Not only funny penguins live on the icy mainland. The expedition members talk about encounters with fireballs and huge white bats. For many, these acquaintances end in tragedy.
When we rushed to Sasha, he was dead
Soviet polar explorer Yuri Korshunov lived in Leningrad. Shortly before his death, he told a journalist a story that he kept secret for a long time. This is not surprising: for such things in the USSR they hid in a psychiatric hospital.
50s of the XX century. Little is known about Antarctica, but nothing at all at that time. Six Soviet polar explorers are walking from Mirny station to the South Pole. Only two will come back. The death of the train will then be explained by bad weather conditions and an all-terrain vehicle engine failure. But in reality it was not like that.
V. Eshurin / TASS photo chronicle.
And it is no coincidence. Soon, Yuri Efremovich saw a large luminous ball bouncing 300 meters from the all-terrain vehicle. Other polar explorers responded to his cry. The ball was not scared. It rolled towards the people, stretching out into the shape of a sausage. The snow melted under him. It seemed to Korshunov that a mouth appeared in front of the "sausage", she was moving, as if she was speaking something in her own language.
The expedition photographer Alexander Gorodetsky went ahead to shoot this miracle. Suddenly a glowing halo appeared around him. The polar explorers had to save the photographer, and they never figured out anything else how to shoot the monster. Then lightning shot out of him.
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There was some kind of super-strong magnetic storm, and there was no communication with the station. The polar explorers worked at the Pole for several days. And then three of them - Kustov, Borisov and the leader Skobelev - also died. Everything happened, just like with the photographer.
Only now a few balls appeared on the horizon, “as if they had thickened out of thin air,” they began to sink to the ground, and the polar explorers began to shoot at them. There was panic, and when everything calmed down, Kustov and Borisov were dead. Andrey Skobelev was in a deranged state and did not remember anything. They managed to take him to Mirny. There he died. The doctors said that the reason was heart failure, which was due to the strongest electromagnetic discharge.
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A few years later, in 1962, 17 American polar explorers set out to explore the South Magnetic Pole. They all returned, but the old life was gone: people were on the verge of insanity.
Killer balls were also seen in 1991. Then a member of the 1991 French expedition, operator Jacques Valence, died. He also noticed an unidentified flying object and wanted to shoot it with the camera, but the ball turned into a ribbon with a mouth, dived at the operator and flew away. And the blackened body of the murdered polar explorer was left lying in the snow.
Plasmoids
According to one of the versions, flying balls are not a hallucination of polar explorers, but special living beings. They do not consist of usual molecules, but of energy bunches. American physicist Roy Christopher in 1966 invented the name for the balls - plasmosaurs, or plasmoids. They live at an altitude of about 500 kilometers, you cannot see from here. But in the vicinity of the magnetic poles, it is easier for plasmoids to approach the Earth.
It is believed that plasmosaurs are the most ancient of all living on Earth. It's just not organic life, but an energetic substance. Academician Vlail Kaznacheev assumed that she had the rudiments of reason.
Another scientist, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, wrote even earlier that “discharged energy life is more ancient than protein life, because matter did not immediately appear as dense as it is now”.
Plasmoids have been seen not only in Antarctica, but also in ordinary places. There are city photographs in which strange balls appear from somewhere. And someone meets them at home.
A user under the nickname Aleks told his story: “Once we were sitting with a family in the hall, when suddenly a luminous ball 15 centimeters in diameter appeared near the cabinet. It rolled along the wall, flew to the window and flew through it into the street. Burnt holes appeared on the curtain and in the glass."
Kryons afraid of heat
Along with ephemeral plasmosaurs in Antarctica, we met quite material creatures. Kryona. These scary white creatures are like bats, only several times larger and more dangerous. They are also called the Horvitsa monsters. Named Isaac Horwitz, who first described meeting them.
In the summer of 1960, a polar explorer was on an expedition to the South Pole. Once they discovered that magnetologist Stoppard had disappeared. Following in his footsteps, Horwitz reached a crack in the ice and descended into the darkness on strong ropes. In the depths I saw the body of a comrade, next to it there were huge footprints similar to rats, and a little further away two lights - the eyes of the monster. Gorwitz did not tell anyone about such a find, so that he would not be considered crazy. But soon two more polar explorers disappeared. Their eaten bodies were found a few days later, about a kilometer from the station. There were no bones in the remains.
Isaac remembered the monster, and then met with him live. Once they came out with a partner from the pavilion where they worked, and saw something resembling a huge white bat. Gorwitz shot and wounded the beast.
The blood of kryon will then be studied by scientists. It turns out that it only has a name from blood. In composition, this liquid resembles antifreeze, which does not freeze at low temperatures. Apparently, kryons only live in the cold. At minus 30 or even 40, they can die. Too hot.
Skeptics call all these stories horror stories. But neither side has irrefutable evidence.
Ice that sings
A little more than half a century for science - and it was then that they began to constantly study Antarctica - this is not even childhood, but infancy. There will be many more discoveries.
Recently, for example, they found out that in ancient Antarctica, which was a tropical continent, lived one of the heaviest dinosaurs (weighing 15 tons!) - Elasmosaurs. Paleontologists discovered this long-necked sea creature on the Antarctic island of Seymour back in 1989, but were able to complete excavations only in 2017. Elasmosaurus was dubbed the Loch Ness monster of Antarctica.
The mainland can tell a lot not only about Antarctica, but also about the Earth. Here is the oldest ice in the world, it is millions of years old. Scientists say it is more valuable than gold and call it a "time machine." And this ice can also sing.
People do not hear sounds with a frequency of five hertz, but special sensors pick it up. This "singing" causes the wind to move on the ice, US researchers said last fall. The song changes slightly when the ice melts. “It’s like someone’s playing the flute,” said Julien Chaput, geophysicist at Colorado State University.
Sophia Ruchko