What secrets are kept by a small piece of land in Lake Onega, which has become the focus of mysterious and inexplicable events?
The largest island on the way from Petrozavodsk to Kizhi is Bolshoi Klimetsky Island. Its length is 30 km, and its width is up to 9 km. At the end of the 15th century, on the southern tip of the island, the Novgorod merchant Ioann Klimentov founded the Klimetsky monastery. According to legend, in 1520, during one of the many journeys from Veliky Novgorod to the White Sea, he was caught by a terrible storm, and ships loaded with salt were thrown onto a rocky shoal. The area turned out to be very picturesque and the merchant liked it so much that he later chose it for the construction of a monastery here.
At the end of the 19th century, the island gained wide popularity in Russia. It was in these places that the famous storytellers T. G. and I. T. Ryabinins, V. P. The goldfinch, according to which P. N. Rybnikov and A. F. Hilferding recorded a large number of Russian epics, tales and legends (including those about Ilya Muromets, Dobryna Nikitich and Alyosha Popovich) that have become famous all over the world. The storytellers performed with great success in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
However, the peculiar "fame" of the island is associated not only with its historical and cultural past, but also with the no less mysterious present. The fact that “strange” and mysterious stories happen to people on the island has been known since ancient times, possibly since the time when on the island (according to legends), hundreds of years ago, there was one of the largest pagan temples in Karelia. Old residents of neighboring villages and casual eyewitnesses claim that at night you can observe a variety of amazing phenomena: from "witch's lights" running along forest glades like festive garlands to "luminous panels", various types of UFOs and ghostly humanoid silhouettes wandering between trees.
Selective studies using a biolocation frame show that there are many places on the island with powerful energy potential. Who knows if he is not capable of reaching such values in certain parts of the island at a certain time that space simply “collapses”, giving rise to the effect of a “vicious circle”, which, perhaps, numerous witnesses face?
What secrets are kept by a small piece of land in Lake Onega, which has become the focus of mysterious and inexplicable events?
The island attracted close attention of the author of the material thanks to one incident.
In the summer of 1973, Aleksey Fedorovich Pulkin, the captain of the fleet of the Petrozavodsk fish processing plant, a deviator (who knows better about orientation on the terrain than many others), with a group of several people arrived on the island of Bolshoi Klimetsky for the weekend to go fishing:
- We came from Petrozavodsk on a fishing boat. On the ship was the director of our enterprise and someone else from our department. It was Friday, there were two days off. There is a place on the island called the Old Monastery, we, fishermen, call it that. The two of us stayed in the Old Monastery, and the ship moved on. There is a fishing lodge there, it was built specially for fishermen, a brigade of our fishermen lived there. There are no other buildings there. Two days later we were to be picked up to return to Petrozavodsk. The next day, my friend and I split up: he stayed to deal with the caught fish, and I went to the forest … (the full transcript of the conversation, produced at the Union of Journalists of Karelia on March 10, 1985, is with the author of the material).
Alexey Fedorovich came back after … 34 days! That is how much he was forced to spend on the island. They were looking for him in all possible ways during all this time - to no avail, until he himself - dirty, hungry, emaciated - came out to people. Alexey Fyodorovich was conscious almost all this time, but his story was so "strange" that he immediately fell into the field of view of the relevant organizations, and this whole story was hidden. They do not know about her to this day.
As it turned out later, this is not an isolated story about the "oddities" of Bolshoi Klimetsky.
Here is a briefly recorded story of an eyewitness - the old fisherman Alexander Efimov, who lives in one of the villages near the island of Kizhi - related to the island: “Last summer (2008 - AP), I sailed to the island of Bolshoi Klimetsky in the evening. Leaving the boat on the shore, not far from the sand spit, I went to get firewood to make a fire. I walked very close from the lake and kept moving straight in the direction opposite to my parking lot. I know these places well, I have been here many times, so I always felt calm and confident.
Although he respected the stories about the "oddities" of the island, because people whom I know personally and who would never stoop to "invented nonsense" talked about it. Nothing like this has ever happened to me here, so there were no fears. So, imagine what my surprise was when, having gathered some firewood, I suddenly saw my shore and a boat right in front of me. The impression was as if, after wandering through the forest, I made a circle and returned to my original place. But the point is that I did not make any "circle". This puzzled me. I "forgot" about the fire and - again into the thickets, but again I found myself on the shore. I've done this five times, but with the same result. The most amazing thing is that the little compass embedded in the strap of my watch always showed the right direction. I made the last two attempts, specially checking with him."
Another mysterious incident associated with Bolshoi Klimetsky took place this summer. This time, a company of young Petrozavodsk residents sailed to the sandy strip of the island. Two hours after the guys settled on the shore, the soil suddenly began to vibrate barely noticeably. The outlines of the surrounding objects blurred, and a piercing buzzing, pressing on the ear, hung in the air. At first, the guys thought that the “Comet” was “to blame” that sailed along Onego towards the Kizhi island, but soon she left, but the unpleasant sounds and sensations remained. Young tourists did not manage to determine the source of the sound, and after half an hour the vibration and buzzing began to cause excruciating headaches in the children, which stopped only when the company plunged into the boat and moved to another place.
And here is another case from 2009. A family arrived over the weekend: a father, a mother, and a six-year-old daughter. They pitched a tent on the shore of the lake, made a fire, cooked fish soup. The girl was with her parents all the time, and suddenly, while her mother was washing the dishes, and her father was busy with the boat motor, she disappeared. The search lasted for two hours (the father even shot into the air with a gun), until the girl was unexpectedly found sleeping peacefully in a tent. How young Anya got here and why she was not awakened by the screams of her parents and the sounds of gunshots is not clear. Moreover, while one of the parents was frantically combing the nearby forest, the other was always close to the tent in case the girl returned herself.
It was not possible to wake Anya right away, but when the exhausted parents still woke her up, from the confused explanations the girls could only understand that she fled into the forest, played a game and went out into some kind of clearing with a black stone in the middle, but here she is so strong began to feel asleep that she leaned against a stone and fell asleep. The girl did not remember anything else. Her adventure had no consequences for Anya. True, the mother claims that after what happened, the girl's eyes darkened, turning from gray to almost brown, her hair stopped curling and the location of moles on her body changed. “Before, she never spoke in her sleep,” Anina’s mother said, “but now it happens. And neither I nor my father can understand what language she speaks …"
All of the above is only a small part of the amazing information that the author began to accumulate after he became interested in the island of Bolshoi Klimetsky. The cases, it should be noted, are fairly typical. Most of the eyewitnesses unanimously speak about the strange disappearance of people on the island, which are found only after a few hours and days with gaps in their memory, and about the so-called "folded spaces" that make you wander, as they say, in three pines, and about incomprehensible noises and "Voices" "out of nowhere", and inexplicable vibration of the soil in different parts of the island.
It turned out to be not so easy to interpret all these contradictory facts. Partly due to their fragmentation, partly due to the fact that most of the eyewitnesses who approached us wished to remain anonymous and refused to help in our research.
Until now, unfortunately, Bolshoi Klimetsky did not come to the attention of science. However, as it turned out, among the "non-specialists" there have been hypotheses for a long time, not only directly related to incidents on the mentioned piece of land, but also assigning it the role of anomalous zone number one of our entire region.
Only serious research and time can confirm or refute such an assumption. The author, in this material, considers it his duty only to draw attention to the problem itself and warn enthusiasts - possible researchers of the secrets of Bolshoi Klimetsky - that the solution to the mystery of the island lies much deeper than the "plane" on which "anomalous oddities" we see "appear" of this place.
Author: Alexey POPOV (Petrozavodsk)
