… He had no face, only paws were incomprehensible and in size - about half a meter. The wool is brown, shiny. I wanted to hit, but the creature instantly disappeared …
This incident in a matter of hours became the subject of discussion in conversations of all residents of the village near Kemerovo. The incident took place in a village shop in the Novokuznetsk region. Galina Nikolaevna Krivosheeva went into lunchtime for buns. She turned to look and choose the most delicious ones from the tray, and saw: right in the window was sitting - either an animal or a bird. The woman did not even have time to scream. Immediately - faint. Saleswoman Svetlana Genrikhovna was also "lucky", but it happened a little later.
“I dined one-time noodles in the back room,” the saleswoman explains to “Tomi” in the old Roteleut dialect. - I sang so-so, and then I go out, lo and behold, my mother, and this little bastard grinds halva. I waved, it was gone. Then I fell headless.
These stories were greeted by relatives and friends with complete confidence, since women, and in the village they know everything about everyone, did not suffer from anything "neurological". We decided to watch for the gluttonous creature and catch it. Three of us gathered at night. The hostess, husband and son-in-law. We sat in the back room, put out the light. The flashlights themselves are kept ready. Waited a long time. Finally, at about three o'clock, something rustled in the hall.
- Then I quietly crawled with a lantern and a hammer towards the counters, - recalls Svetlana Genrikhovna's son-in-law, Nikita Hasanov. - The noise was approaching. There was a feeling that someone, sorry, was eating. I abruptly turned on the light and saw … He had no face, only incomprehensible paws and a size of half a meter. The coat is brown, shiny. I wanted to hit, but the creature instantly disappeared. Everything was exactly the same - as it was at the first meeting, with the mother-in-law. You may not believe me, but that's how it was, the truth.
At that time we decided to stop the experiment, we got too strong a shock from what we saw. We took a "liter" from my mother and went home with my father. He got me - every five minutes: tell
and tell. By the morning I was so angry that I was ready to beat him down.
“Don't listen to this alcoholic,” a villager warned me after talking with a witness. - He always fancies everything, in a psychiatric hospital, they say, lay.
In the regional psychiatric hospital, they officially explained to me, as a correspondent, that a man named Nikita Hasanov, born in 1972, was not registered with them. They asked why we were interested, and when they found out, the girl's voice on the other end of the line cheered up.
- Come, - she exclaimed, - we will find better witnesses Hasanov. They're not like seeing ghosts. There are those who were on the moon and with the Loch Ness monster on a short leg.
We laughed with the receptionist, and I forgot for a while all these fairy tales … Until then, until another witness called the editorial office.
There is an actor in Kemerovo, beloved by the local theater audience, Artem Lugachev. And it had to happen, but he also saw the same creature as that which Hasanov was trying to catch.
Bull-plasterer and a cloud in the hallway
- It happened in one of the office buildings in the city. There our private theater rented a room, - recalls Artem Anatolyevich. - After the performance, everyone left, and I stayed to record the musical score on the computer. I remembered that I needed to get some props from behind the curtains, opened the backdrop, and something big and shaggy appeared right in front of me. Then it jumped to the side with enviable ease, hung in the air for a moment and disappeared into the ventilation pipe. There was no fear, rather a slight stupor.
A few days later, Artyom completely calmed down, and a ghost appeared to him again. This time it sat on the windowsill.
- Imagine, I open the curtains - and there again this shaggy woman is sitting. No head, no legs, no hands. And again - it showed itself for just one moment. Then it disappeared. The first time everything could be attributed to fatigue, but the second rendezvous … There are, probably, otherworldly worlds.
- That happens. Especially with those who sit at the computer for a long time, says the Novosibirsk psychiatrist, a friend of our editorial office, Mikhail Malyarenko. - Patients come to us with similar complaints. Almost every home has a computer. And often at work you have to sit at the monitor. There was a guy the other day. He swore that he saw from the window of his room a real buffalo, which plastered the walls. You are laughing, but the young man was not in the mood for fun. Three days we lay, at night dreamed of nightmares.
Are plaster bulls for all avid computer scientists? With this question I turned to a familiar programmer.
- I myself really sit at the computer for a long time, - said Artur Piskarev. “I don’t suffer from headaches, I sleep like a dead man, and my nerves are iron. But I also had a case: I saw something that looked like a ghost. My father and I went to the dacha in early February. Overnight. He went to bed early on the second floor, and I stayed on the first floor to watch TV. At about eleven in the evening something rattled in the hallway, I opened the door, turned on the light and saw a fleeing white cloud, shaped like a human silhouette. I was completely sane. Early in the morning I told my father about the incident. He laughed and advised to see a doctor. I'm not offended, it's okay. A person will never believe until he sees it.
Place of residence - Zhuravlevo
There are also in the glorious Siberian city of Kemerovo, or rather, in its suburbs, a couple of cherished places, where ghosts, according to eyewitnesses, are not like wandering. They live there.
For example, a local old-timer, Oleg Nikolaev, over the course of one year, several times in the evenings met an incomprehensible cloud-like object on Leningradsky Prospekt. This ghost, according to the man, always appeared from the basement of his entrance and carefully accompanied him to the apartment itself.
And in the village of Zhuravlevo, which is 14 kilometers from the regional center, summer residents were often frightened by a strange stomp behind them. They looked around and were shocked by what they saw. A terrible creature ran straight at them, then - to the side, stomping with hooves. It was larger than the healthiest dog, though smaller than a cow, and the muzzle, according to eyewitnesses, was devoid of eyes. They also did not notice the mouth and nose.
These are the ambiguous facts I managed to collect after investigating a memorable incident in the store's back room. Perhaps Siberian ghosts exist, but, judging by the accounts of eyewitnesses, one should not be afraid of them. Some of them look scary, some suffer from gluttony, but no cases of attacks on people have been recorded.
Anatoly BOLDYREV, Kemerovo
"Sinegorye" No. 49 2008