Chronomirage is one of the most amazing phenomena on Earth. We are talking about observing objects that were located in a given geographical point in the distant past. Most often, these things happen in anomalous zones. One of them is the so-called M-triangle near Perm, near the village of Molebka. Nikolay Subbotin, director of the Russian UFO Research Station (RUFORS), spoke about this
Nikolay, tell us, what unusual phenomena in the Molebka area can be classified as chronomirages?
- Back in the 80s of the last century, when the study of this anomalous zone was just beginning, researchers noticed that in some places the time here seemed to start to go faster. Researchers put both mechanical and electronic clocks there, and almost every time the time "ran" forward, sometimes for several tens of minutes, and sometimes even for a couple of hours!
And apart from the hourly anomalies, was there anything else unusual?
- About five years ago, while working on the book "Russian Bermuda Triangle", dedicated to the anomalous zone of Molebka, I began to collect stories of local residents and people who visited these places, about the unusual phenomena taking place here. Then I heard about the phenomenon that we originally called "frozen echo".
In 2006, we once heard the voices of two men in the forest. One, judging by the timbre, was 45-50 years old, the other was younger - 25 years old … The strange thing was that my friends and I could not make out the speech itself, although we clearly heard some vowels, and the men themselves were, as it seemed to us, no more than 50 meters from us. We searched the area around, but found no one. When we tried to get closer, the voices seemed to retreat into the forest … The strangers did not respond to our calls.
Once again, something similar had to be faced in the fall of 2011 during a search in the Bardym forests for traces of the Bigfoot, only this time a woman sang. My friends, who were about 100 meters away from me, heard me trying to talk to a woman. And although I called them several times, they were in no hurry to help me - for some reason they just did not hear …
Stalker from Molebka
There are rumors that some phantom villages are observed near Molebka. Do you know about this?
- On the maps that date back to the 18th-19th centuries, you can find about 20 settlements that have not survived to this day.
Local stalker Valery Yakimov said that when he was a 14-year-old teenager, he and a friend somehow decided to raft down the Sylva about 20 kilometers below Molebka. Within a few hours, the current of the river carried them far enough from home. Having reached the shore, they decided to walk along the old road to the village of Kamenka, and from there, on the way, return to Molebka.
In these places, more than a hundred years ago, there were several small villages, the existence of which today is reminded only by glades in the middle of the forest, not overgrown with trees, and glades leading to these glades. The guys went along one of these glades, deciding to take a shortcut. After a couple of hours, they realized that they had lost their way, as they turned into a clearing, which they had not walked on before. She took them to an unusual place: the trees were uprooted and twisted, as if a hurricane had passed here …
Having barely climbed through the rubble, the teenagers noticed several village houses in the middle of the forest. We were surprised, knowing that there could be no settlements in these places. We decided to go in and see who settled among the taiga wilderness. The village was empty, but it looked as if the inhabitants had left it hours earlier. In one of the houses, even the stove was still warm, there were boiled potatoes on the table, which the friends had a snack with …
Tired, they fell asleep right there in the house, hoping that the returning owners would show them the way back.
Valery was awakened by the sound of a truck - there was a ZIL-131 in the street, in which people were sitting. The surprised driver asked Valera: "How did I get here ?!" It turned out that the car with the workers was returning from a nearby village. Suddenly the chauffeur realized that he was driving along an old overgrown road. As he later recalled, as if the fog had descended on the road, and when it cleared away, the car was already driving through completely unfamiliar places … The
guys climbed into the ZIL, and the car drove at random along the clearing. After a couple of kilometers, a gap appeared in the middle of the forest, and suddenly the car was on the highway literally five kilometers from Molebka! It is unclear how mysteriously she could have passed the river: it turns out that the distance of almost 30 kilometers has shrunk to 10!
Portal to another dimension
Already in our days, having heard Valery's story about a ghost village at one of the tourist camps, a middle-aged man sat down with him and told how about thirty years ago he and his father went along the same old road to the village that accuracy was similar in description to the one Valery had visited. The boy's father entered one of the outer houses and appeared after a while, accompanied by an elderly woman. Then they returned home, and at the same time the father asked his son not to tell about where they went and what he saw.
Valery's new acquaintance recalled: "But then, as an adult, I went to that place several times, but apart from a windbreak, I did not find anything, the village was gone!"
- Do you have any desire to check this information?
- Recently, in February of this year, I persuaded Valery to conduct an expedition to this anomalous place. On three snowmobiles, we covered about 30 kilometers along the frozen river, then cut a road through an old overgrown clearing … Indeed, not far from the place where Valery saw the village, we found a strange windbreak, and after another kilometer we drove into a clearing.
A day before these events, we observed at night from Molebka an unusual glow over those places. We managed to photograph him. Valery explained that the glow usually occurs at the moment of some activity, and then in the anomalous zones you can see various energy clots in the form of balls, and it also becomes possible to enter the so-called portals that connect our world with other dimensions.
A thousand years ago
Is this the only such place in the Perm Territory?
- No, similar events took place, for example, in the Cherdyn region. Several friends, keen on searching for old coins and artifacts, went to another detective (as in the language of diggers they call the search for objects in the ground with the help of metal detectors). They found an inconspicuous field, on which a village stood in time immemorial, and began a search. After a while, the signals from metal detectors decreased, and the finds began to decline. Two diggers decided to move to a neighboring field on a Ural motorcycle (they arrived in a Niva and a motorcycle with a sidecar).
Four of their comrades remained in the first field and continued their search. Cell phones in this place did not work, so the groups kept in touch with each other by radio. After a couple of hours, the second group reported: “We walked around the entire field, there are no more finds. Come back! It took about 10 minutes to reach the next field, no more. But after the last contact, the group did not appear either in an hour or two.
The company on the "Niva" began to worry, all attempts to shout on the radio to the lost comrades did not lead to anything … Then together they decided to go in search. We drove onto the road and after a few hundred meters we noticed fresh traces of a motorcycle with a sidecar. The tracks led through a thicket, in which the team stopped in amazement in front of a large puddle: the motorcycle tire prints led into it, but on the other side they were not!
We decided to go further. The strangeness began again: after driving about a kilometer, the guys entered a village that could not be here!
It is difficult to describe what happened to them. They felt like they were caught in slow motion. The car did not go, or rather it went, but very slowly. And then they saw the guys on the motorcycle, who were just as slowly driving towards them. Waving their hands and trying to shout something, they made it clear that an urgent need to leave here, and the sooner the better …
After the unfortunate puddle was crossed, everything seemed to fall into place. The car jerked forward. Friends were silent for a long time, no one could say a word. The first to burst through were the guys on the motorcycle. They told how they drove and got to the village where people live, as a thousand years ago …
But the story did not end there. Upon arrival home, it turned out that they had been looking for our diggers for a long time. It turned out that they were not at home not one day, but exactly three days!
Interviewed by Dmitry SIVITSKY
"Secrets of the XX century" No. 19 2012