We all love, or once loved fairy tales. However, sometimes reality turns out to be more fantastic than fiction. In the abandoned gardens of Russia, it turns out, you can stumble upon terrible creatures. Where exactly? - you ask. Well, for example, in the Tula region.
In his "Newest Encyclopedia of Mysterious Places in Moscow and the Moscow Region", published in 2009, the famous writer and ufologist, head of the "Cosmopoisk" association Vadim Chernobrov talks about the Lower Barsky Garden, which is located near the village of Yakovlevo, Zaoksky District, Tula Region.
Actually, next to the village there are two ancient gardens: Upper Barsky and Lower Barsky. In the upper one, apple trees still grow and calves graze, and the lower one has for many years turned into an ominous impenetrable jungle, where almost no one walks. It would seem to be small in size - only a kilometer by two, but it was there that some terrible and huge creature started up.
In 2008, Kosmopoisk received a letter from a resident of the village of Yakovlevo, 23-year-old lawyer Elena. According to her, it all began in 1999, when about a hundred rabbits ran away from one local peasant in the lower garden. Soon they multiplied so much that they could be found even on the streets of the village. Then an unknown person began to catch and eat these rabbits. The next year, scavenger crows moved from a large forest to the Lower Barsky Garden.
Then Elena wrote: “It was in 2001. At that time, my friends and I were doing role-playing games during the summer holidays. Divided into groups of trackers (we called ourselves that). I got into a group of trackers, which included my cousin and my friend. Since the game lasted all three months, it was necessary to find a reliable long-term shelter (we are trackers).
We found a good spot by the river, but the other group somehow tracked us down. And we had to look for something else. We sent our friend Marinka to reconnaissance, and we went with our brother Zhenya to look for a suitable place. Not finding anything in the village, we decided to go to the same Lower Barsky Garden, because, we decided, no one from the "enemies" would go there. And the jungle there is such that it is very easy to hide.
So, we walk along the garden, without going inside, looking for a suitable place. Finally, they decided to enter, but the entrance was blocked by a trench dug during the Second World War. My brother jumped over it, and I decided to climb. When I was already climbing up and was about to put my hand on the ground in order to lean on it and get out, I suddenly saw that right under my hand was a severed part of the dog's front paw. I looked around, and around, like puzzles, lay the rest of the killed dog, dismembered at the joints.
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The most interesting thing is that they were not cut off, but torn off, including the head. At that time I thought: what kind of strength you need to have to rip off such a healthy dog's head! My brother, who does not believe in anything supernatural (even in Santa Claus), did not attach any importance to this, but I was already frightened.
We climbed over the ravine and went further through the garden in search of a suitable place. Two hundred meters later, suddenly began to smell of carrion. Here I was already dying out of fear, but I didn’t show it so as not to disgrace myself in front of my brother. After another fifty meters Zhenya found a decent place. A slightly inclined maple could serve as a seat, and all three of them; the place was well closed, although it was not far from the exit, while two-meter thick nettles well protected us from enemy reconnaissance.
But ahead, where the jungle of the garden began, there were dense bushes, and such, because of which nothing could be seen. As I remember now, I leaned against a maple tree (already all white with horror, because I had a presentiment of something bad), and Zhenya took some kind of stick and, lifting it up, began to reason how to make a "sword" out of it …
Suddenly, about fifty meters from us, behind the bushes, there was such a terrible roar-scream-cry that my hair began to stir! I look at Zhenya, but he doesn't seem to show any kind. Well, I thought that it seemed to me. But literally five seconds later, right behind the bushes, i.e. behind the brother's back there was the same roar-scream-cry, and there was a breath of carrion or some kind of beast …
Zhenya's stick fell out of his hands, we froze for a moment, after which the only thing that brother could croak was the barely audible "run." I don’t remember how we climbed the ravine-trench, how we climbed through the nettles, and in general how we ran away, but we were in the village in ten minutes, although it took about 30 minutes to walk. We told our parents, but they did not believe us. And we decided not to tell the rest of the players.
The story continues
A year later, the story continued. My aunt has a vegetable garden outside the village (but she lives with us in our house), just not far from the lower garden. Once she and my mother went to her aunt's garden early in the morning to dig up young potatoes. Suddenly after fifteen minutes they flew home, all out of breath. We ask what the matter is, and they say that there, in the garden, there are deep footprints, but not just footprints, but very strange ones: the size of an adult man's leg (even a little larger), but not a shoe, but a bare foot. The earth is pressed into a depth of 10 centimeters. And such traces all over the garden …
In the summer of 2003, my brother Sashka and his friend Dimka came to the village, both were then 30 years old. I accidentally told Dima this story, and he persuaded Sasha and me to go there. I led them to the same maple tree and told them: "Here I am, over there where you are, Zhenya was standing, and suddenly …"
At that moment, my story was interrupted by a roar, but not the same as the last time. When the animal does not attack, but growls menacingly. And it was not the roar of a dog or other beast, but some kind of uterine, causing primal fear! I squeezed into my brother and only saw that two healthy 30-year-old men were covered in sweat. We stood in such a daze for ten minutes. The roar did not stop, but no one attacked. Sashka broke the silence:
- Just tell me: does he climb trees?
- How do I know?..
- People, let's get out of here, - whispered Dimka.
- But you can't go back, there are thickets, if we run, we will fall, and then everything …
- Let's go ahead, - suggested the brother. - If you go forward, soon there will be an upper garden, and there is little vegetation ahead …
So they decided. We went ahead, and after a hundred meters the roar stopped, but we found someone's fresh guts! They survived, but they suffered through fear … They say that in the same year sorcerers, shamans, witches from all over the world (almost 2500 people) came to our village. The newspaper published an interview with some, and they said that they chose this particular place, since it is energetically very strong.
In the fall of 2006, the whole village learned about the strange events taking place near the lower garden. One summer resident (a non-drinker!) Went into our forest, which is near the Barsky Garden, for mushrooms and in the most often heard something large (since the noise was very loud) moving towards him with great speed.
And, already running up to the place where the uncle stood, the creature uttered a terrible uterine roar throughout the forest! The man does not remember how he ended up on a pine tree out of fear. But the monster, not reaching him, turned sharply towards the river. The summer resident sat on a pine tree for two hours and only then decided to get off, but as he got down, he rushed headlong into the village …
In the summer of 2006, my story was continued. The monster began to show itself! Finally, after six years, everyone believed me. Every night he roars to the whole village so that the local dogs, cringing, whine and hide. We saw his tracks, and traces of several individuals. The foot is huge! And one woman, who did not believe everything and grazed goats near the Barsky Garden, once could even see the creature. The goats and two dogs came home in front of her and huddled in the corners. She says that the monster is two meters tall, walks on two legs, and everything itself is in shaggy brown wool.
At the entrance to the garden, local children (already adults, 20-25 years old) had a place that they arranged for night gatherings. I did not go there, so I write from their words. They said that they often heard some powerful movement in the garden nearby, which was certainly accompanied by an eerie carrion smell. And at the end of summer, they celebrated some kind of holiday and made a lot of noise there, even let fireworks. Suddenly they heard branches and twigs breaking, and something powerful was moving towards them with great speed and growling … They quickly ran away in fear and no longer go there. Our village now seems to be dying out at night. People are afraid to go out into the street!"
In the spring of 2008, the participants of "Cosmopoisk" went to the terrible garden for exploration. They found neither the monster itself, nor strong evidence of its existence. However, what could be found there? Tracks or scraps of wool on the branches of bushes and trees? But what if the monster only enters the Lower Barsky Garden, but lives mainly in a large forest? And there you won't find him even with a battalion of soldiers, let alone a group of enthusiasts.
Valdis PEYPINSH