The mystery of the disappeared village or anomalies of the earth. The most terrible places in Russia The disastrous and damned

Russia surpassed many countries in the number of terrible and mystical places. Scarecrows have something to fear, quite often there are places that can truly terrify.

Doomed and damned

Perhaps the most famous anomalous place on the planet is the Bermuda Triangle. It is located in the North Atlantic, within the boundaries 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. And what are the scariest places in Russia?

Triangle of Molebs

The village of Molebka in the Urals is a backwater at the junction of the Sverdlovsk region and Perm Territory. The famous geoanomalous zone, which is known as the Moleb Triangle (aka the Perm anomalous zone), is located on the left bank of the Sylva River, opposite the village. Once this place was holy for the Mansi, there was a prayer stone for sacrifices.

In the 80s of the last century, the settlement became known throughout the country. During a winter hunt, geologist Emil Bachurin found a round footprint in the snow with a diameter of 62 meters. Since that time, this place excites the minds of people. Many people say that they saw here a "snow" man, a UFO, as well as various bodies, in particular, luminous balls with intelligent behavior. Researchers claim that this zone has strong dowsing anomalies.

By the way, the Moleb Triangle is well known to foreign ufologists and tourists. Every year, thousands of "pilgrims" rush 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 Mount "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, Igor Dyatlov led the expedition. One tourist had pain in his legs and he stayed in the village of Vizhay, 9 more continued to climb. They did not have time to ascend before dark and stopped for the night on a slope. At night, the inexplicable happened - the whole group died.

As the investigation established, at night, half-dressed tourists cut the tent from the inside and rushed in horror to run downstairs. Many died from the cold, but the bodies of three turned out to be with broken ribs and pierced heads. One girl even had her tongue torn out. But there were no abrasions or bruises on the bodies. Moreover, the skin of all the dead was of a strange reddish color, their hair was gray, and wild horror froze on their faces. Experts found on the clothes an excess of background radiation at times. It is noteworthy that after that, three planes crashed over the pass and groups of tourists of 9 people died.

Medveditskaya ridge

Furious fireballs and ordinary giant lightning, UFOs, crumpled trees with burns on their trunks, soil and vegetation with harmful radiation. Such is the network of hills about 250 meters high Medveditskaya ridge. It is located in the Volgograd region in the Zhirnovsky district.

Local residents in this area will no longer be surprised by unidentified objects and numerous traces of UFOs. But not only this is famous Medveditskaya mountain. Another mystery is that this place attracts just a huge amount of lightning. The researchers counted about 350 partially or completely burned trees. From some multi-meter oaks, only charred stumps remained.

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 stretched for miles. At the very beginning of the war, the entrances to the tunnels were blown up.

Local folklore is rich in stories about tunnels. They say there are UFO bases underground city robbers who hide looted treasures, or the repository of an antediluvian race of man-serpents. They were allegedly seen by local enthusiasts.

Among other things, strange keys come out of the ground. If distilled water is pouring in one place, then in another there is already a radioactive source.

death valley

Another deadly place is in Kamchatka. This is the Valley of Death, 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 sites are quite small and cut by ravines. Jets of sour hot water, gases and steam appear at the bottom and on the slopes. The lowest platform was called 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, without a single blade of grass, the dead animals lay - bears, wolves and hares. Surprisingly, after visiting this place, the hunters began to wither before their eyes, lost weight and suffered from headaches.

More than 100 enthusiastic scientists 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 sulfide and carbon dioxide. And in the volcanic gases of the valley there are highly toxic cyanide compounds.

Death Valley Vilyuy

This strange and terrible 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 claim that numerous fragments of flying saucers are buried in the permafrost. This area is called “Elyuyu Cherkechek”, which means “Valley of Death” in Yakut. The phenomenon is associated with the fall of the Tunguska meteorite in 1908.

Death Valley in Yakutia

It is said that the trade route of the Yakuts went through 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 impact on human health, allegedly, after leaving there, people were very sick, and those who spent the night died several times. Therefore, the locals avoid this place. Eyewitnesses say that there is actually a flattened arch with numerous metal rooms that are very warm.

Another object that is located there is a smooth red metal hemisphere with a smooth edge. It protrudes from the permafrost and you can ride a deer into it. Various researchers claim that they saw several boilers there, and in one of them there was half an ideal ball of an unknown metal that cuts glass like butter. Ufologists believe that this is a kind of cemetery of unidentified flying objects that were in a mass accident.

Mysteries of the Devil's Cemetery

It is located not far from the place of Ust-Kova in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, at the confluence of the Kova River into the Angara. The devil's cemetery appeared in 1908 after the fall of the Tunguska meteorite. Its epicenter is located 400 kilometers north of this place. In this place, at first there was a hole in the ground, which was then littered with the corpses of animals.

This place became famous in 1983, after an article appeared in the magazine "Technology - Youth". It was written there: “In the 1930s, collective farmers drove the herd not far from the Angara, from Bratsk to Kova. When checking they missed two cows. Two drivers with guns went in search of animals. On the way, people came to a round clean clearing, 100 meters in diameter, completely without vegetation. The dogs ran onto this land and immediately turned their tails between their legs and rushed to run back. Away lay the corpses of the missing animals, 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 who tried to unravel the mystery of this place died in this place.
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in the Muromtsevsky district 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.

Okunevo village and surrounding lakes

In the village itself, the 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 huge growth appear out of the water. Children rushed to the village to tell adults about this miracle. But, of course, no one believed them. However, in 1947, a local teacher once heard bells ringing from the sky. Raising her eyes, the woman was stunned: horses of unprecedented beauty were flying above the ground in the air ...

And further, in the area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe village of Okunevo, such anomalies began to occur more and more often, for example, multi-colored balls and UFOs in the sky for local residents became so common that no one pays attention to them, unless the cattle have to be held at this moment, which is why - He gets very excited and runs away.

Maybe the reason for this 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 one also lurked, and now a mixture of liquid from all five lakes is supposedly capable of acquiring the property of a real fabulous “living water” - from all ailments and misfortunes.

But while no one has found the fifth mythical reservoir, the healing properties are attributed to the mysterious lake named Satan. 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 organize summer camps) harmonizes a person’s energy, which contributes to healing, as well as his spiritual enlightenment. It's just that the locals themselves somehow do not differ in either good health, or longevity, or some kind of great spirituality - ordinary village people.

True, Lake Shaitan itself is a separate conversation ...

Anomalies of Lake Shaitan near the village of Okuneva

Perhaps this is not connected with the lake itself, but with the village, but pilgrims come here most often for the sake of 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 fight against evil forces (there is supposedly a story about this in the Indian epic Ramayana). That is why people from all over the Earth come to this legendary reservoir, and especially often from India.

A very interesting incident happened here not so long ago. Indian pilgrims came to visit him. In the morning they took the direction to the Shaitan Lake by compass and went to themselves. It took about an hour to go. But our Indians go for an hour, then two, but there is still no reservoir. And the forest is getting thicker and uglier. In general, persistent pilgrims walked like this for seven hours, but still did not reach the lake. Finally, they could not stand it (and they were already scared), and again turned back according to the compass - after 20 minutes they returned to the village of Okuneva.

But the locals were not very surprised by such an adventure: it turns out that sometimes it’s 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, from here, they say, everything will be in trouble. You can leave and get lost in that looking glass for a long time, sometimes for several days, or you can not return at all. Yes, and “from there” guests often visit our world: hunters often notice traces of a “snowman” up to a meter long in the snow (imagine this humanoid giant!) As a rule, such traces stretch in a chain and suddenly ... break off, as if a mysterious creature has dissolved into air...

Video: Anomalies of the Siberian village of Okunevo

Attempts to scientifically explain the anomalous phenomena of the Okunev village

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) here of a special marsh gas that causes hallucinations and fainting. In windy weather, poison gas can spread and cover this entire “anomalous zone”.

However, local residents did not believe in this theory of scientists. Everything is too simple and unambiguous. And how to explain the same footprints of the Yeti that suddenly appear, suddenly disappear, balls and UFOs in the sky, and all this is easily filmed on photos and videos today (what kind of glitches are these?) And how to explain the temporal-spatial gaps in which often people get caught (for example, the same Indians). And it's good if they return, many disappear without a trace. So it’s impossible to explain all this with hallucinations, something is completely different here ...

Anomalous places are the holy of holies of everything unknown and mysterious. Hundreds of people visit them at their own risk to see firsthand what refutes science and is contrary to 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 of the ancient monuments have survived; only traces and reminders remain of many. 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 zones with negative energy. The 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 have telling names: damned, damn, secret, forgotten, dead. Rumor and legends securely store these names, because this is how our ancestors denoted danger. In the Devil's Meadow, you can disappear without a trace, and the Dead 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 anomalous zones arise. 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 a different reality and show other worlds.

The mysterious city of Arkaim

Arkaim is a place of power, safe for a person. Therefore, experts recommend starting the study of the anomalous zones of Russia with ancient city 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 securely hidden from prying eyes and not everyone can unravel them. This is the city of the times of the Rigveda (the oldest of the Vedas) and the Avesta, the sacred texts of the Zoroastrians.

Arkaim in the XX century BC. e.

Magicians claim that tourists come here when they feel called. They are called by intuition. They want to touch the energy of the ruins that cleanses of 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 the ancestors. Those who often come here say that after trips to Arkaim:

• health is strengthened;
• improves vitality;
• positive changes begin to occur 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 a place of archaeological excavations, an ancient monument in the open air. People come here in groups from all over the country or one by one. 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. The legends confirm the theories that the apparatuses and mechanisms of the lost civilization could be located here. There are theories that the city was a temple or even an observatory. The inhabitants of Arkaim knew pottery and metallurgical production. Science confirms that the city died from a fire, but who set fire to Arkaim is unknown. Whether these were enemies or the inhabitants themselves were guilty of the fire is still a mystery. As well as many other things hidden in the ruins of this mysterious city.

The Secret of the Lakes of Death (The Horror of the Ancient Temple)

Water depths, hidden from view, have always terrified our ancestors. It is not known what ancient animals lurked in the muddy waters of lakes and reservoirs, what forces alien to man hid the depths of dark water.

But not always the lakes, which received a long time ago such names as the Dead, Empty or even Devil's, have been so since time immemorial. Many have become anomalous due to the destructive activities of man.

Drowned Lake

Not far from Pereslavl-Zalessky there is a lake in which tourists often drown. People ignore the warning boards set up on the shore and go into the water. No one can answer the question, where do the corpses of the drowned disappear?

The bodies disappeared into the lake without a trace.

Locals do not swim in the lake, but often fish in it. Despite the fact that the local sanitary and epidemiological station checked the water many times and did not find anything dangerous in it, sometimes fishermen come across fish that are difficult to attribute to 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.

The old-timers once saw how one of the visitors swam to the middle of the lake and, screaming, went under the water, as if he had been dragged to the bottom. Air bubbles rose to the surface, and together with them an oil stain 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 sailed up to the circle in a boat, and immediately the boat began to exude a greenish shimmer. Following this, a fountain hit the sky from a circle on the water, covering the daredevils, who decided to get out of there as soon as possible.

Records of several cases of a strange skin disease have been preserved in local hospitals. All the patients were united by one thing: swimming in the lake. Their hair fell out all over their bodies, and their skin was covered with colorless horny plates that looked like scales. On the head, the plates grew together into processes similar to horns, which then began to crack and peel off, and subsequently fell off altogether.

Scientists became 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 pulled large masses of water with force. It was not possible to determine where the water got through the cracks. But here's what's interesting: the water level in the lake always remains the same, even though the water is rapidly leaving the lake through cracks in the bottom.

Flooded temple

In the vicinity of the Leningrad region, not far from Sosnovy Bor, there are terrible legends about the origin of Lake Kalishchenskoye. The locals also call it Kaplischenskoe and diligently bypass the terrible place.

Rumor has preserved the legends, which say that earlier on the site of the lake there was an old Russian temple, a place where the ancient Slavs made 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 enveloped the forest around Lake Kalishchenskoye. 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 hushed forest, the realization that a huge lake was devoid of life before my eyes, 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 has a bad reputation.

Sometimes in the forest around the lake, locals find carefully dug holes, which are a perfect square, a meter by a meter wide. The mysteriousness of the lake is added by an 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, has not escaped the appearance of an anomalous zone almost in the very heart of the city, not far from the Kremlin. In the 18th century, the construction of the Bolshoi Theater began. With the permission of Empress Catherine II, the first building of the theater was built on Petrovka, which burned down even before the opening. Shortly after this event, Prince Urusov, to whom she entrusted the construction, lost interest in him and transferred the rights to the construction site to his partner, Michael Medox.

Under the leadership of an Englishman, the first theater building appeared in Moscow. It was low, three stories high, made of brick and with a wooden roof. A quarter of a century later, the building burned down.

The new building of the theater was erected on Arbatskaya (future Theater) Square. But evil fate overtook him. The building burned down during the great fire of 1812.

After 9 years, the building began to be rebuilt, and in the middle of the 19th century it burned down again. It was determined that the fire that destroyed the theater started in a carpentry shop. Many people died in the fire. Only stone walls and a colonnade at the entrance remained from the building. After 3 years, the theater was rebuilt.

If we take a closer look at all the cases of fires that have befallen the Bolshoi Theater, we can pay attention to one significant detail: all fires always started in the basement of the building.

After the next fire of the Bolshoi Theater, rumors spread around Moscow about a curse that weighed on Theater Square. And there was a reason for these rumors: the legend of Nikita Dvinyatin and his tragically lost family.

Man in black

It happened in the XVII century, when the city was engulfed by a plague epidemic. Many families locked themselves in houses and did not let anyone on the threshold, fearing a painful death in the air. The Dvinyatin family did the same, but, despite this, all family members became seriously ill and were dying when a mysterious guest, who introduced himself as a doctor, knocked on the door.

He promised a speedy recovery to the doomed people, said that he had brought with him a miraculous medicine that would save them. Despair seized Nikita Dvinyatin, the head of this family, and he opened the door and let the stranger in. No matter how much Nikita tried to make out the stranger, he did not succeed. 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 immediately died. The medicine was poison, the stranger poisoned them. Convinced that the witnesses were dead, he began to rob their dwelling.

Nikita hid from him and secretly got out of the house. The fear of imminent death did not frighten him as much as the unknown man in black. Having reached the neighbors, he called them for help. Together they returned and overtook the stranger when he left the Dvinyatins' house with the loot. Fierce people caught him and gave him a terrible medicine to drink, from which Nikita's family died.

The corpse of the uninvited guest was thrown into the swamp, where, hundreds of years later, there will be Theater Square. Eyewitnesses to the fires said that shortly before the flames devoured the building, the ghost of an unknown person was seen in the basements of the theater, dressed in an old-fashioned dark cloak with a hood.

Wanderer and three stations

The Square of Three Stations in Moscow has long had 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 the monastery was located. The legend says that one rainy night, a traveler knocked on the gates 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 it to fall into the ground. The strong walls of the monastery shook, and soon the monastery began to collapse. In vain were the attempts of the monks to restore their dwelling, and soon they left this place.

The people were afraid of the ruins, knowing that a curse was hanging over them. For three centuries there was a wasteland here, until Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich ordered the construction of a traveling palace on this site. A tower-tower was also built here, which gave the name to the place: Kalanchevskoe field.

At the end of the 17th century, on the site where the Leningradsky and Yaroslavsky railway stations are now located, the building of an artillery warehouse stood. It was destroyed by a fire that started in 1812 after the explosion of shells stored there.

In the 18th century, a wooden theater was built here, which repeatedly burned to the ground.

A century later, it was decided to drain the swamps, and the construction of the Nikolaevsky railway station (later Leningradsky) began. Workers died at the construction site under unclear circumstances. The erected buildings suddenly collapsed, as if they were destroyed by an unknown force, but the construction was still completed.

In the 30s of the 20th 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 tunnel frame began to collapse, and only thanks to the selfless efforts of the Komsomol metro builders, the tragedy was prevented. In their honor, the station was named "Komsomolskaya".

Komsomolskaya station before the flood

They say that sometimes an old man dressed in rags appears in front of the Kazansky railway station. He walks, bent low to the ground, and leans on a long stick. At the very entrance, he falls on his knees and prays for a long time, now and then frantically 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.

Curse of the abbess (Temple of Christ the Savior)

On the site of the future Cathedral of Christ the Savior, the Alekseevsky Convent was previously located. By decree of the king, it was decided to move the monastery to Krasnoye Selo, and build a temple in its place.

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 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."

The construction lasted 44 years from 1839 to 1883. In 1931, it was decided to blow up the temple and build the infamous Palace of 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. And only in the mid-90s, it was decided to restore the temple. In 1999, the opening and consecration took place.

The Cathedral of Christ the Savior is the main cathedral of the country, where major services are held. Thousands of believers visit them. But, despite this, the attitude towards the temple among Russians is ambivalent. Many will agree that an unfavorable aura is felt in the temple. There is an opinion that it is only a copy, a remake without an old story.

Moscow region: ghosts and UFOs

Residents of the village of Chasovnya near Moscow are sure that they live in the epicenter of an anomalous 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 is named so because of the abandoned chapel that stands in the central square of the village. Every year hundreds of expeditions come here from different cities of Russia and even from other countries.

At any time of the day, you can hear eerie sounds coming from the cemetery of the village. 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 visit here, and a few years ago their activities led to a strong explosion in the forest near the Chapel. The source and cause of the explosion have never been established.

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 geopathic zone that has captured the village of Chasovnya. It spreads far beyond the borders of the village. It is considered dangerous to enter the forest because of the goblin 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 can bring havoc on the traveler as a punishment. The person affected by the spell cannot find his way back and begins to wander in circles, now and then getting lost on a simple route. Finding a way home becomes possible only if the haze subsides, but this entirely depends on the favor of the evil spirit.

Seraphim stones

Hundreds of tourists gather every day. This is the most famous anomalous zone of the Nizhny Novgorod region. It is believed that Seraphim of Sarov lived here, not far from the ruined monastery. His miraculous energy is so strong that it is still preserved in the 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 the 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, having bypassed the stone, returned to the forest. Periodically, 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. On the largest of them, marks similar to traces of hands and knees have been preserved. Not far from them on the ground lies a stone, which is called Verigi. According to legend, Seraphim of Sarov constantly wore this stone in his shoulder 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 that in a few years the Bear has doubled in size.

A source of healing water springs from the ground next to the stones. People come here to touch the shrines and soak up positive energy. Visiting the stones will strengthen spirituality and give peace.

Silica Cave

In the village of Devyatskoye near Moscow, not far from the station Silikatnaya, in one of the quarries, raw materials for white stone architecture were once mined. Since then, the cave has been 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 that a stone slab was falling on people, he picked it up 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 let go of the slab, and it fell, crushing him. The rescued people, in gratitude to the soldier, decided to bury his remains, but, having moved the stone, they did not find anything. They searched for him as much as they could in the dilapidated cave, but neither the soldier nor his traces were found.

After the war, the cave was closed for half a century until a group of enthusiasts opened it again. Excursions often go to Silikaty. Visitors are looking for lost things from bygone eras that the cave has kept for many years.

The cave has very narrow passages.

Often, among the narrow corridors, the ghost of a man in military uniform flickers. Sometimes he leads the old woman by the hand. Apparently, this is the mother of a soldier, whom he saved many years ago.

Leningrad region

40 km from St. Petersburg in Lake Blyudechko lives a mysterious beast that attacks local fishermen. The saucer 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 his paws and large mouth.

In the city of Pushkin, flashes and fireballs are often observed in the sky, flying at high speed across the sky. Ufologists claim that this is a UFO. Alien flying machines were also seen in the Vyborg region near the Yellow Bay and the Luga reservoir. It is not clear what interested alien guests in these lakes of the Leningrad region.

Another anomalous zone near St. Petersburg is the Sablinskiye caves. Those who have been there have often heard strange sounds coming from the darkness, and photographs of the caves are full of glare and blurry spots. Perhaps the diggers are to blame, which 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 a mass grave 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 the development. On film they were replaced by fireballs.

Anti-tank hedgehogs are installed around the cross

After that, the monument was of interest to many people who suffered from serious illnesses. Near the cross, they were miraculously healed of ailments. Healthy people were charged with positive energy from the monument. 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 installed in a place of power where hundreds of thousands of Russian soldiers died, who gave their lives for the well-being 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 Russia. 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 the neighborhood with evil spirits, and anomalous zones are diligently bypassed, 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 Well. Documents say that a wave of mass suicides swept here a hundred years ago. The surviving inhabitants suffered a new misfortune: drought.

The 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, reciting prayers and sprinkling the graves with holy water. In 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 hail.

As soon as the rain stopped, three houses broke out in different parts of the village. Wet thatched roofs blazed so intensely, as if the straw had dried up instantly after the rain.

UFO and scary animals

According to eyewitnesses, the Devil's Well attracts guests from other worlds. Here, round and cigar-shaped aircraft are often observed in the sky. Sometimes they quickly fly high in the sky, leaving no traces behind, and sometimes they fly slowly, touching the tops of trees.

UFOs have molded hulls without identification marks, in seconds they can develop monstrous speed and disappear from the line of sight. Often, alien ships visiting the Devil's Well land in the dense forest near the village. So far, there is no evidence of contacts of local residents with aliens.

Perhaps guests arriving on our planet are experimenting on the local fauna here. 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 encountered these mysterious creatures. Their bullets bounced off the fur of animals with a ringing sound, and the animals themselves behaved strangely: instead of attacking people, they hid in the impenetrable thicket.

Exploring the forest, teams of ufologists often stumbled upon burnt trees and traces from the landings of large and heavy aircraft. Some scientists were even lucky enough to witness flashes in the sky, which were accompanied by a howl of wolves.

Parapsychologists who have visited the Devil's Well are sure that the village and its surrounding area are full of negative energy. Its source is located deep in the earth, but what it is, has not been found out.

Death Valley (Kamchatka)

The locals avoid these places. There are no paths or roads here. Death Valley is full of the bones of dead birds and half-decomposed corpses of large animals: bears, lynxes and wolves.

The first to discover the Valley were 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 suddenly surging weakness. Only by a miracle did they manage to escape from the terrible place.

death valley victim

Rumor 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 the Valley of Death.

Scientists suggest that acid fumes from the earth 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

The village of Okunevo, which is located in a remote area more than 200 km from Omsk, is constantly visited by researchers of anomalous phenomena and scientists from all over the world. And it is no coincidence, because here they often observe:

• crimson fog;
• ghosts;
• luminous 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 arrived. 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 carried out 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 that he professed a religion that was brought to India by ancient settlers from Western Siberia. He said that earlier in Siberia there was a temple of Hanuman, a humanoid ape, the patron of knowledge and a healer. Hanuman could fly through the air, change his appearance and had 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 made. He was found by Rasma Rositis, a follower of the ascetic Mahavatar Babaji. The discovery was preceded by a week of fasting and prayer before the luminous beings led Rasma to the altar. Having studied it, she came to the conclusion that it is an omkar, a 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 healing. These lakes appeared as a result of a meteorite falling to 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 been able to find it. According to healers, people on the planet will soon be struck by a disease that can only be cured by water from a hidden lake.

The famous Western mystic and soothsayer Edgar Cayce predicted in the middle of the 20th century that a major cataclysm would hit 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 World War II, an aircraft fell on the island, which is located near Rostov-on-Don. Eyewitnesses mistook it for a German reconnaissance aircraft. Such models of aircraft, in fact, were developed by the Nazis. Their photographs have been preserved in the Ahnenerbe archives: flying discs that look like alien ships. Ufologists still believe that an alien ship crashed on Zelyony Island. Perhaps they are right, given what happened to the island in the future.

UFO or the development of German scientists?

The NKVD organized the protection of the crash site, and the incident was classified. But research was interrupted by the war. Fierce battles were fought over the island 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 sleeping. Before disappearing, all of them saw a black stone that called them to itself and put them to sleep as soon as they approached it. Disappearances occurred 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 uncharted places.

Several scientific expeditions have identified weak anomalies in the western part of the island. Perhaps their appearance is associated with destroyed underground structures, access to which is blocked 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. Gamekeepers constantly find grass flattened in the form of perfect circles. Ufologists who visited the park believe that these are traces of UFO landings.

Mount Svetelka is located on the territory of Samarskaya Luka. This place is considered blessed. Many tourists go specially to climb the mountain and recharge with positive energy. Visitors get healthier and negative thoughts go away. Scientists have discovered a rupture of tectonic plates under Svetelka. It is believed that such natural phenomena are the gates to other worlds. People with psychic abilities can develop their talents here, as these are places of power.

Here equipment breaks down, mobile communications disappear and batteries and batteries are rapidly discharged. Often tourists fall into spatial anomalies, where time flows differently. Wandering inside the 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 led by A. Barchenko.

Here, phenomena such as:

• gravitational anomalies;
• distortion of time and space;
• meetings with a snowman;
• body rejuvenation.

Fig 14. Lovozero - a place of power

In 1999, the expedition of Valery Demin visited here. Scientists were looking for traces of the legendary Hyperborea.

The secret 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 were dug out 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 Death Valley. 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 structures complained of malaise, headaches and bouts of causeless panic. The buildings themselves were surrounded by abnormally dense thickets of grass and shrubs.

In 2002, a group of local geology students managed to find one of the boilers near a flowing river. They were unable to determine the exact size of the metal cauldron, as only one edge was above the ground. Geologists tried to break off a piece of the boiler 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.

Lake Pleshcheyevo

The lake in the Yaroslavl region became famous for its unusual fogs. Getting into them, people lost their sense of time and experienced an extraordinary spiritual 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 evidence, was always straight and, walking along it, people saw the silhouettes of knights in thick fog and heard the monotonous muttering of old voices in an unfamiliar language, similar to ancient prayers. When the fog dissipated, 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 went 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 tribe of pagans that lived here before the Slavs worshiped the Sin-stone as a deity. The Slavs who came after them erected on the hill where the stone lay, the temple of Yarila, and they began to make sacrifices 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. The fire destroyed them. The locals took these signs as a manifestation of the power of the ancient gods. Here they celebrated major pagan holidays - Maslenitsa and Kupala night. Alarmed ministers of the church assured the inhabitants that demonic power was contained in the stone, but their persuasion was 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 sled 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 sled and, breaking through the ice, went to the bottom. Half a century later, the stone got ashore, and soon independently reached the foot of the hill, where there was a temple. Parapsychologists believe that telekinesis or evil spirits were involved here. On moonless nights, the stone exudes a bluish glow.

Every year the stone sinks deeper into the ground

Alien ships have been repeatedly spotted over Lake Pleshcheyevo. 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 the pale silhouettes of ghosts. It is still unknown what happened here and what caused the presence of restless souls. It is said that the bridge is cursed by a witch. Apparently, it also affected the old cemetery, which is located near the Pesochnaya River.

Researchers have repeatedly monitored the bridge and the surrounding area, but so far have not been able to record anything unusual.

Shushmor tract

A deadly and terrible place in the suburbs. For many kilometers around it there is no settlements or residential buildings. The tract became infamous because of the many people who disappeared here. They disappeared without a trace, leaving no traces or bodies behind.

Those who have been here and survived say that the vegetation in Shushmora is abnormally active: the grass reaches the height of human growth, and the tree trunks are unusually wide.

Ufologists who explored the tract recorded:

• aurora 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 grave mound, under which one of the Mongol commanders who attacked Russia is buried.

Solovetsky labyrinths

The Solovetsky archipelago includes dozens of islands of various sizes. Solovetsky labyrinths have been preserved on many islands since ancient times. Historians call the approximate time of their creation - the Stone Age.

Sometimes they see spirits moving along the spirals of labyrinths.

Labyrinths are spirals on the ground lined with stones. In the center of the spirals lie piles of stones. 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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In the middle of the 19th century, the village of Mokeevka appeared in the forests of the Shilovsky district between the lakes Kuzhikha and Chudino.
It was not marked by anything special, except for the smart and hardworking people living in it, because the village was prosperous. The inhabitants of the village did not think or guess that in the coming century they would become the heroes of legends, passed in a whisper from mouth to mouth.
Mokeevka disappeared after the October Revolution. Absolutely... Together with the population, houses, cattle. And it's okay to just disappear. In those bad times, this was not the case. The oddity was that the village was seen from time to time.
Residents of neighboring Nadezhdino will go fishing - there is Mokeevka, women will go to the swamp for cranberries - there is Mokeevka. And a detachment of food requisitions came - there is no village. Like a cow licked with her tongue. In the place where it should be, impassable thicket.
Somehow they sent a detachment of CHON (a part of a special purpose designed to fight the enemies of the Soviet regime) in a hundred sabers to deal with this ideologically harmful village. The Reds, by all the rules of military science, surrounded the location of the enemy. They sent intelligence. They wait half an hour, an hour - there are no sentinels. The commander with a dozen fighters went on a sortie. And also disappeared...
In general, when the main detachment approached, the Chonians saw an absolutely incredible picture. There is a village where it is supposed to be. Linen is dried in the yards, warm samovars are still in the huts.
But there is not a single living being - neither man, nor cattle, nor cat, nor dog. Only the scouts with the commander roam the yards in complete disorder. The authorities have made several attempts to clarify the situation. And all with the same success.
Then they spat and announced: there was no Mokeevka in sight. And everything that is said about the ghost village is an ideological sabotage and undermining the authority of the Soviet government by the kulaks and sub-kulakists.

Country on lockdown

We will definitely return to the mystical story with the village of Mokeevka. But first, let's remember that the Shilovsky region attracted the close attention of scientists 200 years ago as a possible location of the semi-mythical Artania - the city-state of the ancient Russians.
Here is a quote from the Big Encyclopedic Dictionary: “Artania, Arsania, Arta, along with Kuyavia and Slavia, is one of the three centers of Ancient Russia that existed in the 9th century and is mentioned by Arab and Persian geographers (al-Balkhi, al-Istakhri, Ibn Haukal and etc.). Some researchers identify A. with the territory of the Ants, others with Tmutarakan, and still others with the city of Ryazan. According to one version, its name came from here - Arta - Arzya - Yeruzyan - Ryazan.
The main oddity is that not a single source left us a description of the ancient city, its streets, buildings, household utensils. In general, no specific data. The conclusion suggests itself: either strangers were not allowed into Artania (one of the translations is “a country on lockdown”), or all this is a myth and a legend that has no actual evidence.
According to some modern ethnographers, Artania was carefully protected from prying eyes, and at the same time they did it so skillfully that the idea of ​​attracting some esoteric forces suggests itself.

In the intricacies of the "maze"

What was kept in ancient Artania? There is a version that it was here that the most revered relics of the ancient Orthodox world were saved: the first consecrated icon of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, the legendary sword of Ares, and even.
In fairness, it should be noted that not everyone agrees that the mysterious city was located on Ryazan land. Yes, and here, in the Ryazan region, other places of the possible location of the “closed country” are also given.
For example, Pitelinsky district. Here is what the famous Ryazan amateur local historian Vladimir Gribov told about his search for Artania. The inhabitants of one of the villages near the sources of the river Pet pointed out to him a field, with which many mysterious phenomena had long been associated.
At the beginning, Vladimir Vasilyevich saw nothing unusual in this place. Field as field. Proceeded it up and down - nothing interesting. I was about to leave and suddenly, quite by accident, I stumbled upon a hefty stone on the very outskirts of this place.
In appearance, it exactly coincided with the famous menhirs, repeatedly described in historical documents. Turned under a strict tetrahedron, the top is pointed. Since pagan times, these stones have been placed, believing that they accumulate the energy of the sun. And if you have certain knowledge, this energy can be used, among other things, to create an impenetrable protection from prying eyes. Further - more ... Behind the stone was a whole chain of small ravines, in which boulders were scattered, at first glance, chaotically. Not a single path, not a single road nearby.
Already after a hundred steps, Vladimir Gribov began to feel a slight dizziness, and after a moment he realized that he was in a huge "maze" - the stones and ravines were located in such a way that they twisted into a spiral! He decided to walk to its center, but that was not the case - he passed two ravines and realized that he was again standing a few steps from the menhir. Another attempt, same result. Maybe somewhere here was the entrance to the "secret city" forever hidden from prying eyes?
There is another fact that confirms the version of Vladimir Gribov. Old-timers tell a story about Ataman Antonov, whose forward detachments, during the suppression of a peasant rebellion, violently broke through from the Tambov region to the Pitelin region. With fighting, sweeping away the cordons of the Red Army, they still managed to break through. But the Reds nevertheless overlaid the Antonovites in the region of the Pitelin forests. The most desperate made their way to the ravines and sank into the water ...

Nettle didn't help.

But back to modern Shilovo. Sergey Ivanovich Nikanov is one of the few who saw the legendary Mokeevka with his own eyes. “Yes, I was not the only one who saw her,” he said. - Many of us in Nadezhdino have been to Mokeevka, and more than once.
In the early 1930s, when collectivization was in full swing, the authorities became interested in Mokeevka again. They began to drag men and women from the surrounding villages for interrogation. We were still just boys ... With a friend we saw the village three times when we went fishing on Lake Chudino. True, they did not go into the huts - they were afraid. And when they told us at home, our parents lashed us with nettles so much that they then bypassed these places on the tenth road. Parental nettle did not help. The mysterious Mokeevka sunk into the soul of Sergei Nikanov.

You never dreamed!

“For 20 years, there was not a rumor or a spirit about the village,” says Sergey Ivanovich. “The story has already been forgotten.
But in the mid-60s, tourists stumbled upon it again. We went to Chudino - there was a village, and on the way back, when they wanted to draw water in the well, they saw an impassable thicket.
I've gone looking myself several times. And I saw Mokeevka three more times. Only now, if I take the camera with me, I’ll wander through the forest in vain. I'm already in Shilovo and I've stopped talking about it. They laugh at me - they think that my grandfather lied in his old age. And I still have old photos, still 20s. They just have the same Mokeevka. Then the ethnographers managed to photograph the village and its inhabitants for the only time. Of course, this should be taken seriously, but my age is not the same, and my health does not allow me to run through forests and swamps.
Unfortunately, the format of a newspaper publication does not make it possible to tell about many more mysterious places in the Ryazan region. There are their own in Shatsk, in Staraya Ryazan, on the Zhokin settlement in the Zakharovsky district. And I advise skeptics to remember the words of Shakespeare's Hamlet: "There are many things in the world, friend Horatio, that your wise men never dreamed of."

Place of many historical events. The fates of many peoples intertwined in these places: Russians, Mordovians, Muroma, Kasimov Tatars, Polovtsy - a meaningful story! Border of forest and steppe.

Traces and mentions of ancient Hyperborea are found here!
Even fascist Germany did not leave these secrets unattended!
Secrets and mysteries of the Ryazan region can 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 barrows with ancient temples and burial places, holy places and revered springs!

LIST OF ANOMAL PLACES

Aleshino (site of the anomalous explosion);
ALESHINO - the site of an explosion of unknown nature in the Ryazan region, where a funnel still exists. The explosion occurred almost simultaneously with the explosion near Sasovo and Frolovsky. The nature of the explosion has not been established.

Zasechny lines (remains of ancient defensive lines);
ZASECHNYE LINES (Zasechnye lines, Zaseki) - defensive structures on the southern and southeastern outskirts of the Russian state in the 16-17th centuries to protect against nomads. They consisted of notches, ramparts, ditches, palisades, supplemented by natural barriers (rivers, ravines), and strongholds (forts and fortress cities). The most important of the lines was the Great Zasechnaya Line, about 200 km long.
In the summer of 2000, Ulyanovsk archaeologists and employees of the State Historical and Memorial Reserve "Motherland of V. I. 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 restored a fragment of a moat, an earthen rampart and a palisade 3 m high, miraculously preserved in the center of the city, and cut down a watchtower from pine logs. In just three summer months, 20 m of the notch line was restored.

Crop circles and pictograms (including here);

Marinka (anomalous zone);

MARINKA - an anomalous zone, a prodigal place, a "lightning nest" near the village of the same name, south of the regional center Korablino in. According to eyewitness accounts, articles in local newspapers, in and near Marinka, UFOs and other AEs were repeatedly observed on the 3-kilometer road between the village and the highway. According to Yuri Kharin ["Ryazanskiye Vedomosti" 2003, August 2] a strange picture was repeatedly seen above the village in the sky, how large UFOs turned into images of "fish", and "fish" into a ball. Local resident Nina Semyonovna said that she also saw fireballs "jumping" on the ground. They say that lightning most often strikes in the area of ​​the local estate ... A. Bychenkov reported about a strange place in Kosmopoisk.

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, Vladimir Yurievich SHUMILOV, a researcher at the Institute of Plant Physiology, read the report "UFOs and the principle of covert surveillance", in 2001, at the 22nd readings - about observations and photography of UFOs, both reports actually talked about one place - the village of Mosolovo. It was here, according to Shumilov, that various AEs were often observed in the sky, and in 1989, not far from the neighboring village of Razberdeevo, a man-made UFO even landed. In April 2001, already during a visual inspection and analysis in Cosmopoisk, it turned out that most of the UFO photographs taken in this place were actually explained by atmospheric phenomena and glare from the camera's optics. Comprehensive studies in the Mosolov region have not yet been carried out.

* * * Directions to Mosolovo: 1) By car, go along the M-5 highway 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 (line "Ryazan-Shilovo-Sasovo" to Mosolovo

CAVES IN THE KASIMOV DISTRICT (Kasimov catacombs) - a series 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 explored by Yu. Prokofiev and L. Dronova. In August 1998, the Moscow speleological group "Bat" under the leadership of Yu. A. Dolotov conducted an expedition in this area, during which a census of both preserved and lost entrances to the caves was carried out ["Spelestal Yearbook of ROSI" M., 1999, p. .38-57]. Some caves were given their own names: Dronovskaya, Oblique, Kabaniy Proval, Quarry grotto, Malaya Karernaya, Lyapushka, Pridorozhnaya, Zdorovye, Nadkarernaya, Karernaya, Zaovrazhnaya and others... Research in this area continues.

* * * Directions to the Kasimov Quarries: From Moscow by car through Yegorievsk, do not turn off the road to any of the caves. From Ryazan - by car or train to Kasimov, then along the road to the north-west to the area where the caves accumulate:
1) Cave Tsavlya. 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, although they can be dug out.
2) A quarry near the village of Ozerki on the banks of the Oka. Currently, its upper left flank is being bulldozed 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) Charushsky and Timoninsky underground quarries are located higher along 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 the 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 valley. Gulleys and covered cave entrances 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 related to different times were found.
11) Tashenskaya system on the left bank of the river. Tashenka is located 0.5 km above the village of Tashenka. Dumps of ancient development were found.
12) The system below Bashevo from the village. First to p. Maltsevo for 2 km on the right bank. Signs of caves (failure funnels and ditches) were found, dug back in the 19th century and in the 1920s.
13) Large quarry below p. Bulushevo-Pochinki, 750 m downstream on the right bank at the right corner of the exit of the ravine to the river.
14) The Monashki Perekat 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 3 m long was found.
15) The Tugeevskaya Gora (Sosnovka) system below the village of Sosnovka on the left bank of the Oka and 400 m below the camp site (ozonaria) "Yolochka" with a length of about 800 m along the coast. Here, back in 1985, speleologists Yu. Prokofiev and L. Dronova discovered the first caves: 1 large cave, which then collapsed, and 18 failures. In 1998, the "Bat" group re-discovered the Dronovaya cave with a depth of 6 m. The entrance is located 45 m in azimuth 240 from the mark "500 m" in a funnel between pine roots, about 10 m from the edge of the cliff.
16) Inclined-1, -2, -3 cavities are located approximately 50 m from the "600 m" mark.
17) The caves relative to the marker "1000 m" are located: Pridorozhnaya (6 m deep, 25 m to the west-north-west), Boar failure (70 m to the west), Lyapushka (150 m long, extremely landslide-prone!) (40 m to west-southwest), Karerny grotto and Malaya Karernaya (70 m to the west-southwest).
18) Between the markers "1100 m" and "1200 m" on the slope of the Serkov Dol ravine there are caves: Health (length 100 m), Nadkarernaya, Karernaya (opened in 1996).
19) Lazarevskaya Gora (Shcherbakovka-2) system: Zaovrazhnaya-1 cave (30 m north of the "1300 m" mark, very narrow entrance), Zaovrazhnaya-2 (70 m northeast of the mark, total open depth 4.5 m ).
Penetrating into some of the listed caves is extremely dangerous! It is advisable not to visit the caves without consulting the Bat group.

Underground prison (Okaemovo)
UNDERGROUND PRISON (Okayomovo) - man-made underground structures near the Theological Monastery near the village of Okayemovo near Ryazan. A document dated 1682 has been preserved: "Memory from the order of the Ryazan Metropolitan Avraamy Bogoslovsky to Bishop Anthony, whom 10 schismatics sent by order of the sovereign were ordered to keep in an earthen prison, and to feed 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 "earth prison" at the monastery was discovered in the 1970s by students and historians.

MYSTERIOUS PLACES AND PLACES OF POWER
An anomalous zone in the area of ​​​​the Wanda tract (people wander, the compass does not seem, all kinds of devilry is imagining ...)
Arapovsky cave monastery
Brykin Bor (Crane Nursery)
Settlement "Old Ryazan", Spassky district
Palace of von Derviz in Kiritsy, (architectural ensemble in the village of Kiritsy, ghost sightings took place)
Place of the battle on the Vozh

Poshchupovsky holy spring
Church of the Transfiguration, village Gusevsky Pogost
Ryazan Stonehenge, Spasskaya Luka
Manor complex, with. sokha
Sentinel oak, Sapozhkovsky district
lake Poor (anomalous place, pathogenic zone)

Sasovo (Sasovskie funnels);

SASOVO (Sasovskie funnels) is a regional center where at least two powerful explosions occurred, the cause of which is still unclear. The first and most powerful thundered on the night of April 12, 1991 (on the day of the 30th anniversary of Gagarin's flight). Eyewitnesses from among the local residents later described that they first saw several UFOs flying over the field, then they heard a powerful explosion in the same direction that shook the area. At about 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 sent to the place of the explosion, which noted and recorded a variety of anomalous phenomena. For example, it was noticed that, for some unknown reason, calculators were reprogrammed near the funnel and electronic devices failed... A year later, a second explosion occurred nearby, the reason for which 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 Sasovskaya funnel had a diameter of 25-33 m , depth - 2-2.5 m. According to other sources, a mysterious explosion near Sasov in the middle of an empty field formed a crater with a diameter of not 30, but 28 m. several kilometers). Chemical analyzes showed the complete absence of not only traces of explosives, but also any chemical reactions in general. ["KP" 1991, April 16].

In the late 1990s, the Moscow physicist Nikolai KULANIN, who examined the physical fields in the area of ​​the funnel, noted a strange periodicity of the magnetic field oscillations (the period is about 10+-2 minutes). Long-term studies were prevented by a breakdown of the magnetometer.

Many versions and hypotheses of the origin of the funnel were put forward - from a UFO explosion to a banal explosion of saltpeter (neither extreme version was confirmed) ... medium-sized meteorite (diameter 0.5-1.0 m), causing the generation of shock waves and the explosive formation of a crater. However, this version did not find other supporters either ... One of the most promising hypotheses was put forward by S. I. SUKHONOS - an explosion of a torus-shaped energy clot (Kosmopoisk checks its version on expeditions). The study of the Sasovo funnel and similar places continues to this day.

* * * Travel to the epicenter of Sasovo explosions: By train "Moscow-Ulyanovsk" to Sasovo; then by bus and / or on foot to the explosion site.

Frolovskoye (site of the anomalous explosion);

FEFELOV BOR
This is the so-called Fefelov Bor, which is located near Kanishchev.

Sand dunes, intricately 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 residential microdistrict Kanishchevo, which is surrounded on all sides by fields and ponds. In 2004, archaeological excavations were carried out here, an ancient burial ground was found.

This boron attracts lovers of the otherworldly. Parapsychologists from all over Russia have been looking for an explanation for what is happening in Fefelovo Bor for several years.

The reason for exploring the area was the stories of those who have been here. According to people, they were haunted by a sense of anxiety.

While there is no scientific explanation for this, but there are hypotheses. So, according to one of the versions, the forest invisible "something" is a bunch of energy, the source of which is sand - after all, it has been proven that the dunes have the ability to move.

When moving, the grains of sand rub, causing energy that moves into the environment. On themselves, people feel it in the form of a warm or cold wave and darkening in the eyes.

Sharp magnetic fluctuations were also recorded in the sandy forest. Presumably, it was the waves that bent the branches of the pines at the roots. Biologists are in no hurry to confirm the relationship and it remains to speculate again.

How far the negative aura spreads, the researchers do not undertake to judge. If the energy of this forest somehow influences the state and behavior of people, then this is not connected with 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 afraid of stories about the oddities that occur in the forest.

DRUNK FOREST - SHILOVSKY DISTRICT
A year ago, a video made in a strange forest was posted online. The trees in this place do not grow vertically upwards, but rounding. But for some reason the video did not receive wide popularity.
In the commentary to the video, it is reported that this was filmed in the Shilovsky district, not far from the Priokskaya camp site. The author reports that this place is unique - there are no insects, and people who stay there for a long time begin to have a headache. Moreover, allegedly, people used to disappear in this place.

The "dancing" or "drunk" forest is a rectangle of crooked coniferous trees. All trees are curved to the north. Deciduous around grow evenly. Regarding this place, researchers and scientists agree on only one opinion - there is some kind of natural anomaly. The reasons are called different. Someone talks about the electromagnetic radiation of the earth, someone about the powerful underwater arteries over the intersection of which the "Drunken Forest" grows.

On the other hand, such tree warping effects are relatively common. And always tricky.

Local residents have their own explanations for this oddity, which are reflected in beliefs and legends.

An expedition to study the "drunken forest" in the Ryazan region was carried out by members of the Murom-Kosmopoisk group back in early August. It was found that an 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 has been suggested that their unusual shape is a manifestation of some kind of genetic disease). A local resident told the participants that the trees were bent by a hurricane decades ago, but the fact that young trees also look twisted speaks against this version. It is possible that the anomaly arose as a result of the simultaneous influence of several factors.

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 seedlings of various tree species were selected for the experiment - aspen, birch, pine. Observation of how seedlings planted outside the anomalous zone will grow will allow, if not to finally establish the cause of the appearance of "drunk" trees, then significantly narrow the circle of possible versions.

VELESOVO LAKE
Located near N. p. Tarnovo (river Tyrnitsa).
According to legend, there were mermaids in the lake.
It is assumed that near Veles Lake there was a temple to the god Veles, the patron saint of cattle.
Not far from Tarnovo there is an anomalous forest (Pyanolesie).

Meshchersky meteorite
A close study of the detailed atlases of Moscow, Vladimir and, as well as satellite images of the territory of the Meshchersky Territory, made it possible to establish the area where fragments of a large meteorite fell, leaving traces on the face of prehistoric Meshchera with pockmarks of crater lakes, swamps of anomalous swamps and mysteries of mysterious tracts ...
The hypothesis about the meteorite origin of one of these natural formations was confirmed in the Laboratory of Meteoritics of the Institute named after V.I. Vernadsky, in which studies were carried out on rock samples taken in the area of ​​Lake Smerdyache. It has been experimentally proved that they contain material of local sedimentary rocks melted during a meteorite impact. Thus, it is reliably established that several thousand years ago here, at the top of the interfluve of the Poli and Voymega, a fragment of a large meteorite fell, which fell apart upon entering the dense layers of the atmosphere into several parts. Let's call it the Meshchersky meteorite.

Anomalous zones and mystical places of the Ryazan region

As a result 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 Vladimir region. There, in the lower reaches of the Ushma River, in the dense forests, Lake Glubokoe was lost... This lake is also a “failure”, since its depth is several tens of meters. Lake Glubokoe for many decades was inaccessible not only to researchers, but even to fishermen, since it belonged to the closed territory of the Kosterevsky military training ground. A little southwest of it, a tiny lake Okunyok hid, which is also a "failure" and has a very great depth. Lemyoshinskoye Lake is very reminiscent of a meteorite crater with high sandy shores of the northern half of the lake basin, surrounded on all sides by the characteristic lowland of the left bank of the Polya River. It is very similar to the meteorite crater Karpovskoye Lake, which is located near the village of Vlasovo...
Lake Beloe is exceptionally unique in its natural characteristics. It is located 22 km north of the town of Spas-Klepiki, Ryazan Region, to the left of the highway leading to the village of Poserda, which is already on the very border with the Vladimir Region. The area of ​​the lake is only 30 hectares. But its depth is amazing - 50.2 m!
There is nothing like this in this region of the Great Meshchersky Lakes of the Buzha-Pra system, as well as among the surrounding natural reservoirs of a closed type. The exception is the lake of the same name near the village of Dubasovo in the Shatursky district - its maximum depth reaches 34.4 m. The Ryazan lake Beloye, as well as Shaturskoye, is distinguished by clean, bright and surprisingly clear water.
Until now, it was believed that Lake Beloe was formed "... as a result of powerful movements during the epoch of glaciation, when one of the tongues of an ancient glacier plowed a deep furrow here, subsequently filling it with melt waters ...". Here is such a common version that walks today on the pages of some popular guidebooks on the lakes of the Meshchera region.
But here one important circumstance creeps in. If you look at the map, you can easily make sure that Lake Beloe () is located strictly on the same line as the Smerdyache and Glubokoe lakes. From Lake Beloe to Lake Smerdyache - 70 km, and from Smerdyache to Glubokoe - 15 km.
The listed lakes are most likely meteorite craters, and therefore the conclusion suggests itself that the Shushmor tract is “owed” by some of its anomalies to the fall of the Meshchersky 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 "terrestrial" projection of the trajectory of this mysterious meteorite - the "Troublemaker of the prehistoric Meshchera" ... It could well be that in the interfluve of the Ushma and the Senga, it also fell one of the fragments of the Meshchersky meteorite. After all, from the conditional line of the trajectory of the fall of its numerous fragments (the crater lakes Beloe, Smerdyache and Glubokoe) to the center of the Volnoe swamp, there are only some ten kilometers. What a trifle by cosmic standards!
Thus, the chain of alleged crater lakes and anomalous zones is located at a distance of 15-20 km equidistant from each other: the Shushmor tract (border of the Moscow and Vladimir regions); Lake Smerdyache (Moscow region); Lake Glubokoe, Lake Okunyok and Volnoe swamp (Vladimir region).
At the beginning of July 2006, on one of the sites on the Internet, a message by Alexander Trifonov appeared under the catchy heading "A monstrous meteorite exploded over Moscow." According to the information given in it, which had a touch of sensationalism, a large meteorite exploded over the Ryazan Meshchera more than a thousand years ago at an altitude of 10 kilometers. The strength 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 Meshchera forests were destroyed, fields were burned, and the wooden buildings of rare villages burned down and the Meshchera region was completely depopulated for two long centuries. Modern archeology knows only one period of mysterious solitude - the "dark ages" of Moscow's prehistory from the 8th to the 10th.
Analysis of images from high-resolution space made it possible to map a straight strip 15-20 kilometers wide - the location of the alleged meteorite craters in the eastern suburbs, Ryazan and Vladimir regions. This strip ran through 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 right bank of the Oka. Here is what you can read in the mentioned message on the Internet site: “In the relief near the village, a perfectly round swamp can be traced, which is now being drained by meliorators. Land reclamation equipment recently turned out of the quagmire several black iron blocks. The public organization "Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Substances" 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. "...

OKA ANOMAL ZONE

December 1941. Fierce battles are going on on a vast territory from Leningrad to the Crimea. The Germans are standing 30 kilometers from the Kremlin! At this very time, Field Marshal von Bock, commander of the German army "Center", receives a very strange directive from Hitler, which prohibits the shelling of a large piece of the Oka 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, because 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 the Ryazan Stonehenge. Interestingly, 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 of a mysterious civilization was located on the Ryazan lands. The city rose 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, indicating a high level of development of the tribe that lived there. Compared to their wild neighbors, the Mordovians, the "advanced" tribe resembled some outpost of the Atlantean civilization, surrounded by forest barbarians. Maybe that's why some researchers have already dubbed the unknown culture "Oka Atlantis".

Arta - the capital of Artania

According to one hypothesis, the traces of the 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 ancient Persian and Arabic chronicles, Artania was located in the "country of the Uruses" and was one of the three centers of the northern lands. The other two are Kuiaba and Slavia, scientists correlate them with Kiev and Novgorod, - says Vladimir Nikodimov, a well-known Ryazan researcher of antiquity. - The Arab merchant Al-Istarkhi, who traveled at the beginning of the 9th century, left the most detailed message about the life and customs of the inhabitants of Artania in his notes. 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-Istarkhi, saved the latter upon his return to his homeland: even the famous Arab blades were unable to penetrate them.

As for geography, the capital of Artania, Arta, according to Arabic 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 sorcerer kings 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 Shambala... near Ryazan?

The notorious "Anenerbe" (the "Ancestral Heritage" society) was part of one of the structural divisions of the SS and was a very serious office, with many terrible secrets of the Third Reich associated with its activities.

It is already reliably known that its members made expeditions to Tibet and Central Asia, looking for the spiritual “gates of the ancient Aryans” there - Shambhala. In addition to this main goal, Ahnenerbe searched around 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 well-functioning system for collecting information and would never train its specialists for transfer to 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, SOMETHING is hidden in the Oka land, which could stir up the archaeological interest of the “gloomy Teutons” from the Ahnenerbe.

Oka anomalous zone

It is curious that so far archaeologists have explored only one barrow from that Oka “chain” of barrows that stretches along the Oka to Murom itself (it was also mentioned in that German directive), continues Vladimir Nikodimov. - The remaining mounds, which have survived to our times in the form of low hills, have not been explored so far. It is quite possible that traces of ancient settlements will be found there, because it is obvious that the hills are of man-made origin. Personally, I had a chance to communicate with people who made underwater dives into the lake, located near one of the mounds - metal artifacts were found at the bottom of it. Moreover, the level of their processing, in terms of technology, 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 the Oka mounds, an expedition was carried out by the authors of the program “Anomalous Zone” (ORT). The TV crew, together with a small detachment 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 organize the expedition and the filming, there was some “anomalous” thing. Moreover, the real one, and not the cinematic one: even the authors of the “Anomalous Zone”, who had seen everything, were surprised and amazed - having arrived here, they intended to “bundle up” 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 several guys visited the top of the mound, their mobile phones immediately went out. And for those who stood at the foot of the hill, the phones worked fine. But the next day, when they also decided to visit the summit, their cell phones just as unanimously “glitched”. One of them lost its firmware… Then something similar started with an electronic clock, a video camera, and even a CD player that one of the girls had. I heard that something similar happens in places with a strong magnetic anomaly. However, our compass did not react at all, while all 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 the “Oka anomalous zone”... Anomalous zones and mystical places in the Ryazan region

PLACES OF POWER - LOCAL HISTORY VLADIMIR GRIBOV

1. We have unique reserved places on the territory of the Ryazan region. Mysterious, immensely beautiful, mysteriously few people, they carry a charge of super-pure all-penetrating energy of goodness and love, capable of changing the consciousness and inner spiritual world of a person.

These are ancient sanctuaries, burial mounds, which are more than one thousand years old. These are the keys with "living" and "dead" water, which has a unique healing power. This is a miracle - Alatyr (altar) stone near 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 a glow and an incomprehensible rumble disturbing the soul appear from time to time. 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 sparsely 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 tour, I will tell you amazing stories related to these lands, tell you about legends, myths and traditions of ancient times. This is a miracle tale about the Sword of Oriya, which is securely hidden in the land of Ryazan. The legend about the golden horse, taken out by the Ryazans to Meshchera before the invasion of the Tatar Horde, about the golden crown found on the territory of the settlement "Old Ryazan". About the miracle hill Menhir, the protector of the city from diseases and misfortunes. About the secret city of Ryazan, the legendary Arta, which has not been found to this day, where, according to legend, the great Vedic shrines of the ancient Slavic world are kept.

Once again, I want to remind you that all these activities are safe for health. My guidance, tips, help, will help you experience, see, feel the incredible, incredible sensations.

3. RIVER Istya - STAROZHILOVSKY DISTRICT

Feet start to get cold. 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 in the cold. A large dry tree, behind it a ravine, then a crooked pine ... We are again on the river bank. It's pointless to go round and round. No signs of an underground passage. Maybe it's all stories? How can one believe the stories of the locals, they say, and the whole land in the area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe river is dotted with deep underground voids, if not for the first year from this very earth, like poured beets, brown stones the size of a head climb?
In Lugi between the villages of Suysk, Shishkino and Bogdanovo in the Starozhilovsky district, you will not find idle companies that have got out to barbecue, there are no hunters here, and the animals bypass these places. The shallow river Istya draws intricate loops between hills and copses. As if he wants to whirl, confuse everyone who decides to keep it as a landmark ... With the light hand of the Ryazan researcher Vladimir Gribov, our "Zhiguli" crawled to an old dirt road overgrown with thistles. Further - five kilometers on foot.

4. WHAT DID THE NOMADERS LOOK FOR?

The places here are truly mysterious. According to the legends, Tamerlane's forward detachments reached the Starozhilovsky meadows. Allegedly, a verst from the Itia River, they were looking for innumerable riches, but they left without salty slurping. A few centuries later, an 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 water arteries of the Starozhilovsky district. What were you looking for? The legendary forge of the Aryans? A sword that, according to legend, grants the owner magical powers? Many fairy tales and epics of the Starozhilovsky land have long been overgrown with past. 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 the tunnels, almost two human heights and more than two meters wide, go from the old dilapidated manor to Itia itself, enter the copse and cross under a tiny island in the most wetland of the river. But no one can accurately indicate exactly where the entrance to at least one of the tunnels is located.

What could be the purpose of the underground tunnels? Earthworks? So, the Starozhilovsky land is not rich in minerals, and even more so in precious stones ... A dungeon for serfs? So the estate was built in the 15th century, and according to the legend, what treasures did nomads try to find here several centuries earlier?

5. Belly River

The MAIN riddle of Itii is the stones. Gray boulders, some the size of a plum, others the size of a horse's head. As if in families, they huddle together every five or six meters in shallow river water, anyone can be reached by hand. I take off my shoes, go into the water and lean towards the chipped stone scallop. From the cold of the water it cramps the legs, and the surface of the stone seems warm, as if something is warming it from the inside. I try to take out the whole stone - it was not there!

It is about these stones, - Vladimir clarifies, - there are many stories here, sometimes the most fantastic. 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 the peso check sparkles in the sun. And every spring and until September, at least collect the harvest! They come out of the sand like mushrooms after rain. Only until the stone itself completely comes out of the ground, even if the three of us pull it - you won’t pull it out! The locals have long adapted to collect them for baths. No one thinks why such a miracle happens. They got used to it, it is clear that stones come out of the river into the light, but not one or two, but dozens! They joke - you see, we have such a river, belly with stones, so it “gives birth” every year ”...

The three largest stone “offspring” of Itii “grow” near the shore. Only stone platforms, each meter by meter in size, rise above the ground; the stones themselves are almost entirely hidden under the earth's thickness.

Here I have a ruler in store, - Vladimir takes out a ruler from his bosom. - When I was here last autumn, I measured how many stones protrude from the ground. Here's the mark - see? 15 centimeters. If you believe the stories of local residents, these stones should have grown in a year ...

My guide squats down near the nearest stone to the shore, then goes to the second, third ...
- 32 centimeters. As if one measure was pulled from the earth. Wow stone "sprouts"!

6. THE MYSTERY OF THE BEE HOUSE

STOP! The bug 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 with the legend of underground tunnels? If we assume that the “mass outcrop of stones to the surface” is just a consequence of some tectonic processes unknown to us in the earth's crust, how can a stone host coexist with huge underground voids?

We are approaching a forest thicket. Istya seems to dive under the dense crowns of trees and is completely lost from view among the black-gray branches. Our goal is somewhere nearby.

A year ago, - continues Vladimir, - I met a man in these places. Pasechnik, name is Konstantin. 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 bean, did not communicate with any of the locals. Yes, and with me at first did not want to. Barely talked to him. 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 did not advise me either ... 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 an island stands in the water loop. Not even an island - so, a small island. They say that the owner of the estate, when he was alive, often went there through the tunnel. He rested on the island in seclusion, so to speak, from worldly worries. Here on this very island or on the shore near it, 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 champ disgustingly. An unpleasant chill runs down the back of the neck... According to the beekeeper's words, somewhere here there must be a passage to the island. A large dry tree, behind it a ravine, then a crooked pine .. 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 ...

With a swing, he lowers one end of the pole into the surface of the water covered with duckweed and ... at the same moment he loses his balance. I barely have time to grab him under the arms. The pole sticks out of the water vertically for some time, after which it slowly, with a squelching, begins to sink ...

7. STONE WEDDING

ALREADY on the way back, we got into a conversation with one of the inhabitants of the village of Bogdanovo, Maria Sergeevna. The hospitable hostess gave us tea to drink, as if repaying us for our unsuccessful trip...

In vain you climbed there ... From ours, Bogdanovsky, no one has shown their nose in those places for a long time. This place is bad, dangerous...

Mary Sergeevna, and the legend about underground passages heard?

How could you not hear? It's all just fairy tales. Yes, stupid ideas. ..

They said that a long time ago, a very long time ago, a fierce gentleman lived in these places. He starved the people of His serfs, and for all sorts of offenses he put them in an underground dungeon. Say, they dug it for themselves, and many of them found their death there. Further, it means, as it should be in a fairy tale, the master had a beautiful daughter. And this daughter decided to run away with her beloved, secretly from her father. Not only did she run away from home, she carried a baby under her heart ... So that gentleman caught his daughter with her fiancé and walled them up in these dungeons. They said that in the same place, underground, she gave birth. And in the same place all three died ... Like, since then they all want to get out to the sun, but the earth does not let them in. That’s why they cry, and our Istya turns their tears into stones ...

It turns out that those three stone peaks that we saw on the river bank ... It's like three prisoners of the castle!

I tell you, it's all fairy tales! ..

I left the Starozhilovsky 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: it was, is and will be more important than man, and will never fully reveal all its secrets to anyone.

8. CHUCKOVO VILLAGE
How do the inhabitants of Chuchkovo travel through the universe?
The wooden doors of the abandoned temple open with a menacing creak. Small pebbles under our feet creak like dry paper.

Anomalous zones and mystical places of the Ryazan region

We follow in the footsteps of two boys unknown to me from the distant sixties of the last century. We are our old acquaintance, local historian Vladimir Gribov, three young guys from the Kosmopoisk research association, Igor Panin, a native of the village of Golenishchevo in the Chuchkovo district, on whose call we gathered on the road, and your obedient servant ...

9. MYSTERIOUS INCIDENT

Then this story made a lot of noise, - Igor recalls. - The boys left at nine o'clock in the evening. It seems like the eldest, Oleg, incited the younger Seryozhka to “weakly” take a walk around the abandoned cemetery. An hour later at the collective farm board - a call from Nesterovo. My mother just picked up the phone. She is told to take your travelers.

The village of Nesterovo is located 54 kilometers north of Golenishchevo. As the perpetrators of the incident later claimed, passing through the old church on the outskirts of the cemetery, they saw a round stone that looked like an egg. A bizarre glow stood like a halo over the stone. Out of curiosity, they began to climb to the stone, to the hillock. And when they went down the hill, they did not recognize the surrounding area. Noticing the lights, we went to the nearest village huts, knocked on the window. Some local grandmother ran to the board, found the chairman, he called Golenishchevo. Having scolded the boys for having decided to roam through the forest at night looking, he put them into the UAZ and brought them home at the beginning of the twelfth. Of course, no one believed in the story of the miraculous “stone”. They decided, they say, the guys came up with a bike to avoid punishment ...

10. SECRET ROAD

HOWEVER, our guide did not call us here in order to tell a fairy tale half a century ago. We had already left the church and made a temporary stop on a plowed strip of land. It was here, according to Panin, until the end of the 60s that the tombstones of the old cemetery were located.

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. The bus was waiting for a long time, so I decided to walk. I went past the church, right where you and I are now standing. She climbed the hill, sat on a pebble to rest. I went down and didn’t understand how I came out exactly to my sister’s house! As if someone took it by the scruff, like a kitten, and moved it ...

I'll be honest. I am skeptical about this kind of nonsense. 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 shutter of the camera, capturing the surroundings (maybe it will come in handy), the youth, armed with bayonet shovels, began to dig up the earth on a patch near our “camp”. And half an hour later, another road opened before our eyes, paved with stones of a bizarre shape. The stones were neatly stacked about three meters wide and covered with sand. The road led up 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, he is shown ...

Another fairy tale? While I was wondering what kind of plot could be squeezed out of this "unscientific fiction", Gribov decided on an experiment. He took out a mobile phone from his pocket and put it on the place where the stone was supposed to be. The phone screen went blank in an instant. Gribov could not revive the device before returning to Ryazan ...

A small bumpy car carried us back. Gribov was in a hurry to express his hypothesis of what had happened.

Before, being in these places, I happened to hear one legend. It was said that back in the 17th century, carts with goods went here. And the surrounding bandits got into the habit of robbing merchants. No one could deal with the robbers. Then the villagers went to bow to one old man. That old man climbed the highest hill, dug himself a dugout. 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. After a couple of years, it happened to pass here one convoy. The robbers lay in wait for the merchants near the forest, they wanted to attack. Yes, only the wagon train disappeared behind the hill, but did not appear from behind the hill. It was as if someone took all the carts with goods and merchants with horses, like kittens in an armful, and transferred it to God knows where. The church, by the way, was built in memory of that elder. So maybe this old man opened a tunnel through space?

12. ABOUT QUANTUM AND WORKS...

So that you, dear readers, do not have the feeling that we have completely hit mythology, let me digress. Scientists from all over the world have been struggling with the phenomenon of teleportation for a long time. Four years ago, the first successful experiment in the history of so-called quantum teleportation was announced. During the experiment, an instant transfer of information about the quantum state of the beryllium atom ion from one point of space to another was carried out. Subsequently, scientists explained that quantum teleportation, neither now nor in the future, can serve to transmit material objects to a distance. It is just 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, a kind of whirlwinds are formed from time to time in the structure of space, arbitrarily opening and “collapsing” corridors. If two opposite exits of one "corridor" for some shortest moment are at the same point, some 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 subdue the space. Will these secrets be revealed to us? Again, it's all too much like a fairy tale.

But after all, the fact that the earth is round was also once considered a fairy tale. And every student how "az and beeches" knew that the earth rests on three whales, and whales swim along the boundless world ocean ...

13. VILLAGE SHATRISCHE
About one amazing mysterious place, located in the vicinity of the village of Shatrishche, which is located not far from Old Ryazan, many residents of the surrounding villages do not even suspect. Here, on the high bank of the Oka, between two springs with clear icy water, a bizarre hill lurks, reminiscent of the legendary Sphinx. What's this? Creation of Mother Nature or the most ancient place of worship of the Slavs? Perhaps the answer comes from the creativity of our people.

ladies with horns

In the Ryazan region, we have the richest, priceless cultural layer, from which archaeologists, thanks to hard painstaking work, annually bring to 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 simply fantastic creatures, signs, symbols resembling animals, birds, people with horns on their heads. The masters of that time, of course, wanted to give the jewelry something mysterious, magical. Where and where did the great masters of the past take these images? Who taught our ancestors to perform such divine miracles? What was the inspiration for such creative impulses? There are a lot of questions, as you can see. It is almost impossible to answer them. Modern jewelry virtuosos with a mass of highly technical devices also cannot answer these questions and even remotely repeat what was worked out in dugouts! In low light, primitive instruments! There is an assumption that representatives of other extraterrestrial civilizations revealed to their ancestors some laws that allow them to step far beyond the limits of human capabilities. Hence such images on jewelry and household items, hence the giant breathtaking structures made of earth, visible only from a great distance.

Unknown people fly to the warrior

Take, for example, the mysterious hill on the banks of the Oka. I have had many conversations 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 draws invisible guests here? What laws allow them to shorten unthinkable distances and go unnoticed? interesting legend my great-grandmother told me when I was a child. As if in ancient times, a strong, strong-willed warrior lived. In all battles, he went into the most fierce battle and always won. No one, not a single living person knew that immortality was granted to this warrior by God. 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 the point of madness and lost his strength and immortality.

Before leaving this world, the warrior asked his beloved to bury him between three waters secretly, so that no one would ever get his strength and immortality. Isn't this hill, according to legend, the resting place of the miracle hero?

Reality or fiction?

But there is another unique place that can also claim to be related to this story. A huge, 150 meters long and 12 meters high earthen mound in the form of a warrior in a helmet and armor is also located between the three waters not far from 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 forever. Whether it was a beautiful fairy tale or whether it was real, it is not for me to judge. But facts are stubborn things. What made the Ryazan beauties wear horned kichki on their heads? Maybe among our distant ancestors, unusual representatives of other worlds really lived, who, due to circumstances, were forced to hide something incomprehensible on their heads? Maybe it was they who skillfully made decorations of unique beauty with bizarre patterns, mysterious characters and signs that are absolutely incomprehensible to us, people? Is it not they, with the help of their unique capabilities, who built huge earthen mounds, in which various kinds of anomalies periodically arise that do not fit into the framework of our human consciousness. Scientists, archaeologists and just lovers of everything unusual, 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 miracles and secrets of the Meshchera forests, could well have sunk into oblivion. We were reminded of it 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 story about a ski trip on the day of the first spring holiday. Together with friends, he went to conquer the virgin snow in the Ryazan forests. When the campaign was already nearing its end, the friends saw a strange local resident. The elderly man, despite the cold, was not wearing any clothes. Except for linen pants and a shirt. He did not look like a drunk, he walked with a confident gait towards the nearest village. One of the skiers called out to him. Grandfather either did not hear, or did not want to turn around. The author of the letter suggested that he met one of the land "walruses". Like, if there are those who harden, swimming, in a fierce cold in the hole, why not be such "walruses" who walk barefoot in the frost ...

But the place near which the skiers saw the barefoot old man seemed suspiciously familiar to us. One of the villages a few kilometers from the Stenkino school. We intentionally do not give its exact name. We have enough curious people, but this is just the case when curiosity can go sideways. The mention of the mysterious "old man", 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 rain or snow, a barefoot old man in coarse homespun clothes would come from the side of the ravine on the outskirts of the village. Sometimes he knocked softly on the window and asked the children to bring him some water to drink. Sometimes just passing by. The locals noticed that the old man appeared before the misfortune happened. They were afraid to talk to him. It was believed that in the house near which the old man stops, illness or trouble will come after him.

They told about a local resident who risked curiosity for the sake of following the old man. Unnoticed, he reached the "lost ravine" and went down there after him. But he did not see any old man. “Everything swam before my eyes,” the eyewitness recalled, “the ears were blocked. The sky seemed to be covered with thick shutters ...” His relatives found him a few hours later, a kilometer from the ravine, completely gray-haired.
Whether the person who met the skiers was the same "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 is a fairy tale, but somehow scary ...

TEMPLE FROM INFERTILITY
The magical ancient temple with a stone pillar in the form of a reproductive 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 the stone sanctuary, discovered in the Starozhilovsky district, heals from such ailments, instantly spread around the area.
- It's no joke to say - boulders, boulders, and they helped the visiting lady to make a baby! No other way than the ancient charms work, - the locals whisper superstitiously, as soon as the conversation touches on “magic stones”.

And 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 into the stream bed formed two concentric circles. In the center, under a layer of sand and pebbles, they unearthed a long altar stone tumbled down on its side. The find is supposedly two thousand years old. Most likely, this is a trace of the presence of Finno-Ugric tribes on the Ryazan lands. Their shamans often arranged similar temples in natural “places of power”.
A few months after the opening of the temple, the Ryazan local historian Vladimir Gribov decided to "restorate" it. He restored the stones, reporting the missing "links" with new boulders. Now the tributary of the Istya River, where the structure is located, has become a place of pilgrimage for many who want to be healed. Especially from the disease of female infertility - after all, the stone phallic symbol, located in the middle of the structure, personifies fertility.

32-year-old resident of Ryazan Tatyana Sokolova 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. Whatever the spouses tried, they spent a lot of money on doctors, prescribed exotic pills from Thailand, turned to sorcerers and healers. All to no avail. Doctors predicted infertility for her, caused by a whole range of female diseases. Desperate to change anything, Tatyana Vladimirovna learned from her friends about the miraculous place. And I went there several times.

I was engaged in meditation on the shore near the ancient sanctuary, - says Tatyana. - Then she took off her shoes, entered the shallow water barefoot, entered the stone circle and went around 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 an addition. Doctors in the consultation say that the pregnancy proceeds without deviations. I myself still, after many years of unsuccessful hopes, do not fully believe in this happiness - to be a mother ...

BABYLON UNDER ISAD
A few years ago, the entire world community was excited by a sensation on a cosmic scale. The American interplanetary probe "Voyager" transmitted to Earth a series of panoramic images of the surface of Mars.
On some of them, a structure of obviously artificial origin was visible. A huge (several thousand kilometers in size) female face, as if carved from red stone, towered over the lifeless Martian plain...

As it turned out, something similar can be found not only in space, but also at your side. Not so long ago, Ryazan explorer Vladimir Kapitanov went on another expedition to the area near the village of Isada, Spassky District. The local historian's imagination has long been occupied by 7 unusual mounds located 3 kilometers south of the village.
- Upon closer examination, - he told us, - it was obvious that these mounds were of miraculous origin. Well, it doesn’t happen in nature that 7 hills line up strictly in one line, and at the same time they would be oriented to the cardinal points. During the excavations, we brought to light the remains of stone axes, fragments of knives. Everything pointed to the fact that once a large settlement stood on this place ...

But Vladimir discovered the most amazing thing upon his return to Ryazan. In one of the pictures, the mounds "folded" into a clear female profile! "Joke" of nature? Maybe so. However, how then to interpret another mysterious fact that the researcher told us about?
- The "forehead" of this huge face crowns a ravine, which we examined in detail during the trip. The ravine is quite deep, there is no vegetation in it, the earth seems to be scorched. The wind at the edge of the ravine does not blow in a straight line, but along a parabola, as if pulling inward. What is strange: in this ravine we did not manage to take a single photograph! Digital cameras refused to work. And the photo from the film camera, when printed, turned out to be covered with a dense haze ...
As we managed to find out, a fragment of a meteorite was discovered a few years ago in this ravine. Was not the "city-face" like Babylon destroyed by this celestial body? And thus were its builders punished for their pride, who decided to glorify themselves for centuries and created an unprecedented earthen sculpture? Or maybe the "female face" is just a figment of our associative imagination? Judge for yourself...

Ancestors-giants
Three-meter ancestors

Accept a gift! A familiar voice rang out on the phone. Our old comrade, researcher and local historian Vladimir Gribov will not disturb us over trifles.

Excuse me, of course ... But maybe you yourself will come up to us?
- I would be glad, - Gribov laughs, - but the gift will be heavy ...
After a couple of minutes, Gribov opens the trunk of an old Zhiguli car in front of me. The edge of a brown boulder peeks out from under the canvas canopy...
- And what is this "treasure"?
Gribov with an effort removes the stone from the trunk and offers the find to me. I put my hands up - a pebble pulls 15 kilograms. And in appearance it does not look like a creation of nature in any way ..

Kitchen hatchet the size of a cardan shaft

It's a hack, - Gribov intercepts my questioning look. - With such "pebbles" our ancestors several thousand years ago went to the forest for "brushwood", chopped meat. Feel the edge. It is still as sharp as a razor blade ... Archaeologists have confirmed that it is a handmade product. And they called the approximate age of the stone: about four thousand years. They said that it is not of particular 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, Shatsky district, Ryazan region. One of the walls of a huge ravine near the Aza River has been eroded by groundwater for many years. This summer, sharp stone edges appeared in the gullies. Gribov tried to extract at least one of the boulders into the light, but he could not cope with the stone with his "bare hands". Came back with the tool. And one find was followed by another, and a third... A chopper the size of a cardan shaft, a children's toy a little smaller than a soccer ball, fragments of pottery, each the size of a laundry basin... Far from everything fit in the trunk.

By the way, the dimensions of the "hack" do not fit any "standard" descriptions of household items of Stone Age people. Most of these exhibits found during archaeological research do not exceed 30 centimeters in length, weighing up to 2-3 kilograms. What kind of 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 trick?

Does the legend that there was once a tribe of giant people in the Meshchera forests have real ground? For comments, we turned to another researcher, an anthropologist - Vladimir Dubin ...

It is easy to calculate, - Vladimir Sergeevich told us, - that with the size of a stone ax 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 of 2 to 3 meters. No less impressive are the dimensions of the "prehistoric" baby. To play with such a toy, he had to have the strength of a five-year-old child, which means that he was at least a meter tall. But if I were you, I would not believe in all these "tales" about giants ... I have heard the hypothesis more than once that our ancestors, being completely ordinary people, specially made giant things that were not needed in everyday life: knives, axes, dishes. Allegedly, the purpose of all these items was only to scare the enemy, if necessary, to leave the settlement. Like, if they have such weapons and rattles, then what are they themselves? ..

Where did the vyas disappear to?

Meanwhile, Vladimir Gribov is sure that the finds from the Shatsk ravine confirm his hypothesis that the ancestors of modern Ryazan people had inhuman capabilities. Or, as the legends say, they could squeeze water out of a stone and bend trees to the ground with a whistle...

Even in the annals of the middle of the 1st millennium AD, our ancestors - the Vyatichi - are described, to put it mildly, as "not quite ordinary people," Gribov explains his point of view.

- "The Vyatichi live in the forest, like any animal, and their games are wild, one named after two or three wives, and the forces of the riot, neither Radimich nor Krivich will stand against ..." (from the Ryazan chronicles of the 9th century A.D.). e. -ed.).

Other historical documents tell that "Vyats came from the East from the desert lands." In the east, only one large desert is known - the Gobi. And right there in different time the most done a large number of finds pointing to the existence of giants. Traces of gigantic feet, petrified 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-high people in the past believe that the cause of their disappearance, as in the history of the extinction of dinosaurs, could be 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 himself. There is another version, according to which the "grinding" of man was the result 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). Fossil human tibia bones (each one and a half meters long) were discovered there back in 1931. Another is located on the site of the current state of Ohio (USA). The weight and dimensions of the Stone Age tools discovered during excavations leave no doubt - only people of unusually tall stature and who also possessed remarkable physical strength could work with such a "tool". What is curious is that scientists have not yet been able to find anything like it either in Africa or in Europe ... And therefore, it is possible that the legendary "Vyaty" - the ancestors of modern Ryazan - were representatives of one of the three "families" of giants in the world. .. Say, fantasy? Or maybe one of the pages of history that science has yet to discover?

THE MYSTERY OF THE ANCIENT MOUND

Mystery of the ancient burial 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. Two inconspicuous keys were found on the very outskirts of the settlement. With "live" 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. Basically a distillate. As for the "live", here, according to pundits, the whole point is the high content of useful substances and minerals. They say that's why spring water, especially in mountainous areas, 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. The two keys are literally two hundred meters apart. Each of them goes around the southern side of the mound near the banks of the Oka and flows into the main water artery of the Ryazan region.

The key, which beats out of the ground near the barrow itself, has probably been seen by many. In the place where it flows into the Oka, the water is simply teeming with fry. Herbs grow in abundance along the banks of the stream. The water is crystal clear and even smells very pleasant. 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" is going along the ground, naked and lifeless. At the place where it flows into the Oka, the water is muddy. Apart from shell fragments, there are no signs of life.

For the sake of experiment, the researcher picked several types of herbs along the edges of the "live" key and lowered them into the "dead" water for a few seconds.

It felt like dipping the plants in vinegar essence. In moments, the inflorescences shrank, the stems turned brown. The luxurious bouquet, taken out into the air, looked more like a bundle of straw. If we agree that "dead" water is close in composition to distilled water, then how can we explain such an effect? So far, there is no answer to this question.

As there is no answer to another question. Why are two keys, so different in properties, found themselves in close proximity to each other? Currently, 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 there has ever been a pestilence in Old Ryazan.

But the city stood at the crossroads of many trade routes. Foreigners were frequent guests here. How to explain such "luck"?

An interesting version was voiced to us by the Ryazan local historian Vladimir Gribov. Back in the summer, he went to Old Ryazan in order to study the mysterious structure erected a little further away from the eastern rampart. The earthen mountain, shaped like a mighty ship, was clearly not intended to repel the raids of nomads. It could easily be bypassed on both sides. However, when studying it, the researcher drew attention to an unusual detail. There was practically no vegetation between the mountain and the eastern rampart. Yes, and the sensations during your stay here were not pleasant: oppressive, disturbing ... So didn’t the “ship” serve as a kind of energy shield of Old Ryazan? In ancient chronicles there are several references to the mysterious structure. Our ancestors called it "Krom" (isn't it consonant with the word "Kremlin"?) And erected Krom, "to protect the city from the enemy and ailments." Were the ancients really so mistaken, believing that the "magic mountain" is able to protect the city better than the strongest defensive redoubts? We repeat, there is not a single mention of mass epidemics among the townspeople. The nomads tried more than once to take the city by storm. Only the Batu Horde succeeded. 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 crafted quartz in their gardens. The pipes, as a rule, lay at a shallow depth and with their tips were directed towards Staraya Ryazan...

It is known that in the area of ​​​​Shat-risch, - the local historian told, - there was one of the Horde 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 allowed him to "turn off" the energy shield ...

Just the other day, Captains in one of the Moscow laboratories received the results of the analysis of a quartz tube borrowed from the inhabitants of Shatrishche. The examination established: the age of the pipe is more than 1000 years...

DRUNK STREAK
drunken stream


The Shilovsky district of the Ryazan region never ceases to amaze the people, each time revealing more and more of its "quirks".

This time we visited the "Drunk Creek". 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 come out of the ground, which saturate this water. If at this moment you drink a glass of this water, you will feel slightly intoxicated for a few seconds.

There is another very interesting moment in this story, which it was impossible not to notice. 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 the 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 rejoices that drunken water goes to him and he can safely get drunk" - says Vladimir Gribov.
When this apparition ends, the smile on his "stone face" disappears and a "dejected expression" appears.
- "That is, he is sad that his favorite intoxicating water is leaving him," says Gribov.

Thus, among the people, this stone is considered an indicator of water in the stream.

A drunken stream has the most beneficial properties for the body. It is saturated with vitamins, minerals, healing salts. Well, his "drunk" component of course remains a big mystery. And the solution to each intoxicated is his own.

OAKS-SOCIORS
Dubki - this is how the locals call an old grove located on the banks of the Oka near Korostovo (another close landmark is the village of Zaokskoye). The oldest trees here have a coverage of several meters: human hands are not enough to hug a tree! Some of the oaks must be at least 5 centuries old, according to local historians and nature experts.

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, curved in the shape of a horseshoe. But maybe not only the beauty of the forest and water attracts people?

I recently had a chance to visit this grove with local historian Vladimir Gribov, who discovered Dubki for himself back in the 80s. Vladimir Vitalievich claims that this area has a special energy, gives a person strength and even heals. Apparently, for the people who lived here in the past centuries, Oaks were not just a forest.

Everyone notices the beauty of this forest, - says Vladimir Gribov. - But I'm sure no one has paid attention yet - and it caught my eye just recently - that these trees are not standing randomly. They stand in groups, there are 12 such groups in total (according to the number of months in a year!). Trees are grouped by 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 find a mention that the area of ​​​​sacred groves - in terms of 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. No wonder ethnographers say that in this grove, near Korostovo, lists could be held - competitions of heroes. Others confirm: the proximity of the river and the lake made it possible to hold mermaids here - the holidays of the “seeing off the mermaids”.

Moreover, if you look closely, - Vladimir continues, - some oaks stand, as it were, in a circle. One can imagine that from a bird's eye view we could read some kind of "message" of the ancients, encrypted in groups of trees ... Well, if we discard my assumptions, I will say one thing: when 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 everyone saw something of their own in these trees. You may not believe it, but I attribute to this grove that the joints that have long bothered me have stopped hurting. And as an artist, these trees revealed to me very interesting images that I transferred to paper. Now they have remained in paintings, graphics ... Here I want to draw, write poetry, and just express my thoughts beautifully.

... When we arrived, the "wonder trees" were immersed in winter sleep. The whole grove was asleep, as if bewitched: no man, no birds, no animals, which, apparently, had left footprints in the snow last night. And some unusual sensation was poured into the air. The trees themselves seemed to come to life, if you look closely: this looks like a man with outstretched arms; then - on giant candelabra cacti, and in the third, a huge hollow gapes at the very base, just like in fairy tales - an entrance to another dimension. It is not even clear how this tree is still holding on, what is it standing on, if there is emptiness inside it?

Even a specialist botanist will not argue with the fact that the age of oak trees is more than one century. The fact that the place is stunningly beautiful - everyone sees for himself! Even in winter, the figures of centuries-old oaks amaze with their beauty, the shape of the trunks and the pattern of the branches. Many grow like "twins", two by two, or one by one with forked trunks. Enough and bizarrely curved trees - which experts, by the way, consider a sign of an anomalous place. Surely, these old oaks 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, after a walk, some unusual surge of strength was felt.

In many regions of Russia, the places of growth of "miracle trees" are well known. People come to trees 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, Mari sacred groves and healing trees - oaks and lindens - have survived, and today they are recognized as specially protected natural and objects. Maybe the people of Ryazan, 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 oaks and make fires from their branches for barbecue?

FIRST HISTORY

Sergey MITIN, head of the Ryazan-Cosmopoisk research project:

Indeed, according to our observations, such places - and there are several of them on the territory of the Ryazan region - affect living organisms in their own way. For example, people have a violation of spatial orientation in them, a feeling of “tracking” arises; magnetic anomalies are fixed in them. As a rule, in ancient times, temples were located in such places, where various rituals were performed, prayers were performed, marriages were performed, and 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 resolve issues of national importance in order to resolve everything fairly, in the presence of the gods. As far as mythology is concerned, such groves are a “living temple”, a symbol of the continuation of life, faith, holiness, truth, peace and goodness. It 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 clumsy 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 Temgenevsky settlement in the Sasovsky district. Near the copse I found a rusty tablet: "Here lived a formidable tribe of the Vanir, who came from the North and conquered these lands." The age of the tablet is clearly more than a dozen years. I was unable to get a comment on this from the local museum. The answer to the question of who the Vanir were, 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 financial difficulties in organizing the trip,” Gribov regretted, “they would probably have found more. And so the cold had already bound the earth. Little was found ...” The researchers’ prey was fragments of weapons (according to preliminary estimates of experts, obviously of the pre-Mongol period!) And the teeth of predators , 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 barrow of a strange shape appeared before our eyes. Not an artificial hill, but a mound of a strict pyramidal shape. 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 barrow was the last monument left from the civilization of the Vans. 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 Azs, and the Normans visited us), some of them went further, and the other settled here, intermarried with the Vyatichi and krivichi. And what remains of our possible kinship with the Vanir? Yes, take at least the Russian name Ivan ...

CURSED AND ANOMAL PLACES OF RYAZAN

1. Cursed house.
The building of the former Malshinsky almshouse.

It is located at the intersection of Mayakovsky and Svoboda streets. Merchant Malshin, who built a home for elderly soldiers, was rumored to be a freemason and engaged in cabalism. His wife died at the age of 25 under strange circumstances (suicide was rumored 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 Frenchman 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 almshouse - cursed this place.

In Soviet times, there was a criminal morgue here. The building was obviously not adapted for the needs of a 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 strange sounds come from the house at night, and a bright light is visible from the window openings. In 2003, three vagrants died in the house due to a collapsed staircase. After that, even the homeless began to shun him.

The strangeness stopped after the diocese leased the building and opened a church literature shop there.

2. Girl in white.
The old building of the Ryazan State University.

According to legend, a girl committed suicide in this building due to unhappy love, whose ghost appears there periodically. You should not be afraid of her, she helps students successfully pass the exam.

3. Coachman Peter.
Underpass on the street. Tsiolkovsky.

At the beginning of the 20th century, he was hit by a wagon in the Yamskaya Sloboda area (the current Theater Square). Protects drunkards from freezing in cold weather.

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4. Flying Ryazan (white parachutist).
military airfields.

A wandering ghost that saves people in the air and helps them land successfully. At different times and in different places he was met by Colonel of the Airborne Forces, parachutist V. M. Krasnov, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR V. Cherednichenko

5. Ryumin's ghost.
Ryumina Grove (Central Park of Culture and Leisure).

Near the Ryuminsky pond, sometimes they see a harmless translucent old man in the clothes of the 19th century. Rumor has it that this is the ghost of Ryumin, one of the richest people in Ryazan and her benefactor.

6. The ghost of a doctor.
Tower in the courtyard of the house at st. Gorky d. 15., the rest of the complex of the Ryazan district zemstvo hospital.

There was a manhole in the tower (now filled up), opening 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 its former head Alexander Gustavovich Smitten did.

7. The ghost of a white woman.
Former Choral Synagogue, st. Pravolybidskaya d. 56

This ancient building, built at the beginning of the 20th century, was renovated in 2000. But, for unknown reasons, there was a fire. Only the walls survived. The house was not restored and left to collapse.

They say that while visiting this gloomy, dilapidated building, the head starts to hurt sharply, and the general state of health worsens. And the ghost of a dark-haired woman in a white robe roams 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 who was brutally raped and murdered within these walls in the early 2000s.

Perhaps these urban legends are just fiction or a game beyond the limits of the imagination. Or maybe, after all, there is something invisible to our eyes, not amenable to logic and common sense. How to know...

P.s. Meet the ghost of G. V. Ryumin - tell him thanks for everything you have done for Ryazan.

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SOURCE OF INFORMATION AND PHOTO:
Team Nomads
http://www.regionryazan.ru/public/data5/stoneheng.html
Encyclopedia of anomalous zones of Russia (V.Chernobrov).
Cosmopoisk Vkontakte.
http://gribov62.ru/index.php/about/mesta-sily
http://www.stranamam.ru/post/8767213/
http://nlo-mir.ru/
Wikipedia site.
http://anomalno.ru/anomalnye-javlenija/