Rumors have been circulating for a long time that there is a department for anomalous phenomena in the depths of the domestic special services. And they are not groundless. Such a special department does exist. He diligently records the most high-profile cases and collects facts related to everything inexplicable.
The group's activities mostly consist of collecting information, classifying and analyzing it. Kind of like what Mulder and Scully do in The X-Files, but without the hassle of running around, shooting, and incessantly interacting with green men.
Fire in bed
This story began with a journalistic investigation into the phenomenon known as pyromania. A girl appeared in the Russian outback, around which all objects were ignited. All of a sudden, wallpaper, books, bed linen and a mattress on the bed lit up. Firefighters just shrugged their shoulders, the police drew up endless protocols, and doctors helped the girl's family and friends to heal endless burns. Specialists in anomalous phenomena, who have become frequent in the mysterious family, also could not give an intelligible answer. Desperate, the girl's parents turned to the special services for help.
My colleague Patrick Wilkins, who worked for the American magazine National Inquirer and I, and I managed to meet one of the Russian Mulders. And he told us about the real reason not only of the case about which we were going to write, but also of many other unusual phenomena.
Investigating the phenomena of poltergeists or pyromania, employees of the anomalous special services usually mounted hidden cameras in a "bad" apartment. And in the next few days, it turned out who was behind all these pranks. In most cases, these turned out to be children, somehow offended by their parents. Literally behind the backs of their fathers and mothers, they overturned banks, set fire to newspapers and did a lot of things that are called in the code by the common word "hooliganism". But in 2-3% of such cases, the cameras did not record anything. Meanwhile, the phenomena continued. This puzzled people in the organization, where they were used to clear and rational explanations of everything that happened.
In the story of our "eye-catching eye", a covert camera technique was used. That is, a special employee did it just in the presence of the inhabitants of the apartment, but in a completely imperceptible way for them.
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And then Prometheus still showed up.
Little nomads
It turned out to be an ordinary person, albeit very short. A dwarf, one might say. With an unprepossessing face and disproportionate body. He lived in an apartment with its inhabitants, but no one saw him. He was able to achieve such secrecy with the help of mass hypnosis, under which all family members, guests and even an intelligence officer who planted a hidden camera were constantly being. But the dwarf could not calculate the latter. So I got caught.
The transportation of the "brownie" caught with such difficulty required a specially equipped car. After all, the "houseman" did not have any difficulty in hypnotizing any security guard so that he would simply stop seeing him.
At first, the "brownie" went, as they say, completely unconscious. But after a while he was forced to go to "cooperation" in order to try to get his will. And it turned out that there are many such "brownies" in more than one house. Like gypsies, they wander from place to place, not having their own homes, but being satellites of families that they manage to take under their hypno-control. A distinctive feature of the representatives of this "folk" is their very small stature. It is men who have the most powerful hypnotic abilities.
The concept of state borders for these people is very arbitrary. The only thing that can hold them back is the language barrier. Their leisurely, withdrawn lifestyle made them lazy. Learning a language requires extra effort.
The technology of “getting” a new apartment from “brownies” is as follows. Having calculated a vulnerable family, where all members are weak to resist someone else's will, the "brownie" settles in their apartments and begins to lead a life together. If the family has pets - cats or dogs - he tries to compromise them so that the owners get rid of their pets, and sometimes he just arranges for them to run away. This is necessary because hypnosis does not take animals as well as people.
"Brownies" eat from a common refrigerator, sleep in a secluded place and carefully monitor that they are not identified. However, over time, they are drawn into family problems and one day they take sides. This is where the ill-fated poltergeists begin - objects flying around the room (which the "little hypnotist" simply picks up in front of the owners of the apartment) and other phenomena inexplicable from the point of view of a normal person. So "brownies" intimidate bad or unlucky, from their point of view, family members.
In front of my husband
There have been cases when women, turning to psychotherapists and gynecologists, admitted that sometimes they experience voluptuous sensations surging out of nowhere. And they described that they clearly felt other people's touches in the area of erogenous zones. Western psychoanalysts have collected colossal statistics on such unexplained cases. But orthodox medicine is more often in a hurry to attribute everything to increased excitability and recommends … sedatives.
And it's all about the same brownies. Remaining with all their extraordinary abilities, they are still people, they do not deny themselves sex. They can harass women who do not see them literally in front of their husbands! Housewives are most often "taken" in a dream, or when they are relaxed by alcohol, or fever during illness. A powerful suggestion is also triggered: in the morning the victim cannot really understand what exactly happened to her. Hence the unexpected "flies" when the expectant mother, in fact, cannot put her mind to how it happened. And strange, not like any of the family children …
Actually, it is in this way that the "hypno-gypsies" continue their kind to this day. Children who have come from nowhere, especially boys, sometimes just disappear. Having found out that the child has inherited both his short stature and his unusual hypnotic abilities (and the genes of young hypnotists are very strong), a loving father begins to take an active part in upbringing and eventually takes his son with him to another house. And when he grows up, he finds himself a separate home.
Since "hypno-gypsies" have existed for more than a century, history has accumulated many cases with "immaculate conceptions" and other unexplained phenomena, which over time were combined under one word "brownie". This word can be found in novels of past centuries, fairy tales and epics. The lack of technical methods of detection in those days made the "brownies" practically invulnerable. And now they can be caught only in very rare cases. These strange people are big individualists and couch potatoes. And even among themselves they communicate extremely rarely and reluctantly.
SPECIALISTS 'OPINIONS
Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Chairman of the Commission on Anomalous Phenomena Vladimir KOVALENKO:
- We plan to continue theoretical and experimental research in this direction. It's difficult though. The problem is that people who encounter brownies, poltergeists or other similar phenomena prefer not to report it. Because you are afraid to seem crazy. This is largely to blame for television and the press, which most often follow the path of ridiculing eyewitnesses of such events. Meanwhile, we are aware of serious publications about such cases abroad. American researchers even managed to film the "brownies" and the so-called poltergeists that they arrange on film. We still have the principle: “This cannot be, because this can never be” …
Andrey KENIKH, NLP trainer of the Moscow Center for Neuro-Linguistic Programming:
- The technology of hypnosis, when the hypnotized person does not see the one who affects him, is called "negative hallucination." This is a fairly widely practiced method when it comes to short-term exposure to one person. But it is very difficult to control a group of people, especially for a long period of time. To do this, you must have very strong hypnotic abilities. Although people with such abilities still come across. Personally, I have encountered similar phenomena in my practice.
IT'S BETTER NOT TO ARGUE WITH HIM
A brownie in East Slavic mythology is a demonic character, the spirit of the house. He represented himself as a man, often on the same face as the owner of the house, or as a small old man with a face overgrown with white hair.
The brownie is also called a well-wisher, a well-wisher and even (in the Vologda Oblast) a breadwinner. In the Russian North, they call him a neighbor and a batanushka. And more recently, after a series of articles about one of these acclimatizers was published in central newspapers, one more nickname was stuck with him - bumbarashka. In the old days, brownies were often called by the "place of residence": in the barn - "barn", in the threshing floor - "fireman", in the barn - "shed", in the bathhouse - "bannik", in the chicken coop - "chicken god". Behind the stove - "kikimory baked", "shishigi", "shilikuns" and "korgorushi", and next to the food - "wen-slime". In the recent past, it was believed that if it is still impossible to get rid of the brownie, it is better not to upset him. If you don't get along with the brownie, there will be no living. At night he will make noise, and will also eat all the products in the hut.
Similar beliefs about the spirits of the house existed not only among the Slavs, but also among many other peoples.
RECOMMENDATIONS FOR IDENTIFICATION OF "HOME"
* If you suspect that someone else lives in the house besides you, get a pet, preferably a dog, and carefully observe its behavior. If a dog starts barking at an empty corner, behaves inappropriately in a seemingly empty room, this may be a sign of the presence of a “brownie”.
* Leaving a room or home, fix exactly in memory the location of familiar small objects. If the latter turn out to be slightly shifted from their places, it is worth considering.
* Leave inconspicuous nicks (for example, with a fingernail) on the packaging of consumable products. The disappearance of some, even the smallest, amount of food can also be a clue.
* If you already have concerns about the presence of strangers in the house, buy or borrow a video camera from a friend and try to quietly bring it home turned on in a box or bag with a slot. Remember that you also need to watch videos outside the home. Otherwise, under hypnosis, the tape will be taken away from you and erased. So much so that you will not guess.
* Close all interior doors often. This will make it difficult for the "home" to move around the apartment. An irritated "brownie" will definitely show himself somehow.
* Some "brownies" sometimes make contact by tapping with residents. Don't be too happy about that. Flirting can end in trouble for you.
* It is extremely difficult to smoke a "brownie". Having chosen a vulnerable family, he adapts to it for years. It is not uncommon for “brownies” to move with their families to a new place of residence. Sometimes, however, they can hold onto a large and comfortable room for living and, accordingly, remain in the same place with new tenants.
* Try to scare an unwanted roommate with a loud message about a dangerous infectious disease. A woman may, for example, be sad to report that she has AIDS or something like that. "Brownies" are extremely squeamish and fearful, so after such news they can leave your house.
* One of the ways to get rid of the "brownie" is to abruptly disperse to different apartments for a while. “Brownie”, having lost “family” overnight, can go in search of another.