Journey to the underworld.

Journey to the underworld.

- In a clearing in the woods fucking near Pskov, it seems hidden entrance to the dungeon of hell. I met there with a devilish creature which, of course, has a mind! - Says Sergey Moscow engineer Martianov. On that same meeting, he was restless, trying to catch Cerberus - a faithful dog of Satan.

The legend of the underground monsters, occasionally coming to the surface, can be heard in Tajikistan. There, in the Kulyab region on the bank of the river Vakhsh, stands the mysterious mound, composed of rounded stones. Scholars differ in the explanations of emergence, this eight-meter embankment. Some say it's just a bunch of trash, which are composed of stones, cleaned the peasants from the surrounding fields. Others claim that the strange pile built by soldiers of Alexander the Great, whose army when it was held here. But locals will tell you in confidence that under this mound is the entrance into the fiery underworld inhabited by evil spirits, who still occasionally appear at the top surrounded by black lights and the smell of sulfur ... Similar stories, however, tell a very different countries including in Russia. And most often they featured evil Kerber.

Cerberus or Cerberus (as someone more like it) - a mythological monster, a satanic dog, who, according to legend, guards the entrance to the underworld. From time to time he leaves office and walk out to the surface. And woe to those who meet on a fiery monster. From a man leaving only charred remains. For the tale - not bad. But can you seriously believe that there Kerber? A team Martyanova convinced that this is so. And provide evidence to the belief that they were not born in a vacuum.

- For the first time a "satanic dog" I ran seven years ago - says Sergey Martianov - when a friend invited me to have a rest in the summer in his native village near Pskov. On the evening gatherings elderly loved to tell the incredible stories of Cerberus - a "huge black dog with eyes of fire spewing from the mouth of the fire." Its supposedly can sometimes meet on the Devil clearing in a wetland aspen grove that a kilometer from the village. Listening to these fables, I was mentally grinned, saying, that's how caught on Russian soil Conan Doyle's story about Baskervilsky monster!

But the day before departure to Moscow with a friend we decided to go for mushrooms. Come on, of course, in the woods to a clearing of the very devil. Because of the notoriety local fans of the "silent hunting" bypass its a mile away, and because there always seems to mushroom invisible. There and then rolled out to me from the bushes mysterious black ball. I was literally blown away: as he ran through the surface of the fiery flashes, and when he rolled through a puddle of rain water, and hiss in the air a cloud of steam.

The ball disappeared in the same mysteriously as it had appeared. Only in the land of withered grass left the spot. "As a vanished" - I thought, and realized that the stories about the mysterious Cerberus are the real soil. After a cursory glance I met something they could have taken for the rapid black creature, spitting sparks ...

In Moscow, Sergei sat down first thing in the library and did not come out of the reading room as long as he was sure that Conan Doyle did not have to strain your imagination especially, coming up with his dog Baskervilles. The fact that the English folk tradition is literally filled with stories about the "huge dogs, spewing flames out of its mouth," for many centuries in the swamps Shastal Britain and terrorizing the locals.

After these stories and indeed you may decide that a satanic dog Kerber real. But Sergei Martianov, in his own words, in neither God nor the devil believes. But he graduated from the Moscow Power Engineering Institute (Moscow Power Engineering Institute) and because he saw in these legends the ...

- You know, - he says - it struck me that each occurrence of the same type is accompanied by signs of Cerberus - sparks, flames, explosions ... all seems like a natural phenomenon which has a high energy. I even decided first that all the tricks of ball lightning. And satanic black dog referred to eyewitnesses, it is quite appropriate. Scientists have documented the existence of black fireballs. That left one mystery. Ball lightning usually occur during thunderstorms. And in my case (in the day when I came across a black ball), the weather was perfect. In addition to the descriptions of eyewitnesses Kerber always arose not in the sky, but how is out of the ground ...

Offered a possible clue to the group entered Martyanova theoretical physicist Andrei Anokhin. It turns out that under the ground too thunderstorms. Scientists have long known the so-called piezoelectric effect when tested against strains in some crystals generate electric potentials. (This effect is working in some pickup players.) So, in terrestrial rocks, experiencing a strong contraction, may also appear colossal power of the electric charges. It is obvious that sometimes underground lightning sputtered on the surface.

- By adopting this version as a working hypothesis, we decided to organize an expedition to the already well-known to you damn clearing where when I came to meet Kerber and whose title suggests that there may be manifested forces of the underworld - continues the story of S. Martianov. - Prepared devices that would warn us in advance of the impending release of energy. Guarded during the week. And the devices did not disappoint ...

Here the story begins Martyanova the strangest. Yes, they saw the clearing flamed crimson stain. Yes, right out of the ground there was something charcoal gray. All as expected. But then went to have "unintended miracles."

According to the participants of the expedition, "Black Lightning" behaved not as a blind natural phenomenon, but as a rational animal. Kerber "bypassed" clearing in a circle, alternately burning sensors installed there. From an expensive Japanese camera tripod there was only so ALLOY glass lens. After the demonstration, purposeful destruction of instruments black "something" was at the center of the clearing and slowly absorbed into the soil, like a drop of ink in a blotter. And only then will the people let go strange numbness that does not allow them to get off the ground during this time.

- I'm a believer, - said S. Martianov. - And yet I can not help feeling that I have personally seen a living hell, or even what that creation of the underworld. Now I will not rest until they unravel the nature of this phenomenon.