I never doubted that people in real life often encounter mysticism, which is hardly possible to explain from a rational point of view.
Talk to any person, and he finally confesses that he himself, his friends, relatives, colleagues were eyewitnesses of something strange, mystical …
Cursed house in Salsk
A mystical force has been surviving a family from a private house on Krupskaya Street for six months now …
When the Usovs (surname changed - author's note) bought the house 12 years ago, they, of course, saw that the walls in all the rooms were painted with crosses.
- What is this for? - they asked the owner of the house, a grandmother of about 70 years old.
- From evil spirits, - was the answer.
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The Usovs did not attach importance to these words. Grandma was old. Judging by the number of icons, I am a little out of my mind on religious grounds. So I "painted" the walls …
The fact that the previous owners of the house had lived in it for no more than a year and were compliant in the bargain, they remembered in the fall of 2003, when all mysticism began to happen.
It all started when at 7 o'clock in the evening, when the whole family sat in front of the TV, the light in the house was "cut out". Everything stopped working. My son Nikolai checked the plugs, but they were fine. So do the switches.
For 2 hours, electricity appeared and disappeared again. At the same time, looking out the window, the Usovs saw that the lights were on without interruption on the street and in neighboring houses.
Since that time, this has happened in the house every evening …
The Usovs were still materialists at that time. They decided that everything that was happening was the result of a wiring fault, and they called an electrician.
An electrician checked the wiring. She was fine. But as soon as he left home, another thing was added to the anomalous phenomena: all the dishes were broken at once. Both in the kitchen and in the living room.
Then papers began to appear in the rooms with male and female names written in clumsy handwriting. The district policeman, having visited the cursed house, advised to contact the church.
And so they did. Father Vladimir consecrated the house, and the mystical manifestations of demonic behavior stopped for a week. And then suddenly the curtains in the kitchen and the dog booth came on.
Poltergeist phenomena typically occur in the homes of a teenager entering puberty. The Usov family has such a teenager - this is 12-year-old grandson Oleg. But it was not possible to establish a connection between Oleg and mystical phenomena: they also occurred in those days when the grandson was not at home …
But it was Oleg who stunned the parents, once saying:
“We're not alone here. Besides us, there are two other people living in the house, a guy and a girl. They said there were two corpses under our house …
And the boy described in detail the ghosts that appeared to him.
The Usovs dug through the entire basement, risking damaging the foundation. They have found nothing and are in despair.
Mystical phenomena continue …
The woman in white and Razin's treasure
The ghost scared to death the archaeologists who carried out excavations in the basements of the Aksai customs …
Once upon a time - in the 17th and 18th centuries - the customs house was of great state importance and was a branch of the Aksai fortress. Now it is a historical and cultural one: the building is part of the Aksai Literary and Local Lore Museum.
White stone walls, which were once visited by Prince Potemkin and A. Suvorov, keep many secrets, exciting the imagination of both ordinary people and professional historians.
Of particular interest are the dungeons. Local historians love to tell legends about underground passages that stretch from customs for many kilometers. Allegedly, they were dug by the Cossacks in order to be able, in the event of a siege, to leave the fortress and return to it unnoticed by the enemy.
Here it should be noted right away: it is specifically about the underground passages leading to Aksai, Rostov and even Novocherkassk, and not about manholes 100-200 meters long. Several of them have been discovered and partially excavated. Historians know about a couple of Laz only on the basis of archival documents.
When I visited the Aksai customs two years ago, the museum staff casually pointed at the walls in conversation:
- There should be a hole here. And one more - over there, behind the statue of Suvorov.
- Why haven't they been excavated yet?
- Lazy covered with sagging soil. Here it has a high clay content. Over the centuries, the soil has turned to stone. Its strength is almost like granite. It takes a lot of time and effort, and we, the employees of the museum, already have enough work …
This is of course true. But I have heard another opinion, unofficial: there is a very strong necrotic energy in the customs office, there is always all sorts of devilry going on, and sometimes ghosts are seen. At least the museum staff, going down to the underground premises for business needs, try not to stay here for a long time.
For decades, museum veterans have not recalled a single attempt by treasure hunters to enter the dungeons. They were not even tempted by the legends about Stepan Razin's treasure, which was supposedly hidden somewhere here. At least such a conclusion can be made on the basis of the documents.
Several years ago, archival research was scientifically confirmed. Experts from the Novocherkassk Polytechnic University performed an ultrasonic survey of the soil in several sections of the underground.
The result of the scan surpassed the wildest expectations: they found a cavity in which or under which there is some kind of massive metal object. According to experts, its weight is about 150 kg.
What is it? Could it be a chest bound with iron? And if there is a chest, then what is in it? Maybe the legendary treasure of Stepan Razin, which was left here in the distant 1670?
Scientific interest, not greed, took possession of the museum staff. In the end, all the organizational issues were resolved, and a group of enthusiasts from the Novocherkassk Polytechnic Institute began excavations.
Only two people could work at a time in a narrow excavation. The rest were waiting for their turn to replace tired comrades.
According to eyewitnesses, the work was arguing, despite the dense ground. It seemed a little more - scientists will be able to make a discovery …
When the target was 2 meters away, inexplicable phenomena began. At first, in the silence reigning in the dungeon, rustles began to be heard. Then a breath of air touched the faces of all those present.
It was unclear who or what was producing these blows. Having exchanged glances, the historians continued excavations.
And then a woman in white flowing robes suddenly emerged from a side excavation (by the way, a dead end). It was translucent. The opposite wall was visible through it!..
The archaeologists were so horrified that they immediately ran out not only from the dungeon, but in general from the building of the Aksai customs.
No more than 2 meters of soil remained to the place where Razin's treasure was supposedly located, but in the time that has passed since the appearance of the ghost in white, none of the archaeologists dared to go down to the excavation and complete the work begun.
They are afraid of the guard.
A ghost pointed to a monk's grave
The confluence of mystical signs led to the discovery of one of the mysteries of the Nikolo-Zaretsky temple …
Last summer, priest Father Sergius walked along the central streets of Tula. Suddenly something began to pull him to make a detour and go into the Nikolo-Zaretsky temple. As soon as he was in the temple and stepped on the stone laying, he clearly heard a voice that said:
- Hieromonk Euphrosynus rests here …
The impression was so strong that Father Sergius felt uneasy. His condition returned to normal only after he attended a reception with Vladyka Alexei, Archbishop of Tula and Belevsky, and asked for permission to excavate. He received permission.
However, the voice in the temple was the first sign, but not the last. At dawn on the day the excavation was to begin, the ghost of a hooded monk appeared. The monk crossed the altar and disappeared into thin air.
After that, Father Sergius had no doubt that during the excavations he would certainly find something. And in reality, the remains were buried under the stonework. Judging by the fragments of rotted robes - a priest.
Once the 17th century grave - its age was determined by the buttons on its clothes - was desecrated. The blasphemers broke the bones in the coffin and scattered them over the crypt. Probably, this is what haunted the spirit of the monk Euphrosynus …
As it turned out, not only that. When the monks of the Nikolo-Zarechny Church wanted to wall up the crypt again, a mysterious glow began. It lasted six seconds and was recorded by a video camera. The recording dispassionately stated how the glow, flashing, shrank to a point, pointing to one of the walls. The stone wall was broken. The vault of the skull was found in a niche.
When the remains of the monk Euphrosynus were transferred to the temple, miracles began. The blackened relics were cleansed of rot to a golden color and began to smell sweet. Myrrh began to ooze from the metal sheet on which the coffin with the remains stood.
There are many known cases of healing. The relics help to get rid of alcohol addiction, resolve benign tumors, and one woman, considered infertile, became pregnant …
Apart from Father Sergius, the ghost of the monk Euphrosynus appeared to another priest. In February, when Father Victor was praying at the altar, a figure in a robe suddenly appeared. She stood for a while, bent over the altar and disappeared when she left the altar …
According to historians, the crypt discovered in the temple belongs to a monk who served the faith and the Lord in the Tula church and died around 1700. 30 years later, his remains were transferred to the Nikolo-Zaretsky temple.
Only one thing confuses the priests: to this day they have not been able to find in the documents a mention of a monk named Euphrosynus …
The Mystery of the Nenets Idol
1. Russian scientists could not even imagine what troubles they would bring upon themselves when they decided to take the ancient totemic idol to the mainland …
2. He was found by a geographic expedition that visited the Vaychag island in the Barents Sea. The idol stood on the edge of the grave of a shaman who died in the 1950s and possessed, according to the stories of old-timers, tremendous power. The sorcerer supposedly could sink ships, cause earthquakes and storms. When they met him, the wolves lay down on their belly, and the Arctic foxes followed him like domestic dogs …
Believing in local tales or not believing is everyone's personal business, but the 7-meter idol was quite real and aroused great interest among researchers. He was somehow strange, not like other Nenets idols.
Usually, the faces of spirits and deities carved on the pillar are arranged vertically. A horizontal bar with pictures was attached to this. And bunches are driven into all faces. Only one thing remained intact - the image of the skull.
Scientists asked the old residents for permission to take the idol to the Mainland, but they were refused:
- You can't. He will bring grief in a new place …
“But we’ll take him for a little while - just a couple of years. We will study it, put it in a museum, and then return it back!
The elders' persuasion and gift-giving were ultimately successful. We got permission.
“We just need to make a bloody sacrifice first,” the old men set the condition.
Scientists bought the best white deer from reindeer herders. The elders killed him, the meat was distributed to the villagers, and his head was laid at the foot of the idol.
3. The expedition was to be picked up from the island by the research vessel “Akademik Sergei Vavilov”.
A boat was launched to bring the idol on board.
And then the devilry began.
As soon as the boat touched the water, it began to sink. It turns out that a cork popped out of the bottom. The cables had not yet been unhooked, so the boat, filled with water, was immediately lifted to the deck and the malfunction was rectified.
The weather was good all morning. However, when the boat with the idol went out to sea, the weather turned bad. The storm has begun. The explorers and minder did not drown by a miracle.
The leader of the expedition gave the order to put the idol in his cabin. I went to sleep in another cabin myself.
You can imagine what he experienced when he woke up and saw that the idol was standing a meter from his bed!..
What happened - a joke of colleagues or a sea roll in some incredible way moved the idol 10 meters - he could not figure out. Just from then on I began to lock the door with a key.
The idol did not come to him again.
4. When the expedition's find was exhibited at the Moscow Institute of Cultural and Natural Research, museum staff began to complain of headaches, lethargy and stomach pain.
Two weeks later, one grandmother, a visitor, looked at the idol and advised to sprinkle it with holy water. This proposal did not cause ironic smiles on the faces of the museum staff. They themselves wanted to do something similar. Since the introduction of the idol at the institute, discussion of incidents associated with it has become a general fad. And the grandmother, leaving the building, suddenly stumbled out of the blue, fell and broke her leg …
Another visitor, a former Gulag prisoner, said that in 1936 he saw a similar idol at Cape Greben. Clearing the area for construction, the tractor driver destroyed it and after some time died a terrible death. While working, it seemed to him that something stuck to the caterpillar. He got out of the tractor, began to inspect the tracks, and the multi-ton machine suddenly moved a meter due to the movement of the ground. It was enough to run over the driver …
After another fatal coincidence of circumstances - a section of the ceiling above the place where the idol stood collapsed - the leadership of the institute finally ordered to remove it from the museum's exposition.
The institute carpenter has made a box. When he was putting the idol in a box before going to the basement, he felt a severe pain in his eyes. And the next morning I couldn't find the drill.
“Ask the idol,” one employee advised.
Opening the drawer, the carpenter measured: the drill was inside …
5. The idol did not stay in Moscow for a year. The leader of the expedition suddenly received a letter from the elders and found out that not everything was going well on Vaychag Island since the totem relic left them: the Arctic fox stopped catching, the deer were dying, the fish left the island, many in the village began to get sick …
With the first opportunity, the idol was returned to its native land.
And the devilry stopped immediately. Both at the institute and on a distant island in the Barents Sea …
UFOs - a harbinger of trouble?
From June 1 to June 4, 1999, a UFO hung over Rostov, similar to a bright spot, over which iridescent spots and rings rolled from time to time.
Thousands of townspeople saw him, without exaggeration. To do this, it was enough to look out the window when it gets dark and look towards the zoo. The most curious climbed the rooftops with cameras and binoculars.
The appearance of any plasmoid in the sky over the city is a very unkind sign.
We all remember the tragedy at the Kagalnitsky crossing when an electric locomotive collided with a school bus. Employees of the Enio Research Center, conducting an investigation, learned from school teachers that a green ball had been hanging over the school for a long time two months before the accident …
Coincidence?
Several years ago, a brigade of fishermen on the Mius River, pulling nets out of the water, was cut off from work by the appearance of a balloon in the sky. After a couple of weeks, the fishermen went blind - almost the entire brigade. Doctors believed that blindness was the result of food poisoning. Say, they ate the stale fish … They could not give any other explanation.
Is this also a coincidence?
Hardly.
Only video recordings with eyewitness accounts of sightings of UFOs or third-degree contacts at the Enio Research Center have accumulated so much that they do not fit in a metal cabinet.
It's time to shoot the series "The X-Files" on the Don texture.
A. Masalov