Mystical stories written by real people. Mystical stories from real life

In our world, interesting and funny situations often occur that amuse many people. But in addition to such curiosities, there are moments that make you think or simply frighten, driving you into a stupor. For example, some object mysteriously disappear t, although a couple of minutes ago he was in his place. Inexplicable and sometimes strange situations happen to everyone. Let's talk about real life stories told by people.

Fifth place - Death or not?

Lilia Zakharovna She is a well-known elementary school teacher in the area. All local residents tried to send their children to her, as she aroused honor and respect, trying to teach children the mind-reason not according to the usual program, but according to her own. Thanks to their development, children quickly learned new knowledge and skillfully applied it in practice. She managed to do what no teacher could do - to make children work hard and gnaw at the granite of science.

Recently Lilia Zakharovna reached retirement age, which she gladly took advantage of, having gone on a legal vacation. She had a sister, Irina, whom she went to see. This is where the story begins.

Irina had a mother and a daughter who lived next door on the same stairwell. Lyudmila Petrovna, Irina's mother, had been seriously ill for a long time. The doctors did not know the exact diagnosis, because the symptoms were completely different with each visit to the hospital, which did not allow a 100% answer. The treatment was the most varied, but even it did not help to put Lyudmila Petrovna on her feet. After several years of painful procedures, she died. On the day of death, the cat that lived in the apartment woke up her daughter. She caught herself and ran to the woman and found that she was dead. The funeral took place near the city, in his native village.

The daughter and her friend visited the cemetery for several days in a row, without accepting the fact that Lyudmila Petrovna no more. On their next visit, they were surprised that there was a small hole on the grave, the depth of which was about forty centimeters. It was clear that she was fresh, and near the grave sat the same cat that woke her daughter on the day of her death. It immediately became clear that it was she who had dug the hole. The hole was filled up, but the cat was not given into the hands. It was decided to leave her there.

The next day, the girls again went to the cemetery in order to feed the hungry cat. This time there were already three of them - one of the relatives of the deceased joined them. They were very surprised when there was a larger hole on the grave than the last time. The cat still sat there with a very exhausted and tired look. This time, she decided not to resist and voluntarily climbed into the girls' bag.

And then strange thoughts begin to creep into the head of the girls. Suddenly, Lyudmila Petrovna was buried alive, and the cat was trying to get to her. Such thoughts haunted, and it was decided to dig up the coffin to make sure. The girl was found by several people without a fixed place of residence, they paid them money and brought them to the cemetery. They dug up the grave.

When the coffin was opened, the girls were in complete shock. The cat did not fail. There were visible traces of nails on the coffin, which suggests that the deceased was alive, trying to escape from imprisonment.

The girls grieved for a long time, realizing that they could still save Lyudmila Petrovna if they dug up the grave right away. These thoughts haunted them for a very long time, but nothing could be returned. Cats always feel trouble - this is a scientifically proven fact.

Fourth place - Forest paths

Ekaterina Ivanovna is an elderly woman living in a small village near Bryansk. The village is located around forests and fields. Grandmother lived here all her long life, so she knew all the paths and roads along and across. Since childhood, she walked around the neighborhood, picking berries and mushrooms, from which excellent jam and pickles were obtained. Her father was a forester, so Ekaterina Ivanovna was in harmony with mother nature all her life.

But one day a strange incident happened, which my grandmother still remembers and crosses herself. It was early autumn, when it was time to mow hay. Relatives from the city came to help, so as not to leave all the care of the household to an elderly woman. The whole crowd of them moved to the forest clearing to collect hay. In the late afternoon, Grandma went home to cook dinner for her tired helpers.

Walk to the village for about forty minutes. Of course, the path ran through the forest. Here Ekaterina Ivanovna has been walking since childhood, so, of course, there was no fear. On the way in the forest more often, a familiar woman met, and a dialogue began between them about all the events taking place in their native village.

The conversation went on for about half an hour. And it was getting dark outside. Suddenly, an unexpectedly met woman screamed and laughed with all her might and evaporated, leaving a strong echo. Ekaterina Ivanovna was in complete horror, realizing what had happened. She was already lost in space and simply got nervous, not knowing which way to go. For two hours, my grandmother walked from one corner of the forest to another, trying to get out of the thicket. In the toga, she simply fell to the ground without strength. Thoughts had already entered my head that I would have to wait until the morning until someone rescued her. But the sound of the tractor turned out to be saving - it was Ekaterina Ivanovna who headed for it, soon coming out to the village.

The next day, my grandmother went home to the woman she met. She rejected the fact that she was in the forest, justifying this by the fact that she looked after the beds and simply did not have time. Ekaterina Ivanovna was in complete shock and already thought that against the background of fatigue, hallucinations began, leading astray. For several years, these events have been told to local residents with fear. From that moment on, my grandmother was never in the forest again, because she was afraid to get lost or, worse, to die from extreme fear. A proverb even appeared in the village: “The goblin leads Katerina.” I wonder who was actually in the forest that evening?

3rd place - A dream come true

In the life of the heroine, various situations constantly occur that simply cannot be called ordinary: they are strange. In the early eighties of the last century, Pavel Matveevich, who was the husband of his mother, died. The mortuary workers handed over to the family of the heroine his things and a gold watch, which the deceased loved very much. Mom decided to keep them and keep them as a memory.

As soon as the funeral is over, the heroine of strange stories has a dream. In it, the late Pavel Matveyevich demands from his mother that she take the clock back to where he originally lived. The girl woke up in the morning and ran to tell her mother the dream. Of course, it was decided that the watch must be returned. Let them be in their place.

At the same time, a dog barked loudly in the yard (and the house was private). When one of her own comes, she is silent. But here, apparently, someone else complained. And it’s true: Mom looked out the window and saw that a man was standing under the lamp and waiting for someone to leave the house. Mom came out and it turned out that this mysterious stranger was the son of Pavel Matveyevich from his first marriage. He was passing through the village and decided to stop by. The only interesting thing is how he found the house, because no one knew him before. In memory of his father, he wanted to take some thing from him. And my mother gave me the watch. On this strange stories in the life of a girl are not going to end. At the beginning of the 2000s, Pavel Ivanovich, the father of her husband, fell ill. On New Year's Eve, he ended up in the hospital awaiting his operation. And the girl again has a prophetic dream. There was a doctor who informed the family that the operation would be on the third of January. In the dream, another man furiously demanded the question of what interests the girl most of all. And she asked how many years the parents would live. No response was received.

It turned out that the surgeon had already told his father-in-law that the operation would be performed on the second of January. The girl said that something would definitely happen that would force the operation to be postponed the next day. And so it happened - the operation took place on the third of January. The relatives were stunned.

The last story took place when the heroine was already fifty years old. The woman was no longer in good health. As soon as the second daughter was born, the parent got a headache. The pain was so strong that there were already thoughts of giving an injection. In the hope that the pain would subside, the woman went to bed. As she dozed off for a bit, she heard the little baby wake up. There was a night light above the bed, and the girl reached out to turn it on, and she was immediately thrown back onto the bed, as if there had been an electric shock. And it seemed to her that she was flying somewhere high above the house. And only a child's strong cry brought her back from heaven to earth. Waking up, the girl was very wet, thinking that there was clinical death.

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Mysterious Murders at the Hinterkaifeck Farm

In 1922, the mysterious murder of six people committed on the small farm of Hinterkaifeck shocked all of Germany. And not only because the murders were committed with horrendous cruelty.

All the circumstances associated with this crime were very strange, even mystical, and to this day it remains unsolved.

During the investigation, more than 100 people were interrogated, but no one was ever arrested. Not a single motive that could somehow explain what happened was also identified.

The maid who worked in the house ran away six months ago, claiming it was haunted. The new girl arrived just a few hours before the murder.

Apparently, the attacker was on the farm for at least a few days - someone fed the cows and ate in the kitchen. In addition, neighbors saw smoke coming from the chimney during the weekend. The photo shows the body of one of the dead, found in a barn.

Phoenix Lights

The so-called "Phoenix Lights" are several flying objects that more than 1000 people observed on the night of Thursday, March 13, 1997: in the sky over the states of Arizona and Nevada in the USA and over the state of Sonora in Mexico.

In fact, two strange events occurred that night: a triangular formation of luminous objects that moved across the sky, and several motionless lights hovering over the city of Phoenix. However, in the latest US Air Force, they recognized the lights from the A-10 Warthog aircraft - it turned out that at that time military exercises were taking place in southwestern Arizona.

Solway Firth Astronaut

In 1964, the family of Briton Jim Templeton was walking near the Solway Firth. The head of the family decided to take a picture of his five-year-old daughter with Kodak. The Templetons claimed that there was no one else in these marshy places except them. And when the pictures were developed, one of them showed a strange figure peeking out from behind the girl. The analysis showed that the photo was not subjected to any changes.

falling body

The Cooper family has just moved into their new home in Texas. In honor of the housewarming, a festive table was laid, at the same time we decided to take some family photos. And when the pictures were developed, a strange figure was found on them - it seems that someone's body is either hanging or falling from the ceiling. Of course, the Coopers did not see anything like this during the shooting.

Too many hands

The four guys were fooling around taking pictures in the yard. When the film was shown, it turned out that one extra hand appeared on it from nowhere (peeps out from behind the back of a guy in a black T-shirt).

"Battle of Los Angeles"

This picture was published in the Los Angeles Times on February 26, 1942. To this day, conspiracy theorists and ufologists cite it as evidence of extraterrestrial visits to Earth. They claim that the photo clearly shows that the beams of searchlights fall on an alien flying ship. However, as it turned out, the photo for publication was pretty retouched - this is a standard procedure, which almost all published black-and-white photographs were subjected to to heighten the effect.

The incident itself, captured in the photo, was called a “misunderstanding” by the authorities. The Americans had just survived the Japanese attack, and in general the tension was incredible. Therefore, the military got excited and opened fire on the object, which, most likely, was a harmless weather balloon.

The lights of Hessdalen

In 1907, a group of educators, students and scientists set up a scientific camp in Norway to study a mysterious phenomenon called the Hessdalen Fires.

On a clear night, Bjorn Hauge took this picture using a shutter speed of 30 seconds. Spectral analysis showed that the object must be composed of silicon, iron and scandium. This is the most informative, but far from the only photo of the Hessdalen Lights. Scientists are still scratching their heads as to what it could be.

Time Traveler

This photo was taken in 1941 during the opening of the South Forks Bridge. The attention of the public was attracted by a young man who was considered by many to be a "time traveler" - because of his modern hairstyle, zip-up sweater, printed T-shirt, fashionable glasses and a soap camera. The whole outfit is clearly not from the 40s. On the left, a camera is highlighted in red, which was actually in use at that time.

9/11 Attack - South Tower Woman

In these two shots, a woman can be seen standing on the edge of the hole in the South Tower after the plane crashed into the building. Her name is Edna Clinton and, not surprisingly, she was on the list of survivors. How she did it is beyond me, considering everything that happened in that part of the building.

skunk monkey

In 2000, a woman who wished to remain anonymous took two photographs of the mysterious creature and sent it to the Sarasota County Sheriff (Florida). The photographs were accompanied by a letter in which the woman assured that she photographed a strange creature in the backyard of her house. The creature came to her house three nights in a row and stole the apples left on the terrace.

UFO in the painting "Madonna with Saint Giovannino"

The Madonna with Saint Giovannino is by Domenico Ghirlandai (1449-1494) and is currently in the collection of the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence. Above Mary's right shoulder, a mysterious flying object and a man who is watching it are clearly visible.

Incident at Lake Falcon

Another encounter with a supposed extraterrestrial civilization took place near Lake Falcon on May 20, 1967.

Someone Stefan Michalak was resting in these places and at some point noticed two descending cigar-shaped objects, one of which landed very close. Michalak claims to have seen the door open and heard voices coming from within.

He tried to speak to the aliens in English, but there was no answer. Then he tried to get closer, but came across an "invisible glass", which, apparently, served as a protection for the object.

Suddenly, Michalak was surrounded by a cloud of air so hot that his clothes caught fire. The man suffered severe burns.

Bonus:

This story took place on the evening of February 11, 1988 in the city of Vsevolozhsk. There was a light knock on the window of the house where a woman who was fond of spiritualism and her teenage daughter lived. Looking out, the woman saw no one. Went out on the porch - no one. And there were no footprints in the snow under the window either.

The woman was surprised, but did not attach much importance. And half an hour later there was a pop and part of the glass in the window where the invisible guest was knocking fell off, forming an almost perfectly round hole.

The next day, at the request of the woman, her Leningrad acquaintance, candidate of technical sciences S.P. Kuzionov, arrived. He carefully examined everything and took several pictures.

When the photograph was developed, it showed the face of a woman peering into the lens. Both the mistress of the house and Kuzionov himself found this face unfamiliar.

Stories about what is not rationally explained, about extraordinary accidents, mysterious coincidences, inexplicable phenomena, prophetic predictions and visions.

WHOSE FAULT?

My old friend, good companion, teacher, recently retired, Lilia Zakharovna told me an unusual story. She went to visit her sister Irina in the neighboring Tula region.

In the same entrance on the same site with Irina lived her neighbors, mother Lyudmila Petrovna and daughter Ksenia. Even before retiring, Lyudmila Petrovna began to get sick. The doctors changed the diagnosis three times. There was no sense in the treatment: Lyudmila Petrovna died. On that tragic morning, Ksenia was awakened by the cat Muska, her mother's favorite. The doctor declared death. Lyudmila Petrovna was buried not far away, in her native village.

Ksenia and her friend came to the cemetery for two days in a row. When they arrived on the third day, they saw a narrow hole in the grave mound, about an elbow deep. Quite fresh.

Muska was sitting nearby. There was no doubt. Almost at the same time, they cried out: “That's who was digging!” Surprised and gossiping, the girls filled the hole. The cat was not given to them in their hands, and they left without it.

The next day, Ksenia, taking pity on the hungry Muska, again went to the cemetery. She was accompanied by a relative. Imagine their amazement when they saw a rather large hole on the mound. Exhausted and hungry, Muska sat nearby. She did not break out, but calmly let herself be put into the bag, occasionally meowing plaintively.

Ksenia's head now never left the episode with the cat. And now the thought began to emerge more and more clearly: what if mother was buried alive? Maybe Muska felt it in an unknown way? And the daughter decided to dig out the coffin. Having paid money to some homeless people, she came to the cemetery with a friend and girlfriend.

When the coffin was opened, they saw in horror what Xenia had foreseen. Lyudmila Petrovna, apparently, tried to lift the lid for a long time .. The worst thing for Xenia was the thought that her mother was still alive when she and her friend came to her grave. They didn't hear it, but the cat heard it and tried to dig it out!

Evgeniya Martynenko

GRANDMA WALKED IN THE FOREST

My grandmother Ekaterina Ivanovna was a pious person. She grew up in the family of a forester and all her life
lived in a small village. She knew all the forest paths, where what kind of berry is found and where are the most hidden mushroom places. She never believed in black supernatural forces, but one day a strange and terrible story happened to her.

She needed to bring hay home from the meadow for the cow. Sons from the city came to help, and she hurried home to cook dinner. It was autumn. It was evening. I walk to the village in just half an hour. Grandmother is walking along a familiar path, and suddenly a familiar village resident comes out of the forest. Stopped, talked about village life.

Suddenly, the woman laughed loudly throughout the forest - and immediately disappeared, as if evaporated. Grandmother was terrified, she began to look around in confusion, not knowing which way to go. She rushed back and forth for two hours, until she collapsed in exhaustion. As soon as she thought in confusion that she would have to wait in the forest until morning, the sound of a tractor reached her ears. She followed him in the dark. So I went to the village.

The next day, my grandmother went to the forest companion home. It turned out that she did not leave the house, she had not been in any forest, and therefore she listened to her grandmother with great surprise. Since then, my grandmother tried to bypass that dead place, and in the village they said about him: this is the place where the goblin drove Katerina. So no one understood what it was: whether the grandmother had a dream, or the villager was hiding something. Or maybe it really was a goblin?

V.N. Potapova, Bryansk

DREAM COME TRUE

In my life, events constantly occur that cannot be called otherwise than miraculous, but all because there is no explanation for them. In 1980, my mother's civil husband, Pavel Matveyevich, died. In the morgue, my mother was given his things and a watch. The clock in memory of the deceased mother left for herself.

After the funeral, I had a dream, as if Pavel Matveyevich insistently demanded from my mother that she take the watch to his old apartment. I woke up at five o'clock and immediately ran to my mother to tell a strange dream. Mom agreed with me that the clock must be taken by all means.

Suddenly a dog barked in the yard. Looking out the window, we saw that a man was standing at the gate under the lantern. Throwing on her coat in a hurry, my mother ran out into the street, quickly returned, took something from the sideboard and again went to the gate. It turned out that the son of Pavel Matveyevich from his first marriage came for the clock. He happened to be passing through our city and came to us to ask for something in memory of his father. How he found us almost at night remained a mystery. I'm not talking about my strange dream...

At the end of 2000, my husband's father, Pavel Ivanovich, became seriously ill. Before the New Year, he was admitted to the hospital. At night, I had a dream again: as if some man urged me to ask him about something important. Out of fear, I asked how many years my parents would live, and received the answer: more than seventy. Then she asked what was waiting for my father-in-law.

In response, I heard: "There will be an operation on the third of January." And indeed, the attending physician scheduled an emergency operation - on the second of January. “No, the operation will be the third,” I said confidently. What was the surprise of the relatives when the surgeon moved the operation to the third!

And another story. I have never been particularly healthy, but I rarely went to the doctors. After the birth of my second daughter, I once had a very bad headache, well, it was literally torn. And so throughout the day. I went to bed early in the hope that my head would pass in a dream. As soon as she started to fall asleep, little Katya was brought up. There was a night light above my bed, and as soon as I tried to turn it on, I felt like I was hit by an electric shock. And it seemed to me that I was soaring high in the sky above our house.

It became calm and not at all scary. But then I heard a child crying, and some kind of force brought me back to the bedroom and threw me into bed. I took the crying girl in my arms. My nightgown, my hair, my whole body was wet, as if I had been caught in the rain, but my head didn't hurt. I think that I experienced instant clinical death, and the crying of a child brought me back to life.

After 50 years, I had the ability to draw, which I always dreamed of. Now the walls of my apartment are hung with paintings...

Svetlana Nikolaevna Kulish, Timashevsk, Krasnodar Territory

JOKED

My father was born in Odessa in 1890 and died in 1984 (I was born when he was 55 years old). As a child, he often told me about the days of his youth. He grew up as the 18th (last) child in the family, he enrolled himself in school, graduated from the 4th grade, but his parents did not let him continue to study: he had to work. Although he was a communist, he spoke well of the tsarist time, he believed that there was more order.

In 1918 he volunteered for the Red Army. To my question, what prompted him to take this step, he answered: there was no work, but you had to live on something, and there they offered rations, clothes, plus youthful romance. One day my father told me this story:

“There was a civil war going on. We were in Nikolaev. They lived in a car on the railroad. In our unit there was a joker Vasya, who often amused everyone. One day, two railroad workers carried a can of fuel oil, gagged, along the wagons.

Right in front of them, Vasya jumps off the car, spreads his arms to the side and says in a strange voice: “Hush, hush, lower, lower, the machine gun scribbles with water, fire, water, lie down!”, He falls on all fours and starts to crawl. Taken aback, the railroad workers immediately fell and began to crawl after him on all fours. The can fell, the gag fell out, fuel oil began to flow out of the flask. After that, Vasya got up, dusted himself off and, as if nothing had happened, approached his Red Army men. Homeric laughter rang out, and the poor railway workers, raising a can, quietly left.

This incident was strongly remembered, and the father decided to repeat it himself. Once in the city of Nikolaev, he saw that a gentleman in an Easter white suit, white canvas shoes and a white hat was walking towards him. The father approached him, spread his arms to the sides and in an insinuating voice said: “Hush, hush, lower, lower, the machine gun is scribbling with water, fire, water, lie down!”, Knelt down on all fours and began to crawl in a circle. This gentleman, to his father's astonishment, also fell to his knees and began to crawl after him. The hat fell off, it was dirty all around, people were walking nearby, but he seemed to be detached.

Father took what happened as a one-time hypnosis on a weak, unstable psyche: power changed almost every day, uncertainty, tension and general panic reigned. Judging by some facts, such a hypnotic effect on some people is common in our rational time.

I. T. Ivanov, village Beisug, Vyselkovsky district, Krasnodar Territory

SIGN OF TROUBLE

That year, my daughter and I moved into my grandmother's inherited apartment. My blood pressure rose, my temperature rose; writing off my condition for an ordinary cold, as soon as I let go a little, I calmly left for a country house.

The daughter, who stayed in the apartment, did a little laundry. Standing in the bathroom, with her back to the door, she suddenly heard a child's voice: "Mom, mom ..." Frightened, turning around, she saw that a little boy was standing in front of her and holding out his hands to her. In a split second, the vision vanished. My daughter was 21 years old, and she was not married. I think readers understand her feelings. She took it as a sign.

Events were not slow to unfold, but in a different direction. Two days later I ended up on the operating table with an abscess. Thank God she survived. There seems to be no direct connection with my illness, and yet it was not a simple vision.

Nadezhda Titova, Novosibirsk A

"Miracles and Adventures" 2013

The apartment is two-room, besides her and me, her grandmother and her mother also lived, who, in general, is rarely at home, since she is mostly at work (she is a doctor). So, in the figure, I roughly depicted the layout of the apartment, I think you yourself have been in such an apartment more than once. We bought a stupid air mattress from a TV store (although we didn't buy it ourselves for the most part, it was just that my parents gave me money for it) to have at least some personal sleeping place and put it in the living room. They slept on it.

There was one time, about 5 years ago, when my mother complained in the morning about the doorbell ringing. They called at night, between 2 and 3 o'clock persistently and demandingly. Mom said that every time she was surprised that no one from the family could hear them except for her.

She got up, walked into the hallway and asked, slowly opening it, “Who is there?!”. Silence was her answer each time.

We didn’t have a peephole at that time, they did it during the repair, 2 years ago, so she listened carefully, thinking that she would hear steps or a rustle outside the door. But in vain - they called again, and again they did not respond. And each time, my mother did not dare to open it, and returned to bed. In the morning, before leaving for work, she complained to me and her father that again someone came at night, persistently rang the doorbell, and did not respond. My father, by nature a skeptic and humorist, said that it was a conscience or a ghost of a salary increase that came to my mother from oblivion. Mom herself did not dare to joke about this. I, like my father, did not hear these strange calls, and thought that they were dreaming to my mother. But this was repeated every week with enviable regularity. In the end, my mother simply stopped coming, and calls at night stopped. As it turned out, only for a while.

In the old days, a wonderful fiat ruble could be purchased if, on a holy night, closer to midnight, you caught a completely black cat, put it in a bag and go out with it onto the road leading to the cemetery.

On the way or at the cemetery itself, someone who wanted to have a magic ruble met someone in a black robe who stopped the traveler and asked about the contents of the bag. The answer should have been simple: they say, I am bringing a black cat to drown. Satan (and this was him), wanting to rescue the cat, offered money for him - a million or two. If someone who wanted to get rich agreed to the proposed amount, then the end came to him, he fell through the ground. If he stood his ground, demanding only a ruble for the cat, then his reward was a wonderful inexchangeable round man, put it in your pocket and run home without turning around, and in the morning you can buy at least the whole world with this ruble.

As they say, a fairy tale is a lie, but there is a hint in it. It was this hint that I did not understand when I listened to the story of the fiat ruble on a warm summer evening by the pioneer campfire.

I always thought that everything supernatural bypasses me and my family. I even thought that all horror stories were just a fantasy. And recently I came to visit my father (he lives in Kirov, I'm in Moscow).

We sat up late, talked (we didn’t see each other for 1.5 years). They began to remember the 90s, when the whole family lived in Perm (my mother and I moved to the DC in 1998, and he moved to Kirov in 1999. Well, they didn’t work out there, and we faded). I was also surprised that he did not stay in Perm, because there he had connections and a 4-room apartment. I thought about it for so many years and did not dare to ask. Well, you never know, what personal motives. And this time I decided that in principle there is nothing wrong with the question, and we are two adults, I will understand everything. But the answer I got was not what I was expecting.
So, here's what he told me. He then worked as a truck driver and transported goods mainly in the Urals.

Well, we became friends, just do not spill water. All the two years that dad worked there, they were together shoulder to shoulder. It was time to leave, and since then they had not seen each other for twenty-five years, until, by the will of fate, they met again by chance, in one of the Moscow markets.

All as expected, went to celebrate a meeting in a cafe for a bottle of cognac. Well, when they sat down, the father noticed that on right hand he does not have two fingers, index and middle.

Are you afraid to watch horror movies, but still having decided, then you are afraid to sleep without light for several days? Let it be known to you that even more terrible and mysterious stories happen in real life than the fantasy of Hollywood screenwriters can invent. Find out about them - and you will look into dark corners with fear for many days in a row!

Death in a lead mask

In August 1966, on a desert hill near the Brazilian city of Niteroi, a local teenager discovered the half-decomposed corpses of two men. Local police officers, having arrived at the dough, found that there were no signs of violence on the bodies and, in general, any signs of violent death. Both were dressed in evening suits and raincoats, but most surprisingly, their faces were hidden by rough lead masks, similar to those used in that era to protect against radiation. The dead had an empty water bottle, two towels and a note with them. which read: "16.30 - be at the appointed place, 18.30 - swallow the capsules, put on protective masks and wait for the signal." Later, the investigation managed to establish the identity of the dead - they were two electricians from a neighboring town. Pathologists were never able to find traces of trauma or any other causes that led to their death. What experiment was discussed in the mysterious note, and what otherworldly forces killed two young men in the vicinity of Niteroi? Nobody knows about this yet.

Chernobyl Mutant Spider

This happened in the early 1990s, a few years after the Chernobyl disaster. In one of the Ukrainian cities that fell under a radioactive release, but were not subject to evacuation. The body of a man was found in the elevator of one of the houses. The examination found that he died from massive blood loss and shock. However, there were no signs of violence on the body, except for two small wounds on the neck. A few days later, a young girl died in the same elevator under similar circumstances. The investigator in charge of the case, together with a police sergeant, came to the house to conduct an investigation. They were taking the elevator up when the lights suddenly went out and there was a rustle on the roof of the cabin. Turning on the flashlights, they threw them up - and saw a huge disgusting spider half a meter in diameter, which was crawling towards them through a hole in the roof. A second - and the spider jumped on the sergeant. The investigator could not aim at the monster for a long time, and when he finally fired, it was too late - the sergeant was already dead. The authorities tried to hush up this story, and only a few years later, thanks to eyewitness accounts, it got into the newspapers.

The mysterious disappearance of Zeb Quinn

On a winter afternoon, 18-year-old Zeb Quinn left work in Asheville, North Carolina, and went to meet his friend Robert Owens. She and Owens were talking when Quinn got a message. Tensing, Zeb told his friend that he had to call urgently, and stepped aside. He returned, according to Robert, "completely out of his mind" and, without explaining anything to his friend, quickly left, and drove off so hastily that he hit Owen's car with his car. Zeb Quinn was never seen again. Two weeks later, his car was found outside a local hospital with a strange array of items: the key to a hotel room, a jacket that didn't belong to Quinn, several liquor bottles, and a live puppy. Huge lips were painted on the rear window with lipstick. According to the police, Quinn received the message from the home phone of his aunt, Ina Ulrich. But Ina herself was not at home at that moment. According to some signs, she confirmed that, probably, someone outsider had visited her house. Where Zeb Quinn disappeared to is still unknown.

Eight from Jennings

In 2005, a nightmare began in Jennings, a small town in Louisiana. Once every few months, in a swamp outside the city limits or in a ditch near the highway passing near Jennings, local residents discovered another body of a young girl. All the dead were local residents, and everyone knew each other: they had been in the same companies, worked together, and two girls turned out to be cousins. The police checked everyone who, at least theoretically, could be related to the murders, but did not find a single clue. In total, eight girls were killed in Jennings over the course of four years. In 2009, the killings stopped as suddenly as they started. Neither the name of the killer nor the reasons that pushed him to the crimes are still known.

The Disappearance of Dorothy Forstein

Dorothy Forstein was a prosperous housewife from Philadelphia. She had three children and a husband, Jules, who earned good money and held a decent post in the civil service. However, one day in 1945, when Dorothy returned home from a shopping trip, someone attacked her in the hallway of her own house and beat her to a pulp. Dorothy was found lying unconscious on the floor by the police who arrived. During the interrogation, she said that she did not see the face of the attacker, and had no idea who attacked her. Dorothy took a long time to recover from a nightmarish incident. But four years later, in 1949, misfortune again visited the family. Jules Forstein, arriving from work shortly before midnight, found the two youngest children in the bedroom in tears, trembling with fear. Dorothy was not in the house. Nine-year-old Marcy Fontaine told police that she woke up from the creaking of the front door. Walking out into the corridor, she saw that a stranger was walking towards her. Entering Dorothy's bedroom, he reappeared some time later with the unconscious body of a woman slung over his shoulder. Patting Marcy on the head, he said, "Go to bed, baby." Your mother was sick, but now she will get better.” Dorothy Forstein has not been seen since.

"Observer"

In 2015, the Broads family from New Jersey moved into their dream home, bought for a million dollars. But the joy of housewarming turned out to be short-lived: the family immediately began to be terrorized by threatening letters by an unknown maniac, who signed as "Observer". He wrote that "his family had been in charge of this house for decades" and now "it was time for him to look after it." He also wrote to the children, wondering if they "found what is hidden in the walls" and declaring that "I am glad to know your names - the names of the fresh blood that I will receive from you." In the end, the frightened family left the creepy house. Soon the Broads family filed a lawsuit against the previous owners: as it turned out, they also received threats from the "Observer", which were not reported by the buyer. But the most terrible thing in this story is that for many years the New Jersey police have not been able to figure out the name and purpose of the sinister "Observer".

"Draftsman"

For nearly two years, in 1974 and 1975, a serial killer was on the streets of San Francisco. His victims were 14 men - homosexuals and transvestites - whom he met in the city's macabre establishments. Then, having caught the victim in a secluded place, he killed her and brutally mutilated the body. The police called him a "draughtsman" because of his habit of drawing small caricature pictures that he gave to his future victims to break the ice on first meeting. Fortunately, his victims managed to survive. It was their testimony that helped the police learn about the habits of the "draughtsman" and draw up his identikit. But, despite this, the maniac was never caught, and nothing is known about his personality. Perhaps he still walks sedately through the streets of San Francisco ...

The Legend of Edward Mondrake

In 1896, Dr. George Gould published a book describing the medical anomalies he had encountered during his years of practice. The most terrible of these was the case of Edward Mondrake. According to Gould, this intelligent and musically gifted young man lived in strict seclusion all his life and rarely even allowed his relatives to come to him. The fact is that the young man had not one face, but two. The second was located on the back of his head. It was the face of a woman, judging by the stories of Edward, who had her own will and personality, and very vicious: she always grinned when Edward cried, and when he tried to sleep, she whispered all sorts of nasty things to him. Edward begged Dr. Gould to rid him of the cursed second person, but the doctor was afraid that the young man would not survive the operation. Finally, at the age of 23, the exhausted Edward, having obtained poison, committed suicide. In a suicide note, he asked his relatives to cut off his second face before the funeral, so that he would not have to lie with him in the grave.

The missing couple

In the early morning of December 12, 1992, 19-year-old Ruby Breuger, her boyfriend, 20-year-old Arnold Archambo, and her cousin Tracy were driving along a desert road in South Dakota. All three of them were drinking a little, so at some point the car skidded on a slippery road, and it flew into a ditch. When Tracy opened her eyes, she saw that Arnold was not in the cabin. Then, before her eyes, Ruby also got out of the car and out of sight. Arriving at the scene, the police, despite their best efforts, found no trace of the missing couple. Since then, Ruby and Arnold have not made themselves felt. However, a few months later, two corpses were found in the same ditch. They lay literally a few steps away from the scene. The bodies, which were in various stages of decomposition, were identified as Ruby and Arnold. But many police officers who had previously participated in the examination of the accident site unanimously confirmed that the search was carried out very carefully, and they could not miss the bodies. Where were the bodies of young people these few months, and who brought them to the highway? The police were never able to answer this question.

Kula Robert

This old shabby doll is now in one of the museums in Florida. Few people know that she is the embodiment of absolute evil. Robert's story began in 1906, when she was given to a child. Soon the boy began to tell his parents that the doll was talking to him. Indeed, the parents sometimes heard someone else's voice from their son's room, but they believed that the boy was playing something like that. When some unpleasant incident happened in the house, the owner of the doll blamed Robert for everything. The grown-up boy threw Robert into the attic, and after his death, the doll passed to the new mistress, a little girl. She did not know anything about her story - but soon she also began to tell her parents that the doll was talking to her. Once a girl ran to her parents in tears, saying that the doll was threatening to kill her. The girl was never inclined to gloomy fantasies, therefore, after several frightened requests and complaints from her daughter, they, out of sin, donated her to the local museum. Today, the doll is silent, but the old-timers assure: if you take a picture at the window with Robert without permission, he will certainly put a curse on you, and then you will not avoid trouble.

facebook ghost

In 2013, a Facebook user named Nathan told his virtual friends a story that scared the hell out of many. According to Nathan, he began to receive messages from his girlfriend Emily, who had died two years earlier. At first, these were repetitions of her old letters, and Nathan believed that this was only a technical problem. But then he received another letter. "Cold... don't know what's going on," Emily wrote. From fear, Nathan drank a lot, and only then decided to respond. And immediately received Emily's answer: "I want to walk ..." Nathan was horrified: after all, in the accident in which Emily died, her legs were cut off. Letters kept coming, sometimes meaningful, sometimes incoherent, like ciphers. Finally, Nathan received a photo from Emily. It showed him from behind. Nathan swears that no one was in the house when the photo was taken. What was it? Is the web really inhabited by a ghost? Or is it someone's stupid joke. Nathan still doesn't know the answer - and can't sleep without sleeping pills.

The True Story of "The Creature"

Even if you've seen the 1982 movie The Creature, in which a young woman is raped and bullied by a ghost, you probably don't know that this story is based on a true story. This is exactly what happened in 1974 to Dorothy Beezer, a housewife and mother of several children. It all started when Dorothy decided to experiment with a Ouija board. As her children said, the experiment ended successfully: Dorothy managed to summon the spirit. But he flatly refused to leave. The ghost was notable for bestial cruelty: he constantly pushed Dorothy, threw her into the air, beaten and even raped her, often in front of children who were powerless to help their mother. Exhausted, Dorothy called for help from specialists in the fight against paranormal phenomena. All of them unanimously told later that they saw strange and terrible things in Dorothy's house: objects flying through the air, a mysterious light appeared from nowhere. Finally, one day, right before the eyes of the ghost hunters, a green fog thickened in the room, from which a ghostly figure emerged huge man. After that, the spirit disappeared as suddenly as it appeared. What happened in the Los Angeles home of Dorothy Beezer, no one still knows.

Phone stalkers

In 2007, several families in Washington immediately turned to the police with complaints of phone calls from unknown people, accompanied by terrible threats. The callers threatened to cut their interlocutors' throats in their sleep, to kill their children or grandchildren. Calls were made at night, at various times, while the callers knew for sure where each of the family members was, what he was doing and what he was wearing. Sometimes the mysterious criminals recounted in detail conversations between family members in which there were no strangers. The police unsuccessfully tried to trace the telephone terrorists, but the telephone numbers from which the calls were made were either fake or belonged to other families who received the same threats. Fortunately, none of the threats became a reality. But who and how managed to play such a cruel joke with dozens of people who did not know each other remained a mystery.

call from the dead

In September 2008, there was a terrible train accident in Los Angeles that claimed the lives of 25 people. One of the dead was Charles Peck, who was driving from Salt Lake City for an interview with a potential employer. His fiancee, who lived in California, was looking forward to the groom being offered a job so they could move to Los Angeles. The day after the disaster, while rescuers were still removing the bodies of the victims from under the rubble, Peck's fiancée's phone rang. It was a call from Charles' number. The phones of his relatives also rang - his son, brother, stepmother and sister. All of them, picking up the phone, heard only silence there. Answering calls were answered by an answering machine. Charles' family believed he was alive and was trying to call for help. But when the rescuers found his body, it turned out that Charles Peck died immediately after the collision and could not call in any way. Even more mysterious, his phone was also broken in the crash, and no matter how hard they tried to bring it back to life, no one succeeded.