The village of Ignashovka, a remote village in the Ostashkovsky regions, encircled by an impregnable, magical forest, at the beginning of October turned into a place for a mystical thriller, a terrible murder, reprisal against a local healer or, as he was called here, a sorcerer and shaman Harris Shalashov.
A 70-year-old mysterious old man was hacked with an ax and, for reliability, stabbed several times in the heart with a knife … The killer nailed a note to the doorframe (spelling preserved): “I took revenge on him for my son, who caused the damage and he died. And he brought damage to me, because I treated people for free. And to him Satan - Satanic death!"
The sorcerer's assistant, a St. Petersburg builder, witnessed the massacre of his guru, ran out of the house and called 02: - Harris Petrovich was hacked to death! Save, this killer-maniac grenade, now all of us will blow up!
From Ostashkov to Ignashovka - 50 kilometers. To get to the village in autumn is a burden only for off-road vehicles. On the pits, bumps, swamps and windbreaks of this land of forgotten people and unafraid lumberjacks, the operatives only in the evening found themselves on the outskirts of the village. A distraught, bloody man ran out of the forest to meet them:
- Guys, take me to town!
In response, the men put him in handcuffs and took him to the pre-trial detention center. The prisoner turned out to be the victim's “colleague”, 47-year-old Aleksandr Sergeev (we changed his surname, while the detainee has only the status of a suspect - Ed.), A folk healer from a village located 120 kilometers from Ignashovka.
- I am a white magician, and he is a black sorcerer! - The healer Alexander is still raging in the cell. - He fed on the energy of people! He sent damage to my family! Satan is a satanic death!
In Ostashkov, investigators say that such a murder will not be remembered. And, so far, they cannot explain what actually happened.
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- He came to Shalashov, said that he wants to heal his back. Then he left, returned the next day. With a grenade, he says, "I found it behind the stove" … He pulled out an offensive RGD-shku and demanded that the healer remove the damage from his family. Then he grabbed an ax and started hitting him on the head. Shalashov fell, but the matter did not end there - the suspect stabbed him several times in the chest with a knife. Then he wrote a note, nailed it to the door, and he ran into the forest to "explode", wanted to commit suicide … The locals heard an explosion in the forest, but we have not yet established exactly where it happened. In general, he ran out of the forest alive right into our hands. His leg was injured, he says - by an explosion. Nothing serious.
“Considering that the detainee during interrogation explained that he had killed this person due to the fact that he had damaged him and the mental state of his health raises doubts, a psychiatric examination has been appointed in the case, which will resolve questions about his sanity,” he explained “Komsomolskaya Pravda”head of the Ostashkovsky interdistrict investigation department Dmitry Kochanovsky. - Currently, investigative actions are being carried out aimed at collecting the evidence base in the case.
And in the distance, the axes of lumberjacks sound …
When a guest from St. Petersburg, a former paramedic, a gray-haired man with an unusual name Harris, came to Ignashovka fifteen years ago, the locals were wary of him.
- What did he need here, in our wilderness, all this is strange … - they whispered.
And that's true - there are enough places on Seliger, where, as a rule, visiting Muscovites and St. Petersburgers settle down. Better places than Ignashovka. With roads, shops, proximity to the lake, marinas, with many attributes of civilization. Ignashovka is another matter.
- In order to pay for the light - we have to walk 15 kilometers, we go for bread and food for seven kilometers with backpacks, mobile phones do not work here, only entertainment - what to listen to as brigades felled the forest in the distance, - Tamara Mikhailovna has already become local, long ago long ago moved here with her husband from St. Petersburg to help his father with the housework.
But, soon, the Ignashovites (there are only five of them here) realized that Harris's arrival was for their good.
- He engaged in healing, did massage, put cans, crowds began to come to him, and he helped my wife, healed my back, for free - recalls Alexander Khrustalev from Ignashov with gratitude. - How much I took from others - I don't know. But it seemed like he was making money. In winter, I used to hire a tractor to clear the road here from the road, otherwise our edges are impassable …
The shaman, as the locals began to call him behind his back, turned out to be an enterprising man. I brought a parabolic antenna and the Internet appeared in the village. He created his own page on the Web and there was an advertisement for his services: “Garris Petrovich succeeds in achieving amazing results when working with clients thanks to an integrated approach using two unique methods of treatment: parapsychological (bioenergy-informational) effects on the human body and physical effects using vacuum gradient therapy.
So he treated - with massage, banks, healing herbs and bioenergy. Simply, he was a standard psychic, if I may say so.
- For us he did nothing wrong. He treated my son's back - massage and put jars with potatoes, and alcohol. For us, he did not enchant anything, but healed the back. At first, he had a business card like a psychotherapist, and then it became a business card of a chiropractor, - Nikolai Ivanov chuckles kindly, who had to be understood in the finale of the real battle of village psychics.
He recalls how he went into the house, saw the body of a sorcerer, a bloody ax, a knife, and, involuntarily, crosses himself:
- No one deserved such a death …
When I left Ignashovka (yes, there and from there - only on foot), the locals remembered that more than ten years ago they had killed a family - an elderly husband and wife.
- The soldiers did it, from the Novgorod region (the village is on the border with the Novgorod region - Ed.). They fled from the unit, looking for something to profit from, so they robbed the old people, stabbed them to death and filled up the bodies with firewood …
The second murder, albeit in a couple of decades, is too much for the Ignashovites. A native villager, Baba Tamara, looked at me with bright blue eyes and whispered - "I'm afraid …".
In a mental hospital they will kill him, he will turn into a vegetable
120 kilometers from Ignashovka, in a micro-village of three yards, behind a high metal fence lives the wife of the healer Alexander, who suddenly turned into a murderer. Her name is Love. The woman does not let him into the yard, but agrees to talk. She is scared and constantly asks:
- What will happen to Sasha now? In a psychiatric hospital he will be stabbed with drugs, he will turn into a vegetable …
She is already sure that her husband, after a psychiatric examination, will be declared insane. Although he says that he behaved absolutely normally.
- He provided for our family, he was engaged in timber transportation, economic, good … He drank like everyone else, but did not go into a binge, he would drink once a week, leave the next day, then last a week. Then it can break again. But lately there have been no breakdowns. As he was baptized in August, he began to hold on.
Alexander was baptized specifically in order to engage in healing. Love says - he had a gift, with his hands, without touching a person, he could remove almost any ailment.
“ People said that it helps. ” To practice healing, he had to be baptized. I wanted to treat for free, without personal gain.
A year ago, on October 15, grief happened in their family - their son Borya died in an accident. Alexander, who was in the car as a passenger, survived, and, since then, has constantly blamed himself for what happened.
- He had to go somewhere on business that day. He says - if Borka hadn't asked for a ride, our son would have stayed alive.
- Where did he get the idea that the healer has brought damage to your family and is to blame for the death of his son?
- I don't know where he got it from, but … it looks like a grandfather was … In general, maybe it's bad, they don't talk badly about the dead, but that grandfather even asked Sasha to bring young girls. They say he will treat them, but they will pay … And even he offered to bring me. Maybe Sasha got angry with him for that?
- Why did he even go to him to treat his back?
- I do not think so. I wanted to learn healing from him. I don't know what happened between them …
Indeed, what could have happened between the two healers in this "battle of psychics"? The white magician killed the black one? We're not in fantasy. Was the killer jarred by the offer to bring the girls? Then what has it got to do with the corruption and the deceased son, whom the murdered shaman has never seen? Or my father. blaming himself for the death of his son, there really was a turbidity and he inspired himself that his family was cursed by a sorcerer, whose fame was passed from mouth to mouth throughout the district …
Only the healer Sasha himself can explain his action, but he keeps repeating: "Satan is a satanic death!" I would like to say - "The investigation will figure everything out," but only here, perhaps, "the devil himself will break his leg."