The Ghost Of An Excavator - Alternative View

The Ghost Of An Excavator - Alternative View
The Ghost Of An Excavator - Alternative View

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The first official, so to speak, the ghost of St. Petersburg is the ghost of an excavator.

In the summer of 1708, work was carried out on the construction of the Kronverk - the bastion of the Peter and Paul Fortress. They were already coming to an end when the workers heard cries for help - one of the diggers fell into the Kronverk Strait, which in those years was very wide and deep-water. They did not manage to help the drowning man, and when the boat with the hooks came, they could not find the body.

A century later, already under Alexander I, a sentry screamed wildly at night on Kronverk. To the officer who came running, he explained that exactly at midnight a gray man came out of the strait and, spreading his arms wide, went to him, muttering something about the horrors of the underworld. It was not possible to find the "revived" drowned man, but some strange footprints, similar to prints of bare feet, were still found on the shore.

Kronverkskiy Strait of Petropavlovka. Somewhere here the ghost of an excavator is wandering …
Kronverkskiy Strait of Petropavlovka. Somewhere here the ghost of an excavator is wandering …

Kronverkskiy Strait of Petropavlovka. Somewhere here the ghost of an excavator is wandering …

The ghost of an excavator has appeared regularly since then, and died down only at the beginning of the 20th century, when some fisherman, who did not have respect for ghosts, threw a consecrated broth at him. Since then, the phenomenon of a digger has become much less common - only if someone behaves especially violently at dusk on the shore of the strait - throws stones, bottles into the water, tries to swim a la naturel, and so on. But the ghost over the centuries has become more meek and now only swears and asks for a drink, but does not try to take anyone with him to the underworld.