All the details about the miracles in the Pavlograd region were told by the research group that studied them: an astrophysicist, physics engineers and a psychic.
The story of a fifth-grader from the Omsk region, next to whom a school bench soars into the air, and strange flourishes appear in notebooks, interested the whole of Russia. Astrophysicist Volodymyr Krupko, who is also engaged in the study of paranormal phenomena, had his phone torn all week by calls from journalists. They called not only from Omsk, but also from other Siberian cities. The film crew of the federal television channel "NTV" came to see the school poltergeist. And recently even a correspondent for an English-language publication wrote.
Vladimir Krupko dotted all the i's in one step. On Sunday, November 27, he held a public lecture on poltergeist at the Omsk Planetarium. About four dozen Omsk people came to learn all the details of the story that happened in the Novouralsk secondary school of the Pavlogradsky district.
Visitors to the lecture on poltergeist at the Omsk Planetarium
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Poltergeist disrupts lessons
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For the first time, a school poltergeist showed himself at a Russian language lesson. The desk, at which two boys were sitting, went. The teacher turned around - the desk froze. As soon as the teacher turned to the board, the table moved again. The boys leaned on the desk, pushing it to the floor with their weight. Here one of them, Danil O., was literally thrown from behind his desk on the floor and dragged to the exit.
The teacher thought: Danil is indulging. She sent the boy to calm down in the hallway. The door remained open. The teacher began to write something on the blackboard, observing Danil with her peripheral vision. Suddenly the child cried out: "Alexandra Grigorievna, again!"
It turns out that a large flower in a wooden tub has fallen at the end of the corridor. The kadka stood a few meters away from the Russian language room. The teacher rushed to pick up the flower and call the director. The director took the boy to the first floor. After talking with the head of the school, Danil went to the classroom.
Alexandra Grigorievna A., Russian language teacher at Novouralsk secondary school:
- Danil goes up the stairs. There we have a shop with iron legs. The shop unfolds. I see Danila. Again, I trace everything. I don't see how the shop did it, but I see the result. You know what a roar there was!
The rest of the lessons and breaks continued the same. Chaotic lines began to appear in the notebooks of Danil and his classmates. No meaningful drawings or inscriptions - just "handwriting" on top of home and classwork. In the presence of the boy in the classrooms, pots of flowers fell from windows and cupboards. Once the table began to bounce. The flower standing on it fell and shattered. Chairs began to rise into the air. When the children entered the wardrobe, a heavy iron hanger collapsed.
A notebook that was scribbled by a poltergeist. Photo: Vladimir Krupko
Aggressive barabashka
The children were scared. Some even cried out of fear. The next day, the guys started talking: "We have a bastard at school." Barabashka, by the way, was nicknamed "the first Soviet poltergeist". The television and press of the USSR spoke about him back in 1988, when the students of the Novouralsk school were not yet in the world.
Meanwhile, the teachers doubted that Danil was having fun in such a strange way.
Alexandra Grigorievna A.:
- We have an iron chair on the second floor. This chair flies over the railing. I can't see how it falls, but I see the result. The boy himself was on the first floor.
Danil managed to jump aside in time: the chair landed with a crash next to him.
At the art lesson, the teacher was afraid to put Danil at the desk. The boy with the album sat down on a chair right by the blackboard, facing the class. The board was three-section, with flaps. Suddenly Danil fell to the floor with his drawing. The class and the teacher realized: the boy had been hit by one of the doors of the board. Teachers and classmates assure: Danil could not hit himself with the shutter in front of the whole class - it would have been too noticeable.
School director Gennady Zgursky did not know what to think. Whether it was a poltergeist or children, the classroom environment was alarming. If furniture falls on one of the students - answer the director. Someone from the school administration asked for help from a member of the city press center, and she contacted Omsk researchers of anomalous phenomena.
Staircase on the second floor of the school. Photo: video screenshot
How "ghost hunts"
Vladimir Krupko is an astrophysicist by profession. But since 1989, he has been studying poltergeist. Now Krupko left this topic. Explains that he squeezed out the best he could from the cases he watched over these 25 years. However, I went to the Novouralsk school - as a driver. And with him - a group of young researchers.
Yulia Nayborodenko and Alexander Kochegin are engineers by education. Alexey Raspopov also graduated from OmSTU. All of them collect information about the paranormal using physical devices. Measure electromagnetic fields and electromagnetic lines. They photograph the scene of events on special astronomical films that are capable of filtering out different types of radiation. They record what is happening on video.
But Viktor Zamaliev admitted to Om1.ru that he is a representative of an alternative approach.
Victor Zamaliev, member of the research group:
- Actually, I am just that "obscurantist". I have been doing extrasensory perception for quite some time now, and as part of the group I represent the other side - the unscientific. I watch energies, I watch flows.
When Krupko parked the car at the gates of the Novouralsk school, the group went straight to the principal's office. There, teachers from Omsk were already waiting for the guests, who willingly began to talk about what was happening. Krupko for old memory also joined the study.
Vladimir Krupko, head of the Omsk Planetarium:
- We are used to working on the assumption that people are telling the truth. First we take all this data, and then we examine and verify it in different ways.
The above picture of how the poltergeist manifested itself was created from the words of the teachers. Researchers do not question their story. Otherwise, says Vladimir Krupko, it turns out that the entire school is lying - including respected teachers with experience.
Broken tank lid in a school toilet
Photo: Vladimir Krupko
Attack on the "white friend"
Ten minutes after the start of the conversation, a crash was heard in the corridor. One of the teachers looked through the door and announced: something happened to Danil again. Leaving his colleagues in the director's office, Vladimir Krupko went after the teacher.
An emergency happened in the boys' toilet. Danil visited the restroom and had already left the booth, but then another student entered the room. Suddenly, behind Danil's back, the lid of the toilet tank tore off, hit the fifth-grader on the leg and split.
It turned out that this is not the first time. The day before, a poltergeist smashed the lid on a nearby toilet bowl. According to Om1.ru, an unknown force could have disturbed the doors of toilet stalls, mockingly transparent. However, the truth remained somewhere nearby.
Vladimir Krupko testified that the lid broke unusually. A small fragment remained in the "native" booth, and the main part flew to the next one.
School toilet
Photo: video screenshot
The researchers took cameras and devices and went to interview eyewitnesses: Danil with his mother, classmates and school workers.
Vladimir Krupko:
“There's a staircase here. Three people are standing: a boy, a mother and a psychologist. A chair falls three meters away from them. We photograph all these things with filters. A constant source of problems is the bench. It constantly moves with a grinding, creaking sound. Lots of eyewitnesses, including teachers. When we worked with the guys and were about to leave, the teacher with several students went upstairs to the second floor. And they just go upstairs, the teacher's surprised exclamation and the screams of children are heard - this bench turns around and blocks their path.
At the same time, the researchers found out: for Danil's family, poltergeist is not news for a long time. A strange phenomenon began at the boy's home two months ago. Objects also broke and moved in the rooms. And then the poltergeist followed the child to school.
Chair that fell down a flight of stairs
Photo: video screenshot
Poltergeist will soon leave Omsk
The research group completely believed the villagers. Vladimir Krupko does not exclude that he was faced with deception and collective collusion. But he considers this version unlikely.
Vladimir Krupko:
- First, we have confirmed for ourselves: either the whole school is deceiving us, or this is a real phenomenon. Second, the boy is associated with these phenomena, but he does not generate them. For him, what is happening is as much of a surprise as for everyone. What we took there for research: fragments of the lid, photographs taken with filters - have not yet been processed. But that won't change the problem.
Danil made a good impression on the researchers. According to Krupko, the boy is very calm and balanced. He is not afraid of the manifestations of an unknown force next to him - apparently, he is used to it.
Vladimir Krupko:
- There are a number of things that are amazing. The boy is not surprised, not frightened by these phenomena. It was cool at school. Other children wore jackets - he was in one shirt, and he was warm.
The teachers confessed: Danil seemed very tired to them. Then the researchers advised to give the boy a rest. For a week now, Danil has been at home - on his personal holidays.
Vladimir Krupko notes: lately the poltergeist has not shown itself next to the boy. The astrophysicist hopes that the phenomenon will soon disappear. According to Krupko's observations, poltergeist associated with adolescents usually lasts about three months.
Lecture attendees
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They do not take offense at Urgants
The case with the Novouralsk schoolboy, as Krupko says, is one of the typical. Poltergeist researchers have described many examples when this phenomenon manifested itself in the presence of children 11-13 years old. Most of all on this list are 12-year-olds. Parapsychologists suggest that the reason is the stress that the child experienced at the beginning of puberty. It is no secret that this age is characterized by an unstable psyche.
Skeptics are not convinced by this version. There were also among the visitors of the lecture. But Vladimir Krupko and his colleagues in the research group consider the residents of the Novouralskoye village to be reliable witnesses. The Omsk astrophysicist did not appreciate the joke of showman Ivan Urgant from Channel One.
Vladimir Krupko:
- That same Urgant said in his program that the benches fly after the child in Omsk. And he asked the question: “Does Omsk drink a lot? Where is in alcoholism? " I say: "What's wrong with the wretched?" I just feel sorry for people who already deny everything in advance, because they think that this is impossible, and everyone else is deceiving.
Slide on the dome of the Omsk Planetarium
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A reasonable question arises: why in our days, when every one of them has telephones with video cameras, no one has recorded flying things on video? Vladimir Krupko said: in the Novouralsk school, it is prohibited to use telephones during lessons. But that's not even the point. For some reason, observers do not see the beginning of the phenomenon: only the result appears before them.
Vladimir Krupko:
- This process happens almost instantly. How do you manage to pull out the phone and still figure out where to direct it? I came with a video camera: I was filming a child, working with a child, and there was not a single phenomenon. If I walked around him for days and took pictures with a panoramic camera, maybe I would have seen something.
However, despite its mysteriousness and inexplicability, the Pavlograd poltergeist has already made its contribution to public education. One lecture ticket cost 200 rubles. The organizers announced that a projector will be purchased for the planetarium with the money raised, which will display a dynamic image on the dome. Thanks to this, Omsk students and schoolchildren will be able to learn more about the stars, planets and distant galaxies.