The larger and more significant the historical event, the more it becomes overgrown with mysticism and legends. The Great Patriotic War is no exception.
Researchers of anomalous phenomena have collected a lot of evidence of "supernatural" miracles of the wartime. Among them are strange prophecies, premonitions and, finally, ghost stories, writes tainyvselennoi.
Signs of fate
It is believed that the Great Patriotic War began unexpectedly for the majority of Soviet people. But this is not entirely true: shortly before it began, many were visited by prophetic dreams, premonitions. Sometimes, some even contemplated pictures of the future, which usually happens on the eve of major disasters.
Paranormal researcher Alexander Portnov writes: “In the winter of 1941 I was five years old, but I remember very well how my mother was under the impression of a nightmare for several days. She was very excited and repeatedly said that she saw a huge river, covered with thin ice, into which countless masses of people fell from both banks and disappeared into black water and under ice floes.
Everything happened in front of my mother: she was sitting on the bank in the snow-covered bushes, hugging me and my two-year-old sister, nearby a horse was struggling in the water, drowning. The howl of a mass of dying people was heard. A man stood nearby and said to my mother: "Sit here and you will survive."
I remember well how my mother said: “There will be a war. Newspapers and radio just reassure us. " June 22, 1941, while listening to the speech of V. M. Molotov, she sighed heavily: "The dream has come true …""
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The prophecies made by the Moscow schoolboy Leva Fedotov, who then volunteered for the front and died in 1943 in the battles near Tula, are striking. In his diary, 17 days before Germany's attack on the Soviet Union, Lyova named the exact date of the start of the war, and also quite correctly predicted its course. So, he wrote that Odessa would be taken by the Germans later than Kiev, that Leningrad was awaiting a blockade, and the Nazis would not be able to surround Moscow because of the winter frosts. The date of the beginning of the offensive of the Red Army was indicated in the diary …
The researchers initially assumed that Fedotov made his forecast based on a thorough analysis of the military-political situation. But the boy actually had no sources of information! What was then printed in newspapers and sounded on the radio was limited by the censorship.
Front bikes
In an extreme situation, people often have a sharper intuition and sometimes the ability to foresee the future. The evidence of this is the stories of former front-line soldiers.
For example, Alexey S. from Leningrad knew from the first days at the front: he would not be killed, he would return home, but in one of the battles he would be seriously wounded. And so it happened. In the fall of 1943, Alexei suddenly felt: he was wounded in the head, there would be a scar covered with hair. On February 26, 1944, a shell exploded near Alexei. The soldier was sent to the hospital. The head wound healed, and the scar was really covered by the hair.
Andrei B., after being wounded, returned to his native division. With difficulty I persuaded the driver of a passing truck carrying shells to give him a wing to the nearest village, where he decided to spend the night. We drove several kilometers. Suddenly Andrey was seized with a strange concern: he must get off immediately, he cannot go further! He asked to stop the car and got off. The anxiety was released.
The truck began to move away. And then - an explosion. The car ran into a mine sitting in the driver's cab and the foreman was killed on the spot.
And here is another story from a former fighter. A soldier served in his company, whom everyone avoided. The fact is that before each fight, he approached one of his comrades and said:
"Write a letter home!" And as he says - it means that within 24 hours that person will be killed.
Once a lieutenant from a neighboring unit came to the company for some reason. The seer soldier looked at him and said his own: "Write home." He, of course, did not understand, but the other fighters explained everything to him. The frightened lieutenant returned to his company and told the commander about the terrible prophecy. The commander laughed at the "superstition" and, in order to prove that the soldier's tales are nonsense, sent the lieutenant for reinforcements: they say, he won't go on the attack with the company - and nothing will happen.
The young officer left the unit, and less than an hour later, a German shell hit the car he was driving. The driver and passenger were killed.
This case received publicity. They began to look askance at the ordinary clairvoyant. It was said that he himself was to blame for the death of his comrades: either he was able to “punish” it, or else he was “shifting” his own death onto others. During one of the battles, the soldier was found shot in the back.
Phantoms point to burials
Researchers of the paranormal argue that mysterious phenomena are often observed in places of mass battles and burials during the Great Patriotic War.
One of the most famous anomalous zones associated with the war is the Myasnoy Bor forest swampy valley 30 kilometers from Veliky Novgorod. During the Luban operation of 1942, a huge number of soldiers of the Second Shock Army, units of the German Wehrmacht, the Spanish "Blue Division" and other troops died here in bloody boats. In total, about 300 thousand Soviet soldiers were killed in the Novgorod region. This was dozens of times higher than the number of enemy losses.
There are many unburied remains, which are being searched for by the "Valley" group. Search engines say that birds do not settle in areas of mass death of people, all living things avoid these places. At night in Myasnoy Bor, strange voices, as if from the other world, are heard, and at dusk in the forest you can meet soldiers in Red Army uniforms who allegedly more than once told the diggers where to look for unburied bodies.
And here is the curious story of the "black archaeologist" Alexei, who hunted with his comrades in the south of Russia, in the Bryansk forests, where from the winter of 1942 to the end of the summer of 1943 the Bryansk front passed.
“They dug six of ours and 11 Germans, and four Wehrmacht soldiers were dug in a dug-out on the banks of the Zhizdra River. While they were working, it slowly began to get dark. We left the skeletons near the pit, and ourselves settled down 200 meters away, in a clearing.
And then at night the devil began to happen! Valera on duty woke us up. “Guys,” he says, “something is happening, but I don’t understand what!” We got up. Let's listen. And there, behind the hollow where we were digging, one can hear German speech, German marches, laughter, and the clatter of caterpillars. To be honest, we were scared. We collected our things and went to the river, this is from half a kilometer. We sat there until morning. In the morning we went there again. Everything is in place. Nothing is touched. Skeletons lie, as we left them. But we went a little further, and there … Tank pits! And the most striking - fresh tracks of caterpillars! The moss is all cut, as if only yesterday some 'panthers' were driving here!"
According to parapsychologists, in places associated with mass deaths of people and other dramatic events, a powerful release of energy occurs and a "memory field" is formed that can generate phantoms and various phenomena that are usually attributed to the realm of the supernatural. Perhaps there is no particular mysticism here, it's just that these things have not been sufficiently studied yet.
Source: “Secrets of the XX century. Golden Series No. 3-from 2011