Probably, today everyone knows what a poltergeist is, which we sometimes also call a noisy spirit or a reel. But what the poltergeist called at the end of the eighties of the last century the TV presenter of the then popular TV show of the central television of the USSR "Obvious-Incredible" Alexei Gorovatsky, almost no one remembers this.
At the end of the last century, Soviet people knew practically nothing and did not hear about poltergeist, programs such as "Obviously-incredible" had just begun to appear, newspapers also did not indulge their readers with such sensational materials - they were banned, since the USSR was a state atheists, who deny as God, that and all manifestations of devilry.
However, in September 1987, in one of the Moscow hostels in Likhobory, at about nine o'clock in the evening, someone knocked at the door of the room where three girls lived who had come from different parts of the Soviet Union to work on construction sites in the capital. One of the girls opened the door, but no one was behind her. After that, the kettle whistled for no reason in the kitchen, although no one turned it on, and the front door to the room began to spontaneously open and close. The neighbor Yura, who was called to help, could not do anything about it, all his attempts to somehow resist the invisibility were unsuccessful.
Then the girls decided to come to an agreement with the spirit, soon established a certain relationship with him, perceiving him for the fourth tenant of the room, even had conversations with him, in which one knock from the invisible side meant "yes", and two - "no." The girls were not particularly afraid of such a neighborhood, taking it for a kind of game. They soon learned from their invisible neighbor that he was the spirit of a child who, for some unknown reason, was stuck in this world for himself.
Poltergeist does not appear by accident
Soon, the rumor about the dormitory poltergeist reached the construction superintendent, who decided to check if this was really so. He appeared in the girls' room just at the moment when they were in dialogue with their spirit. The foreman also joined in this conversation, asked the invisible man several questions to which none of those present could know the answer. For example, how many rooms are in his mother's apartment, how many workers he sent today to a construction site on Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya Street, and, having received accurate answers to his questions, he was not just surprised, he called the next day on television.
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And the film crew of the "Obvious-Incredible" program, headed by TV presenter Alexei Gorovatsky, arrived at the hostel, who a little later would call the spirit that settled among the girls a drum - from the word "drum", that is, knock.
Despite the fact that the television crew then did not manage to shoot this funny little drum, once the camera with IR, working at night, caught an obscure silhouette a meter or a little more, which fully corresponded to the poltergeist's admission that he was the spirit of a child.
Scientist Aleksandr Semyonov, who deals with poltergeist and other paranormal phenomena, says that the reel settled in the girls' room is far from accidental, since a poltergeist, as a rule, appears where they guess, engage in spiritualism, summon spirits, come into contact with black magic, and so on. … And among the girls in that room, Firiza, who was from Uzbekistan, was engaged in all these demonic "entertainments" in her native village. Two other girls also tried to practice speritism. That is why, when all these three were moved from a dysfunctional room to another hostel, the barabashka left with them, and a prosperous silence was established on Likhobory. Nobody knows anything about the further fate of the girls …
The information about the poltergeist, says Aleksandr Semyonov, comes from the Middle Ages, although indirect. The first documented mention of this supernatural phenomenon dates back to 1612, when the French priest François Perrault once returned home and found his family in complete disarray, as doors slammed in the building for no reason, there was a knock, dishes were beating in the kitchen, and so on. Other priests who came to the call of François witnessed a clear poltergeist, which they later described in all details. The reason for the appearance of a poltergeist in the priest's house, the then men from the church, considered the servant of his wife Francois, who was engaged in black magic and was even known in the district as a witch. She, by the way, very familiarly communicated with the spirit, almost flirted with him …