Since ancient times, people believe in the existence of unknown countries and lands, the passage to which opens only at a strictly defined time and in a strictly defined place.
In ancient Indian mythology and philosophy, there are more than once mentions of some seven mysterious continents - Jambu, Plaksha, Shalmali, Kush, Shaka and Pushkar, separated by oceans and inhabited by people.
The legendary Shambhala and the invisible city of Kitezh belong to the same category of unknown lands. Only the initiated know the way to these lands. And when, by pure chance, an ordinary person gets there, he either disappears in these lands forever, or comes back.
Previously, such legends were considered a myth. However, today scientists are trying to prove the reality of the existence of unknown spaces where well-known countries are mapped.
In the 60s of the last century, the French scientist and occultist Jacques Bergier stated that the existence of mythical Indian kingdoms does not contradict the principles of modern mathematics, since the structure of space is much more complicated than is commonly believed.
“If we assume that the Earth is one of the surfaces of Riemann,” wrote Bergier, “then it is possible that some unknown places exist, inaccessible under normal circumstances and not plotted either on maps or on globes. We do not even suspect about them, just as we did not suspect the existence of bacteria and invisible radiation."
That is, Bergier admits the existence of places that you can get to, but from which you cannot return. Or in which you can enter only at certain times of the year or once every few years.
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In 1954, after a riot in Japan, one strange citizen was detained during passport control.
His documents were in perfect order, with the exception of one detail. The passport was issued by the never-existing state of Tuared.
The indignant Tuaredian claimed at a press conference that his country was located in Africa between Mauritania and French Sudan (not to be confused with more eastern Sudan), and was shocked when he was shown a map of where Algeria was located on the site of most of Tuared.
Neither in the maps of the 1950s, nor in earlier, nor in later (as we now know) Tuared is not present, however, in the place indicated by the "citizen of Tuared" the Tuareg people really live. The difference, as it is easy to see in just one letter, but the Tuaregs existing “in our reality” have never possessed their sovereignty in the foreseeable past.
The man is rumored to have ended his days in a Japanese mental institution.
Something similar happened a century earlier, when a distraught passer-by was found on the street of a German village, who, barely turning his tongue in fear, explained that his name was Joseph Forin and that he had arrived from the country of Laskaria, on the continent of Sakria. The German authorities, of course, did not manage to find these mysterious places on the map.
The real "door to nowhere" is Lake Rudolph, located in northern Kenya. There is a small island called "Irretrievable" by the natives. Nobody wants to settle there, as the locals consider it a cursed place. And not in vain.
In 1935, the British expedition of Vivian Fush worked on the lake.
One day, two of its members - Martin Scheffles and Bill Dyson - sailed to an island that was so infamous. Two days later, the researchers reported that they were doing well. After that, the signals stopped.
On the fifteenth day, alarmed by the lack of news from colleagues, three more went to the island. However, they did not find traces of Shefles and Dyson. Then, for a solid reward, a team of two hundred aborigines ransacked the island. But they did not find anyone either: the scientists seemed to have sunk through the earth.
A few years later, several families of the El Molo tribe settled on the island. They communicated with the "mainland", exchanging dried fish for milk and skins. Once at the agreed time no one appeared from the island, and a boat was sent there. The arrivals found an empty village with untouched belongings. And no trace of three dozen people!
According to Professor Guillermo Terrera, mysterious disappearances and appearances have a thousand-year history and are governed by higher civilizations. He put forward a theory about the existence of many worlds located in several dimensions or located underground and having physical counterparts in the reality we are accustomed to.
The most mysterious example of this kind is the city of Erx, allegedly located in the Argentine province of Cordoba. On the basis of the testimony of local Indians, metaphysicians came to the conclusion that the rulers of Erks allow some representatives of humanity who have reached certain intellectual heights into their city.
“The city of Erx, the path to which no mortal is known,” writes Terrepa, “is famous for three gigantic mirrors made of material unknown to people. The reports of ghostly white lights often seen on mountain peaks are probably due to the work of these mirrors."
Unlike Erks, St. Brendan's Island is widely known in certain circles. Since the 16th century, sailors now and then report about a certain island in the Canary archipelago, which periodically appears and disappears. Everyone who has managed to observe this island or visit it claims that it is rocky, covered with vegetation and abounds in fresh water.
One Portuguese navigator who reached the island, in 1570, notified the Spanish governor in writing that he saw arable land, domestic animals and imprints of gigantic human feet on Brendan.
A map from 1707 to the west of the Canary Islands shows the island of San Borondon (as the land of Saint Brendan was called in the Portuguese tradition).
Most modern geographers refuse to believe in the existence of this strange island. Although already ancient cartographers, including Ptolemy, argued that there really is an eighth island in the Canary archipelago. He was called Aprosit and was considered impregnable.
Moreover, the island still makes itself felt today: in 1936, three fishermen saw it, in August 1956, several more people, and in 1958 the island was even photographed.
Scientists admit that it may well turn out to be an optical illusion - a reflection of the island of Las Palmas, observed under certain atmospheric conditions. But there is also a theory that connects Saint Brendan with other dimensions and parallel worlds, communicating with ours through some suddenly opening and closing windows. Perhaps the mysterious island is one of the points of contact of our world with a kind of parallel space.
Representatives of traditional science are gradually beginning to believe in the possibility of the existence of other dimensions. They believe that these measurements are, as it were, curled up inside the world familiar to us and are available for detection only when ultra-low or ultra-high frequencies are directed at them.
True, scientists say that these measurements are completely inaccessible and unknown to us, although numerous evidences suggest otherwise.
