This article brings to your attention several paranormal phenomena over which scientists and skeptics have been racking their brains for many years and cannot come to an unambiguous conclusion.
Taos rumble
Taos hum is a low frequency noise of unknown nature. This phenomenon got its name due to the city in which it was registered - Taos, New Mexico. In fact, such phenomena are characteristic not only for this small town: the appearance of inexplicable noises has been noticed in different countries around the world.
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Often, industrial origins are attributed to these sounds. And yet, the situation in Taos is somewhat different: only 2% of the local population hear the noise. In addition, people who have heard the Taos rumble note that it is amplified inside buildings, and in the case of ordinary noises of industrial origin, it would be the other way around.
Basically, the nature of this phenomenon is explained in different ways:
1. Ordinary industrial or other noise produced by machines, acoustic systems, etc.
2. Infrasound, which may be of a geological or tectonic nature.
3. Pulsed microwaves
4. Electromagnetic waves
5. Sound waves from low frequency communication systems (e.g. communications on submarines)
6. Radiation in the ionosphere, including that produced within the framework of HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program)
It is important to note that the source of the noises has not been definitively identified despite numerous studies by local universities as well as individuals.
Near death experiences
Near-death experiences are the general name for the personal experiences of people at the moment of their near-death experience. The following phenomenon may provide an answer to questions about the possibility of life after death. Many people who have experienced clinical death claim that such a life exists.
NDEs include physiological, psychological, and transcendental aspects. Despite the fact that different people describe the events that occur to them after near-death experiences in different ways, many elements are common to all:
- The first sensory impression is a very unpleasant sound (noise);
- Understanding what is dead;
- Pleasant emotions: calmness and tranquility;
- Feeling out of the body, hovering over your own body and watching others;
- Feeling of moving upward through a bright tunnel of light or a narrow passage;
- Meeting with deceased relatives or clerics;
- An encounter with a being of light (often interpreted as a deity);
- Consideration of episodes of the past life;
- Reaching a boundary or boundaries;
- Feeling unwilling to return to the body;
- Feeling warm despite not wearing clothes.
It is also known that in some cases the experiences following the seventh stage, on the contrary, are extremely unpleasant.
Communities of people who experience or study the paranormal are more open to interpreting near-death experiences as evidence for the existence of an afterlife. In turn, scientists often interpret this phenomenon as hallucinations or fiction.
In 2008, a study was launched in the UK that will study 1,500 near-death patients. The study will involve 25 hospitals in the UK and the US.
Doppelgänger - ghostly doppelgangers
In literature, doppelgangers (German doppelganger - "double") are the demonic counterparts of people, the opposite of a guardian angel. The appearance of a doppelgänger often heralds the hero's death. Despite the fact that they are considered to be literary characters, there are several historical sources that indirectly prove the existence of these creatures.
One of these is the testimony of Queen Elizabeth I, recorded by the chronicler shortly before her death. According to the queen, she saw herself lying on the bed of her bedroom, more precisely, her double, who, according to her, was very pale.
Johann Wolfgang Goethe saw his own double, dressed in a gray suit trimmed with gold, while riding a horse in the direction of Drusenheim (Drusenheim). At the same time, the double was driving in the opposite direction. Eight years later, while traveling from Drusenheim along the same road, Goethe noticed that he was wearing the exact same suit as he had seen on the double.
It is known that Catherine II also saw her copy moving in her direction. Frightened, she ordered the soldiers to shoot her.
An unusual case of a similar nature also happened to Abraham Lincoln: the reflection he saw in the mirror had two faces. Being a superstitious person, Lincoln remembered what he saw for a long time.
Sudarius from Oviedo is a piece of cloth measuring 84 x 53 cm. with blood stains. Some people are inclined to believe that this sudari was wrapped around the head of Christ after his death, as mentioned in the Gospel of John (20:6-7). It is believed that both the sudarius and the shroud were used in the funeral ritual. In the course of the study, the purpose of which was to confirm or refute the authenticity of the sudarium, blood stains remaining on the fabric were examined. As it turned out, the blood on the king and the shroud belongs to the fourth group. In addition, most of the spots on the sudaria come from fluid from the lungs. This is explained by the fact that often people who were crucified did not die from blood loss, but from suffocation.
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Scientists have been trying to solve many mysteries of the natural world for many centuries, but some phenomena still baffle even the best minds of mankind.
These phenomena, ranging from strange flashes in the sky after earthquakes to rocks that spontaneously move across the ground, seem to have no definite meaning or purpose.
Here are 10 of the strangest, most mysterious and incredible phenomena found in nature. 1. Reports of bright flashes during earthquakes
Light flares that appear in the sky before and after an earthquake
One of the most mysterious phenomena is the inexplicable flashes in the sky that accompany earthquakes. What causes them? Why do they exist?
The Italian physicist Cristiano Feruga collected all observations of flashes during earthquakes dating back to 2000 BC. For a long time, scientists were skeptical about this strange phenomenon. But everything changed in 1966, when the first evidence appeared - photographs of the Matsushiro earthquake in Japan.
Now there are a great many such photographs, and the flashes on them are so different colors and shapes that it is sometimes difficult to distinguish a fake. 
Among the theories to explain this phenomenon are heat caused by friction, radon gas, and the piezoelectric effect, an electrical charge that builds up in quartz rocks when tectonic plates move.
In 2003, NASA physicist Dr. Friedemann Freund conducted a laboratory experiment and showed that flashes may be caused by electrical activity in rocks.
The shock wave from an earthquake can change the electrical properties of silicon and oxygen-containing minerals, allowing them to conduct current and emit light. However, some believe that the theory may be only one possible explanation.
2. Nazca drawings
Huge figures painted in the sand in Peru by ancient people, but no one knows why 
The Nazca lines stretching over 450 sq. km of coastal desert, are huge works of art left on the Peruvian plains. Among them are geometric figures, as well as drawings of animals, plants and, rarely, figures of people that can be seen from the air in the form of huge drawings.
They are believed to have been created by the Nazca people during a 1000 year period between 500 B.C. and 500 AD, but no one knows why.
Despite its World Heritage status, Peruvian authorities have a hard time defending the Nazca Lines from settlers. Meanwhile, archaeologists are trying to study the lines before they are destroyed. 
At first it was assumed that these geoglyphs were part of the astronomical calendar, but later this version was refuted. Then the researchers focused their attention on the history and culture of the people who created them. Whether the Nazca lines are a message to aliens or represent some kind of encrypted message, no one can say.
In 2012, Yamagata University in Japan announced that it would open an on-site research center and aim to study more than 1,000 drawings over 15 years.
3 Monarch Butterfly Migration
Monarch butterflies find their way through thousands of kilometers to certain places 
Each year, millions of North American monarch butterflies migrate more than 3,000 km south to overwinter. For many years no one knew where they were flying.
In the 1950s, zoologists started tagging and tracking the butterflies and found that they were in the mountain forest of Mexico. However, even knowing that the monarchs choose 12 of the 15 mountainous places in Mexico, scientists still cannot understand how they navigate. 
According to some studies, they use the position of the Sun to fly south, adjusting to the time of day according to the circadian clock of their antennae. But the Sun gives only a general direction. How they set up is still a mystery.
According to one theory, geomagnetic forces attract them, but this has not been confirmed. Only recently, scientists began to study the features of the navigation system of these butterflies.
4. Ball lightning
Fireballs that appear during or after a thunderstorm 
Nikola Tesla allegedly created ball lightning in his laboratory. In 1904, he wrote that he "never saw fireballs, but he was able to determine their formation and reproduce artificially."
Modern scientists have not been able to reproduce these results.
Moreover, many are still skeptical about the existence of ball lightning. However, many witnesses, starting from the era of Ancient Greece, claim to have observed this phenomenon.
Ball lightning is described as a luminous sphere that appears during or after a thunderstorm. Some claim to have seen ball lightning pass through windowpanes and down a chimney.
According to one theory, ball lightning is a plasma, according to another, it is a chemiluminescent process - that is, light appears as a result of a chemical reaction.
5. Moving rocks in Death Valley
Stones that slide on the ground under the influence of a mysterious force 
In the Racetrack Playa area of Death Valley, California, mysterious forces push heavy rocks across the flat surface of a dry lake when no one is watching.
Scientists have puzzled over this phenomenon since the beginning of the 20th century. Geologists tracked 30 stones weighing up to 25 kg, 28 of which moved more than 200 meters over a 7-year period.
Analysis of stone tracks shows that they moved at a speed of 1 m per second and in most cases the stones slid in winter.
There were suggestions that wind and ice were to blame, as well as algae slime and seismic vibrations. 
A 2013 study tried to explain what happens when the water on the surface of a dry lake freezes. According to this theory, the ice on the rocks stays frozen longer than the surrounding ice, as the rock removes heat faster. This reduces the friction force between the stones and the surface, and they are more easily pushed by the wind.
However, no one has yet seen the stones in action, and lately they have become immobile.
6. Earth rumble
An unknown hum that only some people can hear 
The so-called "hum" is the name given to the annoying low-frequency noise that disturbs residents around the world. However, few people can hear it, namely only every 20th person.
Scientists attribute the "hum" to tinnitus, distant pounding waves, industrial noise, and singing sand dunes.
In 2006, a New Zealand researcher claimed to have recorded this anomalous sound.
7. Return of the cicada insects
Insects that suddenly woke up after 17 years to find a partner 
In 2013, cicadas of the species Magicicada septendecim appeared from underground in the eastern United States, which had not been shown since 1996. Scientists don't know how the cicadas knew it was time to leave their underground habitat after 17 years of sleep.
Periodic cicadas are quiet and solitary insects that are buried underground most of the time. These are long-lived among insects, and they do not mature until they are 17 years old. However, this summer, they woke up en masse to breed.
After 2-3 weeks they die, leaving behind the fruits of their "love". The larvae burrow into the ground and a new life cycle begins. 
How do they do it? How, after so many years, will they know it's time to appear?
Interestingly, 17-year-old cicadas appear in the northeastern states, and in the southeastern states, a cicada invasion occurs every 13 years. Scientists have suggested that such a life cycle of cicadas allows them to avoid meeting with their predator enemies.
8 Animal Rain
When different animals like fish and frogs fall from the sky like rain 
In January 1917, the biologist Waldo McAtee presented his paper entitled "Raining from Organic Matter", which reported falling salamander larvae, small fish, herring, ants, and toads.
Rains of animals have been reported in different parts of the world. So, for example, in Serbia it rained frogs, in Australia perch fell from the sky, and in Japan - toads.
Scientists are skeptical about the rain of their animals. One explanation was proposed by a French physicist back in the 19th century: winds lift animals up and throw them to the ground.
According to a more complex theory, waterspouts suck out aquatic life, carry them around and make them fall in certain places.
However, there has been no scientific research to support this theory.
9. Stone balls of Costa Rica
Giant stone spheres whose purpose is not clear 
Why the ancient people of Costa Rica decided to create hundreds of large balls of stone is still a mystery.
The Costa Rican stone balls were discovered in the 1930s by the United Fruit Company when workers were clearing land for banana plantations. Some of these perfectly spherical balls were up to 2 meters in diameter. 
The stones, which the locals call Las Bolas, date back to 600 - 1000 AD. Further complicating the mystery of this phenomenon is the fact that there is no written data about the culture of the people who created them. This happened because the Spanish settlers erased all traces of the cultural heritage of the indigenous population.
Scientists began to study stone balls in 1943, marking their distribution. Later anthropologist John Hoopes disproved many theories explaining the purpose of the stones, including lost cities and space aliens.
10 Impossible Fossils
The remains of long-dead creatures that appear in the wrong place 
Ever since the theory of evolution was announced, scientists have come across discoveries that seemed to challenge it.
One of the most mysterious phenomena has become fossil remains, especially the remains of people who appeared in unexpected places.
Fossilized prints and footprints have been found in geographic areas and archaeological time zones to which they did not belong.
Some of these discoveries may provide new information about our origins. Others turned out to be errors or hoaxes. 
One example is the 1911 find, when archaeologist Charles Dawson collected fragments of a supposedly unknown ancient man with a large brain dating back 500,000 years. Piltdown Man's large head led scientists to believe he was the "missing link" between humans and apes.
10 Skunk Monkey
The skunk monkey is a cryptid creature believed to be native to Florida. The skunk monkey is most often described as a bipedal primate with long, dark hair that smells very bad. He was allegedly seen many times in swamps near Florida. In 2000, an unknown woman anonymously sent two photographs to the Sarasota Sheriff's Department. The letter attached to the photo claimed that the pictures were taken in the backyard of the woman's house, and this creature intended to steal apples from her. Skeptics claim that this is just a man in disguise or an escaped orangutan. But, in truth, it is worth noting that there are many more witnesses who allegedly saw a skunk monkey than people who saw an apple thief dressed as a monkey or an escaped orangutan.
9. Faces of Belmes 
In 1979, members of the Pereira family living in the city of Belmes began to see strange faces in their house that mysteriously appeared and disappeared. They appeared in different places and at different times. According to legend, one day in August, Maria Gomez told her husband that she saw a face right on the kitchen floor. Her husband immediately broke the floor in this place with a pick, but the same face reappeared in another place some time later. The mayor of the city after their story told them not to touch their faces next time, but to leave them for study. Faces appeared over the next 30 years, these were the faces of both men and women, which expressed various emotions. It was later established that this house was built in a cemetery, and buried bodies were found under the house. Despite the fact that the floor in the house was changed several times, the faces were constantly washed with various means, they all continued and continued to appear. Skeptics claim that the faces were artificial, painted with oxidizers.
8 Fresno Stranger
This is a video from two surveillance cameras in the city of Fresno, which captured a strange figure walking along the frame. Nothing is known about this recording, and no one can explain what is happening on it. The creature in the frame moves in a strange way, as if on stilts. The quality of the recording is not very high, so it is not possible to understand exactly who is depicted on it.
It is alleged that there are allegedly other records that filmed the movement of such creatures.
7 Paulding Lights 
According to one legend, Paulding's lights appeared when a train hit a switchman at night, who was trying to signal something to a sleeping driver. According to another legend, this is the ghost of a man who, with a lantern, was looking for his missing son in the forest at night and was hit by a train. Be that as it may, this mysterious ball of light has been emerging for 40 years. They show up almost every night. University of Michigan students claim to have debunked that myth, and these lights are just the headlights of cars driving on the freeway nearby. But many do not believe them. According to eyewitnesses, the lights are white, green and red. The city even installed special signs indicating where it is best to observe this phenomenon.
6. Ghost train tracks in San Antonio
These railroad tracks, located in San Antonio, became known as ghost tracks because of what happened to the cars that stopped on them. According to legend, once a school bus with children stalled right on the rails, and ... you can already guess what happened. The train hit the bus and all the children died. Since then, whoever stops on these rails, the ghosts of children are sure to push a car off them. In addition to moving the car, people say that the car is shaking and children's voices and whispers are heard. To make it even more creepy, people claim to find children's handprints on cars after they drive down these tracks. Skeptics believe that cars simply roll down due to the fact that this section of the road is located on a hill, but they do not find an explanation for the prints of children's hands.
5 Beckenham Gargoyle 
The video, filmed in the British city of Beckenham (video not found on YouTube), shows a gargoyle jumping off a building. Many people later looked for her in the area and said that they then had the feeling that they were being watched. But no other evidence of the existence of the gargoyle has been found. Skeptics deny the existence of the gargoyle, claiming that this video is just a montage. This creature had brightly glowing eyes, and it moved very strangely and quickly.
4. Room 428 
This room at Ohio University is inaccessible to students. It was sealed due to numerous reports of paranormal activity occurring in it. A poltergeist allegedly lives in it: people saw objects flying, doors opened and closed on their own, inexplicable shadows were visible. The most eerie event associated with this room is the appearance of a demonic face on the door. The door was changed several times, but the face appeared again and again. They say that the ghost of a student who once committed suicide lives in the room. Imagine superstitious students who have to live and study on the same floor as a ghost!
3. Zone of Silence in Mapimi 
In Mexico, near the city of Mapini, there is a desert in which there is one place that is a zone of anomalous radio wave activity. In July 1970, a test launch of a rocket was made from the US military base in Utah, which went off course and fell right in this place. A team was sent to search for the wreckage, which was supposed to deliver them back. The rocket allegedly carried a radioactive charge, due to which the upper layers of the soil were contaminated with radiation.
And since then, neither radio, nor television, nor shortwave, nor microwave, nor satellite signals can pass through this zone. Strange lights, UFOs and pale humanoid creatures have also been seen in this area. Some people claim to have seen and talked to these creatures. They asked people for water, and when asked where they came from, they answered: "From above." Perhaps this is all fiction, but it has been scientifically proven that this area has an unusually high level of magnetite in the soil. This may be evidence that a lot of meteorites used to fall here. Either way, something is wrong with this place.
2. Hand of Pangboche 
This hand was kept in a Buddhist monastery in Tibet, and some claim that it belongs to Bigfoot. Some believe that it is a fake, but many tourists came here to look at it. The monks considered this hand sacred and did not allow its scientific study. It is alleged that one day a man named Peter Byrne stole it and took it to the University of London for study. William Hill studied the hand and came to the following conclusion: the hand does indeed belong to a hominid, but rather Neanderthal than modern man. Then the hand was stolen again, and it is not known where it is now. It is believed that most likely it is in some private collection, and the owner bought it on the black market.
1. Battle for Los Angeles 
On February 24, 1942, an air raid alert was raised in Los Angeles. Many believed that this was another Japanese attack. The 37th Artillery Brigade opened barrage fire and fired 1,400 anti-aircraft rounds at a mysterious object hovering in the night sky. The shelling continued for a whole hour and was stopped at 7:21 am.
The media went crazy over the incident, front-page stories about the incident. What kind of object is this, which for an hour withstood the fire of anti-aircraft shells? Of course the weather balloon! That is what the government said when commenting on the incident. During this event, three people died of heart attacks due to stress. The target at which the fire was fired is described by some eyewitnesses as one huge object, and by some as a cluster of several small objects. Be that as it may, something strange happened in Los Angeles that night, and to this day people do not know the real reason for these events.
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"Taos noise"
Have you heard how an engine or a drilling rig works? It is such an unpleasant noise that disturbs the peace of the inhabitants of the American city of Taos. An incomprehensible buzz coming from the direction of the desert first appeared almost 18 years ago, and since then it has regularly reappeared. When residents of the city asked the authorities to investigate, it turned out that the noise seemed to come from the bowels of the earth, it could not be registered by location devices, and only 2% of the city's population heard it. A similar phenomenon is observed in other regions of the planet. It occurs especially often in Europe. As in the case of the Taoist rumble, its causes and source have not yet been discovered.
Ghost doppelgangers
Cases where people meet their doppelgangers are not uncommon. Stories about doppelgangers (this is so as not to write “doubles” twice in a row) are present both in medical practice, which is just not at all surprising, and in historical documents and literary works. Guy de Maupassant told his friends about meeting his double. The mathematician Descartes, the French writer George Sand, the English poets and writers Shelley, Byron, Walter Scott also encountered their copies. We will not even mention Dostoevsky's story "The Double".
However, doppelgangers also visit people of prosaic professions. Here are the stories compiled by Dr. Edward Podolsky. One woman saw her doppelgänger while putting on makeup in front of a mirror. A man working in the garden noticed his exact copy next to him, repeating all his movements.
Scientists suggest that the secret of doppelgangers may be hidden in our brains. Processing information, our nervous system creates the so-called spatial scheme of the body, which, due to reasons unknown to science, is divided into real and astral images. Alas, this is just a hypothesis.
Life after death
The light at the end of a dark tunnel, an unusual luminous creature, a calling voice, the ghosts of deceased loved ones - this is what awaits a person in the next world, according to the "resurrected". In other words, those who have undergone clinical death.
One of the proofs of the reality of the afterlife was the study of William James, which he conducted with the participation of the medium Leonora Piper. For about ten years, the doctor organized séances, during which Leonora spoke either on behalf of the Indian girl Chlorin, or Commander Vanderbilt, or Longfellow, or Johann Sebastian Bach, or the actress Siddons. The doctor invited viewers to his sessions: journalists, scientists, and other mediums, so that they could confirm that communication with the world of the dead was really happening.
Unfortunately, there are no scientific facts on this subject yet. However, maybe it's for the best?
noisy spirit
The poltergeist is an inexplicable phenomenon and at the same time a constant hero of the yellow press. “The barabashka stole the salary of the family from Kapotnya and wrote a swear word on the wall”, “Poltergeist became the father of three children”, - these and similar headings are still regularly followed by the audience.
For the first time, the poltergeist was mentioned almost two thousand years ago by the historian Titus Livy, who described how someone invisible threw stones at Roman soldiers. After that, cases of the appearance of a poltergeist were described many more times. Mentions of this phenomenon are present even in the annals of a French monastery. According to the chronicler, on September 16, 1612, something incredible happened in the house of the Huguenot priest Francois Perrault. It all started with the fact that at midnight the curtains began to draw by themselves, and someone pulled the bed linen from the beds. Loud noises were heard in various parts of the house, and in the kitchen someone was throwing dishes. The poltergeist not only methodically demolished the house, but also cursed desperately. The church decided that the devil had taken up residence in the house of the sinner Huguenot, and Martin Luther later proposed calling the "obscene spirit" a poltergeist. After 375 years in the USSR it will be called a barabashka.
heavenly signs
According to history, clouds are not only white-maned horses. From time immemorial, eyewitness accounts have been preserved, telling about whole pictures, meaningful signs and numbers that suddenly appeared in the sky. According to legend, one of these heavenly visions predicted the victory of Julius Caesar, and another - a blood-red flag with a white cross - gave strength to the retreating Danish troops and helped them defeat the pagan Estonians.
Scientists are skeptical about such pictures in the sky and name several reasons for their appearance. Today, various figures in the sky can form aircraft exhausts. After the aircraft fuel burns out, water vapor enters the atmosphere, immediately turning into ice crystals. Picked up by air whirlwinds, they behave very unpredictably and can create various shapes. Aerosols based on carbon dioxide and barium salts sprayed during weather experiments can also be the cause of such phenomena. In addition, air, due to its specific properties, sometimes acquires the ability to reflect what is happening on Earth.
The phenomenon of wandering graves
In 1928, all the Scottish newspapers were full of news about the grave that had disappeared from the cemetery of the small town of Glenysville. Relatives who came to visit the deceased found an empty place instead of a stone gravestone. The grave was never found.
In 1989, on a farm in Kansas, right in the middle of a barnyard, a grave mound grew overnight with a rickety and cracked tombstone. Due to the poor condition of the plate, it was not possible to read the name on it. But when the grave was dug up, a coffin with human remains was found in it.
All this devilry is considered commonplace in some African and Polynesian tribes. There is a tradition to douse a fresh grave with tree sap and cover it with shells. This is done, according to the priests, so that the grave "does not leave."
pyrokinesis
Cases when people engulfed in flames of unknown origin turned into a handful of ashes in just a few minutes have been known for a very long time. Although this phenomenon occurs infrequently: over the entire last century, only 19 cases of pyrokinesis have been recorded in the world. Why this happens, and most importantly, why the flame often does not spread to surrounding objects, scientists cannot explain.
In 1969, a dead man was found in his car. His face and hands were burned, but for some reason the fire did not touch his hair and eyebrows. Quite a fantastic incident occurred in the Canadian province of Alberta. Two sisters flared up at the same moment, being in different parts of the city, a kilometer apart.
Versions of the origin of pyrokinesis are increasingly fantastic. Some doctors are trying to connect spontaneous combustion of people with their internal state, since most of the victims are known to have been depressed for a long time. Others believe that mainly alcoholics fall under the influence of pyrokinesis. Their body is so saturated with alcohol that it can flare up from the slightest spark, especially if the dead smoked. There is a version that the flame arises under the influence of either ball lightning, which happened to be nearby, or energy beams unknown to science. Recently, a completely unbelievable theory has been put forward. Allegedly, a thermonuclear reaction serves as a source of energy in a living cell, that is, under the influence of an unknown force, inexplicable energy processes begin to occur in the cell, similar to those that occur during the explosion of an atomic bomb.
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People around the world are witnessing strange and sometimes inexplicable paranormal phenomena. Our country is rich not only in natural resources, but also in strange places and mysterious phenomena. Today I will tell you about 11 of the most interesting and famous of them.
Astronaut meeting with UFO
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 Alexey Leonov encountered, almost remaining 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. Kovalyonok 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.
Chelyabinsk meteorite
On February 15 of this year, residents of Chelyabinsk and neighboring settlements observed an extraordinary phenomenon: a celestial body entered the Earth's atmosphere, 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.
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.
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.
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.
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 called the “K-phenomenon”.
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.
Space Defense Troops
Russia has always sought to protect itself from all possible external (and internal) threats, and more recently, the defense interests of our Motherland include the security of its borders. 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.
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.
Black bird of Chernobyl(although not Russia, but also worthy of attention)
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.
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.
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.
