The Russian belief says that on August 24, on the Day of Remembrance of the Holy Martyr Archdeacon Euplus, ghosts walk on the graves at night, howls and whistles are heard … And a white horse runs. Actually, August is the month of ghosts and ghosts among many peoples of the world.
Don't you believe in ghosts? It’s in vain: they were, are and will be. As well as ghosts, because even scientists with titles and regalia can intelligibly explain the appearance from nowhere, as it were, blurry and shimmering outlines of the human body or what was left of it. You can prick yourself with a needle until you turn blue, read spells, rub your eyes, your emotions of "aliens in sheets" do not touch, they exist on their own. They say that all ghosts communicate closely with each other. What else can they do?
Yuri Gagarin became a ghost
It turns out that humanity has long and stubbornly been writing an ode to ghosts, however, this work is called very prosaically - the International Directory of Ghosts. Just recently, by the way, the city of Sochi was included in this directory. And it happened immediately after Sochi became the capital of the 2014 Winter Olympics. And a certain Sir Barney helped him in this. It was this enterprising Briton who released James Barney's new travel guide. It contains data on hotels around the world, where you can encounter ghosts. This list also includes Sochi objects (chapters from the guide will be included in the International Guide to Ghosts. - "AN").
- Barney's guide contains information about Green Grove Sanatorium and Rodina Hotel, - told "Arguments of the Week" specialist in the life of ghosts and ghosts (as he introduced himself) Vladimir Volkov. - The fact is that one of the buildings of the sanatorium "Green Grove" is located at the famous dacha of Joseph Stalin. And everyone is invited to spend the night in the Generalissimo's bedroom next to his wax figure. They say that Stalin's ghost in a white tunic sometimes appears in the billiard room …
And in a cottage near the Rodina hotel, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin spent his vacation after the legendary flight. There is a legend that it was here that he received his famous scar over his eyebrow after an unsuccessful jump (on a bet) into a flower bed with roses from the second floor. According to the guide, on summer nights, the planet's first cosmonaut can be seen indazzling white shirt on the outdoor terrace. He sadly looks into the starry sky.
The cliche of a ghost
- GHOSTS most often come out of old mirrors of palaces, castles, abandoned houses, - V. Volkov believes. - Egyptian pyramids, old aqueducts, tunnels, age-old oaks are able to accumulate and accumulate time in themselves. A ghost is a werewolf, a familiar, and a vampire. All these creatures are quite real and are close relatives.
What happens when a ghost appears?
- Usually its appearance is accompanied by some sounds, such a terrible low rumble or dull noises, tapping and howling, - says Vladimir Volkov, - then the air temperature clearly goes down, there is an unpleasant smell of sulfur. There is a failure in the work of electricity and pets begin to behave very restlessly.
What can ghosts do?
“They love to leave footprints - usually hand or foot prints, drawings and inscriptions on objects. Sometimes they can attack people and cause physical damage, - V. Volkov continues his story. - They can materialize-dematerialize, that is, appear "out of nowhere" and disappear before our eyes, dissolving in the air. Ghosts walk through walls easily. They love to levitate and communicate. Many ghosts try to predict the future for their numb listeners …
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LEVITATION - walking on water, on nails without touching them, or simply staying in the air for a long time without support.
The ghost rides both the truck and the bike
Ghost CARS are also present in nature. They suddenly appear on the road, rushing at great speed. Some of them travel without a driver. Drivers, meeting with them, try to dodge. Sometimes this leads to a collision with other cars, which ends tragically. Ghost cars appear exactly in the place where the accident happened.
On the night of June 15, 1934, a young man, driving in the North Kensington area of London, suddenly saw a bus rushing towards him. The young man managed to turn, but collided with another car and died. This bus was supposedly a ghost bus. He appeared in this place for several more years. There were many accidents. But in Kent, a ghost truck appears. It forces drivers to pull off the road. In 1960, a minibus, trying to avoid a collision with a ghost truck, nevertheless turned over, but the driver, oddly enough, remained alive.
Russian drivers say they also encounter ghost cars. And even with ghosts on bicycles! Some of them even hear the sound of breaking glass and the grinding of metal. And we have such places, it turns out, in bulk: there is such a place near Yakhroma and near the village of Dedenevo on Dmitrovskoe highway. Something amiss is going on near the settlements of Koscheevo and Mogiltsy. On the Volgogradskoe highway, which stretches all the way to Chelyabinsk, oddities often occur at the 28th, 32nd and 40th km. Nizhny Novgorod highway is very dangerous at the 15th and 24th km … The Kashirskoe highway has a "disastrous" 59th km, on the Riga highway - 38th, and on Simferopol - 39th. All these death points coincide with the so-called geopathogenic zones - places that have the glory of the "damned", or "lost".
Wet Ghost at Heathrow
LEGENDS of ghost travelers are found in folklore around the world. Both in Britain and in Russia, ghost travelers are mentioned in the chronicles of the 17th century.
One of the most amusing stories is about a gentleman in black who, since 1948 and still scares air passengers at Heathrow International Airport.… Fifty-nine years ago, the Dakota plane of the Belgian airline Sabena crashed while landing. 22 passengers were killed. Rescuers had already begun to disassemble the wreckage when a man all in black suddenly appeared from under them, who said: "Excuse me, did you find my briefcase?" Since that time, a ghost with a briefcase constantly appears at Heathrow.
Other Heathrow ghosts are a multitude of invisible creatures that sometimes steal luggage from air passengers … And there is a "ghost in a pair of turtles" that lives in apartments for VIPs.
They say that recently, the ghost of the fugitive oligarch Boris Berezovsky is often seen in Heathrow.… The oligarch, pale and drenched with sweat (or from fear?), Is running around again - but now from scoreboard to scoreboard … And he just can't figure out where to go?
What is it for?
Roman steam locomotive near Balaklava - RAILWAYS are time accelerators, a kind of synchrophasotrons, where instead of atomic particles the movement of living beings is accelerated, - says Igor Ostretsov, Doctor of Technical Sciences. “Trains speed up our biological time. The railway is dangerous for its space-time anomalies.
It is said that there is a chronal field of the planet. Extra-long tunnels and super-tall towers can change the movement of time, just as dams and canals change the course of rivers.
So the story. In 1911, a terrible earthquake struck Italy. Cracks and holes appeared not only in the ground, but also in the chronal field. Apparently, it was the wandering chronal hole that led to the appearance of the famous ghost train, which "moved" from three-dimensional space to four-dimensional. The train, having dropped out of the usual vector time, began to move freely from the present to the past, from the past to the future.
Let's look through the press. Here in the newspaper "Glory of Sevastopol" on August 12, 1992 they write: "A ghost train on the roads of Ukraine (headline). 1911 year. A pleasure train with a large number of passengers left the station in Rome. The train was approaching the tunnel, when suddenly everything around was covered with a milky white mist. The train entered the tunnel and disappeared. After this incident, the tunnel was blocked with stones … And probably, they would have forgotten about that case, if the ghost had not appeared at the crossing near the village of Balaklava. The train with tightly closed curtains and an empty driver's cab moved silently, but crushed many chickens. It happened exactly 80 years later …
The train somehow passed … through time? It turns out, along with the law of conservation of matter and energy, there is also a law of conservation of time, which has not yet been proven by anyone?The past does not disappear anywhere, but does it really exist?
The spirit of Rasputin hooliganism on Gorokhovaya
ONE of the most curious Petersburg ghosts appeared after October 1917 in the Kunstkamera. By order of the emperor, the skeleton of a man of enormous stature was exhibited there. After the October Revolution, some ex-patrons of the museum, including the skull of a giant skeleton, disappeared somewhere. The museum keepers began to whisper that this very ghost wanders the museum corridors at night. He's looking for his skull! Many employees of the Kunstkamera have repeatedly encountered this ghost, including the director, Rudolf Its (now deceased).
However, someone, apparently, a skeleton wandering at night acted on the nerves, and the problem was solved in a rather original way: the skeleton was offered someone else's skull. The ghost liked this "souvenir", and he stopped wandering at night.
Their ghosts there in the fortress. The souls of the five Decembrists, executed in the summer of 1826, also behave restlessly. Eyewitnesses tell of the groans coming from the place of execution, and of the vague outlines of five human figures.
Another famous ghost of St. Petersburg - the ghost of Peter the Great … According to legend, the emperor himself chose the place where the monument will stand. During one of the walks of Paul I, the ghost of Peter appeared to him in a hat and cloak. When they approached the Senate Square, Peter said: "Paul, goodbye, but you will see me here again."
Most of the ghosts were left behind by the era of Paul I. Apparently, this was facilitated by the fact that the emperor and his entourage were inclined to mystical interpretation of any event. And if the ghost of Peter I appears due to some social necessity, then the cast of Paul I materializes due to the personal characteristics of the most mystical and unpredictable emperor. For many years now, his spirit has been wandering in the Mikhailovsky Castle, still not finding peace.
In the famous house on Gorokhovaya inhabits spirit of Rasputin. According to the inhabitants of the house, he not only does not bother anyone, but also "keeps order in the apartments." And only sometimes he allows himself a little hooliganism.
One of the most creepy ghosts of the past in St. Petersburg is the ghost of Sophia Perovskaya. Once a year, in March, on the steep bridge of the Catherine Canal, the blurred outlines of a young woman with a white kerchief in her hand appear, with which she signaled to the bombers.
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Lady, give the rubber band to Trotsky
In the HOUSE of the respectable lady Harris (it was in England) a ghost somehow appeared: this bearded figure was constantly looking for something in the bedroom. Investigating, the lady found out that the previous owner of the house had a long beard and, going to rest, intercepting it with a rubber ring at his chin. Lady Harris found such a rubber band and put it on the dressing table. The ghost rushed to the prey like a kite. The bearded ghost did not come to visit again.
So our habits outlive us and then materialize in our appearance?
- The ghost is not necessarily human-like, - Vladimir Volkov is sure, - from time to time our world is visited by the "spirits" of animals, from meetings with which their living brothers come to indescribable horror. There are also so-called elementals - demon-like entities, meeting with which is very dangerous for a person. There is one more, special, type of ghosts - doppelganger (with German - double). This is our ghostly copy that appears, foreshadowing trouble.
By the way, ghosts are very fond of appearing in museums. In the Museum of Leon Trotsky in Mexico City, a ghost has recently begun to appear. Let us remind you that Leon Trotsky found refuge in Mexico in 1936, hiding from the persecution of Joseph Stalin's special services. He was killed by an ice pick, NKVD agent Ramon Mercader. It seems that now the spirit of Trotsky finds no peace.
Zhuzhu and Lavrenty Beria's limousine
MOSCOW has been famous for its ghosts from time immemorial. Today, bus excursions are organized in the capital along many routes of ghosts and ghosts. Here are some of them: Secrets of the dungeon of the Hospice House of Sheremetev. The sorcerer at the Sukharev tower. Sretensky legends. Legends and secrets of the Rotten Pond. Crypt of Malyuta Skuratov. Mysteries of the House on the Embankment. The riddle of Igumnov's house. Secrets of the Moscow dungeons. Legends and secrets of the Novodevichy Convent. Legendary Patriarch's Ponds. A bloody stain on the Kremlin tower. The ghost of Ivan the Terrible on the bell tower of Ivan the Great. All these excursions can be visited! And learn a lot of interesting things. We will tell you something about it ourselves.
At the beginning of the XX century. In Moscow there lived a certain Juju, a Frenchwoman from Bordeaux. She was the beloved of the famous philanthropist Savva Morozov. Once Zhuzhu drove in a carriage across the Kuznetsky Mostand decided to buy a newspaper from a delivery boy. She got out of the cab and immediately fell under the wheels of another crew, dying on the spot. In the evening of the same day, in one of the gateways, the district police found the lifeless body of a peddler. The boy was strangled by Juju's black stocking. Since then, the Frenchwoman has taken revenge on journalists and newspaper sellers. Juju goes out hunting with a black stocking in his hands. You can identify her by a long, frilly dress with many ruffles and an elegant hairstyle. But at the corner of Sretenka and Daev lanea huge black shadow sometimes separates from the wall of one of the mansions. A ghost the size of a two-story house. The KGB archives still contain an explanatory note from two employees who, in 1920, met with this ghost and began to shoot at him with revolvers. Completely useless! Together with the ghost, the one whom they escorted disappeared without a trace.
“The limousine of Lawrence Beria can be seen on Malaya Nikitskaya Street,” says Vladimir Volkov, an expert on the life of ghosts. - The car rolls silently from the Garden Ring towards the blue mansion N28 on M. Nikitskaya. Lavrenty Beria used to live here. At the same time, the sound of a limousine engine of the first half of the 20th century is clearly audible. At the house where Lavrenty Pavlovich lived (now the Embassy of Tunisia is located there . - "AN"), the car-ghost stops … You can hear someone getting out of it, talking about something with an invisible guard.
According to the stories of the specialist V. Volkov, Bulgakov's cat Behemoth can be seen on dark and gloomy nights not only at the Patriarch's Ponds. A furry ghost looms twice a month on odd numbers on the odd side of Tverskaya. He emerges from the wall of one building and goes into the wall of another. So far , this is the only Moscow ghost listed in the International Directory of Ghosts.
The ghost of Boris Godunov is wandering in the Kremlin. A pale young woman with a pistol in her hand flies in the Commandant's Tower: this is the ghost of Fanny Kaplan … After the attempt on Lenin's life, the Kremlin commandant Pavel Malkov personally shot her.
