The stories you read here are real. They all deserve to be the basis for a good horror blockbuster. Some of them have already attracted the attention of Hollywood and they are already preparing to shoot or make films. But none of them have hit the big screen yet.
Edison spirit machine
Thomas Edison is without a doubt one of the greatest inventors of all time. And although pictures of his life and his creations have appeared many times in films and on television, the story of Edison's most unusual invention has not yet hit the big screen. It's a pity.
In 1920, Edison conceived the idea of creating a machine that would allow him to communicate with representatives of other dimensions. This machine, as conceived by the inventor, was supposed to make it easier for newcomers from the “other world” to communicate with relatives and friends who remained in “this world”. That is, it would be a much more advanced alternative to the Ouija board.
Whether Edison built his spirit machine and what happened to this invention - history is silent.
Hotel horrorCecil
Eliza Lam's story was the last spooky story to take place at the Cecil Hotel and get a lot of publicity, but it's far from the only one. In the 50s and 60s of the last century, many murders and suicides took place here.
In 1964, a woman named Pigeon Goldie Osgood was found in her hotel room with multiple stab wounds to her body. Notorious serial killers Richard Ramirez and Jack Unterweger stayed at this hotel before they started killing.
In the same hotel, Elizabeth Short, known as the Black Dahlia, was last seen alive. Her body was later found on an abandoned plot of land, cut in two at the waist and dismembered (the external and internal genitals, as well as the nipples, were removed). The woman's mouth was slashed open to create a semblance of a sinister smile.
Silverpilen ghost train
The story of the Silverpillen (meaning "silver arrow") train is one of the most famous urban legends in Sweden. A train with this name really existed and was decommissioned in 1996.
Since then, workers have regularly reported the ghost of this train in the abandoned tunnels of the Stockholm subway after midnight. Some witnesses claim to have seen passengers boarding the ghost train who were never seen again. Most often, a ghost train is seen at the unfinished Kymlinge station.
UFO crash in the Berwyn Mountains
On January 23, 1974, the inhabitants of the villages of Llandderfell and Llandrillo were frightened by a terrible roar in the mountains. The earth shook and a bright flash lit up the evening sky.
Seismologists at that time recorded an earthquake of 3.5 on the Richter scale.
Immediately after the incident, one local resident ran, as she suggested, to the crash site, but instead of smoking debris, she saw pulsing red and orange lights on the slope. Soon the place of the alleged crash was cordoned off by the police. After a while, the authorities announced that they had found absolutely nothing there.
Nobody believed them, of course. Ufologists are convinced that in this place the British authorities found living aliens in a crashed spaceship.
Poltergeist from Enfield
From 1977 to 1979, two sisters (aged 11 and 13) constantly talked about strange things happening in their house: furniture moving by itself, ominous demonic voices, flying toys and other objects. There were even cases of levitation of the girls themselves.
This story attracted a lot of media attention, then the police and several child psychologists joined the investigation. Some skeptics felt that the girls were just pretending and inventing, although many witnesses confirmed the authenticity of their words.
Be that as it may, the story of the Enfield poltergeist is one of the most well-documented paranormal phenomena to date. She has been the subject of many documentaries, radio and television programs.
Filming is currently underway based on this story.
June and Jennifer Gibbons
The childhood of the twins June and Jennifer Gibbons was bleak. During their school years, they were bullied as the only black children in the class. In the end, the girls began to communicate only with each other and even invented their own language, which no one else could understand.
At the age of 14, the girls were separated and sent to different boarding schools. However, they soon had to be reunited - both sisters experienced separation so hard. Growing up, June and Jennifer tried to make a career as writers and committed a number of crimes. As a result, they were locked in a psychiatric clinic, where they were put on antipsychotic drugs.
During this period, the sisters agreed that one of them would die so that the other could live a normal life. Jennifer volunteered to sacrifice herself and soon after died from acute myocarditis. June, after a while, left the clinic and left for Wales, where she led a normal, unremarkable quiet life.
Several UK film companies are currently showing interest in the story.
From time to time, fatal events occur that cannot be rationally explained. Some of these stories happened a long time ago, some are recent. In any case, people remember them, they are all mysterious and frightening so much that they invariably attract attention. Do you believe in paranormal phenomena? Or do you think it's all just a hoax? Let's recall the most famous mystical cases, here are 15 of them.
15. The Dancing Plague of 1518
Documented in the historical records of the 16th century, the so-called "dancing or dancing plague" became the only phenomenon of its kind.
In July 1518, in the city of Strasbourg (at that time part of the Holy Roman Empire, now the region of Alsace, France), the inhabitants suddenly felt an irresistible desire to dance. Several people began to dance for days on end, without rest, without stopping. Many died of heart attacks, strokes and exhaustion.
The outbreak of the "epidemic" began when a woman named Frau Troffea began to dance in the streets of the city. Within a week, 34 people joined the dance, and a month later there were already 400. Historical documents indicate that people died from exhaustion caused by incessant dancing. But the reasons why people didn't stop are unclear. As the situation got worse and more people began to dance, the agitated nobles began to look for reasons. Some of the dancers were taken to shrines and temples to beg for healing from illness. It all ended with the dancing ending as suddenly as it had begun.
Modern theories to explain the dancing plague include mass mental disorder, ergotism (poisoning with ergot alkaloids), religious ecstasy, chorea or "St. Vitus's dance". But it must be admitted that none of these theories can fully explain what actually happened.
14. Carl Pruitt
The story of Carl Pruitt's grave curse began in 1938 in Pulaski County, Kentucky (USA). Pruitt returned home after a day's work to find his wife in the bedroom with another man. Enraged, Pruitt grabbed the chain and began to choke her, and the lover fled the scene. After the woman died, Pruitt committed suicide.
The family of Pruitt's wife refused to forgive him, and he was buried separately, in a different cemetery (and even in another city). Cemetery visitors passing by Pruitt's grave noticed that something strange was happening to her. They saw strange spots that looked like circles, and then began to connect, and the image on the tombstone became like a chain. The strange image caught the attention of the boys who were passing by on bicycles. To impress his friends, a boy threw a stone on a tombstone and suddenly cracked it. On the way home, the boy had an incredible accident: a bicycle chain came off, wrapped around his neck and strangled him. The boy's mother was heartbroken and decided to "recoup" on the gravestone. She took an ax and hit the slab several times. The next day, when, after washing, she hung clothes on a rope, she mysteriously got tangled around her neck and killed the woman.
This is only part of the creepy stories around the grave of the strangler Pruitt ... By the early 1940s, most people already stayed away from that cemetery, in fear of losing their own lives. After another death at Pruitt's grave, his body was exhumed and the tombstone destroyed.
13. The Amityville Horror
Perhaps this is the most famous story on our list. The Amityville case is a lawsuit that accuses 23-year-old Ronald Defeo Jr. of murdering all members of his family. This tragedy caused a great resonance in society, and over time led to the emergence of a cultural phenomenon called the Amityville Horror. The story led to a couple of dozen adaptations, a book and a lot of parodies. What happened there?
There were 6 victims: the parents of Ronald Jr. - DeFeo Sr. (44 years old) and Louise (42 years old); and his four siblings - Don (age 18), Allison (age 13), Mark (age 12), and John Matthew (age 9). They were all shot with a .35 Marlin shotgun by Ronald Defoe Jr. According to the examination, Louise and Allison were not sleeping at the time of death.
Defeo's lawyer tried to bring the case to the insanity of the killer, especially since Defeo claimed that he "heard the voices of his relatives in a conspiracy against him." However, a doctor named Harold Roland stated that DeFeo was responsible for his actions, although he used heroin and LSD, and suffered from antisocial personality disorder. Despite this, there are still many unknowns in the case. For example, there is no motive. Also, none of the neighbors heard the shots, although it is simply impossible not to hear the rumble of a shotgun. All the victims were laid face down, but the investigation showed that the killer did not move the bodies. Ronald DeFeo himself claimed that a certain Indian leader forced him to do all this. The killer is currently serving six parallel sentences - for each of the six murders he received a life sentence.
12. McCormick's Notes
Ricky McCormick was murdered on June 30, 1999, and notes were found in his pants pocket that appeared to contain a coded message. However, all attempts by cryptanalysts of the FBI and the American Cryptoanalytical Organization to decipher them did not lead to success. Interestingly, news reports in 1999 did not contain information about encrypted notes. Data on this was made public only 12 years later, when the FBI considered this death to be a murder.
Both notes contained text consisting of letters and numbers with the occasional inclusion of brackets. According to the FBI, the notes may contain information about McCormick's killer. According to McCormick's relatives, the deceased used a similar technique for encoding messages from childhood, but, unfortunately, none of them knew the key to his cipher.
All attempts to decipher the text came to nothing, and in 2011 the FBI, through its website, asked for help from everyone who wanted to help figure it out. A huge number of different interpretations and versions have been received, but so far there is no decoding of McCormick's messages, nor an explanation for his mysterious death. Who killed him?
11. Robert Stephen Larsen, Jr.
Although Larsen did not die, the circumstances of his injury were curious enough to add to our list. The story is this: Wilissa, a small, quiet town in Iowa. In early June 1912, around 12:45 p.m., the Moore family was brutally beaten to death with an axe. The victims were 8 people, of which only two adults: Joseph (aged 43), Sarah (née Montgomery, 39), Herman Montgomery (11), Mary Catherine (10), Arthur Boyd (7) and Paul Vernon (5) , and two guests - Ina (8) and Lena Stillinger (12). The killer, who was never found, was able to get in and out of the house undetected because he had the key. As he left, he sang the doors behind him and closed the windows. Although there were several suspects, not a single person was convicted for this terrible crime.
On November 7, 2014, Larsen (a ghost hunter) and a group of his comrades stayed at the "Vilis House where everyone was killed with an ax" to conduct some kind of paranormal investigation. Larsen was in the northwest bedroom (where the Stillinger girls were killed), and suddenly, in a panic, called for help using radio communication. When friends found him, he was stabbed in the chest and apparently self-inflicted... This happened around the same time that the Moore family was killed.
10 Ghost Widow
In a small town in Thailand called Tambon Tha Sawang, there have been at least 10 unexpected deaths among men who were reported to be perfectly healthy. Some simply dropped dead in the street, while others died in their sleep.
A medium was brought in to find out if these strange events were related to the "ghost widow". And the medium told all the villagers to hang red shirts in front of the windows to ward off evil spirits. And he also warned families where there was an only son that they were in the zone of greatest risk, a ghost would definitely come to them. Interesting way to fight! There were also rational assumptions as to what actually caused the death of these 10 people: most likely, an "airborne" disease or an infectious disease.
9. Debra and Mark Constantino
The couple appeared on TV shows, according to some reports, they seemed very close-knit. However, their lives were tragically cut short. The reports stated that the couple was in the process of divorcing and that there were episodes of domestic violence.
It all started with the murder of Debra's neighbor, James Anderson, who was found dead, and ended in the couple's daughter's apartment with a two-hour police standoff. Apparently, Mark killed Debra and then pointed the gun at himself. Was it a murder out of jealousy, or is it one of those very paranormal cases? Sounds like a case of domestic violence. However, the influence of supernatural power is not excluded. By the time the police stormed the house, Debra and Mark were dead.
Just in case, write down the phone number for such cases (if you are in the USA, of course):
National Domestic Hotline: 1-800-799-SAFE (7233).
8. Henry Thomas
It turns out that there is such a thing as "spontaneous human combustion." Henry Thomas caught fire and burned out completely as he sat quietly in his chair and watched TV. All that was left of him was a skull and one booted leg. Someone said that Thomas' death was caused by a lit heater. But then why didn't the flames touch Thomas's house, and why didn't the owner of the house even budge? The enigma… 73-year-old Henry Thomas met his demise in 1980.
Despite numerous cases of spontaneous combustion of people, science treats this phenomenon very carefully. Indeed, how can a person catch fire if 2/3 of it consists of water and other non-combustible elements. They argue that a person can burn out only if the combustion temperature exceeds 1000 degrees, and this temperature lasts for several hours. And nothing like this is simply impossible to achieve under normal conditions ... Only the paranormal and mystical justification for this mysterious phenomenon remains. Decide for yourself!
7. Evelyn Hernandez
Evelyn Hernandez, 24, went missing on May 1, 2002. The girl was on the demolition, and was about to give birth. Her five-year-old son Alexis also disappeared with her. Hernandez dated a man named Herman Aguilera (father of the unborn child).
On July 24, 2002, Hernandez's body was found in San Francisco Bay near the bridge. Broken legs and a torso in a maternity blouse were all that was found. DNA tests confirmed that it was Hernandez's remains, however, neither the rest of the body, nor her fetus, nor Alexis were ever found. Deliberate harm or paranormal activity? There is a version that Satanists are involved in this terrible crime, who pray to the devil every day, and this takes the story to another level.
6. The Jamiesons
October 8, 2009 around 2 pm Bobby (44) and Sherilyn Jemison (40) along with their 6-year-old daughter Madison, got ready for a trip. They lived in their own house in the small town of Euphola, Oklahoma. The family was looking for land to buy, and the purpose of their trip was literally 40 km from Eufola, in the mountains of Oklahoma (Latimer County), near the village of Red Oak. A land broker offered the family to go with them, but the Jamiesons refused to help. Loading their pickup truck with the essentials for the trip and taking their little dog with them, the family set out for the Red Oak area, where they were last seen.
On October 17, 2009, hunters found an abandoned white pickup truck on a dirt road in the forest 10 km from Red Oak. In the car were the belongings of the owners and a dog half-dead from hunger and dehydration. Where do they go? There were no signs of a struggle, and the owners disappeared without taking their documents with them, no mobile phones, no outerwear, a GPS navigator, and even wallets with credit cards and a little cash. But the biggest surprise was under the driver's seat - after searching the car, the police found a paper bank bag with $ 32,000. A week later, the search activities were stopped, and the realization came to everyone that something extraordinary had happened to the Jamison family.
5. Charles Walton
Charles Walton is a resident of the village of Lower Quinton in Gloucestershire, England. Known as the victim of a brutal murder. The Walton murder case remains unsolved to this day. At the time of the murder, he was 74 years old and had lived his entire life in Lower Quinton. He was a widower who shared his small home with his 34-year-old niece Edith, whom he adopted at the age of 4 after her mother's death. Walton had a reputation for being unsociable.
On February 14, 1945, early in the morning, Walton went to work in the field, taking a pitchfork and a small axe. The last person to see him alive was a local farmer who spotted Walton near Meon Hill around noon. Night fell, and Charles still did not appear at home. Worried, Edith turned to a neighbor for help and went with him in search of her uncle. Walton's body was found lying under a large willow on the top of Meon Hill. The forks were driven into his throat with such force that their teeth went deep into the ground. In addition, there was a cruciform wound on the chest of the deceased, an ax was thrust into his ribs.
Renowned anthropologist Marguerite Murray has stated that Charles Walton was killed in a Celtic sacrificial rite by a secret sect of the Druids. Scotland Yard tried to solve the "Walton case" without mysticism. But February 14 was not an easy day - according to the Druid calendar, this is February 1, the day of sacrifice to the earth. The Celts called it the day of the Festival of Lights - Oymelka, when the druid priests performed their bloody sacrifices on a freshly plowed field, asking the gods to send a good harvest.
Although no one has ever been formally charged with the murder of Charles Walton, it is said that it was witchcraft and the murder was occult. In fact, when Walton's pocket watch was found at home, a piece of colored glass was found inside. The glass of the "glass witch" is used to ward off evil from the owner - Charles never took off this watch, except for the day he was killed.
4. Christopher Case
Christopher Case, 35, lived in Seattle, Washington. In April 1991, he was found dead in the bathroom, with a frightened expression on his face. Shortly before his death, he visited San Francisco, where he met and went out for lunch with a couple of acquaintances. Sammy Sauder, physicist, teacher, and longtime friend of Case received a message on his answering machine from Case. He called in a panic, and claimed that a certain woman put a curse on him, due to the fact that he was not interested and rejected her. According to Souder: "He said he was very afraid, the witch attacked him all night (in his sleep, not physically) and cut him to pieces. He woke up with small cuts on his fingertips. And asked me to call him back."
When the body was discovered, the authorities found candles, crucifixes; the house around the perimeter was watered with a salt solution. Tony Burt of the King County Police said: "Cause of death unknown. The initial autopsy does not indicate death by violence. (Detectives) don't think it's murder. The death is under investigation."
3. Newborn from Talisay, Philippines
Little is known about this case. It happened in December 2011: John Edison Malakey, a child of ten days old, died under extremely strange circumstances. The grandparents reported red stains on the floor of their daughter's house (they thought it might be rats) and blood stains in the kitchen.
When the mother of the newborn, Kimberly, received a call, she rushed home in a panic. It's terrible, get ready... Her newborn son was bleeding from his mouth and nose; his navel was pierced, as if withered. The child died in the hospital. The family claims that some otherworldly being killed him.
People are naturally skeptical and suspect a cover-up, but that's only until the neighbors noticed blood also on the roof of the house where the crime took place...
2. Peggy doll
The Peggy doll, supposedly cursed and containing some terrible powers, belongs to Jane Harris, a resident of the United Kingdom. The woman calls herself a researcher of supernatural phenomena and explains her close interest in the occult with the innate psychic abilities that she inherited from her grandmother.
Peggy is a very unusual doll. She does not talk or move around at night, but she tends to, being in the same room with people, cause them severe nausea and chest pain. Jane filmed several recordings of her attempting to exorcise the evil entity from the doll and posted them on YouTube. Despite the fact that Peggy did not show signs of life, many users who watched these videos reported severe nausea and chest pain. Thus, if you decide to watch the video below, we warn you that you do this at your own risk.
Harris is the head of the Cursed Dolls in Shropshire. People from all over the UK periodically bring children's toys to the Englishwoman, who they consider to be possessed by evil spirits.
1. Eliza Lam
On January 26, 2013, 21-year-old student Eliza Lam left her native British Columbia for California. After staying in San Diego for a while, she checked into the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles on January 28. On February 1, she had to leave the hotel. She was last seen alive three days after checking into the hotel lobby.
While in California, Lam kept in touch with her parents every day, and after they were unable to contact her, they called the police. The police investigated the disappearance of the girl and a few days later found CCTV footage from the hotel elevator, which shows that Lam is behaving very strangely: pressing buttons and sticking his head out of the elevator several times, as if looking for someone. She also periodically enters and exits the elevator, and even seems to talk to herself.
2 weeks went by with no sign of Lam until the residents of the hotel started complaining about the black water from the taps and the lack of pressure in the taps. Climbing to the roof, a hotel employee found Lam's naked body in one of the closed water tanks. An autopsy was performed, which showed that the girl had drowned. No drugs or alcohol were found in her blood. The death was determined to be an accident.
Ghost fans believe that Lam was actually captured by some kind of evil spirit or that she was under its influence. As evidence that Lam was possessed, people point out that it is still unclear how she managed to get to the roof. There are two accesses to it: a fire escape or a door that was always locked. In addition, the locked door was in a place that only long-term guests (and probably a ghost among them) or hotel staff knew about. Lam was a girl with a slight build, but she somehow managed to open the heavy door and close it behind her.
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 an 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 neighboring settlements observed an unusual phenomenon: celestial body, which, when falling, was 30 times brighter than the Sun. As it turned out later, it was a meteorite, although various versions of the phenomenon were put forward, up to the use of secret weapons or 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 reptile known to science. 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 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
A missile military range near the village of Kapustin Yar in the northwest of the Astrakhan region is 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 of the 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 the Soviet Union as Ninel Kulagina, a psychic and possessor 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 convincing evidence of the former, although some of the former employees of the Soviet research institutes assure 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 the inexplicable phenomena associated with her were designated the “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 alien attack, Sergey Berezhnoy, assistant head of the German Titov Main Test Space Center, 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 of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, four plant employees reported seeing what looked like a huge dark man with wings and glowing red eyes. Most of all, this description resembles the so-called Mothman - a mysterious creature that allegedly repeatedly appeared in the city of Point Pleasant in the US state of 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 for a short time: while the fire that raged after the explosion was extinguished, survivors of the flames said that they clearly saw a 6-meter black bird that flew out from the clubs of radioactive smoke that poured out of the destroyed fourth block.
11. Well to Hell
In 1984, Soviet geologists launched an ambitious project to drill an ultra-deep well on the Kola Peninsula. The main goal was to satisfy scientific research curiosity and 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", however, many of the "evidence" does not stand up to scientific criticism: for example, it is documented that the temperature at the lowest point reached by the drill was 220 ° C.
These creepy stories have been posted by various internet users. They are devoted to strange, absurd, shocking cases. The focus of each is one or another paranormal phenomenon. Believe it or not, everyone's business. To prove that none of this happened is still impossible. So, if panic and anxiety do not scare you and you are ready to tickle your nerves, get acquainted with these mystical stories.
Parcel with scary content
One guy told about his neighbor, whom no one respected. He tried to get famous by making videos about everything in order to get people's attention. Once he was going on a trip and asked the guy to pick up the mail during his absence. He agreed. Everything went well for a week, and then a package appeared on the neighbor's porch. The guy was surprised by her incredible weight. He carried it with difficulty to his garage to keep it there. After some time, a disgusting smell began to come out of the box. The guy opened the box and at first thought that someone had sent some meat to the neighbor. Instead of pork or beef, it turned out to be the neighbor himself, and his camera lay nearby. Everything to become famous through video? 
old hospital
The times of the American Civil War are known for the brutality and lack of normal medical care for soldiers, the problem was especially acute for the Confederates. There is nothing surprising in the fact that the old hospital of that era, by definition, seems to be something gloomy. The father of the narrator of this story was a carpenter and painter. He was hired to work in a house that had once been a hospital. While working, the father noticed a puddle of iodine spilled on the floor in an empty house. Over the next few weeks, he noticed such puddles in other rooms as well. Residents of the house, father and son, admitted that they had nightmares about military events. The son was the first to suffer from terrible dreams, then he and his father exchanged rooms, and he saw the same dream! 
Two realities
After the death of the guy, the young girl went to the church, where a funeral service dedicated to him was held. At the entrance, she met his parents and sister. She was surprised at their strange choice of clothing: they were dressed in tracksuits. After that, she went to the coffin. He had the boy's parents! The surprised girl returned to the door and noticed the same people in sportswear there. The girl began to doubt the firmness of her mind and thought that grief had made her mind clouded. However, she later thought that this could be the moment of her encounter with an alternate reality. Scientists claim that alternate realities exist. Could this explain this case? 
An elderly man and an unexpected photo
This is a story about an old widower who put things in order in the house. By chance, he discovered a hidden room in the attic. There was a musket and old books, as well as black and white photographs, but the people in them were in modern clothes! Suddenly he found a photo depicting him and his wife. The wife had been dead for ten years, so in the photo her body seemed dark, and her clothes decayed! 
Home alone for the first time
Warning from Thailand
The inhabitants of the secluded village believed that there was a road nearby, inhabited by ghosts. As the narrator traveled through it, a human body fell from a tree in front of him! Frightened, he ran and found more bodies! Then he noticed a monster ahead, but remembered the words of the spell against him, which were told about by other villagers. It worked, and he was able to talk about his terrible encounter. 
Bad date
The guy met the perfect girl, who immediately wrote to him that she wanted to visit him. He agreed, and after a while he found a portable refrigerator with her corpse in front of the door! 
Hey Siri
Technology can be very intimidating. The Siri system can speak in a human voice, albeit somewhat artificial. On one of the users, she started talking to someone unknown, repeating phrases like “go away” and “get out of the house.” The man assumed that in this way the spirit was trying to warn him, and just in case he went for a walk. 
An app that predicts the future
One guy noticed a mysterious app on his phone that he didn't download. Surprisingly, it was a game that simulated real life. The guy noticed himself right on the screen. Then a woman in a yellow raincoat appeared in the game, attacking people. The guy got off the subway train in which he was riding, and noticed a woman in a raincoat behind the closing doors! The news reported that she attacked people. 
Train ride
Here's another scary story. The man fell asleep on the train, and when he woke up, he noticed a stranger nearby. He had greenish skin and glasses that covered his eyes. Outside the train window were strange buildings, unfamiliar to the man. Surprisingly, the train brought the man to the right stop, but he never forgot that incident. 
trained crows
This is a story about a guy who taught a raven to pick up coins on the street and bring them home. Everything was going well until one day a raven brought a human tooth. The owner thought it was an accident, but the teeth began to appear again and again ... 
randy
The man noticed bruises on his son's body that formed the word "Randy". That was the name of the new chosen one of his wife. A man in anger broke into his house, and then suddenly woke up and saw Randy's corpse and a frightened wife in front of him. The man was sent to prison, where his voice began to haunt him. It was the spirit that possessed people and forced him to kill Randy. 
phantom machines
There is a road where drivers often notice approaching headlights at night, which then just disappear! Where do these ghost cars come from? 
What's in the shampoo bottle?
The woman came home and found her sister in a fit of madness. She attacks her with a bottle of shampoo. Suddenly, special services break into the house and confiscate the shampoo, and the woman's sister is taken to the hospital. The woman noticed that a drop of shampoo went unnoticed. When she touched it with her finger, she felt as if something had crawled under her skin! 
Memory of a past life
One guy constantly had dreams about a past life, about how he was a boy dying a terrible death. He was from an Indian tribe and died picking berries with his aunt. The guy felt a sharp pain in his back, in a dream the boy was killed by arrows. 
vanishing stars
This story will scare you. One astrophysicist was looking at his monitor when he noticed the stars begin to disappear from the screen. He went out to look at the real sky and noticed that the stars had really disappeared! He was frightened and drank sleeping pills, but before he fell asleep, he realized: the stars are at a distance of hundreds of light years! What had destroyed them could only grow stronger.
Since childhood, I have been fascinated by the paranormal. I watched programs about mysticism, tried to find the paranormal in my life. My parents were against my hobby.
Since I had not encountered the paranormal before, it seemed that there was nothing to be afraid of. Apparently I shouldn't have thought so.
It all started when my grandmother died. For a long time I could not believe in her death. I was very worried about how she would be without us. Telepathically I tried to ask her to dream about me so that she would tell me how she was there ... In another world ... After a while I had a dream: my grandmother was standing near an apple tree. She smiled and looked happy. After this dream, I calmed down. But, after a while, I had another dream: I was at the late grandmother’s house, at the funeral, when I looked into her coffin, then ... It was empty ... Next to the coffin, I saw my grandmother. Her face was unhappy. My family was at the door. And suddenly I said: “Well, what are you doing? ! She's alive!" This dream haunted me. Then I had another dream: I woke up in my grandmother's apartment. Turned around and saw her. The clock was exactly 6 o'clock in the morning. To my surprise, my grandmother sat down at the computer and went online. I typed into the search engine: “What happened? What now? What happened?" As it turned out, it was a fortune-telling. What was this dream for? Perhaps they wanted to warn me about something bad that should happen to me in the future? I don't even know what to think. A couple of weeks later I came to visit my aunt and uncle. They lived in my grandmother's apartment. During the day, my aunt was sorting out grandmother's things, and found a black bag there. She put the find in a box that stood in front of my bed. The night has come. I was about to fall asleep when suddenly this bag appeared in front of me. Someone's hand appeared near her (apparently, this is my grandmother's hand), she began to dig into this bag, but when she noticed that I was not sleeping, she began to approach me. Luckily it didn't reach me. I began to wave my arms, and thereby drive my hand away from me. It took me a long time to figure out what it was. The next morning the bag was gone. Definitely not a dream, and definitely not an optical illusion ... It turns out that this is a ghost ... How many times I went to church, lit candles, but it did not help me. Already at home, at night I suddenly woke up and saw in front of me the silhouette of my grandmother, who was lying next to me, turning her back to me. Thank God, I managed to see this picture in just a couple of seconds. Then I fell asleep. After a while, my girlfriend stayed with me for the night. It was 2 am. We didn't sleep. First, a strange sound began to be heard. We got scared and started to somehow cheer each other up. But, suddenly, the hanger fell off the door. She fell about a meter away. It's like someone dropped it. A cat wandered around this hanger for a long time. I remember that last night I had another dream. My girlfriend and I stayed overnight at my house. It was night. We didn't want to sleep, so we turned on the computer. We started playing, but suddenly the game was interrupted, and some kind of video began to play on the whole screen. The quality was disgusting. Black and white ... The footage showed a recording of my family! The footage was taken with a hidden camera. There it was clearly visible how my family was engaged in any business. I did not betray much importance to this dream and invited a friend. Recently I had another dream, in it were my late dad and late grandmother. The worst thing is that my grandmother could not recognize me! It's like you've never seen me before! Perhaps she was offended by me. I worried for a long time after this dream. When I forgot about him, it all started all over again. At night I woke up from a strange sound. Someone said, "Whhh...". There was only me in the room. It's good to have a cat around! The next night, I heard someone whisper. At first I thought it was a dream. Woke up and started sleeping again. But the whispering started again. As they say, inexplicable, but true.
I can still hear someone walking around my apartment. In the apartment of my aunt and uncle, the smell of my grandmother is still felt. Even now. That's not all, it happens to me every day. I don't know what to do with it.
