Следы

— You know that close to Leningrad, the voice on the phone was absolutely flat, calm, — traces of "Bigfoot"?

— Who, who?!

— Judging by the size — calmly continued the man — "Bigfoot". The length of each foot is more than 70 cm do Not believe me — check.

They say better to see once than hear a hundred times. The same person who called the editor, he promised to take to the tracks. And what happened?

Traces really were. Chain prints of huge bare feet dragged across the clearing, disappearing in the dense willows. Heel the size of a tea saucer, five fingers, step more than two meters. Obsession, and more!

Has not passed also weeks, as unusual, the traces between Primorskoye highway and the Gulf of Finland began to circulate all kinds of rumors in mid-August, one watchman saw in the night, near the station Holguin something "large and moving"; one woman, walking in the evening with the dog, saw the same tracks in the area Novolakskogo Avenue; in Lakhta man live (even called his name) who saw the same as six months ago...

However, many, who have been "on the trail", including the author of these lines, immediately suggested the fake. And then to finally establish the truth, decided to turn to the experts — the criminalist, anthropologist, podiatrist, paleontologist...

Throwing aside all probable and improbable assumptions, and taking as a basis the very existence of traces, the experts proved authoritative... However, it is better to quote the lines of one of the conclusions:

"Given the peculiarities of the technogenic soil, we can assume that the prints are made with blunt instruments, which were struck soft blows to the soil surface. Apparently, the contours of the future "track" was pre-planned. The forgery is evident".

But again the questions: who? Why? The case led us to the laboratory of the Mining Institute S. Agamirzoeva.

— I had no idea that my "traces" could lead to absurd rumors, — said Sergey. And so it was: together with my wife, we went to sunbathe. The place is deserted, quiet... three Hours later got bored. Took a rock and began to knock in the ground for a great trail... Then I got the idea to try to reproduce the steps of an imaginary giant...

Science does not ignore the sensations, both genuine and imaginary. But if the first are open, then the second only conjectures, which need time to stop. The story of "footprints" — a good example.

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