Abnormal places are the holy of holies of all the unknown and mysterious. Hundreds of people visit them at their own peril and risk, in order to see firsthand what refutes science and contradicts common sense. Most visitors are drawn here by the desire to touch the unknown, to change their lives for the better. But there are those who seriously study mysterious phenomena: scientists, magicians and psychics.
Unfortunately, not all monuments of antiquity have survived, from many there are only traces and reminders. But even the ruins and debris are saturated with such a powerful force that they attract people from all over the world. Such places are called places of power. It is dangerous for an ordinary person to appear in areas with negative energy. Energy here is indomitable and destructive, it will destroy anyone who had the imprudence to come into contact with it.
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Map of anomalous zones of Russia
The map of Russia is full of places that wear speaking names: damned, damned, secret, forgotten, disastrous. Rumor and legends reliably keep these names, because this is how our ancestors designated danger. On the Devil's Glade, you can disappear without a trace, and the Bad Swamp will drag a gaping traveler to the bottom.
There are many anomalous zones in Russia
It has not yet been studied for what reasons arise abnormal zones... It is only known that there is nothing permanent in them. Even time and space change their usual course, and some zones can move travelers to another reality and show alien worlds.
The mysterious city of Arkaim
Arkaim is a place of power that is safe for humans. Therefore, experts recommend starting the study of anomalous zones in Russia from the ancient city of the Slavs and Aryans. It is believed that Arkaim is the birthplace of Zarathustra and the cradle of civilization, keeping the secrets of the ancestors. They are reliably hidden from prying eyes, and not everyone can figure them out. This is a city of the times of the Rig Veda (the oldest of the Vedas) and the Avesta, the sacred texts of the Zoroastrians.
Arkaim in the XX century BC NS.
Mages claim that tourists come here when they feel the call. Intuition calls them. They want to touch the energy of the ruins, cleansing from negativity. Arkaim is called the City of the Sun because of the strongest energy flows passing here. Deep under Arkaim there is a break in the earth's crust. The power of the ancient city is able to awaken the dormant memory of ancestors. Those who often visit here say that after trips to Arkaim:
- health is strengthened;
- vitality improves;
- positive changes begin to take place in life.
Multiple trips to Arkaim give spiritual balance and tranquility, awaken a craving for creativity and self-expression.
The remains of the legendary city are located in the Chelyabinsk region and access to them is open to visitors. Now Arkaim is an archaeological site, an open-air monument of antiquity. People come here in groups from all over the country or singly. A hotel is open for tourists, but you can spend the night in a tent near the place of power.
In ancient times, Arkaim was a large, well-defended city. It was built in the shape of a circle. From a bird's eye view, the remains of the fortifications look like runways for aircraft. Legends confirm theories that the devices and mechanisms of a lost civilization could be located here. There are theories that the city was a temple or even an observatory. The inhabitants of Arkaim were familiar with pottery and metallurgical production. Science confirms that the city was destroyed by fire, but who set Arkaim on fire is unknown. Whether these were enemies or the inhabitants themselves were guilty of the fire - it still remains a mystery. Like many other things hidden in the ruins of this mysterious city.
The Mystery of the Lakes of Death (The Horror of the Ancient Temple)
The depths of water, hidden from view, have always terrified our ancestors. It is not known what ancient animals lurked in the murky waters of lakes and reservoirs, what forces alien to man were hidden by the thick of dark water.
But not always the lakes, which received such names long ago as Dead, Empty or even Devil's, have been so from time immemorial. Many have become anomalous due to human destructive activities.
Drowned lake
Not far from Pereslavl-Zalessky there is a lake in which tourists often drown. People ignore the warning shields installed on the shore and enter the water. No one can answer the question, where do the bodies of the drowned go?
Bodies disappeared without a trace into the lake
Local residents do not swim in the lake, but they often catch fish in it. Despite the fact that the local sanitary and epidemiological station checked the water many times and found nothing dangerous in it, sometimes fishermen come across fish that are difficult to classify as already known species. Either these are species unknown to science, or mutants, of which there are also a great many: one-eyed, with paws or hair instead of scales.
Old-timers once saw how one of the newcomers swam to the middle of the lake and, screaming, went under the water, as if he had been dragged to the bottom. Bubbles of air rose to the surface, and together with them an oil slick rose, which immediately began to spread over the water surface of the entire lake. At night, at the place where the person died, a bright wide circle about 5 meters in diameter appeared.
Two old men swam in a boat to the circle, and immediately the boat began to exude a greenish flicker. Following this, a fountain hit the sky from the circle on the water, covering the brave souls who decided to get out of there as soon as possible.
In local hospitals, there are records of several cases of lesions of a strange skin disease. All sick people had one thing in common: swimming in the lake. Their hair fell out all over their bodies, and their skin became covered with colorless horny plates, similar to scales. On the head, the plates grew together into horn-like processes, which then began to crack and peel off, and subsequently fell off altogether.
Scientists were seriously interested in the lake and analyzed the water, and also invited a diving service to study the bottom. During the inspection, cracks were found in the soil of artificial origin, which with force pulled in large masses of water. Where the water got through the cracks, it was not possible to determine. But here's what's interesting: the water level in the lake always remains unchanged, even though the water is rapidly leaving the lake through cracks at the bottom.
Flooded temple
Around Leningrad region, near Sosnovy Bor, there are terrible legends about the origin of Lake Kalishchenskoye. Locals also call it Kaplischenskoye and diligently avoid the terrible place.
Rumor has preserved legends, which say that earlier on the site of the lake there was an old Russian temple, a place where the ancient Slavs brought cruel sacrifices to the gods. Around the lake there is a dense forest full of birds and animals. But everyone who visited the lake paid attention to the eerie silence that envelops the forest around Lake Kalischenskoye. There are no fish in the lake.
Few of the visitors stayed overnight on the shore of the lake. After a few hours spent here, people began to get nervous, they were overcome by an inexplicable fear, and they left in a hurry. It is difficult to say what was to blame: the oppressive silence of the quieted forest, the realization that huge lake before his eyes he was deprived of life, or something inexplicable suggested from the depths of the reservoir that it was dangerous for the psyche to stay here. But the fact remains: the lake is notorious.
Sometimes in the forest around the lake locals find painstakingly dug holes that are a perfect square, meter by meter wide. The mysteriousness of the lake is added by the inexplicable night glow above the water, which can be seen from afar on clear and calm nights.
Fiery Rock of Theater Square
The capital of Russia, Moscow, did not avoid the appearance of an anomalous zone practically in the very heart of the city, not far from the Kremlin. The construction of the Bolshoi Theater began in the 18th century. With the permission of Empress Catherine II, the first theater building was built on Petrovka, which burned down even before the opening. Soon after this event, Prince Urusov, to whom she entrusted the construction, lost interest in him and transferred the rights to the construction to his companion, Michael Medox.
Under the leadership of an Englishman, the first theater building appeared in Moscow. It was low, three stories high, made of bricks and with a wooden roof. A quarter of a century later, the building burned down.
A new theater building was erected on Arbat (future Teatralnaya) square. But he was overtaken by an evil fate. The building burned down during a grand fire in 1812.
After 9 years, the building began to rebuild, and in the middle of the 19th century it burned down again. It was established that the fire that destroyed the theater began in a carpentry workshop. Many people died in the fire. Only stone walls and a colonnade at the entrance remained of the building. After 3 years, the theater was rebuilt.
If we take a closer look at all the cases of fires that befell the Bolshoi Theater, we can draw attention to one significant detail: all fires always started in the basement of the building.
After the next fire of the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, rumors spread about a curse gravitating over Teatralnaya Square. And there was a reason for these rumors: the legend of Nikita Dvinyatin and his tragically dead family.
Man in black
It happened in the 17th century, when the city was engulfed in a plague epidemic. Many families locked themselves in their homes and did not let anyone on the doorstep, fearing a painful death in the air. The Dvinyatin family did the same, but despite this, all family members fell seriously ill and were dying when a mysterious guest knocked on the door, introducing himself as a doctor.
He promised a speedy recovery to the doomed people, said that he had brought with him a wonderful medicine that would save them. Despair took possession of Nikita Dvinyatin, the head of this family, and he opened the door and let the stranger in. No matter how much Nikita tried to see the stranger, he failed. The guest was dressed in black. A dark cloak hid his figure, and a hood was pulled low over his face.
The whole family, except for the son named after his father Nikita, drank the medicine and died immediately. The medicine was poison, the stranger poisoned them. After making sure that the witnesses were dead, he began to rob their home.
Nikita hid from him and secretly got out of the house. The fear of impending death did not frighten him as much as the unknown man in black. When he reached the neighbors, he called them for help. Together they returned and overtook the stranger when he was leaving the Dvinyatins' house with the loot. Fierce people caught him and gave him a terrible medicine that killed Nikita's family.
The corpse of the uninvited guest was thrown into the swamp, where, hundreds of years later, Teatralnaya Square will be. Witnesses to the fires said that shortly before the flames devoured the building, the ghost of an unknown person, dressed in an old-fashioned dark cloak with a hood, was seen in the basements of the theater.
Wanderer and three stations
The area of three stations in Moscow has long enjoyed a bad reputation. Homeless people, beggars and murderers flock here from all over the city and the country. It is possible that they are attracted by the negative energy that reigns here.
In the XIV century, there were swamps on the site of the square, among which there was a man's monastery. Tradition says that one rainy night a traveler knocked at the gate of the monastery, accidentally wandering into the swamps. He asked the monks to shelter him and save him from a terrible thunderstorm. But the monks refused him for an unknown reason. Then the wanderer cursed the monastery with a terrible oath, wishing him to sink into the ground. The strong walls of the monastery shook, and soon the monastery began to collapse. The attempts of the monks to restore their homes were in vain, and soon they left this place.
The people feared the ruins, knowing that a curse gravitates over them. For three centuries there was a wasteland here, until Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich ordered the construction of a traveling palace on this place. A tower-watchtower was also built here, which gave the name to the place: Kalanchevskoe field.
At the end of the 17th century, at the place where the Leningradsky and Yaroslavsky railway stations are now located, the building of an artillery warehouse stood. It was destroyed by a fire that began in 1812 after the explosion of the shells stored there.
In the 18th century, a wooden theater was built here, which was repeatedly burned to the ground.
A century later, it was decided to drain the swamps, and the construction of the Nikolaevsky railway station (in the future - Leningradsky) began. Workers died at a construction site under unclear circumstances. The erected buildings suddenly collapsed, as if they were being destroyed by an unknown force, but the construction was nevertheless completed.
In the 30s of the XX century, during the construction of the subway, under the square of three stations, workers found the remains of ancient buildings. The construction was stopped, archaeologists were invited to the place of the find, but a downpour prevented the study of the finds, which were more than 500 years old. It lasted several days and flooded the mine. As a result of the flood, the frame of the tunnel began to collapse, and only thanks to the selfless efforts of the Komsomol metro builders was it possible to prevent the tragedy. In their honor, the station was named "Komsomolskaya".
Station "Komsomolskaya" before the flood
They say that sometimes an old man dressed in rags appears in front of the Kazan railway station. He walks, bent low to the ground, and leans on a long stick. At the very entrance, he falls to his knees and prays for a long time, now and then furiously crossing himself. And then it disappears. It is believed that this is the wanderer who once cursed the monastery. He never found peace and is now trying to remove sin from his soul, repenting and reading prayers.
The curse of the abbess (Cathedral of Christ the Savior)
On the site of the future Cathedral of Christ the Savior, the Alekseevsky nunnery was previously located. By decree of the tsar, it was decided to move the monastery to Krasnoe Selo, and in its place to build a temple.
Alekseevsky monastery in the 19th century
According to historians, the abbess, who was the abbess of the monastery, opposed the order of the king and ordered the nuns to chain themselves to an oak tree that grew in the courtyard of the monastery. She was forcibly taken out of the gate and on the move, turning around, she cursed this place, predicting that "not a single building will stand here."
Construction lasted 44 years from 1839 to 1883. In 1931 it was decided to blow up the temple and build the notorious Palace of the Soviets in its place. For a year and a half, the rubble of the temple was dismantled, after which construction began, but the Second World War prevented it.
In 1960, the "Moscow" swimming pool was opened on the site of the temple. It was only in the mid-90s that a decision was made to restore the temple. In 1999, the opening and consecration took place.
The Cathedral of Christ the Savior is main cathedral countries where major services are held. Thousands of believers visit them. But, despite this, the attitude towards the church among Russians is ambivalent. Many will agree that there is an unfavorable aura in the temple. It is believed that he is only a copy, a remake without an old history.
Moscow region: ghosts and UFOs
Residents of the village of Chapel near Moscow are sure that they live in the epicenter of an abnormal field. Psychics who have been there claim that the village is surrounded by evil spirits, which from time to time seek contact with people.
Among the anomalous zones of the Moscow region, the Chapel is considered the richest in events. It was named so because of the abandoned chapel that stands on the central square of the village. Every year hundreds of expeditions come here from different cities Russia and even from other countries.
At any time of the day, you can hear eerie sounds coming from the village cemetery. The local population knows that it is dangerous to look for the source of sounds: the ghosts that live there can drag a person away or scare him to death.
The village is popular among domestic ufologists. According to eyewitnesses, guests from other worlds often come here, and a few years ago their activities led to a violent explosion in the forest near the Chapel. The source and causes of the explosion were never identified.
Abandoned chapel in the center of the village
The result of scientific observations was the conclusion that the village is located in an unfavorable place for living, among geodetic and geological phenomena. Every day, locals and visitors witness inexplicable phenomena:
- flashes in the sky;
- falling trees;
- strange sounds;
- jumping shadows.
All these are signs of a geopathogenic zone that has captured the village of Chapel. It spreads far beyond the village. It is considered dangerous to enter the forest because of the wood deer living in the thicket. They are wary of a person and do not come close to human habitation, but if a person himself wanders into them, then the goblin as a punishment can bring a deception on the traveler. A person who has fallen under the influence of the spell cannot find his way back and begins to wander in a circle, every now and then getting lost on a simple route. It becomes possible to find a way home only if the darkness subsides, but this entirely depends on the benevolence of evil spirits.
Seraphim stones
Hundreds of tourists are gathered every day. This is the most famous anomalous zone in the Nizhny Novgorod region. It is believed that Seraphim of Sarov lived here, not far from the destroyed monastery. His miraculous energy is so strong that it is still preserved in those places where he visited.
There are two stones associated with the name of the saint: Bear and Small. The bear emerges from the ground closer to the monastery. According to legend, Seraphim prayed while standing on this stone. After the death of the recluse, his pet, a forest bear, came to the stone and died of longing for its owner. Bears are often seen here. In the middle of the 20th century, a bear came out of the forest to meet a group of pilgrims and, bypassing the stone, returned to the forest. From time to time she returned to make a circle around the shrine. Eyewitnesses say that the last time she was not alone, but with a bear cub.
A small stone is a group of stones surrounded by a fence. The largest of them has marks that look like the marks of hands and knees. Not far from them on the ground lies a stone called Verigi. According to legend, this stone was constantly worn by Seraphim of Sarov in his back bag.
The footprints of the saint are visible on the stone
All stones are cold even in hot summer weather. And some of them grow over the years. Observers say the Bear has doubled in size over the years.
A spring of healing water gushes out of the ground next to the stones. People come here to touch the shrines and soak up positive energy. Visiting stones will strengthen spirituality and give peace.
Cave Silicates
In the village of Devyatskoye near Moscow, not far from the Silikatnaya station, in one of the quarries, raw materials for white stone architecture were once mined. Since that time, the cave was empty, until during the Great Patriotic War it was equipped with a bomb shelter.
There is a legend about a soldier who, at the cost of his life, saved people hiding in a bomb shelter. When the soldier saw a stone slab falling on people, he grabbed it and held it while people left the cave. Among those rescued was the soldier's elderly mother.
When the soldier's strength was exhausted, he released the slab, and it fell, crushing him. The rescued people, in gratitude to the soldier, decided to bury his remains, but, moving the stone, they did not find anything. They searched for him as much as they could in a dilapidated cave, but neither a soldier nor a trace of him was found.
After the war, the cave was closed for half a century until a group of enthusiasts reopened it. Excursions often go to Silicates. Visitors search here for the lost things of bygone eras, which the cave has kept for many years.
There are very narrow passages in the cave
Often, among the narrow corridors, the ghost of a man in military uniform flickers. Sometimes he leads an old woman by the arm. Apparently, this is the soldier's mother, whom he saved many years ago.
Leningrad region
A mysterious animal lives in Lake Blyodechko 40 km from St. Petersburg and attacks local fishermen. The platter is a small lake, it looks like a pond. But the depth of the reservoir reaches 30 m. The lake has a double bottom. Perhaps the beast is hiding there. There is an assumption that this is a miraculously preserved plesiosaur. The victims of the attack saw only its large paws and jaws.
In the city of Pushkin, flares and fireballs flying at high speed across the sky are often observed in the sky. Ufologists claim that this is a UFO. Flying vehicles of aliens were also seen in the Vyborg region near the Yellow Bay and the Luga reservoir. It is unclear what the extraterrestrial guests were interested in by these lakes of the Leningrad Region.
Another anomalous zone near St. Petersburg is the Sablinskie Caves. Those who have been there have heard strange sounds coming from the darkness more than once, and the photographs of the caves are full of glare and blurred spots. Perhaps the fault of the diggers, whom tourists mistake for ghosts, but whether this is so, no one can say for sure.
An iron cross was erected near the Teplobetonnaya railway platform in memory of the victims of the war, which is often mistaken for the mass burial of soldiers. The cross was welded from rails, erected and consecrated in honor of the fallen front-line soldiers. During the consecration, a photograph was taken, in which all the participants in the events disappeared during development. On film, they were replaced by fireballs.
Anti-tank hedgehogs are installed around the cross
After that, the monument attracted the interest of many people who suffered from serious illnesses. Near the cross, they miraculously healed from ailments. Healthy people were charged with positive energy from the monument. The psychics who visited there explained these miracles by the fact that the cross accumulates cosmic energy in itself, which heals the sick and helps healthy people. In addition, they claim that the cross was erected in a place of power where hundreds of thousands of Russian soldiers died, who gave their lives for the welfare of their descendants.
Kostroma Region - Devil's Well
The Kostroma region has long attracted the attention of psychics, ufologists and those who are interested in everything unusual and mystical. The explanation lies in the fact that pagans lived here for hundreds of years after the baptism of Rus. The Kostroma land hides many secrets. Mysterious groves grew here, temples were erected and pagan sacrifices were made to harsh gods. This is the edge of power.
Local residents sometimes do not realize that they live in a fabulous land. They have long been accustomed to being close to evil spirits, and they diligently bypass the anomalous zones, without going into details: why do they do this and why?
Suicide wave and drought
One of the anomalous zones of the Kostroma region is the Devil's Fount. The documents say that a hundred years ago, a wave of mass suicides swept here. The surviving inhabitants suffered a new misfortune: drought.
Summer turned out to be dry, and the locals decided to ask for help from their deceased ancestors. They spent the whole night in the cemetery, reading prayers and sprinkling holy water on the graves. On the evening of that day, the sky over the Devil's Well turned black and a heavy downpour began. Large, cold drops of rain mixed with the hail.
As soon as the rain stopped, three houses broke out in different parts of the village. The wet thatched roofs blazed so hard as if the straw had instantly dried out after the rain.
UFOs and scary beasts
According to eyewitnesses, the Devil's Well attracts guests from other worlds. Round and cigar-shaped aircraft are often seen in the sky here. Sometimes they fly rapidly high in the sky, leaving no traces behind, and sometimes they fly slowly, touching the treetops.
UFOs have cast hulls without identification marks, in seconds they can develop a monstrous speed and disappear from the line of sight. Often, alien ships visiting the Devil's Well land in a deep forest near the village. So far, there is no evidence of contact between local residents and aliens.
Perhaps, guests arriving on our planet are conducting experiments here on the local fauna. Otherwise, how can one explain the appearance in the local forest of wolves with a skin that cannot be shot through? Several times local hunters came across these mysterious creatures. Their bullets bounced off the fur of the animals with a clink, and the animals themselves behaved strangely: instead of attacking people, they hid in an impassable thicket.
While exploring the forest, teams of ufologists often stumbled upon burnt trees and landings from large and heavy aircraft. Some scientists were fortunate enough to even witness flashes in the sky, which were accompanied by wolf howls.
Parapsychologists who have visited the Devil's Kladezi are sure that the village and the surrounding area are full of negative energy. Its source is located deep in the earth, but it was not possible to find out what it is.
Death Valley (Kamchatka)
Locals avoid these places. There are no paths or roads. Death Valley is full of the bones of dead birds and the half-decayed corpses of large animals: bears, lynxes and wolves.
The first to discover the Valley were the hunters. Their dogs got lost at the foot of the Kikhpinych volcano. After a long search, the hunters found the corpses of dogs among the many carcasses of dead animals. Leaving the valley, the hunters felt unwell and a sudden surging weakness. Only by a miracle did they manage to leave the terrible place.
Death Valley Victim
Rumors about the anomalous zone spread throughout the Union, and a stream of researchers poured in here. Their bodies can still be found at the bottom of Death Valley.
Scientists suggest that the acid fumes that the earth exudes are to blame. The analyzes carried out have established that toxic cyanide compounds are present in the air of the Valley.
Omsk region, Okunevo village
In the village of Okunevo, which is located in a remote area more than 200 km from Omsk, researchers of anomalous phenomena and scientists from all over the world constantly come. And it is no coincidence, because it is often observed here:
- crimson fog;
- ghosts;
- glowing objects;
- flames in the sky.
According to the assumptions of Siberian historians, here, on the territory that belongs to the Muromtsevsky district of the Omsk region, people lived long before the 18th century, when the first settlers came. About 300 thousand years ago, a civilization lived in the west of Siberia, which disappeared without a trace for some unknown reason. Traces of her stay are still found. For more than two decades, archaeological excavations have been conducted on the banks of the Tara River, which flows near Okunevo. Scientists find here the ruins of residential buildings, religious buildings and necropolises.
Skulls found in Okunevo
The famous Indian prophet and clairvoyant Satya Baba claimed to profess a religion brought to India by ancient settlers from Western Siberia. He said that earlier in Siberia there was a temple of Hanuman, a humanoid monkey, a patron of knowledge and a healer. Hanuman could fly through the air, change his appearance and possessed the power to move mountains. The priests of the temple, according to the clairvoyant, were initiated into many secrets of the world. God rewarded them with a crystal of extraterrestrial origin, granting spiritual insight. There is a theory according to which the chronicle of an ancient civilization was recorded on the crystal.
Not far from Okunevo, an ancient altar was found, on which bloody sacrifices were brought. He was found by Rasma Rositis, a follower of the ascetic Mahavatar Babaji. The find was preceded by a week of fasting and prayer before the luminous beings took Rasma to the altar. After studying it, she came to the conclusion that this is Omkar, the place where the planet exchanges energy with the Cosmos. The people called him the navel of the Earth.
Okunevo village is surrounded by four lakes. Siberian healers believe that the water in these lakes is curative. These lakes appeared as a result of a meteorite falling to the Earth, and they were filled with the healing energy of the Cosmos. One of the lakes is still hidden from prying eyes, no one has yet managed to find it. According to the healers, soon people on the planet will be struck by a disease that can only be cured with water from a hidden lake.
The famous Western mystic and predictor Edgar Cayce predicted in the middle of the 20th century that a major cataclysm would strike humanity in the future. Many countries will be flooded, millions of people will die. Siberia will become a new Ark for people, the cradle of civilization. Here they will be saved and from here they will begin to revive life on planet Earth.
Mysterious Green Island
Before the start of the Great Patriotic War, the island, which is located not far from Rostov-on-Don, fell aircraft... Eyewitnesses mistook him for a German reconnaissance plane. Such aircraft models, in fact, were developed by the Nazis. The Ahnenerbe archives have preserved their photographs: flying discs that look like alien ships. Ufologists still believe that an alien ship was wrecked on Zeleny Island. Perhaps they are right, considering what happened to the island in the future.
UFO or development of German scientists?
The NKVD organized the protection of the crash site, and the incident was classified. But research was hampered by the war. For the island, fierce battles were fought with the Germans, who were desperately trying to get through to the mysterious aircraft.
Modern eyewitnesses claim that people often disappear on the island. The missing are found asleep. Before disappearing, all of them saw a black stone that called them to him and put them to sleep as soon as they approached him. The disappearances took place in the least explored western part of the island or on the outskirts of it. It is difficult to get there because of the dense vegetation, which, like a barrier, protects unknown places.
Several scientific expeditions have identified faint anomalies in the western part of the island. Perhaps their appearance is associated with destroyed underground structures, access to which is closed by rubble.
Samarskaya Luka
By the number of mystical phenomena, the Samarskaya Luka Park is considered one of the most active anomalous zones in the world. Bigfoot is often seen here. Eyewitnesses describe him as a two-meter giant, covered with thick hair and with deep-set eyes. Jaegers constantly find grass crumpled in the form of perfect circles. Ufologists who have visited the park believe that these are traces of UFO landings.
On the territory of "Samarskaya Luka" there is Mount Svetlka. This place is considered fertile. Many tourists travel specially to climb the mountain and recharge with positive energy. Visitors get healthier and negative thoughts go away. Scientists have discovered a fracture in tectonic plates under Svetelka. It is believed that such natural phenomena are the gateway to the otherworldly worlds. People with psychic abilities can develop their talents here, as these are places of power.
Here equipment fails, mobile communications disappear and accumulators and batteries are rapidly discharged. Tourists often find themselves in spatial anomalies, where time flows differently. Wandering inside anomalies, they find themselves in a different reality. The hours they spend there on Earth become days.
Lovozero
Anomalous zone in the Murmansk region. It was discovered at the beginning of the 20th century by an expedition of local historians headed by A. Barchenko.
Here, phenomena such as:
- gravity anomalies;
- distortion of time and space;
- meeting with Bigfoot;
- rejuvenation of the body.
Fig 14. Lovozero - a place of power
In 1999, Valery Demin's expedition visited here. Scientists were looking for traces of the legendary Hyperborea.
The mystery of the Vilyui boilers
Death Valley was nicknamed the anomalous zone in Yakutia. Not far from the Vilyui River, in a valley hidden from the world by rugged mountains, huge metal structures resembling boilers are sunk into the ground. Rumor keeps many rumors and legends about these buildings. They say that rooms have been dug under the arches of the boilers, in which it is always warm, despite the severe Yakut frosts. Perhaps the appearance of buildings is associated with the fall of the Tunguska meteorite.
The mystery of the Vilyui cauldrons has not been solved
Expeditions of ufologists have come here more than once in the hope of finding mysterious buildings in the Valley of Death. But each time, tragic accidents prevented scientists from reaching their goal. Sometimes the buildings disappeared, and the expeditions wandered for a long time without finding them.
Those who managed to reach the metal buildings complained of malaise, headaches and bouts of unreasonable panic. The buildings themselves were surrounded by abnormally dense thickets of grass and bushes.
In 2002, a group of local geology students managed to locate one of the cauldrons near a flowing river. They were unable to determine the exact size of the metal cauldron as there was only one edge above the ground. Geologists tried to break off a piece of the cauldron with axes, but the strange metal turned out to be harder. The researchers could not find the entrance to the underground rooms, and the permafrost prevented them from digging the ground.
Pleshcheyevo lake
The lake in the Yaroslavl region is famous for its unusual fogs. Getting into them, people lost their sense of time and experienced an extraordinary uplift. The fog reliably hid the world around them from them, but dissipated over the black path, as if inviting them to walk along it. The path, according to the testimony, has always been straight and, walking along it, people saw the silhouettes of knights in the thick fog and heard the monotonous muttering of old voices in an unfamiliar language, similar to ancient prayers. When the fog cleared, the travelers found themselves ten kilometers from the place where they were overtaken by white clouds. But not everyone was lucky enough to get out of the fog, many were missing.
On the shore of Lake Pleshcheyevo lies the famous relic - the Blue Stone. It is believed that the stone heals from ailments, one has only to touch it. According to an ancient legend, a pagan tribe that lived here before the Slavs worshiped the Sin-stone as a deity. The Slavs who came after them erected the temple of Yarila on the hill where the stone lay, and sacrifices began to be made on the stone.
With the advent of Christianity, the temple was burned, but the monastery, and later the chapel, erected in its place, did not take root. They were destroyed by fire. The locals perceived these signs as a manifestation of the power of the ancient gods. Here they celebrated major pagan holidays - Maslenitsa and Kupala night. The alarmed ministers of the church assured the inhabitants that demonic power was contained in the stone, but their persuasion were in vain. The blue stone attracted people to itself. Then it was decided to get rid of him and put an end to the cult of the pagan shrine.
The stone was loaded onto a sleigh and driven across the ice across the frozen lake. It was planned to lay it in the foundation of the church, but the stone fell out of the sleigh and, breaking through the ice, went to the bottom. After half a century, the stone reached the shore, and soon it independently reached the foot of the hill, where there was a temple. Parapsychologists believe that it was not without telekinesis or evil spirits. On moonless nights, the stone exudes a bluish glow.
Every year the stone sinks deeper into the ground
Alien ships were repeatedly seen over Lake Pleshcheev. Perhaps guests from other worlds also feel the strong energy of the ancient shrine.
Popov bridge
The bridge that was built across the Pesochnaya river in the Kaluga region is considered one of the anomalous zones in Russia.
Cars on it stall, horses refuse to approach the bridge, and locals often see pale silhouettes of ghosts. It is still unknown what happened here and what caused the presence of restless souls. It is said that there is a curse imposed by a witch on the bridge. Apparently, it also touched the old cemetery, which is located near the Pesochnaya River.
Researchers have repeatedly observed the bridge and the surrounding area, but so far have not been able to record anything unusual.
Shushmor tract
A wicked and terrible place in the suburbs. For many kilometers around it there is not settlements, no residential buildings. The tract became infamous because of the many people missing here. They disappeared without a trace, leaving no traces or bodies behind.
Those who have been here and survived say that the vegetation in Shushmor is abnormally active: the grass reaches the height of human growth, and the tree trunks are unusually wide.
Ufologists who studied the Tract recorded:
- radiance in the sky;
- sounds of unknown origin;
- ball lightning.
Local legend says that in the center of Shushmor there is an ancient temple built in the form of a hemisphere. Another legend says that the building is a burial mound under which one of the Mongol generals who attacked Russia is buried.
Solovetsky labyrinths
The Solovetsky archipelago includes dozens of islands of different sizes. Solovetsky labyrinths have been preserved on many islands since ancient times. Historians call the approximate time of their creation - the Stone Age.
Sometimes spirits are seen here moving in spirals of labyrinths.
Labyrinths are spirals on the ground lined with stones. Piles of stones lie in the center of the spirals. According to one version, these are ancient cemeteries. Their shape symbolizes the transition of the soul from the world of the living to the world of the dead, and also does not allow evil spirits to enter our world.
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The wicked and the damned
The most famous anomalous place on the planet is, perhaps, the Bermuda Triangle. It is located in the North Atlantic, within the borders of the South Coast of the United States, the Greater Antilles and Bermuda. For a century and a half there, under very mysterious circumstances, about a thousand people disappeared in this place, as well as 20 aircraft and 55 ships. What are the scariest places in Russia?
Moleb Triangle
The village of Molebka in the Urals is a bear's corner at the junction of the Sverdlovsk Region and the Perm Territory. The famous geo-anomalous zone, which is known as the Molebsky Triangle (also known as the Perm anomalous zone), is located on the left bank of the Sylva River, opposite the village. Once this place was sacred for the Mansi, there was a prayer stone for sacrifices.
In the 80s of the last century, the settlement became famous throughout the country. During the winter hunt, geologist Emil Bachurin found a round track 62 meters in diameter in the snow. Since that time, this place has excited the minds of people. Many say that they saw a "Bigfoot" here, UFOs, as well as various bodies, in particular, luminous balls with intelligent behavior. The researchers say the area has strong dowsing anomalies.
By the way, the Molebsky Triangle is well known to foreign ufologists and tourists. Every year thousands of "pilgrims" flock here to visit the unknown.
Dyatlov Pass (Mountain of the Dead)
In the north of the Urals, on the border of the Sverdlovsk region and Komi, inexplicable tragedies often occur. On the slopes of the mountain "1079" or the Mountain of the Dead (in the Mansi language Kholat-Syakhyl), people died many times under mysterious circumstances.
The first tragedy occurred on February 1-2, 1959. 10 tourists from Sverdlovsk climbed the mountain, the expedition was headed by Igor Dyatlov. One tourist got sick legs and stayed in the village of Vizhay, 9 more continued their ascent. They did not manage to get up before dark and stopped for the night on the slope. At night, the inexplicable happened - the whole group died.
As established by the investigation, at night, half-naked tourists cut the tent from the inside and rushed downstairs in terror. Many died from the cold, but the bodies of three were found with broken ribs and punctured heads. One girl even had her tongue pulled out. But there were no abrasions or bruises on the bodies. Moreover, the skin of all the victims was a strange reddish color, their hair was gray, and a wild horror froze on their faces. Experts found that the radiation background was exceeded by several times on the clothes. It is noteworthy that after that three planes crashed over the pass and groups of tourists of 9 people were killed.
Medveditskaya ridge
Crazy ball and ordinary giant lightning, UFOs, twisted trees with burns on their trunks, soil and vegetation with harmful radiation. This is the network of hills with a height of about 250 meters Medveditskaya ridge. She is in Volgograd region in the Zhirnovsky district.
Local residents in this area are no longer surprised by unidentified objects and numerous UFO tracks. But Medveditskaya Mountain is famous not only for this. Another mystery is that this place attracts just a huge amount of lightning. Researchers have counted about 350 partially or completely burned trees. Only charred hemp remained of some of the many-meter oak trees.
Anomalies of the Medveditskaya ridge
And under the ridge, approximately at a depth of 8-20 meters, there are tunnels with diameters of 7-20 meters of unknown origin (this is more than a metro tunnel). They stretch for kilometers. At the very beginning of the war, the entrances to the tunnels were blown up.
Local folklore is rich in tunnel stories. They say there are UFO bases, an underground city of robbers who hide looted treasures, or a repository of the antediluvian race of serpent-men. They were allegedly seen by local enthusiasts.
Among other things, strange keys are gushing out of the ground. If distilled water is poured in one place, then in another it is already a radioactive source.
Death valley
Another bad place is in Kamchatka. This is Death Valley, which has been rumored since the early 30s of the last century.
There are hot springs on the slope of the Kikhpinych volcano. Their thermal grounds are rather small and cut by ravines. Acidic streams appear on the bottom and on the slopes. hot water, gases and steam. The lowest platform was named Death Valley. She was found by hunters who lost their dogs. The corpses of huskies were found at the foot of the volcano, and next to them on the bare ground without a single blade of grass lay dead animals - bears, wolves and hares. Surprisingly, after visiting this place, the hunters began to wither before our eyes, lost weight and suffered from headaches.
More than 100 enthusiastic scientists have died while exploring Death Valley. Well, those who were able to return did not share their observations. It turned out that on the site 2 kilometers long and 300 meters wide there are hydrogen sulphide and carbon dioxide. And in the volcanic gases of the valley there are highly toxic cyanide compounds.
Death Valley Vilyui
This strange and scary place is located in the upper reaches of the Vilyui River. Some say that there is an entrance to the dungeons of hell, where unknown creatures live. Others argue that numerous pieces of flying saucers are buried in the permafrost. This area is called "Yeluyu Cherkechek", which is translated from the Yakut "Valley of Death". The phenomenon is associated with the fall in 1908 of the Tunguska meteorite.
Death Valley in Yakutia
It is said that the trade route of the Yakuts was in this place. And it is in this place that there is a huge copper cauldron buried in the ground (Iron House). Hunters spent the night in its premises and said that it was warm in severe frosts. But it had a negative effect on human health, allegedly, after leaving there, people were very sick, and those who spent the night several times died. Therefore, the locals bypass this place. Eyewitnesses say that there actually is a flattened arch with numerous metal rooms, which are very warm.
Another object that is there is a smooth red metal hemisphere with a smooth edge. It protrudes from the permafrost and can be entered on horseback on a deer. Various researchers claim that they saw several cauldrons there, and one of them contained half a perfect ball made of an unknown metal that cuts glass like butter. Ufologists believe that this is a kind of graveyard of unidentified flying objects that had a massive accident.
Mysteries of the Devil's Cemetery
It is located not far from the Ust-Kova site of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, at the confluence of the Kova River with the Angara. The devil's cemetery appeared in 1908 after the fall of the Tunguska meteorite. Its epicenter is 400 kilometers north of this place. In this place, at first there was a hole in the ground, which was then heaped up with the corpses of animals.
This place became famous in 1983, after an article appeared in the magazine "Technics for Youth". It read: “In the 1930s, collective farmers drove the herd not far from Angara, from Bratsk to Kova. When checking, they missed two cows. Two drivers with rifles went in search of animals. On the way, people came out into a round clear meadow, 100 meters in diameter, completely without vegetation. The dogs ran to this land and immediately set their tails between their legs and rushed back to run. The corpses of the lost animals were lying at a distance, and next to them were dead birds and taiga animals with a pile of bones. "
By the way, the dogs that ran out into the area soon died.
It is worth noting that about a hundred enthusiasts died in this place, who tried to unravel the mystery of this place.
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The site of many historical events. The destinies of many peoples are intertwined in these places: Russians, Mordovians, Murom, Kasimov Tatars, Polovtsians - a multifaceted story! Border of forest and steppe.
Traces and references of ancient Hyperborea are found here!
Even fascist Germany did not disregard these secrets!
Secrets and mysteries of the Ryazan region may take more than one article, and are the subject of many studies.
Among them are the mysterious giant peoples that lived on the banks of the Oka, mysterious caves and underground tunnels, pyramids and mounds with ancient temples and burials, holy places and revered springs!
LIST OF ANOMALOUS PLACES
Aleshino (anomalous explosion site);
ALESHINO is an explosion site of unknown nature in the Ryazan region, where a crater still exists. The explosion occurred almost simultaneously with the explosion near Sasovo and Frolovsky. The nature of the explosion was never established.
Serif lines (remnants of ancient defensive lines);
ZASECHNYE LINES (Zasechnye lines, Zaseki) - defensive structures on the southern and southeastern outskirts of the Russian state in the 16-17 centuries to protect against nomads. Consisted of notches, ramparts, ditches, stockades, supplemented by natural barriers (rivers, ravines), and strongholds (stockades and fortress cities). The most important of the lines was the Bolshaya Zasechnaya Line, about 200 km long.
In the summer of 2000, Ulyanovsk archaeologists and employees of the State Historical and Memorial Reserve "The Motherland of Lenin" discovered on Lev Tolstoy Street the remains of the Simbirsk notch line - a defensive line that marked the borders of the Moscow state at the end of the 17th century. Enthusiasts miraculously restored a fragment of a moat, an earthen rampart and a palisade with a height of 3 m, which had miraculously survived in the city center, and a watchtower was cut down from pine logs. In just three summer months, 20 m of the score line was restored.
Circles and pictograms in the fields (including here);
Maryinka (anomalous zone);
MARINKA - anomalous zone, prodigal place, "nest of lightning" near the village of the same name to the south of the regional center Korablino v. According to eyewitness accounts, articles in local newspapers, in and around Marinka, on a 3-kilometer road between the village and the highway, UFOs and other AYs were repeatedly observed. As Yuri Kharin writes [Ryazanskie Vedomosti 2003, August 2], a strange picture in the sky was repeatedly seen over the village, how large UFOs turned into images of "fish", and "fish" - into a ball. Local resident Nina Semyonovna said that she also saw fireballs "galloping" on the ground. They say that lightning strikes most often in the area of the local estate ... A. Bychenkov reported about the strange place in "Cosmopoisk".
Mosolovo (place of UFO sightings);
MOSOLOVO is a village in the Ryazan region, over which, according to eyewitnesses, UFOs often appear. In 1999, at the 18th Siegel Readings, a researcher at the Institute of Plant Physiology, Vladimir Yuryevich SHUMILOV, read a report "UFOs and the principle of covert observation", in 2001, at 22 readings - about observing and photographing UFOs, both reports actually told about one place - the village of Mosolovo. It was here, according to Shumilov, that various AYs were often observed in the sky, and in 1989 a man-made UFO even landed near the neighboring village of Razberdeevo. In April 2001, a visual inspection and analysis in Kosmopoisk revealed that most of the UFO photographs taken in this place were actually explained by atmospheric phenomena and reflections of the camera's optics. Comprehensive studies in the Mosolov area have not yet been carried out.
* * * Directions to Mosolovo: 1) By car on the M-5 highway, go through Ryazan towards Shatsk, about 75 km southeast of Ryazan, near Frolov, turn right, south and drive about 3 km more.
2) From Ryazan, go by train (the Ryazan-Shilovo-Sasovo branch to Mosolovo
CAVES IN THE KASIMOVSKY DISTRICT (Kasimov catacombs) - a number of artificial catacomb underground formations in the north of the Ryazan region. All or most of the numerous underground workings were more or less actively used by local peasants for the extraction of stone and crushed stone in the first half of the 20th century and even in the 1950s. Currently, all quarries are abandoned.
In 1985, the first caves in this area were surveyed by Yu. Prokofiev and L. Dronova. In August 1998, the Moscow speleogroup "The Bat" under the direction of Yu. A. Dolotov conducted an expedition in this area, during which a census of both the preserved and lost entrances to the caves was carried out ["Spelestological Yearbook ROSI" M., 1999, p. .38-57]. Some caves were given their own names: Dronovskaya, Inclined, Kabaniy Proval, Karyerny Grotto, Malaya Karyernaya, Lyapushka, Pridorozhnaya, Health, Nadkaryernaya, Karyernaya, Zaovrazhnaya and others ... Research in this area continues.
* * * Directions to the Kasimov quarries: From Moscow by car through Yegoryevsk, do not turn off the road into any of the caves. From Ryazan - by car or train to Kasimov, then along the road northwest to the area of the concentration of caves:
1) Tsavl's cave. It is located 2 km from the Tsavlya ravine between the villages of Stepanovo and Giblitsy near the cemetery. Previously, low-quality stone and crushed stone were mined here. The entrances to the drifts are currently blocked up, although they can be easily excavated.
2) Quarry near the village of Ozerki on the banks of the Oka. Currently, its upper left flank is covered with a bulldozer blade during the construction of a large wooden house for the "new Russian".
3) Akishinsky quarries were located 1 km north of the village of Akishino opposite the village of Ozerki, on the right bank of the Oka. Currently not found.
4) The Charush and Timoninsky underground quarries are located up the Oka. Not found yet.
5) Maleevskaya system was located on the right bank under the village. Maleevo. Not found yet.
6) Underground quarries in the upper part of the village of Babino-Bylygino on the right bank of the Oka above Kasimov. Not found yet.
7) Quarries between the villages of Chernyshevo-Pochinki and Maryino-Zarechnoye in a ravine. Not found yet.
8) An underground quarry below the village of Chinur (500 m from the village) on the left bank of the dry land. Gullies and buried entrances to the caves were discovered.
9) Quarries near the village of Davydovo on the right bank of the river. Chinur. Backfilled dumps and entrances were found.
10) Savinovskaya system on the right bank of the Tashenka near the village of Savinovo. Very large workings have been found, dating back to different times.
11) Tashenskaya system on the left bank of the river. Tashenka is located 0.5 km above the village of Tashenka. Dumps were discovered by ancient mining.
12) System below Bashevo from the village. First to p. Maltsevo for 2 km along the right bank. Found signs of caves (sinkholes and ditches), dug back in the 19th century and in the 1920s.
13) Big quarry below with. Bulushevo-Pochinki 750 m down the right bank on the right corner of the ravine exit to the river.
14) The Perekat Monashka system is located just below the previous quarry, its length is 2 km along the coast from the mouth of the ravine, 1 km below the village. Bulushevo-Pochinki to the village of Perekat Monashki. On the right side of the ravine, a through cave with a length of 3 m was found.
15) The system Tugeevskaya Gora (Sosnovka) below the village of Sosnovka on the left bank of the Oka and 400 m below the camp site (ozonarium) "Yolochka" with a length of about 800 m along the coast. caves: 1 large cave, which later collapsed, and 18 sinkholes. In 1998, the Bat group reopened the Dronovaya cave, 6 m deep. The entrance is 45 m in azimuth 240 from the 500 m mark in a funnel between pine roots, about 10 m from the edge of the cliff.
16) Inclined cavities-1, -2, -3 are located approximately 50 m from the "600 m" mark.
17) The caves are located relative to the 1000 m marker: Pridorozhnaya (6 m deep, 25 m to the west-north-west), Kabaniy dip (70 m to the west), Lyapushka (150 m long, extremely landslide!) (40 m to the west-south-west), Quarry grotto and Malaya Careernaya (70 m to the west-south-west).
18) Between the markers "1100 m" and "1200 m" on the slope of the Serkov Dol ravine there are caves: Zdorov'e (100 m long), Nadkaryernaya, Karyernaya (opened in 1996).
19) Lazarevskaya Gora system (Shcherbakovka-2): Zaovrazhnaya-1 cave (30 m north of the 1300 m mark, very narrow entrance), Zaovrazhnaya-2 (70 m north-east of the mark, total open depth 4.5 m ).
It is extremely dangerous to penetrate into some of the listed caves! It is advisable not to visit the caves without consulting the Bat group.
Underground prison (Okaemovo)
UNDERGROUND PRISON (Okaemovo) - man-made underground structures near the Theological Monastery near the village of Okaemovo near Ryazan. A document dating back to 1682 has survived: "Memory from the order of the Ryazan Metropolitan Avraamy of Theological to Bishop Anthony, whom 10 schismatics sent by the Tsar's instructions were ordered to be kept in an earthen prison, and fed with bread from the monastery in turn." The history of the prison is not known, there are no other documents besides the above letter. The secret "earthen prison" at the monastery was discovered in the 1970s by students and historians.
MYSTERIOUS PLACES AND PLACES OF POWER
Anomalous zone in the area of the Vanda tract (people wander, the compass does not seem, every devilry seems to be ...)
Arapov cave monastery
Brykin bor (crane nursery)
Settlement "Staraya Ryazan", Spassky district
Palace of the von Dervises in Kiritsy, ( architectural ensemble in with. Kiritsy, ghost sightings have taken place)
Battle site on Vozha
Poshupovsky holy spring
Transfiguration Church, village Gusevsky Pogost
Ryazan Stonehenge, Spasskaya Luka
Manor complex, with. Sokha
Sentinel oak, Sapozhkovsky district
lake Nasty (abnormal place, pathogenic zone)
Sasovo (Sasovskie funnels);
SASOVO (Sasovskie funnels) is a regional center where at least two powerful explosions took place, the cause of which is still unclear. The first and most powerful one thundered at night on April 12, 1991 (on the day of the 30th anniversary of Gagarin's flight). Eyewitnesses from among the local residents later described that at first they saw several UFOs flying away over the field, then they heard in the same direction a powerful explosion that shook the area. Around the same time, similar explosions thundered nearby in Aleshino and Frolovsky.
The first report on the study of the funnel was made by Vadim ORLOV and Anatoly CHERNYAEV ["TM" 1992, N 5-7, p.36-37]. Numerous expeditions were repeatedly equipped to the site of the explosion, which noted and recorded a variety of anomalous phenomena. For example, it was noticed that for some unknown reason, next to the funnel, calculators were being reprogrammed and electronic devices were out of order ... A year later, a second explosion occurred nearby, the reason for it is also still unclear.
Initially, the funnel had dimensions: diameter - 30 m, depth - 3 m (in some descriptions there was also a figure of 4 m), in the middle there was a hill 1.5 m high ... As of January 2001, the Sasov funnel had a diameter of 25-33 m , depth - 2-2.5 m.According to other sources, a mysterious explosion near Sasov among an empty field formed a crater not 30, but 28 m in diameter. several kilometers). Chemical analyzes have shown the complete absence of not only traces of explosives, but in general any chemical reactions. ["KP" 1991, April 16].
In the late 1990s, Moscow physicist Nikolai KULANIN, who examined physical fields in the funnel region, noted a strange periodicity of magnetic field oscillations (period - about 10 + -2 minutes). Long-term research was prevented by the breakdown of the magnetometer.
Many versions and hypotheses of the origin of the funnel have been put forward - from a UFO explosion to a banal explosion of saltpeter (neither the one nor the other extreme version has been confirmed) ... a meteorite of medium size (0.5-1.0 m in diameter), causing the generation of shock waves and explosive crater formation. " However, this version did not find other supporters ... One of the most promising hypotheses was put forward by SI SUKHONOS - the explosion of a toroidal energy bunch (his version is tested in the "Cosmopoisk" expeditions). The study of the Sasovskaya funnel and similar places continues to this day.
* * * Travel to the epicenter of the Sasov explosions: By train "Moscow-Ulyanovsk" to Sasovo; then by regular bus and / or on foot to the explosion site.
Frolovskoe (anomalous explosion site);
FEFELOV BOR
This is the so-called Fefelov bor, which is located not far from Kanishchev.
Sand dunes, bizarrely curved trees and a mysterious atmosphere - an anomalous zone was found near Ryazan - the so-called Fefelov bor.
Fefelov Bor is located a few kilometers from the Kanishchevo residential area, which is surrounded on all sides by fields and reservoirs. In 2004, archaeological excavations were carried out here, an ancient burial ground was found.
This forest attracts lovers of the otherworldly. Parapsychologists from all over Russia have been looking for an explanation of what is happening in Fefelov Bor for several years now.
The reason for the study of the area was the stories of those who visited it. According to people, they were haunted by a sense of anxiety.
So far, there is no scientific explanation for this, but there are hypotheses. So, according to one of the versions - the forest invisible "something" is a clot of energy, the source of which is sand - after all, it has been proven that dunes have the ability to move.
As they move, the grains of sand rub together, causing energy to be released into the environment. On themselves, people feel it in the form of a warm or cold wave and darkening in the eyes.
Sharp magnetic oscillations were also recorded in the sandy forest. Presumably, it was the waves that bent the branches of the pine trees at the roots. Biologists are in no hurry to confirm the relationship and it remains to speculate again.
How far the negative aura spreads is beyond the scope of the researchers to judge. If the energy of this forest somehow influences the state and behavior of people, then this is not related to the culture of recreation. As in an ordinary forest, plastic bottles and cigarette packs are scattered in this enchanted forest.
They are left by vacationers who are not intimidated by stories about the oddities that take place in the forest.
DRUNK FOREST - SHILOVSKY DISTRICT
A year ago, a video made in a strange forest was posted on the network. The trees in this place do not grow vertically upwards, but round out. But for some reason the video did not receive wide popularity.
The commentary to the video says that it was filmed in the Shilovsky district, not far from the Priokskaya camp site. The author says that this place is unique - there are no insects, and people who stay there for a long time start to have a headache. Moreover, allegedly, people used to disappear in this place.
The "dancing" or "drunken" forest is a rectangle of crooked conifers. All trees are curved to the north. Deciduous trees grow evenly around. Regarding this place, researchers and scientists agree only in one opinion - there is some kind of natural anomaly. The reasons are different. Someone speaks about the electromagnetic radiation of the earth, someone about the powerful underwater arteries above the intersection of which the "Drunken Forest" grows.
On the other hand, such effects of tree bending are relatively frequent. And always tricky.
Local residents have their own explanations for this oddity, which are reflected in beliefs and legends.
The expedition to study the "drunken forest" in the Ryazan region was carried out by members of the Murom-Kosmopoisk group in early August. It was found that the unusual forest occupies a significant area - up to 150 meters wide and 500-600 meters long, and the number of trees in this area can exceed a thousand.
According to Dmitry Savva, a member of the Murom-Kosmopoisk group, there are many versions that offer one or another explanation for this phenomenon. The reason for the curvature of tree trunks can be seen not only in the influence of the area where they grow (for example, in the presence of a geomagnetic anomaly), but also in the trees themselves (it was suggested that their unusual shape is a manifestation of some kind of genetic disease). One local resident told the participants that the trees were bent by a hurricane several decades ago, but this version is countered by the fact that young trees also look twisted. It is possible that the anomaly has arisen as a result of the simultaneous impact of several factors.
The investigators dug up several seedlings on the territory of the anomalous site and planted them in the Kovarditsky forest near Murom. These young trees are not yet as strongly curved as large trees, however, near the roots, deviations from the normal shape of the trunk are already noticeable. It is important to note that for the experiment, seedlings of various tree species were selected - aspen, birch, pine. Observing how the seedlings planted outside the anomalous zone will grow will make it possible, if not to finally establish the cause of the appearance of "drunken" trees, then significantly narrow the range of possible versions.
VELESOVO LAKE
Located near n. Tarnovo (Tyrnitsa river).
According to legends, mermaids were found in the lake.
It is assumed that near Lake Veles there was a temple for the god Veles, the patron saint of cattle.
Anomalous forest (Pianolesye) is located not far from Tarnovo.
MESHCHORSKY METEORITE
A close study of detailed atlases of Moscow, Vladimir, and, as well as space images of the Meshchera Territory, made it possible to establish the area of falling fragments of a large meteorite, which left traces on the face of prehistoric Meshchera with pockmarks of crater lakes, swamps of anomalous swamps and mysteries of mysterious natural boundaries ...
The hypothesis of the meteoric origin of one of these natural formations was confirmed in the Laboratory of Meteorics of the V.I. Vernadsky, in which studies of rock samples taken in the area of Lake Smerdyachye were carried out. It has been experimentally proven that they contain the material of local sedimentary rocks melted by the impact of a meteorite. Thus, it has been reliably established that several thousand years ago, a fragment of a large meteorite fell here, at the top of the interfluve of the Poli and Voymega, which fell apart at the entrance to the dense layers of the atmosphere into several parts. Let's call it "Meshchersky meteorite".
Anomalous zones and mystical places of the Ryazan region 
Based on the results of these studies, several sensational publications were born in the newspapers Vechernyaya Moskva and Moskovsky Komsomolets. One of the authors presented the results of a geographical analysis of a series of lakes located on the same line at a sufficient distance from each other outside the Shatura region, and presented a conclusion about the "cosmic" reason for their origin.
It is known that there is a similar lake in the Petushinsky district of the Vla-Dimir region. There, in the lower reaches of the Ushma River, in the dense forests, Lake Glubokoe has been lost ... This lake is also a "failure", since its depth is several tens of meters. Lake Glubokoe for many decades was inaccessible not only for researchers, but even for fishermen, since it belonged to the closed territory of the Kosterevsky military training ground. A little to the south-west of it there is a tiny Okunyok lake, which is also a "failure" and has a very great depth. Lake Lemeshinskoe is very reminiscent of a meteorite crater with high sandy shores of the northern half of the lake depression, surrounded on all sides by the characteristic low-lying left bank of the Polya River. It is very similar to the Karpovskoye meteorite crater, which is located near the village of Vlasovo ...
Exceptionally unique in its natural characteristics is Lake White. It is located 22 km north of the town of Spas-Klepiki in the Ryazan region - to the left of the road to the village of Poserda, which is already on the very border with the Vladimir region. The lake area is only 30 hectares. But its depth is amazing - 50.2 m!
There is nothing like this in this land of the Great Meshchera lakes of the Buzha-Pra system, as well as among the surrounding natural reservoirs of a closed type - there is nothing. An exception is the lake of the same name near the village of Dubasovo, Shatursky district - its maximum depth reaches 34.4 m. Ryazan Lake Beloye, like Shaturskoye, is distinguished by clean, light and surprisingly transparent water.
Until now, it was believed that Lake Beloe was formed "... as a result of powerful movements in the era of glaciation, when one of the tongues of the ancient glacier plowed a deep furrow here, filling it later with thaw waters ...". Here is such a popular version today walks through the pages of some popular guidebooks to the lakes of the Meshchera region.
But one important circumstance creeps in here. If you look at the map, you can easily make sure that Lake Beloe () is located strictly on the same line with Lakes Smerdyachye and Glubokoe. From Lake Beloe to Lake Smerdyachye - 70 km, and from Smerdyachye to Glubokoye - 15 km.
The listed lakes with a high degree of probability are meteorite craters and therefore the conclusion suggests itself that the Shushmor tract owes some of its anomalies to the fall of the Meshchera meteorite, which is much older than its Tunguska counterpart. In this case, the fact is confirmed that the mysterious Shushmor and the anomalous Volnoe swamp are also located on the "earthly" projection of the trajectory of this mysterious meteorite - "The troublemaker of the prehistoric Meschera" ... It could well be that in the interfluve of Ushma and Senga it also fell one of the fragments of the Meshchersky meteorite. Indeed, from the conditional line of the trajectory of the fall of its numerous fragments (crater lakes Beloe, Smerdyachye and Glubokoe) to the center of the Volnoe swamp, only some ten kilometers. What a trifle by cosmic standards!
Thus, the chain of supposed crater lakes and anomalous zones is located at an equidistant distance of 15-20 km from each other: Shushmor tract (border of Moscow and Vladimir regions); Lake Smerdyachye (Moscow region); Lake Glubokoe, Lake Okunyok and Volnoe swamp (Vladimir region).
In early July 2006, a message by Alexander Trifonov appeared on one of the sites on the Internet under the catchy headline "A monstrous meteorite exploded over Moscow." According to the information given in it, which had a touch of sensationalism, a large meteorite exploded over Ryazan Meshchera more than a thousand years ago at an altitude of 10 kilometers. The force of the explosion and the shock wave of this space alien "surpassed even the Tunguska phenomenon." After the explosion, a local catastrophe occurred (hurricanes, fires, floods). As a result of these cataclysms, vast areas of the Meshchera forests were destroyed, the fields were burned, and the wooden buildings of rare villages burned down and the Meshchera Territory was completely depopulated for two long centuries. Modern archeology knows only one period of mysterious manlessness - the "dark ages" of the prehistory of Moscow from VIII to X.
Analysis of high-resolution images from space made it possible to map a rectilinear strip 15-20 kilometers wide - the location of the alleged meteorite craters in the eastern suburbs of Moscow, Ryazan and Vladimir regions. This strip ran along the most reserved and remote places of Meshchera at the junction of three regions and its length was over 200 kilometers. It began with a crater with a large ring-shaped depression near the Ryazan village of Dronino, which is located on the Oka right bank. Here is what you can read in the above-mentioned message on the Internet site: “In the relief near the village, there is an ideally round swamp, which is now being drained by land reclamators. A reclamation technique has recently turned several black iron boulders out of the quagmire. The public organization "Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Matter" was the first to examine one of the iron aliens with an anomalous structure. The anomaly of the artifact was that after being raised from the swamp, it quickly turns into dust. "...
OKSKY ANOMALOUS ZONE
December 1941. Fierce battles are being fought over the vast territory from Leningrad to the Crimea. The Germans are 30 kilometers from the Kremlin! At this very time, Field Marshal von Bock, the commander of the German Army Center, receives a very strange directive from Hitler, which prohibits shelling a large piece of the Priokskaya floodplain near the city of Murom. The directive also states that von Bock must provide reliable cover for a special search group, which will soon be thrown into the forests of the Ryazan region. What could the Nazis look for in the Ryazan region in the midst of the war?
It turned out that on the banks of the Russian river, approximately in the same place where the Nazi expedition was sent, archaeologists discovered a large ancient settlement of an unknown culture. Scientists were shocked by the find, since it was believed that in the very center of Russia there were no white spots left for a long time.
Interestingly, the settlement is not the first unique discovery of archaeologists near Ryazan. Recently, a strange object was found in the same area, which archaeologists called Ryazan Stonehenge. It is interesting that the English Stonehenge is located on the same latitude as Ryazan. There is also a natural geomagnetic anomaly in this area. Anomalous zones and mystical places of the Ryazan region 
Given all this, it can be assumed that the Nazi expedition to the Ryazan forests was related to the occult interests of the Third Reich.
It is possible that in ancient times the capital was located on the Ryazan lands mysterious civilization... The city stood on the banks of the Oka, 30 kilometers from Ryazan. Old burial mounds remained in those places along the river coast. During the excavations, traces of a large pre-Mongol settlement were found. And strange finds, artifacts, testifying to the high stage of development of the tribe that lived there. Compared to their wild neighbors, the Mordovians, the "advanced" tribe resembled a certain outpost of the Atlantean civilization surrounded by forest barbarians. Perhaps that is why some researchers have already dubbed the unknown culture "Priokskaya Atlantis".
Arta - the capital of Artania
According to one hypothesis, the traces of a settlement on the banks of the Oka may well be the remains of the legendary Arta - the capital of the mighty state of Artania.
Over the past hundred years, many academic copies have been broken around the question of the existence of this semi-mythical state.
According to the ancient Persian and Arab chronicles, Artania was in the "country of the Uruses" and was one of the three centers of the northern lands. The other two are Kuyaba and Slavia, which scientists correlate with Kiev and Novgorod, - says Vladimir Nikodimov, a well-known Ryazan researcher of antiquity. - The most detailed message about the life and customs of the inhabitants of Artania was left in his notes by the Arab merchant Al-Istarhi, who traveled at the beginning of the 9th century. According to these documents, Artania abounds in honey, bread and game. And its inhabitants are tall, with blond hair and blue eyes, sharp-witted and skilled in blacksmithing. Iron armor, made in Artania and bought by Al-Istarhi, saved the latter upon his return to his homeland: they were not even able to pierce the famous Arab blades.
As for geography, the capital of Artania, Arta, according to Arab sources, was located on the banks of a wide river. Historians-followers of the "Oka hypothesis" of the location of Arta, as one of the main arguments in defense of their version, cite the ancient Meshchera legend about three kings-magi named Ermus, Cadmus and Shumush, who fought with the formidable tribe of "white-headed arts" who lived next door in the city on the Oka.
Tibetan Shambhala ... near Ryazan?
The notorious "Anennerbe" (the "Legacy of the Ancestors" society) was part of one of the structural divisions of the SS and was a very serious office, with the activities of which many terrible secrets of the Third Reich are connected.
It is already reliably known that its members made expeditions to Tibet and Central Asia, looking for the spiritual "gate of the ancient Aryans" - Shambhala. In addition to this, the main goal, "Ahnenerbe" searched all over the world for various occult artifacts, such as the legendary Grail, Thor's hammer or Wotan's spear. With the help of these ancient shrines, the Fuhrer hoped to gain magical power over the world.
In the forties of the last century, the Ahnenerbe society was a very influential organization in the German Empire, had a superbly streamlined system of collecting information and would never prepare its specialists to be transferred over the front line to the Ryazan forests without serious reasons for this. The ancient Aryans almost certainly did not live on the lands near Ryazan, but in any case, there is SOMETHING in the Oka land that could stir up the archaeological interest of the "gloomy Teutons" from "Ahnenerbe".
Oka anomalous zone
It is curious that until now archaeologists have investigated only one mound from the Priokskaya "chain" of mounds that stretches along the Oka to Murom itself (it was also mentioned in that German directive), continues Vladimir Nikodimov. - The rest of the mounds, which have survived to our times in the form of low hills, have not yet been explored. It is quite possible that traces of ancient settlements will be found there, as it is obvious that the hills are of man-made origin. Personally, I happened to communicate with people who dived into a lake located near one of the mounds - metal artifacts were found at the bottom of it. Moreover, the level of their processing, according to its technique, was an order of magnitude superior to the skill of blacksmiths from the Slavic-Vyatichi tribes.
By the way, last summer “in the footsteps of the ancient Aryans” along the chain of Oka mounds an expedition of the authors of the program “Anomalous Zone” (ORT) was carried out. The TV crew together with a small group of Ryazan students from the Russian State University spent about a week in an open-air camp on the ancient Oka lands - in the immediate vicinity of the remains of the Atlantean settlement. According to the Ryazan guys who helped in organizing the expedition and filming, it was not without the most "anomalous". And real, and not cinematic: even those who had seen everything, the authors of "Anomalous Zone" were surprised and amazed - having arrived here, they intended to "bungle" an ordinary TV report, but it turned out differently ...
It all started with oddities with cellular communications, - recalls Denis Strogan, a student at the Russian State University. - After a few guys visited the top of the mound, their mobile phones immediately went out. And those at the bottom of the hill had their phones working fine. But the next day, when they also decided to visit the summit, their cell phones also glitched. One of them had the "firmware" flying ... Then something similar began with an electronic clock, a video camera and even a CD-player that one of the girls had. I have heard that something similar happens in places with a strong magnetic anomaly. However, our compass did not react in any way, while all the electronic devices literally went crazy. The technique came to its senses only a few hours later, when we retired 10-15 kilometers. After that, we called that strange and mysterious place "Oka anomalous zone" ... Anomalous zones and mystical places of the Ryazan region 
PLACES OF POWER - LOCAL STUDENT VLADIMIR GRIBOV
1. We have unique protected areas on the territory of the Ryazan region. Mysterious, immensely beautiful, mysterious little people, they carry a charge of superpure all-pervading energy of kindness and love, capable of changing the consciousness and inner spiritual world of a person.
These are ancient sanctuaries, mounds, which are more than one thousand years old. These are keys with "living" and "dead" water, which has a unique healing power. This miracle is the Alatyr (altar) stone at the bell-shaped mound, which has the energy of a living person. This is a grandiose construction of earth and sand, the so-called Krom-menhir, in the form of a giant alien ship. These are seven pyramidal mounds, forming the profile of a woman, their height is about 15 meters. Near the mounds there is a unique ravine, at the bottom of which, at times, there is a glow and an incomprehensible rumble disturbing the soul. As well as totem trees, standing alone in the meadows, where an atmosphere of prosperity and quiet joy reigns.
Anomalous zones and mystical places of the Ryazan region 
2. These places are poorly populated, not littered with civilization, located 80 km from the city of Ryazan. Natural natural purity, extraordinary tranquility bestows peace, heavenly bliss and love.
During the excursion, I will tell you the amazing stories associated with these lands, tell you about the legends, myths and traditions of deep antiquity. This is a miracle tale about the Sword of Oriya, which is safely hidden in the land of Ryazan. The legend about the golden horse, taken by the Ryazan people to Meschera before the invasion of the Tatar Horde, about the golden crown found on the territory of the settlement "Old Ryazan". About the miracle of the Menhir hill, the protector of the city from diseases and misfortunes. About the secret city of Ryazan, the legendary Arte, not found to this day, where, according to legend, the great Vedic shrines of the ancient Slavic world are kept.
I would like to remind you once again that all these activities are safe for health. My guidance, tips, help, will help you experience, see, feel transcendental, incredible sensations.
3. RIVER ISTIA - STAROZHILOVSKY DISTRICT
Feet start to freeze. There is a haze in the air from the heat, you can see how the air sways, and you walk on the ground, as if you are walking on a jellied meat. A large dry tree, behind it a ravine, then a crooked pine tree ... We are again on the river bank. It is pointless to spin circles further. No sign of an underground passage. Maybe all this stories? How can one believe the stories of the locals, they say, and the whole land in the region of the river is dotted with deep underground voids, if for several years now brown stones the size of a head have been crawling out of this very land, like poured beets?
In the meadows between the villages of Suisk, Shishkino and Bogdanovo, Starozhilovsky district, you will not find idle companies that have got out to barbecues, there are no hunters here, and the animals bypass these places. The shallow river Istya writes intricate loops between hills and copses. As if he wants to whirl, confuse everyone who decides to stick to it as a reference point ... With the light hand of Ryazan explorer Vladimir Gribov, our "Zhiguli" crawled to the old dirt road overgrown with thistles. Further - five kilometers on foot.
4. WHAT THE NOMADS LOOKED FOR?
The places here are truly mysterious. According to the legends, the advance detachments of Tamerlane reached the Starozhilovsky meadows. Allegedly, a mile from the Itia River they were looking for untold riches, but they left unsparingly. Several centuries later, the expedition of the Third Reich (the fact of the existence of which was never documented, but was not completely refuted) visited these places, but never reached one of the main waterways of the Starozhilovsky district. What were you looking for? The legendary Aryan forge? The sword that, according to legend, bestows magical powers on the owner? Many fairy tales and epics of the Starozhilovskaya land have long been overgrown with reality. Now no one will remember what is true and what is idle fiction ... According to my guide, Gribov, many of the local old-timers confirm the legend about the existence of an extensive system of underground passages in these places. They say that tunnels, almost two human height and more than two meters wide, run from the old dilapidated estate to Itia itself, enter the woods and cross under a tiny island in the most swampy part of the river. But no one can pinpoint exactly where the entrance to at least one of the tunnels is.
What could be the purpose of the underground tunnels? Earth development? So the Oldozhilovskaya land is by no means rich in minerals and even more so in precious stones ... A dungeon for serfs? So the manor was built in the 15th century, and what treasures, according to the legend, were nomads trying to find here several centuries earlier?
5. BROKEN RIVER
The MAIN riddle of Ichiya is stones. Gray boulders, some the size of a plum, others the size of a horse's head. As if with families, they huddle together every five to six meters in the shallow river water, you can reach anyone with your hand. I take off my shoes, go into the water and bend over to the chipped stone comb. The coldness of the water brings legs together, and the surface of the stone seems warm, as if something warms it from the inside. I tried to take out the whole stone - it didn't work!
It is about these stones, - Vladimir clarifies, - that there are many stories, sometimes the most fantastic ones. But what is true is true, he himself came here in the fall and saw with his own eyes: the bottom of the river without a single pebble. Only a peso check in the sun sparkles. And every spring and until September, at least harvest the harvest! They crawl out of the sand like mushrooms after rain. Only until the stone itself completely comes out of the ground, at least three of us pull it - you will not pull it out! Locals have long ago adapted to collect them for baths. Nobody even thinks why such a miracle happens. We got used to it, it is clear that stones come out of the river, and not one or two, but dozens! They're joking - you see, our river is like that, with stones, belly, so it “gives birth” every year ”...
Three of the largest stone "offspring" of Ichii "grow" along the coast. Only one meter-by-meter stone area rise above the ground, the stones themselves are almost entirely hidden under the earth's strata.
Here I have a ruler in store, - Vladimir pulls out a ruler from his bosom. - When I was here last fall, I measured how much stones protrude from the ground. Here's the mark - see? 15 centimeters. According to the stories of local residents, these stones should have grown in a year ...
My guide sits down on his haunches near the stone closest to the shore, then goes to the second, third ...
- 32 centimeters. As if by one measure they were pulling from the ground. Wow, stone "sprouts"!
6. THE HUSBANDER'S SECRET
STOP! The problem comes out. It is strange that this phenomenon with growing stones has not yet become the subject of interest of scientists. But if what we saw is true, how does this fit in with the legend of underground tunnels? If we assume that the "massive release of stones to the surface" is just a consequence of some unknown tectonic processes in the earth's crust, how can a host of stones coexist with huge underground voids?
We are approaching a thicket. Istya seems to dive under the dense crowns of trees and is completely lost from sight among the black-gray branches. Our goal is somewhere nearby.
A year ago, - continues Vladimir, - I met one person in these places. Beekeeper, his name is Constantine. He built a dwelling for himself in an extension near the estate, he was going to build a new house on the old foundation. He lived as a boar, did not communicate with any of the locals. Yes, and with me at first did not want to. Barely got him talking. He told me about one of the underground tunnels. Allegedly, his grandfather told him, and his grandfather told him ... The beekeeper himself did not go there and he did not advise me ... But it seems that he told everything he knew about the place. In the middle of the thicket, the river makes a sharp turn, and there is an island in the water loop. Not even an island - so, the island is small. They say that the owner of the estate, when he was alive, often went there along the tunnel. He rested on the island in solitude, so to speak, from worldly concerns. It is on this very island or on the shore near it and you need to look for the entrance to the tunnel ...
Maybe the answer to the riddle of Itia, who gives birth to stones, also lies in these remote places?
The ground underfoot begins to chomp disgustingly. An unpleasant chill runs down the back of the neck ... If you believe the words of the beekeeper, somewhere here there must be a passage to the island. A large dry tree, behind it a ravine, then a crooked pine tree .. Nothing. The island, as if pressed into the ground under the weight of a windbreak, is surrounded by water on all sides.
Maybe we can wade to the island? - Vladimir found a long pole somewhere and got ready to check the bottom. - Here the distance from the coast is three meters, no more ...
He swings down one end of the pole into the duckweed surface of the water and ... at the same moment he loses his balance. I barely manage to grab him by the arms. The pole sticks vertically out of the water for some time, after which it slowly, with a squelch begins to sink ...
7. STONE WEDDING
ALREADY on the way back we got into conversation with one of the residents of the village of Bogdanovo, Maria Sergeevna. The hospitable hostess gave us tea, as if repaying us for our unsuccessful journey ...
You shouldn't have climbed there ... From ours, Bogdanov's, no one has shown a nose for a long time in those places. This place is not good, dangerous ...
Mary Sergeevna, have you heard the legend about the underground passages?
How could you not hear? All this is just a fairy tale. So, silly inventions. ..
They said that a long time ago, a very long time ago, one fierce master lived in these places. He starved His serfs and put them in an underground dungeon for all sorts of faults. They say they dug it for themselves, and many of them found their death there. Further, it means, as in a fairy tale, - the master had a beautiful daughter. And this daughter decided to escape with her beloved, secretly from her father. Not only did she run away from home, she carried a baby under her heart ... So that master caught his daughter and her fiancé and walled them up in these dungeons. They said that in the same place, under the earth, she gave birth. And there all three died ... Like, since then they all want to get out to the sun, but the earth will not let them. That is why they cry, and our Istya turns their tears into stones ...
It turns out that those three stone tops that we saw on the banks of the river ... Downright three prisoners of the castle!
I tell you, these are all fairy tales! ..
I left Starozhilovskie meadows with a strange feeling. On the one hand, I almost managed to touch the mystery of nature, to see something truly amazing with my own eyes. On the other hand, nature once again reminded me: it was, is and will be more important than man, and will never fully reveal all its secrets to anyone.
8. VILLAGE CHUCHKOVO
How do Chuchkovo residents travel through the Universe?
The wooden doors of an abandoned temple open with a menacing creak. Small pebbles under our feet squeak like dry paper.
Anomalous zones and mystical places of the Ryazan region 
We are eating in the footsteps of two unknown boys from the distant sixties of the last century. We are our old acquaintance, local historian Vladimir Gribov, three young guys from the Cosmopoisk research association, Igor Panin, a native of the village of Golenishchevo, Chuchkovsky District, at whose call we got ready for the road, and your humble servant ...
9. Mysterious Occurrence
Then this story made a lot of noise, - Igor recalls. - The boys left at nine o'clock in the evening. It seems like the elder, Oleg, incited the younger Seryozha to take a "weak" walk through the abandoned cemetery. An hour later, at the board of the collective farm - a call from Nesterovo. My mother just picked up the phone. They tell her to take your travelers.
The village of Nesterovo is located 54 kilometers north of Golenishchevo. As the perpetrators of the incident later claimed, having passed through old church on the outskirts of the cemetery, they saw a round stone that looked like an egg. A curious glow stood on top of the stone in a halo. Out of curiosity, they began to climb to the stone, to the hillock. And when we went down the hill, we did not recognize the surrounding area. Noticing the lights, we went out to the nearest village huts, knocked on the window. Some local granny ran to the board, found the chairman, he called Golenishchevo. Having scolded the boys for having taken it into their heads to roam through the woods at night looking, he sat them in an UAZ and at the beginning of twelve brought them home. Of course, no one believed in the story with the wonderful "stone". They decided, they say, the guys came up with a bike to avoid punishment ...
10. SECRET ROAD
HOWEVER, our guide called us here not to tell a fairy tale half a century ago. We have already left the church and made a temporary stop on a plowed strip of land. It was here, according to Panin, that the gravestones of the old cemetery were located until the end of the 60s.
About a month ago I decided to visit my mother, - Igor continues his story. - After school, I moved to the city, but she remained here to look after the household. And she told me this story. Say, she needed to get to the neighboring village, eight kilometers away. My sister lives there with her husband. To wait for the bus for a long time, I decided to go on foot. I went past the church, right where we are now standing. Climbed the hill, sat on a pebble to rest. I went down and didn’t understand how I got out right to my sister’s house! It was as if someone took the scruff of the neck, like a kitten, and even transferred it ...
Honestly. I am suspicious of such fables. And at that time the story of "teleportation" somehow did not inspire ... Which, by the way, could not be said about the guys from "Cosmopoisk". While I was clicking the camera shutter, capturing the surroundings (maybe it will come in handy), young people, armed with bayonet shovels, began to dig up the ground on a patch near our "camp". And after half an hour, another road paved with bizarre stones opened before our eyes. The stones were neatly stacked about three meters wide and covered with sand. The road led towards the hill.
11. THE DISAPPEARED OLD MAN
To our disappointment, having climbed to the top, we did not find any egg-shaped stone. Which, by the way, did not surprise our "guide" at all ...
I tell you, ”Panin shrugged his shoulders,“ this stone is not easy. To whom he wants, that is shown ...
Another fairy tale? While I was wondering what kind of plot could be squeezed out of this “unscientific fantasy,” Gribov decided to experiment. He took his mobile phone out of his pocket and put it in the place where the stone was supposed to be. The phone screen went blank in an instant. Gribov could not reanimate the device before returning to Ryazan ...
The little shaking car carried us in Return trip... Gribov was in a hurry to express his hypothesis of what had happened.
Before, while visiting these places, I have heard a legend. They said that as early as the 17th century, wagons with goods went here. And the surrounding bandits got into the habit of robbing merchants. No one could handle the robbers. Then the villagers went to bow to one elder. The elder climbed the highest hill and dug a dugout for himself. He lived in it for six months, slept at night, and during the day he went to the stone and prayed on his knees. And then he disappeared. A couple of years later, one train happened to pass here. Robbers lay in wait for the merchants near the forest, they wanted to attack. Yes, only the baggage train disappeared behind the hill, but from behind the hill it did not appear. It was as if someone took all the carts with goods and merchants with horses, like kittens in an armful, and carried them out of nowhere. The church, by the way, was built in memory of that elder. So maybe this old man opened a tunnel through space?
12. ABOUT QUANTS AND SWEETS ...
So that you, dear readers, do not have the feeling that we have completely hit the mythology, I will allow myself a digression. Scientists from all over the world have been fighting over the phenomenon of teleportation for a long time. Four years ago, the first ever successful experiment on the so-called quantum teleportation was announced. In the course of the experiment, an instant transfer of information about the quantum state of the ion of the beryllium atom from one point in space to another was made. Subsequently, scientists explained that quantum teleportation, neither now nor in the future, can serve to transmit material objects over a distance. We are talking only about a kind of scanning of elementary particles. For their part, adherents of the theory of material teleportation put forward a hypothesis about the so-called "hole universe". According to this hypothesis, in the structure of space, from time to time, a kind of vortex is formed, arbitrarily opening and "collapsing" corridors. If two opposite exits of one "corridor" find themselves at the same point for some shortest moment, an object may well have time to "slip" through these "gates" and instantly move in space. It is assumed that our ancestors had a special knowledge of how to subjugate space. Will these secrets be revealed to us? Again, it all looks too much like a fairy tale.
But the fact that the earth is round was also once considered a fairy tale. And every student ,. how "Az and Buki" knew that the earth rests on three whales, and the whales swim on the endless world ocean ...
13. VILLAGE SHATRISCHE
One amazing mysterious place, located in the vicinity of the village of Shatrishche, which is located not far from Staraya Ryazan, many residents of the surrounding villages do not even suspect. Here, on the high bank of the Oka, between two springs with transparent icy water, there is a bizarre hill reminiscent of the legendary Sphinx. What is it? Creation of Mother Nature or the oldest cult place of the Slavs? Perhaps the answer is provided by the creativity of our people.
Ladies with horns
In our Ryazan region lies the richest, priceless cultural layer, from which archaeologists, thanks to persistent painstaking work, annually bring into the light of God truly unique objects of a distant, bygone era. And here's what's interesting: almost all gold and silver jewelry, as well as household items, depict some kind of fabulous, and sometimes just fantastic creatures, signs, symbols that resemble animals, birds, people with horns on their heads. The masters of that time, of course, wanted to give the jewelry something mysterious, magical. Where did the great masters of the past get these images from and where? Who taught our ancestors to perform such divine miracles? What was the inspiration for such creative impulses? As you can see, there are a lot of questions. It is almost impossible to answer them. Modern jewelry virtuosos with a mass of high-tech devices also cannot answer these questions and even remotely repeat what was worked in the dugouts! In low light, primitive tools! There is an assumption that representatives of other unearthly civilizations discovered certain laws for their ancestors that allowed them to step far beyond the limits of human capabilities. Hence such images on jewelry and household items, hence the giant breathtaking structures from the earth, visible only from a great distance.
Unknown people arrive to the warrior
Take, for example, the mysterious hill on the banks of the Oka. I had the opportunity to talk many times with the locals about my discovery. And they talked about what is happening periodically in the area of the mountain I am describing. In the evening, the air glows, sometimes streams that smoothly go around the hill on both sides. It is not known where the transparent balls appear from. What force attracts invisible guests here? What laws allow them to shorten unthinkable distances and go unnoticed? An interesting legend my great-grandmother told me when I was still a child. He lived as if in ancient times a strong, strong-willed warrior. In all battles he went to the fiercest battle and always won. No one, not a single living person knew that this warrior was granted by God immortality. All his strength was contained in the horns on his head, which he skillfully hid under a heavy, strong helmet of an unusual shape. And this strong man also had an agreement with God that he would live until he fell in love with one of the mortals. And then one day he met a written beauty, fell in love with her to madness and lost his strength and immortality.
Before leaving this world, the warrior asked his beloved to bury him between the three waters in secret, so that no one would ever get his strength and immortality. Isn't this hill, according to legend, the resting place of the miraculous hero?
Fiction or fiction?
But there is another unique place that can also claim to be relevant to this story. A huge, 150 meters long and 12 meters high earthen mound in the shape of a warrior in helmet and armor is also located between three waters near those places. It is interesting that this hero closes with his gigantic body the entrance to the ancient settlement, which is made in the form of an almost perfect concave plate! Legends will remain legends for all time. Whether it was a beautiful fairy tale or was it in fact, it's not for me to judge. But facts are stubborn things. What made the Ryazan beauties wear horned pussies on their heads? Maybe among our distant ancestors there really lived unusual representatives of other worlds, who, due to circumstances, were forced to hide something incomprehensible on their heads? Maybe it was they who skillfully performed jewelry of unique beauty with bizarre patterns, mysterious characters and signs that are absolutely incomprehensible to us, people? Was it not they, with the help of their unique capabilities, built huge earthen embankments, which periodically have various kinds of anomalies that do not fit into the framework of our human consciousness. Scientists, archaeologists and simply lovers of everything unusual and unknown will have to make a lot of efforts to unravel these secrets of the past.
VILLAGE STENKINO
The story of the mysterious old man from the forests near Stenkino, as one of the many legends about the wonders and secrets of the Meshchera forests, could well have sunk into oblivion. We were forced to recall her by a letter that came to the editorial office in mid-March.
There was absolutely nothing mystical about this letter. On the contrary, one of the residents of the region told us an anecdotal incident about a ski trip on the day of the first spring holiday. Together with his friends, he went to conquer the virgin snow in the Ryazan forests. When the hike was about to end, the friends saw a strange local resident. The elderly man, despite the frost, was not wearing any clothes. Except for linen pants and a shirt. He did not look like a drunk, walked confidently towards the nearest village. One of the skiers called out to him. The grandfather either did not hear, or did not want to turn around. The author of the letter suggested that he had met one of the land "walruses". Like, if there are those who are tempered, swimming, in a fierce cold in an ice-hole, why shouldn't there be such "walruses" who walk barefoot in the frost ...
Only the place near which the skiers saw a barefoot old man seemed suspiciously familiar to us. One of the villages a few kilometers from the Stenkino Uchkhoz. We deliberately do not give its exact name. We have enough curious people, but this is exactly the case when curiosity can go sideways. The mention of the mysterious "elder" allegedly living in the "lost ravine near Stenkino" is found in the notes of Ryazan ethnographers. According to them, the villagers more than once saw how, in the rain or in the snow, a barefoot old man in rough homespun clothes came from the side of the ravine on the outskirts of the village. Sometimes he softly knocked on the window and asked the children to bring him some water to drink. Sometimes he just passed by. The locals noticed that the old man appeared before the misfortune happened. They were afraid to talk to him. It was believed that illness or trouble would come after him to the house near which the old man stopped.
They talked about a local resident who risked curiosity to follow the old man. Unnoticed, he reached the "lost ravine" and went down there after him. But he saw no elder. “Everything swam before my eyes,” the eyewitness recalled, “ears were blocked.
Whether the person the skiers met was the "ghostly old man" or not is unknown. It is known for sure that people living in the neighborhood of the "lost ravine" have long bypassed it. A fairy tale, a fairy tale, but somehow scary ...
CAPITA FROM INFERTILITY
A magical ancient temple with a stone pillar in the form of a genital organ, found by archaeologists near Ryazan, has become a place of pilgrimage. Women here are cured of infertility, and men gain strength in sex.
Rumors that a stone sanctuary discovered in the Starozhilovsky district heals such ailments instantly spread around the area.
- Is it a joke to say - boulders, boulders, and they helped the visiting lady to make the baby! Only the ancient spells work, - the locals whisper superstitiously, as soon as the conversation touches the "magic stones".
It all started last summer. It was then that a group of enthusiastic archaeologists discovered the remains of a Finno-Ugric sanctuary near the Ryazan town of Starozhilovo. Several large stones, sunk in the stream bed, formed two concentric circles. In the center, under a layer of sand and pebbles, a long altar stone, which had been tilted to one side, was unearthed. The find is supposedly two thousand years old. Most likely, this is a trace of the stay of the Finno-Ugric tribes on the Ryazan lands. Their shamans often set up similar temples in natural "places of power".
A few months after the opening of the temple, the Ryazan ethnographer Vladimir Gribov decided to "restore" it. He restored the stones, reporting the missing "links" with new boulders. Now the tributary of the Istia River, where the structure is located, has become a place of pilgrimage for many who want to be healed. Especially from the ailment of female infertility - after all, the stone phallic symbol, located in the middle of the structure, personifies fertility.
Tatiana Sokolova, a 32-year-old resident of Ryazan, and her husband have long dreamed of a child. But, to their disappointment, year after year went by, and there was still no replenishment in the family. What the spouses did not try - they spent a lot of money on doctors, prescribed exotic pills from Thailand, turned to wizards and healers. All to no avail. Doctors predicted her infertility caused by a whole range of female diseases. Desperate to change anything, Tatyana Vladimirovna learned from her friends about a miraculous place. And I went there several times.
I was doing meditation on the shore near the ancient sanctuary, - says Tatiana. - Then she took off her shoes, walked barefoot into the shallow water, entered stone circle and walked counterclockwise three times, then touched the central stone and wished herself female happiness. Less than a month later, my dreams came true. Now we, together with my beloved, are waiting for the addition. Doctors in the consultation say that the pregnancy is proceeding without abnormalities. I myself still, after many years of unsuccessful hopes, do not fully believe in this happiness - to be a mother ...
BABYLON UNDER ISAD
Several years ago, the entire world community was agitated by a sensation on a cosmic scale. The Voyager interplanetary probe has transmitted a series of panoramic images of the surface of Mars to Earth.
On some of them, a structure of clearly artificial origin was visible. A huge (several thousand kilometers in size) female face, as if carved out of red stone, rose above the lifeless Martian plain ...
As it turned out, something similar can be found not only in space, but also at one's side. Not so long ago, Ryazan explorer Vladimir Kapitanov went on another expedition to the area near the village of Isady, Spassky District. The local historian's imagination has long been occupied by 7 unusual burial mounds located 3 kilometers south of the village.
“On closer inspection,” he told us, “it was obvious that these mounds were not made by hands. Well, it does not happen so in nature that 7 hills are lined up strictly in one line, and at the same time they would be oriented to the cardinal points. During the excavations, we brought out the remains of stone chops, fragments of knives. Everything pointed to the fact that once upon a time there was a large settlement ...
But Vladimir discovered the most amazing thing on his return to Ryazan. In one of the pictures, the mounds "folded" into a clear female profile! Nature's "joke"? Maybe so. However, how then to interpret another mysterious fact that the researcher told us about?
- The "forehead" of this huge face is crowned with a ravine, which we examined in detail during the trip. The ravine is quite deep, there is no vegetation in it, the ground is as if burnt out. The wind at the edge of the ravine does not blow in a straight line, but in a parabola, as if pulling inward. What is strange: we did not manage to take a single photo in this ravine! Digital cameras refused to work. And the photo from the film machine when printed turned out to be as if covered with a dense haze ...
As we managed to find out, a few years ago a fragment of a meteorite was discovered in this ravine. Was not the "city-face", like Babylon, destroyed by this heavenly body? And thus were its builders punished for their pride, who decided to glorify themselves for centuries and created an unprecedented earth sculpture? Or maybe the "female face" is just a figment of our associative imagination? Judge for yourself...
GIANT ANCESTORS
Three-meter ancestors
Take a present! - a familiar voice sounded in the receiver. For trifles, our old friend, researcher and ethnographer Vladimir Gribov will not bother.
Sorry, of course ... But maybe you yourself will come up to us?
- I would be glad, - laughs Gribov, - but the present will be too heavy ...
A couple of minutes later, Gribov opens the trunk of an old Zhigulenka in front of me. The edge of a brown boulder peeps out from under the canvas canopy ...
- And what is this "treasure"?
Mushrooms with an effort removes the stone from the trunk and offers the find to me. I substitute my hands - the pebble weighs 15 kilograms. And in appearance it does not at all look like a creation of nature ..
Shaft-sized kitchen hatchet
It was chopping, - Gribov intercepts my questioning glance. - With such "pebbles" our ancestors went to the forest for "brushwood" several thousand years ago, chopped meat. Feel the hem. It is still as sharp as a razor blade ... Specialists-archaeologists have confirmed that it is a handmade product. And they named the approximate age of the stone: about four thousand years. They said that it does not have much value, except that the dimensions are painfully impressive ...
According to Gribov, stone artifacts were discovered by him during his last expedition to places near the village of Prosandeevka, Shatsk district, Ryazan region. One of the walls of a huge ravine near the Aza River has been washed away by groundwater for many years. Sharp stone edges appeared in the gullies this summer. Gribov tried to extract at least one of the boulders into the light, but could not cope with the stone with his "bare hands". He returned with the instrument. And one find was followed by another, a third ... A chopper the size of a cardan shaft, a children's toy - a little smaller than a soccer ball, fragments of ceramic dishes, each one the size of a wash basin ... Not everything fit in the trunk.
By the way, the dimensions of the "chopper" do not fit any "standard" descriptions of household items of people of the Stone Age. Most of these exhibits, found during archaeological research, do not exceed 30 centimeters in length and weigh up to 2-3 kilograms. What giant could sculpt such a pood "hatchet"? And what remarkable physical strength should have been possessed by a baby who, perhaps four thousand years ago, played with a stone "pyramid" weighing a little less than a kilogram and more than 10 centimeters long?
Military ruse?
Is the legend that a tribe of giant people once existed in the Meshchera forests has real ground? For comments, we turned to another researcher, anthropologist - Vladimir Dubin ...
It is not difficult to calculate, - Vladimir Sergeevich told us, - that with a stone chopper of about 50 centimeters and a weight of 15 kilograms, the person who used it in work should have had hands incomparably larger than those of modern homo sapiens. And his height would be in the range from 2 to 3 meters. The dimensions of the "prehistoric" baby are no less impressive. To play with such a toy, he had to possess the strength of a five-year-old child, which means that he was no less than a meter tall. But if I were you, I would not believe in all these "fairy tales" about giants ... I have heard the hypothesis more than once that our ancestors, being completely ordinary people, specially made giant things unnecessary in everyday life: knives, axes, dishes. Allegedly, the purpose of all these items was only to scare the enemy if it was necessary to leave the settlement. Like, if they have such weapons and rattles, then what are they? ..
Where did the willow trees disappear?
Meanwhile, Vladimir Gribov is sure: the finds from the Shatsky ravine confirm his hypothesis that the ancestors of the modern Ryazan people had inhuman capabilities. Or, as the legends say, they could squeeze water out of a stone and whistle trees to the ground ...
Even in the chronicles of the middle of the 1st millennium AD, our ancestors - Vyatichi - are described, to put it mildly, as "not quite ordinary people," Gribov explains his point of view.
- "Vyatichi live in the forest, like every beast, and their games are wild, one name has two and three wives, and the strength of a riot, neither Radimich, nor Krivich will not resist ..." (from the Ryazan chronicles of the 9th century A.D. B.C.-Ed.).
Other historical documents tell us that "Vyat came from the East from the desert lands." In the east, only one is known large desert- Gobi. And it was there at different times that the largest number of finds were made, indicating the existence of giants. Tracks from gigantic legs, fossilized human bones of incredible size, stone axes weighing 20-30 kilograms ...
But what happened to the Ryazan giants? What unknown catastrophe caused the giants to disappear?
A number of scientists who admit the existence of three-meter-tall people in former times believe that the cause of their disappearance, as in the history of the extinction of the dinosaurs, could have been a global cooling, continues Gribov. - The logic of this version is simple. It is easier for a person of small stature to find clothes for himself, it is easier to feed and warm up. There is another version, according to which the "grinding" of a person was a consequence of evolution. Do you know how tall the famous knight Lancelot was? They say that only 1 meter 50 centimeters ...
With all due respect to the opinion of the author of the hypothesis, Vladimir Gribov, we cannot but note that in addition to the Gobi Desert, there are two more places in the world where scientists have repeatedly found traces of the existence of gigantic people. One of them is Patagonia (South America). Fossilized human shin bones (each one and a half meters long) were discovered there in 1931. Another is located on the site of the present state of Ohio (USA). The weight and size of the Stone Age tools found during excavations leave no doubt - only people of unusually tall stature and who, moreover, had remarkable physical strength, could work with such a "tool". Curiously, scientists have not yet managed to find anything like this either in Africa or in Europe ... And so it is possible that the legendary "vyaty" - the ancestors of modern Ryazan people - were representatives of one of the three "families" of giants in the world. .. Say, fantastic? Or maybe one of the pages of history that science has yet to discover?
THE MYSTERY OF THE ANCIENT MURAL
The Mystery of the Ancient Mound
Old Ryazan never ceases to amaze us with its discoveries. The last expedition of the famous Ryazan explorer Vladimir Gribov brought two such discoveries at once. On the very outskirts of the settlement, two inconspicuous keys were found. With "living" and "dead" water ...
I understand that for many it sounds like a fairy tale, - says Vladimir, - and that highbrow pundits have long come up with an explanation for everything. "Dead" is called water, purified from all kinds of bacteria and impurities. Essentially a distillate. As for "living", here, in the opinion of pundits, the whole point is in the high content of useful substances and minerals. They say that this is why spring water, especially in mountainous regions, is able to have a wound healing effect and even strengthen the immune system ...
However, what was discovered by the Ryazan researcher this time hardly fits into the generally accepted framework. Two keys are literally two hundred meters from each other. Each of them bends from the southern side of the mound near the banks of the Oka and flows into the main waterway of the Ryazan region.
The key that gushes out of the ground near the mound itself has probably been seen by many. In the place where it flows into the Oka, the water is simply teeming with fry. Grasses grow in abundance along the banks of the stream. The water is crystal clear and even smells like something special. I managed to find the place where the spring with "dead" water flows from. Here is a completely different picture As if a clay "seam", naked and lifeless, goes along the ground. At the confluence with the Oka, the water is muddy. Except for fragments of shells, there are no signs of life.
For the sake of experiment, the researcher picked several types of herbs from the edges of the "living" spring and for a few seconds lowered them into the "dead" water.
It felt like dipping plants into vinegar essence. In a matter of moments, the inflorescences shriveled, the stems turned brown. The luxurious bouquet, drawn into the air, looked more like a bunch of straw. If we agree that "dead" water is close in composition to distilled water, then how to explain such an effect? There is no answer to this question yet.
As there is no answer to another question. For what reason did two keys, so different in properties, end up in close proximity to each other? Currently, the water from the "dead" spring has been sent for analysis to one of the Ryazan laboratories ...
SECRET WEAPON
Surprisingly, the fact remains. None of the chronicle sources mentions that at least ever there was a pestilence in Old Ryazan.
But the city stood at the intersection of many trade routes. Foreigners were frequent guests here. How to explain such "luck"?
An interesting version was voiced to us by the Ryazan ethnographer Vladimir Gribov. In the summer, he went to Staraya Ryazan in order to study a mysterious structure erected a little further off the eastern rampart. The earthen mountain, shaped like a mighty ship, was clearly not designed to ward off nomadic raids. It could be easily bypassed on both sides. However, while studying it, the researcher drew attention to an unusual detail. There was practically no vegetation between the mountain and the eastern rampart. And the sensations during your stay here were not pleasant: pressing, alarming ... So did the "ship" serve as a kind of energy shield in Old Ryazan? In ancient chronicles, there are several references to a mysterious structure. Our ancestors called it "chrome" (isn't that so, consonant with the word "Kremlin"?) And they erected chrome "in order to protect the city from the enemy and to protect ailments." Were the ancients really so wrong, believing that the "magic mountain" is able to defend the city better than the strongest defensive redoubts? Again, there is not a single mention of massive epidemics among the townspeople. Nomads have repeatedly tried to take the city by storm. Only the Batyev Horde succeeded in this. Why didn't the mountain stop him?
Gribov found a possible answer to this question to the south of the settlement, in the village of Shatrishche. Local residents often found massive pipes made of skillfully processed quartz in their gardens. The pipes, as a rule, lay at a shallow depth and were pointed towards Old Ryazan ...
It is known that in the area of Shat-rishche, - said the local historian, - there was one of the Horde's camps. Maybe Batu realized that Old Ryazan was guarded by something "stronger" than defensive ramparts? And in a short time he built his "secret weapon", which made it possible to "turn off" the energy shield ...
Just the other day Kapitanov in one of the Moscow laboratories received the results of the analysis of a quartz tube borrowed from the inhabitants of Shatrishch. The examination established: the age of the pipe is more than 1000 years ...
DRUNK STREAM
Drunken stream 
Shilovsky district of Ryazan region never ceases to amaze people, each time revealing more and more new "quirks".
This time we visited the "Drunken Stream". The stream got its name due to the unique features of the water. The fact is that at a certain time, for only a few hours, from even minutes, gases begin to emerge from the ground, which saturate this water. If at this moment you drink a glass of this water, then for a few seconds you will feel a slight intoxication.
There is another very interesting moment in this story that could not have been overlooked. This is a small stone with a "face", which is located right on the stream and clearly loves to "drink drunk water". It turns out that at that moment, when the water in the stream is saturated with underground gases and has intoxicating properties, a "smiling face" appears on the stone.
- "The stone is happy that the drunken water goes to him and he can safely get drunk" - says Vladimir Gribov.
When this phenomenon ends, the smile from his "stone face" disappears, and a "dull expression" appears.
- "That is, he is sad that his favorite heady water is leaving him," Gribov asserts.
Thus, this stone is popularly considered an indicator of water in a stream.
The drunken stream has the most useful properties for the body. It is full of vitamins, minerals, healing salts. Well, its "drunken" component, of course, will remain a big mystery. And the solution to each drunken person is different.
OAK-SOLDIERS
Dubki - this is what the locals call an old grove located on the banks of the Oka River not far from Korostovo (another close landmark is the village of Zaokskoye). The oldest trees here have a reach of several meters: there are not enough human hands to hug a tree! Some oak trees must be at least 5 centuries old, local historians and nature connoisseurs believe.
The place itself is very popular: in summer every "patch" of this grove is occupied by vacationers. Which is understandable: the river is nearby, and among the oak forest itself there is a large artificial lake, bent in the shape of a horseshoe. But maybe it is not only the beauty of the forest and water that attracts people?
Recently I had a chance to visit this grove with local historian Vladimir Gribov, who discovered Dubki back in the 80s. Vladimir Vitalievich claims that this area has a special energy, gives a person strength and even heals. Apparently, and for the people who lived here in past centuries, Dubki was not just a forest.
The beauty of this forest is noticed by everyone, - says Vladimir Gribov. “But I’m sure no one has paid attention yet — and it has struck me quite recently — that these trees are not standing chaotically. They stand in groups, there are 12 such groups in total (according to the number of months in a year!). The trees are grouped in five, ten, sometimes up to twenty. And, mind you, the area of this unique oak forest is about 4.7 hectares. If we read the Vedas, there we will come across a mention that the area of sacred groves - in translation into modern measures - would just be from 4 and a half to 5 hectares ...
What were the “sacred groves” for? In such places, future warriors, heroes and healers drew additional spiritual strength to help people and protect their land. It is not for nothing that ethnographers say that in this grove, near Korostovo, lists of stadiums - competitions of heroes - could be held. Others confirm: the proximity of the river and the lake made it possible to hold mermaids here - the holidays of "seeing off the mermaids".
Moreover, if you look closely, - continues Vladimir, - some oak trees stand as if in a circle. One can imagine that from a bird's eye view we could read some "message" of the ancients, encrypted in groups of trees ... Well, if we discard my assumptions, I will say one thing: getting into this area, a person not only draws strength, but also realizes something new in myself. I brought a variety of people here, and each saw something of his own in these trees. Believe it or not, I attribute to this grove that the long-worried joints stopped hurting. And as an artist, these trees revealed very interesting images to me, which I transferred to paper. Now they remain in pictures, graphics ... Here you want to draw, write poetry, and just express your thoughts beautifully.
... When we arrived, the "miracle trees" were immersed in a winter sleep. The whole grove was asleep, as if it had been starved: neither man, nor birds, nor animals, which apparently left footprints in the snow last night. And some unusual sensation was in the air. The trees themselves seemed to come to life, if you look closely: this looks like a man with outstretched arms; then - on the giant cacti-candelabra, and in the third, a huge hollow gapes at the very base, as if in fairy tales - the entrance to another dimension. It is even incomprehensible how this tree still holds, what it stands on, if there is emptiness inside it?
Even a botanist will not argue with the fact that oak trees are more than one century old. The fact that the place is stunningly beautiful - everyone sees for himself! Even in winter, the figures of age-old oaks are striking in their beauty, the shape of the trunks and the pattern of the branches. Many grow as "twins", in twos, or one at a time with forked trunks. There are also bizarrely curved trees - which experts, by the way, consider a sign of an anomalous place. Surely, these old oak trees remember more than one fire that happened in these parts from a lightning strike.
But is it true that oak trees have miraculous properties? To be completely sure, you need to come here in the summer and spend at least half a day in a wonderful oak forest. However, even in winter, when there was not a single green leaf in the grove, an unusual surge of strength was felt after the walk.
In many regions of Russia, the places where the "miracle trees" grow are well known. People come to trees that are seen in some special properties, leave amulets, ribbons and other memorable items on their branches, make wishes, make requests. For example, in the Nizhny Novgorod region, the Mari sacred groves and healing trees - oaks and lindens - have survived, and today they are recognized as specially protected natural and objects. Maybe the Ryazan people, having learned that the oak grove near Korostovo is not just an oak forest pleasant for relaxation, but an ancient sacred place, will finally stop offending long-lived oak trees and making fires from their branches for barbecue?
FROM THE FIRST INSTALLATIONS
Sergey MITIN, head of the research project "Ryazan - Cosmopoisk":
Indeed, according to our observations, such places - and there are several of them on the territory of the Ryazan Region - have their own effect on living organisms. For example, in people there is a violation of spatial orientation, there is a feeling of "tracking"; magnetic anomalies are recorded in them. As a rule, in ancient times, temples were located in such places, where various rituals were performed, prayers, marriages were performed, these places were even addressed in conspiracies. Among the Slavs, sacred groves were a very common object of worship. The ancient princes went deep into the forest to solve issues of state importance, in order to solve everything with justice, in the presence of the gods. If we talk about mythology, such groves are a “living temple”, a symbol of the continuation of life, faith, holiness, truth, peace and goodness. This is "the place where the gods descend."
There is another feature of the grove near Korostovo: oaks, as a rule, grow in places of geological anomalies, because of this, their branches are gnarled and curved. Everyone can touch the energy hidden inside the oak, for this it is enough just to stand by the tree.
A couple of years ago, - said the local historian, - I first visited the Temgenev settlement in the Sasovsky district. Near the copse, I found a rusty tablet: "Here lived a formidable tribe of Vans who came from the North and conquered these lands." The age of the tablet is clearly more than a dozen years. At the local museum, I was unable to get a comment on this. The answer to the question of who the Vans are, I had to look for myself.
Having connected like-minded people to the research, Vladimir Gribov again went to the settlement. "If it weren't for the financial difficulties in organizing the trip," Gribov regretted, "they probably would have found more. And so the cold has already shackled the earth. Not much has been found ..." , which apparently served as parts of jewelry. The second "point" for the travel of amateur scientists was the village of Vanchur in the Shilovsky district. According to Gribov, its name could be related to the mysterious Vanir tribe.
Not far from Vanchur, the researcher shared with us, a strangely shaped mound appeared before our eyes. Not a bulk mound, but a mound of a strict pyramidal shape. It looks more like a mass grave than a defensive rampart. According to the little information that I managed to glean from the historical literature, it is possible that this mound became the last monument left from the civilization of the Vanir. What happened to them? I would venture to suggest that along with other warlike tribes that at different times passed through the Ryazan region (as some historians believe, the Cimmerians, the Az, and the Normans also visited us), some of them went further, and the other settled here, became related with the Vyatichi and krivichi. And what is left of our possible relationship with the Vani? Yes, take at least the Russian name Ivan ...
DAMNED AND ANOMALOUS PLACES OF RYAZAN
1. Cursed house.
The building of the former Malshinskaya almshouse.
Located at the intersection of Mayakovsky and Svoboda streets. The merchant Malshin, who built a home for elderly soldiers, was rumored to be a Freemason and was engaged in cabalism. His wife died at the age of 25 under strange circumstances (there was talk of suicide in the city).
Another mysterious story happened in 1812. After the Battle of Borodino, wounded Russian and French officers arrived at the almshouse. A quarrel broke out between the Russian lieutenant and the French over a certain Ryazan young lady. As a result of the duel, both officers were killed. And the mother of the lieutenant - who was buried in the courtyard of the poorhouse - cursed this place.
In Soviet times, there was a criminal morgue here. The building was clearly not adapted for the needs of the forensic medical examination, there was not enough space. Therefore, the refrigerator was placed right in the yard. After the institution moved to a different address, the house stood abandoned until 2007.
It was said that at night strange sounds were heard from the house, and bright light was seen from the window openings. In 2003, three tramps died in a house due to a collapsed staircase. After that, even the homeless began to avoid him.
The oddities ended after the diocese rented the building and opened a church literature store there.
2. The girl in white.
The old building of Ryazan State University.
As the legend says, in this building a girl committed suicide because of unhappy love, whose ghost appears there periodically. You should not be afraid of her, she helps students to pass the exam successfully.
3. Coachman Peter.
Underground passage to st. Tsiolkovsky.
At the beginning of the 20th century, it was hit by a cart in the area of Yamskaya Sloboda (present-day Teatralnaya Square). Protects drunks from freezing in cold weather.
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4. Flying Ryazanets (white parachutist).
Military airfields.
A wandering ghost that rescues people in the air and helps them land successfully. At different times and in different places he was met by the colonel of the Airborne Forces, athlete-paratrooper V.M. Krasnov, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR V. Cherednichenko
5. The ghost of Ryumin.
Ryumina Grove (Central Park of Culture and Rest).
Near the Ryuminsky pond, they sometimes see a harmless translucent old man in clothes of the 19th century. Rumor has it that this is the ghost of Ryumin, one of the richest people in Ryazan and its benefactor.
6. The ghost of the doctor.
Tower in the courtyard of the house at st. Gorky, 15, the remainder of the Ryazan district zemstvo hospital complex.
In the tower there was a manhole (now filled up), which opened the way to the dungeons of the former hospital. They say that at night a dark figure appears there and walks around the tower, as if conducting an inspection, as did its former head Alexander Gustavovich Smitten.
7. The ghost of a white woman.
Former Choral Synagogue, st. Pravolybedskaya, 56
This old building, built at the beginning of the 20th century, was renovated in 2000. But, for reasons still unknown, there was a fire. Only the walls survived. The house was not rebuilt and left to collapse.
They say that while visiting this gloomy, dilapidated building, a headache suddenly begins, and the general state of health worsens. And there is also the ghost of a dark-haired woman in a white robe wandering here. The same woman comes in a dream to those who wandered through the ruins of the synagogue. Perhaps this is the spirit of a girl brutally raped and murdered within these walls in the early 2000s.
Perhaps these urban legends are just fiction or a game of too much imagination. Or maybe, after all, there is something invisible to our eye, defying logic and common sense. Who knows ...
P.s. If you meet the ghost of G. V. Ryumin, send him thanks for everything you did for Ryazan.
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SOURCE OF INFORMATION AND PHOTOS:
Team nomad
http://www.regionryazan.ru/public/data5/stounheng.html
Encyclopedia of anomalous zones in Russia (V. Chernobrov).
Cosmopoisk Vkontakte.
http://gribov62.ru/index.php/about/mesta-sily
http://www.stranamam.ru/post/8767213/
http://nlo-mir.ru/
Wikipedia website.
http://anomalno.ru/anomalnye-javlenija/
Photos from open sources
In the Muromtsevsky district of the Omsk region there is a village with a beautiful name - Okunevo. However, it became famous not because of its "fishing" name - it is practically the center of the anomalous zone, where, as they say in Russia, the devil knows what happens. (site)
Okunevo village and surrounding lakes
In the village itself, a story is passed from mouth to mouth that anomalies were first noticed here immediately after the Great Patriotic War. Just in 1945, the boys playing on the banks of the river suddenly saw three women of enormous height emerge from the water. Children rushed to the village to tell adults about this miracle. But, obviously, nobody believed them. However, in 1947, a local teacher once heard bells ringing from the sky. Looking up, the woman was stunned: horses of unprecedented beauty were flying over the ground in the air ...
Photos from open sources
And further in the area of the village of Okunevo, such anomalies began to occur more and more often, for example, multi-colored balloons and UFOs in the sky became so common for local residents that no one pays attention to them, unless the cattle have to be held at this moment, which is why something is very worried and scatters.
Maybe the reason is the mysterious lakes surrounding the village? There are four of them, but there is a legend that somewhere (apparently, in a parallel dimension) the fifth lurked, and now a mixture of liquid from all five lakes is supposedly capable of acquiring the property of real fabulous "living water" - from all ailments and misfortunes.
But until no one has found the fifth mythical reservoir, the medicinal properties are attributed to himself mysterious lake named Shaitan. Pilgrims from all over Russia, and even from abroad, constantly come to him for medicinal water. They say that the water from this lake really helps with many diseases, even just being in this anomalous zone (which is why pilgrims near Okunevo constantly arrange summer camps) harmonizes a person's energy, which contributes to healing, as well as his spiritual enlightenment. But the locals themselves are somehow not distinguished by either good health, or longevity, or some great spirituality - ordinary village people.
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True, itself is a separate conversation ...
Anomalies of Lake Shaitan near the village of Okuneva
Perhaps this is not connected with the lake itself, namely with the village, but pilgrims come here most often for the water and mud of Shaitan. There is even a legend that the Siberian Shaitan Lake hides the city of the giant Hanuman, who once helped the god Rama in his struggle against evil forces (there is supposedly a story about this in the Indian epic Ramayana). That is why people from all over the Earth and especially often from India come to this legendary reservoir.
A very interesting case happened here not so long ago. Hindu pilgrims came to him. In the morning they took a compass direction to Shaitan Lake and went to themselves. It took about an hour to walk. But our Indians walk for an hour, then two, and still there is no reservoir. And the forest is getting thicker and more unsightly. In general, persistent pilgrims walked like this for seven hours, but they still did not reach the lake. Finally, they could not stand it (and they were already frightened), and again turned back on the compass - after 20 minutes they returned to the village of Okuneva.
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But the locals were not very surprised by this adventure: it turns out that sometimes it is better not to go beyond the village limits at all, especially when the sky is covered with strange purple clouds in the morning. It happens that people do not return from such trips, so the Indians are still lucky ...
Local hunters are sure that somewhere there is a breakthrough into a parallel world, hence, they say, all the misfortunes. You can leave and wander like that in that looking glass for a long time, sometimes for several days, or you may not return at all. Yes, and "from there" guests often visit our world: fishermen often notice the footprints of the "Bigfoot" in the snow up to a meter long (imagine this giant humanoid!). As a rule, such traces stretch in a chain and suddenly ... break off, as if a mysterious creature has disappeared into thin air ...
Attempts to scientifically explain the anomalous phenomena of the village of Okuneva
Scientists and independent researchers of paranormal phenomena have repeatedly appeared on Lake Shaitan in order to discover the causes of the above anomalies. Specialist scientists, for example, eventually determined that specific bacteria are cultivated in wetlands near a reservoir due to decaying marsh grasses and algae, and supposedly all this leads to the accumulation (in calm weather) of a special marsh gas here, which causes hallucinations and fainting. In windy weather, poison gas can spread and cover this entire "anomalous zone".
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However, the locals did not believe in this theory of scientists. Everything is too simple and unambiguous. And how to explain the same traces of yeti that suddenly appear, suddenly disappear, balls and UFOs in the sky, and all this is quietly filmed in photos and videos today (what kind of glitches are these?). And how to explain the temporal-spatial gaps that people often fall into here (for example, the same Indians). And it's good if they return, many disappear without a trace. So all this cannot be explained by hallucinations - it is too simple, something is completely different here ...
Many skeptics who do not believe in mysticism and believe that a scientific explanation can be found for everything will certainly doubt the reliability of the information presented below. But in any case, it makes no sense to deny that there are a number of inexplicable anomalies in nature that are not just frightening, but terrifying.
Stories with mysterious disappearances and deaths in disastrous places that can be found in Russia cool the blood and make you truly horrified. In the continuation of the article, you will find a list of the most terrible places in our country.
Devil's cemetery (Krasnoyarsk Territory)
There are 75 known missing or dead over the past 30 years. On the territory of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, on the top of a low mountain, there is a strange glade with a hole in the very center. According to some reports, it was formed in 1908. Theories have been put forward that the appearance of this place is directly related to the fact of the fall of the Tunguska meteorite, and the hole in the center is nothing more than the mouth of a long-extinct volcano pierced by the object during the fall. People called this strange place the Devil's Cemetery.
Over the past thirty years, at least 75 people have either disappeared or died in this area. Being in the Devil's Cemetery is destructive for all living things. Hundreds of cows died, determined to taste the herbs from the clearing. In the post-war period, all residents of these unsafe places were resettled. From the stories of the old residents, it became known that a huge number of people died either on the territory of the clearing itself, or being in a small radius from it.
In the 80s, researchers became interested in this anomalous zone and began to stubbornly search for the Devil's Cemetery. Several expeditionary squads are still missing. About 75 search engines also did not return from search trips.
In 1991, an eerie clearing was found. A large, serious expedition was going to study it. In the same year that the meadow was found, a film was made about this place, called "Devil's Cemetery". Many publications published articles and photos about this mysterious place. Those wishing to visit the area of the Devil's Cemetery should know that it is not worth setting up a camp closer than one kilometer, but it is more correct and more convenient to set up a camp at the mouth of the Deshemba River. The easiest way to get to your destination is along the river. It is really possible to successfully raft only in the period from May to early June. Only professionals should go on a hike, since the area is very difficult.
Mountain of the Dead (Sverdlovsk Region)
In 1959, a group of young enthusiasts led by Igor Dyatlov went on an expedition to the Mountain of the Dead. The ascent to the summit began on February 1. By coincidence, it is on this day that a magical festival called Candlemas takes place. Before reaching the summit, a group of nine people set up camp for the night. It is not known what the young people witnessed and what made them, having cut the tent from the inside, hastily leave it, going out into the cold with practically no clothes. No trace of anyone else's presence was found. No signs of a struggle. No trace of the elements. At the same time, all the participants had terrible injuries, some had their tongues pulled out, all of them had purple or orange skin, unnatural even for the dead.
By order from above, everything concerning the Dyatlov expedition was kept in the strictest secrecy. Dyatlov's group are not the only ones who died on the slopes terrible mountain... Several expeditions never returned home after visiting her. In the 90s, the publishing house of the Gentry newspaper published a huge amount of material dedicated to the Mountain of the Dead. At the same time, specialists from Vladivostok carried out thorough ufological studies. And today this place does not attract tourists too much because of its notoriety. Although at the moment there are no anomalous manifestations on the mountain and it is safe to visit.
Devil's Lair (Volgograd Region)
In the Volgograd region, on the ridge called Medvetskaya, there is a place called the Devil's Lair. According to the information received, spontaneous combustion of people occurs in this place. The bodies of the local shepherd Mamaev Yuri in 1990 and the combine operator Tsukanov Ivan were found. But it is reliably known that Ivan burned down, saving the combine and the grain field from an unexpected fire.
In the case of the shepherd, there is evidence that the cause of his death was the burning of hay. Nevertheless, this place is considered unkind, although the expedition conducted did not reveal any anomalies. It is safe for hiking trips.
Lake Labynkyr
In the east of Yakutia, in the Oymyakonsky district, there is a reservoir overgrown with legends and amazing stories. A lake called Labynkyr. According to legend, an animal of incredible size lives in the lake, it is assumed that it is of relic origin. According to local residents, this creature swallows large animals and people. Based on rumors, the death toll is more than ten people. But all this is not reliable, there is no real evidence. The terrain is wild and difficult to pass, which does not attract researchers. It is because of its mystery that this place is included in the list of the most creepy ones. There are several "valleys" that claim to be the Valley of Death. One of them is located in Valdai, in the Novgorod region. According to local beliefs, somewhere there is a mysterious "stump", near which people and animals disappeared. In fact, no one has seen this "stump", the police are also skeptical, there have been no reports of missing people.
Yakutia also has its own "Valley of Death" - Elyuya Cherkechekh. Its supernaturalness has not been confirmed, none of the researchers have seen any hemispheres emitting heat, copper cauldrons and other anomalous formations. For ten years, we studied the data on this area, invited about 2000 specialists for the whole time, and this is not taking into account the help of people who responded to our advertisements in the newspapers. And, summing up, they came to the conclusion that the supernaturalness of this zone is just an invention based on local legends.
Another Death Valley is located on the Kamchatka Peninsula, not far from the Valley of Geysers. This time its existence is confirmed. There is a large number of animal deaths there, and there has also been unconfirmed data on deaths in the area. As a result of our research, it was revealed that mortality among animals is explained by gas poisoning, the causes and frequency have not been identified. For a person, being in this zone does not pose a danger, since he will be able to leave the zone on his own in the event of a gas release. It is not recommended to spend the night in this area.
On the Kolyma tract, there is one section, passing between two rocks, where a fairly large number of accidents and incidents, including fatalities, have been recorded. No anomalies were found in this segment. The organization of the expedition did not make sense, there are similar sections on almost any route. According to legend, not far from Belozersk, Volgograd Region, there is a mound of the Varangian king Sineus, Rurik's brother. During the Soviet era, the upper part of the mound was dismantled for construction needs, and in the remaining part, a cellar was dug for a large potato storage. But all the potatoes, like the logs of the inner lining, rotted, and in this place a hole was formed, filled with a fetid mess. There were many cases of falling into it, local residents repeatedly pulled out corpses. According to legend, it is the embittered Sineus who lures people into the pit. The expedition was not organized, the location of the mound could not be established. In the Novgorod region in one of the forests there is a swamp. During the Great Patriotic War, it took the lives of many soldiers, whose remains are still swallowed up by the swamp.
The exact number of the deceased is unknown, according to preliminary estimates, we are talking about tens of thousands. The sad history of this area creates an atmosphere of fear around.
Near Cape Ryty, Baikal, there are many different anomalies - compasses and navigators begin to go crazy, sometimes there is an increase in the radiation background, which is why there are currently no settlements near the cape. It was not possible to establish the nature of these anomalies, usually the background radiation is within normal limits. Staying near the cape does not promise any dangers, you just have to beware of the very aggressive ground bees living there, whose stings are painful. Devil's ravine near the village of Lyady, Pskov region. It was said that several people had disappeared there before the war. Also, several cases have been reported since 1974. Some people did come back and tell amazing stories. Expeditions did not reveal any anomalies in this area, the loss of people was attributed to difficult terrain, so it is not advised to go there alone without equipment and appropriate knowledge of the area.
