Correspondents, upon a call from local residents, rushed 300 km from Irkutsk, to the Buryat taiga - there, due to the villainous antics of local evil spirits, who for some unknown reason woke up from hibernation, a local panic was formed.
- Spirits attacked Svetlana! The locals saw one - shaggy, black. Horror … - the inhabitants of the village of Novonukutsk, affected by the demons, passed the message about the atrocities from mouth to mouth, until word of mouth reached Irkutsk. And then they dialed the number of "Komsomolskaya Pravda": so, they say, and so - they play pranks.
In a couple of hours we were already driving to a small regional center, even by Siberian standards, to deal with spirits and panic.
If you can't see a single zgi, then not a soul is on the road
Five thousandth Novonukutsk is a beautiful and solid village. And in the evening there are enough lanterns on its streets. But those for whom they shine are few in the last month.
- Is it true that you have some kind of spirit, black and shaggy, dragged the girl away? - we stick to rare passers-by.
Those at first shy away. But then curiosity takes over.
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- Yes, it was. Now we are even afraid to go out in the evenings, - admits local resident Elena Khalaeva. - Svetlana walked home from her friends through a small forest. I called my husband to meet me. Lucky - the spirits attacked when she had not yet pressed the hang-up. So my husband heard a cry: "Help!" He rushed to his wife, and he also managed to call a friend. Runs up, and there is something black swarming and sort of strangling the girl. She fights back with difficulty. The monster saw her husband and darted into the forest - they did not catch up.
Of course, this description of the monster will remind someone of an ordinary bum. But the locals have little faith in the fairy tale about asocial elements …
- And where did it happen, show me, eh ?!
But the people hurrying past, hearing these words, only accelerated.
Finally we managed to persuade one of the residents of the village to take us to the very "damned" place where evil spirits attacked the girl.
In about 5 minutes we come up. Place as place. A path in a small forest, on the side there is a broken path leading to houses.
- Here! - Ivan Khuriganov confidently pokes into the snow.
To our disappointment, nothing happened - the spirit did not jump out.
The next morning we went in search of the injured 20-year-old Svetlana Petrova. It was after the emergency with her that a commotion began in the village.
- Now Svetlana is in the hospital - her child is ill, - said Svetlana's sister, tired of this whole story. “But you can talk to her on the phone.
“You know, it’s very hard for me now,” the voice of Sveta, who met the evil spirit face to face, sounded somehow very quiet, almost doomed. - I'm trying to forget everything, and you remind me of this …
- Go away! - Hearing the noise, Svetlana's husband came out onto the porch. - They won't talk to you here - it's forbidden.
Hello! Nobody expected such a sharp turn. What happened then? From the point of view of an ordinary person, nothing special. Well, someone attacked on a dark path at night. So they recaptured! Really, in Novonukutskoye, they really believe in otherworldly forces, monsters and ghosts so much that they are even afraid to talk about it?
The spirits have grown bolder because of the Year of the Dragon. And in the Year of the Snake - they will leave
- Hey guys! - some grandmother took pity on us. - If you want to find out the truth, go straight to the datsan - the learned lamas will explain everything. These are ghosts! The Dragon is to blame for everything …
We looked at the grandmother studying. Wow, not in one eye. And the look is quite meaningful …
- Oh my God! What have they got here, mass madness ?! What other dragons? - our operator moaned.
“The girl met a materialized ghost,” said the chief lama of the Unginsky datsan, Bair Budaev. “It’s very hard, so don’t torment her, there’s nothing to go there. The spirits tortured her anyway. So you can go crazy. It's good that she turned to us - the ceremonies were carried out, everything will be fine. Svetlana is now in rehabilitation.
There was a silence …
- Of course, it is a great rarity when spirits appear in front of a person, - seeing our confusion, the lama undertook to explain "how much" in the literal sense of the word on his fingers. - And it is connected … with the Year of the Dragon. Yes, do not grin, it is! Only one Dragon in astrology is a mythical character, all the rest of the years are animals. This year the spirits will come out.
- Mmm … So it's … already the Year of the Snake!
“It was on February 11, just recently,” the lama explained to us. - And this year the spirits have spoiled a lot of blood for us. In the area there was a case when a girl late at night saw a spirit sitting on a stone, was horrified and rushed to run straight into the river. Fortunately, people saw her and stopped her. To bring it back to normal, we had to work for a long time …
- What, everything is so dark? Will Svetlana forget that she met an evil spirit?
- No. People will not be able to forget about what happened. But the fear will soon pass - here we will help.
We left the datsan on wadded feet. In fact, something is wrong with Novonukutsk. Ghosts, spirits, dragons … One thing is good: they promise that all this whistle and end of the world is about to end.
When we were leaving Novonukutsk, a blizzard began. The village was covered with snow dust, and the absence of people on its streets was no longer striking …