Facts show that it is in mountainous areas that people most often begin to feel a sense of unreasonable fear, and it is there that people are most often found, and even whole groups, who died at the same time for inexplicable reasons, often with expressions of horror on their faces
In the mid-30s of the last century, oceanologist Academician V. V. Shuleikin, during a scientific voyage, discovered storm infrasound, which is a harbinger of storms and hurricanes. A little later, physicist V. Andreev created a theory of the formation of marine infrasonic waves due to the disruption of the air flow on the wave crests. Calculations have shown that acoustic infrasonic waves with frequencies of 6-8 Hertz appear most often in the ocean.
Around the same years, physiologists discovered that the fundamental frequency of human brain electromagnetic waves, the so-called alpha rhythm, is also in the 6-12 Hz range. For their part, geophysicists have found that infrasonic waves in this range are generated during natural disasters: earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, and, apparently, are biological precursors of natural disasters.
At least, the animal world perceives them as a danger signal and leaves the dangerous area in advance. Modern man, alas, has lost this ability and, at best, perceives infrasonic precursors as a vague concern.
And at worst … it is difficult to come up with a name for this new concept, but doctors have unequivocally established that shortly before catastrophic earthquakes, the number of heart attacks and strokes, as well as ambulance calls, is sharply increasing in about 50 kilometers from the future epicenter. After returning from the aforementioned expedition, Shuleikin organized the registration of infrasonic waves in ground conditions (near Moscow), but then such waves were not detected. About forty years later, in the mid-70s, in similar experiments conducted at the Leningrad Hydrometeorological Institute, it was possible to record not only infrasonic waves of an approaching cyclone, but also extremely low-frequency electromagnetic waves of the same range (6-13 Hz). And both of these factors - acoustic and electromagnetic - are the harbingers of cyclones and fast-moving frontal sections.
At the same time, the authors of these works hypothesized that due to the different types of natural focusing mechanisms, storm infrasound can sharply increase in certain areas of the ocean, as well as land. Moreover, the process of generating infraeonic waves on land can be quite similar to the same process in the ocean, only the breakdown of the air flow will occur not on the crests of waves, but on regular natural and artificial obstacles. For example, such as dunes in the desert, hills or irregularities on mountain slopes, and even linear city blocks. Irregularities on mountain slopes are especially dangerous, since, according to Andreev's theory, the intensity of infrasound is proportional to both the height of the obstacle and the wind speed. And the air stream breaking down from the mountain slope can accelerate up to tens of meters per second, as, for example,in the Novorossiysk storm.
Facts show that it is in mountainous areas that people most often begin to feel a sense of unreasonable fear, and it is there that people are most often found, and even whole groups, who died at the same time for inexplicable reasons, often with expressions of horror on their faces. Biologists and biophysicists who carried out research in special infrasound chambers have revealed many reactions of humans and animals to infrasounds of various frequencies and intensities. There is a feeling of unaccountable fear, head and heartaches, loss of balance, forced vibrations of internal organs and blood vessels, and at high intensities - and death.
With infrasound of sufficient intensity, a person, like animals, loses control over himself and will unconsciously strive to leave the danger zone. And if a ship enters the area of intense infrasound, then the behavior of the crew will be similar to the behavior of people in skyscrapers during fires - they jump out of windows from any floor. Most likely, this is how ships appear with a disappeared crew, and with a high intensity of infrasound - and with a dead one, when rescuers discover that people died suddenly and instantly. By the way, such death of people from infrasound in reinforced concrete casemates was recorded during the First and Second World Wars. Their walls were not destroyed by the impact of concrete-piercing shells, but the acoustic wave inside was deadly.
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For the first time in official reports, the effects of infrasound exposure on humans were recorded in the 1920s during A. Barchenko's expedition to the Kola Peninsula. However, it should be noted that the members of the expedition knew nothing about the biological effect of infrasound, as well as about the natural sources of infrasound themselves.
In the area of Lake Seid, according to the stories of a member of the expedition, astrophysicist Kondiain, their group experienced various negative feelings, including unaccountable horror.
When exploring the cave entrance, apparently of artificial origin, the member of the expedition who entered it immediately had a feeling of overwhelming terror, and, according to him, he felt as if his skin was being slowly peeled off.
By the way, the same "cave of horror" Sumgan is located in the foothills of the Urals. Cavers who tried to explore this cave and reached the second bottom recall a feeling of incomprehensible, unfounded fear. The same phenomena are observed in the Kashkulak cave, located in the spurs of the Kuznetsk Alatau in Khakassia. In the Kolyvan underground galleries in Central Altai, researchers describe cases when a feeling of inexplicable fear suddenly arises. In addition, these places hold the lead in Russia in the number of disappeared without a trace, and even entire groups.
It should be noted here that there is infrasound generated by tectonic processes, and underground cavities of natural and artificial origin serve for it as a kind of acoustic resonators, amplifying it many times over.
But back to the events on the Kola Peninsula.
Four tourists died on one of the passes not so long ago. People lay in a chain stretching from the pass to the nearest housing. The latter died, not having run just 200 meters to the nearest house, having run about 7 kilometers. There were no signs of violence on the bodies, but horror froze on all faces.
True, some people were lucky in similar conditions (they probably ran quickly and managed to escape from the danger zone). In Scotland, the "mountain of horror" has long been considered Mount Ben Macduy, a little over a kilometer high. According to one of the most famous climbers of the 19th century, a member of the Royal Society of Norman Colley, who was once gripped by fear and ran headlong for 4 or 5 miles, "I am sure that something incredibly terrible exists at the top of McDoui and I will never return there." Half a century later, lifeguard Peter Densham climbed on a clear day. Suddenly anxiety seized him, and in a second his only desire was to get off the mountain as quickly as possible.
“I found myself running at incredible speed. I tried to stop but couldn't, as if something was pushing me forward. Finally, I managed to collapse somehow. I ran along the ridge all the way to the bridge, and only when I was on the other side of the lake, I stopped."
In connection with this story I want to remind everyone of the well-known story of 9 tourists from the Ural Polytechnic. They, too, suddenly had an inexplicable feeling of fear, and, having cut open the tent, they rushed to run headlong along the mountainside, some even with their legs.
As you can see, for such cases it is not at all necessary to look for exotic explanations like UFOs, nuclear explosions and missile tests.
Something similar happened in the late 50s and on the Kola Peninsula while climbing the Angvun-daschorr peak. Then two experienced climbers died. Their comrades fled from the valley, leaving their bodies and all their equipment behind. It is said that they were suddenly seized by a sense of wild terror. Another group of 4 people died in the same area for an unknown reason in the summer of 1965. They also fled, leaving their tents and equipment behind.
A few years later, a group of 11 people died. An official investigation has announced the cause of their deaths as massive mushroom poisoning. In the early 90s, Terminator magazine received two letters at intervals of about a year from servicemen serving in the region, and then from relatives of other military servicemen. In both cases, similar tragedies occurred: in the first, a group of 4 officers, well armed, went hunting, and then they were found dead with grimaces of horror on their faces. In the second, a similar tragedy occurred in an abandoned hunting hut. And the list of such stories is far from complete.
At one time, academic science simply brushed aside the possibility of the biological impact of marine infrasound. The famous academician-oceanologist L. M. Brekhovskikh asserted that "I myself have sailed on numerous expeditions and have not seen anything like it." Unfortunately, this is a frivolous argument: many of my friends swam in the Bermuda Triangle and did not observe anything interesting there either. And those who watched something can no longer tell about it, because they added to the list of ships with a dead or disappeared crew.
Unfortunately, until recently, the problem of human exposure to infrasound of natural and artificial origin was not in demand by modern science. And only when an emergency arose in railway transport in connection with the appearance of powerful low-speed diesel engines generating infrasound, in the 70s of the last century, specialists from the Leningrad Institute of Railway Transport, together with the Sanitary and Hygienic Institute, on the basis of the latter, built an experimental infrasound chamber and began to conduct joint research. A little later, geophysicists became interested in infrasound as a harbinger of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
And it immediately became clear that there were no acceptable sizes of acoustic transducers (the wavelength of infrasound with a dangerous frequency of 7 Hertz is about 50 meters). Unfortunately, for the same reason, there are no portable devices for recording infrasound, suitable for use by tourists, climbers and speleologists. But, as we see from the above cases, ignorance of the danger or disbelief in it can be deadly.
Valentin PSALOMSCHIKOV,