According to police statistics, a significant part of road accidents in our country happens through the fault of the drivers - lost control, fell asleep at the wheel, drove a car while intoxicated. And only a small proportion of road accidents are associated with technical malfunctions of the vehicle.
However, the reason for some accidents remains a mystery both for their participants and for the traffic police specialists.
Ghosts on the M-53 highway
In 1976-1979, the section of the federal highway M-53 between the villages of Nizhny Ingash and Ilansky, which is 20 km east of the city of Kansk, was serviced by an employee of the traffic police of the Krasnoyarsk Territory Yegor Troekurov. The young lieutenant was then surprised by the large number of ridiculous accidents that occurred in his area.
Once the senior shift, Captain Krotov, told his subordinate that ten years ago, in this place, the road made a small detour, skirting the old abandoned cemetery. According to road specialists, this posed a great danger to motorists.
The cemetery was leveled to the ground, a gravel embankment was made on top of it, which was rolled with high-quality asphalt. And soon, on an even, like an arrow, the track, one after another, accidents began to occur - sometimes absurd and inexplicable.
The captain believed that the perpetrators of frequent road accidents were the dead, offended by the fact that their shelter was destroyed.
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For a long time, Yegor Troekurov considered the version of his mentor to be one of the many police tales with which old campaigners love to surprise young people. But once, being already a major, he almost became a participant in a mysterious accident.
In the fall of 1983, when Troekurov served in the traffic police department of the city of Kansk, he had a chance to drive through a familiar section of the highway in a late rainy evening in an official car. When the car passed Nizhniy Ingash, Yegor Ivanovich began to tell his partner a story about a cemetery that was under the road.
Suddenly, the headlights caught a faded figure, as if emerging from the air a few meters from the hood of the car. Troekurov abruptly pressed the brake pedal, and the car spun on the slippery road. Only driving skills saved him and the employee sitting next to him from death.
When the car finally stopped, the men ran out onto the road. However, there was no one on it or near the highway: the ghost that appeared on the highway disappeared without a trace.
Satanic impasse
Almost on the border of the Kurgan and Chelyabinsk regions, near the village of Sart-Abdrashevo, there is a place that is popularly called the "satanic dead end". On a 7 km section of the road, two or three accidents often occur a day.
The local crane operator is already so accustomed that, having heard a knock on the window late at night, he silently gathers, knowing why his technique is required - to pull the car that has flown into the ditch. Residents of the surrounding villages, who know about this dangerous place, have long been driving around it along country roads.
The participants in the accidents are mainly nonresident travelers. Those of them who managed to survive after the accident cannot really explain what actually caused the accident. Some people think that at that moment they were under hypnosis.
For example, the driver of a truck that overturned there in August 2004, until the very moment of the accident, was sure that he was moving straight along his lane at the speed allowed on this section of the road. Although eyewitnesses claimed that in fact his car suddenly began to swiftly take to the left, until it flew off the highway.
Other injured drivers claimed that they saw an obstacle suddenly appearing on the road: livestock, a heap of dumped rubble, or even a car moving on them, after which they began feverish maneuvers that led to an accident.
One of the legends of Sart-Abdrashev says that in ancient times there was a pagan sanctuary in the place of a dangerous section of the road. In the pre-war years, the inhabitants of the surrounding villages believed that devils were found in this wetland. And only after the construction of the road in 1944, the legends about evil spirits became a thing of the past, giving way to the sad statistics of road accidents.
"Black Echelon" on the highway in Buryatia
Usually drivers, when they see him along the road, brake sharply and rub their eyes in fright. And the mirage disappears. This mysterious phenomenon was repeatedly told by drivers who had a chance to drive along the southern highway of Buryatia in the direction of Ulan-Ude - Gusinoozersk and further - to Kyakhta and Zakamensk.
It is difficult to say what is true in the stories of local residents, and what is a lie intertwined with some mystical visions. However, the legend exists.
They say that usually at sunset, when the outgoing rays of the sun only lightly illuminate the road, a strange vision appears before the eyes of frightened drivers. A column of people dressed in rags, tired and barely moving their legs, wanders along the road. And around a dozen armed people, just as tired and wandering with the column to nowhere.
Usually, at the sight of this picture, drivers brake sharply and rub their eyes in fright. The mirage disappears. One could, of course, blame everything on road fatigue. You never know what a chauffeur exhausted by a long road can see? But the question arises: why do different people and at different times observe the same thing? And this has been going on for several years.
Some drivers even talk about the details of the picture they saw. The military, they say, are holding rifles with fastened bayonets. And the rags of people wandering under the escort resemble the clothes of priests - Orthodox and Buddhist. However, it is impossible to discern especially the colors of the clothes. The column goes in semi-darkness, and therefore all human silhouettes usually appear dark. That is why the vision on the track was called the "black echelon".
The mystery of the mirage has not been solved. You have to rely only on the story told by one of the drivers, who not only saw the "train", but also tried to get to the bottom of the mysterious phenomenon. And that's what turned out.
The latter is very plausible, since the convoy, having passed Ulan-Ude and Gusinoozersk, did not reach either Kyakhta or Zakamensk. There is no historical evidence that large groups of arrested priests arrived in these settlements. Perhaps the "train" was simply shot somewhere in the steppe. Strange, but together with the prisoners, they say, the convoy also disappeared. What happened to the servicemen, one story is known …
Since those tragic times, a mysterious phenomenon has appeared on the road - a "black train" wandering into the distance. Ghosts from the past, so to speak. And one more note to this mystical story, which is often remembered: the priests, who realized that they were being led to execution, cursed the road.
Although such actions, of course, are unusual for clergymen, there is some confirmation of the existing curse. This southern route is considered one of the most dangerous in Buryatia. It is on it that accidents very often occur and people die. And this is already a reliable fact.