Everything you heard about the metropolitan subway and what you were afraid to ask
The Moscow metro is shrouded in a veil of legends about hidden tunnels, ghosts living there, mutant animals and more. This is not surprising, because thanks to the metro we travel in the underground world, which since ancient times has been associated in the minds of people with something dark and mysterious.
Most of the "metropolitan legends" are based only on oral testimony of eyewitnesses, but some are supported by the opinion of historians who have studied archival documents.
Subway stations were built in strictly defined places?
Back in the 18th century, a colleague of Peter I, the scientist and "warlock from the Sukharev Tower" Yakov Bruce made an astrological map of Moscow, calculated its anomalous zones and left behind a lot of advice to city planners: where, what, how and for what purpose to build, and where to conduct construction categorically it is impossible. Most of his works died in the fire of 1812, but the search for hiding places in the Sukharev Tower, where hidden manuscripts could be found, continued in the last century. According to legend, these searches were crowned with success: the Black Book of the sorcerer allegedly fell into the possession of Stalin. It is known that Joseph Vissarionovich was attentive to the occult sciences.
So the book could well guide the designers of the first lines of the metropolitan subway.
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Was the subway built as an occult structure?
Some scientists seriously believe that the metro was conceived as a tool for paranormal influence on citizens in order to strengthen the power of the leader. The mechanism of influence was incorporated into the layout of the subway. This mechanism is not completely clear, but after all, both the Egyptian pyramids and the British stone mass of Stonehenge still remain a mystery to researchers.
Observant people noticed that radial lines neatly divide the Moscow subway into 12 sectors. It is believed that this is a projection of the zodiac signs onto the territory of the city. And it's not just astrology.
12 is a special number in many cultures and beliefs. Let us recall the 12 apostles, 12 advisers of the Dalai Lama, 12 knights of the round table of King Arthur, 12-petal lotus, symbolizing the Universe. This number has long been an integral part of sacred architecture.
The circular line connecting the radial branches supposedly forms a powerful energy ring - a portal through which otherworldly entities penetrate into the subway.
Ploschad Revolyutsii station of the Moscow metro. ru.wikipedia.org
Were there any casualties during the construction of the metro?
Unfortunately, this question can be confidently answered in the affirmative, and it is not related to the occult secrets of the subway.
So, in the late 1930s, the first heads of the Moscow subway, Adolf Petrikovsky and Vladimir Dneprovsky, were repressed one after another.
Again, going down underground, a person always exposes himself to danger, especially if this descent involves work that has never been done before. During the construction of the Moscow metro, hundreds of people died from the breakthrough of groundwater and quicksands.
Soviet newspapers glorified the feat of the Komsomol brigades of metro builders. However, most likely, prisoners were also involved in these works. Convicts were cheap consumables on all epoch-making construction sites of the 1930-1940s. Therefore, no one kept account of the victims. And not all of the tragedies that happened during the construction of the tunnels left a mark in the archives. It goes without saying that these facts were not communicated to the general public either.
Are there "paranormal" stations in the Moscow metro?
If you collect statistics on accidents, accidents, man-made disasters, as well as testimonies of townspeople who felt unwell or encountered supernatural forces in the subway, then there are record-breaking stations.
Researchers of paranormal phenomena rank Paveletskaya, Avtozavodskaya, Aviamotornaya, Rizhskaya, Taganskaya, Sokolniki, Kitay-gorod, Tverskaya, Sokol, Novokuznetskaya as such "bad" stations. "And a junction of four stations -" Arbatskaya "," Borovitskaya "," Aleksandrovsky Sad "and" Library named after Lenin ".
A geopathic zone arose where the greatest number of people died during construction, or construction was carried out with a violent invasion of the sacred or other world.
For example, on the site of the Sokol station, there were once the communal graves of those who died in the First World War, and even earlier - a pagan cemetery, later turned into an Orthodox one. During the Great Terror, mass executions were carried out here.
Shortly before the "Arbatskaya" was laid, the prayer temple of Tikhon Amafuntsky was destroyed at the Arbat Gate, and the materials left over from the destroyed church were used to decorate the new station.
"Novokuznetskaya" was also built on the site of the temple. The benches at the station are made of gravestones from the ruined Donskoy cemetery. The architect of "Novokuznetskaya" Nadezhda Bykova wrote about this in her memoirs. In times of famine, nothing was wasted.
But "Aviamotornaya" became "paranormal" several years after it was built. In 1982, the largest escalator accident in the history of the underground took place here. Eight people died, more than 30 were left disabled. Since then, some passengers sometimes see phantoms with severed limbs here.
Station "Novokuznetskaya" on the Zamoskvoretskaya line of the Moscow metro. wikimedia.org
Are there ghosts on the subway?
Many feel in the paranormal zones of the metro a deterioration in health, anxiety, panic, and even witness representatives of the other world with their own eyes. Some ghosts appear to people so often that they managed to deserve nicknames and proper names.
Natasha is a phantom that appears in the Falcon area. It is believed that this is the spirit of a young girl, whose grave was destroyed by excavators during the construction of the station.
The ghost of the Trackman was seen at different stations both during the Soviet era and now. They say that this man is so attached to his work that he continues to monitor the condition of the underground paths after death.
Almost all metro employees believe in the legend of the Black Engineer, whose soul has remained forever in the tunnels. When a carriage caught fire on the stretch between stations as part of the train, the driver saved many lives at the cost of his own. He died in the hospital, but immediately after that he "returned" to work and is now "distilling" empty trains and sometimes appears to colleagues to warn of the danger.
Are there mutant animals on the subway?
Rumors of two-meter rats, spread many years ago by black diggers (people who illegally enter closed underground objects in order to search for artifacts), are refuted even by the most ardent supporters of the mystical concept of the metro. After all, ordinary rats are not found in the transport subway. And for a very simple reason: there is no food here. In addition, high-voltage cables penetrating tunnels create an absolutely unsuitable habitat for any species of animals.
Does Metro-2 exist?
This is the only legend of the Moscow metro, the reliability of which is fully confirmed by the facts. Now no one doubts the existence of an extensive network of tunnels, warehouses, bomb shelters and bunkers, connected with metro stations. Although most of these objects are still classified, and penetration into the true secrets of the underground world of Moscow is available only to a select few.
Metro-2. en.wikipedia.org
By the way: the Moscow metro could have appeared even earlier than the London one, if the City Duma had not rejected in 1875 a completely viable project proposed by the talented engineer Vasily Titov. Then the Church opposed the construction.
One of the highest church dignitaries wrote an indignant letter to the Moscow metropolitan, calling this project sinful. According to him, a person created in the image and likeness of God should not have descended into the underworld, which the underworld seemed to be at that time.
Perhaps the author of this letter was right in something …
