It was in the summer of 1990 (perhaps my memory is letting me down, and it happened a year later in 1991) at the Ryazan Airborne School. The management was waiting for the arrival of eminent guests and, as always in such cases, was going to amaze them with an unprecedented spectacle for an ordinary non-landing person.
No one specially trained, the local fighters are all, as one, ready at any moment even for battle, even for a parade. Only one of them, a warrant officer in rank, was advised by the command and colleagues from the TsSPK to stay away on the day of the demonstration jumps. Not because the ensign was worse than others, on the contrary, he was, as they said then, "an excellent student in military and political." But the day before, his parachute did not open, and the ensign only at the last moment managed to escape on a spare.
Actually, such an adventure is considered an emergency and requires a long investigation into the reasons for the refusal. Not everyone after that can immediately calm down the trembling in the knees, but the ensign was not a coward and immediately confidently headed for the second jump (with a different parachute, of course). He jumped, and … the new parachute did not open either, again there was barely enough height for the reserve one! The paratroopers, like the pilots, are superstitious people - everyone unanimously began to advise the ensign to take a break so as not to tempt fate - after all, there may not be a third time …
And the next day, there should have been demonstration performances in front of the guests. The sky was full of parachutes. Finally, An-2 took off, in which was a warrant officer who did not heed the advice of friends and commanders. A dozen parachutists jumped out of the plane, the last one, already at low altitude, jumped out a warrant officer and … caught on the plane! In fact, as planned, he was tied with a halyard to the An-2 and flew after him “on a trailer”. The guests were numb with horror, they thought that a misfortune had happened to the man! But An-2 went down and flew at low level in front of the stand. The audience saw that the "victim" smiled and even saluted the guests with his hand according to the charter.
Everyone who was not familiar with such a landing "proprietary" trick breathed a sigh of relief, they were explained that the plane would now gain altitude again and the warrior, freed from the rope, would descend to the ground in the usual way … The guests did not see what happened next., and many of them never knew about it … The plane flew at a low altitude past all the spectators and had already begun to gain altitude, and it was then that an air hole, so unloved by the pilots, got in the way.
The pilots were experienced and did not let the "Annushka" sink too low, so that the flying live "trailer" touched the ground. But, as a sin, there was a pillar nearby, the only one on the edge of the field. The pilots felt the blow, the releasing commander looked out the open door and saw that the ensign was covered in blood. The co-pilot came out of the cockpit, the two of them tried to pull the victim back, but it turned out to be beyond their strength.
We contacted the dispatcher and agreed on the place to drop the body, which showed no signs of life. The halyard was cut off when the An-2 literally slid over the river at minimum speed, the ensign was not allowed to drown - there were already rescuers nearby. But it was all in vain, as it turned out, the paratrooper died immediately: that pillar blew him half of his head … They say that none of the colleagues was particularly surprised. This death was not unexpected for everyone. We can say that it was the "third call" …
In all such stories there is what can be called the term "premonition of death" …
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"Everyone feels, except for the doomed." A certain paratrooper, with the call sign "Gyurza", described in the newspaper "Day of the Warrior" {1998, N 4, p. 4} the case when he and his subordinates almost by force kept a police major in the school building: it was impossible to leave the premises in any way the case - all around were shot by enemy snipers, but the major, contrary to persuasion and common sense, stubbornly rushed out. Finally, the paratroopers ran out of patience: if he wants to go to certain death - let him go! But the major did not even have time to approach the exit from the building: the only stray bullet that came from somewhere from afar hit him in the head …
"The doomed one feels something incomprehensible, he cannot explain anything." It comes to everyone, just the majority realizes it too late (or realizes it after that, provided, of course, that there is the notorious life after death). And it comes in different ways. To some - completely calm and without emotion, like a weather report on the radio …
"Imprint of approaching death on the face." Doctor Avtandil Nikolaevich ANUASHVILI has been researching the connection between facial symmetry and the emotional-physical state of a person since the 1990s. In the course of his work, he found out that when death approaches, a person's face acquires strict symmetrical features. And thus, the study of the face can serve as a warning of an impending threat of death. However, later, in 2001, Anuashvili said that he had created a video computer system (VKS) for psychocorrection, which allows a person, observing the halves of his face separately, to “harmonize his personality” {“Family” 2001, N 40, p.11} … If this is so, then in addition to psychocorrection, can he delay the approach of death? But speaking about the videoconferencing, Anuashvili for some reason did not remember the problems of death …
"The Voice of God". In the monastery of St. Francis in the south of Spain, there was a difficult case. The abbot instructed the monk Miguel to go to the city and buy a supply of fresh drinking water. To the abbot's amazement, 39-year-old Miguel showed obstinacy, declaring that he would not go anywhere. This had never happened to him. But the monk explained: he had a voice from Above, that he would perish if he left the walls of the monastery that day. They persuaded Miguel with all the brothers and, finally, persuaded him to go to the city for water. He got on an old truck and drove off.
On the fourth kilometer of the way, a heavy-duty refrigerator crashed into it, the driver of which fell asleep at the wheel. Both died on the spot. And in the monastery Miguel left a letter before the trip, in which he asked the brethren "to pray for him, since the Lord calls his soul to himself." The abbot categorically refuses to give interviews to the press. And the journalists, in turn, wondered why the driver of the refrigerator turned off the main highway, thus not cutting off the path to the destination, but on the contrary, increasing it.
"Witchcraft, shamanic, psychic visions." 18-year-old Mongolian SERGELEN, the last of the Khuvsgul aimag shamans, developed her predictive talent thanks to the help of her former astrologer President Datseren-guai, after which she “simply” learned that she would die in 28 years {ITAR-TASS report of 1997-14-11}. Therefore, at the end of 1997, the girl announced in the editorial office of the Huh Tolbo newspaper that she wanted to leave for the United States, where she could “live the remaining years like a human being,” and not in Mongolia, where everyone “hated her and threatened with physical violence” …
"Literary prediction". In April 1841 M. Yu. Lermontov was at an evening with the Karamzins. The poet confidently declared to his friend Vladimir Sollogub that he would be killed in the Caucasus, where he was supposed to go. Three months later, Lermontov fell in a duel with Martynov. It happened on July 15 (old style) 1841. A month and a half before the fight, the poet writes a poem in which he conveys his prophetic dream of death.
"Stopping the clock as an omen of death." On November 6, 1796, Empress Catherine the Great met the warning of imminent death with amazing calmness. In the morning she saw that the clock in her room was standing and said to the camera-jungfer Marya Perekusikhina, who entered her room: “Today I will die. You see, they stopped for the first time "… The Empress was calm, drank coffee and went to her office … In the evening the Empress died …
The book by Vladimir Tsybin "News from the Other World" {M., 1995} describes the case of Ivan ZARECHNY, who saw his double, the way he himself should have been in old age: “And it seemed to me that I myself was an old man. And he himself, as he is in reality, is a different person, a double. We changed places exactly.
- Who are you? - I ask, but I don't know myself: am I an old man or, having become an old man, I ask myself a young one. From there and from here I see myself in the same time. Then I was separated from the old man. And he says:
- Don't be surprised. I am yourself, only the old one you will become. Do not be afraid, live, and I will wait for you …
… Many years later, on a fishing trip, where the aged Ivan came with his wife, at the same time with him from the other side another old man threw a fishing rod in the same place, and they caught … The old men goggled at each other. Only on the other side is an old man without a wife, and on this one with a wife. My wife cooks her ear, she also sees something wrong: two Ivans are sitting, and she thinks to herself: "Maybe I was darkened?" Then Ivan, closest to her, and call "Shura!" … She jumped up, and that distant old man jumped into the river, then he was sucked in by the water. The wife worries: "What's wrong with you Ivan?" and hears in response: “It was my death that came for me. I didn't look at her! " Ivan said so, and he himself fell quietly on his side, pulled his legs under him, as if he wanted to become small, what he was born into, he was drawn into himself all - and died …
Death warning - sentence or salvation?
What would have happened if that warrant officer-paratrooper had listened to his inner voice and the advice of his friends and missed the demonstration performances of his native Ryazan school? Perhaps that day he would have died anyway, for example, he would have drowned while fishing or choked on a roll. Fate? Or maybe nothing would have happened - he would have returned from fishing and would have continued to serve faithfully to his native Fatherland. It also happens, but these cases are somehow not remembered, they are not bright, or something …
However, some kind of experiments have also been performed here: since the 1960s, a physicist, military astrologer, captain of the 1st rank, head of the special laboratory for cosmoprognosis at the Research Institute of Communications of the Navy, Alexander S. BUZINOV, conducted his research in Leningrad, using astrological methods of various critical and catastrophic situations, including air crashes and armed conflicts. And when checking the astrological charts of pilots at one of the military airfields, forecasters drew attention to the clear symbols of death for an experienced pilot number 1-17 (the astrologers did not know the names of the pilots initially). The command of the unit was informed of the conclusions and recommendations to temporarily suspend him from flights for at least 10 days, which was done. Pilot "1-17" got time offgot into his Zhigulenok and crashed into a standing bus on the highway {"Svet" 1998, N 11/12, p.48} …
The appearance of death in person
It is believed that at the moment of death, Death comes for the dying. Traditionally, it is represented as a skeleton with a scythe. In fact, if you believe the stories of relatives of deceased people, it may look different. Sometimes relatives who find themselves next to the dying person recognize the ghost of the one who “came for the dying person”, sometimes not, but the dying person himself, it seems, will always find out.
In 2000, the Russian press published the story of the "hunt for death" that took place on the Japanese islands. In short, the scary story is this: the early orphaned Japanese biologist Kaneto MIYAGI was raised by his grandmother, whom he loved more than anyone else in the world, so when 82-year-old Katsuko-san fell and received a head injury, Miyagi did not leave her bed for several days. Literally a moment before leaving the other world, the peacefully lying old woman suddenly sat down on the bed and, looking with horror into space, waved her hands, as if driving away someone. Then a desperate cry escaped her: “Why did you come? Go away from me!"…
Until now, the story of Miyagi looks quite ordinary, then the journalists described very strange things. For several years, the biologist did not stop thinking about the mysterious vision of the dying woman. To find out the "identity" of the mysterious "messengers of death", after consulting with experts in the field of extrasensory perception, Kaneto ordered a unique device with a computer, sensors and a laser camera for electronics engineers. Soon a suitable object for research was found - in a house next to Miyagi, a lonely sick old man Nabuki Shindo was dying.
With his written consent, Miyagi connected the sensors to various points on the skull that correspond to major regions of the brain, including the visual and auditory. And he sat down in front of the computer screen. A second before Shindou let out his last breath, something like a human figure separated from the dark clot and began to move to the old man's bed. Finally, the enigmatic figure transformed into a beautiful young woman. The dying man revived for a moment and smiled, and the woman went up to the bed and took his hand, as if inviting him to follow her. Shindou passed away … Kaneto Miyagi went to the Center for the Study of Anomalous Phenomena, where Professor Rinoko listened carefully to his story.
And then, quite unexpectedly for Miyagi, he advised to stop further research on the unexplained phenomenon: “It's too dangerous. I have been studying otherworldly forces for a long time and I know that they do not tolerate attempts to penetrate the secrets of the afterlife! " However, Professor Rinoko's warning did not work … After a long search, the biologist managed to negotiate with the head physician of a hospital for the poor on the island of Hokkaido. He promised to secretly notify him with a conditional phone call if one of the patients is dying. At the end of the three-month wait, the call still rang, and Miyagi hurried to Hokkaido, where two "clients" were waiting for him at once. The first was an old woman of about seventy, at the last moment before her death a laughing girl flashed by.
But at the time of the death of a 65-year-old cancer patient, an elderly man came after him. A man who emerged from nothingness drew attention to the researcher. He looked at the biologist so angrily that he almost fainted from the wave of all-consuming horror that washed over him … And the next day, not far from the Tokyo zoo, a huge truck flew into the biologist's car.
In any case, in the retelling of Japanese journalists, the dark story of Miyagi, the "hunter for the messengers of death", ends with tragedy. Whether the biologist with the help of his miracle technology saw other people's "messengers" (and whether he saw "his own" without any technology) is reliably unknown and one cannot vouch for its veracity. One thing is true - stories with "messengers" are far from rare, reports about them come from all over the world, I have personally heard such stories …
In May 1986, my future wife's grandmother died quietly after her long-dead children “came” to her at night, and Baba Pasha stopped breathing as soon as she stroked all the children's heads visible only to her …
In 1996, in the 81st Moscow clinical hospital, the nurse did not see in the middle of the night, but heard and felt the presence of an invisible person who came to the patient, after which the patient woke up for the last time and said that he would die at 14 o'clock. According to Oksana, a sister of the traumatology department (who told this story), the nurse was horrified, but the doctors, accustomed to the sight of death and warned by her, were ready to give the patient any help. But at the indicated hour, the help was useless …
On an autumn night in 1997, another friend of mine, Nastya LYUKMANOVA, herself saw how Nastya's long-dead older brother came to her mother at the time of death … A little later, in February 1999, she again saw a ghostly visitor to her sick father - and after 2 his day is gone …
Who and why warns of death
And it follows from this, perhaps, the most important and most difficult question in all these stories - why, in fact, people are warned about an imminent change in their fate?
1) Maybe it's just the PROPERTY OF DEATH ITSELF? No, it doesn't look like it. Otherwise, everyone would know about the approach of death, but this is far from the case. Or maybe there are some strong personalities or people who have good psychoenergetic protection (guardian angels), who “you just can't get overwhelmed at one go,” except from the third or fourth attempt … Maybe they warn the chosen ones? Chosen by whom or what?
2) So this is an ACT OF NOBILITY before individual heroes? So to speak, he earned respect - then Death will serve you according to a separate program, and all the rest will be filled up in a crowd! Too noble! And then, who cares?..
3) Maybe this is necessary for the long-dead ancestors, founders and progenitors of the clan, the legendary saint protectors of the clan, or something, someone else from the same area. So, the next version is ANCIENT KIND HELP. Of course, such a mystical explanation looks hardly logical, but if we recall the numerous legends about "family ghosts" warning next relatives of imminent death, then there is no other, more materialistic explanation. Let us recall, for example, the famous "white lady", the family ghost, who for centuries had been warning by her appearance the death of someone from the royal family of the Prussian kings of the Hohenzoller family; by the way, the same "lady" appeared in the palace of Kaiser Wilhelm-11 in July 1914, shortly before the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and the outbreak of World War I.although modern researchers treat the study of information about the posthumous informational existence of relatively recent deceased almost without prejudice, we are not yet ready to speak seriously about the informational life of ancient spirits …
4) Then, maybe, our deceased relatives need it, who (see the stories of those who survived clinical death and coma, for example, in the classic book by Moody) meet the souls of those who have just died, protect them from, so to speak, nervous shock. Why shouldn't souls from “the other world” begin to calm down their relative while he is still alive? Indeed, in many cases, a death warning is an ACT OF REDUCTION on the part of previously deceased relatives. The examples already given above, I am sure, are very, very numerous (ask the old people!). There are also common features in them, namely: "messengers", relatives "from the other world" usually appear at night and come to already hopelessly sick people, that is, they reassure those who are difficult or impossible to save. Why do they come and do they come to healthy ones? Loving relatives, even if they are dead,it is difficult to suspect the desire for early death of living relatives. Even for the sake of "an early meeting in heaven" …
5) Maybe their goal is a WARNING to those in mortal danger? This can be achieved, for example, by direct advice. A certain relative (angel, spirit, vision) comes in a dream and explains that "tomorrow you need to stay at home" … There are punctures in such cases, Captain A. V. Guselnikov told me about one of them: in the fall of 1996, a combat major in Abkhazia - paratrooper Viktor SHCHITNIKOV, in whom until that moment no one had seen any doubts or fears - only clear and calm service, "suddenly" did not really want to go to check the guards, and his bad feeling came true - after checking the second post at the railway crossing "UAZ" was ambushed, and the body of the major with traces of torture was found several days later thrown into a local dump. What Shchitnikov dreamed of remained a secret, but colleagues recalledwhat it cost them then to start talking about this topic - and in the barracks above them "suddenly and by themselves" light bulbs burst …
6) And how to help a person who must be warned and saved, but who does not believe in God or in the devil, who does not sleep well and does not like to solve dreams? For this, only the last option is suitable - POWER SALVATION, it will help in cases when it is already impossible to explain something with words or analogies. Sometimes it is much easier to remotely influence a “soulless” technique than a head “closed” for extraneous signals … An example? My longtime acquaintance, just before the flight on the plane, at first was slightly poisoned by lunch, then on the street I almost got hit by a car, got into the car, barely avoided a couple of accidents, and only after that he spat and returned the ticket. As you may have guessed, that plane never made it to its destination …
Who, again, can do this painful and thankless task (after all, the saved person does not even recognize the names of the benefactors)? The list of applicants is generally small: let's say, it is God himself and his angels, deceased relatives and friends, great-grandchildren and powerful rescuers from Future Time. To all the other powerful forces (even if they exist), to be honest, if your life is needed, it is not enough to sweat so much on an invisible front … It would seem that for your powerful great-grandchildren there is an even more crude option of salvation - to take and grab, detain, tie a person for a while … but no, apparently, due to a number of laws, this cannot be done (direct interference in the course of History is punishable, and we will talk about this separately) …
Whether these versions are true or not, but in any case, honestly, few of us would like to miss our "third call" …