Underground cities of reptilians. Underground civilizations - unknown tunnels

Few people think that under the streets of megacities there are entire communities that constantly live underground. UFO WORLD publishes an overview of unique underground communities.

1. Bucharest, Romania

Beneath the streets of the Romanian capital Bucharest, there is a network of tunnels that are a haven for a group of drug addicted, HIV-infected and runaway children and teenagers. Their leader (or, as he calls himself, "father") is known by the nickname "Bruce Lee". You can get into this underground community through an ordinary hatch in the middle of the street, but outsiders are not allowed to enter there.

Those invited to the Bucharest underground describe it as a parallel universe, where abandoned children roam, and teenagers use drugs, where there are a lot of dogs and cats picked up on the street, where there is not the slightest problem with electricity, the light floods the corridors around the clock, where stereos rattle club music, and under feet even have artificial grass. The citizens of Bucharest not only know what is happening below, but many even praise Bruce Lee.

After the ban on contraception and abortion in 1966, orphans and vagrants filled the streets of the city. Bruce Lee not only picked up these kids from the streets, he provided a safe haven for those who would otherwise freeze to death in the winter or fall victim to a maniac. Bruce even pays protection money to a local gang to keep his kids safe.

2. Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

As Mongolia transitioned from socialism to capitalism, many citizens were left homeless and jobless. As temperatures often drop to -34 degrees Celsius in winter in Ulaanbaatar, about 4,000 abandoned children and a number of adults have taken refuge in the sewer system, where hot water pipes run.

Thanks to the work of international volunteer groups, many of the children were rescued from the sewers, but the adults who made their homes in the tunnels under the city still live there. Witnesses describe the inhabitants of this underground shelter as outcasts who spend their days drinking the strongest Mongolian moonshine, after which they try to find food in a drunken stupor.

3. Kazan, Russia

During the investigation of the attack on the Muslim spiritual leader of Tatarstan, Ildus Faizov, the police discovered an 8-level bunker under one of the city's mosques in Kazan. Under the ground was an Islamic sect of 27 children and 38 adults, living like monks in cells. Many of these children were kept in unheated rooms, never saw a doctor, never went to school, and never even saw the light of day.

The bunker was the brainchild of 83-year-old sect leader Fayzrakhman Satarov. Allegedly in the mid-1960s, after noticing sparks from a trolleybus cable, Satarov interpreted them as divine intervention. He declared himself an Islamic prophet and built a bunker at a religious school. After the discovery of the underground sect, Satarov refused to leave his underground Islamic state, but in the end the bunker was destroyed, and the children were provided with medical assistance and proper care.

4. Yan'an, China

Thanks to loose loess soils in China's Yan'an, more than 30 million Chinese farmers have returned to cave life. They dig cave dwellings for themselves in the ground or gouge them into the rocks. While more elaborate caves are reinforced with brickwork, ordinary one-two-person caves (called yaodongs) are vaulted chambers dug into the side of a mountain. Their entrances are draped with rice paper and blankets, the walls are plastered with white lime and decorated with paintings and magazine clippings. Many caves are inherited and passed down from one generation to the next.

5. Paris, France

The Catacombs of Paris, also known as the "Empire of the Dead", is a huge 320-kilometer underground cemetery. It is the final resting place for more than six million people. During an exercise near the Palais de Chaillot, Parisian police stumbled upon the secret society's headquarters, which was equipped with electricity, a telephone line, and even restaurants with movie theaters. Swastikas, Celtic crosses and Stars of David were painted on the ceiling.

In the first tunnel, the police found a video camera recording everyone entering, and an automatic recording of barking dogs, which was supposed to scare away people who accidentally got into the tunnel. The tunnel led to an 18-meter cave, which was equipped with a cinema screen, seats carved into the rock, projection equipment and a collection of various films. A smaller cave nearby had a fully furnished restaurant and bar. When the police returned a few days later to investigate the power source, they found that the power cables and telephone lines had been dismantled, and a cryptic note lay on the floor in the middle of the cave: "Do not try to find us."

6. Moscow, Russia

In Moscow, under the former Cherkizovsky market, which was closed in 2009, a police raid found 260 illegal workers living in underground utilities. Most of them were Vietnamese. There were also immigrants from the former Soviet republics of Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. Migrants had to work in hellish conditions for almost a penny. Since they were in the country illegally, and there was no money to rent an apartment in Moscow, the workers were forced to live and build a local community in the tunnels. Under the former market, they found mini sewing workshops, a casino, a cafe, a chicken coop and even an impromptu cinema.

7. New Kingston, Jamaica

In the dungeons of New Kingston, where tourism flourishes, there is a society of outcast people who are forced to live in the sewers solely because of their sexual orientation. Given that 85 percent of Jamaicans oppose the legalization of same-sex marriage, homophobia is a cultural norm in this country. As a result, homosexuals are subjected to harassment, violence and even murder. They even carry out police raids. Although sewers often flood during rainstorms, the local LGBT community on the surface is simply in danger of death.

8. Las Vegas, Nevada

Beneath the neon-lit buildings, under the feet of the endless hordes of tourists that dot the streets of Las Vegas, there are 320 km of storm tunnels that some 1,000 people call home. In separate rooms of 37 square meters there are double beds, wardrobes, showers, and reproductions of paintings and bookshelves hang on the walls. Separately, it is worth clarifying that all this is on concrete slabs lying on the floor, since the tunnels are constantly half-flooded. The entire tunnel system looks like one big art gallery, the walls of which are covered with intricate graffiti.

9. Mount Hebron, Palestine

About 1,000 Palestinians have been living in the caves of Mount Hebron, scientists believe, for centuries. They are a self-sufficient society that exists thanks to agriculture. For centuries they have been producing milk and cheese for their own use, as well as for trade with the surrounding villages. There are no paved roads, and locals travel on foot or on horseback with donkeys. Cavemen don't have running water or electricity, and medical services or they receive education only thanks to donations from the inhabitants of nearby villages. Unfortunately, many people are driven out of the caves that previously belonged to their ancestors.

10. Shoyna, Russia

The small Russian village of Shoyna, located on the shore White Sea, was built in the 1930s as a base for the fishing fleet. However, fishing with trawls led to the destruction of benthic vegetation, due to which, in the 1950s, the wind began to carry thousands of tons of sand washed up by the sea around the area.

Entire buildings were soon buried under the sand dunes, and by the 1980s most of the village was hidden under the sand. Shoyna's population has shrunk from 2,000 to 375, most of whom enter their homes through attics or hatches cut into the roof. It is pointless to dig houses out from under multi-meter drifts, since they are again drifted.

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Since the middle of the 20th century, mankind has been successfully studying and developing near-Earth space. It is believed that the Earth has been traveled and ridden up and down by us, so we should not expect new discoveries here.

However, the faster modern civilization develops, the more questions our own planet poses to it. And people still can't solve these problems. The technical equipment of terrestrial science is not yet so highly developed that it would be possible to easily penetrate into all corners of the sky, land and ocean. But, most importantly, our consciousness is not yet ready for a large-scale study of earthly reality. We must understand and calmly accept the fact that other civilizations live next to us on our home planet, with which we have repeatedly had to deal with.

The 21st century brings with it the rapid improvement of science and technology, thanks to which scientists are already starting to explore areas of the globe that were previously inaccessible to us. These include - ocean depths, the underworld of the planet and the ice kingdom of Antarctica. And the most superficial acquaintance with these regions showed that in each of them a person can meet with forms of life unfamiliar to him, and possibly with intelligent civilizations, which we learn about from legends and myths created by folk art.

Part 1

Encounters with the Unknown

Legends about the meetings of people with the inhabitants of the Underworld exist among different peoples. In Russia, the first documented reports of contacts with underground civilizations unknown to the Slavs are the records of the Novgorod Primary Chronicle under 1096 (11th century), which convey the story of the Novgorod governor Gyuryata Rogovich, who collected tribute from the peoples of the North subject to Novgorod. The chronicler narrates: “Now I want to tell you what I heard 4 years ago from Gyuryata Rogovich, a Novgorodian, who told this: “I sent my youth to Pechora, to people who pay tribute to Novgorod. And when my boy came to them, he went from them to the land of Yugra. Ugra, on the other hand, are people who speak an incomprehensible language, and they are neighbors with Samoyed in the northern regions.

As reported further, the Yugras told the envoy of Gyuryata Rogovich an amazing story. Far to the north, on the shores of the White Ocean, there are mountains that rise with their peaks to the very sky. The path to these mountains is difficult and dangerous because of the abysses, snow and dense forests, and the yugras rarely reach there, in remote and deserted places.

But those who nevertheless visited near these mountains say that inside the stone mountain slopes one can hear the voice and cries of human beings (“in the mountains of those mountains there is a great cry and voice”). And when the unknown inhabitants living inside the mountains hear the presence of a person, they cut through “small windows” in the rocks and call the stranger, and point with their hands at his weapon, and ask for it with signs. And if the hunter gives them a knife or a spear, then in return he receives sable fur and expensive gemstones.

A large number of legends about underground inhabitants have come down to us from medieval Rus'. The famous Russian ethnographer A. Onuchkov, studying the folklore of the Urals at the beginning of the 20th century, recorded reports of local residents about a mysterious people found in the Ural forests and among the rocks. The Urals call him marvelous people. Here is what they told the scientist. "Divya people" live in deep underground caves, but sometimes they rise to the surface of the earth and walk among people, but people do not see them. Their culture is high, and the light in their underground cities is no worse than our Sun.

According to the descriptions of eyewitnesses, Divy people are of small stature. They are beautiful and speak in a pleasant voice, but few hear them - those who have a clear conscience and who live according to God's laws. Divya people warn villagers about upcoming events, and help some in misfortune. So, witnesses from the Ural village of Beloslutskoye talk about a gray-haired old man from wild people who, to the inexplicable ringing of bells, comes to the church at night and, standing on the porch, predicts his fate to everyone who appears here.

In the first decade of the 17th century, Russia experienced the Great Troubles caused by the suppression of the royal Rurik dynasty and the interregnum that followed this. The struggle of boyar groups for the royal throne went beyond the borders Russian state, in connection with which there was a danger of Russia losing national independence.

The Polish king, under the pretext of restoring the allegedly saved Tsarevich Dmitry, the son of Ivan the Terrible, to the Russian throne, organized a military intervention against Moscow. Detachments of Polish soldiers led by False Dmitry I, and then with False Dmitry II, invaded Russia. From the north, at the same time, Swedish mercenaries penetrated Russian territory, seeking to cut off the Novgorod and Pskov lands from Moscow.

The treacherous policy of the Russian boyars led to the fact that the Russian army was defeated in battles with the Swedes and Poles. The Poles captured Moscow, and the King of Poland, Sigismund, was already preparing to be crowned on the Russian throne.

At this most difficult time for Russia in Nizhny Novgorod began the formation of the people's militia to fight the Polish-Swedish invaders. It was headed by Kuzma Minin and Dmitry Pozharsky. According to archival chronicles, before that, the Underground Elder appeared at Minin's house, who ordered him to start raising funds for the militia in Russia, and to invite Prince Pozharsky as the military commander of the militia.

The elder also handed over to Minin and Pozharsky some documents containing new laws by which Russia would have to live after the defeat of the intervention. As you know, the people's militia liberated the country from the Polish-Swedish invaders, but Minin and Pozharsky were pushed out of power and could not fulfill the order of the Underground Elder set out in these documents.

Tales of a small underground people can be heard in the north of the Urals and Siberia. Here these people are called miracles. The Komi, who live in the Pechora Lowland, tell legends about little people coming out of the ground and also predicting the future for people. According to the legends of local residents, at first the little men did not understand the human language, but then they learned it and showed people how to mine, smelt and forge iron.

Chudi priests are called "panas" here. They are the keepers of secret knowledge and know about countless treasures hidden underground and protected by the strongest spells. Even today, anyone who dares to approach these treasures either perishes or goes crazy. Because the treasures are guarded by special servants of the priests - cinders. These cinders, formerly a miracle, were once buried alive along with treasures. Until now, they faithfully serve near the ancient treasures.

In 1975, a group of Soviet history students tried to find the Chud treasure under an ancient stone on which mysterious signs were carved. In one of the northern chronicles of the 15th century, the guys found a spell that allegedly protects a person from cinders. They recited this spell three times over an ancient boulder, but found nothing but two ancient silver medallions. And soon the student who was digging up the treasure was bullied by a bear. A rumor immediately spread among the locals that the curse of the pan overtook the wicked, who dared to encroach on the treasures of the Chud.

Similar legends exist among European peoples. An example is the story recorded by 13th-century English chroniclers about the emergence from the ground of two small children with green skin and an incomprehensible fear of sunlight. That's what this story is about.

In the county of Suffolk, in the UK, there is a village called Woolpit, which has an unusual and mysterious history. Its name translates as "Wolf Pits", and the coat of arms of the village depicts a wolf and two children - a girl and a boy. It was here in the XII century, 112 kilometers from London, that the last wolf of England died, falling into one of the many wolf pits.

Then a strange incident happened here. One day two small children appeared in the village. It happened on a hot August day at harvest time. They crawled out of a deep hole that had been dug to catch wolves, which is why this unusual name villages. The boy and the girl, coming out of the pit, went to the people. It was surprising that the skin of the babies had a greenish tint, and they were wearing strange clothes, cut from an unknown material. The children were very frightened and waved their arms as if they were driving away bees. With their appearance, they confused the peasants, however, having come to their senses, the reapers took the children to the village and brought them to the landowner Richard Kane.

Having calmed down a little, the children began to speak in an incomprehensible language, in which hissing and whistling sounds predominated. They spoke in high-pitched voices. The inhabitants did not understand a word, although in those days in England the villagers were familiar with all the languages ​​of the neighboring peoples. Here, the Normans and Danes with Scandinavian dialects were well remembered, they heard the French language of the knights, they did not forget the German-Anglo-Saxon dialect, they recognized the Celtic dialects of the Scots, Irish and Welsh, and the priests knew Latin. When the children were taken to the village, they began to cry and refused to eat anything, although they were very hungry.

Richard Kane was very surprised by the sight of the children, but having seen enough of them, he ordered the servants to prepare the best delicacies, but the children refused everything. So, they starved for several days, until one day the villagers brought into the house a crop of beans, plucked straight from the stems. The boy and girl were very interested in beans, but could not find their fruits. They seemed to know what it is and understand that it can be eaten. When one of the servants showed them where the food was, they began to open the pods and greedily eat the beans. For several months, the children ate exclusively them. Richard Kane turned out to be a kind man and allowed the children to stay in his castle.

A few months later, the boy died. He was younger than his sister and could not adapt to local life. The child gradually closed in on himself, refused to eat, so he soon fell ill and died. The girl survived and after baptism received the name Agnes. But religion remained something incomprehensible to her, and religious ones brought only inconvenience. Gradually, she learned to eat ordinary food, and her skin lost its greenish tint. Agnes became a blonde with blue eyes and fair skin. She adapted to life here relatively easily, grew up, married, learned English, and lived for many years in Norfolk County. Ralph in his work mentioned that she was very headstrong and capricious, but despite this, her husband and children loved her very much.

Agnes remembered little of her origins. However, she said that she came with her brother from St. Martin's Land, where all the Christian residents were also green. According to her, there was eternal twilight and the sun never shone. She also told that their house was located "on the other side of the big river." Agnes said that she and her brother came across the cave while tending a flock of sheep. The sound of bells was heard from outside the cave, the children went to this sound and ended up in some kind of cave. There, according to Agnes, they and their brother got lost and only after some time did they find a way out. But when they came out of the cave, they were blinded by a bright light. The children got scared and wanted to go back, but the entrance to the cave disappeared.

The girl also added that St. Martin's Land can be seen at a great distance, that it looks like "a luminous country on the other side of the river." Agnes, with the permission of Richard Kane, tried several times to find her way back to her homeland, but she could not do it. But this is not surprising, because by order of Richard, the pit from which the children came out was filled up. He feared that armed men might come for his brother and sister. The girl didn't know anything about it.

This story was told in two of their chronicles by Ralph of Coggshall and William of Newburgh, who were credible chroniclers and historians of the Middle Ages. The works were created around 1220. The bishop's unusual children are also mentioned in the book of Bishop Francis Godwin, who was suspicious of this legend. He reluctantly included it in his chronicle. But Ralph of Coggshall relied in his annals on the words of Richard Caine, in whose house Agnes worked as a servant. Many details indicated that all the facts stated were true. Ralph of Coggshall lived in Essex, which was not far from Suffolk. Therefore, he could communicate directly with other participants in the events.

Many have tried to unravel the mystery of the origin of the "green children" and the location of the rather strange St. Martin's Land, many different assumptions have been put forward. According to one version, children could get to Woolpit from copper mines, which used child labor in those days. The skin and hair of children from constant contact with copper could indeed acquire a greenish tint. But then what about the material from which the children's clothes were made, with the story of Agnes and the fact that they could not eat ordinary human food?

Bold versions were also expressed that the children could be from another dimension, the underworld, or even aliens who accidentally landed on Earth. Some researchers believed that the cave, through which the boy and girl got into our world, was something like a path that connected the Earth with another planet. Or the road that was laid between the past, present and future. Paradoxically, but such a hypothesis explains everything, because if they came from another dimension, then only minor genetic changes would be enough for hair and skin to acquire the usual human color. "Green children" could well be the product of genetic engineering, which may exist in a parallel world to us.

The American mathematician and astrophysicist Jacques Vallee published numerous testimonies of people about meetings with small black hairy men, who are called lutens in France. According to him, many such little men live in the Poitou region, and the locals know well where the dwellings of these gnomes are located. In his book, Vale cites eyewitness accounts of a meeting with lutens.

An interesting event happened here in 1850. One day, returning to their village on the Egre River, several women witnessed a curious spectacle. Shortly before midnight, having crossed the bridge, they heard a loud noise and saw a picture from which "the blood froze in their veins." An object resembling a "chariot with squeaky wheels" was rushing up the hillside at amazing speed. Looking closer, the women saw that the “chariot” was being dragged by numerous black men. Soon the strange chariot "jumped over the vineyards and disappeared into the night." Frightened peasant women abandoned their belongings and rushed home.

Belief in the existence of black men is not limited to any one region. Researchers from Europe, Asia, Africa, America and even Australia write about it. In Mexico, they are known as ikal, which in translation from the language of the Tzeltal Indians means "black creature". Here they are described as small black hairy dwarfs living in caves that the locals bypass.

There are legends that ikals attack Indians and kidnap their children and women. Sometimes gnomes are seen flying through the air, and “rockets” are clearly visible on their backs, which the little men skillfully control. According to the Mexican Indians, people met ikals especially often in the middle of the 20th century.

In modern Russia, there is also a lot of evidence of people meeting with dwarf peoples. In August 1945, Voronezh fighter pilot Vasily Yegorov was shot down by Japanese artillery over the territory of Inner Mongolia, two hundred kilometers from the front line.

He managed to leave the burning plane and descended to the ground by parachute, while ending up in a small grove. Here he quickly found a stream running out from under a low hill, and drank fresh cold water.

As a result of a slight injury, Vasily felt dizzy and nauseous. He lay down in the bushes on the grass and imperceptibly fell asleep. He woke up with a strange sensation: his arms and legs did not obey him. Raising his head, Vasily saw that his entire body was wrapped in a strong translucent tape the width of a finger. All around him there were incomprehensible sounds, reminiscent of bird chirping.

Vasily soon determined that this chirp was being published by ... tiny people dressed in strange clothes and armed with knives. Later, having met hundreds of such little men from the Hanyangi tribe (as they called themselves), Vasily made sure that their height did not exceed 45 centimeters.

The Soviet pilot spent many years in the underground labyrinth of these amazing dwarfs. Once, during a severe thunderstorm, he came to the surface of the earth and lost consciousness. He was found by Mongolian cattle breeders and taken to the camp of Soviet geologists who were working in Mongolia at that time. Geologists transported Vasily to the USSR, and his identity was established there.

It turned out that in the homeland Vasily was considered dead. Only after a series of examinations did the Air Force command become convinced that it was really Vasily Yegorov in front of him - a Soviet fighter pilot, holder of the Order of the Red Banner of War, who accounted for six downed enemy aircraft. But even Vasily's relatives could not immediately identify him, since 14 years have passed since the Soviet-Japanese war! Vasily Egorov returned to his homeland in the spring of 1959!

Of course, no one believed his stories about life among the Lilliputians, but this is strange: during an X-ray of the brain performed on Vasily due to severe headaches, the doctors found an almost overgrown triangular hole on the back of his skull. It became obvious that about 15 years ago the pilot was subjected to a trepanation of the skull and the trepanation was carried out in a way unknown to science.

Until the end of his life, Vasily Egorov lived in Voronezh. For a long time he was the best well builder in the south of the region, because he knew how to find water where others failed after failure.

Meetings with the inhabitants of the underworld do not always end so well for people. In the library of the Peruvian University in Cusco, there is a report on the death of the French-American expedition, which in 1952 tried to descend into one of the Andean dungeons and make contact with its inhabitants. Scientists have found in the vicinity of Cusco the entrance to the cave and entered there. They were going to stay underground for several days, so they took food and water with them for only five days.

Of the seven members of the expedition, only one person, the Frenchman Philippe Lamontier, was able to surface in two weeks. He said that the rest of the expedition members died in a bottomless underground abyss. The Frenchman was terribly emaciated, suffered from memory lapses and was infected with bubonic plague. A few days later he died, and the doctors found a corncob of pure gold tightly clamped in his hand!

The authorities, fearing the spread of the bubonic plague in the region, blocked all known cave entrances in the area with stone blocks. But scientists did not want to leave this tragedy without consequences. The researcher of the Inca civilization, Professor Raul Rios Centeno, tried to repeat the route of the missing expedition.

A group of his supporters found an entrance to the dungeon unknown to the authorities and tried to explore it. At first, people walked along a long, gradually narrowing corridor, reminiscent of a ventilation pipe. Soon they noticed that the walls no longer reflected the rays of their lanterns.

Using a spectrograph, the scientists found that the wall cladding contains a large amount of aluminum. All attempts to break off at least one piece of this material ended in failure. The casing was so strong that no tool could take it. Meanwhile, the corridor continued to narrow, and when its diameter decreased to 90 centimeters, the expedition had to turn back.

The discovery in the hands of the deceased Philippe Lamontiere of a golden cob of corn excited adventurers all over the world. Among them, rumors began to spread that the treasures of the Incas were discovered, which they hid from the soldiers of Cortes somewhere underground. These rumors were fueled by legends among the Peruvians about underground caves inhabited by snake people guarding the treasures of the Incas.

For several years, dozens of treasure hunters have disappeared in Peru, recklessly descending underground in search of gold. Only a few managed to get to the surface, and even those, apparently, were damaged by reason: they unanimously told that they had met strange creatures underground, at the same time similar to a person and a snake!

Part 2.

The facts confirm

The existence of dwarf peoples on Earth in ancient times is reported to us by the Flemish cartographer and geographer of the Renaissance - Gerhard Mercator (1512-1594). In the scientific world, he is known as a competent and trustworthy compiler of several geographical maps of the world and its individual regions. So, in 1544 he compiled a map of Europe on 15 sheets, on which for the first time the outlines of mediterranean sea and eliminated all errors that have survived from the time of the ancient Greek geographer Ptolemy.

In 1563 Mercator drew a map of Lorraine and then the British Isles. His "Chronology", issued after these atlases, became a detailed survey of all astronomical and cartographic works of the 16th century. In 1569, Mercator published an 18-page nautical map of the World, which is still used to compile nautical and aeronautical atlases.

But the most amazing map was drawn by Mercator in 1538. Today it is called the Mercator Map. It depicts the Arctic Ocean, in the center of which, in the place of the modern North Pole, there is an unknown continent - Daaria. It is an archipelago of four major islands, grouped around the Inner Sea, in the center of which rises the island of Arctida with the highest mountain in the world, Meru.

According to ancient legends, on the top of Meru once stood the City of the Gods - Asgard of Daaria, in the center of which stood a beautiful white marble temple. The inhabitants of Asgard created a highly developed civilization on the mysterious mainland. On their spaceships, they visited the planets of other star systems of the Galaxy, and from there aliens flew to Daaria with return visits.

Mercator's map was accompanied by detailed notes applied to the images of all four islands of the archipelago. It followed from the records that the rivers flowing from the Inner Sea divided Daaria into four parts - Rai, Tule, Svarga and H.Arra. About 14 thousand years ago, an unknown civilization appeared here, which allegedly existed until the 6th millennium BC, when for some reason Daariyya began to sink under water.

A severe cold snap forced the people inhabiting the archipelago to move to the Eurasian continent. About 3 thousand years ago, the contours of Daaria disappeared under the waters of the Arctic Ocean, although the peaks of individual mountains rose above the water for a long time in the form of individual islands.

So, from an inscription inscribed on one of the islands of the archipelago, closest to the modern Kola Peninsula, it follows that it is inhabited by a dwarf people: “the pygmies live here, their height is about 4 feet (not higher than 1.2 meters), and the inhabitants of Greenland call them “skerlingers”.

Based on the testimony of Mercator, it can be assumed that on the eve of the death of Daaria, part of its population managed to cross the already formed ice cover of the ocean to the coast of Northern Eurasia. Among the escaping tribes, the Skerlingers also came here, who became aborigines of the then uninhabited coast of the Northern Ocean.

In the 4th-5th centuries of our era, during the Great Migration of Peoples, the north of Eurasia began to be settled by Turkic and Slavic tribes, who clashed here with the Skerlingers and gave them new names - “Sirtya”, “Chud”, “Divya people”. Unable to withstand competition with stronger and more numerous detachments of aliens, Sirte-Skerlingers went underground, where, perhaps, I still live.

It is likely that the distribution range of this dwarf people extended much further than the Arctic coast of Siberia and the Kola coast. This is confirmed by the archaeological excavations of 1850, during which the Neolithic settlement of Skerlingers, Skara Brae, was discovered in Northern Scotland.

The settlement of Skara Brae was found after a strong hurricane literally tore the earth from the top of one of the coastal hills. For a long time, scientists did not take seriously the stories of local residents about a dwarf village that appeared on a hill after a hurricane. Excavations at Skara Brae were only started in the 1920s. They were led by the English archaeologist Professor Gordon Child.

At first, Childe dated the unknown settlement to the 6th-9th centuries, but it soon became clear that we were talking about much more ancient culture, which modern science practically cannot identify with any people of the Earth.

It has been established that the settlement of Skara Brae was founded long before 3100 BC and lasted until about 2500 BC. However, the main thing is not this. The archaeologists were amazed: everything from the masonry walls and miniature beds to the low ceilings and narrow doorways was designed for people whose height did not exceed one meter!

In addition, scientists during the excavations came to the conclusion that the settlement was created from the very beginning as an underground structure. First, the builders erected stone walls, then a ceiling made of wood and stones was laid on them, and after that the whole room was covered from above with a thick layer of earth and turf. To exit, they left a small hole in the hillside, hardly noticeable from the outside.

In the middle of each room was a hearth lined with stones for safety. In the corners of the room were cabinets for dishes and clothes, beds and seats. In one of the corners there was a bin for food storage.

Underground passages were laid between separately located dwellings, the walls of which were also laid out with stone blocks. A network of such invisible passages provided a reliable connection between individual families of the underground town, as well as the opportunity, in case of danger, to leave the premises and go to the surface of the earth.

By the time the excavations began, the interior of the settlement’s living quarters had been completely preserved: fragments of canopies hung over stone beds, neatly arranged pottery stood in stone cabinets, women’s jewelry lay on top, and in one of the dwellings, scientists found a necklace dropped by someone. In each "apartment" there were always weapons and tools.

Interestingly, in almost every room of Skara Brae, mysterious inscriptions were found on unknown language. The assumption put forward by experts that the shape of the inscriptions is similar to the ancient runic writing was not confirmed: the signs of unknown writing had nothing to do with either runes or any other ancient language.

Archaeologists have an opinion that the settlement was abandoned by its inhabitants unexpectedly and quickly, although there are no traces of a military invasion and a hasty flight. Scientists have not been able to explain the reason for the departure of the inhabitants of the dungeon. In addition, they noticed that there were heaps of sand on the floor of the rooms and passages. The local population still has beliefs that anyone who invades the dwelling of a small people without permission will turn into sand.

The Scots also believe that dwarfs, trying to save their kind, can kidnap human children right from the cradle. Some of the abducted supposedly return to the human world after many years, but they cannot get used to human society and remain outcasts forever. And today the Scots put pieces of iron in their cradles, which supposedly protect babies from the invasion of dwarfs.

The mysterious settlement in Skara Brae is not the only evidence of the existence of dwarf peoples in ancient times. In 1985, in the Don steppes in the area of ​​the Second Vlasov burial ground, archaeologists from Voronezh University unearthed a low mound of the era bronze age and during the removal of the embankment, they discovered a mysterious labyrinth of branching, intersecting passages with even floors, straight walls and vertical ventilation shafts. The total area of ​​the labyrinth is 254 square meters. The moves intersected in such a way that, on the whole, they constituted an intricate figure, in shape approaching a square. The height of the passages at the maximum is 1.3 m, at the minimum - below a meter.

All the manholes converged towards the center, to a large rectangular pit, in the middle of which there was a certain stone or wooden object, possibly an idol. To illuminate the premises, the ancient residents used torches, as indicated by numerous inclusions of burnt coals on the floor of the passages.

The unusualness of this dungeon was that the underground passages and manholes were too small for the movement of even a very short person. Scientists reconstructed the premises of the mound and came to the conclusion that only very small creatures could live in such a dungeon - up to 80 centimeters tall and weighing about 25 kilograms.

The central premise of the sanctuary was a large underground hall, in the center of which there was a low building with a domed ceiling. In it, presumably, there was an idol to which sacrifices were made. And these sacrifices were not always bloodless. Near the domed house, a skeleton of a man covered with earth was found, whose height was 160 cm. A triangular hole was found on the back of his skull, cut out in the same way as in Soviet pilot Vasily Egorov, which was described in the first part of the article.

But most often, animals were sacrificed here, and above all, small horses. Along the perimeter of the sanctuary, many horse heads were found, on which even iron bits were preserved. Metal dating helped to establish that the sanctuary existed in the 8th century AD.

Due to lack of funds, the study of the temple was suspended, and only in 2001, archaeologists again arrived at the site of the previous excavations. Attempts to hire workers in the nearest village of Bolshiye Sopeltsy, despite unemployment, did not lead to anything. locals flatly refused to work in this forest, claiming that it was "unclean".

The next morning, next to his pillow, Prokhorov found a severed horse's head. The camp attendant did not see anything suspicious at night. The canopy and walls of the tent remained intact. At the same time, the batteries of the Niva and the UAZ truck, the batteries in flashlights, a transistor receiver, a cell phone, and also in all electronic watches, were completely discharged.

The alarmed members of the expedition quickly broke camp, started the truck with a “crooked starter”, took the Niva in tow and were in Voronezh in the evening. And at night, five of the seven participants in the failed excavations ended up in the toxicology department of the hospital with signs of severe poisoning. The doctors managed to save only two - Prokhorov and Irina Pisareva, the other three died. Two more died at home, because due to the lack of a telephone in the apartments, there was no one to call an ambulance.

Doctors considered the cause of death to be mushroom poisoning, although Prokhorov claimed that neither he nor the other members of the expedition ate mushrooms. What happened to the people in the excavation area and what kind of curse is placed on this place is unknown. It was only possible to find out that the village of Vlasovka used to be called Velesovka (named after the Slavic god Veles), and magicians and priests lived here in the 8th century, whose ritual artifacts were found and studied by scientists.

And another one interesting find helped archaeologists to finally make sure that in ancient times our planet was inhabited by numerous tribes of dwarf people. We are talking about hobbits from the Indonesian island of Flores. The discovery of their ancient cave sites, according to English professor Chris Stringer, "rewrites the history of human evolution."

Excavations in 2003 at Flores brought an unexpected sensation. In the Liang Bua limestone cave, Australian paleontologists, led by Professor M. Morewood, dug up the well-preserved bones of several skeletons belonging to a dwarf upright creature. In honor of the blackbuster J. Tolkien "The Lord of the Rings" they were called hobbits.

Scientists have restored the appearance of the skull of a female hobbit and got an amazing image: it was a dwarf man!

The next year, the International Anthropological Expedition continued excavations on about. Flores and discovered nine more skeletons of similar humanoid creatures here. Their height did not exceed 90 cm, and the volume of the brain was only 380 cubic centimeters, which was only one fourth of the brain of a modern person.

But despite the small brain size, the hobbits were smart enough: they made stone weapons and rather complex tools, and also used fire. The age of these miniature men was quite ancient: they lived in the interval between 95 and 12 thousand years ago. At that time, a modern man already existed on Earth.

In a cave where hobbits once lived, bones of Komodo dragons and pygmy stegodons, the ancestors of modern elephants, were found next to their remains. This suggests that the hobbit tribes were able to domesticate some wild animals and kept them in the caves as a live food supply, and possibly as transport animals.

Information about the existence of dwarf underground peoples comes today from all continents of the planet. Since the middle of the twentieth century, the pygmy tribes living in Burma and China have become known, and the undersized inhabitants of Equatorial Africa are described in ancient Egyptian and ancient Greek sources. The men of these tribes grow only up to 120-140 centimeters; women are even lower. But they all look like giants next to the so-called micropygmies found in the Australian forests. Their average height is about 40 centimeters. And found on the coast Baltic Sea a piece of amber became a real sensation!

Unable to explain the discovered artifact, scientists simply hid it from the public for a long time. In a stone polished by sea waves, a tiny skeleton of a man is clearly visible! There is a lot of research ahead to study all these amazing facts.

But not only dwarf tribes could once inhabit the underworld of our planet. In the middle of the 20th century, an underground Trypillia civilization was discovered on the territory of the Soviet Union. Here is what you can learn about it from the reports of Soviet archaeologists.

Back in 1897, archaeologist Vikentiy Khvoyka carried out excavations near the village of Trypillya near Kiev. His findings were sensational and very ancient. In the soil layer corresponding to the sixth millennium BC, Khvoyka unearthed amazing things - the remains of stone dwellings and agricultural utensils of a people unknown to science. The boundaries of the appearance of the “economic man” moved back at least a millennium into the past, and the found culture was called Trypillia.

But even more amazing fact was made public in 1966, when archaeologists discovered huge cities buried underground on the territory of Ukraine. The first of these was a cave complex excavated near Tripoli itself.

The population of many of these cities exceeded 15-20 thousand people - a very large figure by the standards of eight thousand years ago. And the scale was amazing: scientists have found underground settlements with an area of ​​​​up to 250 square kilometers!

The architecture of the cave cities turned out to be surprisingly similar to the layout of the ancient Aryan land fortresses discovered 20 years later in the Southern Urals. Arkaim, Sintashta and more than 20 large and small fortified settlements were excavated by Soviet archaeologists in the South Ural steppes.

Both Trypillians underground and Arkaimians on its surface built their settlements according to the same plan: on a round rammed platform close to each other in concentric rings stone houses were built with a blank wall outward. The result was a powerful defensive structure, inside which no enemy could penetrate. In the center of such a city was a round gravel square on which the temple stood.

A still unexplained fact remains the cyclical functioning of such settlements - both in Ukraine and in Southern Urals. Circular fortified cities existed in one place for no more than 70 years. Then the inhabitants set fire to them and left. For the Arkaimites, it was possible to prove that after the destruction of their homes, they all went towards India, where their traces should be looked for. It turned out to be more difficult to find traces of the ancient Trypillians.

According to some estimates, the Tripoli civilization numbered up to two million people. And then one day all these people burned their cities and disappeared overnight! Among the modern population of Trypillia, there are legends that their ancestors once descended underground, where they live and live to this day. Scientists, of course, then, in 1897, rejected such a version.

The excavations of 1966 became a sensation. The ancient legends about the transition of the two million population of Trypillia into underground caves have been confirmed! To date, about five underground cities have already been found near the city of Trypillia, in the south of the Ternopil region, near the Ukrainian village of Bilce-Zoloto and in other places. Now there are excavations. Perhaps soon they will explain what made the Trypillians leave to live underground and what is its further fate.

Another cave civilization of the planet, the underground cities of Cappadocia, has already been studied quite well.

Cappadocia is a region in the east of Asia Minor, on the territory of modern Turkey. It is mostly flat, devoid of vegetation plateau, which is located at an altitude of 1000 meters above sea level. Translated from Turkish, the name "Cappadocia" sounds like "Land of beautiful horses."

Here, among the rocks and steep hills, built of volcanic tuff, is unique complex underground cities that were created over several centuries, starting from the 1st millennium BC. Currently, it is included in the UNESCO World Heritage List and is protected by the state.

For a long time, the paths of the Great Migration of Nations passed through the territory of Cappadocia and waves of foreign invaders swept through. To survive in such extreme conditions, the population of the plateau was forced to go underground.

In the soft Cappadocian tuff, people cut down residential apartments, warehouses for storing utensils and products, as well as premises for keeping livestock. Coming into contact with fresh air, the tuff after a while hardened and became a reliable defense against the enemy.

Long abandoned by the population, these amazing cities were discovered by Europeans only in the 19th century: a French priest, walking along the plateau, stumbled upon a ventilation shaft and, going down it, ended up in a huge underground city.

Soon, European archaeologists arrived here, who found that the city has up to 12 floors descending deep into the earth, which are equipped with special ventilation shafts. Temples, water wells, grain storage rooms, stables and pens for cattle, wine presses - all this shocked scientists.

Currently, six underground settlements have been discovered and explored - Kaymakli, Derinkuyu, Ozkonak, Adjigol, Tatlarin and Mazy. It is possible that in the future other cities of Cappadocia will be found, about which the ancient Greek historian Xenophon wrote back in the 5th century BC. For a long time, his messages were considered fiction.

The largest underground city in Cappadocia and the world today is Derinkuyu. It was built in the 1st millennium BC. The city descends 85 meters deep into the earth and has 20 tiers - floors connected by stone stairs.

On each tier there are living quarters - rooms, bedrooms, kitchens, as well as public facilities - schools, chapels, churches. They are connected by convenient dry tunnels and narrow passages. The total area of ​​the underground city is about 2000 square meters. The exact age has not yet been established, but it is known that Derinkuyu existed during the time of the Hittite kingdom.

Incredibly, Derinkuyu was built according to all the rules of modern engineering. Special ventilation shafts are laid from the surface of the earth, through which air enters down. Even the lowest floors are fresh and cool. These air ducts are lowered into the layers with groundwater, so they also perform the functions of wells and reservoirs.

According to the calculations of the researchers, the underground city could simultaneously accommodate up to 50 thousand inhabitants, moreover, along with livestock. For animals, special pens with stalls and feeders were built. Researchers are sure that Derinkuyu is not just an underground city - it is a real underground fortress, and she was needed to defend herself from enemy raids.

Derinkuyu has a pretty well thought out defense system. Yes, there is a whole network secret passages through which it was possible to reach the surface. In addition, huge stone boulders stood at the entrance to each floor. Special holes were made in them - loopholes, so that the wars could shoot at the enemy. But if, nevertheless, the enemy managed to break through to the first tier of the underground city, then the inhabitants could block the entrance to the next floor with these stones.

Even in the event of a deep penetration of the enemy into the city "streets", the inhabitants of Derinkuyu could always leave their refuge. Especially for this, a tunnel 9 kilometers long was built here. It connects Derinkuyu with another equally important city of Cappadocia - Kaymakli.

Kaymakli is an underground city a little smaller than its counterpart. It has about 13 floors. It was created around the same time as Derinkuyu. During the reign of the Romans and the Byzantine emperors, Kaymakli was completed. The number of floors in it increased, and as a result, it became a full-fledged underground city.

The city was discovered recently, and archaeologists have so far unearthed only 4 of its upper floors. On each of them, along with living rooms, barns, churches, wine cellars and pottery workshops, 2-3 storage rooms were found that could hold several tons of food.

This can only mean one thing: the city could feed a large number of people. Therefore, researchers suggest that there was a high population density in Kaymakli. About 15 thousand people could live in a small area, just like in a modern small town.

Excavations in this area will continue for many years to come, but it is already clear that the underground cities of Cappadocia are the most grandiose cave structures in the world.

In 1972, at the invitation of Salvador Allende, a group of Soviet geologists came to Chile to investigate some long abandoned or unprofitable mines and mines. The inspection began with a copper mine stopped back in 1945, located high in the mountains. Among the local population, he enjoyed a bad reputation.

However, a survey of the mine was necessary for many reasons. Firstly, the bodies of 100 miners who died under the rubble remained underground, which had to be found and interred in accordance with the customs of the Chileans. Secondly, the Chilean government was worried about rumors about strange underground dwellers who allegedly constantly caught the eye of the peasants, causing panic. Eyewitnesses described these underground creatures as giant snakes with human heads.

Soviet experts immediately dismissed any mysticism and began to inspect the dungeons. And almost immediately the surprises began. It turned out that the powerful gates blocking the entrance to the mine were broken through and, moreover, not from the outside, but from the inside. From the gate down to the gorge, a deep winding trail led: as if from the depths of the mountain someone had pulled out and dragged along the ground a thick and heavy rubber hose.

Moving along the main road of the face, the scientists after a few tens of meters stopped in front of a deep oval failure leading down. After examining it to a depth of 1.5 meters, they found that the side surface has a corrugated, folded surface.

Going down this tunnel, geologists after 100 meters got into an underground mine with veins of native copper. Near some of the worked-out areas lay piles of copper ingots, shaped like ostrich eggs. After taking a few more steps, people found a serpentine mechanism left against the wall, which literally "sucked" copper from the stone.

Struck by the spectacle, people looked at the incomprehensible apparatus for several minutes, when a howl and rustling were heard from the depths of the tunnel, and huge toothy snakes about 2 meters long appeared in front of the dumbfounded geologists. They prepared for an attack, and people were forced to immediately get out of the drift ... The report of specialists on the results of an inspection of an abandoned mine on the surface was read like a science fiction story!

Dungeon dwellers

This story happened a month and a half ago in the small village of Selek. Local boys rummaged through the forest and came across a strange stone. And on it, just like in a fairy tale, it is written: “If you go to the right, you will find a horse, to the left, you will find a wife, and if you go down, you will find treasures and new world ". Well, they began to look for how to go down. As a result, a stone circle with an iron ring was found right in front of the stone. What is most interesting is that the ring is not rusty, but like it was made yesterday. They are friends to help, and they opened the entrance, and there are steps down. The guys turned out to be reasonable and decided to postpone the descent the next day - to take lanterns, ropes, food and other adventure nonsense. Several days passed, and on Saturday they returned to the find. And they climbed down. We went down to the end of the steps and decided, as in Greek myths, to tie a rope so as not to get lost - I say, reasonable guys. Tied up and gone. According to them, ten skeins of string, three hundred meters each, were taken out and they went out into an octagonal stone hall. The hall is really amazingly beautiful. There, figures of people and some creatures are carved from stalactites and stalagmites, very similar to orcs and elves. Stop laughing, I'm serious! I can even show the film, we shot it all. So, the feeling is that these figures were cut out, and then limestone grew on top of them from a drop. In the hall in each wall there was a passage somewhere further, but the rope ended, and the boys decided to return. And then one of them, the most, you see, big-eyed, spotted a low door in one of the corners. Curiosity surged with terrible force. Well, of course, there is a secret for sure, and maybe those same treasures! They - to the door, and that is closed, and on the other hand. Those ears attached and heard only silence. The boys are quick-witted people - they decided to set fire to the door or blow it up. And the next day we went with gasoline. I set it on fire - it didn't burn. The stubborn guys did not despair and decided to bring an electric drill and drill a hole. They drilled through, and there, behind the door, there was light. Opa. Like? That's what they liked. The smart guys conferred and did not rush to look into the hole - they had read, apparently, fantasy. They began to draw lots. And now - bingo! The one who drew the lot first approached the hole and tried to see what was going on there from a distance of twenty centimeters. Didn't consider. He approached, but he was in no hurry to close his eyes to the hole, as he later told me in the hospital, as if he felt something. But in the end, he still put his eye on the hole. And received the full program! Someone or something poked him in the eye with something sharp! Bottom line: the boys, seeing the bloodied muzzle of their comrade, rushed to run, and he, poor thing, was left to the mercy of fate. Well, at least one worthy friend turned out to be, grabbed his hand and dragged him after everyone. They flew out of the dungeon as if from a cannon and dragged the victim to the village in a crowd, and from there to the hospital. Well, doctors, the pepper is clear, they didn’t believe a single word they would shoot. And then the boys wrote to us on the channel. So we took off.

We reached the village only in the evening. We spent the night and in the morning met with the guys, and they took us to this stone and the dungeon. It's not good around there - the trees are all twisted, the bushes are impassable and the giant grass. The head begins to break as if brains are whipped in it with a mixer, the heart is like a hammer. In general, horror. To the heap - the birds do not sing, and in general only snakes and mosquitoes are of living creatures. And for some reason it becomes scary. Well, obviously a pathogenic zone! They went downstairs and passed just like the boys. We go out into the hall. There are moves, but there are no doors! The boys are talking, they say, there was a door, there was! In general, so that it doesn’t happen that we poked our heads in there in vain, we decided to go along the passages. Gathered the equipment and went to one. I was already leaving the hall, and something pulled me to turn around. He smeared a lantern on the wall, and there - the door! Yes, this can not be, I think it's buggy. I return to the hall, illuminate the wall - like a door, and a hole in it, as the boys said. I call people. I hear our operator climbing out of the opening, grumbling, but when he saw me in front of the door, he swore. It is understandable: there was just a bare wall here. "Are you filming?" - I say. “Yes, the camera is constantly on the video, as we crawled here,” he answers. - Well, ok, let's see what's here and how. The boys start screaming, like, well, we told you, but you didn’t believe us. And now you see, and our hole is on the door. And you said - glitches. Here are the glitches. It was from this hole that someone stabbed Staska in the eye.

We thought. No one wants to be left without an eye. To shove the camera there is also a pity. We decided to donate the "soap box" lens. Attached fotik to the hole and began to click on the night mode. After the first shots, they tried to see what was behind the door, but the screen was black. And for the flash, the size of the hole was not enough. We decided to experiment. They took pliers out of the case, and a piece of sausage out of the backpack. They pushed the sausage into the hole and began to guard. I kept the pliers on the side near the hole itself, so that if something comes out of there, I immediately squeeze it. We sat like that for five minutes - silence. We were about to leave, and suddenly something pushed the sausage out. My hand clenched itself, and in the pliers - someone's finger! Outside the door - a wild cry, howl, scream! The finger breaks out, and our operator turned on the additional flashlight on the camera and began to shoot it in macro photography. Finger - with reddish hair, thick, the nail is thick, yellowish and sharp, like a blade. And the blood is red. The finger bends back and forth, the door scratches, and more sounds behind it - as if some kind of speech, but not like the Russian language. And I'm still squeezing the pliers - the muscles are closed. And then I heard a hiss from behind the door: “From-pu-c-c-c-c-tee-ee.” And he just loosened the clamp, and the finger disappeared. Damn, don't believe me?! - Kita already seethed with indignation. - Look at the flash drive, everything is there! We even decided that this was a hoax of the locals, but we did not find a single crippled person in the village - or God knows what it is. The only thing they achieved was the delirium from a three-hundred-year-old grandmother that here, they say, there is a small people like gnomes. A few years ago, tourists already stayed with them, one of whom is now being treated in a psychiatric clinic, he also met with the gnomes.

We found information about these tourists. Here.

Kita took out a piece of paper from somewhere and read it:

“From July 6 to July 26, 2004, a group of volunteers from the Moscow Station of Young Naturalists conducted scientific research in the Taganay Reserve. For several days the group was based near Mount Kruglitsa in the Taganay shelter.

The leader decided to make a radial exit to the top of Kruglitsa. When the group began to climb, the 19-year-old member of the expedition decided not to go with the whole group, but in parallel. The fact is that the main contingent of the Moscow youth team is schoolchildren aged 13-15, so it is logical to assume that the 19-year-old guy felt somewhat uncomfortable in a group of very young guys and preferred not to communicate with them. No one was surprised by his disappearance. Everyone climbed Kruglitsa, except for the 19-year-old. The guys went downstairs, and only there the young man joined them again.

The next day, the group finished their work and decided to relocate to the Kialim cordon, which is located eight kilometers from the base camp. When the new camp was set up, the girls noticed that the guy had set up his tent, packed his backpack and gone somewhere. When everyone missed him, they immediately organized a search.

A couple of hours later, the guy was found six kilometers from the Kialim cordon in a completely insane state. He was sitting on the side of the road, shaking. Literally in his arms they brought him to the camp. The group consisted of four experienced doctors who went through several extreme routes, but, according to them, they had never met such a picture.

After the patient was given a dose of sedative medicine, he felt a little better, and he told what happened to him: “When we climbed Kruglitsa, I separated from the group. Before reaching the top, I ended up on open space, on the stones.

Suddenly a little fluffy little man, red-haired, approached me. The whole body is covered with hair, and the claws stand out especially - yellowish, strong, and there was a feeling that these claw-nails could crush even a stone. And then I fell into some kind of prostration: I could neither move nor talk, I could only observe the actions of this creature. Somehow it happened that he lifted me into the air and carried me somewhere. Vague memories of passages, columns, some grottoes, sculptures and a hall in which there was a map of Russia on a huge wall. It sparkled and played with gems, each republic was laid out in its own color. They put me in front of her and said: look, people don’t have this anymore. And I looked. I have seen all my country. Cities and capitals were designated by rubies and topazes. Somewhere sparkling diamonds. The meridians were laid in gold, and the parallels in platinum. The names of cities and regions were lined with emeralds. I will never, ever forget this card. And then the little fluffies said that this is their land - their world, their land, and as long as they exist, everything that is within the boundaries of this map will also exist. What happened next, I don't remember. When they lowered me, I came to my senses, I was seized with horror, and I fled from this damned Kruglitsa.

When asked why he did not immediately tell about what had happened, he replied: “I was afraid that you would not believe me and would laugh at me.”

When the effects of the drug wore off, the 19-year-old member of the group began delirious again. In the morning, the head of the Moscow group sent the guy to the Zlatoust Psychonarcotics Dispensary for examination. The head physician called this case “typical” and far from isolated. For several years of work, this is already the fortieth patient with similar symptoms. Who exactly the 19-year-old Muscovite saw remained unknown.”

That's it, my friends, - summed up Kita. - By the way, there is a lot of evidence that short humanoid creatures live in the Taganay Mountains, and these stories even have a historical basis: in ancient Slavic and Finno-Ugric mythology, there are many legends about a certain Chud people. According to these legends, chud, or chudins living in caves, get gems, know how to conjure and predict the future. In fairy tales and legends of the Urals, there is a belief that people who hunt for treasures of the Chud lose their minds. Such is the adventure.

Well, then they filmed the village and the inhabitants, recorded a couple of local tales. Then - on the plane and here. The only "but" - I still need to go to Baikal, and then I'm free. So, if you can, pull yourself away from the route and - with me, and then the warriors will throw us up to Nizhny.

Naturally, we pulled back unanimously. Well, almost unanimously. Marinka and Max were finishing their vacation, and before our flight we went to buy them tickets to St. Petersburg and see them off at the station.