Ghost. Belarus

In the fall of 1982 who were in the field under the June three students of the Minsk vocational school decided to go to the nearby Cherven visit my grandmother his friend. Grandma took friends warmly, treated to lunch, and during lunch told them to walk in the "cursed place". This place she called the old abandoned since the beginning of the century garden in the city, where the ruins of the old hospital that burned down before the war. According to her, there are some "Ghost".

The students were listening too, in Babkin story to understand and not even laughed at him, because was thinking about something else - where and how to find and drink wine. Dine comrades left grandma's house and went straight to the nearest grocery store, where he bought two bottles of "Isabella". A prudent was captured Babkin glass.

Important was the question: where to drink? Everywhere were people hanging around the police comrades were huddled in the stairwell, but there's spooked them. Finally found some creepy deserted garden with crooked trees, where students and decided to drink wine. Grandma's warnings, meanwhile, comrades had completely forgotten, and remembered them later.

The youth was located in the old gazebo, 15 metres from the abandoned building of the old wooden hospitals. Two friends had a glass of wine, the third caught slabodka, spend too much glass in my hands, gathering strength. It cheered. Suddenly, he was sitting with a full glass in his hand, changed color. His companions turned, following his gaze in the direction of the hospital and, according to them, sobered up, and failing to get drunk.

It was about five in the evening, quite light, the sun was going down, but the sky was blue and the clouds white. Fifteen meters from them towards the corner of the hospital garden side was moving something in white clothes. Clothes, bed sheet, hide the whole body; the head was tilted forward and it is not possible to consider under the folds of the sheets the relief of the face. The body was moving completely silent and traffic was moving just as walking man moving his hands like something was moving under the sheet, but these hands were half short and gave the impression of stumps up to the elbows.

The most terrible was in the other. When the students looked at the lower part of the body, I saw that it is not! Thirty centimeters from the ground sheet dramatically over emptiness, through which was seen the grass on the ground.

The body turned slowly, not reaching a few steps up to the walls of the hospital and went straight to the students.

For panic that was quite enough. When it approached the gazebo for about a distance of 10 meters, comrades screaming jumped from it and ran through the garden to hell. Raced with glass and bottle in his outstretched hands a lot of the horror caused by the fact that, running out of the garden, they felt some invisible force had hit them in the chest and bounces them back. It turned out that they breasted across a wire, which was a fenced garden.

Safely left the terrible place, the students finished the wine and the evening went on, held near the wedding, where the locals told them a few stories about a Ghost living in the garden. According to them, a week ago buried the local pensioner whose death is directly associated with the Ghost. Going early in the morning looking for mushrooms, he met a policeman and managed to talk to him. The old man seemed cheerful and happy. In the forest he was walking through the garden, there in the garden found him: crouched, with a mask of horror on her face died of a broken heart. Claimed that he died of fright after encountering a Ghost.

Another young man said that the ill-fated hospital from such a fright he broke his arm. His friend were alone in the hospital with a girl of easy virtue, and he stood at the window to keep a lookout. Nix appeared in the face of ghosts who sailed in the air before the nose guy. Nabegavshis to death, he ran away, the rotten floor boards of the hospital broke, he fell and broke his arm. Told other cases. Such is the history of the issue.

Arriving in June, we've been looking for "the scene" — an abandoned hospital with a "wild" garden around. Slowly drive through the whole town, nothing like we have not seen. Then I turned to local residents - old man with a curious look, sitting alone on a bench in front of a private house on the main street. "Well, well,' said the old man, - know. You're old looking for a hospital? One in which a Ghost?" And he drew a finger in the sand, the location of intersections and the route that we must follow to find the old hospital. About the hospital he said that it burnt down before the war, and now people live in it and it is lined with white brick. Told immediately about the Ghost: he was seen for many years - most of the inhabitants of Cherven and the Ghost was a local man, who has not developed a family life and who died a bad death in this old hospital. The cast saw and the old man.

We went along the route indicated by the veteran, but for a long time wandered among the alleys, while other local grandmother finally showed us the place of our search. I, in General, somewhat disappointed: I was going to see something Gothic - a dark deserted wood hospital and a wild garden around. Alas, the reality was more prosaic.

Paranormal territory is occupied a square of approximately 50 by 50 meters in close and surrounded by other houses and alleys of Cherven. All in the mind, everything is open eyes. Today, as we have seen, no garden is no more. So, a few trees at the corners of the paved area. In 1991 the old burnt hospital lined with brick and turned it into a dormitory for visiting families (somewhere from under the brick still looks like burnt logs). At the same time part of the territory of the hospital garden gave local resident - he built a house here, a barn and a garage. Another part of the garden moved to the hangars of the local economy, so the garden was demolished and covered the area with asphalt. However, part of the former garden is still unattended: gnarled trees, the remains of a fence thirty years ago, the garbage piles of garbage. Demolished and the pergola, which I know the citizens of Minsk watched the Ghost.

When we examined it, we noticed a young mother, a resident of the creepy burnt hospital (now seven years ago by the hostel). She was hanging washed underpants and asked what we ratnycele.

The house is haunted, things like that, we said – and very surprised. No ghosts lived here for seven years, she had not seen.

Examining the situation, we came to the following conclusions: at least from 1950 to 1991, Ghost was observed with surprising frequency by several hundred residents of Cherven (it was even photographed, but photos we could find). In 1991, the authorities decided to use a vacant area of burning hospital and the garden around it and made the hospital dormitory, part of the land given to the owner and gave part of it to the municipal economy. When the landscape has changed beyond recognition, the Ghost is gone.

This is all very bad. The authorities of the town of Cherven, of course knowing the Ghost would have to do otherwise: create your sanctuary, a Mecca for tourists. And would have earned a lot of money. Cherven Ghost — an exceptional case of unknown phenomena, which is difficult to find equivalents elsewhere in Eastern Europe. June would be a profitable tourism center. In England, for example, the huge profits bring castles supposedly haunted, which appear much less frequently than the Ghost of Cherven.

Unfortunately, in a remote Belarusian province provincials absolutely impractical. They did everything in order; to destroy the ecological environment of the ghosts. And Ghost, which tens years were local residents, disappeared. What can I say? What's done is done. I would like in passing to give one: observation. In England, the ghosts are always associated with a certain Gothic: castles, candles, crypts. We have the same Cherven Ghost difficult to reconcile with any Gothic, and it generally falls out of the series of classic ghosts, died a bad death man, he had a family and collective problems, which he is said to have suffered a Ghost. What is Gothic? Pure realism, the hammer and sickle.

The strange thing is that the witnesses he is always seen as a Ghost, floating forty feet above the ground dressed in a sheet, hiding the face and body. There were other oddities. Why the sheet? Why? In this form he was seen at various times hundreds of people. Why the body was floating above the ground and where is his feet? It is difficult now that any guess, not having the opportunity to personally hand to touch the Ghost. Until 1991, it appeared almost every day; once the ecology of the phenomenon was roughly destroyed, the apparition disappeared Maybe should adopt in England the law protects the ghosts as well as the unique phenomena of the state: the monuments and nature reserves?

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