Crying from an empty room, ghosts in the kitchen and in bed, the mysterious movement of things, the hum of steps - age-old mysteries that troubled more than one generation of Pskov students.
Last week, I met in a cafe with my student friends, with whom I shared a room for 5 years in the Pedov dormitory, which is on the banks of Velikaya, on Voevoda Shuisky Street (formerly Karl Liebknecht, Pokrovskaya Street before the revolution). Over a cup of tea, the conversation turned into memories of inexplicable phenomena that frightened us in those ancient walls.
I drove into the hostels in the immemorial 2010. In less than six months, as they say, I felt on my own skin all the charm of this "bad" place in Pskov.
On a September evening, I came to the kitchen with my potatoes and a frying pan, crumbled to the brim, salted hard, sat on the windowsill and, blown by the warm breeze of Indian summer, enjoyed the music of the sizzling roast. Suddenly, a handsome guy, about my age, entered the kitchen and also stood at the stove.
The mood was romantic and I began to ask what course he was studying, in which wing he lived - I tried to get to know each other in one word. In response - not a word, only leans lower and lower over the stove, as if he wants to smell my potatoes. Suddenly he jerks his head up and looks at me point-blank.
I feel a strong gust of wind, but not from the street, but from the kitchen, and I barely have time to grab the frame, otherwise I would have simply been blown off the windowsill onto the embankment. I will never forget how viciously that guy's face was twisted. Terrified, I fumbled for a salt shaker on the windowsill and threw it into his empty eyes.
I woke up already on the floor under the window from the fact that roommates splashed a tub of ice water on me. The whole kitchen was filled with acrid smoke - my potatoes were burnt.
- Do you remember how we then cleaned the frying pan for a long time? - Olga reminds me of that case. - They didn't scrape it off. And then she disappeared somewhere …
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Why forget this! As the same students later told me, this young man, allegedly, was the ghost of a schoolboy who fell out of the window. And it happened back in pre-revolutionary times, when this building housed a "male teacher's seminary." The geometry of the corridors and "cells", our rooms, has not changed until now. And since then I haven’t come close to the windows!
“I moved in there in 2006,” recalls Natalya from the Island that evening. - And the senior students also tried to scare me with the same legend. And you know, but I believe in a ghost. It is not known whether that young man was, but in wartime there was a hospital in that building. And the dead wounded were buried there …
Natasha and I studied in different years, but we came to the same conclusion - that things disappear from time to time in the hostel on Shuisky Street, doors open by themselves, rustles and steps are heard, do not be surprised - this is commonplace.
- But who will believe? - Natalia asks a rhetorical question and answers herself with a story. - There were three of us in the room, all were friends, but it was not without quarrels. I remember very well how, after the autumn holidays, we returned to our place and found that little things were missing: someone had lost a comb, someone had shampoo, and, like the youngest, my right sneaker disappeared.
At first we thought, who doesn't happen to? Maybe they put it where, and forgot? They searched for a long time, but to no avail. In the end, it was decided that the room had been robbed. And on Christmastide we sat down to guess. They turned off the light, lit candles forbidden in the old building, and got down to business.
Until now, I cannot forget that the spirit of Sergei Yesenin responded to our call. It was he who pointed out that my missing shoe was gathering dust on the mezzanine of the cabinet. We never looked there, there was a heap of rubbish left by graduates. And when they checked in the morning, they found the missing sneaker. I do not argue, it was scary, for several months I could not sleep peacefully, rustles interfered, either I dreamed or not.
And I remembered my Christmastide in room 41. How they hung the mirror with the girls, how they lit candles and began to evoke the spirit of Pushkin's wife. The saucer was moving (I don’t know if our fingers helped him, I didn’t touch it), the flame fluttered, the arrow pointed to the letters, the letters formed into words, we “passed” exams, “got married”, “gave birth” to boys and girls.
And then, when the candles were blown out and the window was closed, we did not sleep all night. Someone was leaning on me and seemed to block the air, the girls were sobbing, the window flapped … We all passed the exam, but after that we ran to the church opposite, for a church candle … Since then, the dormitory no longer wondered.
Svetlana MIRONOVA from Velikiye Luki told us her terrible story.
- I lived on the third floor, closest to the attic, where there was no entrance. No, of course, maybe he was, but no one knows how to get there. They said that there was a punishment cell, a room for the punishment of guilty seminarians. And quite often I heard footsteps from above and children crying. More than once I jumped out into the corridor, into the "washroom", onto the stairs and did not find anyone. Everyone was asleep, even the guard did not make the rounds.
According to Sveta, she was scared, and she went to spend the night with her friend in another room.
- I also lived on the third floor in 2009! - remembered Ekaterina SOBOLEVA from Novorzhev. - Someone lived with us, and this someone was invisible. Manifested at night. It’s like a man walks around the room and sighs heavily - a kind of moving gray spot. It always seemed to me that this is a young man. And then he lay down on my bed, hugged me, and I felt such a pleasant warmth. So she fell asleep.
In her words, the neighbors also felt the presence of something otherworldly, but their ghosts did not warm up a bit.
- And when I left the hostel, I wanted to take this something with me, I even held my bag open for a while, mentally inviting him, - Ekaterina admitted. -Now, where I rent an apartment, there is a brownie who tortures my beloved cat: he drinks milk from a saucer first. We have to put two saucers. Maybe this brownie lived in our dorm?
After finishing our tea, we went about our business, and I, under the impression of our memories, called the specialist in anomalous phenomena Viktor BOBROV, the head of the Pskov public organization "World for the Study of Anomalous Phenomena."
- The world is so great that there is nothing that cannot be, - Viktor Fedorovich shared his wisdom. - Such phenomena are of a different nature. This can be the directed work of magicians, in particular, voices and laughter. But in your place, this is most likely the result of the experiences of those people who once lived there and, perhaps, suffered. Repressed strong emotions are scary. Traces filled with negative feelings always remain in cancer buildings, places of executions and torture.
According to the interlocutor, from the point of view of esoteric knowledge, the feeling that an invisible person is walking nearby is due to the fact that once the deceased was not buried. And such cases have been recorded. For example, in one of the castles during the war, a man was killed and thrown into a basement, and only the burial ceremony according to religious canons stopped the devilry that was happening there.
“In some cases, you need a special ritual with a healer, or at least so that the person living there read the prayer“Our Father”and walked around the room with a candle, especially stopping in the corners,” advised Viktor Fyodorovich. - It is worth remembering that recently, alas, a lot of charlatans have divorced, although there are knowledgeable people.
The interlocutor shared that at one time he and his brothers lived in one half of the house, while the other was unfinished. There were four of them, and something came to his elder relative and lay on the bed. He once said to the being: "If you don't bother, then lie down." So he agreed, and everything became calm.
- Such phenomena are mainly dangerous because they frighten, unbalance, - emphasized Viktor BOBROV. - There is an outflow of energy from a person. And physical harm from such phenomena is unlikely.
Each city and district of the Pskov region has its own anomalous zones - real mysteries for scientists. Believe it or not - it's up to you.