In the northeast of the Volgograd region, near the district center of Zhirnovsk, there is one of the most amazing anomalous places in the world - the Medveditskaya mountain range, a chain of hills with the highest peak of 250 meters.
Strange and inexplicable things happen there - mental insanity among local residents, stopping of car engines, there are very strong thunderstorms and lightning, and all around there is a clear and cloudless sky. But the most terrible place is the Blue Mountain tract, this is the slope of mad lightning and fireballs, ball lightning occurs here not only in a thunderstorm, but also in the middle of a clear sunny day, at any time of the year. An interesting fact is that there are no birds or any insects on the Blue Mountain.
Almost all trees have traces of burns from ball lightning, the largest lightning recorded here was about 2 meters in diameter, on its way it simply burned out the entire trees. A rather strange and terrible incident happened with a shepherd driving a flock of sheep, it happened on a cold November day, the shepherd Yuri Mamaev sat down to rest on an armful of hay.
His partner was away for just a few seconds, and when he looked back, instead of a shepherd, he saw a faithful mannequin that showed no signs of life. An ambulance arrived in 3 hours and despite the frost. When the body was put on a stretcher, they started to smoke - the body was hot, and the examination showed that the burn occurred from the inside of the body, and the shepherd's clothes were intact, which could serve as the reason for this the experts could not explain.
Spontaneous human combustion is a phenomenon often described as a paranormal phenomenon, as a result of which a person can ignite. Recently, several hundred people have died in such a strange way. The flame begins to devour its victim anywhere, on the street, in the house, even while driving a car. And as a rule, if the body burned, then the clothes remained untouched.
Another fantastic property of the ball lightning of the Blue Mountain is underground passages-caves which literally penetrate the nearby hills, even the researchers say that this is not at all like natural caves, the walls of the rock have burnt edges, the walls of old lightning passages and freshly burnt new passages are clearly visible in the caves and corridors, lightning burns the course in the direction they need, not deviating a centimeter from their route.
Almost every day, new burnt holes in tree trunks and new charred traces in the glades around the Medvedtskaya ridge appear in the Sinyaya Gora tract. They have long been accustomed to anomalous natural phenomena and each of the local residents hopes that the insidious fireball will bypass him.
