In the Middle Ages, Belgorod-Dnestrovsky was known as Akkerman. Probably, then a fortress was built, which is still known to us today. It was built for almost 200 years. Its walls have seen many things in their lifetime. Including a lot of mysterious, strange, inexplicable.
After the Great Patriotic War, the quiet town was shocked by very strange events. Boys - big lovers of ancient ruins - more than once noticed on the battlement wall of the fortress, next to one of its towers, dark figures with horned heads. Then there were several attacks by horned people on the surrounding gardens and even on the bread van. The driver of the van, a positive and teetotal person, claimed that at night he was attacked by several people, from whom a damp, musty smell of the dungeon emanated.
And before the attackers put a sack on his head, he managed to see their horned shadows on the ground. In the future, more than once in the area of the former Tyra at night, local residents met "horned and strongly stinking dark personalities" who, it happened, attacked people. However, no one was killed, and talc was taken away food and drink. Locals nicknamed them "underground stinkers" and claimed that they disappeared sometime in 1960.
Then the inhabitants of the city right in the middle of the night were woken up either by the roar of underground explosions, or by an earthquake. Some even put forward a hypothesis that representatives of the degraded branch of the Australopithecus (from the Latin austral is - southern and Greek pithekos - monkey) lived in the serf dungeons and caves. They are believed to have descended from terrestrial women and aliens who hate sunlight. And the methane explosions that happened destroyed this population.
Military version
A little more time passed, and Belgorod-Dnestrovsky was stirred up … no, not new rumors about horned people, but underground explosions and shooting. At night, a roar was heard from under the ground, reminiscent of the cannonade of the past war. Terrified, ignorant, residents rushed out of their homes and listened with fear to the muffled echoes of the battle, as if going right under their feet.
Journalist Aleksey Kazakov, a native of this city, visited Belgorod-Dnestrovsky in the late 80s of the last century and offered to explain the appearance of the horned aliens as follows. In August 1944, when a group of Soviet troops under the command of Lieutenant General A. Baitin liberated Akkerman from the Romanian occupiers, the mortar company of the Romanians, which was holding the defenses in the old fortress, suddenly disappeared somewhere.
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Apparently, part of the soldiers of this company, not wanting to die or be captured, went underground, into the catacombs that permeate the entire city, hoping for a favorable turning point in the war, which did not happen. Germany and her allies lost, and the situation of the "underground soldiers" became even more difficult. But what does the horn have to do with it? Romanian mortarmen wore caps with tapered elongated ends. In the dark or in poor light, they could easily be mistaken for horns. The end of the "soldier of the underground", according to A. Kazakov, was tragic.
Egyptian echo
A. Kazakov wrote an article about underground collisions that took place in Belgorod-Dnestrovsky, published it in one of the central newspapers and for a long time lost interest in this topic. But after a few years, quite unexpectedly, the story he told found its mysterious continuation. One local newspaper reprinted his article "The Secret of the Underground People", after which an amazing letter came to the name of its editor, signed as follows: "Your fellow countryman."
It said that the "horned people" from the Belgorod-Dniester undergrounds, called by the author of the letter "Ackerman", really exist. And that's why. As early as 1400 BC. e. during the reign of Pharaoh Amenhotep IV, whose wife was the famous Queen Nefertiti, interesting events took place. Pharaoh, who ruled in the years 1418-1410, was known for trying to break the power of the old nobility and the priests of the cult of the Fi-Van god Amun-Ra, closely associated with it, and along with the rest of the Egyptian deities, and replace them with a single god of the solar disk. The cult of Amon was based on the veneration of the elements of air: wind and storm. The priests - the keepers of the cult of Amun - worshiped the sacred bull Apis, the earthly incarnation of the ancestor of Amun - the ancient god Ptah. And in honor of him they wore horns on their heads. Pharaoh banned the cult of Amun, and instead introduced a new one,in which there was only one god - Aton, who was a symbol and synonym for the Sun. Amenhotep IV also renamed himself and began to be called Akhenaten - “pleasing to Aton”.
Most of the priests of Amun submitted to the Pharaoh and adopted a new cult, but the most implacable refused to obey and remained faithful to their old god. They secretly left Egypt, taking with them the most precious treasure of the Main Temple of Amun-Ra - eight kilograms of diamonds. From the surviving records it is known that these were unique specimens - the purest water South African diamonds, worth, at current prices, hundreds of millions of dollars. The fleeing priests with the treasures of Amun reached the very end of the world, Scythia, and were completely cut off from their homeland. Using their experience in building labyrinths in Egypt, the priests dug underground dwellings for themselves there to protect themselves from enemies, connecting them with intricate passages.
Centuries passed
The underground labyrinth hiding the treasures of Amun grew gradually. The secret of their location was carefully kept by the descendants of the Egyptian priests, passing them down from generation to generation. During the construction of the Akkerman fortress, some of the ancient underground passages were discovered and adapted for secret communication with the outside world during a possible siege. There is an assumption that one of the secret passages leads to the Scythian tomb, and the other to the Tiraget Island. Now this island is located at the bottom of the Dniester estuary, but it is there, in its caves, according to the author of the letter, that Egyptian treasures may be hidden.
The "fellow countryman" discovered a note in the newspaper "Sovetskoe Pridnestrovie" many years after its publication, sorting through the papers of his late sister. The content of the article alarmed him. Who needed this publication and why? The descendants of the Egyptian priests, the horn-topped people, mercilessly destroyed everyone who tried to approach the carefully hidden treasures. Probably, shots and explosions that thundered under the city were connected with one of such attempts.
But, perhaps, behind all this, if not treasures, then a new invisible thread that connected the cultures of the two peoples more than two thousand years ago is really hidden. There is also confirmation of this - several works of the historian, writer and traveler Yuri Petukhov. In them, the author compares religion, symbols of ancient Rus and Egyptians and finds a lot in common in them. So the appearance and long life in Scythia of a handful of Egyptian priests of Amun, who left their mark both in legends and symbols, and in the cave labyrinth of Ackerman, do not seem so incredible and far-fetched.
