When the crying of a child came from the basement of the Vladimir Nazarov Theater in Moscow, at first the guards decided that a little spectator had been lost in the catacombs.
But, having examined the premises around the perimeter, they did not find anyone, and the strange sounds continued …
The building, which now houses the theater, was built as a cultural and leisure center for the Olympia de 80. The facility is unique and multi-level: suffice it to say that there is even a bomb shelter in the basements.
“When I was informed that a girl was crying in the basements, I thought that these were rumors - the actors were creative people, they could have come up with ideas,” says the artistic director of the theater, People's Artist of Russia Vladimir Nazarov. “But when they gave me a listen to the recording from the surveillance cameras (and nothing was displayed on the video, only the sound was recorded), and then I myself stayed for the night and heard crying, I felt uneasy.”
According to the head of the theater, crying appears after midnight and you can hear it until 2-3 o'clock in the morning when you are behind the stage and in the dressing rooms. However, if someone descends into the basement, the sounds disappear. Skeptical theater staff suspected cats and bats that are found in the basement, thought of the sounds of drafts and the murmur of pipes, but none of the versions was confirmed.
Last summer, even a priest was invited to consecrate the theater, but that did not help either. No one can explain where crying comes from, and in the 7 years that they hear it, the theater has already been visited by ufologists, ghost hunters, and participants in the Battle of Psychics.
The clairvoyants suggested that once, centuries ago, on the site of the theater there was a village in which the child died, and his soul did not rest.
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“When part of our building was given to the Philharmonic and there was a major renovation, the crying disappeared for a while, but now it is heard again. And if earlier we were afraid of ghosts, now we have got used to it, we are even waiting for it to remind of itself again, Nazarov admits.