Exactly 75 years ago, on October 21, 1944, the American ship "Rubicon" literally disappeared into the fog of the Bermuda Triangle, with more than 300 people on board. Legends about this “exclusion zone” have been circulating for a long time, but few people know that in the capital there are no less mystical places where people disappeared in a strange way. Moscow scholar Pavel Gnilorybov, as well as President of the Protohistory Association, ufologist Nikolai Subbotin told in more detail about them.
THE FAILED CHURCH WITH THE PARISH
According to Pavel Gnilorybov, next to the Kuntsevskaya metro station, on the border of Filevsky and Suvorov parks, there is a so-called cursed place. Once there was a settlement, where the Vyatichi tribes lived, and there was supposedly a church that disappeared mystically right along with the parishioners. According to legend, the building went underground for the sins of the inhabitants. In the 19th century, the Kiev direction of the railway was a dacha, and this story was picked up by many local vacationers. The writer Mikhail Voskresensky in 1831 created the novel "The Cursed Place" on its basis, and the artist Alexei Savrasov in 1872 painted the picture "Autumn Forest. Kuntsevo. Damned place. " This area still attracts archaeologists who regularly find fossils at the site of the settlement - belemnites (a detachment of extinct cephalopods from the subclass of two-gill - note "VM"),also popularly known as "devil's fingers".
THE SPIRIT OF THE CAPITAL BRIAN
At the turn of the 18th-19th centuries, Lenivka Street and its environs were considered the worst place in Moscow. The fact is that Vanka Kain, the most famous Moscow robber of the 18th century, operated there. In the same place, there was a stone bridge, which, if it existed today, would abut the steps of the Variety Theater. Huge funds were spent on the construction, but the inhabitants of Moscow tried to bypass it. Firstly, because of the tricks of Vanka, people regularly disappeared in the area, and secondly, beggars lived under this bridge, from whom one could also expect anything. The building was dismantled in the 19th century. But until now, according to Gnilorybov, the atmosphere of the past can be felt by walking in the evening along the poorly lit Lebyazhy Lane and Lenivka Street among old, unreconstructed houses.
Also with Vanka Kain is associated with the emergence of the phraseological unit "ends in water". According to one version, it arose because robbers threw residents into the Neglinka river, and according to the second assumption, because Vanka sent people unwanted to him into the river collector.
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FOG IN "KOLOMENSKY"
In the Kolomenskoye park, you can visit the Golosov ravine, which is located near the Church of the Beheading of John the Baptist. There is a legend that when fog rises in this ravine, people begin to disappear. Even entire enemy detachments that approached Moscow allegedly disappeared. Along the ravine, you will definitely meet two more unusual phenomena - stones that are considered medicinal. One of them - "Goose-stone" - according to legend, radiates male energy, and the other - a female stone - helps the weaker sex to deal with problems.
MOSCOW "BERMUDA"
According to Nikolai Subbotin's story, the area of the Catuar station in the village of Nekrasovsky in the Moscow region is called the second Bermuda triangle. Since the mid-1990s, local residents there have encountered UFO ships and even snowmen. In addition, fog occurs in the area, absorbing travelers.
Another anomalous zone was a forest in the Shatura region on the border with the Vladimir region. Gnarled trees grow here. Since the middle of the 19th century, many cases have been known when the fog hanging over them "took" not only lonely travelers, but entire carts.
DEATH ROAD
Many residents of the capital know firsthand the Lytkarinskoe highway in the city of the same name in the Moscow region. It is also called the "road of death". Allegedly, there are ghosts on the way of drivers, the appearance of which frightens motorists so much that they get into accidents. True, according to another version, the pits, which the drivers do not notice, are to blame.
Author: Julia Dolgova
