"There is someone under us!" This emotional exclamation belonged to the American ufologist Alan Polanski, with a small group of researchers in 2005, who went to an abandoned South American lake in the mountains, from which, according to the stories of travelers who accidentally wandered there, strange sounds were heard.
After almost a week of waiting, the researchers in the inflatable boat also heard them and recorded them using a hydrophone. “These sounds cannot belong to any creatures of biological nature and are clearly of technogenic origin,” the expedition leader summed up in the report.
Two engineers from St. Petersburg, heading into the depths of Meshchera, were just going to relax in nature, go fishing. One of them, Vitaly Sychev, says:
- Nowadays, finding a lake that is not polluted by vacationers is a problem. Last year, we had just chosen such a lake, when a jeep rolled out of the forest, three tough guys took off the jet ski from the trailer and, with a roar and roar, began to drive around the lake, scaring away all the fish. We reeled up our fishing rods and moved further into the forest, where in a completely inaccessible place there was a small lake Udelnoe. It is small, but, according to rumors, its depth exceeds 20 meters. We had with us a light one-seater aviation "inflatable".
One of us was fishing from a boat, the other from the shore. And so I, having reached the middle of the lake, suddenly heard strange sounds coming from somewhere in the depths. When I was young, I worked in a factory, and this sound reminded me the most of the blows and hiss of a steam hammer. But there was no production around for many kilometers. Then these sounds died down and others were heard - as if someone often hit the rail. My friend on the shore did not hear any sounds, but when in the afternoon it was his turn to fish from the boat, he heard them too. And in the evening in a tent on the shore, after sunset, we heard measured sounds, as if someone were beating a large bell. They lasted fifteen minutes.
The legend of the sunken city of Kitezh, the bells of which are still heard on the bank of Svetloyar, is well known to many, and we will not dwell on it. However, the legends of sunken cities and churches, the ringing of which can still be heard today, exist in many countries on all continents.
For example, in England, on the territory of the Snowdon National Park in the county of Wales, there is a large lake - Llyn Bala, a kind of Celtic analogue of Svetloyar. According to local legend, there is a sunken city at its bottom. In calm weather, you can see houses and fortress walls and hear the bells of churches. Once upon a time this city was ruled by King Tegid Foel along with Queen Karidwen, who was reputed to be a sorceress. According to the same legend, she was the mother of the great Merlin's father.
William the Conqueror, who ruled England in 1066-1087, was such a lover of hunting that he wiped out entire villages and cities in order to plant forests in their place. Only in the royal reserve in Hampshire, about 30 cemeteries and churches were destroyed, and in their place a forest was planted. One of the churches was located on a hill near a small lake, there were practically no roads at that time (except for Roman ones), and the “brigade” carrying out the king's will, destroying the church, threw stones right into the lake along with the bell. And now some tourists claim that they hear the bell ringing coming from the lake, and especially impressionable ones - and church chants.
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But the underwater bells are just a few of the strange sounds that occur in such places. In the Nizhny Novgorod region, in the Vorotynsky district, there is a forest lake Maloe Plotovo, which is still notorious among local residents. In the local archives, a clerk's “memo” was found, addressed to the steward Golovin: “The fish in the lake has become small, and there is a reason: an island of eighteen fathoms has grown in the middle of the lake, so the fish is gone. And on that island something obscene is going on: you can hear a miserly barking so that ringing in your ears, and the fires are burning, and the earth howls."
Unfortunately, no special scientific studies of the "howling" and "ringing" lakes have been carried out. Hydrogeologists usually got off with the letters of local residents with standard references to some karst processes, even in those places where there was no karst. And only at the end of the 80s of the last century, associations of anomalous enthusiasts that had arisen in many cities began to travel to such places, unfortunately, with a minimum of homemade equipment.
For example, in the village of Tishkovo near Vitebsk, in a place called a "swamp", his own Svetloyar was found - there, however, not from the depths of water, but from under the ground, sounds are heard, similar to the striking of a bell. On July 6, 2004, a group of researchers from the Belarusian Ufological Committee arrived here. Unfortunately, during their stay, the underground bells were silent, but the locals told scientists about another strange anomaly. In 2002, a strange composition appeared in the night sky, consisting of a luminous cross and a light path extending from it, turning into a light cone. It reminded someone of a church dome. In the morning, a strange heavenly pattern inexplicably imprinted on the ground under the place where it was observed. Local residents dug up this piece of land just in case.
The group from the "Cosmopoisk" association was somewhat more fortunate, which went on exploration to an artificial lake, located 50 kilometers from Kazan. Strange things are happening near the lake and its environs: unusual sounds are heard, similar to the creak of doors, the grinding of metal, or even machine-gun fires and human groans. Local ufologists, describing this place as a "zone of acoustic chronomirages", for some reason did not try to investigate it in detail until information about it was included in the "Cosmopoisk" archive. A group of four, led by Maria Petrova, surveyed the surroundings of the lake during the day. They could not hear the machine gun, only creaks and claps of unknown origin.
As for the nature of the anomalous sounds and voices observed in such places, only an even more vague explanation was added to the karst "theory". Some bioenergy specialists claim that certain natural processes can cause powerful bursts of energy that cause altered states of consciousness in people, including auditory hallucinations. However, what about those cases when these "hallucinations" could be recorded on a tape recorder?
And, finally, among ufologists there is a popular hypothesis that the water lens of the lake turns out to be a kind of acoustic lens that amplifies sounds from the labyrinths of the “underground civilization” or underground alien bases located below them.
UFO Magazine 2007