For the first time with one of them, Olga Petrovna Kalinkina, a resident of the village of Nikolskoye near Moscow, I had to meet in absentia in the late 70s. Shortly before that, she had a great grief: her husband and daughter, returning home along the highway, were hit by a truck. She was then 35 years old. As soon as I regained consciousness, a new attack, my heart began to ache. I even had to go to the hospital, but the doctors did not find anything serious.
But during the month she spent in the hospital, she noticed a strange pattern: the radio was working all the time in the ward, these were the years of maximum solar activity, and, accordingly, maximum seismicity, and during this month there were three reports of earthquakes in different parts of the world.
And here's what is strange: on the day when the next earthquake occurred, the pain in the heart passed, as if it were turned off. In a day or two, they started again, and ended again before the next message.
Then, when Olga was discharged from the hospital and returned to work at the post office, the same thing began to repeat. Moreover, she noticed a certain pattern: the pains were the stronger, and began the earlier, the stronger the subsequent earthquake was. Most often this happened three to four days, but sometimes seven or eight before the event.
Olga began to regularly write down her feelings, and when there were enough cases of such a strange coincidence, she ventured to write to scientists and, naively, directly to the Academy of Sciences. They have long been accustomed to the letters of various "schizos", they did not enter into correspondence, but preferred to politely kick off: "Dear So-and-so, we have read your letter and considered it expedient to send it to the Hydrometeorological Service, where they are engaged in forecasting dangerous natural phenomena."
Undoubtedly, this was a joke of some clerk, in the CCCR, unlike the United States, meteorologists did not engage in earthquake forecasting, and as a result, this letter turned out to be in my possession, in those years of the Leningrad Hydrometeorological Institute. I had to answer her to explain the situation in science and her attitude to such predictions.
At the same time, recall how, before the devastating earthquake in Ashgabat in 1948, several local aksakals made their way to the city's leadership and warned that there would be a strong earthquake soon, since all the snakes and lizards left their holes. They only laughed at them. The result is known.
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Our heroine was lucky: some inspector arrived from the Main Post Office, and after checking, he took her to Moscow. There they got married, a year later their daughter was born, but after giving birth, the heart stopped hurting and the phenomenon of a "seismic" woman remained unsolved.
At the age of 15, a Los Angeles teacher, Hildy Rowser, had pains elsewhere: she began to tingle in her fingers and toes. At first, the girl did not even think that this could be somehow connected with earthquakes. When she turned 18, worried parents took her for a consultation with a first-class neurologist, then three more, but no illnesses were found.
At the age of 23, "for the sake of laughter," she went to a practicing psychic and he gave her an unexpected diagnosis: "Those electrical sensations that you are talking about, you get in those moments when an earthquake should happen somewhere on Earth."
From a psychic, Hildy went to the library to compare the dates of her strange attacks, which she carefully wrote down, with the dates of strong earthquakes.
“To my amazement, I saw that the time coincided one hundred percent! That is, I was a real walking seismograph, but it is not known how and why this happens to me,”the girl said.
Over the past 15 years, she has called the relevant government agency many times, warning of impending earthquakes: in particular, in 1983 - in Colombia, Japan and Turkey, in 1985 - in Chile and Mexico, in 1987 - in Ecuador, in 1988 - in India, Chile, Burma and Armenia, in 1989 - in San Francisco. The last earthquake predicted at the end of the last century was in 1999 in Mexico.
An even more unique seismic gift turned out to be with the Bulgarian Maya Popova, a journalist by profession. The Maya not only predicts an earthquake, but also its strength and epicenter. If the legs are on fire, it means that the native Balkans will shake up, pain in the right hip is Cyprus or Iran, in the left hand it is China and other countries of the Azat-Pacific region. Japan responds in the chest area, and South America is "tuned" to the right wrist.
“As if on a map, I refined my geographical knowledge by my own body, but at first it was not easy to believe in the connection between the signals of my body and earthquakes,” says Maya in the Bulgarian newspaper Trud.
Another phenomenon: Maya, like other characters in this article, had "seismic" pain for the first time in the late 70s. On the eve of a strong earthquake in neighboring Romania, she suddenly felt a sharp pain in her legs. A few minutes later the seismic wave reached Bulgaria. But many years passed and many earthquakes occurred before she decided to tell her colleagues from Trud about this phenomenon, although at first she, like Olga Kalinkina, turned to the Academy of Sciences to no avail. It was only after the publication in the newspaper that the whole of Bulgaria learned about the “living seismograph”.
Although she managed to "reach out" to the newspaper only a year later. The situation changed when she called again and said that a six-point earthquake would occur in neighboring Turkey on April 5. On the appointed day, a seismic station in Istanbul reported that seismic shocks with an intensity of 5.2 points were recorded in the central regions of the country. The newspaper's reporters picked up on previous reports and found that their colleague had just as accurately predicted the earthquakes that hit Greece and Romania on March 7 and 22.
Several years ago, the media talked about the Voronezh engineer V. Belyaev, who designed an unusual device in the form of a thin disk suspended on a non-reactive spider web inside a protective casing, moreover, surrounded by metal and water screens. He named this device "Delta" and made it possible to register short-term precursors of earthquakes of unknown nature. Sometimes "Delta" recorded them 1-2 weeks before the start of the earthquake.
That is, a certain long-range physical agent has been discovered, which is a short-term precursor to earthquakes. Perhaps we are talking about gravitational perturbation, since "Delta" is a version of the torsion pendulum used in gravitational measurements. It remains to find out its nature and how it affects the body of "seismic" women.
PS Before the earthquake in Tashkent in 1966, within 1 - 2 weeks, calls to ambulance increased sharply, mainly to the elderly, who complained of sudden pain in the heart.
Tatiana SAMOILOVA