Victims of Anomalous Zones
Natural phenomena can hardly be explained, especially if they are dangerous. Some of the geographic names on the map are terrifying: the Hill of the Dead, the Devil Bog, the Gorge of Death. Each of these places is covered with lots of mysterious legends saying not only about an accidental death of a traveller, but about mysterious deaths mostly.
In fact, the names of such places always served (and also currently do) as warnings not to enter them. The name of the height 1079 in Northern Urals, Kholat Sjahyl, is translated from the Mansi language as "Mountain of the Dead." From time to time, the hill proves that the name had been given correctly.
Old residents of the place still remember an accident that occurred near the Mountain of the Dead. On February 2, 1959, a group of tourists from the Ural Polytechnic Institute set up a camp on the mountainside of the ominous height. In several days, the people were found dead. The reasons of the tragedy are not yet investigated. Several versions of the tragic deaths of the tourists were put forward: it was supposed that the men could be killed by a ball lightning, or they died because of a fatal effect of some UFO. It was also supposed that the tourists accidentally entered the area where secret tests of a vacuum weapon were held.
It was strange to discover that the skin of the dead had an unusually red tint; the people had internal injuries and haemorrhages. The same symptoms are typical of damages caused by a vacuum bomb that rarefies the air on a vast territory. In the outskirts of such a zone human blood vessels burst because of the highest internal pressure, and when a man in the epicenter, his body bursts into pieces. However, none of the versions was confirmed.
Investigators of phenomena are sure that geographic places with deadly names are rather anomalous areas where unusual natural processes happen. Mysteries of some of the regions have been discovered. For instance, it is no longer a surprise to see heaps of white bones in the Valley of Death in Russia's Kamchatka, the Valley is on the territory of the Kronotsky preserve. Scientists found out that strange deaths of birds, gluttons and even bears happen because of volcanic cyanic gases evolved from earthly fissures; this gas paralyzes the respiratory tract.
However, there are no clear explanations to all phenomena. We may take for instance the Valley of Death in Russia's republic of Yakutia, in the Upper Vilyui. The mystery of the valley lies in strange metal hemispheres that protrude in some places right from the permafrost. Legends say, when some brave man risked to spend a night near such an object, he inevitably died for unknown reasons. As we currently understand, such strange deaths resembled deaths caused by radioactive damages. Are there sources of such strong radiation in Yakutia? Nothing of this kind was discovered during geological surveys held in these regions.
The ill fame of the Valley of Death in China's province of Sichuan is not accidental as well (sometimes the valley is called Black Bamboo Valley). In the summer of 1950 about 100 people strangely disappeared there and a plane crashed for unknown reasons. Such a large number of victims was once again registered in the valley in 1962. A man who guided a caravan of geologists survived. He later described the accident: "As soon as the advance group entered the gorge, the people were enveloped with a thick fog. Indistinct sounds were heard; but when the fog lifted, they were gone."
Scientists recently organized an expedition to the Sichuan anomalous zone. They say that strange accidents probably happen there because of saturated fumes of decaying plants that choke people; then people lose the bearings and die in deep fissures that are abundant in the area.
But other scientists are sure that this solution of the mysterious death is just visible. In fact, tragedies occur there because of an unusually strong magnetic field of the Black Bamboo Valley. The same peculiarity is also typical of another Chinese valley of death situated in the mountains of the province of Jilin. For unknown reasons, planes crash and people disappear there. It happened sometimes that even experienced gatherers of ginseng, who perfectly knew the place, never got back home from the mountains. Compass hands vibrates, and people even lose memory and bearings there. Travellers stray about the same place but cannot find a way out. And the fatal valley just enlarges the number of its victims.
Tatyana Stroganova
Vecherny Chelyabinsk newspaper (Chelyabinsk)
Translated by Maria Gousseva
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Abducted by Aliens
07/03/2003 18:02
One should have a critical attitude to such stories
There is Envaitenet island on the Kenyan Rudolf Lake. Local tribes say that the name of the island translates as "no-return." It is a rather small island - just several kilometers wide and long. Local people do not live on the island, because they think that it is a cursed place. Researchers of anomalous activities believe, there are a lot of such places in the world, from where people do not come back. Russia is not an exception in this respect.
English explorer Vivian Fush's expedition was working in Kenya in 1935. His two colleagues - Martin Sheflis and Bill Dayson left for the mysterious island one day. Fifteen days passed, but the two scientists did not return. Fush sent a rescue team to the island, but they found no trace of their friends - just a deserted village. The island looked totally abandoned, they never found anything even with the help of a plane.
Local residents told Fush that people used to live on the island many years ago, they communicated with the people on the mainland. However, the island residents suddenly stopped coming to the mainland at all. When several courageous men came to the island to see what happened, they saw a deserted village with no people at all. "Scouts" left the island very quickly, and nobody ventured to go there again.
People sometimes disappear in front of other people's eyes. American magazine History of Scientist described an incident, when a 13-year-old boy disappeared in his relatives' presence, but then was found on the same place several days later. The incident happened on July 30th, 1960 in Ontario. Here is another story: Frank (19 years old) was sitting in his car in 1982, when he suddenly saw a bright spot that was moving slowly towards the ground. His friends were loading their things in the car at that moment, and they saw the same. Frank drove the car to the site, where the bright ball fell down. When his friends ran up to see what happened, they saw that their friend's car had been "cut" into two: the rear part of the car was standing on the road, but the front part could not be seen because of the column of blinding light. Frank could not be found anywhere. He appeared two weeks later, wearing the same clothes. The young man could not remember anything, he could tell his story only with the help of the hypnotherapy. He said that he saw a small luminous ball on the bonnet of his car. Then he found himself in a laboratory, all filled with various devices and sensors. Frank said that there were a lot of moving luminous balls in the room. When he recovered, he thought that it was just a dream.
Astronomer and ufologist Alan Haynek has published a collection of stories devoted to mysterious disappearance of people, having called it "closed contacts with the third nature." A lot of such abductions have been documented in detail, like the story with Betty and Barney Hill from New Hampshire. In September of 1961, Betty and Barney Hill were returning home after a holiday in Canada when they became aware of a strange light following behind their car. This kept pace with them for very nearly an hour. Curious to know what it was, they stopped by the roadside and studied it through binoculars. At this point figures began to emerge from the craft - humanoids dressed all in black, with piercing blue eyes. Terrified by this amazing apparition the Hills got back in the car only to discover they had instantly been transported at least 35 miles away. Even more amazingly an hour had elapsed in little more than several seconds.
Such "sensations" appear in the Russian press too. Newspapers wrote that Olga Volkova from the city of Perm had been abducted by extraterrestrial beings that scanned her brain, tried to implant a chip under her skin, but the woman managed to escape. Five-year-old twins Tanya and Sonya Komarova from Saratov allegedly disappeared from their kindergarten and then unexpectedly appeared there again about three hours later. The two little girls could not explain anything properly, they just said that "a little sun was whirling in the ceiling, then it came down and ate us." Muscovite Oksana Nerazova was going to a shop, but then she found herself a hundred kilometers far from her house. She remembered that she had seen strange beings of the extraterrestrial origin.
Professor Rudolf Nesmelov from the Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences, believes, one should have a critical attitude to such information. "A detailed analysis of such incidents often shows that people take natural atmospheric phenomena for mysterious luminous balls or spots. Big planets like Saturn or Jupiter often look like luminous spots at night. Bald-headed creatures with tentacles that scan people's bodies and heads are usually a vision that appears as a result of a certain state of mind. Disappearing planes, ships and people are usually jokes and hallucinations. There is no objective evidence to prove such incidents," the scientist believes.
Natalia Leskova
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Mysterious Site on the Balkans
09/06/2003 16:47
Secret military and technical experiment was held in the place, but no results reported.
Some years ago a panic seized clairvoyants and sensitives of Bulgaria (it is astonishing that the number of senstives in Bulgaria is higher than everywhere in the world). The problem is that they felt a strong low-frequency radiation 30 kilometers north-west from Sofia. Newspapers reported that a spot was found where the Earth established connection with the Galaxy; the spot was said to be the center of an extraterrestrial civilization; the media reported that health of people in Sofia and in the region was in danger.
The Bulgarian Ministry of Defense set up a special research group as a response to the rumors and conjectures. The group was headed by General Staff Deputy Commander Radko Mincev. A polygon was set up in the outskirts of the village of Carichina where Major-General engineer Ljubomir Dinev was in command of "military and technical research works".
That meant: the place where the strange spot was discovered was to be excavated all around. Locals found out and further the whole of Bulgaria also learnt that the work was performed by seven people, soldiers and officers. A young woman Maria Naplatanova, a powerful sensitive who had experience of working with the military also worked together with the group excavating the area.
The whole of the work was done secretly; the place was closely guarded, encircled with a fence and covered with a camouflage tent. The whole of Bulgaria was shocked to learn that Maria Naplatanova suddenly died. The fact couldn't be hidden, and the general Dinev had to explain the whole of the situation to the press. He said that the death of the woman had nothing to do with the technical and military experiment held near Carichina.
The vague explanation just gives rise to another wave of rumors. People said that not only the sensitive fell victim of the experiment; it was also rumored that several people of the research group died. It was allegedly said that the staff of the group changed several times.
Officers and soldiers participating in the excavation work were said to be taken to mental hospitals or died.
No more information on the subject followed from the army command. There was no information saying about the results and the very issue of the experiment. Later the object in Carichinskaya Dupka was closed down temporarily.
Army correspondent of the Bulgarian Army newspaper Krasen Buchkov reported: "I got acquainted with General Ljubomir Dinev when the experiment was carried out. He promised to tell all the details as soon as the experiment is over. I even saw the several volumes of a report that he developed on the issue. However, when the work on the object was completed, General Dinev was placed on the retired list. As far as I know he published no information on that experiment."
We took a train to get to the place named Kostinbrod; the road got much worse as we got further from the place. To get to Carichina we even had to walk three kilometers along a very narrow path on a mountain slope.
Carichina turned out to be a picturesque village very typical of the Balkans: there are lots of tiled roofs against the background of gray granite and dark green conifer. In most cases, people from Carichina said that there was nothing particular about the place; after the rumors about the strange findings the people soon forgot about the place. But some of the locals did agree that the place was strange and the old of the village usually pass it by. But none of the people agreed to take the journalist to Dupka, they just showed the way to the place.
This is strange to see a policeman under a big fir tree. What does the policeman guard? Is there a military object? But in fact there was no military infrastructure or a warning inscription there. The policeman asked the journalist to show his documents. When he learnt about the purpose of the visit, the policeman told the journalist to follow in a different direction and never to show up near the place.
Last time the journalist touched upon the issue of Carichina was in a conversation with Katerina Ivanova, a clairvoyant very much respected by scientists studying phenomena. The woman said that there is something incredible in the place but she had no right to speak about it. "Nobody has the right to speak about it, at least among those people who has the capability to see what ordinary people cannot. Maria Naplatanova violated the prohibition, probably because of her young age, and the woman was punished for that. One thing is for sure and I have the right to speak about it: the place focuses huge energy from the space. But time hasn't come to approach the secret closer."
And the woman is reliable to trust her: a year before Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev died she predicted the exact date of his death. She also gave an exact prediction of the day when a war broke out in Bosnia. These two facts show that the woman can be trusted. Katerina Ivanova helped many people and warned them against great problems. She told the journalist: "It's good you didn't get to the place. It's your luck. But believe the story of Carichinskaya Dupka will once more come up to light."
Daniil Zemlyak
State Decides To Shut Down State Forest Shortcut Road
Hell Hollow Road Deemed Too Dangerous During Winter
Day Staff Writer
Published on 9/18/2003
Legend has it that two ghosts wander the Hell Hollow area of Pachaug State Forest, but local officials are haunted only by the accidents that take place there in the winter.
As a result, the state, beginning in January, will close the 1.3-mile stretch of Hell Hollow Road that runs through the forest.
The decision came Wednesday following an early-morning meeting attended by state and local officials. Representatives of the state Department of Environmental Protection said the department would close the portion of Hell Hollow Road it owns in Pachaug State Forest from January through March each year because it cannot plow the road in winter.
The meeting was arranged after residents of Voluntown and Sterling who use the road as a shortcut to Griswold complained about its deteriorating condition. The state agreed to the towns' request to repair potholes and to better maintain the road in the spring, summer and fall.
Hell Hollow Road runs from Sterling through Voluntown and into Griswold, where it becomes Stone Hill Road and intersects with Route 201. The on- and off-ramps for Interstate 395 are located a short distance from that intersection.
The road is named after Hell Hollow, a depression in the forest where two women died and are said to haunt the area. One was a suspected witch named Maude who, legend holds, is buried in Hell Hollow. The other was an Indian woman who was killed by British soldiers after she watched the soldiers kill her husband and children. Local ghost lore holds that Maude haunts Hell Hollow because her gravestone was stolen and that the Indian woman sometimes can be heard wailing for her dead family.
The road is narrow, hilly and consists of just one lane. It winds past ancient and crumbling stone walls, thick stands of pine trees and Hell Hollow Pond. Signs posted at the Griswold and Voluntown entrances to Pachaug State Forest on Hell Hollow Road warn drivers the road is for forestry use and that they pass at their own risk.
Despite the warnings and ghostly legends, the road is a popular shortcut through the state forest. It is carrying even more traffic as residential development increases in Voluntown and Sterling, local officials said.
The state doesn't plow the road in winter because it is in such bad shape, said state Rep. Steven Mikutel, D-Griswold, who attended Wednesday's meeting with DEP and local officials.
But even though the steep hills of the road ice over frequently in winter, drivers brave the desolate area to avoid the longer commute around Pachaug State Forest, said Voluntown First Selectman Thomas Wilber. "Every winter we get at least two or three accidents in there," he said.
Local emergency workers respond to those accidents, and last year, Wilber said, two state police cruisers crashed in Hell Hollow. The town sent in a snowplow, which nearly slid off the icy hill that leads from Voluntown down into the hollow, he said.
Wilber said he supports the state's decision to erect gates on on the road where it enters Pachaug State Forest. He said he's ready for the telephone calls he's likely to get from irate commuters.
"I'm going to tell them to call the Department of Environmental Protection," he said. "It's their road, and we have no control over a state road."
Alison Rogers, who uses Hell Hollow Road frequently and whose husband uses it daily to get to and from I-395, said she hopes residents get mad enough about the impending closing to convince the state to upgrade the road and keep it open year-round.
"We like the country out here, but we all work and we all want to get to our jobs the quickest way we can," she said.
Mikutel said it's unlikely the state will improve the road because it could cost about $500,000.
About four years ago, Rogers, who lives on Congdon Road in Voluntown, was involved in an accident on Hell Hollow Road. Rogers said she escaped injury when an oncoming car slid into her vehicle. While waiting for police to arrive, another vehicle also slid off the road.
"It was a mess out there," she said.
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Places of mystery
By Society Team
Nov. 21/04
Ask about Kituluni hill in Machakos District and people are likely to take you aside and talk in hushed tones about strange goings-on, witchcraft and sightings of ghosts dressed in white.
You will be told about happenings that stand Isaac Newton's Law of Gravity on its head, such as water flowing uphill.
Some 300 kilometres away from this spot, in Nakuru, equally unlikely stories are told about a mystery cave in the Menengai Crater.
Few places in Kenya, indeed in the world, are without their own stranger-than-fiction stories that defy logical explanation. Outsiders might dismiss them out of hand, but local people hold on to them with a firm conviction.
Kituluni, 12 kilometres east of Machakos town, has long been the subject of speculation, and visitors have travelled for miles to witness the strange goings-on at the extraordinary hill.
It is perhaps the only place in the world where a car that is switched off can roll uphill, unaided.
On the way to Kituluni, one passes through Mutituni and Kivutini. A tarmac road leads toward the strange spot. It is a dangerous drive with tortuous twists and turns.
Halfway round the hill, regardless of the speed at which the car might be moving, it is always jerked forward and suddenly moves faster without any discernible change on the speedometer.
Kituluni hill covers an area of about a square kilometre, and if you want to prove that the hill is indeed as strange as it is said to be, you can carry out a few experiments.
If you switch off the car and park it at the side of the road with nobody inside, it immediately begins to move up the hill at a speed of approximately 5kph.
It has been known to do this for a distance of up to a kilometre, and just to prove that this is no fluke, it has been done over and over again with the same results.
Although the Kituluni spot lies on a very steep part of the hill, experiments carried out with water produce the same results. Water can be seen flowing up the hill, instead of down.
For about 20 metres, the water flows in this manner until it changes course and flows to the side, but even then it never at any one point flows downhill.
The same pattern is repeated when an empty bottle is placed on the spot and even though it only rolls for a few metres, it moves all the same.
The villagers claim to have an explanation for this strange phenomenon.
It is said that many years ago the local people used to make sacrifices to their ancestors on the hill. In those days the area was known collectively as Kivutini.
The sacrifices were meant to appease the ancestors and seek favours from them, such as bringing rain or casting out evil spirits.
There was an altar where special rituals were performed, and was thus regarded as a holy place.
Things changed when the road passing through the area from Machakos town towards Kaloleni was constructed and people were forced to conduct their ceremonies further down the hill.
Although the road has been around for quite a few years, no one seems to remember when the strange happenings currently being witnessed started.
Villagers say they have even seen strange people dressed in white who vanish as mysteriously as they appear.
Even though experts still hold a sceptical view on the area, no serious study has been conducted to explain the strange phenomenon.
Tourist attraction
At the Menengai Crater in Nakuru, curious tourists are drawn to a controversial cave by stories of strange happenings that have convinced many that it is a haunted place.
A number of strange things are said to happen in the crater, such as people disappearing without trace.
Others have lost directions for hours, or even days, only to be found by their relatives wandering around in a trance.
Those who live nearby call a hill near the crater "kirima kia ngoma (Satan's hill)". People claim to have seen the 'devil' riding a motorcycle there.
Last year, James Gichumuni (now deceased) allegedly spent two days in the crater. The old man, who had gone to the crater to graze his animals, failed to find his way out despite being well versed with the area.
In another incident, a boy was found staring at a bird after going missing for seven days.
When asked where he was and what he was doing, he remarked, "I have been watching a beautiful vision for a few minutes."
Back in 1987, a schoolgirl disappeared without trace in the crater. Efforts by police to search for her using helicopters bore no results.
The latest mystery about the crater is a 'flying umbrella' that appears whenever it rains. But no one has ever bothered to find out where the umbrella goes after the rains.
Although a good number of Christians go to the crater to fast and pray, it also attracts a fair number of suicides. Two Catholic priests are among dozens of people who have leapt to their deaths into the 845-metre crater.
The latest incident was in November, last year, when a priest plunged his vehicle into the crater.
The local people believe that the crater is haunted by evil spirits that capture human beings and animals and hide them in the netherworld.
It is believed that in the late 1950s and early 1960s, demons or ghosts used to farm on a fertile piece of land on the floor of the crater.
An elderly resident, Esther Wanjiru, says the 'demons' used to plough the land with tractors, plant wheat and harvest all within an hour.
"You sat there watching and before you knew it, all these activities had taken place and the land would go back to its former state, a grassland with no activities or life," she claims.
Despite the eerie stories about the crater, pilgrims from as far as Kisumu, Kakamega and even Mombasa come to pray and fast at the site for days.
Some even stay in the cave at the south of the crater for months. They say that they feel very close to God when praying in the crater.
The cave, large enough to house hundreds of people, commands a superb view of the crater.
Imposing hill
Travelling east from the Nairobi on the Nairobi-Kangundo highway, the expansive Ukambani plains roll out before the eyes.
As one approaches Kangundo town, a rocky outcrop comes into view. This is the famous Koma Rock, considered a shrine by many.
The hill has been considered a sacred place since time immemorial.
Kamba elders used to journey to the rock to offer sacrifices to their gods at a designated shrine known locally as Ithembo. Ithembo in Kamba means a holy place.
There, they would also pray for rain and for protection from plagues.
According to Paul Malinda, 80, the old folk believed that a strange and powerful force resided there.
A fig tree still stands on the spot where the sacrifices were offered.
Mzee Malinda says that stories were told of how visions of old men would appear at the shrine in the evenings and then disappear after a while.
He says that in 1970, road engineers constructing the Kangundo-Nairobi highway wanted to move the shrine so that the road could pass through the hill. This sparked a furious protest from Kamba elders.
They agreed to have the shrine moved to another part of the hill, however, after a bag of sugar and two goats were offered to them as sacrifices.
"Despite the sacrifices, the blasting of rocks was very difficult with machinery constantly breaking down," says Malinda.
He claims the engineers abandoned the route after realising that there was an unknown power preventing the rock from being blasted.
Today, the abandoned murram road is still visible from the top of the hill as it meanders through the Koma rock plains towards the city. Mzee Mwithi Musau, who is believed to have been born in 1900, says he was among those who used to offer sacrifices at the shrine, accompanying famous Kamba rainmakers and prophets.
Musau believes that it was a supernatural power that stopped the blasting of rocks.
Today, the shrine has been taken over by the Catholic Church, which has turned it into a site for pilgrimages.
These days, it is often the scene of processions, singing of hymns, recital of prayers and fasting.
Fr Thomas Vaddesary, who is in charge of the shrine, says the church chose it as a place where faithful could spend time in prayer.
"Koma rock is a place where traditional believers used to offer sacrifices in the past but now it has been turned into the shrine of our Lady," says Fr Thomas.
At the top of the shrine is an imposing 70-foot sculpture of Jesus Christ in the arms of his mother Mary after the body was lowered from the cross.
Given its background and current religious activities, the Koma rock hill shrine is still a place of mystery for many.
Across the country in Nyando District, stories of ghosts and haunted places abound, especially in Kore and Kobura.
Kobura location borders the partly stalled Ahero Rice Irrigation Scheme on the Kisumu-Nairobi highway.
A four-kilometre stretch on the Ahero-Lela road is widely believed to be haunted by ghosts.
On this stretch, many grisly road accidents have been witnessed between Korowe trading centre and Lela Secondary School.
A resident of the area, Mark Ojwang' Nyabange, says the accident jinx was caused by the deaths of an old woman and a child who were run over by a vehicle many years ago.
The residents believe the large number of accidents are caused by the dead woman's ghost, which keeps coming back to confuse motorists.
Villagers who go to assist accident victims claim to have been told by the drivers that they had seen a ghostly old lady cross the highway driving a herd of cattle just before the accident.
Elsewhere, about two kilometres from the Nairobi highway towards Kore village, a ghost is said to haunt a bridge. It is claimed that many residents of the area, including a young man known as Joseph Omondi, have fallen victim to the ghost at the bridge.
Omondi recalls one night sometime back when he set out at night from his home near K'otieno Odongo village to visit his relatives in Kore.
An architecture student at a Nairobi-based college, Omondi says when he approached the bridge he met an old woman clad in a buibui who requested for assistance.
"She pleaded for help to cross the bridge and I obliged, but by the time I crossed the bridge she had vanished," he said.
Villagers say the ghost often greets people in Dholuo: "Amosi swaya! Amosi swaya! (Warm greetings! Warm greetings!)."
Mysteries of Siberia's "Valley of Death" parts: 1, 2, 3, 4
Enchanted ravine restores years of youth
15.09.2006
Fireballs are jumping out from underneath the soil in the Volga region. A wandering ravine in the Moscow area can bring rejuvenation. Invisible monsters attack residents of Perm village. An expert talking to Pravda.ru confirmed that the geopathogenic zones do indeed exist and affect people's lives.
The Molebka village in Perm region is located in a "deadly spot," that has been attracting researching psychics for many decades. Iza Novokreshenova, a local resident, tells of a time when she was walking through the forest edge when she stumbled upon something cold, slippery but invisible. The woman leapt aside in panic.
Unfortunately she was not able to by-pass the "enchanted place." Something frightening was relentlessly following after her, entangling itself at her feet and making her stumble. After some time the weird occurrence passed without anyone's assistance, and the woman seeking an explanation contacted the geologists. Apparently there was a deep tectonic rift of rocks that passed through the area.
Meridian reports that there are plenty of "enchanted spots" in Russia. There is a ravine in the Volga region prairies which both men and animals try their best to avoid. From time to time balls of fire spring out from underground in the shallows. Approximately one year ago a geologist suffered terrible burns there. He did not survive.
Komiagino village is located not far from the Moscow region's town Ivanteevk. The local folk insist that another ravine in the nearby forest causes watches to stop and compasses to point falsely. According to the local legend an elderly woman who sees the mysterious ravine will begin looking noticeably younger within a few days. But no one knows for sure where it is located because the say the ravine is in motion and travels from spot to spot throughout the forest.
Animals and plants are extremely sensitive to the dangerous zones. The deadly spots are usually occupied by willows, alders, quaking aspens, oaks, ash trees and elm trees. On the other hand birches, lime trees and most of the pine trees get sick in such areas. In addition cats are at ease in geopathogenic zones while dogs feel anxious and uncomfortable.
Researchers add to the list of these zones subway lines, catacombs and mines. Psychics believe that such zones are creating mortal danger by emitting bizarre radiation. Some experts say that the cause of the jetliner's crash in Irkutsk on July 9th of this year was the paranormal radiation.
Sergey Gagarin, a bioenergist from Severodvinsk, explained to Pravda.ru that if one were to take the map of Russia and to sweep one's relaxed hand over the Baikal region in Siberia, the person would feel a certain energetical activity. The answer to the phenomena lies in the fact that a large geopathogenic zone extends from the Baikal Lake to the city of Kyzyl.
Back in December of 1997 another airliner Ruslan crashed in Irkutsk. Special commission concluded that the accident was a result of a "human factor." However, the physics studying anomalies did not agree with the commission's findings. They claimed that the airplane crossed into the zone of abnormal energy flow.
Liliya Subin
Translated by Natalia Vysotskaya
Small village in Russian province becomes great attraction to ufologists
An unidentified flying object appeared for the first time in the sky above the village of Molebka in the Perm region of Russia 15 years ago. The anomalous phenomena that have been observed in the area ever since have earned the reputation of the Russian Bermuda Triangle for the village. Foreign ufologists dubbed the place as Zone-M.
The anomalous territory near the village of Molebka is a place on the border between the Perm and the Sverdlovsk regions of the Russian Federation. All local residents believe the anomalous stories told across villages and towns in the area.
Pavel Gladyshev, a specialist in nuclear physics, a native of Molebka, lived in the city of Perm and returned to his home village after retirement.
“I have seen the strange objects in the sky on several occasions. As a physicist I can say that they do not look like man-made objects. I didn’t believe any of those stories until I saw the flying ball myself. That year I was working in the field making hay. We started early in the morning at 4 a.m. All of a sudden we saw another moon in the sky above the field. The ball was throwing dim light on the field, which game shivers to me and my partner. I counted seven beams of light coming down from the ball. When the ball disappeared we came to our senses and tried to work but it seemed all so hard and heavy. I became physically weak for two days.
UFOs have not honored Molebka with their presence for quite a while, but the anomalous zone continues to attract people’s attention. An esoteric company charges about 60 dollars for a trip to the anomalous zone. Local residents do not understand those people who come to their village from cities to conduct training sessions on ufology. Old-timers say that their native village has turned into a place of Sabbath.
Foreign specialists refer to the anomalous area near Molebka as Zone-M. German film-makers made a documentary about the anomalous phenomena in the area. The film stirred up a controversy and attracted even more attention to the small village. However, locals say that the film-makers used the anomalous stories as a cover-up to make a film about the hard life in a Russian province.
Elena Trokhova
Pravda.ru
