Like any other big city, Moscow is full of various mystical phenomena. Among these, the most common and attractive for human curiosity are ghost stories.
Some of the houses and apartments in the Russian capital are said to be inhabited by ghosts who have remained in our world or who have come into it due to various circumstances.
Sometimes these ghosts become the inspiration for works of art. It is believed that the Behemoth cat from the famous novel by Mikhail Bulgakov has its own prototype. The building at 21 Tverskaya Street once housed the English Club. His owner's wife committed suicide by hanging herself from a chandelier. Soon in the hall where she committed suicide, they began to see a ghostly cat. He appeared from the wall, passed through the hall and disappeared.
Many people saw Kota. It is alleged that he heard the story about him and Bulgakov, after which the famous cat repairing primus appeared in his novel. They say that a ghostly cat of gigantic proportions appears in our days, only not in the hall, but near the house.
There are only a few similar phenomena from Russia in the international catalog of ghosts, and this cat is one of them.
At the address Myasnitskaya str., 22 today there is a building occupied by offices and offices. In 1996, a man who went out to smoke a cigarette in the dark noticed a ghostly female figure walking through the building. The ghost passed the man and disappeared, leaving the scent of freshly dug earth and a feeling of otherworldly dead cold.
Another similar incident happened in 2001. A woman working in the building suddenly saw a girl behind bars leading to the attic door. Having tried to ask the girl how she managed to get into the attic, the woman did not receive an answer, and as soon as she turned away, the ghost disappeared.
Sometimes the night guards met this ghost, and it happened that singing came from the elevator shaft. When they began to find out the possible reasons for what was happening, they found out that until 1917, rooms in which prostitutes worked were rented in this building. It happened that clients beat girls to death. It is believed that the ghost of one of them still roams the corridors of the building.
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In one of the houses on Sretensky Boulevard, various important persons of the Soviet era once lived. Only an academician, writer, actor, or another citizen who distinguished himself in one way or another, could get an apartment here.
When a woman who called herself the cousin of Fyodor Chaliapin decided to sell a room in this house, the realtor noticed a bowl of expensive Meissen porcelain on the windowsill. The woman herself had sixteen cats. This bowl was covered with a fine mesh, similar to those used against insects. Wondering who this bowl was for, the realtor received advice not to meddle in his own business.
The room was sold. An office was set up in the apartment, and in this room there was a place for a secretary. Soon cat tracks began to appear on the documents. They decided that somehow a stray cat was sneaking into the office. They began to close the window. The cleaning lady said she heard a cat meow. The office workers saw a ghostly feline figure.
We managed to find out that until 1917 a lawyer owned an apartment with an area of three hundred square meters. The last tenants, who for a long time did not want to sell the apartment, eventually surrendered on favorable terms, and their room also became part of the office. During renovations, cat bones were found in six old flower boxes. They called a specialist in the paranormal, and he found out that the lawyer had a servant, Daria. When the lawyer's cat brought the kittens, Daria was ordered to drown them. She did it in a bucket and buried the dead kittens in flower boxes. After the bones of the unfortunate animals were buried in the ground, traces on the documents no longer appeared.
KUZNETSOV KONSTANTIN