We are all used to stories about ghosts that begin to appear after some tragedy: a jilted bride who appears in her wedding dress, although she jumped out of a window 100 years earlier; or a murder victim who is trying to report her attacker 30 years after the crime was committed.
But what about events that affected hundreds, if not thousands of people, some of whom survived? About disasters that people around the world often witness? Here is a collection of paranormal phenomena that have been reported in connection with similar tragic incidents.
10. "Ghost Passengers" in Japan
The Great East Japan Earthquake occurred in 2011 and killed more than 16,000 people. For a number of years since the earthquake, taxi drivers in some of the hardest-hit cities, particularly Ishinomaki, have reported encountering “ghost passengers.” Yuka Kudo, a sociology student at Tohuko Gakuin University, interviewed more than 100 drivers as part of a study for her thesis. All drivers interviewed believed that they were putting a real person in the car. They turned on the counter, and some even noted the landing time in a log.
One of the drivers interviewed claimed that a few months after the accident, he put a young woman in his car who asked to be driven to the Minamihama area. The taxi driver explained to her that there was nothing left there. Then the passenger asked: “So I died?” When the driver turned to look at her, the woman disappeared.
9. "Ghost Passengers" in Thailand 
“Ghost passengers” are not only appearing in Japan. After the tsunami caused by the earthquake in Indian Ocean On December 26, 2004, residents of the Andaman Sea coast in Thailand began to report that some of the 230,000 dead were among them.
Minibus driver Lek said that two weeks after the tragedy, seven foreign tourists climbed into his van and asked to take them to Kata Beach for 200 baht. But after some time on the road, Lek felt that his body was going numb, and when he looked back, he found himself alone in the car. But unlike the Japanese taxi drivers who felt no fear, Lek states, “I can’t forget it. I'm going to change jobs. I have a daughter, and she can support me, but I’m so scared that I can’t even go out in the evening.”
Wandering ghosts also scare other local residents. A hotel security guard with many casualties left his post shortly after hearing the screams of a female guest who was presumed dead.
Another family living in Khao Lak said that their phone was constantly ringing, but when they picked up the phone, they heard the cries of their dead relatives begging for salvation.
8. Premonition of the sinking of the Titanic 
There are many articles that the terrible fate of the Titanic was predicted in numerous fiction novels - while pointing out the coincidence of many details in the description of the ships and the details of their voyage. But not many people know that the captain of the liner, Edward J. Smith, also seemed to have a presentiment that not everything would go smoothly during the first voyage across the Atlantic.
A collection of his letters, which was sold in 2016, lamented that he was no longer in command of the Cymric but had been appointed captain of the Titanic. More ominous is his letter to his sister, written just two days before the liner hit the iceberg. In the letter he writes: “I still don’t like this ship... I have a strange feeling.”
Captain Smith was a very experienced seaman who had previously served on the sister liner Olympic at the time of its collision with the cruiser Hawk, but at the time he had no special feelings for this particular vessel. Why was he so worried about the ship he had just set foot on board?
Whatever the reason for this, the captain continues to be admired to this day. Many legends have surrounded his name, including the story of Second Officer Leonard Bishop of the USS Winterhaven, who gave a tour of his ship to some of its passengers in 1977. One of the passengers was a quiet, attentive man who spoke with a British accent. Bishop sensed that there was something strange about the man, but he couldn't quite put his finger on what it was. A few years later he came across a portrait of a ship's captain and exclaimed, “I know this man. I gave him a tour of my ship." The man in the photograph was Captain Edward J. Smith.
7. Ghost of the Somme 
By the end of the Battle of the Somme, which had lasted four and a half months, more than a million people had been killed or wounded. Most likely, you expect that we will now talk about the ghost of someone who fell in battle, but we will talk about someone whose foot never set foot on the battlefield.
On the morning of November 5, 1916, thirteen days before one of the bloodiest battles of the First World War ended, English soldiers of the 2nd Battalion Suffolk Regiment witnessed something inexplicable. As Captain W.E. wrote in August 1919. Newcombe in an issue of Pearson's Magazine, German troops had already begun firing into their trenches, but that was not what attracted everyone's attention. The captain described how he personally witnessed a "brilliant white light" that seemed to rise from a muddy strip between two trenches, called "no man's land." Further, according to his story, the cloud of light transformed into the figure of a man in an outdated military uniform.
The man was quickly identified as Lord Kitchener, whose face appeared on thousands of British army posters. The image pointed directly at the viewer and was accompanied by the caption: “Your country needs you.” Lord Kitchener died in June of that year, a month before the Battle of the Somme began.
The British ceased fire, but the figure did not disappear, it continued to walk parallel to the trenches in such a way as if the lord was inspecting his troops. He then turned his face to the German side, from which they also saw the ghost, and the Germans ceased fire, trying to understand what they were seeing. However, the British artillerymen, who were located at a distance from the trenches, noticing the light, decided that their help was needed and opened fire on the German troops, who again began to storm the defensive lines. During this chaos, the figure returned to where it came from.
6. Baggage Finders 
People living near O'Hare International Airport in Chicago have often reported strange visitors appearing in their homes. They knock on the door and explain that they need to “make contact” or “find their luggage,” but first, Before the homeowners can find out more, the man disappears.
On the highway nearby, motorists often notice strange lights and strange figures wandering along the road. If you spend any time on the airport grounds, you may feel a sudden drop in temperature, accompanied by screams from a nearby field.
These phenomena are associated with the disaster that occurred in May 1979. Then American Airlines DC-10 Flight 191 crashed shortly after takeoff due to the failure of one of its engines. The plane with full fuel tanks instantly turned into a fireball. All 271 people on board and two people on the ground were killed. Paranormal sightings continue to this day, and if you're brave enough, you can take advantage of a local ghost tour company. To do this, you need to spend the night in a camp near the airport.
5. Joplin's Butterfly People 
There are many stories about Joplin's butterfly people, and they are all very similar. When a tornado unexpectedly struck the city on May 22, 2011, many children were outside with their parents or grandparents. They didn't have time to find shelter. When the tornado began lifting cars and collapsing buildings, the adults decided they were doomed to die. However, by some miracle the storm ended and they remained unharmed. After the tornado, some children began asking questions: “Did you see how cute they were?” "Who was pretty?" – the adults were surprised. “Haven’t you seen butterfly people?”
Soon the story of the butterfly people protecting people from tornadoes spread throughout the city. They were talked about on the streets and in church sermons. Children who received medical consultations regarding their injuries began to claim that they, too, saw these angelic beings and that it was they who saved and consoled them during the disaster. When a mural was unveiled in downtown Joplin to commemorate what the city experienced, the paintings featured large, colorful butterflies. Although the project's artistic director, Dave Lowenstein, is keen to emphasize that butterflies have many symbolic meanings, residents of the city associate the images with the supernatural experiences of the townspeople. “There are even butterflies on the fresco,” says one of the residents, “because everyone has heard about the butterfly people.”
4. Ghost in the Subway 
When the Underground was first built in London in the mid-19th century, some people expressed very serious concerns that tunneling deep into the Earth would anger the devil. In addition, many lines and stations were built on ancient burial sites, such as Aldgate station. It is believed that 4,000 people died from the plague in this place.
In 2005, archaeological excavations uncovered 238 burials around Aldgate station believed to be the result of the plague. Many bodies were damaged during the construction of the subway. Unexplained phenomena occur so frequently at Aldgate station that many cases are recorded in work logs.
The most famous story is about a station worker who slipped and fell on a contact rail, causing 20,000 volts to pass through his body. He somehow survived, but his colleagues report that the moment before he touched the rail, the ghost of an old woman appeared nearby, knelt down and stroked the worker's hair.
However, some episodes are associated with later tragedies. In 1943, residents of Bethnal Green in east London heard the sound of an airborne siren. As a result of the ensuing panic, when people tried to take refuge in the subway, 173 people, mostly women and children, were trampled to death. Even worse, the anxiety turned out to be educational. Since then, night workers have reported hearing women and children screaming. One worker was so frightened that he ran out of the station, trying to escape the ghostly sounds.
On November 18, 1987, a fire occurred at King's Cross station. The culprit of the fire was a passenger who, having lit a cigarette on the escalator, threw a burning match. The match ignited the oil-soaked wooden steps of the escalator, and after 15 minutes the flames reached the ticket hall and burst into it like a ball of fire. Thirty-one people died. Since then, many passengers have reported seeing a modern and elegantly dressed young woman with brown hair raising her arms and shouting. When someone approaches her to help, she disappears. Many speculate that this is one of the victims of the King Cross Station fire.
3. Nurse at the 9/11 disaster site 
It is understandable that the scale of the September 11 terrorist attack led to many people reporting ghosts during and after the attack. Many survivors claim that they were saved by an invisible force. One such witness stated that she led him through a wall of fire and led him to the stairs in the North Tower. Another survivor who was trapped in concrete slabs describes being visited by a comforting ghost dressed as a monk.
There were also more unusual phenomena that were observed by more than one person. One such witness was NYPD officer Frank Marra, who helped clear the rubble after the attack. He reported seeing a woman dressed in a World War II Red Cross uniform carrying a tray of sandwiches. He states that he believed she was a first aid provider and that he saw her on more than one occasion. She was about 50 meters away, and he had no doubt that she was a living person. Fear gripped him later, by which time he had already retired from police service a year ago. Marra had long forgotten about the strange woman when one of the detectives asked him if he had heard stories about “the ghost of a Red Cross nurse who tried to distribute sandwiches and coffee to the victims.” It was then that Marra realized that he was not the only one who had noticed this mysterious figure. And since there were no people who would claim to know her, she remained a mystery.
2. Loft and Repo 
On December 29, 1972, at approximately 11:42 a.m., Eastern Airlines Flight 401 crashed into Everglades National Park in Florida. Shortly before the crash, the crew noticed that the landing gear indicator light had stopped working, but although they were concerned, no one noticed that the autopilot had turned off and the plane was slowly losing altitude. By the time they noticed it, it was already too late. 75 people survived, 101 died.
Among the dead were Captain Bob Loft and flight engineer Don Repo. It was these two people who soon began to appear on other Eastern Airlines planes, in particular on those that were equipped with spare parts taken from the wreckage of the crashed plane. Many of the appearances were witnessed by more than one witness, including the time the crew chief and two flight attendants not only saw but also spoke with the late Captain Loft before he disappeared. They were so shocked that they canceled the flight. Even the vice president of Eastern Airlines reported a conversation with a man whom he considered to be the crew commander and about whom he only later realized that it was the recently deceased Loft.
As for flight engineer Repo, it seems that his ghost is seriously concerned about the proper preparation of the planes for the flight. One flight engineer going through pre-flight checks stated that Repo appeared and said, "You don't need to worry about pre-flight check, I’ve already done it.” One of the flight attendants saw Repo fixing the microwave, another saw his face in the oven. When she called two colleagues, all three heard Repo say, “Watch the fire on that plane.” Interestingly, the plane later developed engine problems, and the last leg of the flight was cancelled. Another time, Repo appeared before the crew commander and told him: “There will never be any more crashes. We will not allow this to happen." This statement led some to believe that the ghostly appearances were an attempt to make amends.
1. Revived dead man 
When Sorpong Pyu was seventeen years old, he witnessed his father Nam, a Cambodian government official, being bundled into a blue truck and driven away. This happened during the dark period between 1975 and 1979, during which the Khmer Rouge under Pol Pot killed an estimated 1.7 million people. So far 309 have been discovered mass graves with approximately 19,000 graves. It is therefore understandable that when Nam did not return, Sorpong began to assume that his father was one of the victims.
Sorpong and his family were among the lucky ones. After spending time in a refugee camp in Thailand in 1982, Sorpong, his mother and six siblings moved to Canada. There Sorpong continued his distinguished academic career. In January 2010, while Sorpong was in Tokyo, he had a vivid dream in which he was walking and talking with his father. Although it was only a dream, Sorpong realized how much he still missed his father. Unknown to him, one of his brothers was planning to visit a psychic woman in Ottawa, wanting advice on his business. During the session, she asked her brother where his father was and whether he saw him. The brother replied that he saw his father taken away when he was five years old and that he was killed. But the psychic told him that this is not so, Nam is still alive.
Doubting the psychic's words, but still intrigued, Sorpong's brother informed the rest of the family about everything. This led their skeptical sister to approach the same woman without giving her name. The psychic told her the same thing: her father is alive. When her mother went to see her, she received the same answer. The result was two trips by one of Sorpong's brothers to Cambodia to see if he could find the man they believed had been killed nearly thirty years earlier. He distributed hundreds of photographs of Nam taken four decades ago. He visited Thai border towns and former refugee camp sites. He was eventually directed to a man who said the photo on the flyer looked like him when he was young, but he refused to believe that the Canadian could be one of his sons. His son also had doubts, but they gradually began to dissipate when Nam Pyu began to tell family stories that only the father could know. It seemed that father and son had found each other.
But how did Namu manage to escape? He was actually taken into a truck, and they threw him into a ditch and piled bodies on top of him. Somehow he survived, only to be beaten and tortured. He managed to escape into the jungle and cross the Thai-Cambodian border. We believed that his family was less fortunate and that they died. After that, he married and had six more children. But his first wife, Sorpong's mother, heard that her 85-year-old husband was alive and returned to Cambodia to be near him and his new family. Soon followed by one of their sons, the mother and son opened a seafood restaurant and now take care of everyone else. Finally, Sorpong himself returned to the country and was reunited with his father, whom he had not seen for 36 years.
In the Sahara Desert in Egypt lie the oldest known astronomically aligned stones in the world: Nabta. A thousand years before the creation of Stonehenge, people built a stone circle and other structures on the shore of a lake that had long since dried up. More than 6,000 years ago, three-meter-tall stone slabs were dragged for more than a kilometer to create this site. The stones depicted are only part of the entire complex that has survived. Although the Western Egyptian Desert is currently completely dry, it was not so in the past. There is good evidence that there have been several wet cycles in the past (with up to 500mm of rainfall per year). The most recent one refers to the interglacial period and the start time last glaciation, this was approximately from 130,000 to 70,000 years ago. During this period, the area was a savannah and supported numerous animals such as the extinct bison and large giraffes, antelopes of various species and gazelles. Beginning around the 10th millennium BC, this area of the Nubian Desert began to receive more rainfall, filling the lakes. Early people may have been attracted to the region by its sources drinking water. Archaeological finds may indicate that human activity known in the area at least from about the 10th and 8th millennium BC.
Chinese line mosaic.
These strange lines are located at the coordinates: 40°27"28.56"N, 93°23"34.42"E. There is not much information available about this "oddity", but a beautiful mosaic of lines does exist, it carved in the desert of Gansu Sheng Province in China. Some records indicate that the "lines" were created in 2004, but nothing officially confirming this assumption seems to have been found. It should be noted that these lines are located near Mogao Cave, which is a World Heritage Site. The lines stretch for a very long distance, and at the same time maintain their proportions, despite the curvature of the rough terrain.
Inexplicable stone doll.
In July 1889, a small human figure was found during a well drilling operation in Boise, Idaho. The find has generated intense scientific interest in the last century. Unmistakably man-made, the “doll” was discovered at a depth of 320 feet, placing it at a time long before the arrival of man in this part of the world. The find has never been disputed, but it has only been said that such a thing is, in principle, impossible.
Iron bolt, 300 million years old.
It was found almost by accident. The expedition of the MAI-Cosmopoisk Center was searching for meteorite fragments in the south of the Kaluga region, in Russia. Dmitry Kurkov decided to examine a seemingly ordinary piece of stone. What he found can change our understanding of earthly and cosmic history. When the dirt was wiped off the stone, on its chip one could clearly see... a bolt that had somehow gotten inside! About a centimeter long. How did he end up there? The bolt with a nut at the end (or - what this thing also looked like - a coil with a rod and two disks) sat tightly. This means that he got inside the stone back in the days when it was only sedimentary rock, bottom clay.
Ancient rocket ship.
This ancient cave painting from Japan dates back to more than 5000 BC.
Moving stones.
No one, not even NASA, has been able to explain this yet. The best thing to do is just watch and marvel at the shifting rocks in this dry lake in Death Valley National Park. The bottom of Racetrack Playa Lake is almost flat, 2.5 km from north to south and 1.25 km from east to west, and is covered with cracked mud. The stones move slowly along the clayey bottom of the lake, as evidenced by the long tracks left behind them. The stones move independently without the help of others, but no one has ever seen or recorded the movement on camera. Similar movements of stones have been recorded in several other places. However, in terms of the number and length of tracks, the dried-up lake Racetrack Playa is unique.
Electricity in the pyramids.
Teotihuacan, Mexico. Large sheets of mica are found embedded in the walls of this ancient Mexican city. The closest place is a quarry where mica is mined, located in Brazil, thousands of kilometers away. Mica is currently used in energy production technology. In this regard, the question arises as to why builders used this mineral in the buildings of their city. Did these ancient architects know some long-forgotten energy sources to use electricity in their cities?
Dog Death
Dog suicide on Overtown Bridge, near Milton, Dumbarton, Scotland. Built in 1859, the Overtown Bridge became famous for a number of unexplained cases in which dogs apparently committed suicide by jumping from it. These incidents were first reported in the 1950s or 1960s, when dogs—usually the long-nosed species, like collies—were observed to quickly and unexpectedly jump from a bridge and fall fifty feet to their death.
Fossil giants
The fossilized Irish giants were discovered in 1895 and measure over 12 feet (3.6 m) tall. The giants were discovered during mining operations in Antrim, Ireland. This image is from the British Strand magazine, December 1895. “Height 12 feet 2 inches, chest 6 feet 6 inches, arm length 4 feet 6 inches. There are six toes on the right foot." The six fingers and toes are reminiscent of some characters from the Bible, where six-fingered giants are described.
Pyramids of Atlantis?
Scientists continue to explore the ruins of megaliths in the so-called Yucatan Canal in the Cuban region. They have been found for many miles along the coast. American archaeologists who discovered this place immediately announced that they had found Atlantis (not for the first time in the history of underwater archaeology). Now the place is sometimes visited by scuba divers to admire the majestic underwater structures. All other interested parties can only enjoy the filming and computer reconstruction of a city buried under water, thousands of years old.
Giants in Nevada
A Nevada Indian legend about 12 foot red giants that lived in the area when they arrived. According to American Indian history, the giants were killed in a cave. During excavations in 1911, this human jaw was discovered. This is what an artificial human jaw looks like next to it. In 1931, two skeletons were found at the bottom of the lake. One of them was 8 feet (2.4 m) high, the other was just under 10 (3 m.).
Inexplicable wedge
This aluminum wedge was found in Romania in 1974, on the banks of the Mures River, near the city of Ayud. It was found at a depth of 11 meters, next to the bones of Mastodon - a giant, elephant-like, extinct animal. The find itself is very reminiscent of the head of a huge hammer. At the archaeological institute of Cluj-Napoca, where the artifact was supposedly sent, it was determined that the metal from which this wedge is made is an aluminum alloy coated with a thick layer of oxide. The alloy contained 12 different elements, and the find was classified as strange, since aluminum was discovered only in 1808, and the age of this artifact, given its presence in the layer along with the remains of an extinct animal, is determined to be approximately 11 thousand years.
"Loladoff's Plate"
The "Loladoff Plate" is a 12,000-year-old stone dish found in Nepal. It seems that Egypt is not the only place visited by aliens in ancient times. This is clearly demonstrated by the disk-shaped UFO. There is also a drawing on the disk. The character bears a striking resemblance to the aliens known as the Greys.
Pure iron alloy hammer
A puzzling mystery for science is... an ordinary-looking hammer. The metal part of the hammer is 15 centimeters long and about 3 centimeters in diameter. It literally grew into limestone about 140 million years old, and is stored together with a piece of rock. This miracle caught the eye of Mrs. Emma Khan in June 1934 in the rocks near the American town of London, in the state of Texas. The experts who examined the find came to a unanimous conclusion: a hoax. However, further research carried out by various scientific institutions, including the famous Battelle Laboratory (USA), showed that everything is much more complicated. Firstly, the wooden handle on which the hammer is mounted has already petrified on the outside, and on the inside has completely turned into coal . This means that its age is also calculated in millions of years. Secondly, specialists from the Metallurgical Institute in Columbus (Ohio) were amazed chemical composition the hammer itself: 96.6% iron, 2.6% chlorine and 0.74% sulfur. No other impurities could be identified. Such pure iron has never been obtained in the entire history of earthly metallurgy. Not a single bubble was found in the metal. The quality of iron, even by modern standards, is exceptionally high and raises many questions, since the content of metals used in the metallurgical industry in the production of different types of steel (such as e.g. manganese, cobalt, nickel, tungsten, vanadium or molybdenum). There are also no foreign impurities, and the percentage of chlorine is unusually high. It is also surprising that no traces of carbon were found in iron, whereas iron ore from earthly deposits always contains carbon and other impurities. In fact, from a modern point of view, it is not of high quality. But here's a detail: the iron of the "Texas hammer" does not rust! When a piece of rock with an embedded tool was chipped away from the rock in 1934, the metal was severely scratched in one place. And over the past sixty-odd years, not the slightest sign of corrosion has appeared on the scratch... According to Dr. K.E. Buff, director of the Museum of Fossil Antiquities, where this hammer is kept, the find comes from the Early Cretaceous period - from 140 to 65 million years ago. By current state scientific knowledge, humanity learned to make such tools only 10 thousand years ago. Dr. Hans-Joachim Zillmer from Germany, who studied the mysterious find in detail, concludes: “This hammer was made using a technology unknown to us.”
Highest stone processing technologies
The second group of finds that pose mysteries for scientists consists of artifacts created after the currently accepted time of the appearance of man on Earth. But the technologies that were used to create them became known to us relatively recently or are still unknown. The most famous find of this group is a crystal skull found in 1927 in Belize during excavations of the Mayan city of Lubaantum. The skull is carved from a piece of pure quartz and measures 12x18x12 centimeters. In 1970, the skull was analyzed in the Hewlett-Packard laboratory. The results were stunning. The skull was created without respecting the natural crystal axis, which is impossible in modern crystallography. No metal tools were used when working on the skull. According to restorers, the quartz was first cut with a diamond chisel, after which silica crystalline sand was used for more thorough processing. About three hundred years were spent working on the skull, which can be perceived as an incredible example of patience or recognize the use of high technologies unknown to us. One of the Hewlett-Packard experts said that creating a crystal skull is not a matter of skill, patience and time, but that it is simply impossible.
Fossil nail
However, most often in the rock they find objects that are their own. appearance similar to nails and bolts. In the 16th century, the Viceroy of Peru kept in his office a piece of rock in which was firmly held an 18-centimeter steel nail found in a local mine. In 1869, in Nevada, a metal screw 5 centimeters long was found in a piece of feldspar recovered from great depths. Skeptics believe that the appearance of these and many other objects can be explained by natural causes: a special kind of crystallization of mineral solutions and melts, the formation of pyrite rods in the voids between crystals. But pyrite is iron sulfide, and when fractured it is yellow (which is why it is often confused with gold) and has a clearly defined cubic structure. Eyewitnesses of the finds clearly speak of iron nails, sometimes covered with rust, and pyrite formations can more likely be called gold rather than iron. There is also an assumption that the rod-shaped NIOs are the fossilized skeletons of belemnites (invertebrate marine animals that lived at the same time as dinosaurs). But the remains of belemnites are found only in sedimentary rocks and never in bedrock, such as feldspar. In addition, they have a pronounced skeletal shape, and it is impossible to confuse them with something else. It is sometimes claimed that nail-shaped NIOs are molten fragments of meteorites or fulgurites (thunderbolts) produced by lightning striking rocks. However, finding such a fragment or trace left millions of years ago is extremely problematic. While one can still argue about the origin of the nail-shaped NIOs, one can only shrug at some of the finds.
Ancient battery
In 1936, the German scientist Wilhelm König, who worked at the Archaeological Museum of Baghdad, was brought a strange object that was found at the excavations of an ancient Parthian settlement near the Iraqi capital. It was a small clay vase about 15 centimeters high. Inside it was a cylinder made of sheet copper, its base was covered with a cap with a seal, and on top of the cylinder was covered with a layer of resin, which also held an iron rod directed to the center of the cylinder. From all this, Dr. Koenig concluded that in front of him was an electric battery, created almost two thousand years before the discoveries of Galvani and Volta. Egyptologist Arne Eggebrecht made an exact copy of the find, poured wine vinegar into a vase and connected a measuring device that showed a voltage of 0.5 V. Presumably, the ancients used electricity to apply a thin layer of gold to objects.
The Antikythera Mechanism (other spellings: Antikythera, Andythera, Antikythera, Greek: Μηχανισμός των Αντικυθήρων) is a mechanical device discovered in 1902 on a sunken ancient ship near the Greek island of Antikythera ( Greek: Αντικύθηρα). Dating back to approximately 100 BC. e. (possibly before 150 BC). Kept in the National Archaeological Museum in Athens. The mechanism contained 37 bronze gears in a wooden case, on which dials with arrows were placed and, according to reconstruction, was used to calculate the movement of celestial bodies. Other devices of similar complexity are unknown in Hellenistic culture. It uses differential gearing, which was previously thought to have been invented no earlier than the 16th century, and has a level of miniaturization and complexity comparable to mechanical watch XVIII century. The approximate dimensions of the assembled mechanism are 33x18x10 cm.
Astronaut figurines from Ecuador
Figurines of ancient astronauts found in Ecuador. Age > 2000 years. In fact, there is a lot of such evidence, if you want, read Erich Von Denikin. He has many books, one of the most famous is “Chariots of the Gods”, it contains both physical evidence and deciphering of cuneiform scripts and so on, in general it’s quite interesting. True, it is contraindicated for ardent believers to read.
Many believe that humanity is suffering from a strange species amnesia. We have certain facts about our past that tell us how long our species has been around, when we emerged from caves, acquired speech, created the first tools, and when the species with which we shared this planet became extinct. And we accept these facts as an immutable truth, despite the fact that some of them began as stories, which were later confirmed.
However, various native tribes still have beliefs that run counter to official science. And although scientists claim that these legends are only works of art folk craftsmen, every day we see how various myths are embodied in reality. For example, what do you say about stories about " big white bear"living in the highlands of China?" Fiction", people said, until a French missionary brought his skin. Bam! - the mystical animal became the familiar big panda. Then scientists say that they have records that state with one hundred percent certainty which species have become extinct, and - bam! - in 1938 they caught coelacanth in the ocean, which, according to them, disappeared from the face of the Earth as much as 66 million years ago.
15. Indus civilization
First the existence of the unknown ancient civilization in the territory of modern Pakistan was not taken seriously - rumors and rumors. And then in 1842 some archaeologist reported that he had found some ruins. This discovery was not noticed until 1856, when during the laying railway They unearthed the remains of a hitherto unprecedented civilization. Now, after multiple archaeological expeditions, we have learned quite a lot about the Indus civilization. Found artifacts speak of high level development of the people who lived here in 3300 BC. society.
The main difficulty faced by scientists is the impossibility of deciphering their language. Although the Harrapan writings are incomplete, scholars unanimously believe that the Harrapans had a language, and based on the available evidence, it was written. However, this is a controversial point, because it would mean that the Hindus mastered writing before anyone else who lived in this area. Also, some artifacts hint at the possible use of printing, and if this is confirmed, then the Indian civilization will be 1500 years ahead of the Chinese in terms of development.
14. History of the Olmecs
The mysterious Olmec people are said to have lived somewhere in what is now Mexico in 1100 BC, making them the oldest Central American civilization. Until the early 1990s, little was known about them, until a group of local residents from the city of Veracruz unearthed well-preserved stone slabs covered with ancient writing - far more ancient than anything found before. It became the greatest archaeological find. Scientists studied the inscriptions on the stone and made some amazing discoveries. Firstly, the artifact belonged to mysterious civilization Olmec. Further, the experts concluded that the text was so well structured that it had all the hallmarks of meaningful sentences, error corrections, and even poetic lines. Moreover, the nature of the marks suggests that this tile is private." copy"of the specified text. If this is true, then there must be more different" documentation", records, trade routes or even ancient literature waiting for Columbus!
The only negative is the inability to decipher the Olmec language. It is unlike any previously discovered American writing system. Without a document like the Rosetta Stone from Egypt, it is almost impossible to understand this ancient people. For researchers, this task is similar to the study of the Indus civilization, only worse. And although the found tablet is so far the first and only document on the North American continent, experts are confident that the Olmecs could write complex stories, detailed reports and even a religious calendar with detailed description traditions. We have yet to find out what happened to this civilization after 300 BC, and this may be one of the greatest historical discoveries of the near future. It is worth noting that the Olmecs are included in the ranking of 10 mystically vanished civilizations.
Probably almost everyone has heard the legend of King Arthur - the knight who pulled a sword from a stone that no one else could lift. Some desperate romantics believe that Arthur is a real person, and based on knowledge, we cannot completely deny this. It is known for certain that in life there really is a sword in the stone - maybe it became the source of inspiration for the legend?
The real sword was found in the chapel of Monte Siepi in the Abbey of San Galgaro, located in Tuscany, Italy. The story goes that Saint Galgano Guidotti began his life as an evil and cruel knight. In 1180 he met the Archangel Michael, who told Guidotti to give up his sinful life and follow the path of God. At first he refused, but then he passed through Monte Siepi - then just a rocky hill. A voice from heaven called to him, saying that now is the time to change. The knight replied that it was the same as " cut the rock with a sword".
And to show the impossibility of the request, he plunged his sword into the stone. And instead of breaking, the blade entered the cobblestone. Not believing what had happened, he fell to his knees and began to pray at this very stone as at the altar from now on. About a year later, Galgano died and was canonized in 1185 by Pope Lucius III. The church was built around that very sword in stone. True, it is now covered with a durable plastic case so that no one would try to become the king of England.
One of the most controversial artifacts is the Sealand skull. It was found in 2007 in Elstykke, Denmark, while replacing pipes. At first, no one paid much attention to it, but later, in 2010, it was examined at the Veterinary College of Denmark and... Researchers could not determine whose it was, since it did not match any species known to science. This skull has raised many questions that scientists cannot answer, but some of them are trying to get complete information about the artifact. Paleontologists believe that this is the skull of some kind of mammal, possibly a horse, however, a more detailed study showed that the owner of the skull does not fit the Linnaean taxonomy. Radiocarbon dating carried out at Niels Bohr University in Copenhagen showed that the unknown specimen lived sometime between 1200 and 1280 BC.
Further excavations at the site of the find, unfortunately, did not yield anything interesting. It's a pity, because the skull is quite an interesting looking one: Compared to the human skull, it has many noticeable differences. For example, the eye sockets of the Sealand specimen are much larger, deep and rounded and extend more to the sides. In humans, the eyes are set in the center. His nostrils, like his chin, are narrow, but overall the skull is larger than the average human. The surface of the skull is smooth, which scientists see as an adaptation for survival in low temperatures. Based on the size of the eyeballs, scientists believe that the Sealand specimen was nocturnal. But what kind of creature is this? Alien? Or some previously unknown subspecies of people? We must hope for the results of future studies.
11. The German submarine UB-85 was sunk by a sea monster
During the First World War, there was a story about a German submarine, which, according to legend, was attacked by a sea monster, which is why it could no longer go to depth. We are talking about the submarine UB-85 and its commander Günter Krech. In April 1918, a British patrol ship approached a submarine that was on the surface. The Germans immediately surrendered. The ship's captain, Günther Krech, was interrogated and spoke about this strange incident.
At night, the submarine surfaced to charge its batteries. And suddenly she was attacked by a strange creature, which, according to Krekh, had a small head and fangs that glistened in the moonlight. The huge monster tried to tilt the ship, but the crew managed to scare it off with rifle and machine-gun fire and prevent further damage. Actually, this is why the Germans were unable to go deeper and escape from the patrol vessel. As a result, various reports stated that the submarine either sank or was destroyed by a British patrol.
The submarine and its history have become part of sea legends. It was believed that no such ship existed until a Scottish cable-laying contractor found something similar to the legendary UB-85 in the North Sea while laying a power cable in October this year. Acoustics showed that the ship did not suffer serious damage. It is planned to conduct further research to find out what happened to the submarine. Could she really have been attacked by a sea monster?
Another controversial artifact is the Manx penny. This coin was found on August 18, 1957 in an archaeological quarry while researching American Indian culture near Brooklyn, Maine. As many as 30,000 magnificent artifacts have been discovered, but especially notable among them is one that does not belong to Native American culture - the Manx penny. Some researchers consider it a fake, others - evidence that Europeans came to this continent in pre-Columbian times.
Scientists argue about the origin of this coin. It was definitely not made by the American Indians, and some even believed that it was brought over from England in the 12th century. Later studies claim that the artifact is of Scandinavian origin and was made in the 11th century. The University of Oslo confirmed that similar coins were in circulation in Norway in 1060-1080 BC. Now the Manx penny has ended up in the National Museum of Maine, whose authorities remain silent and cannot officially confirm either the origin or even the authenticity of the artifact. This unusual find will torture the minds of scientists for a long time - how many are there still and how did they get here?
Historians say that the first human civilizations They began to build villages, engage in agriculture and erect temples only in 8000 BC, but is this really so? This surprising discovery challenges established views on anthropogenesis. The discovery took place in 1994 in the rural area of Göbekli Tepe in Turkey. At the top of the mountain range there are more than 200 large stone pillars up to 18 meters high and weighing about 20 tons each. They are arranged in a series of twelve rings with images of various animals. The find is dated 12,000 BC. Yes, this Turkish altar is thousands of years older than Stonehenge! It may even be the oldest place of worship in the world.
Various evidence indicates that the site was built by ancient nomadic hunter-gatherers who had not yet mastered Agriculture. Modern science believes that at this level of development people still knew nothing about complex symbolic systems, social hierarchy and the division of labor - necessary prerequisites for the construction of this gigantic temple with an area of \u200b\u200b89,000 m2. Religion would have been expected to emerge after humans transitioned from hunting and gathering to agriculture and animal husbandry, but this find may suggest otherwise.
Thus, the question arises - maybe the need for construction was the reason why people settled down, began to build communities and began to look for a constant source of food, which is how they invented agriculture? If so, how did the ancient nomads do it? How did they manage to do this thousands of years before anyone else? And finally, what kind of people are these and where have they gone? Archaeologists cannot yet give an answer.
8. Did people live side by side with dinosaurs?
Dinosaurs went extinct about 65 million years ago, millions of years before humans first appeared. And in this case, it is very strange that scientists find artifacts with amazingly accurate images of dinosaurs, as if painted from life. Example? Built in the 12th century, the Angkor Wat temple in Cambodia. On one of the walls is carved a detailed image of a stegosaurus, despite the fact that the first recorded discovery of the fossil remains of these reptiles was found only in early XIX century. And how did ancient artists manage to depict extinct lizards so reliably?
Another example that baffles archaeologists is the stones from the city of Ica. According to the documents, they were found in Peru, in a cave near the above-mentioned town. Peruvian archaeologist Professor Javier Cabrera received these mysterious artifacts in 1961 as a gift. Taking a closer look at the stone, he discovered an image of an ancient fish that had gone extinct millions of years ago, according to official sources. The discovery amazed the professor so much that he decided to find out more about it. The drawing was made on a piece of andesite - a dark gray/black volcanic rock, very durable and difficult to work, especially with primitive tools of antiquity.
Fossils found in the same area confirm that the recovered artifacts are millions of years old. Professor Carbera collected several hundred stones from caves in Ica and found on some of them images of living brachiosaurs, tyrannosaurs and triceratops, and on another - a predatory dinosaur devouring an ancient aborigine. Radiocarbon dating is not the most accurate method, because sometimes dinosaur fossils are too old to extract any information from them... So maybe people really found ancient dinosaurs, as these artifacts say?
Many different publications rang about what was found in 1999 by Vitaly Gokh, who resigned from Soviet army thirty years ago, Crimean pyramids. Having retired to the reserve, he began research activities that led him to the Crimean Peninsula, where an amazing discovery occurred. Goh suggested that if there are flooded villages in the Black Sea, then there must be other ancient buildings. But the region is simply a storehouse of archaeological treasures of various cultures - ancient Greek, Roman, Ottoman and others.
Being an engineer by profession, he knew how to use instruments operating on the principle of magnetic resonance, and decided to test his hypothesis. And it was confirmed. Goh found an area of seven limestone-built pyramids located along the southern shore of the peninsula. The largest of them was 45 meters high with a base length of 72 meters and had a truncated top, like the Mayan pyramids. And all seven buildings form a straight line running from northwest to southeast. Goh claims that there may be as many as 39 pyramids underwater.
In his opinion, these are the most ancient structures on Earth, built back in the era of dinosaurs. However, before rewriting history, many more excavations and studies of various documents will have to be done - most scientists believe that Goh’s hypothesis has nothing to do with reality, and his find may be much younger. Fortunately, a Russian researcher is already looking for funding for further development of the pyramids found.
Well... Strictly speaking, the Salzburg Cube is not a cube at all, which is why it is sometimes called the Wolfsegg Iron Nugget. This interesting artifact was found in 1885 near Wolfsegg am Hausruck in Austria. They say that this interesting egg-shaped object was found by a miner while extracting coal for a steel foundry. The find was covered with potholes and a deep groove surrounding it, had sharp edges and weighed about 800 grams with dimensions of 6.6 x 6.6 x 4.7 cm. Chemical analysis showed that " egg"consists of alloy steel with the addition of nickel and carbon, and the absence of sulfur showed that it is not pyrite. By all indications, it was a man-made product, machined from a single piece of iron. And everything would have been fine, but the artifact was found in coal deposits 20 years old -60 million years. That's the problem!
And how could such an intricately decorated piece of iron appear millions of years before the official appearance of people? Scientists have been struggling with this mystery for more than a hundred years. Some scientists believe that the artifact is a fake, others that it is a gift from guests from outer space, and others claim that it is a meteorite. For many years, the Salzburg Cube moved from one research center to another, but now this mysterious object is located in Austria, in the Regional Museum of the city of Voecklabruck.
5. Who is this “Abominable Snowman”?
"Abominable Snowman", or Yeti, is Bigfoot's colder brother. He is also the most unsolvable cryptozoological mystery. Many witnesses, large footprints and blurry video footage have led people to think that something is going on in the Himalayas. And, it seems, one British geneticist even knows What. The researcher's name is Dr. Brian Sykes, and he is a professor of genetics at the University of Oxford. In 2013, he completed the decoding of DNA samples believed to belong to the Yeti. In particular, one of the hairs was found in the western Himalayan region called Ladakh, and the other - from the state of Bhutan, which is approximately 860 km from there.
The Ladakh sample was taken from the mummified remains of an unknown creature killed forty years ago by a local hunter. The second hair is the only hair found 10 years ago in a Bhutanese bamboo forest during filming. documentary film. Professor Sykes compared the DNA samples with those stored in a worldwide repository of genetic samples from various creatures - including extinct ones - GenBank. The researcher thought that here he could find similar samples. And the result amazed and greatly puzzled him.
The scans showed that both samples matched the DNA of an ancient polar bear whose jawbone was found in Norway. The age of the bone is approximately 40-120 thousand years. Sykes says this is precisely the period when polar and brown bears became two different types. Perhaps the Yeti is a subspecies of brown bears descended from a polar ancestor! Really" abominable snowman"Finally identified? Dr. Sykes is confident that both hair samples from different parts of the Himalayas belong to the same animal. To confirm that it is the source of the legends about Bigfoot, we will need additional research and expeditions.
4. Where did the Egyptians get cocaine from?
Not wanting to risk my reputation because of " cocaine discoveries", the scientists commissioned an independent laboratory to conduct the same tests on several mummies. The results were confirmed: the mummies were simply stuffed with cocaine and tobacco. And German scientists began to study more and more mummies, and found traces of tobacco in almost a third of them, and inside the mummy of Ramses II (the same one known from the biblical story " Exodus", about Moses and the Ten Commandments) there were tobacco leaves and a petrified tobacco beetle! And this is not a joke. It seems that Ramses II was a heavy smoker. But where did the ancient Egyptians get such substances? After all, there are no records of the Egyptians traveling to unknown distances, and There is also evidence of the use of these drugs, and it seems that scientists will not solve this puzzle any time soon.
3. "Giant Code"
Codex Gigas what's with Latin language translated as " Giant book" - no more - the largest ancient manuscript in the world. According to historians, the book was written in the 13th century in a Benedictine monastery in the Czech city of Podlazice, then during the Thirty Years' War in 1648 it was captured by the Swedish army and is now in National Library Sweden in Stockholm. This tome was made from over 160 animal skins and can be lifted with the effort of two people.
The book contains the complete text of the Vulgate - the generally accepted Latin translation of the Bible by Blessed Jerome of Stridon - as well as many other works in Latin, including " Jewish antiquities"Josephus, a collection of works of Hippocrates on medicine, " Czech Chronicle"Kozma of Prague," Beginnings"Isidore of Seville. In addition, there were texts for exorcism rituals, magical formulas and descriptions of the Kingdom of the Lord. And of course, a full-size image of Satan, because of which the book was called " Devil's Bible".
Legend has it that the monk who wrote this book made a deal with the Devil after he was sentenced to be embedded in a wall alive. Thanks to Satan, who left his portrait on the pages of the Bible, the monk managed to finish the book in one night. Researchers who examined the book concluded that the writing in the book was quite uniform and clear, as if the book had actually been written in a very short time. However, this is impossible, because you would have to write continuously for five whole years in a row. Scientists generally believe that this code required over thirty years of work on it. However, we must remember that some monks could receive punishment in the form of copying sacred texts. The skill and perseverance with which this was accomplished cannot be seen now... Or maybe there really is evil spirits involved here?
2. Bosnian Pyramid of the Sun
The discovery of pyramids in Bosnia could become the greatest archaeological discovery in Europe. According to the statements of Dr. Semir Osmanagic, head. Department of Anthropology at the American University in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the discovered pyramid may be the oldest man-made object on Earth (however, this title may also go to the Crimean pyramids). Dr. Osmanagic discovered it back in 2005, when he was passing through the city of Visoko. The mysterious hill stood out from the surrounding landscape, which attracted the attention of the anthropologist.
The structure is called the Pyramid of the Sun and Moon and its height is 220 meters, which is much higher than the Pyramid of Cheops in Giza. And the most amazing thing about the Bosnian pyramid is that it is directed north with an error of only 12 arc seconds. Too precise to be a mere coincidence, since the Great Pyramid of Giza has exactly the same exact location. The Cheops Pyramid is located at the intersection of the longest parallel and the longest meridian, that is, exactly above the center of mass of the Earth. Moreover, the edges of its base are located exactly along the cardinal points. The location is too precise to go unnoticed. And then suddenly there is a similar pyramid. How did this happen? Was there really a connection between two ancient civilizations? It will take years to answer a question that may change official science forever.
1. "Big Bowl"
Fuente Magna, a large stone vessel similar to a tub or bowl, was found in 1958 by an unknown farmer near Lake Titicaca in Bolivia. The artifact was subsequently sent to the Museum precious metals La Paz, where it lay for almost forty years until two researchers tried to study it. The vessel has beautiful engravings of animals and inscriptions in Sumerian cuneiform. And this raised many questions. How could an artifact with Sumerian cuneiform writing end up in the Andes, since there are thousands of kilometers between them? Archaeologists are trying to decipher ancient writings, but they have no idea what type of cuneiform was used.
Ancient cuneiform specialist, Dr. Clyde Winters, argues that the bowl may be of ancient Sumerian origin and is similar to artifacts found in Mesopotamia. He also notes that a similar cuneiform script was used 5,000 years ago by the ancient peoples of the Sahara: the Dravidians, Elamites, and even the early Sumerians. All of these civilizations formed in Central Africa before desertification began in 3500 BC. Dr. Winters translated some of the writings, and their meaning surprised many.
The bowl was a ritual libation vessel in the name of Ni-Ash, the Sumerian goddess of fertility. Niya is a Sumerian transcription of the name of the Egyptian goddess Neith, who was worshiped by many peoples who formed in Libya and parts of Central Africa. The found vessel allows us to build new hypotheses about the previously undiscussed connection between the Sumerians and Bolivians.
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Some people encounter miracles all the time, for others these are fairy tales, however, paranormal things happen in our lives, and this is the same reality as, say, rain or snow, which seem so ordinary to us. (website)
Alien artifacts
On the evening of January 29, 1986, a strange event occurred near the Far Eastern town of Dalnegorsk. A large luminous “meteorite” crashed into the hill at great speed. The top of this hill is visible here from all corners of the city, so almost all local residents witnessed something mysterious. Later, lights began to burn on higher ground, resembling welding. January did not allow us to immediately get closer to the glow, which lasted, as local residents say, about an hour. Only three days later, researchers managed to climb to the top and see strange fragments that had clearly melted under the influence of high temperatures. Surprisingly, at a distance of several centimeters from the fallen celestial body, the bushes and trees remained intact and unharmed.
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The collision with the rock left many interesting artifacts, the chemical composition of which turned out to be extremely rare, if not completely atypical for the Earth. For example, balls and structures were found that resembled a mesh in their structure. Many of them had a high melting point, although they appeared to be plastic. Scientists have suggested that such chemical compounds It is almost impossible to obtain in the natural conditions of our planet. Then - what is this?..
Annabelle doll
These events formed the basis of the American horror film Annabelle. In 1970, an American student celebrated her birthday. Mom gave her a large antique doll, which she purchased at an antique store. A few days later they started. Every morning the girl carefully laid the doll on the bed in the apartment she rented with a friend. The toy's arms were at its sides, and its legs were stretched out. But by evening the doll took a completely different pose. For example, the legs were crossed and the hands were on the knees. The doll could also be seen in unexpected places in the home.
The girls came to the logical conclusion that during their absence, a stranger with a strange sense of humor visits the apartment. It was decided to conduct an experiment and seal the windows and door in such a way that the attacker would leave traces after the visit. Not a single trap worked, and strange things continued to happen to the doll. Moreover, bloody stains began to appear on the doll. Naturally, the police, who were involved a little later in this strange case, could not help the girls in any way. I had to turn to a medium. He said that once upon a time, a seven-year-old girl died on the site of this dwelling, whose spirit was playing with this doll, thereby giving some signs, for example, requests for help. But then something terrible began to happen to the doll.
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One day, an acquaintance of theirs was visiting the girls. Suddenly a noise was heard from the next empty room. When the guys looked behind the door, there was no one in it, and a doll was lying on the floor. Suddenly the guy screamed and grabbed his chest. Blood stains appeared on his shirt. The chest was all scratched up. The girls left the apartment that same day and turned to the famous Warren esotericists, who were engaged in research. It turned out that Annabelle is not just a doll, but some evil entity that took advantage of the girls’ trust. The Warrens performed a cleansing ceremony, after which creepy things no longer appeared in the apartment. The girls happily gave the doll itself to their saviors for eternal storage.
Rubber blocks
Over the past thirty years, they have been regularly discovered on the shores of Europe. These are rectangular rubber blocks with rounded edges and the inscription “TJIPETIR”. It turned out that this word was the name of an Indonesian rubber plantation that existed at the beginning of the last century. But how can we explain the appearance of these products on the other side of the planet? Experts suggest that the plates are washed out from a sunken merchant ship.
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But in this case, very mysterious oddities can be traced. Firstly, the plates appear in England, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium, France, which indicates a huge number of blocks at the time of the shipwreck. Such an impressive consignment should be reflected in some archival documents, but none were found. Secondly, the rubber was made 100 years ago, but, to the surprise of researchers of this phenomenon, it was very well preserved. Are these plates really from?..
A lot of strange, mysterious and inexplicable things are happening in the vast expanses of Russia, but there is nothing to worry about. On 1/6 of the earth's landmass there is enough space for everyone: aliens, ghosts, prehistoric animals, psychics and supernatural monsters, unlike anything else in the world))
1. Meeting of astronauts with a UFO. The pioneers of space exploration had a hard time: the technologies of the beginning of the space age of mankind left much to be desired, so emergency situations arose quite often, like the one that Alexey Leonov encountered when he almost ended up in outer space. But some of the surprises that awaited space pioneers in orbit were not related to the equipment at all. Many Soviet cosmonauts who returned from orbit spoke about unidentified flying objects that appeared near earthly objects. spacecraft, and scientists still cannot explain this phenomenon.
Twice Hero Soviet Union cosmonaut Vladimir Kovalenok said that while staying at the Salyut-6 station in 1981, he observed a bright luminous object the size of a finger, rapidly encircling the Earth in orbit. Kovalenok called the crew commander, Viktor Savinykh, and he, seeing the unusual phenomenon, immediately went to get a camera.
V.Kovalenok
At this time, the “finger” flashed and split into two objects connected to each other, and then disappeared. It was never possible to photograph it, but the crew immediately reported the phenomenon to Earth. Sightings of unknown objects were also repeatedly reported by participants in Mir station missions, as well as employees of the Baikonur Cosmodrome - UFOs appear quite often in its vicinity.
2. Chelyabinsk meteorite. On February 15 this year, residents of Chelyabinsk and surrounding areas settlements observed an extraordinary phenomenon: it entered the Earth's atmosphere heavenly body, which was 30 times brighter than the Sun when it fell. As it turned out later, it was a meteorite, although various versions of the phenomenon have been put forward, including the use of secret weapons or the machinations of aliens (many still do not exclude this possibility). Exploding in the air, the meteorite split into many parts, the largest of which fell into Lake Chebarkul near Chelyabinsk, and the remaining fragments scattered over a wide area, including some regions of Russia and Kazakhstan. According to NASA, this is the largest space object, falling to Earth since the time of the Tunguska bolide. The “guest” from space caused quite significant damage to the city: the blast wave broke the glass in many buildings, and about 1,600 people received injuries of varying severity. The series of “space” adventures for Chelyabinsk residents did not end there: a few weeks after the meteorite fell, on the night of March 20, a huge luminous ball hovered in the sky above the city. It was observed by many townspeople, but there is no exact explanation yet of where the “second Sun” suddenly appeared, especially at night. However, some believe that the ball arose due to the reflection of city lights on specifically located ice crystals in the atmosphere - that night Chelyabinsk was covered with thick cold fog.
3. Sakhalin monster. The remains of an unknown creature were found by military personnel Russian army on the coast of Sakhalin Island in September 2006. In terms of the structure of the skull, the monster is somewhat reminiscent of a crocodile, but the rest of the skeleton is completely unlike any reptile known to science. It also cannot be classified as a fish, and the local residents to whom the soldiers showed the find could not identify it as any creature living in these waters. Remains of animal tissue were preserved, and judging by them, it was covered with wool. The corpse was quickly taken over by representatives of the special services, and its further study took place “behind closed doors.” Now most experts are inclined to believe that these were the remains of some kind of cetacean, according to some versions - a killer whale or a beluga whale, but others object that the creature differs in its skeleton from both of them. An alternative to the “accepted” point of view is that the remains belonged to a prehistoric animal, which were probably still preserved in the depths of the World Ocean.
K. Makovsky. Mermaids. 1879
4. Farewell to the mermaid. Mermaids are one of the main characters of Russian folklore. According to legend, these spirits living in reservoirs are born as a result of the painful death of women and children, and rumor says that meeting a mermaid does not bode well: they often seduce men, luring them into the abyss of a lake or swamp, steal children, They scare animals and generally behave in a manner that is not very decent. According to tradition, in order for the year to be successful and fertile, villagers brought various gifts to the mermaids, sang songs about them and held dances in honor of these restless souls. Of course, now such beliefs are not nearly as widespread as in the old days, but in some parts of Russia rituals associated with mermaids are still held. The most significant of them is considered the so-called Rusal Week or Farewell to the Mermaid - the week preceding Trinity (50th day after Easter). The main part of the ritual is the making and destruction of a stuffed mermaid, accompanied by fun, music and dancing. During Rusal Week, women do not wash their hair to protect themselves from perfume, and men carry garlic and walnuts with them for the same purpose. Of course, at this time it is strictly forbidden to go into the water - so as not to be dragged away by some bored mermaid.
5. Russian Roswell. The military missile range near the village of Kapustin Yar in the north-west of the Astrakhan region is often found in reports of the most strange and inexplicable incidents. Various UFOs and other curious phenomena are observed here with amazing regularity. Because of the most notorious case of this kind, Kapustin Yar received the nickname Russian Roswell by analogy with the city in the American state of New Mexico, where, according to some assumptions, an alien ship crashed in 1947. Almost a year after the Roswell incident, on June 19, 1948, a silvery object shaped like a cigar appeared in the sky above Kapustin Yar. On alert, three MiG interceptors were scrambled into the air, and one of them managed to shoot down a UFO. “Cigar” immediately fired a certain beam at the fighter, and it crashed to the ground; unfortunately, the pilot did not have time to eject. A silvery object also fell in the vicinity of Kapustin Yar, and was immediately transported to the test site bunker. Of course, many have repeatedly questioned this information, but some documents of the State Security Committee, declassified in 1991, indicate that the military more than once saw something above Kapustin Yar that does not yet fit into the framework of modern science.
6. Ninel Kulagina. During the Second World War, then Nina Sergeevna Kulagina served as a radio operator in a tank and participated in the defense of the Northern capital. As a result of her injury, she was discharged, and after the blockade of Leningrad was lifted, she got married and gave birth to a child. In the early 1960s, she became famous throughout the Soviet Union as Ninel Kulagina, a psychic and owner of other paranormal abilities. She could heal people with the power of her thoughts, determine color by touching her fingers, see through fabric what was in people's pockets, move objects at a distance, and much more. Her gift was often studied and tested by specialists from various institutions, including secret ones. scientific institutes, and many testified that Ninel is either an extremely clever charlatan or actually has anomalous skills. There is no convincing evidence for the former, although some former employees Soviet research institutes assure that when demonstrating “supernatural” abilities, Kulagina used various tricks and sleight of hand, which was known to the KGB experts investigating her activities. Until her death in 1990, Ninel Kulagina was considered one of the most powerful psychics of the 20th century, and the inexplicable phenomena associated with her were called the “K-phenomenon.”
7. Dragon from Brosno. Lake Brosno, located in the Tver region, is the deepest freshwater lake in Europe, but it is known throughout the world mainly because of the mysterious creature that local residents believe lives in it. According to numerous (but not yet documented) stories, an animal about five meters long, resembling something like a dragon, has been seen in the lake more than once, although almost all observers describe it differently. One of the local legends says that a long time ago, the Tatar-Mongol warriors who made a halt on the shore of the lake were eaten by the “dragon from Brosno”. According to another story, in the middle of Brosno one day an “island” suddenly appeared, which disappeared after some time - it is assumed that it was the back of a huge unknown beast. Although there is no reliable information about the monster supposedly living in the lake, many agree that some strange things do sometimes happen in Brosno and its environs.
8. Space Defense Troops. Russia has always sought to protect itself from all possible external (and internal) threats, and more recently, the defensive interests of our Motherland include the security of its space borders. To repel an attack from space, the Space Forces were created in 2001, and in 2011, the Space Defense Forces (SDF) were formed on their basis. The tasks of this type of troops include mainly organizing missile defense and controlling the military satellites that coordinate it, although the command is also considering the possibility of aggression from alien races. True, at the beginning of October of this year, answering the question whether the East Kazakhstan region is ready for an alien attack, Sergei Berezhnoy, assistant to the head of the Main Test Space Center named after German Titov, said: “Unfortunately, we are not yet ready to fight extraterrestrial civilizations.” . Let's hope the aliens don't know about this.
9. Ghosts of the Kremlin. There are few places in our country that can compare with the Moscow Kremlin in terms of mystery and the number of stories about ghosts that are found there. For several centuries it has served as the main citadel of Russian statehood, and, according to legend, the restless souls of the victims of the struggle for it (and with it) still roam the Kremlin corridors and dungeons. Some say that in the Bell Tower of Ivan the Great you can sometimes hear the crying and lamentations of Ivan the Terrible, atoning for his sins. Others mention that they saw the spirit of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin in the Kremlin, three months before his death, when the leader of the world proletariat was seriously ill and no longer left his residence in Gorki. But the most famous ghost of the Kremlin is, of course, the spirit of Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, who appears whenever the country is in for a shock. The ghost smells cold, and sometimes he seems to be trying to say something, perhaps warning the leadership of the state against mistakes.
Security guards often say that at night on the territory of the Kremlin they see many scary creatures, the outlines of animals and people. Very interesting place Among the secrets of the Kremlin are magical symbols that unexpectedly appear on the walls by themselves. They were repeatedly tried to capture them with a camera, but when the film was developed, it turned out to be either overexposed, or instead of symbols, blots were displayed on the wall.
Some strange oddities are also happening on the territory of the Kremlin churches. The security of the Archangel Cathedral always tells that every night sobs are heard here, someone’s unfamiliar voices are heard, someone reads funeral prayers, and someone laughs hysterically, everything suddenly stops after a sudden flash of a very bright light. Who makes these sounds remains a mystery.
10. Black bird of Chernobyl. A few days before the infamous accident of the fourth power unit Chernobyl nuclear power plant four station employees reported seeing what appeared to be a huge dark man with wings and glowing red eyes. Most of all, this description is reminiscent of the so-called Mothman, a mysterious creature that allegedly appeared repeatedly in the city of Point Pleasant in the American state of West Virginia. The Chernobyl plant workers who met the fantastic monster claimed that after the meeting they received several threatening calls and almost everyone began to have vivid, incredibly scary nightmares. On April 26, the nightmare happened not in the dreams of the employees, but at the station itself, and the amazing stories were forgotten, but only for a short time: while they were putting out the fire that raged after the explosion, survivors of the flames said that they clearly saw a 6-meter black bird that flew out from clubs radioactive smoke, pouring out of the destroyed fourth block.
11. A well in hell. In 1984, Soviet geologists launched an ambitious project to drill an ultra-deep well on the Kola Peninsula. The main goal was to satisfy scientific research curiosity and test the fundamental possibility of such deep penetration into the thickness of the planet. According to legend, when the drill reached a depth of about 12 km, the instruments recorded strange sounds coming from the depths and most of all resembling screams and moans. In addition, at great depths, voids were discovered, the temperature in which reached 1100 °C. Some even reported a demon flying out of the well. All this gave rise to rumors that Soviet scientists had drilled a “well to hell,” but many of the “evidences” do not stand up to scientific criticism: for example, it is documented that the temperature at the lowest point that the drill reached was 220 °C. Perhaps, David Mironovich Guberman, one of the authors and managers of the Kola superdeep well project, spoke best about the “well”: “When they ask me about this mysterious story, I don’t know what to answer. On the one hand, stories about the “demon” are bullshit. On the other hand, as an honest scientist, I cannot say that I know what exactly happened here. Indeed, a very strange noise was recorded, then there was an explosion... A few days later, nothing similar was found at the same depth.”
12. There are so many incredible rumors and mystical stories about the Moscow metro that astrologers decided to explore it. According to Italian experts in occult sciences, there is an interesting connection between the number of stations that are located on ring line and signs of the Zodiac. As you know, there are a total of 12 stations on the ring line, and the layout itself is very reminiscent of some kind of solar model. In addition, the number of stations is equal to the number of apostles who accompanied Jesus Christ. The fact that Moscow is an ancient city is beyond doubt; its very development exactly corresponds to the principle “as in heaven, so on earth.”
Aries is the very first sign of the Zodiac; in the Moscow metro map it corresponds to the Kurskaya station, its location in the eastern part of Moscow. This sign is responsible for military affairs and the business sphere. In the area through which the Izmailovskaya line passes, there is one of Moscow's physical education universities, there are many factories, military institutions, and the famous Lefortovo prison. Even the street names correspond exactly to this zodiac sign. For example, Soldatskaya Street.
In the opposite part of the capital, where Kutuzovsky Avenue is located, Fili, there are no industrial enterprises, but there are many institutions that are responsible for partnership and peacekeeping. One of the most important departments in this regard is the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The most interesting thing is that this area of Moscow is patronized by the constellation Libra. They are ruled by Chiron. The sign of Libra is characterized by duality.
13.Why was the Rossiya Hotel demolished? In the center of Moscow, an inexplicable noise was recorded back in the 80s. Guests of the Rossiya Hotel often heard it. Hereditary sorceress Alena Orlova claims that from birth she received the gift of feeling the energy of the Earth, for this she does not need any instruments or sensors. Her body itself, the woman assures, gives precise signals where exactly the place of possible natural disaster. Alena claims that the complete destruction of the Rossiya Hotel was a completely logical outcome for a building built on the site of a demolished temple complex. The rumble of the Earth seemed to warn - this building is doomed. According to Orlova, this historical place, charged for centuries with positive positive energy, an abscess appeared called the Rossiya Hotel, which immediately received a minus sign; opposite currents began to emanate from the Earth, aimed at destroying the enemy. The largest hotel in the Soviet Union has always enjoyed a bad reputation among Muscovites. The terrible fire of 1977, which killed 52 people and injured two hundred guests, was just one of the unexplained incidents at the Rossiya Hotel. Contract killings, sudden collapses of supporting structures, almost complete destruction of infrastructure - all these are links in one chain.
14.In the city of Shakhtersk on Sakhalin, in a small church the icon was again filled with myrrh. This time it is the icon of the “Sign of the Mother of God”. Many city residents are seriously concerned, as they are sure that the icon is thus warning them of upcoming troubles. The temple in Shakhtersk appeared not so long ago, but is famous for the fact that at different times twelve icons already streamed myrrh in it. And according to the beliefs of the Orthodox, this is a very significant phenomenon. As physicist Nikita Solovyov noted, the reasons for this phenomenon are still unknown to science. All hypotheses put forward were not confirmed. Science is not yet able to explain why icons “cry.”
15.Devil's Cemetery is a round bare clearing 250 m in diameter. It is located in the middle of the taiga, 100 km from the confluence of the Kova River with the Angara. It is noteworthy that there is no vegetation at all in the clearing, and the trees surrounding it are charred, as if a fire was raging here. According to one version, it was here, and not in the Podkamennaya Tunguska area, that the Tunguska meteorite fell. In the 20s and 30s of the last century, cattle often wandered into the clearing. And he died. Local residents had to pull it out with hooks, because they were afraid to enter the clearing themselves. The meat of the dead cattle was abnormally red. It is believed that people also died here - before the Great Patriotic War Several hundred people died near or on the clearing. Walking there is not recommended. To put it mildly.
