In the 1980s in the USSR, some researchers began to dip newly born babies into a water tank. This method of the Russian scientist Igor Charkovsky, who believes that if the parents from the moment the baby is born will regularly engage in swimming with him, he will noticeably outstrip his peers in development, has found his followers in many countries
Last year, in front of an astonished audience in a Moscow hotel, a week-old boy, whose parents used Charkovsky's method, demonstrated the ability to swim underwater. But most of all, I was struck by the baby's ability to sleep peacefully at depth. No matter how skeptics treat such examples, there is a lot of evidence that amphibian people are not at all the fruit of idle speculation.
People covered with scales
In 1955, in the town of Loveland, Ohio, several local residents at different times met huge bipedal reptiles, which had short bodies with sunken breasts, wide lipless mouths and wrinkled heads. One of the eyewitnesses saw as many as three such creatures!
Something similar was seen by the inhabitants of the city of Loveland in 1972. It is noteworthy that among the witnesses was a local policeman who shot at an escaping reptile man, but missed. These monsters terrified the inhabitants of other states. Californian Charles Wetzel, driving along the Santa Ana River, noticed on the roadside a strange creature with a round head, shining eyes and gills. The giant reptile tried to attack the car, but the driver increased the speed and ran over the monster. There was a deep claw scratch on the windshield. Apparently, the creature was okay, as a day later he was met by another driver.
But the most famous is the story of the man-fish, who three centuries ago made the Spanish village of Lierganes famous all over the world. Francisco della Vega Casar lived at the end of the 17th century. As a boy, he amazed his friends with his unique swimming abilities. At the age of sixteen he left for the Basque Country to study the craft of a carpenter. Once a young man was sailing along the bend of a river, and a strong current carried him far into the sea. Francisco disappeared, and the family stopped hoping that they would ever see him again. Five years later, fishermen in the bay of Cadiz noticed some large, frightening-looking creature. It appeared more than once and always stole fish. They decided to catch the kidnapper and made a bait from meat and bread. However, when the sea monster was dragged ashore, it turned out to be … a tall guy, different from an ordinary person in a strip of scales,running from the throat to the lower abdomen and down the back along the spine. His long hair was fiery red, and his fingers were connected with a thin brown film …
The fish-man was placed in a nearby Franciscan monastery for several weeks. There they performed a rite of exorcism over him, they tried to talk for a long time, but in response they heard only inarticulate sounds. Finally the prisoner spoke the word "Lierganes". A man was immediately sent to this village. Thus ended the story of the missing young carpenter.
The prisoner arranged a meeting with his mother, and she recognized him as her son. "Ichthyander" began to live in his native village, but did not become a full-fledged person anymore. He silently wandered around the yard, sometimes uttered separate words, but was not interested in anything. After two years, he ran to the river Miera, which he knew very well from childhood, threw himself into it and swam away. Since then, no one has seen him again …
Mr. Francis and the Moken
Many facts prove that a person is able to live in water: for centuries, cases have been repeated when dolphins who find themselves in the open sea are taken into their flock by dolphins. The first amphibious person in the literal sense of the word was the US citizen Francis Faleichik, who was implanted with artificial gills during the Cold War. The details of the experiment, carried out at Duke University Medical Center, are still known only to a narrow circle of military specialists. There is evidence that an elastic tube was inserted into the trachea of a volunteer and a special solution was poured into the lungs through it. Then Francis breathed his gills for four hours. What happened next, history is silent, but one high-ranking official from the US Navy once stated that a man with artificial gills lived for a long time in the ocean at a depth of three and a half kilometers …
Despite the fact that many people deny that people have the ability to adapt in a liquid environment, it is known that representatives of the Moken tribe (gypsies living on the coast of Thailand) see underwater twice as better than Europeans. Whoever dived knows: the eye of an ordinary person is poorly adapted to work under water. And the gypsies, catching shellfish and sea cucumbers from the bottom, can see perfectly at a depth of ten meters. According to the head of a group of Swedish scientists Anna Gislen, mokenes are able to constrict pupils to tiny sizes, in a special way squeezing the eye lenses and thereby achieving the clarity of the "picture" at depth.
Caspian mystery
For the past couple of years, evidence of amphibious people has come from residents inhabiting the area from the city of Chalus in northern Iran to Azerbaijan's Lankaran. Last year, a report of this kind was the testimony of Azerbaijani fishermen from the trawler "Baki".
“For a long time, a strange creature swam not far from us, following a parallel course,” the captain of the ship Gafar Hasanov told the local newspaper when he went ashore in the Iranian port of Anzali. - At first we thought it was a large fish. But then they noticed hair on the monster's head, and the front fins turned out to be not fins at all, but … hands!
In Azerbaijan, no one began to seriously discuss this topic with Captain Hasanov. The Iranians, however, reacted differently to his revelations. There used to be rumors of a "man from the sea." And after the publication of the interview, the newspaper received many letters stating that after the awakening of underwater volcanoes in the Babolser area and the activation of oil production in the Caspian Sea, many fishermen repeatedly saw a strange creature.
The descriptions of the marine humanoid creature are identical in all cases. Slightly below average height, dense build, with a prominent, ridged belly, pinniped feet, four toes and webbed arms. The skin is "moon" in color, on the head - hard black-green hair. Nails grow not only on the toes, but also on the tip of the humped nose, forming something like a dolphin's beak. Ears are not visible, eyes are large, rounded. Mouth with a protruding upper jaw, smoothly merging into the neck with the lower lip.
In Iran, the amphibian man is called Runan Shah, that is, the ruler of water and rivers. The fishermen assure that the fish in the coastal nets feel his approach. Two or three minutes before the appearance of an amphibian man, she begins to show activity, standing on the ends of her tails and - which is absolutely unnatural for fish - making barely audible gurgling sounds. Runan Shah responds with a guttural gurgle, but does not attempt to free her.
Runan Shah was also seen by residents of fishing villages between the Azerbaijani cities of Astara and Lankaran. Oceanologists have suggested that this is not one specimen, but a whole family of people of the underwater world, the main reason for the appearance of which in the waters of the Caspian is … environmental problems!
It is no secret that the increase in oil production in the region and underwater volcanic explosions have noticeably worsened the reproduction of marine flora and fauna in the Caspian Sea. Astrakhan fishermen, for example, have long complained about the sharp decrease in sturgeon, the complete disappearance of sprat. And last year, the number of marine life in the south of the Caspian has increased markedly. Runan Shah did his best!
The ancient historian Herodotus and the philosopher Plato considered people initially "amphibious" and did not rule out the possibility of their founding the underwater state of Atlantis. Some modern doctors consider hiccups to be an atavism that has survived in people from the time when they had both lungs and gills.