BASE OF REPTILOIDS IN UNDERGROUND LABYRINTH UNDER AKSAY

Not far from the large city of Rostov-on-Don, or rather, even in its suburbs, people have discovered strange underground structures for centuries: Deep underground tunnels, grottoes, caves of obviously artificial origin.

Underground passages lead to no one knows where for many kilometers. According to enthusiasts, the length of underground passages exceeds a hundred kilometers!!! It is no coincidence that I mentioned enthusiasts. It is only enthusiasts who are engaged in such anomalies - after all, as always, official science and archeology stubbornly refuses to notice such zones. So, according to the estimates of all the same independent experts, these dungeons are at least several thousand years old. Everyone who has ever been there points to their artificial origin. The purpose of creating such a giant underground structure is still unclear. At least a little to reveal the secret of this miracle, I think that the latest knowledge that was described in the book "The Road Home" will help us.

Locals, when it comes to dungeons, are strongly advised not to go there, even on pain of death. Locals experience panic at the mere thought of trying to get into the underground labyrinth. Many people talk about many strange cases of death of people trying to explore the caves. Cattle and other domestic animals have repeatedly disappeared at the entrance to the caves. Often found only gnawed bones!!!

A few years ago, the military tried to use the underground labyrinths for their own purposes. The command of the North Caucasian Military District planned to build a fortified secret control bunker in the catacombs in case of a nuclear war. Rolling up their sleeves, they set to work. Measurements were taken, soil samples were taken, the area was carefully studied. Several groups were organized to study the length of the underground passages. Two soldiers with a walkie-talkie and a flashlight in their hands in each of the groups went through cave after cave, labyrinth after labyrinth. Their path was tracked on the surface by radio.

Everything went as well as possible, however, there was no underground fortified bunker for the control of the North Caucasian military district near Aksai. All work was suddenly and abruptly stopped. The military retreated from this accursed place in a panic. The entrance to the dungeon was covered with a thick layer of reinforced concrete. We tried our best - we spent hundreds of tons of selected concrete on it!

An emergency order to stop work came from Moscow after radio contact with one of the groups exploring the dungeons suddenly stopped, and the group did not go to the surface. Rescuers were dispatched to search. After some time, the rescuers managed to find two soldiers, or rather what was left of them - only the lower half of the body of each of them !!! From the waist and below the leg in boots - the rest seemed to have evaporated. The radio was cut in an amazing way into two parts. Moreover, further studies showed that the cut was so filigree that not even a single small crack remained on the electronic circuit boards. A real piece of jewelry!!! By the way, there was no blood either - the tissues of the bodies of the soldiers were slightly melted at the site of the cut. There is work - a laser.

The case was immediately reported to Moscow. An urgent order came from the Ministry of Defense: Stop all work immediately! Remove people and equipment! The entrance to the dungeon is securely sealed with reinforced concrete! Why and why in the order was not explained. Each of you, if you want to explore the dungeon, and now you can easily find this reinforced concrete wall with easily distinguishable traces of formwork. The question remains: What is it that so frightened our brave military with their missiles and nuclear power? And why close up the entrance to the old dungeon with tons of concrete?
The military classified information on these events in order not to raise a panic, but the information surfaced as a result of the death of Oleg Burlakov, a researcher of the catacombs. He also died, he was cut in half, but the lower part remained untouched, but only the bones remained from the upper part.
For centuries, local historians have mystified the Aksai catacombs. A couple of hundred years ago, a strange-looking overseas merchant came to Aksai - as a result, it turned out to be a member of the secret Masonic order of the Jesuits. He spent more than one year in Aksay. During his stay, he spent a lot of money looking for something. What he was looking for, no one could understand. Constantly equipped large groups of diggers, carefully studied the area. It became clear to everyone that the foreigner was not looking for a treasure or treasure. The money that he spent during this time on diggers and on all the work would be more than enough for several treasure hoards.

After all, none of the locals wanted to work near those dungeons for any money. The merchant had to recruit and bring new people all the time - after a while people scattered for unknown reasons.

Whether the merchant managed to find what he was looking for remained a mystery behind seven seals. It is only known that according to the ancient books of the Jesuit Masons, which, according to some sources, are at the origins of the Roman Catholic Church, it is written that the area near Aksay is the holy land, somehow connected with their deity, whose cult they worship - namely reptile-Lucifer. For them - to God, and for us - to Satan!!!

This information interested visiting diggers, who decided to take a walk through the dungeon, taking a dog just in case. However, they fell into a trap: having gone several hundred meters deep, the diggers noticed that the walls converged behind them in a couple of steps, and after a few seconds they parted again. Apparently, the mechanism was so ancient that it did not have time to work in time, enabling the diggers to avoid danger. The dog accompanying the diggers whined and, having fallen off the leash, rushed back through the maze ... On the way back, the diggers decided to go around the ill-fated place, but this time they fell into a trap, a hole formed behind them, and then the floor took its original position. What secrets do Aksai's dungeons hide? After all, people had to pay for them with their lives, and no one was supposed to leave this labyrinth, falling into a trap!

Residents of Aksai say that their ancestors, living in the Kobyakovsky settlement, made human sacrifices to a certain Dragon, which crawled out of the ground and ate people. This image can often be found in chronicles, folk tales, among architectural monuments, archeology. However, the legend of the dragon lives on to this day, because just a few decades ago, during the collapse of the floor of the local cannery, workers witnessed a terrifying picture: they noticed the body of a huge snake below, which quickly appeared and disappeared in the failure, a devilish roar was heard, dogs , who were present during the search of the manhole - broke off their seats and, with their tails between their legs, ran headlong away, while the workers looked dumbfounded, could not come to their senses. This passage was walled up, but the dogs decided to return to this place after only a week.
These eyewitness accounts became the basis for the theory that this dragon did not crawl out of the ground, but out of the water. After all, according to the testimony of geological exploration near Aksay, there is a lake at a depth of 40 meters, and a sea at a depth of 250 meters. The underground waters of the Don form another river, in the Don there is a funnel that draws in any objects that have fallen into the strong current of the river. Until now, they cannot find trailers and cars that got into the Don from the old Aksai bridge. Divers who explored the bottom of the lake stated that this funnel pulls objects with great force, even steel safety cables are stretched to the limit.

According to eyewitnesses, UFOs appear over the city quite often, they seem to emerge from the ground, hang in the air and dive underground again. Once a translucent UFO floated over the city and humanoid figures were visible. One UFO blinded the sleeping Aksai with rays of light, when these rays reached the warships on the banks of the Don, the military made an attempt to attack the night guest and fired at him with guns, but this did not bring any visible result. The UFO fled the scene and dived somewhere underground. Another case is described by many eyewitnesses: three spherical UFOs were spinning in the sky of the old Aksai bridge. The outgoing light was so bright that it began to interfere with traffic on the freeway, dozens of drivers were fascinated by this spectacle. The arriving police squad could not budge the drivers, so they had to call for help from Aksai.

Underground network of tunnels piercing the Earth

There are many interconnected caves and artificial underground cavities in the Middle East, India, China, Iran, Afghanistan, Europe, the USA, Russia and many countries.
120 km from Saratov, in the area of ​​​​the Medveditskaya ridge, the Kosmopoisk expedition led by the candidate technical sciences Vadim Chernobrov was discovered in 1997 and in subsequent years mapped an extensive system of tunnels, surveyed for tens of kilometers. The tunnels have a circular or oval cross-section with a diameter of 7 to 20 m and are located at a depth of 6 to 30 m from the surface. As they approach the Medveditskaya ridge, their diameter increases from 20 to 35 m, then - 80 m, and already at the very hill the diameter of the cavities reaches 120 m, turning under the mountain into a huge hall.
Judging by numerous publications in newspapers, magazines and the Internet, ball lightning is often observed in the area of ​​the Medveditskaya ridge (in terms of the number of observed ball lightning, it ranks second in the world) and UFOs, which sometimes disappear underground, which has long attracted the attention of ufologists. Members of the Kosmopoisk expedition hypothesized that the ridge is a "crossroads" where underground roads converge in many directions. On them you can even get to Novaya Zemlya and the North American continent.
In the article “Tunnels of Disappeared Civilizations”, E. Vorobyov said that the Marble Cave in the Chatyr-Dag mountain range, located at an altitude of 900 m above sea level, was formed on the site of a tunnel about 20 m in diameter with perfectly even walls, going deep into the mountain range with slope towards the sea. The walls of this tunnel are well preserved in places and do not have traces of erosion activity from flowing waters - karst caverns. The author believes that the tunnel existed before the beginning of the Oligocene, that is, its age is at least 34 million years!
The newspaper "Astrakhanskiye Izvestia" *** reported the existence of Krasnodar Territory under Gelendzhik, a vertical shaft with a diameter of about 1.5 m and a depth of more than 100 m with smooth, as if melted, walls - stronger than cast-iron tubings in the subway. Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Sergey Polyakov from Moscow State University found that the microstructure of the soil in the section of the mine wall was damaged as a result of physical impact by only 1-1.5 mm. Based on his conclusion and direct observations, it was concluded that the high bonding properties of the walls are most likely the result of simultaneous thermal and mechanical effects using some high technology unknown to us.
According to the same E. Vorobyov, in 1950, by a secret decree of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, it was decided to build a tunnel through the Tatar Strait in order to connect the mainland with Sakhalin by rail. Over time, the secrecy was removed and the doctor of physical and mechanical sciences L. S. Berman, who worked there at that time, told in 1991 in her memoirs addressed to the Voronezh branch of Memorial that the builders were not only laying again, but were restoring the existing tunnel, built in ancient times, extremely competently, taking into account geological features the bottom of the strait.

The same ancient tunnels, judging by the publications, radio and television programs of previous years, were found by the builders of modern metro tunnels and other underground communications in Moscow, Kyiv and other cities. This suggests that, along with metro tunnels, rivers hidden in concrete boxes, sewerage and drainage systems, and the latest, equipped with the latest technology, “autonomous underground cities” with power plants, there are also numerous underground communications of earlier eras under them *** . They form a layered, intricately intertwined system of countless underground passages and chambers, and the oldest structures are deeper than the metro line and probably extend far beyond the city limits. There is information that in Ancient Rus' there were underground galleries hundreds of kilometers long, connecting the largest cities of the country. Entering them, for example, in Kyiv, it was possible to get off in Chernigov (120 km), Lyubech (130 km) and even Smolensk (over 450 km).
And not a word is said about all these grandiose underground structures in any reference book. There are no published maps of them, no editions dedicated to them. And all because in all countries the location of underground utilities is a state secret, and information about them can be obtained mainly only from diggers who study them unofficially.

Of the underground utilities found in other countries, it should be noted the tunnel discovered on Mount Babia (height 1725 m) in the Tatra-Beskydy mountain range, located on the border of Poland and Slovakia. UFO sightings have also occurred quite often in this place. Polish ufologist Robert Lesniakiewicz, who is studying this anomalous zone, in search of information about the events that took place here in the past, contacted another Polish specialist in this kind of problems, Dr. Jan Payonk, a university professor in the New Zealand city of Dunedin.
Professor Payonk wrote to Lesnyakevich that in the mid-1960s, when he was a teenager and a high school senior, he heard this story from an elderly man named Vincent:

« Many years ago, my father said that the time had come for me to learn the secret that the inhabitants of our area have long passed from father to son. And this secret is a hidden entrance to the dungeon. And he also told me to memorize the road well, because he would show it to me only once.
After that, we silently walked on. When we approached the foot of Babia Gora from the Slovak side, my father stopped again and pointed out to me a small rock protruding from the mountain slope at an altitude of about 600 meters ...
When we leaned on the rock together, it suddenly trembled and unexpectedly easily moved to the side. An opening was opened into which a cart could freely enter along with a horse harnessed to it ...
A tunnel opened up in front of us, going down rather steeply. My father moved forward, I followed him, stunned by what had happened. The tunnel, similar in cross section to a slightly flattened circle, was straight as an arrow, and so wide and high that a whole train could easily fit in it. The smooth and shiny surface of the walls and floor seemed to be covered with glass, but when we walked, our feet did not slip, and steps were almost inaudible. Looking closely, I noticed deep scratches in many places on the floor and walls. It was completely dry inside.
Our long journey along the inclined tunnel continued until it led to a spacious hall, similar to the inside of a huge barrel. Several more tunnels converged in it, some of them were triangular in cross section, others were rounded.

... the father spoke again:

- Through the tunnels that diverge from here, you can get into different countries and to different continents. The one on the left leads to Germany, then to England, and on to the American continent. The right tunnel stretches to Russia, to the Caucasus, then to China and Japan, and from there to America, where it connects with the left one. You can also get to America through other tunnels laid under the Earth's poles - North and South. Along the way of each tunnel there are "nodal stations" like the one we are currently in. So, without knowing the exact route, it is easy to get lost in them ...
His father's story was interrupted by a distant sound that was both a low rumble and a metallic clang. This is the sound a heavily loaded train makes when it starts off or brakes sharply ...

- The tunnels that you saw, - the father continued his story, - were built not by people, butpowerful creatures living underground. These are their roads for moving from one end of the underworld to the other. And they move toflying fire engines. If we were in the way of such a machine, we would burn alive. Fortunately, the sound in the tunnel can be heard at a great distance, and we had enough time to avoid such an encounter. Well, besides, these creatures live in another part of their world, and rarely appear in our area ... ".

Another mysterious place, similar to the Medveditskaya ridge, Mount Babiu, Nevado de Cachi, and, perhaps, Shambhala is Mount Shasta with a height of 4317 m in the Cascade Mountains in northern California. In the Shasta area, UFOs are often observed ...
English traveler and explorer Percy Fawcett, who worked for many years in South America and repeatedly visited North America, mentioned the long tunnels located near the volcanoes Popocatepetl and Inlaquatl in Mexico ... and in the region of Mount Shasta. From local residents, he heard stories about tall, golden-haired people who supposedly inhabit the dungeons. The Indians believed that these were the descendants of people who had descended from heaven in ancient times, unable to adapt to life on the surface and gone into underground caves ...

Some people even managed to see the mysterious underground empire.
Andrew Thomas in his book "Shambhala - an oasis of light" also wrote that in the mountains of California there are straight, like arrows, underground passages leading to the state of New Mexico.
Maxim Yablokov in the book "Aliens" They are already here !!! told about one interesting fact. Conducted underground nuclear tests at a test site in Nevada (USA) led to very curious consequences. After 2 hours, at one of the military bases in Canada, located at a distance of 2000 km from the test site, a radiation level was recorded that was 20 times higher than normal. It turned out that next to the Canadian base there was a huge cave, which is part of a huge system of caves and tunnels of the continent ...

UNDERGROUND REPTOID CIVILIZATION

We have already written about reptoids - a race of intelligent lizards that arose simultaneously, and most likely before humans. The publication wrote that the lizards left the stage, giving way to a man. We are correcting: there are good reasons to believe that the lizards, having left the surface of the planet to man, went deep into the Earth.

Land unknown to us

Despite all the technological advances, a person still cannot say that he knows the planet like his apartment. There are places where the scientist's foot has not set foot yet. In other corners, if he appeared, it was only to write on the rock “I was here” and leave this area in pristine purity for another 200-300 years.

Studying the oceans, a person has descended to a depth of 11,000 m, but is in absolute ignorance of what is deeper than 200-300 m. (To visit does not mean to study) As for the natural voids of the Earth, here a person has passed no further than the “hallway” and even has no idea how many rooms there are in the underground “apartment” and what size they are. He only knows "many" and "very large".

Endless underground labyrinths

There are caves in absolutely all parts of the world, on all continents, up to Antarctica. Underground corridors intertwine into endless labyrinth tunnels. Crawling through these galleries for 40-50 km without reaching the end of the tunnel is quite a common thing for cavers, not worth mentioning. There are caves 100, 200, 300 km long! Mamontov - 627 km. And none of the caves is considered to be fully explored.

Scientist Andrei Timoshevsky (better known as Andrew Thomas), who studied Tibet and the Himalayas for a long time, wrote that the monks led him into tunnels of infinite length, through which, according to them, one could go to the center of the Earth.

After an underground nuclear explosion at the Nevada test site in the caves of Canada, located at a distance of more than 2,000 km, the radiation level jumped 20 times. American speleologists are sure that all the caves of the North American continent communicate with each other.

Russian researcher Pavel Miroshnichenko believes that there is a network of global underground voids, stretching from the Crimea through the Caucasus to the Volgograd region.

In fact, we have another continent - underground. Isn't he inhabited by anyone?

masters of the underworld

Our ancestors did not think so. They were just sure of the exact opposite. Traditions and legends about intelligent lizards living in underground labyrinths are among the peoples of Australia, among North American Indians, among the same Tibetan monks, Hindus, inhabitants of the Urals and Rostov region Southern Federal District. Is it a coincidence?

Most likely, as a result of climate change, life for pangolins on the surface of the Earth has become impossible. If the unreasonable creatures remained on the surface and died, the reptoids went underground, where there is water, there are no deadly temperature drops, and the deeper it is, the higher it is due to volcanic activity.

Leaving the surface of the planet to man, they took possession of its underground part. Undoubtedly, someday there will be a long-awaited meeting. And most likely it will happen in South America. It was here that the wall dividing the two civilizations thinned to a thin partition.

Chinkanasy

Even Jesuit priests wrote about the presence in South America of a huge number of underground caves connected together. The Indians called them "chinkanas". The Spaniards believed that the Chinkanas created the Incas for military purposes: for an early retreat or a covert attack. The Indians assured that they had nothing to do with the dungeons, they were created by snake people who live there and really dislike strangers.

The Europeans did not believe, in their opinion, these "horror stories" were intended to prevent the valiant settlers from reaching the gold hidden by the Incas in underground caches. Therefore, there were a lot of attempts to explore the Chinkanas of Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Ecuador.

Expeditions do not return

Most adventurers who set off on a perilous journey through the underground labyrinths did not return back. Rare lucky ones came without gold and talked about meetings with people covered with scales and huge eyes, but no one believed them. The authorities, who absolutely did not need the state of emergency with the missing "tourists", filled up and covered up all known entrances and exits.

The Chinkanas and scientists also investigated. In the 1920s, several Peruvian expeditions disappeared in the Peruvian chinkanas. In 1952, a joint American-French group went underground. The scientists planned to return in 5 days. The only surviving member of the expedition, Philippe Lamontier, came to the surface after 15 days, slightly damaged in his mind.

What in his incoherent stories about endless labyrinths and lizards walking on two legs that killed everyone else was the former truth, and what was the fruit of a sick imagination, could not be established. The Frenchman died a few days later of the bubonic plague. Where did he find the plague in the dungeon?

Reptoids out?

Who lives there, in the dungeon? Exploration of the caves, including the mysterious chankanas, continues. Returning members of the expeditions are sure that creatures with intelligence live in the depths of the caves. The stairs and steps they found in the dungeons, the halls, the floors of which are paved with slabs, the kilometer-long gutters hollowed out in the walls, leave no other options. And the deeper and further the researchers go, the more often they come across all sorts of “surprises”.

Scientists in France, England, the USA and Russia have repeatedly recorded powerful streams of electromagnetic waves, the source of which is located in the depths of the Earth. Their nature is unclear.

EXTRACT FROM “INTERVIEW WITH REPTILOID LACERT”

Lacerta: When I talk about our underground home, I'm talking about large cave systems. The caves you have discovered close to the surface are tiny compared to real caves and huge caves deep in the ground (2,000 to 8,000 of your meters, but connected by many hidden tunnels to the surface or to surfaces in the vicinity of the caves). And we live in big and developed cities and colonies inside such caves.

The main areas of our caves are Antarctica, Inner Asia, North America and Australia. When I talk about artificial sunlight in our cities, I don't mean the real sun, but the various technological light sources that illuminate caves and tunnels.

There are special cave areas and strong UV light tunnels in every city and we use them to heat our blood. In addition, we also have some areas of sunny places on the surface in remote areas, especially in America and Australia.

Question: Where can we find such surfaces - near the entrance to your world?

Answer: Do you really think that I will give you their exact location? If you want to find such an entrance, you must look for it (but I would advise you not to.) When I arrived on the surface four days ago, I used an entrance about 300 kilometers north of here, close to big lake, but I doubt you could find it (there are only a few occurrences in this part of the world - more - much more in the north and east.)

As a little tip: if you're in a narrow cave or tunnel or even something that looks like an artificial shaft, and the deeper you go, the smoother the walls become; and if you feel an unusual warm air flowing from the depths, or if you hear the sound of flowing air in the ventilation or lift shaft, and find a special kind of artificial things;

also - if you see a wall with a door made of gray metal somewhere in a cave - you could try to open that door (but I doubt it); or, you got underground into an ordinary-looking technical room with ventilation systems and lifts in depth - then this is - probably - the entrance to our world;

if you have reached this place, you should know that we have now located you and are aware of your presence, you are already in big trouble. If you have entered the round room, then you should look for one of the two reptilian symbols on the walls. If there are no symbols or there are other symbols, then you are probably in more trouble than you think, because not every underground structure belongs to our species.

Some new tunnel systems are being used by alien races (including hostile races). My general advice, if you find yourself in a strange underground structure for you: run as fast as you can.

Rumors about the existence of some kind of underground civilization have existed for a long time and they appeared in the middle of the 20th century thanks to amateur researchers. Mysterious underground cities and many kilometers of tunnels, which are clearly artificial in origin, are found all over the world - from Altai to Turkey and South America. The mystery of UFO ufology is also associated with the underworld, since very often eyewitnesses of UFOs observed their appearance from underground or from water depths.

For a long time, evidence of the existence of a mysterious underworld with technologies inaccessible to us was not given importance, but recently scientists have confirmed this conjecture. NASA research together with French scientists made it possible to discover under the earth a giant network of tunnels and underground galleries stretching all over the world - in Altai, the Urals, in the Perm region, in the Tien Shan mountains on the border of China and Kyrgyzstan, in the Sahara Desert and even in the South America. And this is not about the archaeological finds of cities that once existed on the surface of the earth, but about underground tunnels and structures. How these buildings were erected, scientists do not know. Obviously, we are talking about technologies that are not yet known to us.

Jan Paenk, a contemporary researcher from Poland, claims that the whole earth is permeated with a network of tunnels, which have one distinctive feature in common - their edges are so smooth and even that they resemble glass, but at the same time they are made of rock and incredibly durable. Jan Paenk also cites the testimony of a miner who told him that once, when laying a mine, they stumbled upon as many as two such tunnels, but by order of the authorities they were quickly concreted. Jan Paenk believes that tunnels run not only on land, but also under water - under the seas and oceans, connecting all continents with each other.

Such tunnels have been found in Ecuador, South Australia, USA, New Zealand. Vertical wells up to several hundred meters deep lead to them, having the same “melted” surface as the tunnels themselves. Wells, like tunnels, are found on different continents.

Metal library in Ecuador

For example, in South America, an ethnologist from Argentina, Juan Moritz, was engaged in the study of mysterious tunnels. For the first time, he studied and even mapped the system of tunnels found in the province of Morona Santiago. The underground entrance is cut in the rock and leads down to a depth of 240 meters. At different levels there are platforms from which strictly rectangular tunnels depart, turning at right angles. In general, their length is hundreds of kilometers, and they look like a labyrinth. There are ventilation holes in the walls, which work to this day and are located strictly periodically. The surface of the walls and ceilings is smooth, as if polished.

Sometimes the tunnels turn into gigantic halls, in one of which the ethnologist found furniture! The furniture was made of a material that looked like plastic - it was something like a throne and seven chairs. In addition, gold figurines of animals, metal plates were found, some of them depicted astronomical symbols and space travel. Moritz claimed that he also found a huge metal library in one of the halls.

In 1976, a joint Ecuadorian-British expedition to these dungeons took place, but no finds were made, much less the library itself. The only thing that has been found is a burial dated 1500 BC. e. It is believed that Moritz, for some reason, deliberately took the expedition members to the wrong place.

Erich von Daniken, a Swiss writer and film director, ufologist, author of the famous book "Chariots of the Gods", claimed to have seen a giant library with metal books in the Ecuadorian underground tunnels. The entrance to the dungeon, according to him, is located in the Cueva de los Teyos cave, which was discovered during an expedition in 1969. Daniken, following Moritz, claims that the underworld extends all over the globe, and the library is located where wild Indian tribes now live.

However, in this whole story between Moritz and Daniken, who allegedly saw the library, there are many contradictions and oddities. Daniken claimed that Moritz showed him the entrance to the library, while Moritz himself denied this. In an interview in 1973, Moritz claimed that the entrance to the tunnels was guarded by an Indian tribe. In this regard, there are many guesses and assumptions that Moritz was bound by some kind of vow of silence for the right to access the underworld.

Initially, Moritz was shown the entrance to the underworld by a certain Petronio Jaramillo, who traveled there with his father back in the middle of the 20th century. The secret of these tunnels was entrusted to him by the Indians, with whom his father was friends. His stories surpassed all the most fantastic assumptions. Jaramillo could not take the metal books out of the caves, because, according to him, they were too heavy. He did not take photographs or sketches, and in the 1990s he was killed.

Volga region, Crimea, Caucasus, Sakhalin

in Volgograd and Saratov regions the famous anomalous zone- a chain of old hills called "Medveditskaya ridge". There are many rumors about this place among ufologists and local residents. UFOs and fireballs have been spotted here many times. One of the rumors is just related to underground tunnels, which, according to the description, are very similar to Ecuadorian tunnels - absolutely straight caves, smooth walls, large sizes, diameter - up to 20 meters. Local old-timers talk about it. In the 1980s, a whole pond disappeared in the area of ​​the Medveditskaya ridge, and it could not be refilled due to the fact that the water went underground somewhere. For a long time the entrance to the dungeons could not be found. Finally, luck smiled at the researchers, and as a result, they compiled maps of underground tunnels in the area of ​​​​the Medveditskaya ridge. The tunnels were oval or round in shape, perfectly straight, widened and passed into large halls, from which they branched into several directions.

Speleologists in Crimea mountain range Ai-Petri is a huge empty space, tunnels between the Crimea and the Caucasus were also discovered. In the Caucasus, ufologists have confirmed that there are tunnels opposite Mount Arus that lead to the Crimea and stretch all the way to the Volga region. In addition, in the Caucasus near Gelendzhik, scientists explored a long well about 100 meters deep, leading underground. The walls of the tunnel are smooth and even. Scientists came to the conclusion that they were subjected to both thermal and mechanical processing, the nature of which is unknown. Strong radiation was recorded in the mine.

It turns out that they knew about the tunnels back in the days of the USSR, but then information about them was classified. In the 90s, one of the scientists who participated in the construction of a tunnel through the Tatar Strait from the island of Sakhalin, said that the tunnel was not so much built as the one that already existed there was restored. This tunnel was very ancient and was built quite competently, taking into account geological knowledge, strange mechanisms and other finds were found in it, which disappeared into the bowels of the special services.

Poland and Slovakia

On the border between Slovakia and Poland, there is the Tatra Beskydy mountain range. One of the local mountains - Babia Mountain with a height of 1725 m - has a specific fame among the locals. Locals talk about tunnels that start in this mountain. As you may have guessed, the descriptions of these tunnels coincide with the descriptions of the Ecuadorian and Crimean underground passages. Large diameter, smooth polished walls that almost shine, a strict straight line, spacious halls that branch out further into several tunnels. According to a local resident named Vincent, who traveled through these tunnels with his father, they lead to different countries - to Germany, England, Russia and even America.

Researchers agree that underground there is a single network of tunnels that runs under the oceans and connects all continents together. The tunnels are so large in diameter that even a train can easily pass through there. Is it possible that there is some kind of underground civilization that lived on our planet before us? And is it possible that its representatives still live there?

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So, back to that trip Barchenko. At that time, he never found the threshold of Shambhala. But I met some people who allegedly made regular pilgrimages to Shambhala. Some argued that this spiritual center was located beyond the cordon, others - deep underground, others - in caves and inaccessible mountain "oases". In general, everyone talked about Shambhala as much as they had enough imagination. Here it should be noted that people making such statements can be found in the regions of Altai and especially Tibet, Mongolia, China, India, Afghanistan, East Kazakhstan. But it is precisely these people who, in essence, do not have real information. They themselves are in search of this abode, and already in a rather long search.

Anastasia NOVICH Crossroads

Dungeons of the world

That is how the theme of this chapter should be carefully formulated, because everyone knows that no one will embrace the immensity.

"CAPITAL OF OUR COUNTRY, MOSCOW"

The city was founded in 1147, when Prince Yuri Dolgoruky killed the local boyar Stepan Kuchka and seized his estate. Since then, Moscow has been repeatedly destroyed by enemies and rebuilt again. Wooden houses were replaced by stone ones on solid foundations deepened into the ground. The defensive function was performed by monasteries with underground passages. Usually, the beginning of the creation of a network of these passages is attributed to the 15th century. The underground labyrinths of the Kremlin, Borovitsky Hill and Kitai-gorod, Simonov, Donskoy, Chudov and other monasteries were discovered, but little explored.

Not far from the Kitai-Gorod metro station, the John the Baptist Convent, founded in the 15th century, is still preserved. This monastery had a sad reputation: women of noble birth were forcibly tonsured there - so selfish relatives seized their shares in the inheritance. In 1610, the former Tsarina Maria Petrovna Shuiskaya was tonsured here, who was forcibly separated from her husband, the deposed Tsar Vasily Ivanovich Shuisky. In 1620, the nun Paraskeva died - in the world Pelageya Mikhailovna - the second wife of the eldest son of Ivan the Terrible. The mysterious Dosifeya, “the real Princess Tarakanova,” and the evil landowner Saltychikha, who sadistically killed serf beauties, were kept here.

In this monastery, under the guise of madmen, women criminals and political criminals were brought from the Detective Department. Adherents of the old rite, who did not want to renounce their faith, were brought here from the schismatic office. Some were kept in "stone bags" under strict supervision, while others skillfully converted even nuns to their faith. Such were the whips of Akulina Lupkin and Agafya Karpova, who set up a "God's house" in their cells for the joy of the whips. Akulina died a natural death, and Agafya was executed in 1743.

There are also legends about the dungeons of the Novodevichy Convent in Khamovniki. These are mainly crypts, some of which have been discovered and studied by scientists. The terrible legend about the last abbess of the monastery, Leonida Ozerova, who did not want to give the Bolsheviks the church wealth accumulated over the centuries, excites the imagination and went underground with the treasures. Some say that Leonida died guarding objects sacred to her, others that she only hid them, and she herself went out through the underground passage and disappeared. And this is quite likely, since some of those valuables later turned up in private collections.

It must be admitted that there are much more legends about the Moscow dungeons than they themselves have been explored. An interesting question is about the underground passage under the Moscow River. Under Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, the master Azancheev made several attempts to dig it. The twice unfinished passage was flooded, the documents are silent about the future, but it is known that Azancheev was granted the nobility. On this basis, many conclude that this move was built after all. There are persistent rumors about secret passages under the Tsaritsyno estate (in its very real vast basements there are now exhibition halls), about the Masonic dungeons of the Menshikov Tower, about the Dorogomilov quarries ...

In the area of ​​\u200b\u200b"Kropotkinskaya" lies the terrible Chertolye, which received its name from the Chertoryy stream, which flowed where Sivtsev Vrazhek lane is now. In high water, the stream overflowed, but when the water subsided, potholes and potholes remained on the banks of the stream, like the devil dug.

The Oprichny yard was located in this area: there were torture huts, casemates, scaffolds with chopping blocks. Diggers claim that deep underground there are voids, passages and galleries - the remains of the terrible prisons of Ivan the Terrible.

You can meet the statement, they say, from the basement of any house within the Garden Ring, you can get anywhere, even in Moscow Metro. Indeed, the basements of old houses, especially church and manor houses, often have walled-up passages leading to God knows where. Sometimes the building itself is no longer there, but the dungeons with passages have been preserved, and stubborn diggers manage to get to the bottom of it.

Back in 1912, the newspapers wrote about the discovery of underground passages in Bogoslovsky Lane, on Bolshaya Dmitrovka, under the house of the Yusupov princes at the Red Gate, between the Novodevichy Convent and the Gubner manufactory, under the Donskoy Monastery, the Golitsyn Hospital and the Neskuchny Garden ...

The man who laid his life on the study of the mysterious underground world of Moscow was called Ignatiy Yakovlevich Stelletsky.

He was born in 1878 in the Ekaterinoslav province in the family of a teacher. After graduating from the Kyiv Theological Academy, he left to work as a teacher in Palestine - the land of "a thousand caves". There, Stelletsky became interested in archeology and, returning to Moscow, organized the Commission for the Study of Underground Antiquities and himself became its chairman. He collected traditions, legends, rumors, eyewitness accounts and, relying on them, conducted research. He discovered underground passages from the Round Tower of the Kitaigorod Wall, from the Tainitskaya Tower of the Simonov Monastery and the Taininskaya Tower of the Kremlin, a white-stone passage from the corner Arsenal tower The Kremlin, the voids in the depths of Borovitsky Hill, under Nikolskaya, Troitskaya, Spasskaya and the terrible Beklemisheva Tower, in the basement prison of which the tongue of the boyar Beklemishev was once pulled out.

His whole life's work was the search for the legendary library of Ivan the Terrible - a collection of books brought from Constantinople by the king's grandmother - the Byzantine princess Sophia Paleolog. The scientist believed that the books were hidden somewhere in one of the numerous dungeons of the Kremlin or very close to it. Stelletsky died in 1949 without finding his Liberia. He was buried at the Vagankovsky cemetery, but the grave has not been preserved. His library and numerous records also perished. The main work of the scientist "Dead books in the Moscow cache" was published only in 1993.

Excavations in the Kremlin were also carried out later, but their results were not advertised. In 1978, while digging a trench near the Grand Kremlin Palace, they dug up an underground room of about nine square meters with brick vaults, where a human skeleton lay. In the early 1980s, a 40-meter tunnel clogged with earth was excavated, the walls of which were decorated with multi-colored tiles.

In 1989, on the site where one of the churches of the exploded Chudov Monastery used to rise, an old crypt was discovered. In a stone sarcophagus lay a human-sized wax doll dressed in a military uniform. It was the burial place of Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich, who died in 1905 in the explosion of a bomb thrown by Kalyaev. Since there was little left of the body, a doll dressed in the uniform of Sergei Alexandrovich was placed in the sarcophagus, and the remains were collected in a vessel and placed at the head.

« Everywhere and everywhere the dungeons are brought by time and people into a state of, if not complete, then very great destruction. The Kremlin did not escape the common fate, and therefore one cannot deceive oneself with the thought that it is enough to open one passage and it is already easy to pass along it under the entire Kremlin, if not under the whole of Moscow. In fact, a journey through underground Moscow is a jump with obstacles, and very significant ones, the elimination of which will require great effort, time and money. But all this is nothing in comparison with the possible ideal result: underground Moscow cleaned, restored and illuminated by arc lamps would be an underground museum of scientific and any interest ..."(I. Stelletsky)

Now Stelletsky's dream has come true: there is such a museum! This is the Museum of Archeology of Moscow on Manezhnaya Square. It is located underground at a depth of seven meters at the site of archaeological excavations of the nineties. The most remarkable part of the exposition is the pillars of the ancient Voskresensky bridge across the Neglinka from the time of Ivan the Terrible. In addition, the museum presents the most interesting artifacts discovered by archaeologists: items of medieval life and weapons of Muscovites, a collection of tiles, valuable items from unclaimed treasures, religious objects from the necropolis of the Moiseevsky Monastery.

Maps and descriptions of underground Moscow began to be compiled from the end of the 18th century. What is documented is mainly wells, channels of rivers and streams piped into pipes, sewers, that is, structures of a purely utilitarian purpose.

The most famous everyday writer Vladimir Gilyarovsky spoke a lot about underground Moscow. The subject of his research was underground taverns and dens, as well as the bed of the Neglinka River. These places were dirty in all respects, but Neglinka could generally be considered the Moscow analogue of the Roman cloaca.

The first attempts to build a sewage system in Moscow were made as early as the 14th century: at that time, a canal was dug from the Kremlin to the ill-fated Neglinka to drain sewage.

The townspeople were supposed to drain sewage into cesspools, from where they were scooped up by goldsmiths-sewage workers and taken out of the city in tubs. But the goldsmiths had to be paid, so the irresponsible townspeople continually strove to dump the garbage somewhere far away from their eyes or dig a canal under the house to drain all the dirt into the nearby river. So the Neglinka and Samoteka were completely ruined, and the Yauza and the Moskva River were pretty polluted: in order to avoid the stench, small rivers had to be blocked with vaults and cleaned underground.

In 1874, the “Design outlines of the sewerage of the city of Moscow” were presented to the Moscow City Duma, which were discussed for a long time, but were never approved. The laying of the sewer network began only twenty years later under the mayor Nikolai Alekseev, a man of vigorous activity and a great mind. Since then, sewerage has been constantly built and expanded, and today its total length is equal to the distance from Moscow to Novosibirsk. More information about the history of the Moscow sewerage will be told to those who wish at the Museum of Water in Krutitsy, located in the building of an old pumping station.

Museum visitors will not be taken to the sewer, but Gilyarovsky went down there and left us a vivid description of what is underground. Finding two brave escorts, Uncle Gilyai climbed into the fetid Moscow sewer through a hatch not far from Trubnaya Square. The underground channel was clogged with mud, and "something kept slipping underfoot." What it was, Gilyarovsky was even afraid to think about, because once he himself witnessed how they tried to dump a still alive, albeit deafened person into the dirty and smelly waters of the Neglinka. “True, I say: we go after people,” the guide confirmed his fears. A couple of years later, when clearing the channel, bones “like human ones” were indeed found.

These unfortunates could have been drugged, robbed and killed in one of the underground taverns located right there, near the modern Trubnaya Square. “... Deep in the ground, under the whole house between Grachevka and Tsvetnoy Boulevard, there was a huge basement floor, all completely occupied by one tavern, the most desperate robbery place where the underworld had fun to the point of insensibility ...” The upper, “front” part of this tavern was called Hell, and lower - the Underworld. The police did not look here, there were no detours, and they would not have led anywhere: under the house there were underground passages left from the Mytishchi water pipeline, arranged back in Catherine's time, the above-ground parts of which (Rostokinsky aqueduct and Alekseevsky water pump) are considered famous Moscow sights.

« The story of the first assassination attempt on Alexander II on April 4, 1866 is connected with the tavern "Hell". Meetings were held here, at which a plan of attack on the tsar was developed ... The organizer and soul of the circle was the student Ishutin, who led the group that lodged in the house of the petty bourgeois Ipatova on Bolshoy Spassky Lane, in Karetny Ryad. By the name of the house, this group was called the Ipatovites. Here the idea of ​​regicide was born, unknown to other members of the "Organization" ... Among them was Karakozov, who unsuccessfully shot at the king". (V. Gilyarovsky)

Moscow diggers love to travel along the Neglinka riverbed and along the old collectors. Sometimes there are excursions to the safest places for extreme people with good health and strong nerves.

Those who want to avoid extreme sports can also come into contact with the old Moscow sewerage, and at the same time they do not even have to pay.

At the intersection of Pokrovka and Chistoprudny Boulevard stands the profitable house of the grain merchant F.S. Rakhmanov, built in the very late XIX century. On the side, behind the alley, there is a long and very steep staircase leading deep underground to the oldest toilet in Moscow.

This is the only surviving and still operating of the ten “retirades” opened simultaneously with the laying of the first stage of the Moscow sewerage system.

Other dungeons of Moscow of a completely different purpose, which were secret in the past, are also open to visitors. Bunker-42 on Taganka, located at a depth of 60 meters underground, began to be built in the early fifties and worked for 20 years. There were always 300-500 people here, air regeneration and purification systems, sewerage and other amenities worked. The maximum capacity of the bunker is 3,000 people for three months. In the 80s, the bunker was abandoned, then bought by a commercial organization and turned into a great attraction. Preserved tunnels with semicircular ceilings, upholstered in lead, offices of superiors, tables of ordinary employees, a conference room. All rooms are decorated very simply, without frills. At one of the walls, you can hear the subway trains passing by - yes, the usual Moscow metro, which was also supposed to serve as a shelter in case of war.

The Izmailovsky bunker is more luxurious. It was intended for Stalin himself and for the top leadership of the country. Its area is huge - 93 thousand square meters. m, troops could hide underground and, according to some, even tanks.

Part of this bunker serves as a museum. The round meeting room has excellent acoustics: a person standing in the center of the hall can speak in a whisper, and the sound will be carried throughout the room. It is said that empty earthenware vessels were built into the ceiling to achieve this effect. This was done because the aging Stalin was physically unable to speak loudly. In his office there is a massive desk covered with green cloth, an armchair, and a bookcase. In other rooms - showcases with exhibits of the forties.

Another part of the bunker, under the former Cherkizovsky market, is abandoned. Not so long ago, a scandal broke out: it turned out that the old bomb shelter was turned into an illegal cheap hotel, or rather in a brothel. Soon the Cherkizovsky market was destroyed.

Legends say that a tunnel led from the Izmailovsky bunker towards the Kremlin, which was last used during the storming of the White House and was blown up at the same time.

Another bunker, smaller and not so deep, is at the All-Russian Exhibition Center. It is located right in the building of the House of Peoples' Friendship. They say that this building was also created for Stalin, but, according to archival information, no one used the bunker. It seems that an underground passage leads from the bunker, which ends under the sculpture of Lenin in front of the pavilion. That is why the sculpture has not yet been removed.

The capacity of the bunker is 300 people. There are lounges, a large pantry, an air filtration room, and an office for the General Secretary. The equipment allowed people to stay underground for two days. Until 1971, provisions and water were regularly replenished in the bunker.

This "museum" is under the protection of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, and it takes 6 hours to bring it to a state of readiness.

The Supreme Commander-in-Chief had one more bunker, equipped in 1942 under the "Near Dacha" in Kuntsevo at a depth of 15-17 meters. Journalists were allowed in there several times, despite the fact that the bunker is still secret. The underground premises are in excellent condition, they are reliable and comfortable. An ordinary inconspicuous door leads there, which can be found in any entrance. A spacious office has been preserved, trimmed with oak and Karelian birch, in which Joseph Stalin held meetings of the Defense Council. Nearby is his bedroom - a very small room, where there is only a bed and a bedside table. Also underground was its own kitchen, dining room and even a small diesel power plant. According to rumors, one of the Metro-2 lines leads to this bunker.

There are also myths about other underground bunkers: in the Kremlin itself and on the Lubyanka. The most mysterious and "promoted" of them is the Sovetskaya metro station, located under Tverskaya Square. No one has been able to go there, journalists are not allowed there, but nevertheless, no one denies its existence. It is believed that its official name is "object of civil defense on Tverskaya Square."

They say that the same "object of civil defense" is under the station "Chistye Prudy" (formerly "Kirovskaya"), where the General Staff was located during the war years. They prove the existence of a whole underground city under the Ramenskoye district, designed for thousands of people. Allegedly, there is a direct branch of the secret metro from the station "Biblioteka im. Lenin”, and in the event of an atomic war, the intellectual elite of the country had to descend from the library halls to the secret station and go to the bomb shelter.

Even in Moscow there is one underground museum, completely devoid of an ominous veil. It is located on Lesnaya Street under the sign "Wholesale trade in Kalandadze Caucasian fruits." The official name of the museum is "The Underground Printing House 1905–1906". In that tenement house, more than a hundred years ago there was a secret revolutionary printing house, and the store served as a front. This museum is quite small - two rooms, a kitchen and a basement, but quite interesting. The interiors of the premises have been completely restored and well illustrate the living conditions and life of poor Muscovites, and they lived, it must be admitted, modestly and crampedly, according to modern concepts - they huddled.

Under the warehouse of the store in the basement of the house, a well was dug to drain groundwater, and another small cave was dug in its side wall, where an American portable printing press stood. The store was opened in the name of Mirian Kalandadze, a port loader from Batumi, who had experience in trade and a “clean” reputation. In fact, no business was conducted, the store was unprofitable: fruits were brought from the Caucasus irregularly, so if the police decided to look into Kalandadze's trading affairs, everything would quickly come out. However, the underground printing house operated very successfully - the police never managed to find it, despite the fact that the police unit was located literally nearby, on the opposite side of the street, and there was a police post near the house itself. After working for a year, the printing house was liquidated, and the cover shop closed. The museum on this site was opened in 1924, and its organizers were the same revolutionary printers who once published a newspaper here.

MOSCOW REGION

Underground defensive passages and "hiding places" - each of the fortified cities surrounding Moscow had underground secret passages to water sources: Yaroslavl, Rostov the Great, Suzdal, Tver, Kaluga, Rzhev, Mozhaisk, Vereya, Volokolamsk, Przemysl, Tarusa, Kashira, Aleksin; Joseph-Volokolamsky, Nikolo-Berlyukovsky and Simonov monasteries in the Moscow region.

The Chernigov Skete is located three kilometers northeast of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, in Sergiev Posad, on the northern shore of the eastern bay of the upper Korbushin pond. On the contrary, on south coast, the buildings of the former Gethsemane Skete are located, which have survived much worse.

In the past, in official documents, the Chernigov Skete was called the "Cave Department of the Gethsemane Skete." The legend refers to its beginning in 1847, when the holy fool Filippushka, accepted by Metropolitan Philaret to live in the Lavra, began to dig caves there. In fact, two years earlier, wooden cells had been built in a grove on the northern shore of the bay, in one of which Filippushka probably settled.

The description of the Gethsemane skete for 1899 says: “... Philip and his employees began to dig a small square hole, which he later began to expand, make underground corridors from it and separate small caves for cells in them; the middle large one was intended as a meeting place for the cave-dwellers for a common prayer.” From 1849 to 1851, excavators, carpenters, and masons, armed with laurel, were already working in the caves, turning the middle cave into a comfortable chapel, which was a log house buried in the ground, with windows cut through in its upper part protruding from the ground. The underground passages that branched off in different directions were turned into vaulted underground corridors lined with bricks with the same vaulted small caves on the sides. In the autumn of 1851, the cave chapel was consecrated as a temple in the name of the Incorporeal Forces.

By the end of the 19th century, these caves were significantly expanded, and ground churches were built above them, first wooden, and at the end of the 19th century - stone. The skete has turned into a rather extensive complex in the Old Russian style. At the same time, the former middle cave of Filippushki turned into an altar, to which a vast underground refectory with a vaulted ceiling was attached from the west. The southern part was returned to the monastery, in the northern part there is a boarding school for disabled children. There are guided tours in the Cave Church.

During the recent restoration in the New Jerusalem monastery three underground passages were discovered, unfortunately already collapsed. They diverge from the monastery in different directions and at different distances. Due to the risk of collapses and mountains of debris inside, it was not possible to explore them to the end. The moves are low, clearly intended for emergencies and not for everyday life. Only their entrances are available for inspection.

Russian landowners sometimes acquired underground passages in their estates. Usually these passages were laid at a shallow depth and collapsed long ago or were deliberately filled up.

The Sviblovo estate on the Yauza changed many owners: from Fyodor Shvibla, governor Dmitry Donskoy, to the merchant Ivan Kozhevnikov, who built a cloth factory on the other side of the river. However, he was not the first industrialist here: a hundred years before that, an associate of Peter I, Kirill Naryshkin, built a brick house, a church, a malt factory and a kitchen here. It is difficult to say which of the owners built the underground passage from the estate to the very bank of the Yauza, especially since not so long ago it was filled up during the renovation of the estate.

The existence of a passage to Sviblovo is documented, but in many cases we are forced to be content with only rumors.

In the village of Avdotino, Stupino District, some buildings of an old estate have been preserved, which in the 18th century belonged to the famous educator-mason Nikolai Novikov. He created the first private printing house in Russia and, with his bold satires, aroused the wrath of Empress Catherine II. The Empress can be understood: she was frightened by the terrible events of the French Revolution. By her order, Novikov was arrested and taken to the Shlisselburg fortress without trial. Pavel I granted him freedom, but Novikov, who lost his health and fortune, did not live long.

Traditions have been preserved about the secret passages and underground halls dug by him in Avdotino for Masonic meetings. One of the passages allegedly led to the neighboring Trinity-Lobanovo, which belonged to the Volkonskys. They searched for these passages for a long time, but never found them.

Many legends about underground passages are also connected with the preserved estate in the village of Voronovo, standing on the old Kaluga road. It is believed that the first passage was dug from the main manor house to the stone church built in 1709. At the end of the 18th century, General Artemy Vorontsov built a luxurious palace with a horse yard in the estate and laid out a park with picturesque stone pavilions. A new tunnel was cut from the palace to the horse yard, through which a horse could pass, and secret galleries were led to gazebos and other buildings.

But in 1812, all this was burned down: the next owner, the Moscow governor-general Rostopchin, set fire to his house himself so that Napoleon would not get it. Several eyewitnesses testify to this, and even the Napoleonic general noted in his diary that he found only ashes in Voronovo and a note pinned to the gate: “I set fire to my palace, which cost me a million ...”

However, the act of the count aroused not admiration, but horror among his compatriots: too many valuables were destroyed by him in vain. In addition, the owners of estates who suffered from Napoleon could claim some compensation from the Russian government, and Rostopchin, who burned down his palace himself, clearly did not fall into this category. Then the general began to deny it and claim that it was not he himself who burned down his house, but the enemy. But they did not believe him, and besides, rumors spread that the count did not suffer as much as he was trying to prove, and that he prudently demolished his treasures in the dungeon and hid there until better times. The count denied the accusations and defiantly did not return to Voronovo.

A hundred years later, history repeated itself: the last owner of Voronov, Countess Sheremeteva, frightened by the events of the February Revolution, left the estate without luggage. But the Bolsheviks did not find especially valuable things in the estate either. Where did they go?

During excavations on the territory of the estate, researchers discovered several wide tunnels blocked by rubble. Some valuable items, mostly metal, were also found in these underground passages. Hopes that the paintings would someday be found have long since evaporated: the canvases would not have survived two hundred years in the underground dampness.

120 kilometers from Moscow, in the city of Alexandrov, there was a country palace of Ivan the Terrible. Here tourists will be told about the manners and customs of the king. About how he married eight times, and unloved wives sent to monasteries or killed. How he fed the fish in the pond with the corpses of his enemies, and how fat and tasty the fish served at the royal table was. They will show the underground casemates, where the unfortunate prisoners were tortured, and other, more peaceful, but also underground rooms, where food supplies were stored. Suffering from persecution mania, Grozny loved dungeons, and even the royal bedchambers were built underground for the sake of safety. Tourists are shown these rooms: carved beds, carpets, embroidered bedspreads and no windows.

On the banks of the Pakhra River there is an extensive system of caves, both natural and artificial. Usually, Nikitsky quarries and a large group of Novlensky caves are distinguished, among which are called the Syanovsky quarries, Kiseli, Novo-Syanovsky, Pioneer and others. The length of the underground labyrinth is very large, and it is believed that some of the caves were dug in the times of Ancient Rus' for the extraction of limestone.

On weekends, Syany is visited by dozens and even hundreds of people. The entrance to the dungeon is called the Cat's Eye. The passages and halls of the quarries have also been given original names: Mlechnik, Pike, Venus hole - a woman with a good figure fits perfectly into it.

At the entrance to the quarry there is a notebook - a journal of visits, where you definitely need to check in, going down, and then a second time, leaving the caves. Under the ground it is strictly forbidden to litter and even more so to kindle fires. Flashlights should be directed downwards, and not in the face of oncoming people.

The Nikitsky quarries are another huge cave system discovered in the mid-fifties. Currently, part of the caves is equipped for excursions. There are many halls and passages with enticing names in the system: Wet Galleries, Ezhovaya, Chicken and Dokhlomyshina; Commander's Hall, Lake of the Drunken Drummer, Chagall's well... Some caves are considered an anomalous zone.

SAINT PETERSBURG

Despite the fact that St. Petersburg is a city in a swamp, its oldest underground passage is almost the same age as the city itself. It was dug in the Sovereign's bastion of the Peter and Paul Fortress at the beginning of the 18th century during the restructuring of the original wood-and-earth fortress into a stone one and is located in the thickness of the sloping outer wall for the safe movement of the fortress garrison from the left flank of the bastion to the right.

It is a tunnel 97 meters long and about two wide. The brick walls and vaults were not painted or plastered. 25 embrasures were made in the outer wall; in the 19th century, they were laid during the repair of the wall.

The fortress was never used for defense purposes, so the underground passage served as a storage room, and then it was completely covered up, discovered only in the fifties of the XX century when laying a heating main.

The restoration of the postern and the casemate with which it is connected was a gift from the Kingdom of the Netherlands for the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg. Now the underground passage is open to the public.

Another passage was arranged in the Trubetskoy bastion of the Peter and Paul Fortress, but it was also covered up and has not yet been dug up.

There are other historical dungeons in St. Petersburg. Under Labor Square (Blagoveshchenskaya Square) there is an underground part of the Kryukov Canal, hidden in a sewer back in the early 1840s. This underground tunnel with granite walls and brick vaults, was considered one of the most sinister St. Petersburg slums and was described in the novel of the same name by Vsevolod Krestovsky: bandits took refuge and hid the loot there. The authorities took action, and in the 1870s, the entrance to the canal from the Neva side was closed with bars and filled up.

However, in the spring of 1912, the soil began to subside on the square, and then a huge pit formed altogether - this was the collapse of the arches of the Kryukov Canal. After dismantling the already rusted grate, the engineers sailed on a raft through stinking underground waters and found that the structure was completely dilapidated. Then the canal was filled up completely and forgotten about it. Only in the 1990s, when an underground passage was being built on Truda Square, the builders stumbled upon the remains of a stone vault. The unique relic was preserved and made part of the design of the modern crossing.

This concludes the list of explored and explored dungeons of the Northern capital. In most underground spaces, there are only digger enthusiasts. So gloomy fame acquired Shuvalovsky Park after in 1988 two teenagers fell into a dungeon under Mount Parnassus, and only one of them managed to be saved. According to the diggers, under the park there is extensive system dungeons. Whether these are the secret passages of the former owner of these places, the freemason Count Shuvalov, or the fortifications of the times of the First and Second World Wars, it is difficult to say: after the tragic incident, they did not examine them, but simply filled up the entrances with soil.

They say that under the Alexander Nevsky Lavra there is a whole labyrinth of small rooms connected by narrow passages. Probably, initially they served as a monastic prison, and later they were abandoned. Now they are partially flooded by the waters of the Monastyrka River, and the entrances to them are walled up for safety. Diggers nevertheless penetrated into the dungeon of the Lavra through one of the crypts at the Nikolsky cemetery and found weapons and grenades from the Civil War.

Mikhailovsky Castle was built in less than three years on the site Summer Palace Elizabeth Petrovna by special order of Paul I. For forty days the castle was considered the residence of the emperor. Pavel was very concerned about his safety, so he wanted the castle to be surrounded by water on all sides. For this, artificial channels were specially dug, and drawbridges were thrown over them. According to legend, in case of a sudden flight from the castle, several underground passages were dug, which the emperor could use in case of danger. But he did not have time to do this, but on the contrary: according to one version, it was through the underground passage that the conspirators who killed Pavel entered the Mikhailovsky Castle.

In the neighboring Summer Garden, there also seem to be underground passages dug by order of Peter I. For a long time it was believed that they were destroyed long ago, however, during the restoration of the Summer Garden after the flood of 1924, an entrance to a deep dungeon was found near the Coffee House, from which there was a high and rather wide tunnel with brick walls. He led to a small vaulted hall, from which passages went towards the Field of Mars and to the opposite side of the Fontanka River. It was not possible to pass through them: after ten meters, strong iron bars blocked the path. The tunnels were inspected, described and… filled in. Since then they have not been found.

After the outbreak of World War I, an angry mob stormed the German embassy and ransacked it. However, only the doorkeeper who did not leave his post was injured, the rest simply were not in the building: by some unknown way they managed to escape. Then information surfaced about the existence of an underground passage between the German embassy and the neighboring Astoria hotel, because both buildings were built by the same company. Nicholas II solved the problem wisely, ordering the confiscation of the hotel and the adjacent plot in favor of the treasury.

They say that there is an old bunker near Smolny that can even withstand an atomic bombing. During World War II, he served as a command post. During the war, a bunker was also built under the park of the Forestry Academy, and now it is flooded, just like most of all bomb shelters during the war.

Enthusiast-researchers claim that there are underground passages in almost all central districts of St. Petersburg. Entrances to the catacombs were seen in the 30s on the street. Architect Rossi, on the square. Ostrovsky, on the Fontanka embankment. It is possible that in the area of ​​Sennaya Square there are several tiers of underground structures. These connecting and intersecting basements stretch from Nevsky Prospekt to Lermontovsky. According to rumors, there is an underground passage in one of the houses on the Fontanka, which once belonged to Platon Zubov. This house is famous for its "rotunda" - an entrance with six columns and a spiral staircase. Legends say that there are underground passages and hiding places under the Menshikov Palace, it is believed that the disgraced favorite hid his untold wealth there.

Litovsky Avenue has long been a cluster of thieves' raspberries and dens. A whole complex of underground structures has developed there: cellars, cellars, underground taverns and brothels connected by secret passages. Unfortunately, these places are mostly explored by diggers, not scientists. There are many interesting finds - gramophones, porcelain figurines, thieves' tools ... Some hope to find the legendary treasures of Lenka Panteleev there.

There is a legend that the FSB building on Liteiny Prospekt has multi-storey basements with terrible torture chambers, boxes for medical experiments, and even a brothel for employees. But this is unlikely: the Neva is too close.

The atmosphere of these semi-mythical and unexplored dungeons is recreated by the Horrors of Petersburg Museum, which is actually located on the surface. But another museum - "The World of Water of St. Petersburg" - is partially underground. He talks about the history of the water supply and sewerage of St. Petersburg and causes delight in children and great interest in adults.

SURROUNDINGS OF SAINT PETERSBURG

Catherine II built the Gatchina Palace as a gift to her favorite Grigory Orlov, but then their relationship changed, and Orlov was forbidden to approach St. palace, although the documents say otherwise: the underground passage was built simultaneously with the palace itself.

There is a version that it was this underground passage that Alexander Fedorovich Kerensky used, running away from the sailors in 1917.

He really mentioned in his memoirs that an employee of the palace came to him and indicated that he knew a secret, unknown underground passage that went into the park outside the walls of this palace-fortress. But judging by his further words, he himself hastily fled in some other way, and several of his people came out through the underground passage.

You can go down into the underground passage 130 meters long directly from the main halls on the second floor. In the wall of the front bedchamber there is a secret door to a dark narrow spiral staircase leading to the lower floor to the emperor's dressing room, and then to the palace cellars.

This passage was not secret, on the contrary, the passage and cellars of the palace were used to amuse the guests. Thanks to good acoustics, the echo here repeats up to four syllables, and visitors to the Gatchina Palace were entertained with special "chants". Because of this, the exit from the tunnel to the shore of the Silver Lake was called Echo Grotto. The most famous of the old "chants" - "What flower is not afraid of frost?! - Rose! ”,“ What was the name of the first maiden ?! - Eva!”, “Who stole the clamps?! - You!". The guides say that once upon a time, horse harness was hung along the walls of the tunnel, and then for some reason it was removed. For some reason, the little Grand Duchess ran there and, seeing the empty space on the walls, exclaimed in bewilderment: “Who stole the clamps?” "You! .. You! .. You! .." echoed.

A popular question among tourists is: “Who ruled us?! - Paul!" They say that the name of the ill-fated emperor echoes up to 30 times!

However, you should not abuse the patience of the underground echo - you can inadvertently wake up the ghost of Paul I himself. Thus, in the memoirs of the daughter of the main guardian of the palace, a case is described when in the mid-twenties, walking with a friend, she wandered into the grotto and loudly shouted the name Paul. In response, from the darkness came: "He died!" The girls ran in horror, it never occurred to them that someone could play a trick on them.

According to unverified information, there is another underground passage that connected the Gatchina Palace with the Priory Palace. During the strengthening of the foundation of the palace, the restorers really stumbled upon an underground passage leading towards the reservoirs, but they were able to walk through it only about a hundred meters.

On the Oredezh River, near the village of Rozhdestveno, Gatchina Region, not far from the Siversky Canyon, there is a Holy Cave and a Holy Spring. The terrain there is very beautiful: steep banks, hills, huge boulders, clear springs, beautiful forests, flowering meadows ... Fossils of the Paleozoic era are often found in these places. The cave, nicknamed the Saint, apparently served as a place of worship since ancient times. In the 15th century, a temple stood over it. It has long disappeared, but until now, underground waters sometimes bring crosses, chains, and coins to the surface. Many legends are associated with this cave: they say that a whole network of underground tunnels radiates from it. Many notice a strange glow or human figures in it. Such caves are Leningrad region Not unusual. In the Slantsy district, near the village of Zaruchie, on the banks of the Dolgaya River, at the foot of the mountain, there is a Monashka cave. Once a church was erected over the cave, but it was blown up. The cave itself is half-filled and you can only go through it for fifteen meters.

But the dungeons of Peterhof are not at all mysterious, although very interesting. There is an excursion "Secrets of Peterhof Fountains" - tourists are led through dark, sinister-looking underground aqueducts, where the intricate mechanics of the famous fountains and their unique gravity-flowing plumbing system are located. Tourists are shown working adits under the grottoes of the Grand Cascade, chambers under the fountains "Favorite" and "Basket", turn on the "Water Road" for them. And visitors are allowed to turn on and off the cracker fountain "Sofa" by pouring water on those walking upstairs. Special sliders regulate the height of the fountain jets.

There is also a legendary unexplored dungeon in Peterhof - this is an underground passage under Olgin's pond. They say that one of its exits is on the island where there is a cottage for friends of Nicholas I, and the other is in the cellars of the Great Peterhof Cathedral.

Sablino is located 40 kilometers from St. Petersburg, in the vicinity of which there are a lot of attractions: two waterfalls, ancient barrows, the site of Alexander Nevsky before the battle with the Swedes, the former estate of Count A.K. Tolstoy, as well as more than ten caves. The largest of them - "Levoberezhnaya" - is open only to organized groups visitors: the total length of its passages is five and a half kilometers, and the "wild" tourist can easily get lost. The entrance to it is located near the bridge over the river Tosna. There are three in the cave underground lakes, quite deep and extensive, several large beautiful halls with unusual names - Two-Eyed, Space, Column, Jubilee, Little Red Riding Hood and others. The walls of the caves are made of white and red sandstone, and the vaults are partly made of greenish limestone. Stalactites hang from the ceiling, and the floor is covered with spherical formations - "cave pearls". Those who want to tickle their nerves can squeeze through the Cat's hole. You can do this only lying down, pressing your hands to the body. Even in summer, you need to dress warmly for this excursion: it is always +8 degrees in the cave.

Hundreds of bats winter in the Sablinsky caves. This is the largest population in the region. It is impossible to touch them or even illuminate them with bright light, since a mouse awakened in winter dies of hunger.

In 2005, on the day of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, a chapel was consecrated in the Left Bank Cave. It serves to perpetuate the memory of the lost travelers - geographers, geologists, polar explorers, speleologists, climbers who gave their lives in the service of science.

The Taitsky water pipeline is a gravity water supply system of Tsarskoe Selo, built in 1773-1787 under the direction of the military engineer Baur, the same one who built the first Mytishchi water supply system in Moscow.

The Taitsky water conduit consisted of open (about five kilometers) and underground (slightly less than four kilometers) canals with storage ponds and grottoes. Water came from the Hannibal or Soninsky springs. Initially, it was wooden, and twenty years later it was rebuilt in stone. This water supply system supplied water to the entire population of Tsarskoye Selo, Sofia and Pavlovsk, the palace itself and all park fountains until 1905, when the new Orlovsky water supply was launched. By that time, the condition of the conduit was already critical, and soon it completely failed. At present, only fragments of it can be seen.

In the city of Vsevolozhsk, at the fork in the road to Lake Ladoga and Koltushi, Rumbolovskaya Mountain rises. In front of it, a monument-stele was erected, decorated with oak and laurel leaves: the “Road of Life” began from Rumbolovskaya Mountain.

Fans of underground travel assure that the entire Rumbolovskaya mountain is pitted with passages created in time immemorial. They lead quite far, connecting with the Koltushsky quarries, located a good ten kilometers from Vsevolozhsk. Their center is a deep and wide well in the so-called Red Castle on top of a mountain - a medieval building that became the basis for the Vsevolozhsky estate. The manor burned down a long time ago, and the ancient walls are still standing. According to local legends, the Red Castle with extensive cellars was built by order of the outstanding Swedish commander Pontus Delagardie, who participated in the Livonian War.

The Demidovs' estate is located in the village of Nikolskoye, Gatchina District, on the banks of the Sivorka River. At the beginning of the 20th century, the estate was bought by the St. Petersburg Zemstvo for the construction of a neuropsychiatric hospital in it. The founder of the hospital was the outstanding psychiatrist Petr Petrovich Kashchenko. The hospital operates in the estate and now. During a recent renovation, a network of underground passages between the outbuildings of the estate was discovered. They were laid at a shallow depth and therefore fell into complete disrepair.

Vyborg is located 130 kilometers northwest of St. Petersburg. Vyborg Castle was founded by the Swedes in 1293. In the 13th century, its watchtower was considered the highest donjon in Scandinavia at that time. The thickness of the fortress walls was one and a half to two meters, and the thickness of the walls of the tower was four meters. Novgorodians have repeatedly attempted to take the castle by storm, but unsuccessfully.

In the 15th century, the governor of the Swedish king spent a lot of time and effort decorating the fortress so that it would become his pride. In the middle of the next century, the famous Queen Christina and King Gustav Vasa visited here. In those days, the Vyborg Castle was considered impregnable and majestic. He served the Swedes for another fifteen years, and in 1710, after a long siege, he finally surrendered to the Russians. From the second half of the 18th century, the castle began to be used as a prison and premises for the garrison. Here, in particular, some Decembrists were kept. At the end of the 19th century, the castle was repaired and significantly reconstructed, retaining only the outer medieval facade. In this form, the castle has survived to this day.

The castle has an underground passage to the river, built in the early 1560s - the Matveeva Pit. At the beginning of the 20th century, attempts were made to explore it, but in the thirties they walled it up. Part of it is used for the pipeline.

Ivangorod and the fortress of the same name are located 147 kilometers from St. Petersburg. In 1492, at the bend of the Narva River on a hill opposite the Livonian castle, Ivan III ordered a small fortress to be built to protect against the Livonians and the Swedes, but only four years later it was captured by the Swedes. Having beaten off the fortress, the Russians repaired it, expanded it, and by the beginning of the 16th century Ivangorod had already become a powerful fortification. On the contrary, on the other side of the Narva River, the Livonians built their fortress - Narva, or otherwise Herman's Castle (in this case, Herman is not a person, but the most high tower fortresses).

Ivangorod took part in hostilities many times, passed from hand to hand, it was blown up, then rebuilt again. And now, as in ancient times, the border with Estonia runs along the Narva River, and the border regime operates in the fortress. Opposite Ivangorodskaya still rises Herman's Castle.

Azure-fire from the underground Nature often preserves amazing echoes of the past for us. For centuries, and sometimes for millennia, it keeps traces ancient man until his descendants deliberately or accidentally find them and read from them about their deeds

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Since the middle of the 20th century, mankind has been successfully studying and developing near-Earth space. It is believed that the Earth has been traveled and ridden up and down by us, so we should not expect new discoveries here.

However, the faster modern civilization develops, the more questions our own planet poses to it. And people still can't solve these problems. The technical equipment of terrestrial science is not yet so highly developed that it would be possible to easily penetrate into all corners of the sky, land and ocean. But, most importantly, our consciousness is not yet ready for a large-scale study of earthly reality. We must understand and calmly accept the fact that other civilizations live next to us on our home planet, with which we have repeatedly had to deal with.

The 21st century brings with it the rapid improvement of science and technology, thanks to which scientists are already starting to explore areas of the globe that were previously inaccessible to us. These include - ocean depths, the underworld of the planet and the ice kingdom of Antarctica. And the most superficial acquaintance with these regions showed that in each of them a person can meet with forms of life unfamiliar to him, and possibly with intelligent civilizations, which we learn about from legends and myths created by folk art.

Part 1

Encounters with the Unknown

Legends about the meetings of people with the inhabitants of the Underworld exist among different peoples. In Russia, the first documented reports of contacts with underground civilizations unknown to the Slavs are the records of the Novgorod Primary Chronicle under 1096 (11th century), which convey the story of the Novgorod governor Gyuryata Rogovich, who collected tribute from the peoples of the North subject to Novgorod. The chronicler narrates: “Now I want to tell you what I heard 4 years ago from Gyuryata Rogovich, a Novgorodian, who told this: “I sent my youth to Pechora, to people who pay tribute to Novgorod. And when my boy came to them, he went from them to the land of Yugra. Ugra, on the other hand, are people who speak an incomprehensible language, and they are neighbors with Samoyed in the northern regions.

As reported further, the Yugras told the envoy of Gyuryata Rogovich an amazing story. Far to the north, on the shores of the White Ocean, there are mountains that rise with their peaks to the very sky. The path to these mountains is difficult and dangerous because of the abysses, snow and dense forests, and the yugras rarely reach there, in remote and deserted places.

But those who nevertheless visited near these mountains say that inside the stone mountain slopes one can hear the voice and cries of human beings (“in the mountains of those mountains there is a great cry and voice”). And when the unknown inhabitants living inside the mountains hear the presence of a person, they cut through “small windows” in the rocks and call the stranger, and point with their hands at his weapon, and ask for it with signs. And if the hunter gives them a knife or a spear, then in return he receives sable fur and expensive gemstones.

A large number of legends about underground inhabitants have come down to us from medieval Rus'. The famous Russian ethnographer A. Onuchkov, studying the folklore of the Urals at the beginning of the 20th century, recorded reports of local residents about a mysterious people found in the Ural forests and among the rocks. The Urals call him marvelous people. Here is what they told the scientist. "Divya people" live in deep underground caves, but sometimes they rise to the surface of the earth and walk among people, but people do not see them. Their culture is high, and the light in their underground cities is no worse than our Sun.

According to the descriptions of eyewitnesses, Divy people are of small stature. They are beautiful and speak in a pleasant voice, but few hear them - those who have a clear conscience and who live according to God's laws. Divya people warn villagers about upcoming events, and help some in misfortune. So, witnesses from the Ural village of Beloslutskoye talk about a gray-haired old man from wild people who, to the inexplicable ringing of bells, comes to the church at night and, standing on the porch, predicts his fate to everyone who appears here.

In the first decade of the 17th century, Russia experienced the Great Troubles caused by the suppression of the royal Rurik dynasty and the interregnum that followed this. The struggle of boyar groups for the royal throne went beyond the borders of the Russian state, in connection with which there was a danger of Russia losing national independence.

The Polish king, under the pretext of restoring the allegedly saved Tsarevich Dmitry, the son of Ivan the Terrible, to the Russian throne, organized a military intervention against Moscow. Detachments of Polish soldiers led by False Dmitry I, and then with False Dmitry II, invaded Russia. From the north, at the same time, Swedish mercenaries penetrated Russian territory, seeking to cut off the Novgorod and Pskov lands from Moscow.

The treacherous policy of the Russian boyars led to the fact that the Russian army was defeated in battles with the Swedes and Poles. The Poles captured Moscow, and the King of Poland, Sigismund, was already preparing to be crowned on the Russian throne.

During this most difficult time for Russia, the formation of a people's militia began in Nizhny Novgorod to fight the Polish-Swedish occupiers. It was headed by Kuzma Minin and Dmitry Pozharsky. According to archival chronicles, before that, the Underground Elder appeared at Minin's house, who ordered him to start raising funds for the militia in Russia, and to invite Prince Pozharsky as the military commander of the militia.

The elder also handed over to Minin and Pozharsky some documents containing new laws by which Russia would have to live after the defeat of the intervention. As you know, the people's militia liberated the country from the Polish-Swedish invaders, but Minin and Pozharsky were pushed out of power and could not fulfill the order of the Underground Elder set out in these documents.

Tales of a small underground people can be heard in the north of the Urals and Siberia. Here these people are called miracles. The Komi, who live in the Pechora Lowland, tell legends about little people coming out of the ground and also predicting the future for people. According to the legends of local residents, at first the little men did not understand the human language, but then they learned it and showed people how to mine, smelt and forge iron.

Chudi priests are called "panas" here. They are the keepers of secret knowledge and know about countless treasures hidden underground and protected by the strongest spells. Even today, anyone who dares to approach these treasures either perishes or goes crazy. Because the treasures are guarded by special servants of the priests - cinders. These cinders, formerly a miracle, were once buried alive along with treasures. Until now, they faithfully serve near the ancient treasures.

In 1975, a group of Soviet history students tried to find the Chud treasure under an ancient stone on which mysterious signs were carved. In one of the northern chronicles of the 15th century, the guys found a spell that allegedly protects a person from cinders. They recited this spell three times over an ancient boulder, but found nothing but two ancient silver medallions. And soon the student who was digging up the treasure was bullied by a bear. A rumor immediately spread among the locals that the curse of the pan overtook the wicked, who dared to encroach on the treasures of the Chud.

Similar legends exist among European peoples. An example is the story recorded by 13th-century English chroniclers about the emergence from the ground of two small children with green skin and an incomprehensible fear of sunlight. That's what this story is about.

In the county of Suffolk, in the UK, there is a village called Woolpit, which has an unusual and mysterious story. Its name translates as "Wolf Pits", and the coat of arms of the village depicts a wolf and two children - a girl and a boy. It was here in the XII century, 112 kilometers from London, that the last wolf of England died, falling into one of the many wolf pits.

Then a strange incident happened here. One day two small children appeared in the village. It happened on a hot August day at harvest time. They crawled out of a deep hole that had been dug to catch wolves, which is why this unusual name villages. The boy and the girl, coming out of the pit, went to the people. It was surprising that the skin of the babies had a greenish tint, and they were wearing strange clothes, cut from an unknown material. The children were very frightened and waved their arms as if they were driving away bees. With their appearance, they confused the peasants, however, having come to their senses, the reapers took the children to the village and brought them to the landowner Richard Kane.

Having calmed down a little, the children began to speak in an incomprehensible language, in which hissing and whistling sounds predominated. They spoke in high-pitched voices. The inhabitants did not understand a word, although in those days in England the villagers were familiar with all the languages ​​of the neighboring peoples. Here, the Normans and Danes with Scandinavian dialects were well remembered, they heard the French language of the knights, they did not forget the German-Anglo-Saxon dialect, they recognized the Celtic dialects of the Scots, Irish and Welsh, and the priests knew Latin. When the children were taken to the village, they began to cry and refused to eat anything, although they were very hungry.

Richard Kane was very surprised by the sight of the children, but having seen enough of them, he ordered the servants to prepare the best delicacies, but the children refused everything. So, they starved for several days, until one day the villagers brought into the house a crop of beans, plucked straight from the stems. The boy and girl were very interested in beans, but could not find their fruits. They seemed to know what it is and understand that it can be eaten. When one of the servants showed them where the food was, they began to open the pods and greedily eat the beans. For several months, the children ate exclusively them. Richard Kane turned out to be a kind man and allowed the children to stay in his castle.

A few months later, the boy died. He was younger than his sister and was unable to adjust to local life. The child gradually closed in on himself, refused to eat, so he soon fell ill and died. The girl survived and after baptism received the name Agnes. But religion remained something incomprehensible to her, and religious ones brought only inconvenience. Gradually, she learned to eat ordinary food, and her skin lost its greenish tint. Agnes became a blonde with blue eyes and fair skin. She relatively easily adapted to local life, grew up, got married, learned English language and lived for many years in Norfolk County. Ralph in his work mentioned that she was very headstrong and capricious, but despite this, her husband and children loved her very much.

Agnes remembered little of her origins. However, she said that she came with her brother from St. Martin's Land, where all the Christian residents were also green. According to her, there was eternal twilight and the sun never shone. She also told that their house was located "on the other side of the big river." Agnes said that she and her brother came across the cave while tending a flock of sheep. The sound of bells was heard from outside the cave, the children went to this sound and ended up in some kind of cave. There, according to Agnes, they and their brother got lost and only after some time did they find a way out. But when they came out of the cave, they were blinded by a bright light. The children got scared and wanted to go back, but the entrance to the cave disappeared.

The girl also added that St. Martin's Land can be seen at a great distance, that it looks like "a luminous country on the other side of the river." Agnes, with the permission of Richard Kane, tried several times to find her way back to her homeland, but she could not do it. But this is not surprising, because by order of Richard, the pit from which the children came out was filled up. He feared that armed men might come for his brother and sister. The girl didn't know anything about it.

This story was told in two of their chronicles by Ralph of Coggshall and William of Newburgh, who were credible chroniclers and historians of the Middle Ages. The works were created around 1220. The bishop's unusual children are also mentioned in the book of Bishop Francis Godwin, who was suspicious of this legend. He reluctantly included it in his chronicle. But Ralph of Coggshall relied in his annals on the words of Richard Caine, in whose house Agnes worked as a servant. Many details indicated that all the facts stated were true. Ralph of Coggshall lived in Essex, which was not far from Suffolk. Therefore, he could communicate directly with other participants in the events.

Many have tried to unravel the mystery of the origin of the "green children" and the location of the rather strange St. Martin's Land, many different assumptions have been put forward. According to one version, children could get to Woolpit from copper mines, which used child labor in those days. The skin and hair of children from constant contact with copper could indeed acquire a greenish tint. But then what about the material from which the children's clothes were made, with the story of Agnes and the fact that they could not eat ordinary human food?

Bold versions were also expressed that the children could be from another dimension, the underworld, or even aliens who accidentally landed on Earth. Some researchers believed that the cave, through which the boy and girl got into our world, was something like a path that connected the Earth with another planet. Or the road that was laid between the past, present and future. Paradoxically, but such a hypothesis explains everything, because if they came from another dimension, then only minor genetic changes would be enough for hair and skin to acquire the usual human color. "Green children" could well be the product of genetic engineering, which may exist in a parallel world to us.

The American mathematician and astrophysicist Jacques Vallee published numerous testimonies of people about meetings with small black hairy men, who are called lutens in France. According to him, many such little men live in the Poitou region, and the locals know well where the dwellings of these gnomes are located. In his book, Vale cites eyewitness accounts of a meeting with lutens.

An interesting event happened here in 1850. One day, returning to their village on the Egre River, several women witnessed a curious spectacle. Shortly before midnight, having crossed the bridge, they heard a loud noise and saw a picture from which "the blood froze in their veins." An object resembling a "chariot with squeaky wheels" was rushing up the hillside at amazing speed. Looking closer, the women saw that the “chariot” was being dragged by numerous black men. Soon the strange chariot "jumped over the vineyards and disappeared into the night." Frightened peasant women abandoned their belongings and rushed home.

Belief in the existence of black men is not limited to any one region. Researchers from Europe, Asia, Africa, America and even Australia write about it. In Mexico, they are known as ikal, which in translation from the language of the Tzeltal Indians means "black creature". Here they are described as small black hairy dwarfs living in caves that the locals bypass.

There are legends that ikals attack Indians and kidnap their children and women. Sometimes gnomes are seen flying through the air, and “rockets” are clearly visible on their backs, which the little men skillfully control. According to the Mexican Indians, people met ikals especially often in the middle of the 20th century.

In modern Russia, there is also a lot of evidence of people meeting with dwarf peoples. In August 1945, Voronezh fighter pilot Vasily Yegorov was shot down by Japanese artillery over the territory of Inner Mongolia, two hundred kilometers from the front line.

He managed to leave the burning plane and descended to the ground by parachute, while ending up in a small grove. Here he quickly found a stream running out from under a low hill, and drank fresh cold water.

As a result of a slight injury, Vasily felt dizzy and nauseous. He lay down in the bushes on the grass and imperceptibly fell asleep. He woke up with a strange sensation: his arms and legs did not obey him. Raising his head, Vasily saw that his entire body was wrapped in a strong translucent tape the width of a finger. All around him there were incomprehensible sounds, reminiscent of bird chirping.

Vasily soon determined that this chirp was being published by ... tiny people dressed in strange clothes and armed with knives. Later, having met hundreds of such little men from the Hanyangi tribe (as they called themselves), Vasily made sure that their height did not exceed 45 centimeters.

The Soviet pilot spent many years in the underground labyrinth of these amazing dwarfs. Once, during a severe thunderstorm, he came to the surface of the earth and lost consciousness. He was found by Mongolian cattle breeders and taken to the camp of Soviet geologists who were working in Mongolia at that time. Geologists transported Vasily to the USSR, and his identity was established there.

It turned out that in the homeland Vasily was considered dead. Only after a series of examinations did the Air Force command become convinced that it was really Vasily Yegorov in front of him - a Soviet fighter pilot, holder of the Order of the Red Banner of War, who accounted for six downed enemy aircraft. But even Vasily's relatives could not immediately identify him, since 14 years have passed since the Soviet-Japanese war! Vasily Egorov returned to his homeland in the spring of 1959!

Of course, no one believed his stories about life among the Lilliputians, but this is strange: during an X-ray of the brain performed on Vasily due to severe headaches, the doctors found an almost overgrown triangular hole on the back of his skull. It became obvious that about 15 years ago the pilot was subjected to a trepanation of the skull and the trepanation was carried out in a way unknown to science.

Until the end of his life, Vasily Egorov lived in Voronezh. For a long time he was the best well builder in the south of the region, because he knew how to find water where others failed after failure.

Meetings with the inhabitants of the underworld do not always end so well for people. In the library of the Peruvian University in Cusco, there is a report on the death of the French-American expedition, which in 1952 tried to descend into one of the Andean dungeons and make contact with its inhabitants. Scientists have found in the vicinity of Cusco the entrance to the cave and entered there. They were going to stay underground for several days, so they took food and water with them for only five days.

Of the seven members of the expedition, only one person, the Frenchman Philippe Lamontier, was able to surface in two weeks. He said that the rest of the expedition members died in a bottomless underground abyss. The Frenchman was terribly emaciated, suffered from memory lapses and was infected with bubonic plague. A few days later he died, and the doctors found a corncob of pure gold tightly clamped in his hand!

The authorities, fearing the spread of the bubonic plague in the region, blocked all known cave entrances in the area with stone blocks. But scientists did not want to leave this tragedy without consequences. The researcher of the Inca civilization, Professor Raul Rios Centeno, tried to repeat the route of the missing expedition.

A group of his supporters found an entrance to the dungeon unknown to the authorities and tried to explore it. At first, people walked along a long, gradually narrowing corridor, reminiscent of a ventilation pipe. Soon they noticed that the walls no longer reflected the rays of their lanterns.

Using a spectrograph, the scientists found that the wall cladding contains a large number of aluminum. All attempts to break off at least one piece of this material ended in failure. The casing was so strong that no tool could take it. Meanwhile, the corridor continued to narrow, and when its diameter decreased to 90 centimeters, the expedition had to turn back.

The discovery in the hands of the deceased Philippe Lamontiere of a golden cob of corn excited adventurers all over the world. Among them, rumors began to spread that the treasures of the Incas were discovered, which they hid from the soldiers of Cortes somewhere underground. These rumors were fueled by legends among the Peruvians about underground caves inhabited by snake people guarding the treasures of the Incas.

For several years, dozens of treasure hunters have disappeared in Peru, recklessly descending underground in search of gold. Only a few managed to get to the surface, and even those, apparently, were damaged by reason: they unanimously told that they had met strange creatures underground, at the same time similar to a person and a snake!

Part 2.

The facts confirm

The existence of dwarf peoples on Earth in ancient times is reported to us by the Flemish cartographer and geographer of the Renaissance - Gerhard Mercator (1512-1594). In the scientific world, he is known as a competent and trustworthy compiler of several geographical maps the world and its individual regions. So, in 1544 he compiled a map of Europe on 15 sheets, on which for the first time the outlines of mediterranean sea and eliminated all errors that have survived from the time of the ancient Greek geographer Ptolemy.

In 1563 Mercator drew a map of Lorraine and then the British Isles. His "Chronology", issued after these atlases, became detailed overview all astronomical and cartographic works of the 16th century. In 1569, Mercator published an 18-page nautical map of the World, which is still used to compile nautical and aeronautical atlases.

But the most amazing map was drawn by Mercator in 1538. Today it is called the Mercator Map. It depicts the Arctic Ocean, in the center of which, in the place of the modern North Pole, there is an unknown continent - Daaria. It is an archipelago of four large islands grouped around Inland Sea, in the center of which rises the island of Arctida with the highest mountain in the world, Meru.

According to ancient legends, on the top of Meru once stood the City of the Gods - Asgard of Daaria, in the center of which stood a beautiful white marble temple. The inhabitants of Asgard created a highly developed civilization on the mysterious mainland. On their spaceships, they visited the planets of other star systems of the Galaxy, and from there aliens flew to Daaria with return visits.

Mercator's map was accompanied by detailed notes applied to the images of all four islands archipelago. It followed from the records that the rivers flowing from the Inner Sea divided Daaria into four parts - Rai, Tule, Svarga and H.Arra. Appeared here about 14 thousand years ago unknown civilization, which allegedly existed until the 6th millennium BC, when for some reason Daariyya began to sink under water.

A severe cold snap forced the people inhabiting the archipelago to move to the Eurasian continent. About 3 thousand years ago, the contours of Daaria disappeared under the waters of the Arctic Ocean, although the peaks of individual mountains rose above the water for a long time in the form of individual islands.

So, from the inscription inscribed on one of the islands of the archipelago, closest to the modern Kola Peninsula, it follows that it is inhabited by a dwarf people: “Pygmies live here, their height is about 4 feet (no higher than 1.2 meters), and the inhabitants of Greenland call their "scurlingers".

Based on the testimony of Mercator, it can be assumed that on the eve of the death of Daaria, part of its population managed to cross the already formed ice cover of the ocean to the coast of Northern Eurasia. Among the escaping tribes, the Skerlingers also came here, who became aborigines of the then uninhabited coast of the Northern Ocean.

In the 4th-5th centuries of our era, during the Great Migration of Peoples, the north of Eurasia began to be settled by Turkic and Slavic tribes, who clashed here with the Skerlingers and gave them new names - “Sirtya”, “Chud”, “Divya people”. Unable to withstand competition with stronger and more numerous detachments of aliens, Sirte-Skerlingers went underground, where, perhaps, I still live.

It is likely that the distribution range of this dwarf people extended much further than the Arctic coast of Siberia and the Kola coast. This is confirmed by the archaeological excavations of 1850, during which the Neolithic settlement of Skerlingers, Skara Brae, was discovered in Northern Scotland.

The settlement of Skara Brae was found after a strong hurricane literally tore the earth from the top of one of the coastal hills. For a long time, scientists did not take seriously the stories of local residents about a dwarf village that appeared on a hill after a hurricane. Excavations at Skara Brae were only started in the 1920s. They were led by the English archaeologist Professor Gordon Child.

At first, Childe dated the unknown settlement to the 6th-9th centuries, but it soon became clear that we were talking about a much more ancient culture, which modern science can hardly identify with any people on the Earth.

It has been established that the settlement of Skara Brae was founded long before 3100 BC and lasted until about 2500 BC. However, the main thing is not this. The archaeologists were amazed: everything from the masonry walls and miniature beds to the low ceilings and narrow doorways was designed for people whose height did not exceed one meter!

In addition, scientists during the excavations came to the conclusion that the settlement was created from the very beginning as an underground structure. First, the builders erected stone walls, then a ceiling made of wood and stones was laid on them, and after that the whole room was covered from above with a thick layer of earth and turf. To exit, they left a small hole in the hillside, hardly noticeable from the outside.

In the middle of each room was a hearth lined with stones for safety. In the corners of the room were cabinets for dishes and clothes, beds and seats. In one of the corners there was a bin for food storage.

Underground passages were laid between separately located dwellings, the walls of which were also laid out with stone blocks. A network of such invisible passages provided a reliable connection between individual families of the underground town, as well as the opportunity, in case of danger, to leave the premises and go to the surface of the earth.

By the time the excavations began, the interior of the settlement’s living quarters had been completely preserved: fragments of canopies hung over stone beds, neatly arranged pottery stood in stone cabinets, women’s jewelry lay on top, and in one of the dwellings, scientists found a necklace dropped by someone. In each "apartment" there were always weapons and tools.

It is interesting that mysterious inscriptions in an unknown language were found in almost every room of Skara Brae. The assumption put forward by experts that the shape of the inscriptions is similar to the ancient runic writing was not confirmed: the signs of unknown writing had nothing to do with either runes or any other ancient language.

Archaeologists have an opinion that the settlement was abandoned by its inhabitants unexpectedly and quickly, although there are no traces of a military invasion and a hasty flight. Scientists have not been able to explain the reason for the departure of the inhabitants of the dungeon. In addition, they noticed that there were heaps of sand on the floor of the rooms and passages. The local population still has beliefs that anyone who invades the dwelling of a small people without permission will turn into sand.

The Scots also believe that dwarfs, trying to save their kind, can kidnap human children right from the cradle. Some of the abducted supposedly return to the human world after many years, but they cannot get used to human society and remain outcasts forever. And today the Scots put pieces of iron in their cradles, which supposedly protect babies from the invasion of dwarfs.

The mysterious settlement in Skara Brae is not the only evidence of the existence of dwarf peoples in ancient times. In 1985, in the Don steppes in the area of ​​the Second Vlasov burial ground, archaeologists from the Voronezh University unearthed a low burial mound of the Bronze Age and, when removing the mound, discovered a mysterious labyrinth of branching, intersecting passages with flat floors, straight walls and vertical ventilation wells. total area The labyrinth is 254 square meters. The moves intersected in such a way that, on the whole, they constituted an intricate figure, in shape approaching a square. The height of the passages at the maximum is 1.3 m, at the minimum - below a meter.

All the manholes converged towards the center, to a large rectangular pit, in the middle of which there was a certain stone or wooden object, possibly an idol. To illuminate the premises, the ancient residents used torches, as indicated by numerous inclusions of burnt coals on the floor of the passages.

The unusualness of this dungeon was that the underground passages and manholes were too small for the movement of even a very short person. Scientists reconstructed the premises of the mound and came to the conclusion that only very small creatures could live in such a dungeon - up to 80 centimeters tall and weighing about 25 kilograms.

The central premise of the sanctuary was a large underground hall, in the center of which there was a low building with a domed ceiling. In it, presumably, there was an idol to which sacrifices were made. And these sacrifices were not always bloodless. Near the domed house, a skeleton of a man was found covered with earth, whose height was 160 cm. A triangular hole was found on the back of his skull, cut out in the same way as that of the Soviet pilot Vasily Yegorov, which was described in the first part of the article.

But most often, animals were sacrificed here, and above all, small horses. Along the perimeter of the sanctuary, many horse heads were found, on which even iron bits were preserved. Metal dating helped to establish that the sanctuary existed in the 8th century AD.

Due to lack of funds, the study of the temple was suspended, and only in 2001, archaeologists again arrived at the site of the previous excavations. Attempts to hire workers in the nearest village of Bolshiye Sopeltsy, despite unemployment, did not lead to anything. Local residents flatly refused to work in this forest, claiming that it was “unclean” there.

The next morning, next to his pillow, Prokhorov found a severed horse's head. The camp attendant did not see anything suspicious at night. The canopy and walls of the tent remained intact. At the same time, the batteries of the Niva and the UAZ truck, the batteries in flashlights, a transistor receiver, a cell phone, and also in all electronic watches, were completely discharged.

The alarmed members of the expedition quickly broke camp, started the truck with a “crooked starter”, took the Niva in tow and were in Voronezh in the evening. And at night, five of the seven participants in the failed excavations ended up in the toxicology department of the hospital with signs of severe poisoning. The doctors managed to save only two - Prokhorov and Irina Pisareva, the other three died. Two more died at home, because due to the lack of a telephone in the apartments, there was no one to call an ambulance.

Doctors considered the cause of death to be mushroom poisoning, although Prokhorov claimed that neither he nor the other members of the expedition ate mushrooms. What happened to the people in the excavation area and what kind of curse is placed on this place is unknown. It was only possible to find out that the village of Vlasovka used to be called Velesovka (named after the Slavic god Veles), and magicians and priests lived here in the 8th century, whose ritual artifacts were found and studied by scientists.

And another interesting find helped archaeologists to finally make sure that in ancient times our planet was inhabited by numerous tribes dwarf people. We are talking about hobbits from the Indonesian island of Flores. The discovery of their ancient cave sites, according to English professor Chris Stringer, "rewrites the history of human evolution."

Excavations in 2003 at Flores brought an unexpected sensation. In the Liang Bua limestone cave, Australian paleontologists, led by Professor M. Morewood, dug up the well-preserved bones of several skeletons belonging to a dwarf upright creature. In honor of the blackbuster J. Tolkien "The Lord of the Rings" they were called hobbits.

Scientists have restored the appearance of the skull of a female hobbit and got an amazing image: it was a dwarf man!

The next year, the International Anthropological Expedition continued excavations on about. Flores and discovered nine more skeletons of similar humanoid creatures here. Their height did not exceed 90 cm, and the volume of the brain was only 380 cubic centimeters, which was only one fourth of the brain of a modern person.

But despite the small brain size, the hobbits were smart enough: they made stone weapons and rather complex tools, and also used fire. The age of these miniature men was quite ancient: they lived in the interval between 95 and 12 thousand years ago. At that time, a modern man already existed on Earth.

In a cave where hobbits once lived, bones of Komodo dragons and pygmy stegodons, the ancestors of modern elephants, were found next to their remains. This suggests that the hobbit tribes were able to domesticate some wild animals and kept them in the caves as a live food supply, and possibly as transport animals.

Information about the existence of dwarf underground peoples comes today from all continents of the planet. Since the middle of the twentieth century, the pygmy tribes living in Burma and China have become known, and the undersized inhabitants of Equatorial Africa are described in ancient Egyptian and ancient Greek sources. The men of these tribes grow only up to 120-140 centimeters; women are even lower. But they all look like giants next to the so-called micropygmies found in the Australian forests. Their average height is about 40 centimeters. And a piece of amber found on the coast of the Baltic Sea became a real sensation!

Unable to explain the discovered artifact, scientists simply hid it from the public for a long time. In a stone polished by sea waves, a tiny skeleton of a man is clearly visible! There is a lot of research ahead to study all these amazing facts.

But not only dwarf tribes could once inhabit the underworld of our planet. In the middle of the 20th century, an underground Trypillia civilization was discovered on the territory of the Soviet Union. Here is what you can learn about it from the reports of Soviet archaeologists.

Back in 1897, archaeologist Vikentiy Khvoyka carried out excavations near the village of Trypillya near Kiev. His findings were sensational and very ancient. In the soil layer corresponding to the sixth millennium BC, Khvoyka unearthed amazing things - the remains of stone dwellings and agricultural utensils of a people unknown to science. The boundaries of the appearance of the “economic man” moved back at least a millennium into the past, and the found culture was called Trypillia.

But even more amazing fact was made public in 1966, when archaeologists discovered huge cities buried underground on the territory of Ukraine. The first of these was a cave complex excavated near Tripoli itself.

The population of many of these cities exceeded 15-20 thousand people - a very large figure by the standards of eight thousand years ago. And the scale was amazing: scientists have found underground settlements with an area of ​​​​up to 250 square kilometers!

The architecture of the cave cities turned out to be surprisingly similar to the layout of the ancient Aryan land fortresses discovered 20 years later in the Southern Urals. Arkaim, Sintashta and more than 20 large and small fortified settlements were excavated by Soviet archaeologists in the South Ural steppes.

Both Trypillians underground and Arkaimians on its surface built their settlements according to the same plan: on a round rammed platform close to each other in concentric rings stone houses were built with a blank wall outward. The result was a powerful defensive structure, inside which no enemy could penetrate. In the center of such a city was a round gravel square on which the temple stood.

A still unexplained fact remains the cyclical functioning of such settlements - both in Ukraine and in Southern Urals. Circular fortified cities existed in one place for no more than 70 years. Then the inhabitants set fire to them and left. For the Arkaimites, it was possible to prove that after the destruction of their homes, they all went towards India, where their traces should be looked for. It turned out to be more difficult to find traces of the ancient Trypillians.

According to some estimates, the Tripoli civilization numbered up to two million people. And then one day all these people burned their cities and disappeared overnight! Among modern population Trypillya there are legends that their ancestors once descended underground, where they live and live to this day. Scientists, of course, then, in 1897, rejected such a version.

The excavations of 1966 became a sensation. The ancient legends about the transition of the two million population of Trypillia into underground caves have been confirmed! To date, about five underground cities have already been found near the city of Trypillia, in the south of the Ternopil region, near the Ukrainian village of Bilce-Zoloto and in other places. Now there are excavations. Perhaps soon they will explain what made the Trypillians leave to live underground and what is its further fate.

already well studied and cave civilization the planets are the underground cities of Cappadocia.

Cappadocia is a region in the east of Asia Minor, on the territory of modern Turkey. It is mostly flat, devoid of vegetation plateau, which is located at an altitude of 1000 meters above sea level. Translated from Turkish, the name "Cappadocia" sounds like "Land of beautiful horses."

Here, among the rocks and steep hills made of volcanic tuff, there is a unique complex of underground cities that were created over several centuries, starting from the 1st millennium BC. He is currently listed World Heritage UNESCO and protected by the state.

For a long time, the paths of the Great Migration of Nations passed through the territory of Cappadocia and waves of foreign invaders swept through. To survive in such extreme conditions, the population of the plateau was forced to go underground.

In the soft Cappadocian tuff, people cut down residential apartments, warehouses for storing utensils and products, as well as premises for keeping livestock. Coming into contact with fresh air, the tuff after a while hardened and became a reliable defense against the enemy.

Long abandoned by the population, these amazing cities were discovered by Europeans only in the 19th century: a French priest, walking along the plateau, stumbled upon a ventilation shaft and, going down it, ended up in a huge underground city.

Soon, European archaeologists arrived here, who found that the city has up to 12 floors descending deep into the earth, which are equipped with special ventilation shafts. Temples, water wells, grain storage rooms, stables and pens for cattle, wine presses - all this shocked scientists.

Currently, six underground settlements have been discovered and explored - Kaymakli, Derinkuyu, Ozkonak, Adjigol, Tatlarin and Mazy. It is possible that in the future other cities of Cappadocia will be found, about which the ancient Greek historian Xenophon wrote back in the 5th century BC. For a long time, his messages were considered fiction.

The largest underground city in Cappadocia and the world today is Derinkuyu. It was built in the 1st millennium BC. The city descends 85 meters deep into the earth and has 20 tiers - floors connected by stone stairs.

On each tier there are living quarters - rooms, bedrooms, kitchens, as well as public facilities - schools, chapels, churches. They are connected by convenient dry tunnels and narrow passages. The total area of ​​the underground city is about 2000 square meters. The exact age has not yet been established, but it is known that Derinkuyu existed during the time of the Hittite kingdom.

Incredibly, Derinkuyu was built according to all the rules of modern engineering. Special ventilation shafts are laid from the surface of the earth, through which air enters down. Even the lowest floors are fresh and cool. These air ducts are lowered into the layers with groundwater, so they also perform the functions of wells and reservoirs.

According to the calculations of the researchers, the underground city could simultaneously accommodate up to 50 thousand inhabitants, moreover, along with livestock. For animals, special pens with stalls and feeders were built. Researchers are sure that Derinkuyu is not just an underground city - it is a real underground fortress, and it was needed to defend against enemy attacks.

Derinkuyu has a pretty well thought out defense system. So, there is a whole network of secret passages through which one could go to the surface. In addition, huge stone boulders stood at the entrance to each floor. Special holes were made in them - loopholes, so that the wars could shoot at the enemy. But if, nevertheless, the enemy managed to break through to the first tier of the underground city, then the inhabitants could block the entrance to the next floor with these stones.

Even in the event of a deep penetration of the enemy into the city "streets", the inhabitants of Derinkuyu could always leave their refuge. Especially for this, a tunnel 9 kilometers long was built here. It connects Derinkuyu with another equally important city of Cappadocia - Kaymakli.

Kaymakli is an underground city a little smaller than its counterpart. It has about 13 floors. It was created around the same time as Derinkuyu. During the reign of the Romans and the Byzantine emperors, Kaymakli was completed. The number of floors in it increased, and as a result, it became a full-fledged underground city.

The city was discovered recently, and archaeologists have so far unearthed only 4 of its upper floors. On each of them, along with living rooms, barns, churches, wine cellars and pottery workshops, 2-3 storage rooms were found that could accommodate several tons of food.

This can only mean one thing: the city could feed a large number of people. Therefore, researchers suggest that there was a high population density in Kaymakli. About 15 thousand people could live in a small area, just like in a modern small town.

Excavations in this area will continue for many years to come, but it is already clear that the underground cities of Cappadocia are the most grandiose cave structures in the world.

In 1972, at the invitation of Salvador Allende, a group of Soviet geologists came to Chile to investigate some long abandoned or unprofitable mines and mines. The inspection began with a copper mine stopped back in 1945, located high in the mountains. Among the local population, he enjoyed a bad reputation.

However, a survey of the mine was necessary for many reasons. Firstly, the bodies of 100 miners who died under the rubble remained underground, which had to be found and interred in accordance with the customs of the Chileans. Secondly, the Chilean government was worried about rumors about strange underground dwellers who allegedly constantly caught the eye of the peasants, causing panic. Eyewitnesses described these underground creatures as giant snakes with human heads.

Soviet experts immediately dismissed any mysticism and began to inspect the dungeons. And almost immediately the surprises began. It turned out that the powerful gates blocking the entrance to the mine were broken through and, moreover, not from the outside, but from the inside. From the gate down to the gorge, a deep winding trail led: as if from the depths of the mountain someone had pulled out and dragged along the ground a thick and heavy rubber hose.

Moving along the main road of the face, the scientists after a few tens of meters stopped in front of a deep oval failure leading down. After examining it to a depth of 1.5 meters, they found that the side surface has a corrugated, folded surface.

Going down this tunnel, geologists after 100 meters got into an underground mine with veins of native copper. Near some of the worked-out areas lay piles of copper ingots, shaped like ostrich eggs. After taking a few more steps, people found a serpentine mechanism left against the wall, which literally "sucked" copper from the stone.

Mines and voids in the earth's crust, cave complexes and man-made tunnels, rock settlements found all over the planet, directly or indirectly, but still confirm the existence of an underground civilization.

In 1970, an American satellite photographed something strange in the region of the North Pole. There was a strange hole under the clouds. The picture has undergone thousands of examinations. Until now, scientists are arguing about what kind of “hole” this is, but there is no unanimous opinion. One of the opinions has become the most popular: this “hole” is a hole in the Earth leading to the inner world of our planet. Moreover, there is an assumption that this world is inhabited today.

Mentions of the underground civilization can be found in the myths of different peoples. Very often in ancient mythologies there are stories about the existence of some kind of underground civilization, which is very similar in its description to Agharti. In Hindu mythology, this is underworld, where supernatural beings opposing the heavenly gods live. Unlike hell, this world is described as the most beautiful place, a kind of underground paradise made of gold, precious stones.

There are a lot of supporters and opponents of the existence of underground life. Neither side has yet achieved any major victory to back up their story.

In 1976, an experiment was conducted: twelve military men were placed in the Czechoslovak cave of Krkshona in order to be able to study the behavior of a group of people who were in absolute isolation from the outside world. People were provided with a full life with intellectual and physical pursuits. Everything that happened in the cave was tapped.

By the end of the fifth month of their underground life, the military began to report upstairs that someone was constantly talking to them. Scientists, having decided that the soldiers had auditory hallucinations, did not attach any importance to this. But very soon, the experimental military men began to talk among themselves about some kind of underground city, in which someone offers them to move.

On the one hundred and seventy-third day of the experiment, the soldiers suddenly cut off all the power and communication wires. A group of speleologists and military specialists was immediately sent down to the cave to stop the experiment and evacuate people. But going down, they were simply amazed. They found only one sergeant who was in the deepest depression. And the rest of the participants in the experiment disappeared somewhere. Until today, it remains a mystery what happened to them: did the strong-willed military volunteers go crazy and disappeared in the numerous passages of this ancient cave, or did they really move to the mentioned underground city ...

For the first time, an underground people unknown to mankind was mentioned in 1946. This happened when the scientist, writer and journalist Richard Shaver in the American magazine " Amazing Stories”, dedicated to everything paranormal, spoke about his contact with aliens, but not coming from the Universe, but living with us, underground.

According to him, Shaver spent several weeks in the underworld among demon-like mutants. So they are described by ancient legends and tales of many nationalities. You can, of course, write off the story of such a “contact” on the scientist’s wild imagination, if it weren’t for one thing… The editorial office began to receive hundreds of responses from readers who not only claimed that they themselves visited underground cities, communicating with their inhabitants, but and saw such miracles of technology that provide for the underground inhabitants of the Earth a very comfortable existence in the depths of its bowels. Moreover, these technical miracles give the underground inhabitants the opportunity to control the consciousness of earthlings.

This story, surprisingly, had very "turbulent" consequences, having a huge impact on scientists and giving impetus to the study of this paranormal phenomenon.

However, the fact that our planet is an empty sphere was argued in their works by the seventeenth-century English astronomer Edmund Halley, such writers as Jules Verne, Edgar Allan Poe and many others. Moreover, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the United States considered the possibility of setting up a secret scientific expedition that would try to find out whether our planet is really a hollow sphere, and how its bowels can be penetrated.

They were also interested in the mysterious underworld in the Third Reich. So, back in 1942, under the patronage of Himmler and Goering, and in an atmosphere of great secrecy, a very impressive expedition set off to look for this underground civilization, which included the most advanced scientists of National Socialist Germany. It was assumed that the "home" of the super-developed ancient peoples was located under the island of Rugen in the Baltic Sea.

German scientists seriously hoped to place fundamentally new radar devices underground in order to come close to the goal of world domination. It is not known how this adventure ended, but already in the second half of the last century, the hypothesis of an underground civilization suddenly began to be confirmed.

In 1963, two American miners, David Fellin and Henry Thorne, discovered a huge door while tunneling, behind which marble stairs descending appeared before their eyes. Already in England, just a few years later, miners who were also digging an underground tunnel recorded clang and rattle of working mechanisms coming from below. When the stone thickness was broken, the stairs leading to the underground well were again discovered. At the same time, the noise of the working mechanisms immediately intensified. Frightened to death, the workers ran away, and when they returned to this place with help, they could no longer find either an entrance punched into the stone thickness, or an underground well, or a ladder.

Of great interest were the studies of the anthropologist James Macken, who examined a strange cave in the US state of Idaho, which was notorious among the indigenous population. Macken and his companion, having walked several hundred meters along a wide cave corridor, unexpectedly clearly caught screams and groans. But then it got even more interesting. Their eyes soon appeared terrible finds - human skeletons. Unfortunately, further research in the cave, which in these places was considered the gate to the underworld, had to be immediately stopped: the smell of sulfur made many people feel sick.

A few years ago, a discovery was made in Ufa that contradicts the traditional view of the history of mankind. We are talking about the sensational map of Chuvyrov. In June 2002, many media reported that in Bashkiria, in the abandoned village of Chandar, a very ancient stone slab was found, on which, using technologies available only to highly developed civilizations, a three-dimensional map of the region of the entire Southern Urals was made.

A hypothesis immediately appeared that this plate is a fragment of a much more whole, representing a three-dimensional image - a map of our entire planet Earth. When the mysterious find of Professor Chuvyrov was studied by scientists from the Center for Historical Cartography american state Wisconsin, the unanimous conclusion was: it was undoubtedly a map, but interestingly, it was created for navigation. According to scientists, it is difficult to imagine its use for any other purpose. The creators of the map, not only ours, but also American scientists believe, had the opportunity to fly. Moreover, they even flew in such orbits that went beyond the limits of the planetary atmosphere. The second layer of the image draws the underground part of the area, its underground relief. The result of the discovery was incredible: a map was found in Bashkiria depicting the earthly and underground worlds as a civilization many times technologically superior to ours.

Geologists do not share the theory of a cavity inside the Earth, but they do not deny the possibility of the existence of huge hollow spaces there. It is incredible that people could live there, for whom this map was drawn up, because inside the Earth there are quite heat, little oxygen and full of gases incompatible with the possibility of life. All this prompted researchers to hypothesize that the underground civilization may have had an extraterrestrial origin.

But here a paradox arises: if our planet is still hollow, then why was the entrance to the underworld not discovered. A group of scientists from the United States suggests that although underground cities exist ... but in the fourth dimension. And only when from time to time the electromagnetic field of the planet changes, the entrances to the tunnels suddenly open on its surface, and at other times they are closed.

Most likely, it was precisely for the purpose of fixing the entrance to such underground cities that many cult structures such as Stonehenge arose, over the purpose of which scientists are still puzzled, it was for this purpose that the map that Chuvyrov found was compiled. And if you really lean towards the hypothesis that a certain intelligent race lives in the bowels of the planet Earth, then many mysterious phenomena find their explanations ...