The inhabitants of Aksai in the Rostov region experience superstitious horror when they talk about the secrets of the Aksai dungeons. Dungeons of Aksai are an intricate labyrinth of underground tunnels and passages. It was built in more than one decade or even a century: the inhabitants of Kobyakov, the city of Aksai's ancestor, first built catacombs here for cult purposes, and only then generations were replaced by generations and the labyrinth grew and grew. At present, there is a whole labyrinth city under Aksai, living its own secret life. In the Aksai dungeons, there are a lot of anomalous phenomena that locals fearfully share with visitors. In Aksai there is a local mezey-fortress "Customs outpost of the 17th century", and its keeper Vyacheslav Zaporozhtsev has repeatedly witnessed anomalous phenomena occurring in the catacombs of Aksai. The most memorable episode of his life was and remains a meeting with a ghost woman, which made Vyacheslav Borisovich reconsider his materialistic outlook on life and think about the reality of the anomalous phenomena taking place.
Night visitor
Once, after the museum was closed, Vyacheslav Borisovich saw the light from the window of the basement of the fortress museum. I decided to go and check, since he turned off the light just a couple of minutes ago with his own hands! Gently unlocked the door, opened it slightly, looked inside and … the cat, which had followed Vyacheslav Borisovich, hissed, bent over and flew out of the basement like an arrow. An unusual picture opened before the keeper: a woman with loose jet-black hair in a white dress with a wide hem and an elegant corset - a dress of the 19th century - swam past without making a sound. In addition, no matter how hard the keeper tried to cope with the switch, the light did not go out. Stunned and amazed, Vyacheslav Borisovich watched the young lady with a glance, and she, not at all embarrassed, entered the wall and disappeared, moreover, after the keeper ran out of the room in fear, the light went out by itself. After a couple of minutes, the keeper tried to analyze the situation: he turned off the light with his own hands, closed the door, there was no one in the room, and as a result he found a woman, a naughty switch and witnessed the cat's unusual behavior. The Guardian was never able to give himself a reasonable explanation for this phenomenon. In addition, Vyacheslav Borisovich admitted that it was not the first time he encountered this person in the basement of the museum, moreover, the curator of the museum often hears a strange knock from under the walls. Only one explanation can be given by the curator of the museum: a restless soul settled in the basement …The Guardian was never able to give himself a reasonable explanation for this phenomenon. In addition, Vyacheslav Borisovich admitted that it was not the first time he encountered this person in the basement of the museum, moreover, the curator of the museum often hears a strange knock from under the walls. Only one explanation can be given by the curator of the museum: a restless soul settled in the basement …The Guardian was never able to give himself a reasonable explanation for this phenomenon. In addition, Vyacheslav Borisovich admitted that it was not the first time he encountered this person in the basement of the museum, moreover, the curator of the museum often hears a strange knock from under the walls. Only one explanation can be given by the curator of the museum: a restless soul settled in the basement …
Treasures of past generations
It is likely that the basement of the museum is not the residence of the ghost; he could easily have come to this museum from the basements of the Customs Outpost from the opposite end of the city. The customs outpost also keeps many secrets; next to it there is a manhole that leads directly to the Don. It was to this river that the local murderer Efim Kolupaev sent rich travelers on their last journey. All these cases are covered with the mystery of the past years, because it was in the 60s of the 19th century, so there is no reliable data on the murderer. And the place where he buried the travelers' money has been looking for a decade …
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According to another version, the ghost woman is the chieftain's daughter! At the end of the 19th century, a gang of robbers hunted in these places, the ataman instructed his daughter to look after the treasures, and she, perhaps, was so imbued with her father's instructions that even after death she fulfills his will. Nikolai Karpov, a Rostov historian, says that the granddaughter of a cook of the famous gang came to the district party committee in the 50s. By that time, she needed help - old age is not a joy. She decided to exchange the secret of the treasure for the opportunity to live in a church retirement home. But the communists thought she was crazy, and when they missed it - it was too late - the old woman died.
According to one of the legends, a keeper of wine barrels of one rich winemaker came to the basement of the museum. The owner of the winery left a ghost woman to guard the cellar, where he hid jewelry in one of the barrels. We know about this from the words of the winemaker himself, which were passed from mouth to mouth. Recently, barrels were found in one of the farmsteads of the town of Aksai, but the owner does not allow opening these barrels. Yes, they contain wine from the 1900 harvest, but whether there are any jewelry is a question. Moreover, the owner of the distillery's wines went abroad, but never returned, so it is impossible to establish the credibility of this story.
Underground Wars
The military could not bypass the Aksai underground. Even the communists, having learned about these catacombs, decided to build a bunker there. It is located next to the Customs Outpost in the Mukhinskaya Balka area. The communists hoped to hide there if an atomic war suddenly broke out. Various military tests were carried out near the Mukhinskaya gully, eyewitnesses say that the experiments were accompanied by a deafening roar and a column of flame 200 meters went from the ground into the sky. and whole houses were found underground. According to eyewitnesses, during one test, military vehicles were crumpled and scattered about fifteen meters because of an incorrectly calculated explosion force.
Time passed, and the military came up with new ways of testing: they drove a tank into the tunnel, closed the heavy armored door behind it, and fired shells from the cannons. Often punching through the door, the shell hit the tank and passed through it, burning large holes. This technique was seen by the inhabitants of Aksai when it was taken away from the city.
At that time, rumors spread around the city that experiments were being carried out in the catacombs to teleport armored vehicles from Aksai to the Moscow region. The location of this laboratory was never declassified, and no one confirmed the rumors. There is another option - armored vehicles were simply lost in the catacombs. However, for this, there must be not only catacombs, but a whole underground city, so that one can easily lose such a rather big thing in it!
Only one thing is known for certain - why the military began to use the catacombs in the Mukhinskaya gully area - it was safer there. Earlier, there was a plan to use the underground passages of the Kobyakov settlement, but the events that took place forced to reconsider the decision. One day a soldier disappeared, and a search group sent into the depths of the settlement suffered losses - two more soldiers disappeared.
They found the first soldier and the other two, but only what was left of them. Their bodies were split in two, and the cutting line was so clean that it looked like a giant razor was being used. The soldiers' radios were also hit by this razor, the cut was so neat that there was not a single crack.
The military classified the information on these events so as not to raise panic, but the information surfaced as a result of the death of the catacomb researcher Oleg Burlakov. He also died, he was cut in half, but the lower part remained intact, but only bones remained from the upper part.
This information interested visiting diggers, who decided to walk through the dungeon, taking a dog just in case. However, they also fell into a trap: after walking several hundred meters into the depths, the diggers noticed that behind them in a couple of steps the walls converged, and after a few seconds they parted again. Apparently, the mechanism was so ancient that it did not manage to work in time, allowing the diggers to avoid danger. The dog accompanying the diggers whined and ran off the leash back through the maze … On the way back, the diggers decided to bypass the ill-fated place, but this time they fell into a trap, a hole formed behind them, and then the floor returned to its original position.
What secrets does the Kobyakova settlement hide? After all, people had to pay with their lives for them, and no one had to get out of this labyrinth, falling into a trap!
Underground dragon
Residents of Aksai say that their ancestors, living in the Kobyakovsky settlement, brought human sacrifices to a certain Dragon, which crawled out of the ground and ate people. This image can often be found in chronicles, folk tales, among the monuments of architecture, archeology.
However, the legend of the dragon lives on to this day, since only a few decades ago, during the collapse of the floor of the local cannery, workers witnessed a horrifying picture: they noticed a huge body below, which quickly appeared and disappeared in the hole, a devilish roar was heard, the dogs present at a search of a manhole - they broke off their seats and ran away headlong with their tails between their legs, while the workers looked dumbfounded, could not come to their senses. This passage was walled up, but the dogs decided to return to this place after only a week.
These eyewitness testimonies became the basis for the theory that this dragon crawled out not from the ground, but from the water. Indeed, according to the testimony of geological exploration, there is a lake at a depth of 40 meters near Aksay, and a sea at a depth of 250 meters. The underground waters of the Don form another river, in the Don there is a funnel that sucks in any objects caught in the strong current of the river. Until now, they cannot find trailers and cars that got into the Don from the old Aksai bridge. Divers who explored the bottom of the lake stated that this funnel pulls objects with tremendous force, even steel safety cables are stretched to the limit.
UFO balls are also shown from these moves. An interesting hypothesis of their existence was put forward by Andrey Olkhovatov, a scientific expert of the Association "Ecology of the Unknown". According to him, UFOs are ball lightning, which are the product of tectonic processes, respectively, they should be called NGOs - unidentified underground objects.
According to eyewitnesses, UFOs appear over the city quite often, they seem to emerge from the ground, hang in the air and again dive underground. Once a translucent UFO swam over the city and humanoid figures were visible. One UFO blinded the sleeping Aksai with rays of light, when these rays reached the warships on the banks of the Don, the military attempted to attack the night visitor and fired at him from guns, but this did not bring any visible result. The UFO disappeared and dived somewhere underground. Another case was described by many eyewitnesses: three spherical UFOs whirled in the sky of the old Aksai bridge. The outgoing light was so bright that it began to interfere with traffic on the freeway, dozens of drivers were fascinated by this spectacle. The arriving police squad could not move the drivers; they had to call for help from Aksai. UFOs disappeared. However, eyewitnesses note that the tectonic origin disappears in the case of a translucent UFO, because humanoid figures cannot be inside ball lightning!
The advanced tectonic theory can still explain the Aksai terrible events. The dancing walls of the catacombs could have been the result of a small earthquake, but then the diggers would have noted this fact in their records. The roar of the underground "Nessie" can be explained by the rumble of tectonic magma, however, in this situation, there is a possibility that a new volcano will soon appear at the site of Aksai, or an explosion will occur, since underground waters will find a way to hot magma, evaporating, will create an unprecedented stream of steam, which can do a lot of "abnormal" things. But the question only arises - if this is the case and there is an underground volcano - how does it get along with an underground lake, it should have exploded long ago … The question arises: which is more terrible - to admit the existence of anomalous phenomena or to trust the testimony of geologists and believe in the existence of an underground volcano?
However, there are still unexplained phenomena: the appearance of a ghost woman, the explorers of the catacombs cut in half. However, one thing can be said with certainty: it is dangerous to visit such labyrinths even for seasoned researchers of anomalous phenomena, the owners of these dungeons - be it a volcano or ghosts - will give a "warm" welcome to anyone who gets inside.
Apukhtin Andrey