And these outlandish events are not the most incredible. And the fact that oddities preceded circumstances that had tragic consequences for their unwitting observers is also a reality. For example, the driver of the refrigerator Colin Borzhovski, who was delivering fresh seafood to restaurants in London, at about midnight on July 23, could not control the car, as the windshield was suddenly covered by thick mud from nowhere.
Having got out of the cab, the man found that the car was covered with some sticky gruel, absolutely odorless and indelible. When something rumbled over Colin's head and something blinding flared up, nails fell, sharp, short, brand new, just like the one he had used to fasten the roofing iron the day before.
Arriving police gathered more than 300 kilograms of nails around Borzhovsky's car, suspecting the driver that he had scattered them himself in pursuit of cheap fame. That same night, this opinion had to be canceled, because on the night streets of the capital, vehicles, passers-by, an unkind hundred times, were subjected to massive shelling with sharp short nails. No one was injured, as the nails seemed to feel sorry for people, bending around in the fall. The sparing regime did not apply to cars, trucks, buses, the roofs of which received numerous dents and through holes.
On the same night, at the same time in France, Italy, Portugal, the fall of "precipitation" from nails, only wooden, carpentry, was also noted.
The police and scientists, we must pay tribute, have shown enviable activity, trying to establish which country belongs to the hooligan aircraft, throwing nails, suspecting that this is some kind of new weapon. By the way, this version made sense, since both Colin Borzhovski and some others, who were bombarded with nails and caught in the rain of sticky gruel, died pretty soon from an acute form of leukemia or skin cancer. As you can see, there was something to think about. Moreover, the planes were not involved in the incidents. The phenomenon, meanwhile, was gaining momentum.
RED DEER OF YENISEI
Nowadays, few people remember the strange natural phenomenon massively observed in the Yenisei basin, a day after in June 1908 something exploded over the taiga, over the marshes of the Podkamennaya Tunguska River, which later became world famous for the Tunguska meteorite.
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In 1927, who led an expedition to the places of a mysterious disaster, L. A. Kulik left a note full of doubts in his field diary: “The Aborigines of the settlements and settlements I interviewed, despite the fact that they are elderly, remember the events well, especially insisting that when the silence after the explosion descended, in the silver glow of the sky, presumably in the distance over the Yenisei, we saw a huge red deer standing motionless for hours. The silence was interrupted only by rustles caused by the sporadic falls of iron rods. I was gifted with several such items - they are triangular nails with square heads, untouched by oxidation. In the past, such nails were used in Russian shipyards and in housing construction."
Kulik, noting that he has material evidence in his hands - nails - is reasonably surprised that they were found in a region where such nails have never been used in carpentry and joinery.
Whether the scientist believed or did not believe in the rain of nails, alas, is unknown. We can assume that it is unlikely. Otherwise, I would not have summed up on a questioning note: “Nails, I suppose, were brought to someone's house a long time ago.
The local inhabitants created the myth of the red deer and the wonderful nails. The purpose is not clear, for what? I talked with people who experienced side effects of the car. Experiences, of course, are associated with stress. Not to the same degree, let’s say, so that iron items of ancient samples fall on overexcited heads?”. Fortunately, archival materials have the ability to emerge from oblivion. In the funds of Irkutsk there are documents drawn up by no means Kulik, but in hot pursuit, that is, in June of the memorable 1908. Their meaning is unambiguous: yes, from the sky, in addition to ash, iron also fell, in the form of forged nails. And really, you will not brush it off, believe it.
Porridge with iron filling
But back to our days, to the Spokane Washington area, which was hit by a rockfall on August 11, 1978, which brought with it not only a lot of rain moisture, but something extremely dangerous, which reporters called a poisonous porridge with an iron filling. The stones, which were the size of golf balls, had an oblong shape, knocked out window panes, crumbled roof tiles, were so hot that they burned the hands of those who dared to collect them. No matter how wild it sounds, no one bothered to do a chemical analysis of a sticky, liquid dough-like substance serving as shell stones.
kami. The casings were also literally stuffed with the tiniest copper nails, widely used in the district shoe factory that sewed army boots.
Having identified “their” nails in the studs, the factory management carried out their warehouse audit, finding out that nothing was missing: up to a gram of copper fasteners were available. Following the reporters, they had to ask the question, where did the identical nails come from in the upper layers of the atmosphere, why were they glued by a substance of unknown nature to stones, which are a dime a dozen outside the city limits?
No one got an intelligible answer. After all, do not take seriously the rumors that have agitated Washington for a week about a certain madman who made a throwing machine, and, filling it with dirt, stones and nails, fired at Spokane in order to harm, mock and sow panic.
The very same "porridge", after people poured into dermatologists with complaints of skin irritations and ulcers, had to be tested. They found high concentrations of ferrous sulfate and arsenic in it. The most comfortable position was the position of deaf silence. Both science and authorities, conscious of their helplessness, were numb for years. And what to talk about when there is nothing to say …
Alexander VOLODEV