This forest on the territory of the Rzhevsky district of the Russian Tver region is a witness to many human tragedies and the keeper of the dark secrets of the past. During the Great Patriotic War, soldiers of the 29th Soviet Army fought here their last defense. Our units were exhausted by the continuous fighting and suffered irreparable losses. Surrounded by German troops, doomed to perish, people fought to the last …
The dashing nineties increased the number of victims who found their last refuge in the land of the Monchalovsky forest: here the Rzhev bandits brought in the trunks of people whom no one else saw alive. Often, white searchers looking for the remains of Soviet soldiers for subsequent reburial have found recent graves in the forest, testifying to the crimes committed today … This land, saturated with blood and soaked in the suffering of many people, has itself acquired an inexplicable dark force and is notorious among the local residents.
Mysticism of the Monchalovsky forest
People in the Monchalovsky forest disappear without a trace. “Either partisans are still in action, or dead Germans are wandering around at night,” the local people joke gloomily. Hunters, mushroom pickers, official and unofficial search engines - no one advises ordinary people to go to the ill-fated forest with its oppressive atmosphere. Even a crunching branch here gives rise to panic in the soul, and the wind sometimes carries strange, subtle voices and sounds …
There are places in the forest where birds do not sing at all. Such deadly silence is said to point to the numerous human remains nearby. In general, the influence of the Monchalovsky forest is unpredictable: in one minute here you can feel completely exhausted, discover that the compass does not work, and go astray. But with the approach of evening or fog, you should quickly leave this dangerous territory, unless, of course, you want to replenish the disappointing statistics of disappearances: you never know what or who can be hiding in the dark or behind a foggy haze?
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However, there are always daredevils who strive to snatch its sinister secrets from the cursed forest. And here's what's interesting: those who explore the safe outskirts, as a rule, return with nothing, and those who delve into the very heart of the forest, as a rule, disappear without a trace.
Law enforcement and government officials are not overly concerned about the mysterious disappearances of citizens. In the Rzhevsky region, people are annually blown up by mines, shells and bombs of the past war. Many ammunition is not covered deep enough, and therefore can detonate even from a slight vibration of the ground, for example, from human steps.
Timelines of the Monchalovsky forest
Eyewitnesses tell horrible stories about encounters with evil spirits, mystical riddles and ghosts of the Monchalovsky forest in whispers, and no one can prove or deny their truthfulness … For example, in 1990. local residents fished on the lake near the forest itself. Suddenly, they witnessed the real bombing carried out by German planes. Having hit the ground in terror, people clearly heard the sounds of flying planes, explosions of bombs and shots. Suddenly everything stopped; discouraged fishermen tried to find fresh traces of the bombing, but only overgrown craters from the old war were visible on the ground …
And one day (in the early 2000s), on a rainy evening, tourists saw a company of Soviet soldiers, dressed in the uniform of the Great Patriotic War, passing by them. Having decided that a war movie was being shot, the vacationers awarded the "artists" with applause, but they, without reacting, disappeared into the darkness. One of the tourists noticed that one of the soldiers had dropped the flask and picked it up. After several years, this flask ended up in the hands of a learned historian, and he was shocked: the thing looked almost new, but its authenticity (belonging to Soviet soldiers of the Second World War) was beyond doubt …
Such replays of past events are called chronomirages. They can resemble holograms, or they can be quite material, posing a serious threat to people (a soldier's flask materialized from the past). As for the Monchalovsky forest, even today it haunts thrill-seekers who are ready to risk their lives to reveal the dark secrets of the past. But are these secrets up to the common man in the street?..