Glade Secrets

Glade Secrets

"Round about 200 250 meters, clearing chiming induced terror: on the bare ground here and there could see the bones and carcass taiga small animals and even birds. And over the clearing overhanging branches of trees were charred as from near the fire. Polyana was perfectly clean, devoid of any kind any vegetation. dogs, who were on the "damn cemetery, stopped eating, became lethargic, and soon perished - this is an excerpt from a letter Michael Panova from the village of Ust Cova Kezhemsky district of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. The author gave what he had heard before the war from a seasoned hunter.
It was first widely notified about the mysterious phenomenon, received later the name "devil's graveyard". These places seemed to be deliberately located relatively close to where there was a terrible Tunguska catastrophe ...
And here I am in Kezhma - old Russian village on the banks of the majestic in these places Angara told the reporter. Main village street runs along the coast for three miles. Behind the church a club - an empty bookstore, and further wooden bridge across Kezhemku, which immediately flows into the Angara. Then the road turns to the taiga. Well, it turns out not to pass me the rural executive committee, the local government, which is obliged to know everything. A few minutes later I was knocking at the door with a sign "Chairman of the Executive Committee Nikolai Vereshchagin.
Owner of the office is selected from the table, shakes my hand and offers placed. I immediately begin to:
- Perhaps you will find a frivolous topic of interest to us, but she worries a lot of people. Somewhere in your region, they say, there is a place which is called the "devil's graveyard" or sometimes "death trap". Do you know about this? Vereshchagin confidently nodded.
He got up, walked to the window and looked thoughtfully at the Angara, on the middle of the river lies the green island, where grazing terribly moved there cow.
- I was born in these places - stop watching the chairman of the executive committee. - And of course, this story I know. Such a place in the forest there. Somewhere in the vicinity of the river lie in wait, a tributary of the Angara. I myself "damn clearing" is not seen, but many times heard the stories of those who hunted nearby.
According to Vereshchagin, for the first time about the "death trap" learned in Kezhma in late 30's. An old hunter - mother's grandfather neighbor NN certain Tamara Sergeyevna Simutinoy - as he told relatives about the mysterious event that happened to him in the forest on the river or its tributary Cove Kakambare ... At Winterland Rozhkovs in remote inaccessible place for many miles from the latter at Cove Karamyshevo village, and so I lost an ox. As he there? It turns out that the local people in the past were not afraid to walk through the taiga, and even driven them to the tracks managed to overtake cattle. Lies in those places so-called Chervyanski tract - forest road, where it was possible to get to the north to the Angara and farther into the headwaters of the Lena River. Siberians often chasing herds of this the hard way, by delivering it to sell the mines.
Summer of 1938 turned out to be extremely dry. The channels of many rivers in the taiga such utter hot dry instantly, and shepherds, reducing the path, often drove their cattle directly on the stones. Reaching way to the cabin, the shepherds stopped for the night, and let their cattle graze. It is clear: far from home pet will not go - afraid. And when the morning shepherds rushed to round up a herd of one bull were missing. Searched the coastal thickets, a little deeper into the wild taiga. And suddenly saw something terrible - black, as if scorched by the circle clearing and her dead bull. Hide it was singed. The dogs growled at the sight of dead bodies, but the clearing did not.
Witnesses did not tell his grandfather what happened next. They decided if they set foot in the accursed circle? Most likely, rushed headlong out. Then, according to the old hunter, a spot was not great, just some 12 meters 15 ...
But did master cabin, where to look for that "fucking glade? He said that he knew. He took me there anyone else? Maybe someone from the local hunters would like to check out this incredible story?
- Apparently, the fables of old interested in only one man - a local agronomist. He first went to the "devil's graveyard". Better to simply ask my friend, the correspondent of the regional newspaper. He was looking for this agronomist and even found some old file that his true story.
Note the location of journalist Shakhov, I asked him before leaving:
- And you, Nikolai, believe in the "devil's graveyard"? Not invented it from the beginning this story?
- Why not believe? But I really have not found it. When hunting in those parts, to find the way to winter quarters was difficult. Curious clearing, according to the deceased before the war began the master cabin, located on Karamysheva forty kilometers, roughly the same amount he had to go to a small forest lake, about which too much was told. In fact, some people find healing from their sores. How to get to Karamyshevo? This village, consider no longer. No there is no longer live. The last time I was there ten years ago, and even more. We lived there for two vzdymschika - seasonal collector gum.
Shakhov home I did not catch, he soon found me in the hotel - a neat one-story structure. Boris, as befits a journalist, was informed. In Kezhemsky area he lived for more than fifteen years, and he was born in St. Petersburg. About the "devil's graveyard" himself had written several times in the local newspaper? And thereby contribute to the revival of interest in a forgotten phenomenon, and did not receive his explanation, he also was one of the organizers of the expedition into the mysterious region, which in recent years, it turns out, there were several .
- Glade so we did not find, - said Boris distress. - Probably not there looking for. Old people who have seen "Ferris cemetery with my own eyes, they all died ... in our local press reported these facts appeared in 1940. The publication I was looking for a long time.
Binder local newspaper, it was then called "collective farmer" in Kezhma, of course, not preserved. I had to go to Moscow and exhumation of the vaults of the Lenin Library. And then found, you know, reprinted in the local newspaper. In the old paper dealt with the agronomist Valentine Semenovich Salyagine. This man is the nature of their work was often in the most remote corners of the taiga region. I had to get up to Karamysheva there and then he heard about the "damn graveyard." Probably told this story, the owner cabin, which is called the meadow "progalyznoy.
"In a small mountain seemed dark bald head - so already reported with the words Salyagina prewar reporter Kezhma. - Land for it is really dark, crumbly. Vegetation was no. On the bare earth laid carefully grouse and fresh green leaves. After a while, learned back . At the slightest touch of needles fall off the branches. grouse outwardly unchanged. At the opening of the interior had a red tint, as it were burnt. during these short periods finding about this place in humans, there appeared a strange pain. "
There were also reports that Salyaginu once again able to visit on the same mysterious place. The picture was the same. The compass needle at this point though came in a strong oscillation.
The next summer, it was reported in the article, local lore is going to organize a campaign (posovremennomu - expedition), but the war. And Where is Salyagin?
Old-timers will remember this and say that before the war where he had disappeared. His fate could not learn.
From the analysis of the stories of eyewitnesses, we can say, the preparation of modern expeditions to the mysterious place. Soon the path Salyagina went searching group. They mostly consisted of local hydrobuilders. And only then they were joined by enthusiastic mystery of the Tunguska meteorite, scientists from different cities.
There have been reports about a phenomenon, whose existence has been difficult to confirm, and in the central press. That's after the expedition began to prepare a solid.
Organizer hydrobuilders was deputy chief surveyor of trust "Boguchangesstroy Pavel Smirnov. This is the first time he, perhaps, passed along Cova winter skiing, but never found the "devil's graveyard". Later, he met with the researcher, who gave his explanation of unearthing evidence of the disappeared agronomist. This is at the Institute of Applied Physics, Tashkent University, Alexander Simonov. Knowing nothing, he claimed, of stirring kezhemtsev enigma "burnt meadow", he arrived in Angara to test their hypothesis about the place of the actual incidence has not found the Tunguska meteorite. Simonov seriously interested in astronomy and independently done the calculations, according to which the outer body, which fell on Tunguska plateau searched and continue to seek still not where you want. The epicenter of the explosion, the force of an explosion equal to a medium-sized atomic bombs, was the region Stony Tunguska River, near the village of Vanavara, who is now the center of neighboring Kezhemsky Vanavarskogo Area Evenki National District (Krasnoyarsk Territory). Simone, a meteorite that exploded, but not on the ground, and 'in its atmosphere. Shockwave cosmic body was dropped hundreds of miles away. According to scientists it appeared that the meteorite fell to the forest somewhere near the Angara River in Kezhemsky area. It was formed in the forest logging, but to him, because of the remoteness of housing, no one paid attention. Simonov was searching for a meteorite near Kezhma, four hundred kilometers from the place of most expeditions. And it is easy to imagine that the story of "burnt meadow" he connected with the Tunguska catastrophe. Simonov suggested that this "trace" fallen meteorite, which had gone deep into the ground. Hypothesis and unexplainable phenomenon coincided, and the latter became an unexpected and attractive interpretation.
The newspaper "The Soviet Angara in 80 s rather elaborated on several expeditions, starting from the village Kodinsky River Cove, which were organized jointly by Smirnov and Simonov. In 1988, their expedition was well equipped. Simonov brought with him equipment for high magnetic measurements. Smirnov has formed several search teams moved up into the taiga helicopter.
This scale would not have been possible without the help of gatherers of the forest plant Kezhmales. His leadership has provided his helicopter available to search engines, would attract the interest of specialists to the taiga Deshembipskomu lake, which was in the area of logging, and most importantly - save it opened in most of the taiga wilderness amazingly beautiful corner.
When flying over a large area of green screens Kovoy electronic catcher not detected bursts of electromagnetic radiation, as eagerly awaited expedition members. At the same time combing the surface of the taiga, but the search also did not bring encouraging. During the last flyby instruments suddenly responded and confirmed the long-awaited burst of magnetic activity just above the river flow Cova Kakambaroy ...
Immediately after the radio contact with the group, which was the place closest. In practice nothing strange here is not noticed: The usual hilly terrain with tall pines and babbling brooks,. Allocated only one hill. From the light compass pointed in an unusual direction, the magnetic meridian when you move a few steps "swam" at 30 40 degrees to the side. Specialists geologists have confirmed that found a pronounced magnetic anomaly. However, as said, then physics, it was magnetostatic, the usual manifestation of the magnetic field, and not magnetodynamic that would confirm the original hypothesis Simonov. But background radiation here was slightly higher.
And this time failed to find conclusive evidence of the existence in our time "death trap".
Nevertheless, in the upper streams deer and Tactical one of the search teams stumbled upon the mysterious fields that avoided animal trails, and people felt there creepy feeling. The trees around such places were covered with calluses. However, a detailed survey clearing with the help of instruments and did not have time ...
- In a word, "death trap" to find so far failed - shrugged Shakhov. - A mystery remains. Although, I think, to explain the mystery may be easier ... But still interesting to once again go look for her.