There is a cemetery about 300 meters from our and our neighbors' houses. But we are not afraid. As local Karelian residents say, one should be afraid of the living, not the dead.
Next to our house is the Ivanovs' house. Now there is only one mistress Tatiana, she is 60 years old. Her mother, Baba Shura, and her husband Vitya died two years ago, and the children live separately. I want to write about strange incidents that happened in their home.
About three years ago Baba Shura sat in the kitchen in the morning and drank tea. Suddenly her son-in-law Victor came out of the room, silently walked through the kitchen to another room, opened a bookcase, looked at something there carefully - and closed it again.
Then he walked just as silently into his room. Baba Shura called out to him: "Vitya, Vitya!" - but he didn't even turn around. A few minutes later Tatiana came from the street. Baba Shura asked her:
- Why did Vitya not leave for work, already nine o'clock?
Tanya was surprised:
- He's gone! A car came for him at seven in the morning and took him to the field.
Victor had really been in the field that day - he worked as a tractor driver on a state farm. Both women were surprised and did not know what to think.
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A few months later, another story happened. Lena, Tanya's daughter, came from St. Petersburg for the holidays. She sat in the kitchen and cross-stitch, she has such a hobby. No one else was home.
Lena was carried away by embroidery and did not understand if the front door was opening, only she heard that someone was walking in the room. She raised her head and saw Baba Shura entering the kitchen from the room.
She went into her bedroom, opened the bedside table, closed it and, without uttering a word, went into another room. Lena called out to her grandmother several times, but she seemed not to hear her name. Lena continued to embroider, wondering how strangely Baba Shura behaved, as if someone had offended her.
After a while, Tatiana came home from work. Lena asked her mother:
- And what, someone offended my grandmother, why didn't she talk to me?
- Have you forgotten? - Tatiana was surprised. - Well I told you that grandmother is not at home, she went to stay with relatives for a week.
Lena was even more surprised, because she saw Baba Shura with her own eyes! Together they went to the room where Baba Shura had gone, but there was no one there.
About a month later, Victor was admitted to the hospital with high blood pressure. The family had a large farm: a cow, a bull, a calf and chickens. In the evening Tatiana came running to us with a request to go to the hospital for Victor, because the bull only obeys him.
She said that the calf came out of its pen (somehow it was able to open it, although it was closed on a hook), came to the bull, and he tore the chain with which he was tied to the post, broke it, threw himself on the calf and pierced it with a horn.
All this allegedly happened in front of Tanya.
My husband went with her to get Victor. They brought him, all went together to the barn and there they saw a bull playing with an unharmed calf.
After such a story, Tanya turned to the priest to consecrate their house and household farm. Nothing like this happened again.
Lyubov Ivanovna KALASHNIKOVA, Rypushkalitsa village, Karelia