The Lefortovo tunnel in Moscow has long been called the "tunnel of death" by motorists and traffic police officers. This part of the Third Ring Road of the capital breaks all records in the number of fatal accidents.
The idea of building the Lefortovo tunnel arose back in 1935. In those days, it was not customary to put ambitious plans on the back burner, but on the way to the implementation of this particular project, some obstacles constantly arose. As a result, the construction began only in 1959, but after 25 years only the Rusakovskaya and Savelovskaya overpasses, as well as the Avtozavodsky bridge, were completed - there was no smell here. Then heated discussions began about the passage of the highway under the Lefortovo estate park, which froze the construction for another 13 years. It came to life again only in 1997, and in December 2003 the first cars dove into the dark jaws of the underground road. Since then, according to statistics, every day at least two or three cars are crashed here.
Chronicle of disasters
The ill-fated tunnel - the fifth longest in Europe - is an engineering marvel. It is equipped with the most modern security equipment, including fire detection, fire extinguishing, water and smoke removal systems, and emergency evacuation exits. Everything works in automatic mode and is controlled from a single dispatching console. Of course, there are also CCTV cameras. It was thanks to round-the-clock shooting that it became clear that numerous car accidents occurring underground are completely inexplicable from a rational point of view.
Take at least a "dancing" bus. As if an invisible monstrous force hurls him from side to side, forcing him to beat against the walls of the tunnel, while other cars try to avoid a collision. The driver manages to normalize the movement only at the exit from the dungeon. Shocking shots, where "ambulance" for no reason at all begins to circle and toss on a smooth roadbed, as a result of which a patient falls out of the car at full speed. No matter how much you watch these records posted on the Internet, it remains a mystery why cars suddenly change direction abruptly and crash into concrete walls at speed. But on them flying trucks, and "winged" cars, and "Gazelles" - ghosts are fixed. What are the shots with a truck flying out of the tunnel wall straight towards a heavy truck!What is actually happening in the Lefortovo tunnel, what forces hostile to man and why did they hunt a man there?
Dark and scary
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The drivers who survived the cycle of the "tunnel of death" honestly share their impressions and experiences. Most are sure: it is better not to meddle in Lefortovo, and if possible, then follow a different, albeit longer, but safe way to the destination. Believe it or not, in most cases, they consider ghosts to be the culprits of terrible accidents. There is ample evidence of how, in the middle of an underground road, human figures, woven from dense white fog, suddenly appear in the light of headlights, forcing drivers to brake sharply or try to avoid them. In the confined space of a tunnel, any such maneuver entails loss of control and collision either with the gloomy arches of the highway or with other road users. At the same time, according to motorists, the road itself becomes slippery as ice or there is a feeling thatthat it completely disappears from under the wheels and you seem to hang in a muddy haze without any reference points.
Frequent guests in the Lefortovo tunnel and ghost cars. They appear suddenly on the road, usually at high speeds. Outwardly, these monsters look quite ordinary, although the place behind the wheel is often empty. Drivers, whose path they block, have to dodge, slow down and rebuild, which inevitably leads to another tragedy. After all, trying to get out of a difficult situation, they arrange an emergency braking exam for those who were driving behind. In general, workers have to change tunnel wall claddings every week.
The most curious thing is that the "squad" of auto ghosts, it seems, has a habit of replenishing at the expense of new victims of accidents. Thus, the Moscow driver Pavel T. once witnessed a terrible accident in the Lefortovo tunnel. Being one of the first next to the overturned car, he helped to extract the body of a man from the crumpled cabin, who died in front of him a few minutes later. Six months later, while driving underground in Lefortovo, Pavel saw the same blue Opel, which was again driven by the man who had died in the accident. He had time to make out the fur collar of the driver's jacket, although it was summer now, and even blood trickling down his temple. The shocked man miraculously managed to maintain control. Not remembering himself from fear, he left the dead tunnel at breakneck speed, for which he later paid a decent fine.
No mysticism
The scary stories of the Lefortovo tunnel, supported by documentary footage from the video surveillance system, created an unenviable reputation for it, which could not but oppose materialist scientists, traffic police officers, as well as the maintenance personnel of the facility.
The human psyche is to blame for everything, psychologists categorically declare. Research among traffic participants in the Lefortovo tunnel (as well as in other underground highways of similar length) showed that many are afraid to slow down when driving inside. Then they overspeed to get through
closed space. Hence the accident. That is, the problem is hiding in more or less obvious symptoms of claustrophobia.
The other accused of the massive clouding of the mind of the drivers in the tunnel is … music. At the entrance, the work of the audio system "explodes" with a deafening roar of interference. Drivers are distracted by a radio tape recorder, while the situation on the highway requires increased attention and quick response on their part. One wrong movement - and the car is thrown to the side, turns against the stream. At the same time, the following cars have nowhere to turn, because the width of the tunnel is only 14 meters.
Gormost's specialists are also prosaic. The cause of all the misfortunes, in their opinion, is the lack of discipline of drivers who exceed the speed limit, as well as a tendency to recklessness combined with inattention. And this is in conditions when the average traffic intensity in the tunnel is about four thousand cars per hour, and during rush hours this value rises to seven to eight thousand. According to the rules, the speed inside the Lefortovo tunnel should not exceed 60 km / h. Note that the total length of the underground route is 2.2 kilometers, which means that the average time it takes a car to cover this distance is 2–2.5 minutes. It would seem, why not be vigilant? However, according to the dispatchers of the longest tunnel in Moscow, about twenty thousand violations of the traffic rules are recorded here every day!
And yet, are all these theories and statistics capable of refuting the infamy of the damned tunnel? Quite the opposite!
Funnel of fear
Most people experience great discomfort when driving through a tunnel. Some complain of attacks of headache and nausea, others - of a sudden feeling of anxiety, danger, inexplicable panic fear. This forces those who are driving to unconsciously press on the gas in order to quickly leave the damned zone. At such moments, the thought of a cemetery, which is located not far from an underground highway, often arises, and the slightest shadows with light reflections on the windshield deprive the remains of self-control. And what could be more dangerous when a person is driving a car rushing at speed? So what is it? Only one eternal fear of death or a warning from the other world, into which we invaded, building the Lefortovo tunnel at a depth of 30 meters underground?
Psychics and parapsychologists unanimously argue that the highway is laid in a zone of anomalous activity, characteristic of places popularly referred to as “bad”. The devices of enthusiasts here record strong magnetic disturbances, or even real storms of destructive energies. If you can attribute the stories of bony hands beating against the side windows and black fogs blocking the view, at the expense of exuberant imagination, then what about the fact that at night here the brakes often inexplicably fail and motors stall? Drivers forced to stop are trapped in a concrete trap soaked through with fear. And only the next car, whether it passes by or stops to provide assistance, "pulls" the poor fellows out of an unknown disaster.
Another interesting phenomenon of the Lefortovo tunnel testifies to the fact that its ghosts keep up with the times. Driving inside an underground highway, drivers and passengers often receive “blank” sms from unknown numbers. If you call them back later, it turns out that the strange subscriber "is not registered in the network." Perhaps, however, "he" is not registered in the networks of our world. But what have we got to do with it?
Psychic reluctance
It is known that the Lefortovo tunnel stands on a break in the soil and passes under the Yauza River. According to a number of experts, this creates a kind of natural collapse inside the dungeon, which generates energy chaos. The consciousness of a person sweeping through such an anomaly is disoriented. At the physiological level, this manifests itself in the form of dizziness, inexplicable fear.
“When we reached about the middle of the tunnel,” Anna T. from Moscow wrote in one of the blogs, “my ears were blocked very hard, everything swam, the walls began to crush. It seemed that the tunnel had narrowed, and panicked fear swept over me, as if something terrible was about to happen. When we drove out of the tunnel, literally in a minute the terrible condition dissipated. Here, I must admit, the girl was lucky. It could be worse. In conditions of destabilization of brain functions, any little thing is enough for the psyche to come into an altered state and begin to perceive signals with a shift in time and space.
For example, the tunnel lighting system is quite capable of acting as the mentioned "trifle". At the entrance, peripheral vision reacts to the flickering of light points on the dark lining of the walls (in most other tunnels the background is light), the rapid alternation of black and light stripes is reflected on the hood and windshield, glare also dances on the metal parts of the dashboard. Further, it all depends on the individual sensitivity of people. You can fall into a hypnotic trance with a side "peeking" into the nearest pockets of time: to see long-wrecked cars with dead people behind the wheel, ordinary cars passing in the same place yesterday or a week ago, etc. Or find yourself between parallel worlds, existing for several moments simultaneously in two or more realities. Then one wrong move - and the car crashes at full speed into the concrete wall of the tunnel. Anything can be. The mystery of the Lefortovo tunnel has not yet been solved. And experienced motorists prefer to take the bypass route.