Since the end of the 30s of the last century, gloomy rumors have spread around Moscow about the Don crematorium, or rather, about the events taking place within the walls of this ominous institution. A lot of people disliked by the authorities were burnt here. Of course, in addition to these so-called. special corpses, in the first Soviet crematorium, the ordinary dead were also burned (at the request of their loved ones), as well as the remains of unidentified people and vagrants. As for the special corpses, they were brought from the Lubyanka, and, as a rule, at night.
… That night, when the next batch of such remains was brought to the Donskoy crematorium, thirty-year-old Grigory Merkulov was at the head of the stoker brigade. At first everything was as usual. They burned one corpse, after which they raked out the ashes from the furnace, then added coal and sent the next one for incineration.
… It happened shortly after midnight. Standing by the stove, Merkulov heard something crunching in it. The sound was unusual and completely inexplicable, the deceased could not really come to life and start tossing and turning in the oven!..
The frightened brigadier called his subordinates. They also heard strange sounds and were surprised no less than Gregory. At this moment, something loudly struck the metal stove damper from within. Without saying a word, the stokers rushed up the stairs in horror: there, in the service room, the NKVD officers who had brought special corpses were drinking tea. Hearing about incomprehensible sounds coming from the oven, they went downstairs - and then there was another knock on the shutter …
There was a small window in the oven; looking into it, one could see the burning process. The senior officer, taking a pistol, went to the window and looked into the oven. The shutter rumbled once again - and the man flew aside, like some kind of fluff!..
The mystical knock from the furnace frightened everyone
This time, not only the crematorium workers, but also the brave employees of the formidable department fled from the basement in which the oven was located. They locked the door to the creepy basement and called in a police squad. The police officers who arrived also had the rare opportunity to hear someone pounding from the blazing cremation oven to the outside. At the same time, the blows intensified, then subsided …
People were scared to the point of severe panic. Even reinforcements against an inexplicable nightmare - an NKVD detachment - were summoned from Lubyanka. However, when he arrived, the knocking from the oven stopped. The mystical deceased, whoever he was, turned at last to ashes.
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However, later the workers of the crematorium learned from the same NKVD officers that they burned the corpse of a certain religious leader who led the sect during his lifetime. Could this person have possessed some special magical gift that allowed him to resurrect after death and so stubbornly fight for life in the flames of a cremation oven?..
This story might seem like a trifle, explained by the usual fear of people before the dead, if not for one "but". After that incident, a thirty-year-old healthy man Grigory Merkulov soon left his job, abandoned a rather monetary and prestigious position, without explaining to anyone the reason for his decision. He became extremely withdrawn and scared, ended up in a psychiatric hospital, and there about a month later and died …