In 1994, in the village of Askiz, in a four-apartment building on Pobeda Street, events began, after which journalists and scientists from the Siberian Research Center for the Study of Anomalous Phenomena in the Environment at the Tomsk Polytechnic University came to the Khakass village. The group was led by Yuri Yaklichkin. In 1996 he published the book "Askiz Poltergeist". Later they will write about this edition: "This is the deepest, complete and most comprehensive study of a poltergeist of all the existing ones in the CIS and in the Far Abroad."
An unexpected pogrom
On August 18, the owner of one of the apartments, Erna Root, went to the post office for a pension. The woman left her son Yegor (11 years old) at home. When she returned, she saw a frightened child in the yard, shouting: “Mom, hurry! We have this going on."
Then no one believed the boy's words. The policemen who arrived recorded the pogrom and began to find out to whom the family could cross the road.
Stone shelling
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Time passed. The owners put in the windows in the hut, put things in order. On that day (September 8), the hostess returned home from her daughter and saw that someone had propped up the door with a pitchfork. Putting the instrument back in place, Erna entered the room and gasped: the sink was lying on the floor. Suddenly there was a knock on the door. The woman rushed to open it, but she did not give in. As it turned out later, they propped it up again, but this time with a shovel.
A few seconds later the windows in the house rang: stones flew along with the broken glass. A neighbor came running to the screams, and she said that invisible forces were “shooting at” the house with stones. Soon Erna's husband Georgiy drove up to the hut. As soon as he went inside, the glass fell again. By that time, a crowd had gathered near the house. Hearing the ringing, the people rushed into the garden, checked the flocks and other outbuildings - and nothing.
Alevtina K., working near the creepy house, told the paranormal researchers who arrived that stones and pieces of coal flew from the side of the road: they rose up, unwound in a spiral line and then flew in the direction of the house.
In the following days, completely inexplicable things began to happen in the apartment (and in all four): a bucket of slop flew from the terrace into the kitchen, invisible forces tore the meat grinder from the hands, dishes beat, furniture moved, a broom, a shovel, a piece of wood flew into the air, etc..d.
Low-quality alcohol?
Many villagers were skeptical about the stories of a raging poltergeist in an apartment building. They considered the whole story to be fiction, a figment of the imagination and hinted, they say, you need to drink less. Someone even spoke about a batch of low-quality alcohol brought to the village. The second part of Askiz residents believed and referred to the stories of neighbors and onlookers-eyewitnesses:
The police threw up their hands. The owners even called a local priest to help. He, walking around the house, described the poltergeist as the actions of fallen spirits - demons. To solve the problem, he proposed placing a holy icon in every room and illuminating the house, as well as removing from the house all heretical literature, to which he attributed the books of Lenin, Voltaire, Tolstoy, Marx, etc. Satisfied with what he had done, the priest promised that from now on everything was over. And he left. But the unexplained phenomena began to continue.
Is death mysterious?
Georgy, the owner of the house where it all began, returned home on September 13 at about seven o'clock. The man was drunk. He excitedly walked through the rooms, examining the scattered things and the ongoing disorder in the apartment. As stated in Yaklichkin's book, after that he announced that he had a desire to drink all the coming night. At 20 o'clock, the hosts received the correspondent of the Khakassia newspaper. She recorded an interview, and then tried with the help of folk remedies to cure Yegorka, who felt bad in the morning: dizzy, there was a feeling of suffocation, and an enduring feeling of fear haunted. After the newspaper employee left, the child became even worse.
An hour later, an ambulance arrived. The paramedic gave the boy an injection, and he felt much better.
Georgy went to bed at about one in the morning. Erna woke up at 05.30, went to the yard, returned to the house and noticed that her husband was lying in an unnatural position with an unusual expression on his face. By that time, he was already dead.
The man was buried the next day. The autopsy was not done. However, later this fact will interest the arriving specialists from Tomsk, and they will exhume the body.
Soon, another participant in the poltergeist events died - a neighbor Nikolai Kezin. After strange events, he developed pancreatic necrosis, and the disease, according to doctors, had a strange and unusual character for this kind of disease. A year later, his son Alexander died. Yaklichkin believes that all these deaths are somehow connected with the poltergeist.
The strange events soon ceased. After some time, Erna and her son moved out of the ill-fated house. Since then, according to local residents, nothing strange has happened within the walls of the house.
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Excerpt from the book "Askiz Poltergeist":