Recently, the category "haunted houses" has appeared in real estate catalogs. Someone avoids such apartments, while someone, on the contrary, seeks to buy or rent an apartment, or even a whole mansion with ghosts living there. What do realtors themselves say about such real estate objects?
The gallows and the cat
For example, where did Bulgakov's cat Begemot come from? Such a legend is connected with the building of the former English club at Tverskaya, 21. The owner's wife once hanged herself from a chandelier in one of the halls. After some time, a ghost of a cat began to appear there, which came out of one wall, walked around the hall and went into another wall. Many have seen him. Once the legend was heard by Mikhail Bulgakov and decided to make the well-known character of "The Master and Margarita" out of the ghostly cat.
By the way, the phantom of a huge cat is still seen, only not in the building, but on the street between the houses. This is one of the few Russian ghosts listed in the official international ghost catalog.
Ghost brothel
Various organizations are located in the house on Myasnitskaya 22. One day in 1996, an employee went out to smoke a cigarette late in the evening and saw a translucent female silhouette moving along the corridor. He walked past an eyewitness and disappeared around the bend. The man had a feeling of grave cold, he clearly felt the smell of damp earth.
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In 2001, another employee was doing floor crawling. She needed to block the entrance to the attic. Behind the bars on the other side of the attic door, she suddenly saw a female figure. The employee asked her: "How did you get here?" The woman was silent. As soon as the employee turned away, the silhouette disappeared. The guards who worked at night also saw this ghost in the elevator shaft. Sometimes one could hear someone's mournful singing from there. Our heroine also heard him. From fear she fell into hysterics and began to shout: “Stop singing! Stop scaring me!"
It turned out that before the revolution there were furnished rooms in the building where this office was located, where prostitutes received clients. And on more than one occasion, there have been cases when clients beat them to death. In the Soviet era, part of the building was given under various administrations, central administrations, trusts. And the other half housed communal apartments. But the ghost never appeared in the residential part of the building. Most likely, it was the restless soul of some prostitute.
Kittens in flower boxes
On Sretensky Boulevard there is a house with a very rich history that once belonged to the Rossiya insurance company. Academicians, writers and various famous people lived there.
Once realtors were selling the room of a lady, who among themselves was nicknamed the Countess. This woman said to herself that she was a cousin of Fyodor Chaliapin himself. She was very old, and she was offered to buy a two-room apartment in exchange for her large triangular room, which was going to be attached to the adjacent office, which just belonged to a real estate agency.
The old woman had 16 cats. The windows in the house "Russia" are huge, more than human height, in the apartments there are marble window sills more than half a meter wide … Once the realtor noticed that the hostess had a bowl on the windowsill, painted with paints and gold - typical Meissen porcelain. The slightly shabby vessel was full of milk and covered with a large mesh net. The man became interested, asked - why should the cats not get there? She answered in the affirmative. “And who can pass through such a grid? - the realtor was surprised. "Even a mouse can barely crawl through such a hole, unless a bee?" “And you, young man, should not know this, the lady may have her secrets,” the Countess answered sternly.
The old woman soon moved out, the room was renovated and at first they wanted to adapt it to the manager's office. And then the secretary was placed there. And after some time, this girl began to find clear prints of cat tracks on the documents with which she worked.
There were no cats in the office. They thought that the animal fits into the window. It was sealed with duct tape. But the cat tracks continued to appear. In addition, spilled milk appeared on the windowsill twice, just in the place where the old woman had a vessel with a net. Although, none of the employees bought or brought milk.
The cleaning lady, who came in the morning, told me that from the side of the secretary's office a plaintive cat meow was heard. And some employees even saw a silhouette of a cat there. The secretary said that in the evening, if you don't turn on the overhead light, you can see some small creatures running in the corners …
It turned out that before the revolution the entire apartment with an area of about 300 square meters belonged to a certain lawyer. At the same time, almost all of it was occupied by a real estate agency. The last tenants were also soon evicted. Their room had a balcony, and on the balcony were old boxes of flowers. The former owners did not take them with them, and the employees of the agency called the workers to throw them into the garbage container. And then one box turned over, and there were bones! All six crates contained cat skeletons. It was evident that they had been lying here for a very long time …
We consulted a familiar sorcerer who examined the apartment and found some shadows in it. The next day, he said that he had a dream about the past of this apartment. It turns out that the lawyer had a cook named Daria. Once, after the owner's cat had lambed, she received an order to drown the kittens. I had to go to Chistye Prudy, but the cook was apparently too lazy. She drowned the kittens in a bucket from which she washed the floor, and buried the corpses in the ground in boxes where flowers grew. Maybe as a fertilizer …
After the staff in the office buried the skeletons, the devilry stopped. The new employees who came to work in the "bad" office were not told this story.