More than five hundred years ago, Bishop Basil of Novgorod sent Bishop Fyodor of Tver a very interesting message. The text of the message was published in the Sofia First Chronicle (a manuscript of the late 15th century).
The description of the document and the full text of the message (with translation into modern language) can be found here.
Since we are talking here about the correspondence between two responsible and very important people for their time, it is not worth even discussing the possibility that one priest was simply playing a joke on the other.
Presumably, Bishop Vasily and his colleagues investigated the circumstances of one strange case with all possible thoroughness, interrogating its participants, before Vasily reported the incident to his friend and companion in worship, Bishop Fyodor in Tver.
This is a story about how Russian seafarers found in the northern seas what was called "the entrance to paradise" in the message of Bishop Basil.
Two wooden boats, in distress, brought after long wanderings on the water surface to the high mountains. The perplexed sailors saw over the mountains a multicolored wonderful picture, "as if written by inhuman hands."
And although the sun was at that moment hidden behind the clouds, the wonderful picture exuded a bright light. The vision was accompanied by powerful music and chants from where it hovered over the mountains.
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One of the brave souls decided to climb the mountain in order to solve the riddle of a mysterious vision, accompanied by no less mysterious acoustic phenomena. He climbed the mountain and approached the vision. Then he suddenly waved his hands with joy, laughed, stepped forward and disappeared from sight.
The second brave man just began to climb after the first to the same mountain. Having reached the place where the first sailor had disappeared, the second brave man also "with great joy" rushed to the colorful vision and disappeared into it.
Then the sailors sent a third volunteer up the mountain, having previously tied a rope to his leg. Soon he, too, disappeared from sight, laughing out loud and joyfully throwing up his hands.
The alarmed sailors grabbed the rope together, began to pull - after a while they pulled their messenger out of the wonderful picture that exuded a bright light. However, they dragged him out of there dead.
After that, the captain of one of the two boats, whose name was Mstislav, did not risk it. Gave an urgent order to sail, despite the nasty stormy weather.
Bishop Basil, in his letter to Bishop Fyodor, concludes: "They rushed away from there: they could no longer look at this ineffable lordship, nor listen to merriment and exultation."
What was it?
In the Epistle of Bishop Basil, the described phenomenon is defined as "the entrance to paradise." But with the same success it could be called “the entrance to hell”. The case, after all, ended in death for all three brave daredevils who risked approaching the "entrance" and with joyful shouts to step over its supernatural threshold!
By the way, have you paid attention to the most significant detail of this story? The "input" possessed a property that in modern scientific language is called a feedback channel. He was not permeable in only one direction - "there".
The sailors pulled the rope tied to the leg of the third of the daredevils, and pulled the daredevil out of there. True, already lifeless. The human body did not endure the overloads that arose at the "entrance" to the neighboring reality. However, it was possible to extract from that reality the body of a sailor, albeit dead.
The story told does not say anything about any significant structural changes with this body. This means that the physical body of the late daredevil did not undergo any, at least, external changes on the other side of the “entrance”.
Thinking purely theoretically, one can imagine such a situation. If today it was possible to launch a crawler-driven robot filled with high-tech equipment into such an entrance, and then pull it out of there by a rope tied to a hook on its rear bumper, then …
Nobody knows what exactly is behind this “that”. Perhaps, for the first time in the world, it would be possible to obtain scientific information about some of the properties and parameters of reality, which is found on the other side of the "entrance".
Or maybe it would have ended in a complete scientific fiasco. A robot pulled “from there” by the rope would return “dead”, like the daredevil sailor five hundred years earlier. He would have returned "dead" in the sense that he would have ended up with completely burned out microcircuits, as well as other, also completely damaged, instrumental stuffing that was on board …
