A family of refugees from one of the former republics of the USSR (a nine-year-old son, mother, grandmother) moved to Togliatti in the mid-nineties. Rented a one-room apartment. The January morning began with rustling and tapping in the apartment, as if something invisible appeared that could not live silently.
On the day of the beginning of the active phase of the poltergeist, grandmother and grandson remained at home. When my mother came home from work, she found this picture - grandmother was sitting on a stool with her legs tucked on the bar, and her second-grader grandson was sitting on her grandmother’s lap, and both were in a state close to panic.
It turned out that this time, besides faceless tapping in the air and rustling under the sofa, quite visible and tangible phenomena began. The heavy carpet in the room was shaking, moving away from the wall as if some animal the size of a large cat was running along the wall under it.
Toy cars rolled out from under the table where they always slept, and rolled by themselves along the corridor. The curtains covering the kitchen radiator began twitching on their own, as if they were being pushed from the side of the window by a rounded object.
In a one-room apartment, it would be easy for a grandmother or grandson to follow each other if one of them decided to play a trick on another family member in this way. However, the phenomena took place in front of both of them. The poltergeist jokes died down slightly only when the mother returned from work, and even then only at first. In the following days, the phenomena occurred in the same way in the presence of any of them. The events were similar to those that took place back in 1988 in one of the Moscow workers' hostels. It was from that case that the "invisible jokers" were given the name "barashka".
This family knew how in the Russian tradition they treated brownies if they suddenly began to be naughty (they were sure that they had just a brownie). The first step was to feed him. It does not matter that he is invisible - since he is a hooligan, they thought, it means that he is a living creature and can get hungry. The most interesting thing is that this technique worked - the corner of the biscuits placed on the radiator near the kitchen table was bitten off.
We then compared the bite of the "housemaker" with the bite of each of the family members - there was nothing similar between them. And, once the object of research appeared, experiments began. “Barabashka” was offered a choice of different products - the traces of his teeth remained on a piece of sherbet, a mark from the “tongue” - on sour cream, and coffee with milk disappeared from the saucer without a trace. He did not react to cheese in any way.
Mother, remembering the story of the Moscow Barabashka, tried to teach her invisible tenant to answer questions. Since his favorite pastime was to pull the curtains, this was chosen as the language of communication. The code was standard: the answer was "yes" - the curtain twitched once, the answer "no" - the curtain hung calmly. So we managed to find out that the newly-minted inhabitant of the apartment does not want to be called Barabashka at all.
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Going through the options, the mother suddenly dawned on: "He loves to pull the curtains, which means he will be" Dergashka ". He liked the new name, which he confirmed by the waving of the curtain. In the same way, they tried to persuade him not to be jealous of the cat for the boy.
The fact is that recently a common favorite - a two-year-old cat - stopped sleeping next to his son, and did not even allow himself to be stroked, struggled and ran away. The mother, guessing what was the matter, turned to the invisible member of the family: “Do not be jealous of the son and the cat, we all live here and must be friends, do you understand?” - “Yes,” the curtain twitched in response. did not run away from the boy.
The cat's behavior sometimes looked like he saw someone pulling the curtains. The same inhabitant of the apartment was seen by a dog brought by relatives. However, there were moments when people managed to accidentally see the fifth tenant of their apartment. It looked almost transparent, like a jellyfish in sea water, and looked like a cat and a bear cub at the same time, and when it moved quickly, it looked like a ball of fog. At one of these moments, the little boy noticed him lying on the floor and holding the curtain with his paws (or what looked like paws). The curtain itself was pulled tight at the same moment.
I must say that the owners even managed to touch that invisible "hand" (paw) that moved the curtain, and this feeling was similar to the feeling of a softly inflated rubber ball.
An analysis of previous events showed that poltergeist signs were observed several months before the onset of the active phase, but the owners did not pay attention to them, since they did not know what to compare them with. A characteristic detail showing the lack of coordination of poltergeist events is the following fact: the owners noted that before a spontaneous throw of an object, this object began to vibrate weakly, and only after that it was pulled out of place. During flight, some objects rotated around the longitudinal axis in the forward direction. They could not have known that such behavior of objects is typical for almost all cases of moving objects during the poltergeist process.
In this case, the poltergeist, we noted Dergashka's very caring attitude towards the owners of the apartment - for example, in one night he removed the suppuration from a splinter from his mother, helped his grandmother to relieve a heart attack (grandmother felt heaviness on the left side of her chest at night, but, as he says, the acuity of pain went away, and all this - without medication and a visit by doctors).
Observing the poltergeist and recording the events that took place, we discovered the presence of peculiar peaks of activity, when Dergashka's behavior was similar to that of a naughty child. These moments are characterized by a rather aggressive behavior towards people - either the T-shirt in the blink of an eye turned out to be pulled over the boy's head, then the linen ironed by his grandmother was scattered on the floor, there were cases when tights from the bathroom flew out and tied in a knot on the boy's hand earlier than he managed to flinch.
The owners managed to stop the violence of this invisible person once by pouring him sweet tea with milk, and another time with the help of a simple psychological technique.
Looking over the versions, it would be natural to assume that this is not a poltergeist at all, but the son is playing pranks. However, a number of cases have been recorded that reliably testify to the spontaneous movement of objects when all family members were out of the reach of moving objects: for example, all three people are at the opposite wall of the room when the curtain is twitching; or a mother, son and his friends are sitting on a bench near the entrance, when from the air someone invisible throws clods of earth, plastic bottles and other rubbish at them. It was such that the mother hugs her son, and at this moment, in response to any question, the curtain twitches strongly, etc.
And besides, the creature responsible for poltergeist phenomena in this case has been repeatedly seen visually. A relative of his mother noticed it as a spot of vibrating air (like a mirage over heated soil), behind which the wallpaper pattern was hardly distinguishable. There was little visual distortion. Another acquaintance saw it as a clearly limited volume, like a large water lens, elongated along the vertical axis and levitating in the air.
His mother and grandmother saw him as a gray, rounded shadow moving around the room. The boy saw him first as a clot of water, then, in the summer of 1998, as a humanoid creature smaller than him and had the appearance of "greenish air." In the fall of 1998, he already saw Dergashka as a well-formed little man half a head, a head taller than the boy himself and looking like "blue air".
For the sake of objectivity, it should be added that this poltergeist gradually passed into the phase of "provocative poltergeist". With the help of covert video filming and some other methods of objectifying poltergeist phenomena, it was possible to establish that the poltergeist, weakened by the completely natural laws of the development of this phenomenon, began to be literally supported by the boy, who, apparently, really liked such attention from adults.
The curtains were already moving not by invisibility, but by the boy's foot, objects were transferred from room to room not by themselves, but by the same boy who tried to choose the moment when, as it seemed to him, no one could see him, etc. So researchers have to take into account the laws not only of parapsychology, but also of ordinary human psychology … Although once again I draw the attention of readers that my son "connected" to poltergeist pranks only a few months after the beginning of all the events described.
It may seem that such events are few and far between. However, it only seems so. Only large poltergeist processes are rare, and there are a lot of one-time events. Sometimes they do not bother the owners of the apartment "with a share" at all - rather, they even amuse.
From the reports of Togliatti residents - eyewitnesses of unusual cases, in relation to which one can assume the presence of some invisible, but objectively existing force - a kind of "Assorted from the life of brownies" has developed over several years.
Here are some stories from this assortment.
Togliatti, Primorsky Boulevard, 8th quarter
Anticipating this story, I will say the following. It will not be superfluous to remember that folk rituals absolutely unambiguously prescribe to show the housekeeper some signs of attention, just like any other family member or (let the housekeepers not be offended) to their beloved pet. However, attention does not remain unanswered. For example, there was such a case. The woman lost the key to the apartment. The husband went to work, she stayed on guard. But she also had a need to urgently leave home.
How to be? Do not leave the apartment unattended? Thinking, she in all seriousness gave an order to her housekeeper (in whose existence, according to some signs, she was almost sure) - keep, they say, protect, and do not let anyone in. The brownie, one must think, took the order literally - no one, that means no one. Two hours later, the spouse returns home, and the husband sits on a bench in front of the entrance. He was unable to open the OPEN door and enter his own apartment. When they came to the door together, the woman had only to lightly press the handle, as the door quietly opened.
Samara region, Khryashchevka village
It happens that a brownie unambiguously declares not only the right to food, but also to the territory. The grandfather of one of the residents of our city did not believe in brownies, or in ghosts, or in other, as he called her, nonsense. But one day he himself had to face this "nonsense". Offended by his grandmother, the grandfather went to the attic and lay down on a pile of hay. He just closed his eyes - someone pushed him in the side. I opened my eyes - no one. I closed it again - again a push, and again no one was around! Closing his eyes for the third time, the grandfather suddenly heard a voice: "Fedor, get off, you took my place." "And who are you?" - asked the grandfather, without opening his eyes, - "I am a brownie, I live in your house." Grandfather had to move to another place, and no one touched him there.
Togliatti, Avtozavodsky district, 11th quarter
A boy of about twelve, playing Tarzan, jumped from bed to bed and made an incredible noise. Hearing the indignant cry of his mother, he rushed out into the corridor and face to face faced a curious little man, dressed in a spacious shirt, belted with a rope, a hat and some shapeless onuchi. Despite its size, it was a completely adult male creature, disheveled and curiously looking at the troublemaker of family peace. The son gasped in surprise, and the vision was gone.
Who knows, but maybe this same creature once helped his mother not to fall and not break. Here is how it was. During the next cleaning, the woman climbed onto a stool to reach out and wipe the dust from the ventilation grill. Almost finishing her work, she suddenly felt herself losing her balance and falling. Imagine what it would be like to thunder from the ceiling of your own apartment!
Bending over at an angle of forty degrees, the woman suddenly felt that someone supported her with a firm hand under her back, and then put her in place along with the stool. Taking a breath, she went down to the floor and was about to thank her husband for his support - and only then it dawned on her that there was no one in the apartment! Husband at work, son at school …
Togliatti, once again - Volzhsky Automobile Plant
Not only in the apartments of the surprised residents, but also in the VAZ workshops, they repeatedly noticed - no, not workers, but real gnomes and fairies. As strange as it may seem. And what, in fact, is the difference between a workshop and an apartment? What difference does it make where they appear in our world from another, their own world? For example, during one of the night shifts in one of the workshops, the attention of workers was attracted by light silvery female laughter and light ringing of bells. Going out into the aisle of the workshop, they saw several graceful little girls in white long dresses and barefoot running past them, laughing and dancing, and behind them, struggling to catch up with them, a dwarf in a cap hobbled on short legs.