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To face the unknown, it is not necessary to go to the Bermuda Triangle. It is enough to go underground in Moscow or in the nearest suburbs. According to speleologists, 90% of Russian caves and dungeons have not been set foot by modern man. In the meantime, the underground special world in which phenomena that are inexplicable by science occur.

In one of the caves, researchers regularly observe spontaneous combustion. matchboxes. In the other - slowing down and speeding up the passage of time. In the third, they find "traces of unknown animals on unknown paths."

Even encounters with ghosts underground do not look so unrealistic. Advanced science, however, for some reason is in no hurry to descend underground.

Gold on blue

Viktor Yemelyanov calls himself a professional treasure hunter. He prepares his campaigns, disappearing for months in libraries and museums. On his account, a half dozen successful expeditions and only one unsuccessful. He talks about her reluctantly. Apparently, he is afraid that he will be considered crazy.

He learned about the treasure near the village of Rumyantsevo from a pre-revolutionary newspaper during his studies. According to legend, one of the Volokolamsk merchants hid the treasure in the underground passages under the church. In Soviet times, there was a cowshed in the church, but now only ruins remain of it.

I arrived there with a sapper shovel and a dowsing frame, - says Victor. - I set myself up for a search: I threw all extraneous thoughts out of my head and presented a scattering of old coins. I began to walk slowly around the ruins.

The place was promising: the frame was taken to rotate several times. But then, all of a sudden, she spun like crazy. There was no doubt: there is a treasure, you just need to find the entrance to the dungeon. Victor tried to dig near the altar, but then his eyes fell on the ruined bell tower: a bright blue glow appeared right above it. There seemed to be nothing threatening in him, but the treasure hunter was terrified. He ran for several kilometers to the station without stopping.

Almost every digger will talk about something like this. Mentions of fire over treasures are found even in ancient chronicles. So, in the old Russian “Tale of Boris and Gleb” we read: “If there is either silver or gold hidden, then many see fire burning in that place - showing the devil, for the sake of money.”

modern science devilry, however, rejects. Approximately such a picture is typical for Scythian burials. The Scythians hid the goods they stole in campaigns in large pits. And in order not to attract too much attention of comrades, they arranged this matter as the funeral of a horse: the horse's corpse was laid on top of the treasure. Over time, methane was naturally released in such a burial ground. Under certain conditions, the gas can escape and ignite. It burns with that bright blue flame.

If Victor knew the materialistic version of the glow, you see, his secret collection would be replenished with the treasures of another treasure. But he himself believes that he was lucky, he got off lightly. Indeed, among the “black archaeologists” there is a belief about the “blue background”, which can pull out all the bones from a person and leave only a shapeless pile of bloody meat on the ground.

In the animal world

... Once a year, the animals of the Moscow Zoo go out into the underground passages under the zoo in the middle of the night and disperse around the city to take revenge on people for their "happy childhood". This, of course, is from the category of digger tales. But what is underground and undersea world the capital is teeming with mutants - a medical fact, as they say.

Even 10 years ago, the Institute of Ecology and Evolution Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences conducted a study of the fauna of the Moskva River and found that there were practically no fish left without genetic changes in the city. Scientists came across freaks without eyes, fins, scales. But the river is a powerful ecosystem, capable of self-purification for the time being. What can we say about the inhabitants of underground drains, in which the entire periodic table is dissolved.

According to the leader of the Moscow diggers, Vadim Mikhailov, their own special fauna has formed underground: from mutant worms that feel great in alkalis, to huge, like turtles, cockroaches. And giant rats, the size of good dog, have repeatedly seen completely different people.

All their proportions are like rats, - says one of the eyewitnesses. - Except that at the withers the mutants are a little more narrowed, and they do not have such a rounded buttocks as their classical relatives. In appearance, such a creature can easily bite off a leg.

According to one version, it was mutated by ordinary rats that lived in communications near the nuclear reactors of Kurchatnik and other institutions.

Animals unknown to science are also met by cave explorers. In the Koltsovskaya system near Kaluga, speleologists noticed that food was disappearing from their underground camp. Soup concentrates were especially popular. And then one day the cave explorer Konstantin Nosov had a chance to face an unusual animal, as they say, nose to nose. The animal was sketched by the artist from his words and under his guidance. So, nothing similar could be found in the atlases of the animal world of Eurasia. Speleologists made several attempts to photograph the stranger.

We installed a tension camera trap, - says Andrey Perepelitsyn, a member of the expedition. - In the morning it turned out that it did not work, although the bait disappeared - the harsh thread was bitten 50 cm from the bait, and the remaining tip was worn out.

We made several more attempts, but the result was always the same. And it is not surprising, because the most amateur equipment was used: a camera and a home video camera. official science with its advanced technology, it is in no hurry to go underground. And in vain. Speleologists have been talking about bats living at a depth of 100 meters since the 1960s. Nobody believed them back then either. Until in 1995, students of the Faculty of Biology of the Pedagogical University descended into the caves.

... Miners from the Tula village of Staraya Vasyukovka talk about animals with big eyes, which they call cobeas. Cobeas warned people about collapses more than once.

In caves and quarries they meet and underground dweller, from head to toe overgrown with wool. He looks like Bigfoot, only not taller. more than a meter. According to the Gatchina speleologist Pavel Miroshnichenko, this is a fur coat. Bypassing the adits, the fur coat coughs like an old man. Anomalies believe it to be an underground brownie, and biologists, after comparing different descriptions, suggest that both cobeas and shubin are unknown species of relict lemur. That's just how these inhabitants of Africa ended up in our middle lane? ..

If the glitch was suddenly

... In a small mountain village on the Kelassuri River in Abkhazia, a boy lived. He was tending sheep in the mountains. One day, Moscow speleologists who arrived in the village asked the shepherdess to take them to the cave. The whole day they walked underground, and in the evening the guy decided to show the guests one of the moves in hard to reach place. He was the first to descend into the well on a rope, and suddenly a stone fell off the wall and broke his leg. The cavers threw down their backpack with food, and they themselves went to the village for help. But there they were afraid to talk about the misfortune and quietly fled. The whole village searched for the boy for many days, but they found only a backpack with untouched food. Since then, a ghost has appeared in the cave.

This is one of the variants of the legend about the White Speleologist. In fact, how many caves, so many versions. There is a White one in every dungeon. A fairy tale, of course, is a lie ... However, the very persistence of the legends suggests that there is not enough scientific knowledge to explain the oddities that occur underground.

You suddenly wake up in an underground grotto in an incredibly cheerful state, - says a speleologist with 30 years of experience Sergey. - And suddenly you see the contours of the grotto, illuminated by a greenish light, or a pattern of luminous dots, reminiscent of the starry sky. And this is at a depth of tens of meters in absolute darkness. Or hear footsteps approaching. As if someone enters the grotto, bypasses it and exits back.

Scientists reduce their explanations to hallucinations. Indeed, the underground environment is atypical for humans. It is believed that the brain, experiencing information and sensory hunger in complete silence and darkness, itself extracts pictures and sounds from the subconscious. If suddenly someone begins to hear under the ground the Red Banner Choir of Alexandrov - well, it's okay: the poor fellow caught his glitch.

But how to explain that in the same grotto in the middle of the night, for unknown reasons, five people wake up at the same time, and each of them observes the same greenish glow? After all, as it was said in the cartoon about Prostokvashino, it’s only the flu that everyone gets sick together, everyone goes crazy on their own. And such collective "glitches" happened more than once or twice.

Dungeon explorers keep their own collection of speleoanomalous phenomena. Three dozen inexplicable events have already fallen into the category of these SAYS. And these are only repetitive, observed by more than one person and not in one place.

... In the summer of 2003, a German caver got lost in one of the caves in Spain. When he was taken out two days later, he spoke to the rescuers in pure Spanish. Even though I didn't know the language before. There are more than a dozen such examples, when the stress experienced in the dungeon causes an abnormal sharpening of creative abilities.

Another phenomenon is speleotransgression. The man in the far corner suddenly finds himself without light: the batteries are dead. Of course, he is under a lot of stress. And then he finds himself in the very place where he originally went. In this case, the entire path traveled is erased from memory. And if you believe the clock, then there was no time spent on the road. Only in one suburban cave system Nikitakh, 20 cases of speleotransgression were recorded, and three of them were group ones.

Involuntarily, you will think about the White Speleologist, who is just famous for helping good people find a way out, and leading the bad ones under landslides.

Old legends, by the way, sometimes tend to come true.

... In the XIV century, the impregnable mountain fortress of Chufut-Kale in the Crimea was besieged by enemies. People in the fortress began to die, because it did not have its own water. The girl Dzhanyke saved everyone. She was so small that she was able to squeeze into a mountain crevice and make her way to an underground source. Throughout the night, Dzhanyke carried water in a waterskin to the city reservoir, and died at dawn.

For many centuries this story was considered a fairy tale. Believe in water in the midst of hot stones Central Crimea no easier than in cave ghosts. But in 1998, cavers dug up the entrance to an old well. ...Today, tourists are led along the cave serpentine to a huge grotto, in which a real lake splashes.

So fairy tales may be lies ... Or maybe not lies - it just takes time to understand their truth.

Private bussiness

Yuri Pavlovich Suprunenko - Candidate of Geographical Sciences, employee of the Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Member of the Russian geographical society and the National Geographic Society of the United States, Corresponding Member of the All-Russian Scientific Research Public Organization Kosmopoisk. Deals with issues of recreational development of mountains within the framework of the problem of rational nature management. He combines scientific interests with the popularization of knowledge, regularly appears in periodicals. Member of the Writers' Union of Russia. Author and co-author of several books, including: "The latest encyclopedia mysterious places Russia "(M., 2006)," Mysterious Land: Places of Power on the Map of Russia "(M., 2007)," Domestic Travelers and Navigators "(M., 2010) and others. Several books by Yu.P. Suprunenko were published in the series "I Explore the World" and "Popular Encyclopedia", "The Newest Encyclopedia of Mysterious Places in Russia".

The Chinese have a saying: “If you have visited five sacred mountains China, then you can not go to other mountains. We are talking about Mount Huashan - the center of Taoist religious practices and a place for practicing alchemy. It is said that Lao Tzu himself lived here. Not so long ago, a complex of mysterious caves was discovered in the bowels of the Blossoming Mountain.

Huashan Blooming Mountain is called because the peaks of this complex of five mountains form a lotus flower. The mountains stand at a distance of about 1-2 miles from each other and are oriented to the cardinal points: center, south, north, east, west. Mount Huashan is the western sacred mountain. It should be noted that this is an unusually picturesque area, but the ascent to the peaks of the complex is very dangerous.

The paths leading to the peaks are very narrow, winding, 12 km long. Entangling the rocks with their serpentine, they eventually converge in the very high point complex at an altitude of 2,100 m. Basically, only pilgrims decide to make this path.

In some places they have to overcome the path along narrow bridges attached by chains to sheer cliffs, which requires considerable physical strength and endurance from people, and most importantly, enviable determination. After all, most of the wooden bridges were built many centuries ago.

The trail leading to the summit passes Taoist monasteries, some of which date back to the 11th century, such as the Yuquan Temple and the palaces of the Yuan Dynasty. But the main part of the buildings of a later period, relating to the reign of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). The Huashan complex is included in the UNESCO List of Natural Heritage Sites.

SECRETS HIDDEN IN THE MOUNTAIN

The unusual and hard-to-reach Mount Huashan today has become even more famous thanks to the grandiose man-made caves found in it at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries. All those who were lucky enough to see them unanimously consider the caves one of the wonders of the world. These unique dungeons in the rocks of the southern part of Anhui province (China) east of the city of Tunxi were accidentally discovered in 1999.

They were discovered by a local peasant, who was so amazed by what he saw that he felt it necessary to report his find to the authorities. And he was not mistaken: the caves were called in scientific world real sensation. Scientists, researchers, journalists and tourists rushed to the Huashan area.

The caves are located at 30 degrees north latitude, that is, on the same parallel with the pyramids of Giza, the sacred mountain Kailash in Tibet and bermuda triangle, and, as it were, close this mysterious circuit. It is unlikely that such an arrangement can be considered an accident.

To date, scientists know about 36 caves, and no one really knows how many of them. It remains a mystery and the answer to the question whether there is a message between them or each of them is an independent structure.

UNDERGROUND COMPLEX

When they conducted a preliminary inspection of the caves, the researchers were struck by the scale of what they saw. Underground complex Mount Huashan exceeded in size all known similar structures. All 36 caves have been assigned serial numbers, and many of them do not yet have a name.

For example, total area The 2nd and 35th caves exceeded 17 thousand square meters. m. With an approximate calculation, during their clearing, 20 thousand cubic meters were taken out. m of crushed stone and soil and pumped out 18 tons of water. Three powerful pumps worked there for 12 days. The premises are now open to the public.

Cave number 35 is also called the underground palace. Apparently, such an honorary name was given to her because of the truly royal size. It is located at a depth of 170 m, and its total area is 12,600 square meters. m. The entrance to it is small. To get into this splendor, you need to pass a 20-meter tunnel.

In the middle of the underground palace there are 26 huge stone columns supporting the vaults of the cave. These gigantic pillars are more than ten meters in diameter. As you move into the cave, it seems that they seem to diverge, forming a triangle.

The palace impresses not only with this: one of its walls, having a width of 15 m and a length of 30 m, is located at an angle of 45 degrees. Scientists using infrared rays managed to establish that this wall was created by nature and is a natural formation.

Here you can also see underground lakes and pools with transparent clear water through which you can see the bottom. Separate halls, stone stairs, bridges across underground rivers... It is curious that all these reservoirs are seven feet below the level of the Xinyang River, which flows in the valley of Mount Huashan. Scientists are also surprised by a strange two-tiered structure with a balcony, from where the entire panorama of the cave opens up to visitors.

Another cave called Huanxi is also different huge area- 4,800 sq. m with a length of 140 m. Inside it there are several rooms: a spacious hall with columns, pools and several small rooms on two sides of the tunnel.

It should be noted that all underground rooms are multi-tiered and have an irregular, bizarre shape. However, it seems that the one who created all this thought through the details to the smallest detail. Most recently, 18 bas-reliefs were discovered in the 2nd and 36th caves.

Are all these stone bridges, stairs, balconies, columns cannot be evidence that the caves are of artificial origin?

HOW?

The fact that the caves were built by people is no longer in doubt. Take, for example, tool marks that look like a chisel mark, which are visible on the surface of ceilings and walls. But what kind of tool it was that created such grooves, and how the stone was hollowed out: in pieces or taken out completely, and whether the ancient builders used scaffolding is still not clear.

Perhaps people simply made the most of what had already been created by nature. If we assume that the rock was nevertheless hollowed out, then they would have to take out at least 100 thousand cubic meters from these places. m stone! With this amount of rock, it is quite possible to lay out a road with a length of 240 km. Actually, the Chinese can do a lot.

The mystery remains where these dumps have gone, because no traces of the extracted rock have been found. Built houses? No, all the houses in the area are built of blue stone, and Huashan is made of motley rock.

The next question that baffled scientists: what technologies did the builders use if the angle of inclination of the internal walls exactly repeats the external angle of the mountain and its bends? If they had not done so, they would surely have punched a hole out. How did people manage to achieve such an unusual interior? Again, they couldn’t work in complete darkness, which means they somehow illuminated the premises, but no traces of fire or soot were found ...

It seems absolutely amazing that the caves are completely devoid of echo, the vaults and walls are arranged in such a way that they absorb sounds, providing complete silence. For what? Perhaps the echo could interfere with the prayer.

FOR WHAT?

It is surprising that such a large-scale structure is not described anywhere. Only in the manuscript of the Chinese historian of the Han Dynasty (135-87 BC) is there a mention of Mount Huashan, but no caves. He wrote that the Chinese rulers came to the mountain to pray there to the gods and their ancestors. Perhaps it was in the caves that these prayers sounded, because it is unlikely that the emperors made a difficult path to the top.

The purpose of the construction of the caves remains a mystery to this day. There is no doubt that they were not built for habitation. Then what for? Still for meditation and worship? However, they do not contain any wall paintings or any deities, so it is doubtful that they served cult purposes. If these are still ancient temples, then what rituals were performed in them, and most importantly, by whom?

Maybe the reason is much more prosaic and they just mined a stone there? But why make it harder for yourself? The stone can be mined on the surface of the mountain, and not inside it. They are also not suitable as grain storage due to high humidity.

Or was it some kind of secret object? Location of troops, for example. You can come up with a great many versions, but none of them has yet been confirmed by the evidence base.

IN SEARCH OF TRUTH

The exploration of the caves continues. Scientists are trying to find passages and tunnels that could connect separate rooms. In the process of research, new discoveries appear. So, ceramic products were discovered, according to experts, created in 265-420. during the Jin Dynasty.

Based on the analysis of stalactites and cave walls, their approximate age- 1,700 years. But it is possible that the caves are much older than scientists suggest. A lot of questions have accumulated, the work of researchers will be enough for many years to come.

India - ancient country, about the fabulous riches of which there have always been legends. But even she is sometimes able to surprise! Like a chest with a secret, she sometimes lifts the veil of secrets and shares her curiosities with the world. ABOUT cave temples of Ajanta even the Hindus themselves learned only in the 19th century. Meanwhile, the man-made complex was created long before the birth of Jesus, and its splendor surpassed the pyramids of Cheops.

EROTIC IN THE ROCKS

On April 28, 1819, a British cavalry officer of the 28th Madras Regiment with the banal name John Smith decided to hunt a leopard. He gathered a small company of colleagues and went to the jungle of Maharashtra, which was famous for its abundance of predators.

Not far from the village of Ajanta, the British tracked down a tiger, and in the heat of the chase, Smith wandered into a gorge, lushly overgrown with tropical plants. When the forest parted before him, he dropped his gun in surprise. The stone Buddha gazed straight at him dispassionately. The Englishman took a few steps forward and saw that passages leading deep into the mountain were carved right into the rock.

The officer called his comrades, and after a short meeting they decided to examine the place. Smith and his companions climbed the rock and entered the cave, lighting their way with torches made from tufts of dry grass. They found themselves in a majestic hall with a vaulted ceiling and columns.

With their mouths open, the British walked around the room and looked at the walls with faded paintings. Ancient artists clearly did not suffer from complexes: along with scenes from the life of princes and princesses spending time in luxurious apartments, going hunting and receiving guests, there were scenes of carnal love. The stiff English at that time could not see such frank pictures of erotic content every day.

From the courage of ancient artists, the riot of colors and the variety of bizarre statues, the British took their breath away. Under the dome at the sanctuary, a stone Buddha prayed - giant statue, on which Smith decided to leave his autograph as a sign that he was the first European to get into this lost world.

Then John and his comrades went around all 29 caves, stretching for 500 meters along the rocky bank of the Waghora River (Tiger River), and returning home, they told their colleagues about the find.

CURSE OF THE CAVE

The news spread quickly. Most of all, she was interested in the architect and archaeologist James Ferguson, who turned out to be very useful in these parts. He made a decent fortune in India by trading, after which he went to travel around the country in order to study its artistic monuments.

In his homeland, Ferguson, as an architect, did not create anything outstanding, but became famous as a researcher of antiquity. In 1843, he brought to the Royal Asiatic Society a scientific report describing caves, 24 of which were monasteries, 5 were temples.

Ferguson assigned numbers to all the caves, his numbering is still used today. “I numbered them like houses on the street,” he wrote. The archaeologist urged his compatriots to treat the find responsibly: the amazing painting was preserved in only a few caves, in others the statues and frescoes were gradually destroyed under the influence of a humid and hot tropical climate.

After the report of the scientist, an officer of the 44th Madras Infantry Regiment, artist, photographer and antiquary Robert Gill went to the Ajanta caves in 1844. He faced the difficult task of researching and capturing copies of wall paintings on canvas. The business trip of Robert Gill marked the beginning of a long and painstaking work on scientific description artistic treasures in the Tigrinaya river valley. Jill spent several years in the jungle.

He had to work in terrible conditions. The area abounded with predators, and the indigenous people - warlike Bhils - did not favor newcomers. Nevertheless, Gill brought the matter to an end and in 1847 presented the results of his efforts to the Royal Asiatic Society.

Scientists have calculated that the construction ancient complex was carried out in several stages. During the first, in the II-I centuries BC. e., five halls were created for common prayer. The second phase took place in the 5th century AD. e., when under Harishen, the last great ruler of the Vakataka dynasty, the rest of the caves were carved and frescoed. The latter were built a little later; they are monasteries with cells for monks.

Robert Gill copied the works of ancient Indian artists, returning to the Ajanta caves from time to time. In total, he wrote about 30 works. All canvases were transported to London and presented at the Indian Pavilion in the Crystal Palace, an exhibition complex and amusement park in Sydney Hill in south London. But his works were destined for a sad fate: most of them burned down in a fire on December 30, 1866.

In 1885, another part of the works perished in a fire in the exhibition hall. royal palace in South Kensington (now the Victoria and Albert Museum). The Hindus started talking about the curse of the Ajanta caves: everyone who disturbed the peace of the complex ended badly. Troubles and tragedies could not be avoided by anyone who sought to penetrate the caves of Ajanta. Did the gods really take revenge on their offenders?

In 1861 the Royal Commission on cave temples founded the Archaeological Survey of India, which is still active today. The British tried to keep cultural heritage Ajanta: more and more antique lovers and treasure hunters headed to the Tiger River to steal what was badly lying.

The vandals not only scratched their names on the walls, frescoes and statues, but scraped off paintings from the walls, chipped off pieces from the statues and robbed, robbed, robbed...

In 1872, John Griffiths, director of the art school in Bombay, was sent to the caves. He had the same mission as Gill: to capture ancient paintings on canvas. Fortunately, his work has been preserved. Lucky and his followers - the Indian archaeologist and art historian Ghulam Yazdani and the English patron of the arts Christina Harringham. Pictures of the latter have survived to this day.

SHADOWS OF THE GREAT PAST

For the time being, all the surviving copies were kept in the vaults of various museums in London, but in 2005 they were put together, restored and put on display. The public was able to appreciate the scale of the work of the ancient masters with their own eyes.

If only the stone lace of the carving is drawn into a line, its length will reach the snows of Chomolungma. And the frescoes are considered the crowning achievement of oriental art. In one of the underground halls, painting occupies more than a thousand square meters, and not only the walls, but also the columns and ceilings are painted. This is how all 29 caves used to look! Indian masters seemed to strive to transfer all the richness and diversity of the outside world into the cramped world of the dungeons.

Archaeologists are still puzzled over how ancient painters managed to create in the twilight of caves. How did they manage to paint the walls with the finest drawings with many color shades?

How did they carve such perfect statues in total darkness? Maybe they used mirrors for this? Catching the sun's rays and directing them to the walls? Questions, questions, questions... And only one of them has a clear and distinct answer today.

So why did the monks leave this place? Everything is very simple: in the 13th century, interest in Buddhism faded away, and the supporters of this religion became less and less. When the last keepers of the faith died, the monastery and temple were empty. For centuries, the complex stood abandoned, the caves were overgrown with grass, and only bats looked indifferently at the masterpieces of antiquity.

Today, the Ajanta caves are visited by thousands of tourists a year. They are offered to view copies in a specially built complex, but most, for obvious reasons, prefer to visit ancient monasteries and temples. Of the 29 caves, only 13 have preserved fragments of murals and statues, but this is enough to understand how big the ancients thought.

Vlad STROGOV

And again the gold of Kolchak

There are two versions of the origin of this wealth. According to the first, in the 1930s, gold was transported from Bodaibo on horseback along the Moscow Highway. There was a village 10 kilometers away. There, the convoys were robbed, and the booty was hidden in the Kholmushinskaya cave. And somehow one old man from the village of Kholmushino, dying, told his grandson that a lot of gold was hidden in the cave, but it was not easy to get to it. After the death of his grandfather, the grandson decided to get to the cache as quickly as possible. He took it and blew up the cave. But the trick failed - the treasure fell asleep, and the young man never found the gold.

The second version is associated with Admiral Kolchak. On January 13, 1920, a train with royal gold, which Kolchak had taken from Kazan, was stopped at the nearest station. On the same night, two dozen Cossacks and two captains made a couple of walkers and took some of the gold into the cave. After the second trip, all the Cossacks disappeared without a trace, and then four tons of gold were missing in the echelon. Many years passed, and in 1953 boxes and skeletons were discovered in the Kholmushinskaya cave. Where they came from and what exactly was contained there remained unknown. True, the Kholmushinites themselves do not believe in these rumors. Their main concern now is the safety of the unique dungeon. A quarry was opened next to it, and now, due to explosions, an underground natural complex may be seriously harmed.

underground pyramid

Kungur cave - sacred place Ural. According to esotericists, the most protected and paranormal zones of the cave are located in distant and hard-to-reach grottoes. There is even a map of the cave, compiled by the cartographer Semyon Remezov, from which it is clear that somewhere far from prying eyes there is a pyramid. Who built it, for what purpose is a mystery, but still greater mystery is that, except for Remezov, no one has yet seen the pyramid. According to the Permian researcher S. Zyablitsky, it is this pyramid that is main reason paranormal phenomena occurring in cave labyrinths. Many tourists, speleologists, cave explorers have seen luminous balls and flashes of fire more than once. There are photographs taken by powerful equipment, in which mysterious creatures are visible behind the backs of its visitors. The cave is also known for the “fooling” effect, when people lost their sense of temporal and spatial reality.

Millennium construction

In 1999, a Chinese peasant quite by accident discovered a grandiose cave complex in the bowels of the sacred “Blossoming Mountain” of the Taoists. mysterious origin. Scientists from all over the world rushed to those parts, namely the province of Shaanxi, to explore the dungeon. No one could have imagined that the cave would be so interesting and unusual. Huashan (“Flowering Mountain”) is a complex of five mountains in China, which got its name due to the similarity of its peaks with a lotus flower. The Chinese say: "If you have visited the five sacred mountains of China, then you can not go to other mountains." Mount Huashan is the bottom of the places of Taoist religious practices and alchemy. Lao Tzu himself lived in these places. The mountains are extremely picturesque, but climbing to their peaks is extremely dangerous. Along the trails are Taoist monasteries and pagodas. Even the buildings of the 11th century have been preserved. Most amazing secrets the mountain was discovered in 1999, when the same gigantic complex consisting of 36 caves was found in the area of ​​​​the western peak. One of the caves - Huanxi - consists of several rooms: a huge hall with columns, a pool and several more rooms.

The largest cave was called the underground palace, and this name is not accidental. Its area is 12,600 sq.m. Surprisingly, stone bridges over underground rivers, stairs and passages were also found in the caves, and columns support stone vaults. In the big cave- twenty-six stone columns. And at one of the walls there is a two-tier structure like a balcony, from which you can contemplate the pools and lakes with clear water. Interestingly, these lakes are located below the level of the Xinyang River, which flows in the valley of the sacred mountains. Without a doubt, all buildings in the underworld
artificial origin. You can even see chisel marks on the walls and ceilings. The most curious thing is that the vaults of the caves repeat the angles of the slopes of the Huashan Mountains. How could such fantastic results be achieved?! But they built the dungeon many centuries ago. According to archaeologists, the age of the caves is at least 1700 years! The skill of the ancient architects causes delight and admiration - you just want to take off your hat to them.

But here's another mystery: according to preliminary calculations, only during drilling, 100 thousand cubic meters of stones would have to be taken out. The second question: if the Chinese managed to reach such heights in the construction of the dungeon, why is the cave not mentioned in Chinese chronicles? More unanswered questions: why did the Chinese build it? What happened in the underground palaces, who admired the underground lakes? What is it - a place of spiritual practices, a monastery or a refuge? Why did the customers of this structure need complete silence (the walls of the caves are completely devoid of echo)? Amazingly, scientists have not found traces of soot from torches or fires on the walls and ceilings of the cave. But the ancients could not build in total darkness?! And how did they navigate the dungeon?
It is noteworthy that this cave complex is located at 30 degrees north latitude. That is, in parallel with Egyptian pyramids, the sacred mountain Hailas in Tibet and the Bermuda Triangle.
On this moment 36 caves have been discovered, and not a single living soul knows how many there are in total. Researchers are not left with the idea that they can be connected by underground passages.

Natalia BYKOVA

The caves hide many secrets that even scientists cannot answer. The secrets of the caves are hidden from the eyes of an ordinary person, and only speleologists come across these secrets and willingly share stories about the secrets of caves hidden deep underground, in caves and various kinds of communications.
Caves have attracted people since ancient times. Initially, as a dwelling and a place to protect from the cold and enemies. Thousands of years have passed, amateur and professional speleologists descend into the dungeons with one goal to unravel the mysteries that hide the caves. One of the authors of the recently published encyclopedia "The Underground World" speleologist and scientist Yuri Suprunenko talks in detail about the anomalous zones that hide the caves of the Moscow region. It turns out that there is no need to go to Bermuda, when 90% of the caves have practically not been explored. And more or less studied dungeons often make cavers think about what contradicts all the laws of science. Mysterious spontaneous combustion of matches in one, anomalous zones slowing down time, in another dungeon.

Speleology, as a science, is very young. The mysteries of the caves defy scientific explanation. Mysterious world hides a lot of unexplored and incomprehensible. This world of darkness and silence lives its own life. Anomalous zones, keeping the secrets of time, in the labyrinths of caves, this is only a small part of what speleology studies.

Let's look at a few cases:

Gold on blue.

This is how we combined the stories about the treasures that the dungeons keep. The story of Viktor Yemelyanov, who found out in the archives about another secret that is located near the village of Rumyantsevo, under the local church. The treasure of Volokolamsk merchants is buried deep in the dungeons. The time was Soviet, the church was dilapidated and turned into a cowshed. As he later told, he walked around, approached the place where the altar had previously been, decided to start searching from here and just imagined a scattering of ancient gold coins, as a bright blue glow soared high into the sky above the destroyed bell tower. Victor was so terrified that he did not remember how he ended up at the station. Here you have another mystery of caves and dungeons.

It has long been said about cursed treasures stored deep. Modern science claims that in such cases, methane is released, and the devil has nothing to do with it. Then why among amateur treasure hunters there are rumors about a glow in the depths of the cave and about “treasure keepers” capable of tearing a person apart. It turns out that the mysterious blue glow is not so rare in such places;

underground zoo

Among speleologists - amateurs there is a tale that once a year animals from the zoo descend into the caves to take revenge on people. This is most likely a fiction, but the reality is that the cave can have a closed ecosystem, that is, it can be inhabited by living organisms that have mutated beyond recognition. And now this secret of the caves is revealed to speleologists. The adaptation of organisms to an environment that would normally be lethal. A mysterious creature, in an underground reservoir, the content of alkali is dangerous for humans, turned out to be a worm - a mutant. And giant turtles and rats, the size of a dog, are found in almost every second report.

Here are a few examples - near Kaluga, cavers met with an unfamiliar species of animal. He stole food from their tents at night. An attempt to take a picture was unsuccessful. At first, a hypothesis was put forward about giant bats, another mystery and riddle. underground caves but talking to local residents learned about the so-called "kavebas" who live in these caves. These are animals covered with thick wool with big eyes, descending to a depth of up to a meter to a depth of 100 meters, where they equip their dwellings, they are called “fur coats” in Gatchina, they warn speleologists about the dangers.

There is a belief that these are underground brownies. Science answers more prosaically - a relic lemur that has survived to this day. And here I want to ask a counter question. Which species of relic lemur, according to the theory of evolution, walked on two legs? And why are lemurs in Russia and not in Africa?

underground hallucinations

There is a story among speleologists about the Kelassuri ghost in Abkhazia.

Young speleologists arrived in the mountain village of Kelassuri and asked to be given a guide who knew the local caves. The local shepherd volunteered. In the evening, when trying to show the entrance to a hard-to-reach cave, he broke and broke his leg, and the cavers, having dropped a backpack with food, fled for fear of responsibility. It took a long time before people found this place. The backpack was untouched, and the guy disappeared. Since then, a ghost has been encountered at this place. He was called the "white caver".

Speleologists with 20-30 years of experience talk about a greenish glow that arises from underground in the depths of a cave, or about how myriads of dots suddenly light up on the ceiling in absolutely dark grottoes, turning it into a starry sky. Scientists believe that such a "glitch" is associated with the psychological state of a person in the depths of the cave. That is, the impact of pitch darkness and absolute silence on the psyche. But this often happens with whole groups. There are other kinds of "glitches".

For example, in 2003, a young amateur speleologist from Germany got lost while exploring caves in Spain. When they found him, he remembered little, but he spoke excellent Spanish, which he did not know before. And here is another phenomenon - speleotransgression. In pitch darkness, the speleologist simultaneously refuses mobile phone, a flashlight and the person is in the place where he went. Time seemed to stop for him. And it happens the other way around, they left in a group or alone and disappeared. So don’t believe in a “white caver” who will take a good person home, and an evil one under the rubble. The Crimean coast and mountains are preserved.

Back in the 14th century, there was a legend about a little girl Dzhanyk, who saved the inhabitants of the mountain fortress Chufut-Kale, who were under siege. She squeezed herself into a crevice, carried water from an underground source to those who were dying of thirst, and by morning, exhausted, she died. For more than six centuries, this was considered a legend. And at the end of the 20th century, a grotto was found near the ruins of the fortress and an underground lake.

Speleology, as already mentioned, is a young science supported by enthusiasts. The veil of our secrets underworld only those who will be friendly with the "white caver" will be able to open it. That is pure in heart and mind.

There are many more secrets hidden in the caves that we need to unravel. The secrets of the caves are what scientists need to pay attention to Special attention. Since the bowels of our earth hide not only anomalous riddles but also the past...

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