Statistics show that every year on Earth disappears without a trace about two million people. The vast majority of such disappearances due to natural causes: murders, accidents, natural disasters... Sometimes people "disappear" on their own. But some of the incidents in the usual framework does not fit.

Here is a strange thing happened near St. Petersburg (near the station Pine) in the summer of 1993. According to its participants that happened: Together with two friends who work in the design office, Alexei Ivanovich Volzhanin went on traditional fishing. On Friday they are booted into an old "Moskvich" and hit the road.

The road from Peter to the Karelian isthmus is only a few hours. And there is a real Paradise for fishermen. The whole system is lovely, clean lakes, United under a single name "Vuoksa". Beautiful nature, fresh and biting.

Friends for a long time already discovered these places and the scheme of travel has been worked out in great detail - evening departure, overnight at the fire, fishing in the morning dawn, a festive dinner and return home. There was still a Saturday night and the whole Sunday to devote to their beloved wives and children.

But this time things went wrong. They drove to the cherished place when the storm broke. Lightning thrashed in the trees surrounding the road dense structure, reflected in the wet asphalt. One of the bombs were so close and strong that Volzhanin, sitting at the wheel, momentarily blinded. This moment nearly proved fatal for friends. Machine jumped off the highway and hit the right rear door of thick century-old pine...

However, Alexey Ivanovich (experienced by the way, the driver with great trouble-free experience) later claimed that he had driven off the road, not because of lightning, and because the front of the hood of the car silhouette appeared some monster - hairy monsters in glowing eyes. But as more unknown creature none of the friends have not seen, then forget about its existence. As they say, for lack of evidence.

So, accident... Volzhanin and Shalev sitting in the front, got off lightly. The worst was the designer of the first category semen Yakovlevich Libmenu. He was seriously injured - side glass shards tore his skin on the forehead. In addition, it appears that he has received a brain concussion, because when friends pulled him from the car, he could not stand on the legs give way.

What could I do hapless travelers? To the nearest station several tens of kilometers. With a wounded comrade to overcome their difficult. And then, as luck would have it, on highway no cars. Well that Shalev noticed nearby light is shone the window of a small house.

Leaving the car, friends picked up Albania armpits and led to the hut, which stood on stilts over the little Creek. "The hut, hut, stand up to me before, back to the forest," - I joked back, " recalls Volzhanin. - Climbed the slippery steps of the high porch. The door opened the door of an old woman. And again I had the feeling that we were in heaven - well, things Baba Yaga..."

About anything without asking, saying nothing, she stepped back, skipping to the house wet and miserable fishermen.

Is now, in hindsight I realize that everything in this story pile of nonsense, - says A. Volzhanin. Where did the house where we have never seen him, although we know the places "all"? But at that moment we were like enchanted - nothing was surprised. The hut on chicken legs? Very much by the way! Candle on the table in old candlestick? So, maybe from the storm electricity was cut off! Strange mistress, who had not spoken during the whole meeting a word? Or maybe it's dumb!..

The woman had fed the poor fellows hot soup, washed Libmenu wound some broth, made on the forehead compress... Tired, they went to put on the floor blankets and fell asleep. And in the morning woke up under the open sky!

- It was like a nightmare - tell your friends. - Welcoming the house is gone. Instead it stood the floor fallen walls, built of granite boulders. We carefully researched these ruins with empty openings instead of doors and Windows - no signs of life... apparently, it was an old water mill, remaining in these places since the times of the Finnish war, when our army has turnul Finns with the Karelian isthmus, and then annexed the territory to the territory of the USSR.

In those places a lot of ruins, and surprise them. But where's house, where we spent the night? Not suffered us sleeping in a new place? Yes, and there are no houses. Later we checked it - no shelter around. And another strange thing in the morning I found that the wounds on the forehead semen Yakovlevich remained only a thin brown band, and it soon turned pale and faded.

Friends fishermen claim that this whole story is true. They refer to the staff of the local traffic police, which helped them to tow the car.

Those allegedly said that something similar happened with some other man in 1982 that landed in the night the accident in the same place. He told me that too, waiting for help stayed overnight with some witches at the mill...

-What could it be? asks A. Volzhanin. -Can we visited in the past - war time, when these places were still living people? Or in the fairy tale at Baba Yaga? Or is it just dreaming?

And here's another similar incident. In the book "Spirits and legends of the local region" is a fact. In 1973 some Edna Hedges riding a Bicycle on Ermin street (Old Roman road that runs around Swindon, England. Storm began...

Edna came off the bike and, noticing the roadside small house, has decided to wait it bad weather. In the house lived a harsh man who helped the girl to sit out the rain, but did not utter a single word...

Then Edna found that again riding a Bicycle on the road. How and under what circumstances she left the house he couldn't remember, no matter how he tried. Yes and this house, as it turned out, in the places he has never happened...

Among other things, a friend who was waiting for the Edna, noticed that her clothes were perfectly dry, even though they got wet through in the rain, waiting for the girl.

Tempting, of course, by combining all these stories, to assume, that from time to time in our space to open the door to "fairy worlds". But... According to specialists-psychologists the explanation of this phenomenon is totally different: houses-mirages are not in reality, but only in our mental perception in the hypnotic trance.

To fall into this state the person may even without the participation of the hypnotist, and spontaneously - the impact of monotonous roads, or even the noise of rain, or from a sudden flash of lightning... Remember that in the case of A. Volzhanin, as well as in history happened with the Edna Hedges, was the fact, that, and the other.

Experiments show that the feelings of the person during the trance by its brightness and naturalness is almost indistinguishable from the real experiences. Deceived by the senses, led by the fantasies of the brain, give such detailed pictures that they then it is almost impossible to distinguish from these memories.

Doctor of medical Sciences Century, Faivyshevskii, analyzing such cases, draws attention to the fact that going from a state of trance people often observed vegetative disorders - dizzy, slightly impaired coordination of movements, people often do not remember the transition from the hypnotic state to real.

All these signs, we recall, are present in the stories of the same Volzhanin (and Edna Hedges), which indirectly confirms his adventures they have experienced while awake and in a state of altered consciousness. However, this version although it looks convincing and authoritative, is only "Cabinet hypothesis", i.e it is advanced without studying the details of a specific incident on the spot. And therefore remains very fresh, but the chance that the described events could occur in reality. Indeed, some scientists believe, next to our world can be a so-called "parallel worlds", and sometimes they touch the passages are opened during the powerful energy emission. So the lightning may well serve as "the key" to the door in such a world. And, it is possible that some of the tales is in fact real memories of eyewitnesses, who was in parallel space.

This mysterious "drop" from our world occurred in the Moscow region in the settlement Kratovo. Three days were looking for in the forest "as through the earth's failed" teenager. In vain. And when he appeared on his doorstep, the mother fainted - the boy from head to foot was in the blood...

Where was Sasha, what happened to him? He could not answer these questions. And mysterious incident were deposited in the archives of specialists engaged in the study of anomalous phenomena. But, according to indirect data, it can be assumed that the boy had been... in another time and in another dimension. At least that is the hypothesis put forward by some experts. However, this is how this story looks at the exposition of the now adult Alexander Salikova:

"It happened on 20 January 1973. I was incomplete fifteen years. I used to walk in the forest alone, and even built a hut for himself on high pinesthat is, It was about the height of seventeen meters. I got that day.

It was cold - about 22 degrees, Sunny and windless. Nothing much around me did not happen, at least I don't remember it. And yet, something had happened because I woke up already in the snow under a pine tree. Open your eyes - the me starry sky. Caps no, the whole face of some sticky hands too... got Up, as poluzabytogo, and went home. And there... in short, it turned out that seek me already three days. Mother, when she saw me, she fell down in a swoon. I was all in blood - face, hands... But when I did, it turned out that the body is not a single scratch or a bruise. I even had frostbite! The next day as if nothing had happened, went to school. But...

Those who knew me, were able to say: "Our Sasha replaced!" And I really was something else. Changed and beliefs, and thoughts - even handwriting has changed! Before that he was interested in astronomy and after abruptly lost interest to it. But there was inexplicable ability to understand easily, even in unfamiliar electronic equipment. Since this is my main task..."

How was unconscious boy managed to survive in the forest (without hats!) three days at 22 C cold and freezing? As it turned out (though bloody, but alive and unharmed) under a pine tree? As parents, we know where their son "nested a"primarily examined the place! Whose blood was on the teenager?

On all these issues, unfortunately, there is no reliable answers. However, much can be explained, if we compare this story with other, no less mysterious accidents.

- We have experienced incredible, " said in 1993, the Commission "Phenomenon" workers of one of Moscow firms: S. Kamaev - Director General, N. Ivashenko-commercial Director, and Acting Kharatyan - the employee of the same company (the names have been changed). The conversation started to "General".

- I read somewhere that the experiments scientists show: using electromagnetic fields can change over time and "break" move to another workspace. I believe that this is real. And how else can we explain what we have been witnessing?

The story told S. Kamenevym and his associates, was really unusual. And several experts "Phenomenon" decided to go to the place of the incident (to the Ostankino TV tower) for "investigative experiment".

"...We were standing here, - Sergey Ivanovich Kamaev spent his toe the line. - Oleg Kharatyan walked towards us. It was windy, the area was covered with stains of wet puddles. Oleg just went through one of them, it is ridiculous for the crane lifting his feet. Where it all started. Air bazovica buzzed - softly, but so that the ears hurt. I looked up and saw that around the tower cover reddish glow. Then suddenly it "image" smeared, blinked, and the tower "revealed" are much closer. Here Ivashenko cried: "Oleg! Oleg!", and I found that Kharatian, which was only about twenty steps away, disappeared. The worst thing is, there was a puddle, through which he travelled. The site of the square in front of us was completely dry. I wanted to rush forward, to where there had to be Kharatian, but his feet seemed rooted to the ground. Don't know how long we stood - maybe a minute, maybe all ten. The area was absolutely deserted. No one around, No one place where you could hide. And the heart was boiling some horror. It's not the fact that together with Oleg disappeared and diplomat with a large sum of money, which he had to pass us. Our friend vanished as suddenly as if it had erased elastic sheet of paper. Then the buzz increased surface area became an imperceptible to stretch and... we again saw Oleg. Puddle through which he moved, too, returned to the place..."

According to Karitiana, he felt nothing special, not even noticed that "disappeared". When friends decided to compare notes to see how many Oleg was absent, while in "another dimension", it turned out that his "Command" stood up. Kamaev sure that Oleg has failed in "fold of space", resulting from the operation of generators on the tower, and returned only by a miracle. And reddish haze, which gleamed in the air - appeared chronal (temporary) field. Well, he's not the first puts this version...

From the list of mysterious disappearances:

... 1915, the Gallipoli Peninsula (Turkey). General Hamilton sent to the aid of allies for the capture of Constantinople part of the British Norfolk regiment. About height N60 on the road before marching column thickened strange cloud. Several hundred soldiers reckless entered it. Here the cloud lifted off and swam towards Bulgaria. Soldiers entered him no one has ever seen. After the capitulation of Turkey, discussed the issue of prisoners, disappeared last hope to find them, it turned out that the Turks nobody was taken captive in that area.

... 1924, Iraq. Pilots of the Royal air force of great Britain day and Stuart has made an emergency landing in the desert. Their tracks leading from the plane, were clearly visible on the sand. But they soon broke...

The pilots have not been able to find, although around the place emergency landing was not a quicksand or abandoned wells... was Not that day and sand storms...

... 1930, village eskimo Angikuni (Northern Canada). Gone all residents. In the empty dwellings remained clothing, and food over the cold hearths and even rifle, without which, as we know, no one eskimo never go out of the house. Hunter Joe Label, first discovered that the village was deserted, reported that emptied even the graves in the local cemetery. Dead disappeared along with living...

... in 1947. Suddenly lost control and crashed American military aircraft on Board of which there were 32 people. In vain rescuers rushed to the scene to help. The wreckage of the plane was not neither living nor dead. No blood, no other traces that have confirmed that during the accident onboard the airplane there was at least one person. The fact interested in the security services. But their search ended in nothing.

To this list can be added ships, mysteriously "lost" their crews in the open sea. Recall, for example, the famous story of the ship "Maria Celeste", which is found in the Azores. The missing persons are not brought anything - neither one thing nor even money... And such cases lot is already known. Mysterious single disappearances and does not count. There is no sense to list them, as they are all similar in many ways to the incident described by the newspaper "daily chronicle" 30 July 1889. It is reported that Mr. Macmillian, a member of the family of the owners of the famous publisher "Macmillian", went up on the mountain and waved to his friends, and then disappeared. Despite a thorough search and appointed the award, to find it failed...

There are many versions, designed to explain such accidents. Among them hypothesis, for which stands close to Kamaev. It is that on the earth there are (or arise from time to time) of the anomalous zone, which are "gates" into other spatial and chronal measurement. The Commission "Phenomenon" gathered in my archive many stories about such zones. Curiously, many mentioned either red glow, or purple, or simply "strange" fog. As, for example, on the island Barsakelmes in the Aral sea...

There, by the way, many ancient legends about people falling on glades where fairies arrange their holidays. After dancing the night away, people returned home and learned that during this time, the years have passed! In some of these legends is also mentioned strange mist...

Of course, that many of history with a mysterious disappearances may be innocent mistake or just a joke. But if we assume that at least some of them true, what can you conclude?

The version of "parallel worlds" support not only cases "disappearances", but the fact is no less mysterious "appearances". In the magazines of the early twentieth century, you can find the message that the Paris police arrested the man who had lost his memory. In his pocket he found a map of the planet - but it was not our Land! Another "newcomer of parallel worlds" appeared in 1954 in Japan: In one of the hotels was detained a suspicious foreigner. In principle, his passport was in order, with one exception: it has issued in the country Toured that does not appear on any map. Outraged disbelief foreigner gave journalists a press conference, where reported that the country Toured stretches from Mauritania to Sudan. In the end, the alien fell in Japanese madhouse. But the mystery of a passport issued by an unknown country, and has not been solved...

Another explanation, which attempts to understand the mysterious phenomenon attract researchers spontaneous transfer in time. The British Royal metapsychical society for 150 years has been studying the possibility of such travel. In his archives collected more than 200 investigated in detail, confirmed by the testimony of numerous witnesses cases phenomena, conventionally referred to as "a Loop of time". Here are just a few examples from this list:

In the summer of 1912, many Newspapers in the UK described the mysterious story that happened in the Express train, EN route from London to Glasgow. In the presence of two passengers (inspector of Scotland Yard and young nurses) in the car on the seat near the window with a terrible scream came an elderly man. The clothes were strange cut, hair in a braid. In one hand he held a long beach, another half-eaten piece of bread. "I Pimp Drake, the driver of Kenema, " sobbed drozami from the fear of man. - Where am I? Where am I?"

The inspector ran for the guard, saying the girl that she is looking for strange Mr Drake. When he returned to his car, he saw that the driver has disappeared, and the nurse was in a faint. Called the conductor at first decided that his play, but on the seat remained tangible evidence of the incident beach and triangular hat. Experts from the National Museum, which showed these items, confidently determined the time from which they came - the second half of the XVIII century.

Curious inspector visited the pastor of the parish, which has been attributed to the village CETEM and asked to look for an entry in the Church books about a man by the name of Pimp Drake. In the book of the dead 150-year-old local priest found not only the name of the accident the driver, but already then-pastor made in the fields.

It followed that, as already elderly man, Drake began suddenly to tell an incredible story. Like one night, coming back on the wagon home, he saw straight ahead "devil's crew" - iron, great long as snakes, bursting fire and smoke, Then the driver somehow got inside - there were strange people, probably the servants of the devil. Frightened, Drake called on the Lord and appeared again in the open field. The carts and horses were not. Drake, shaken by the incident, barely made it home. And, apparently, never came back right mind till the end of his days repeating the story about "devil's carriage".

The inspector of Scotland Yard told about the incident and its subsequent studies at the Royal metapsychical society. There has thoroughly examined the case, repeating the path to the search of Drake. The cocked hat is still kept in the Museum of the society. The beach was lost - as, obviously, extraction fans Souvenirs.

No less mysterious story can be found in the archive of the new York police. In November 1952 in the evening on Broadway vehicle was hit by an unknown man. He died on the spot. The driver and witnesses claimed that the victim "appeared on the street suddenly, as if fell on top".

The body was taken to the morgue. Officers noticed that the deceased was dressed in a suit of antique cut. Even more surprised them an identity card issued by 80 years ago. In the pocket of the victim was found, and a business card with the indication of the profession traveling salesman. One of the detectives checked the address indicated on the card, and learned that this street was eliminated more than half a century ago...

In the old police archives checked the lists of residents of this region in the end of the last century. There and found the mysterious salesman - and the name and address coincided with the data of a business card. Interviewed all the people with that name living in new York. Found an old woman who said that her father was gone 70 years ago under mysterious circumstances - went for a walk to Broadway and never returned. She gave police a photo where the young man, astonishingly similar to the person trapped under the car, smiling holding the girl. In the photo was dated April 1884...

"Loop-Time", if you believe the testimony of witnesses, able to throw over the years, not only individuals, but also much more bulky items: whole buildings or vehicles. And the legend of the Ghost "Flying Dutchmen"allegedly wandering in the oceanic expanse may have under a very real basis.

A strange incident occurred in the Atlantic in the early morning of 11 July 1881. British military vessel nearly collided with the ancient frigate. Attempts to contact the crew failed. Frigate slipped past as if not noticing a British ship. This case became known due to the fact that a witness to the mysterious of the meeting was the Prince of Wales, the future king George V, and then young naval officer, who served.

One of the active members of the Royal metapsychical society sir Jeremy Blackstaff, being at a reception at Buckingham Palace on the occasion of awarding him the order was awarded talks with His Majesty, and took advantage of this opportunity - asked permission to ask a question about long meeting in the Atlantic ocean. It turned out that king George remembered the incident and described it in detail.

A mysterious ship reminded clipper, had a wooden mast and ornate add-ins. Such vessels have already ceased to swim in those days. But most of all seafarers was amazed that the oncoming ship "had its own wind" - its sails were blown-up in a totally different direction than it could have done blew that day Nord-leave

With the permission of His Majesty these data have been placed in the "Annual report metapsychical society". Reporters continued the search and found sailors, who had witnessed of meeting with this "Flying Dutchman". They complement the story of king George, saying that the strange ship went surprisingly smoothly, although on that day storm, and Wake a trail behind it practically did not visible:" If it was a Ghost and not a real ship!"

Mysterious meeting mentioned in the diaries of the monarch, published after his death. This case was included in the list of the unexplained...

But back to the incident at the Ostankino TV tower. Experts of the Commission "Phenomenon" held dowsing shooting square where there was a strange incident. The scope of fixed "geopathogenic zone" where "disappeared" Oleg Kharatyan. But measuring instrument has not registered any fields. However, it had to be. The foot of the tower is a kind of "electromagnetic shadow", and the emission of TV transmitters there misses. Therefore, the version that "shrinkage" of space caused by the powerful electromagnetic fields is not. So what was it? Maybe there are other reasons "wrinkling"? Yes and it was all that?..

In this story there are many mysterious. For example, red glow that have sprung up around the TV tower. We have made several witnesses who observed it in that day.

By the way, among the readers ' responses we noticed the following message: " Pass researchers of anomalous zones, let him beware of red mist!" The letter came from the city of Balakovo from A. Maksimov, which, according to him, also long been studying the properties of time and "chronal" zones... the Final conclusions to do early. One thing is clear - the study of anomalous zones should be conducted on a more serious level. While scientists should remember numerous legends about the victims "crimson mist".

Perhaps it will protect them from hasty decisions and risky steps. The Commission "Phenomenon" wishes good luck to all current and future researchers of this mystery.

Century Kandyba