top 10 dangerous waters for shipping. Some suggest that UFOs abduct people in this place, while others believe that Atlantis once was in this place, and it is there, in the obscure darkness of the ocean, that people are drawn.
However, something strange is definitely happening in the Bermuda Triangle, as evidenced by the numerous disappearances of civilian and military vehicles. Bombers and warships, all of which mysteriously disappeared here, contributed to the actual number of victims of World War II.
2. Noises from a parallel world underwater
People spend so much time watching the stars in search of strange and wonderful creatures, forgetting that the Earth holds many more surprises. In the end, we still have not explored 95% of the oceans due to the impossibility of being at certain depths due to pressure drops. Can you imagine what strange creatures can live deep in the depths of the oceans?
It is worth remembering a sound like a roar, a low-frequency powerful noise recorded by experts from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration deep under water, which no one has ever heard before. It can be compared to the sound of shaking ice blocks, broken parts of the glacier that fell into the water.
Some managed to record this sound very well, but for someone it turned out not so well. The sound itself was found in Pacific Ocean at a depth of 1,760 km, not far from the place where, according to the stories of Howard Lovecraft, Cthulhu himself lives, the lord of the worlds, which in itself is terrifying. It is clear that there is no Cthulhu there, but the roar at the bottom of the ocean once again reminded us that below, and not just high in the sky, there may be intelligent life that is waiting in the wings.
1. Battle of Los Angeles vs Aliens
The Battle of Los Angeles is arguably one of the most widely publicized and still unsolved mysteries in history. modern history. Facts remain facts: on the night of February 24-25, 1942, the US military was alerted in response to an attack by an unknown enemy army in the sky over California.
The incident took place shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, when America had just entered the Second World War. world war and everyone was on edge. In any case, the air defense forces would not have deployed such heavy anti-aircraft artillery fire if the reason was really insignificant. At first they thought that this was the second attack of the Japanese army, but then this version was abandoned.
Secretary of the Navy Franklin Knox called the incident a "false alarm" but was unable to explain the source of the light that caused all the fuss. Ufologists consider this case one of the most significant evidence of paranormal activity in history, the first contact proving that aliens are not at all friendly towards people.
But even if the Battle of Los Angeles is not the first meeting of humans and aliens, it had a different, more tangible impact on history: since then, the number of reports of UFO sightings and military interventions has grown exponentially ...
