Girl with a scar on her neck
Perhaps the most eerie myth of our gloomy "refting" is associated with the section of the Griboyedov Canal near the Savior on Spilled Blood. As you know, the temple was built on the place where the blood of Emperor Alexander II, who died from a bomb explosion, was shed on March 1, 1881. Five times before, they tried to kill the king, and the sixth attempt was successful. Ignatius Grinevitsky from the People's Party threw a deadly shell under the wheels of the imperial carriage on the Catherine Canal. A day after the death of the emperor, it was decided to perpetuate the tragedy. To make the explosion site inside the church, the embankment was slightly widened, so it seems that the temple protrudes slightly into the canal.
Some Petersburgers believe that sometimes a silhouette of a girl with a scar on her neck and a white scarf in her hand appears on the bridge across the Griboyedov Canal. It was with a wave of her headscarf that the terrorist Sofya Perovskaya gave the signal to the bombers. Later, along with other Narodnaya Volya conspirators, she was hanged on the parade ground of the Semenovsky regiment.
The ghost of the underground
During the construction of the stretch between the stations of Park Pobedy and Electrosila in the 1950s, an explosion of liquefied gas occurred, as a result of which a worker died. After this incident, night shift drivers sometimes began to notice the figure of a man in overalls in the tunnel.
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Later, completely mysterious cases began to occur - people fell from aprons and escalators, and those who survived unanimously said that a man in a bloody overalls appeared in front of them out of thin air and pushed them. In the 1960s, these cases stopped as abruptly as they began.
A victim of experiments
The most widespread St. Petersburg urban legend is about the House of Soviets. It is a historical fact that this building was never used for its intended purpose. Nobody knows for sure what was actually there.
They say that back in Stalin's times, genetic experiments were carried out in the basements of the house. After a while, the project allegedly turned out to be closed, the laboratory was filled with concrete, but one of the inhabitants got out and settled underground, next to the Moskovskaya metro station. Some townspeople assure that, going down at night into the underground passage of this station, you can hear a muffled howl.
Black lady
The history of this ghost is unknown to anyone, but the number of people who allegedly saw him is measured in hundreds.
She is called the Black Lady, or Shishiga. Usually appears on the Lieutenant Schmidt Bridge. It looks about the same every time. She can be recognized by her black cape and strange shoes. According to eyewitnesses, she almost always either wails or cries silently as she swims past bystanders.
Lenin's ghost
Some modern scientists in all seriousness believe that a natural anomaly is located in the Liteiny Bridge area, which allegedly caused temporary shifts in space. Rumor has it that for this reason you can sometimes see pictures from past eras.
Most often they see Vladimir Ilyich Lenin in a hurry on business. Which manifests itself from a sunny summer day and on a winter day, on an autumn evening. It is believed that this ghost appears if everyone around is freezing and trying to hide from the rain. Almost always, Lenin, cheerfully reaching the middle of the Liteiny Bridge, dissolves into thin air.
Restless Decembrists
Once in the area of the Peter and Paul Fortress, five Decembrists were executed at once. The participants in the uprising were dealt with in the summer of 1826, sentencing them to be hanged and putting the sentence into effect. Since then, here they began to hear groans and screams at night. A couple of particularly impressionable bystanders swore and swore that they saw five blurry white silhouettes. So it went on for some time, and the watchmen and guards had time to get used to the uninvited five ghosts. Until the Bolsheviks came to power.
At the same time, the Soviet doctrine of atheism and the complete absence of mysticism was outraged by the "delusional" ideas about ghosts. In 1925, a whole commission, consisting of ardent rationalists and cynics, staged a real hunt for spreading vile rumors about the Decembrist ghosts. People from the committee sat for hours in night ambushes, wanting to expose the myth and end rumors. After three sleepless nights, it turned out that there were screams, groans, and silhouettes. But it is in no way possible to explain them with the help of the theory of materialism. As well as it was impossible to seize, interrogate and expose anyone. The story was quickly turned off, pretending that nothing had happened.
Paul who ruled
Perhaps the only phenomenon of the ghost of St. Petersburg, which has an absolutely logical explanation. This is the famous "Gatchina echo" that can be heard in the underground passage from the Gatchina Palace to the Silver Lake. If, walking along it, shout "Who ruled us ?!", then in response you can hear "Paul!". Eyewitnesses say that sometimes the last word is echoed up to 30 times.
According to the guides of the State Museum-Reserve, the echo does not "work" everywhere: it only responds to the one who stands at the second pair of lanterns from the entrance, and this is another engineering secret of the architect Rinaldi.