On October 7, 2002, frightened guards and seamstresses Galina Pilyavskaya and Svetlana Shandakova fired one after another from house No. 19, building 2, on Bolshaya Ordynka.
Usually the perfume came out at 8-10 pm. They walk in a crowd, talking quietly. No silhouettes, no shadows, just the sound of footsteps. But when you accidentally get into this crowd, they flow around like a column of water. The air becomes as if alive and resilient, full of sounds. They only appeared in the old corridor, which had never been repaired. And in the rooms themselves, no one came across them: there the walls were leveled, the windows were changed, repaired, maybe that's why everything is quiet.
Under the roof of this old building, then in 2002 there was an atelier, a shop, a video rental and a bank. And wherever there was even a piece of unrepaired wall or ceiling, people were haunted by some strange sensations. And they are different for everyone.
The note below is dated the same year 2002. Currently, no atelier on Bolshaya Ordynka 19, building 2 is marked on the maps.
Old and young can be distinguished by their steps
Fashion designer Olga Obukhova worked in the atelier for many years, and kept up with a good salary. But she could not resist and she quit.
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- Yes, there are only elderly seamstresses left, those who have been baptized since childhood and are not afraid of anything, - says Olga. - And young people can't stand it, they get scared and quit. The spirits are not visible. Only, it happened, unexpectedly - you walk along the corridor and suddenly you hear rustling and footsteps behind. As if two or three are walking and talking. From the sounds of footsteps you can hear that there are two or three of them. You can hear when an old man walks - shuffles, or a young man - with quick steps. And the patterns on the walls sway, as if someone really walked past the door.
And you did not ask the spirits why they go there?
- They asked, but they do not answer: they pass by, and that's it. They talk among themselves about something, but the words cannot be made out. Only horror takes.
Once the seamstresses tried to turn to Father Boris, who served in the church on Novokuznetskaya. And he says: “I know about it. This building used to be a monastery cell, and during the revolution, in 1917, all the monks were shot there, and nothing can be done about it."
“It is very likely that these are the ghosts of the monks,” Olga agrees. - Usually we heard steps after eight and after ten o'clock in the evening: as if they were going to pray at eight, and they were returning at ten. These ghosts do not seem to bring any evil. Only very scary: the blood in my veins is getting cold. And the money was paid normal, I had to endure …
The ghosts survived the guards
The guards especially suffered from the ghosts: after all, they had to stay in these rooms at night. The last one was called Andrey. A healthy 30 year old guy. I stayed in the evening, only laughed at the stories. In the morning they came, and he was all white, like a dead man, no blood on his face, and gray hair on his temples.
It turned out that he was rushing down the corridor all night. He hears steps - goes to check, and there is no one there. Feels like someone is walking and not seeing. Quit the same day. While I was writing my statement, my hands were shaking, I told a lot … But the expressions were unprintable.
Andrei was not the first security guard to leave. And we decided not to look for security there anymore, they just connected the alarm.
But not everyone is afraid of spirits. For example, the storekeeper Anatolyevna works in the atelier, so she is generally friends with ghosts. Says: "They are with me all the time: they know and protect."
Priest Commentary: The Devil Can Take the Form of a Ghost Monk
For clarification, they turned to the priest of the Church of the Icon of the Mother of God "Joy of All Who Sorrow", Priest Oleg Stenyaev:
“This is the first time I've heard of these ghosts. But in any case, even if we assume that they really exist, they are unlikely to be related to monks. As well as in general to something divine. All such things are just an attempt by the devil to attract the attention of the townsfolk, to arouse interest in himself.
These are manifestations of devilish power. And priests and monks, by definition, cannot be ghosts. But the devilish creatures can take any image, including godly, monastic …