In the life of every person, there have certainly been cases that are difficult to explain from the point of view of common sense. You are reading a book and listening to music at the same time. And suddenly the words in the book and in the song coincided. Accidentally or not - it is difficult to explain, to understand - impossible. Or even more mysterious. You hold the phone in your hands and are about to make a call. And suddenly there is a counter call from the person whose number you just wanted to dial. I will talk about some cases for which I have no explanation.

THREE SEVENS, ONE.

I loved listening to my father's stories about the war. He was an excellent storyteller. Surnames, names, numbers of regiments, base airfields, call signs abounded in his stories. He talked about the war as if it had happened to him yesterday. My father always gave the positions and surnames of the people he talked about. “We had a gunsmith in the squadron, Sergeant Major Andrei Borsteiko ... Or. ... And the chief of the regiment, senior lieutenant Grisha Khamzin, looked after our nurse Polina. In the summer of forty-three, she was killed by a shrapnel during a raid on our airfield in Manevichi ... "

Being in his ninth decade of his life, he easily talked about the Il-2 aircraft, remembered all its modifications and the nuances of controlling this aircraft. I was especially struck by the little things in his stories that another would not pay attention to:
- ... General Rokossovsky treated everyone to cigarettes. They lay in his silver cigarette case. On the cigarette case there is an engraved inscription and a star, and on the bottom right is the date: May 1935. The cigarette was full of cigarette cases. I didn't smoke, but I took a cigarette. It was nice: from the Rokossovsky cigarette himself ...
Or more from his stories:
- ... And suddenly a Polish woman takes out a samovar. I looked - ours, Russian. From the Nizhny Novgorod fair in 1902. He also has, you know, medals from exhibitions engraved in a row. And from London 1895, and from Berlin 1898 ... Six medals in total ...

Once there was talk about arming aircraft crews.
- They always flew with pistols. Orders and medals were required to be removed before departure, but this did not take root. So they flew, sparkling with orders. The cap was given to the aircraft technician for storage, a headset was put on the head and forward. But the gunners on the Il-2 - they flew with machine guns. Little…
- Did you have a “Nagant”?
- I have? No. All crews were armed with TT pistols. Good car. I had a brand new, fortieth year of release. Gray bluing, becalite cheeks, beautiful and shoots well.
- Do you remember the number? I asked my father.
- Certainly. TC 7771. Easy to remember. TK is like Tokarev, and the number is generally memorable. I spent the whole war with him. Sometimes, having nothing to do, he shot at tin cans. Good pistol. Reliable and pleasant in the hand. And the safety is easily put on: pull the trigger a little, a slightly audible click and the gun is on the safety. And it’s even easier to remove the clip - you pressed the button, and it popped out. You just have to catch it...

That spring marked 67 years since the end of the war. There were fewer and fewer veterans left. A few years ago, my father passed away. I stopped by to visit my former colleague in the Arctic. He hasn't served in a long time. He turned his apartment into a museum: orders, medals, old broadswords and checkers, German machine guns, Soviet PPSh and PPS hung on the wall, pistols hung in holsters.
With interest, I held in my hands a Nagant of pre-war production. It was slightly worn, but serviceable and functional. The son of a friend, a Kyiv businessman, said with enthusiasm:
- This is the so-called MMG - that is, a mass-dimensional layout. A real gun was cleverly and discreetly disabled. You see: in the drum, special bushings are inserted into the channels. You can’t put a cartridge in there, but here, below, the thinnest section of the bore was made with a laser. So it's impossible to shoot him. But the thing is real and looks beautiful. I can get you any MMG pistol. For money, of course. They are sold in special stores. I agreed.

A week later, a friend's son brought me a T-shirt. I gave him the money, thanked him, we drank a cup of tea and he left. I turned the gun in my hands, made a few clicks, pulled back the bolt carrier, put it on the safety, took aim, again pulled the trigger several times - everything worked clearly, as it should be for a combat pistol. Almost imperceptibly, but pleasantly, any military man, present or former, smelled of gun oil from the Teteshnik. Right above the cheeks of the handle was stamped the number of the pistol. I looked at him and the hair on my head began to stir. I clearly saw the number of the pistol: TK 7771 - Tokarev three sevens, one. I was dumbfounded. His heart stopped, his eyes turned black and white, his fingers weakened - the pistol thumped hard on the polished board of the table.

I fell into a chair. “This can't be…” - pounded in the brain. My heart was pounding like crazy. Cautiously, I made my way to the bathroom and put my head under the icy stream of water. It became easier. Then I slowly walked over to the table, turned on the table lamp and carefully took the gun in my hands. I looked again at the number and year of manufacture of the pistol. It was my father's gun. This is his number. My father had a phenomenal memory, which he inherited from me.
That evening I did not let go of my father's gun until midnight. I made an approximate chain of possible movement of the gun. After the war, the corresponding order of the Minister of Defense established the requirement to hand over a pistol to the armament service when transferring an officer to a new duty station. The pistol changed hands for some time, then PM pistols began to arrive to replace the TT. Old pistols were handed over to the artillery depot. There he lay until the time when it became fashionable to render old models of weapons unusable and sell them to anyone at crazy prices.

This pistol is now kept by me as a memory of the hero - father. Sometimes I do not believe in the possibility of such a coincidence. Then, with excitement, for the umpteenth time I take out a pistol from my holster and look at the number. No. This is him - Tokarev, three sevens, one ...

The son's wife is a gift of fate. Beautiful, slender, fair-haired charmer. She somehow immediately liked my wife and I - calm, unfussy, reasonable. The son does not have a soul in her. He likes to repeat - he chose! And he got married, being a cadet of an aviation school for pilots. And the future wife was barely seventeen. How he chose - I do not understand, but in any case, the choice is excellent. Already my daughter is 9 years old, my son is about a year old, they live in perfect harmony and do not get enough of each other.
Yulia is from a family of workers at a St. Petersburg shipbuilding plant. Not spoiled by expensive gifts, restaurant delights and other attributes of a beautiful, modern life. My wife and I have always been pleased to give her expensive gifts. Not out of chic and ostentatious opportunity to surprise, but simply as a gift for the love, care and decency that we saw in her attitude towards her husband and family.
In the summer, we went by car to my wife's homeland, to the Chernihiv region. There are good places. Magic. Around the forest, not far from the beauty - Desna, the water in the well - already sweet, apples in the garden the size of a small melon, strawberries - the size of a fist, lard ... but what can I say. Paradise. Eden. Pampas. Volnitsa.

That morning, my son and Yulia went to the Desna on their own, Arishka's granddaughter had a stomach ache, and my wife and I stayed at home. The children returned in the evening, their faces were blacker than the night. Yulia, tear-stained, could not speak from excitement. The son clearly, in military terms, reported:
- Lost gold. They forgot to take off everything at home, came to the Desna, took off and hung all the rings, earrings, a pendant on two chains with gold crosses on Yulin's ring with a diamond and Yulia fastened them with a pin in her dressing gown pocket. We were about to leave, but there was no gold. There is a pin, but no gold.
- Someone attached legs to your gold. I had to look around, - I admonished my son.
- Yes, we, dad, were alone. Around - no one. And the robe hung under the umbrella. And there was no one around. Well, Yulia was away not far in her dressing gown... And they searched everything there... They didn't find it.

My wife went to calm Yulia, and we, as befits men, turned the conversation to a more important topic. We talked about fishing. We agreed early tomorrow morning to go together for a morning bite. They started the car, drove to the pig farm for worms, had dinner and went to bed. Our girls were talking about something for a long time sitting on the veranda.
We drove up to the Desna when it was just beginning to dawn.
- Where were you yesterday? I asked my son.
- To the right of the ferry. Three kilometers. There is a sandy beach, it's just under Maisky, the village is like that ...
- I know. We will now turn left from the ferry and there we will drop our donks under the cliff. There, in the whirlpools, above the shore, you can try with a fishing rod.
We stopped in a small clearing surrounded by huge willows in two girths. We took out all our fishing personal belongings and went down the cliff to the river. Slowly, without fuss, with skill they threw donks with feeders. Then, also slowly, they took out fishing rods, baited hooks and fishing began. Zhenya ran to the car - he brought two folding chairs, we sat down, lit a cigarette and waited.

At this place, you see, they caught before us. The place was well trampled down, near the water there were flyers stuck in the sand for setting fishing rods. Five minutes passed. It didn't bite. I took out my knife, a long one, made of good Solingen steel, with a type-setting handle of multi-colored rubber. Between our chairs, I began to pick a hole for the bulls. I had just thrust the blade shallowly into the hard-packed sand, when we immediately heard a soft clang. The blade hit metal. Zhenya looked at my work with interest. The blade bent a little and I pulled out a chain from the sand, on which rings, earrings and a ring were fastened. It was gold, lost yesterday five kilometers from here. Zhenya had tetanus.
I picked up the find and washed the gold from the sand in the river. Then he handed it to his son.
- Yours?
- Ddd-ah-ah ... - Zhenya had no voice. The eyes were bulging and looked like lotto barrels.

The fishing didn't go well that morning. All our thoughts, conversations and reflections were focused on our find. We didn't find an answer. By lunchtime we arrived home. We told our girls about the find. To surprise, fear, elements of mysticism and magic were added. We could not find an answer to one question: how could the gold lost yesterday be today in a place where it should not have been. All possible options were tried, up to the most extravagant and ridiculous, but the answer was never found. A few days later all the rings, chains and crosses, the pendant and the ring were consecrated in the village church. In the future, no mystical phenomena happened to them.

Initially, I planned to tell four cases of unknown events that happened to me or in front of my eyes. The third case is about a pilot who ejected over the Laptev Sea. They searched for him, but found only a lifeboat. And after some time he was accidentally seen alive in Moscow, then, together with his wife, he was met on Lake Issyk-Kul and at the Baku-Krasnovodsk ferry crossing.
And the fourth case is completely from the category “This cannot be, because this can never be.” I won’t even hint at the fourth case, so as not to convince everyone of a lie and so that you don’t doubt the state of my cerebral convolutions and psyche ...

But very often I wonder, how do these things happen? Who is their author and performer? For what purpose is this happening? Is it really all an accident and a mere coincidence in a heap of absurdities, entropy errors, time dilation for some and an increase in the speed of light for other objects? Or have we already come to the possibility of telekinesis? I don't know the answer. And I would like...

Do you often meet unusual people in your life? Do you often see amazing things, become witnesses of paranormal phenomena? Most likely, like us, no. But today is that rare case. Read more...

Miracles, anomalies, unusual creatures - all this and much more attracts human attention. Scientists name reasons that are completely different from each other. Some insist that in this way a person affirms his true high existence, the only correct and thorough rational education, without flaws and deviations. Others talk about the satisfaction of curiosity, curiosity, which, in turn, also originates in the depths of the subconscious. Well, let us today be adherents of the fact that a person, being interested in the mysteries of this world, strives for its knowledge, new discoveries.

And now let's ask ourselves a question: how often do you become witnesses of paranormal phenomena in your life? Most probably not. Most often we have to read about such anomalies, watch videos and so on. Of course, we will not be able to give you the opportunity to see with your own eyes all those who will be discussed, but we will tell you all the most amazing. So, to your attention are the 8 most unusual deviations in the world, of course, all of them are real life stories.

1. The man who doesn't feel the cold

Wim Hof, a Dutchman, amazed the whole world with his extraordinary ability - insensitivity to cold! His body does not suffer and is not subject to changes from extremely low temperatures for the human body. He even put nine world records.

Wim Hof ​​swam 57.5 meters in 61 seconds in 2000. At first glance, nothing amazing, but if you do not take into account the fact that this swim took place under the ice of a frozen lake in Finland. True to tradition, he only wore warm leggings and stockings.

In 2006 he conquered Mont Blanc in shorts alone! The following year, he tried to conquer the dream of all climbers - Everest, but he was prevented ... frostbite of his toes, as he again climbed the mountain in his underwear. And yet he does not lose hope and faith, continuing his attempts.

In 2007, the Dutch Iceman amazed everyone and ran half the marathon distance. (21 km) barefoot in the snow and in the shorts themselves. His path lay beyond the Arctic Circle in Finland, where the snow temperature did not exceed 35 degrees below zero.

In 2008, Wim set his own stay record in a transparent tube filled with ice. Previously, he managed to stay there for about 64 minutes. Now a new world record has been set - 73 minutes!

For scientists, the Dutchman remains an unsolved mystery. Many believe that Wim has this ability innate, but the latter denies this in every possible way. In many interviews, Hof says that this is only the result of hard training of the body and spirit. But on the question of revealing the secret, "Ice Man" is silent. Once in a chat, he even mentioned a glass of Bacardi. But still, after a while, he revealed the secret of his success: the fact is that he practices the Tummo tantric system, which in fact no one except monks uses.

In any case, such an ability is the fruit of long-term training, endurance and fortitude, which can only be envied and admired.

2. The boy who never sleeps

Have you often been overcome by the desire to get rid of the need for sleep? It would seem that this is just a waste of time, and in the end, each person, on average, one third of his life just SLEEPING! But nevertheless, it turned out to be vital for the person himself: the fact is that insomnia during the week activates irreversible consequences in the human body, and after two weeks a lethal outcome is inevitable.

But imagine that some people have fulfilled the dream of many and have not slept for 2-3 ... years!

One of these phenomena was a baby named Rhett. It looks like an ordinary boy, he was born in 2006 in the family of Shannon and David Lemb. Constantly active and inquisitive child, like all children of his age. But when the time comes for daytime and nighttime sleep, he still remains an active and awake tomboy. He is already seven years old, and he has not closed his eyes!

This boy has stymied the best doctors in the world who have had the opportunity to examine him. No one has been able to explain this deviation. But over time, it turned out that the boy had a displacement of the cerebellum and medulla oblongata, which leads to irreversible consequences. This pathology has already been called Arnold-Chiari disease. The fact is that Rett's cerebellum is pinched in exactly the place that is responsible for sleep and the normal functioning and renewal of the body.

Today it was only possible to establish such an unusual diagnosis, which does not bode well, but evil is not yet visible. So let's consider that the boy was even lucky - how much he can redo in his life, accomplish something new!

3. Girl allergic to water

Humans are known to be 80% water. Our life activity, like nothing else, is connected with water. This is our source of life, health, harmony. But imagine being allergic to water! How many habitual processes associated with this life-giving liquid will stop?

It is with such an ailment that Ashley Morris, a girl from Australia who is allergic to water, has to put up and get along. Imagine that she endures discomfort even when she sweats! And the most depressing thing is that this pathology is not congenital in her.

Until the age of 14, the girl lived and enjoyed life like an ordinary Australian teenager. And then she fell ill, it would seem, with ordinary tonsillitis. Then the doctors prescribed her drugs with a large amount of penicillin. It was large doses of this antibiotic that awakened an allergy to water.

This is an extremely rare disease that affects only somewhere five people in the world including Ashley. Life does not end there, and Morris shows an even greater burden on life. Despite the fact that she is strictly forbidden to come into contact with water for more than a minute (neither you take a bath and shower, nor a pool), she discovered for herself some charms of this state. Her boyfriend, taking care of her in every way, saves her beloved from washing dishes and laundry! Also saved money on swimwear and bath accessories Ashley pampers herself with new acquisitions.

4. The girl who can only eat Tic Tac

And again, remember the childhood desire to eat only sweets, chewing gum ... Unfortunately, Natalie Cooper, an eighteen-year-old Englishwoman, has long forgotten about these dreams. She would love to eat bacon and eggs or pumpkin soup, but her stomach won't. The girl can only eat mint Tic-Tac dragees.

Doctors repeatedly examined the girl and did not find any pathologies in the stomach or in the entire digestive tract. But for unexplained reasons the girl is sick of everything except 2-calorie pills.

And yet Natalie has to eat, because otherwise her body will not receive energy, which will lead to the inevitable. Doctors designed special tubes through which Natalie's body receives the daily intake of vitamins, minerals and other useful substances directly.

Because of this, the girl can neither work nor study, as she constantly depends on this procedure, but her family and friends do not lose hope. Natalie herself dreams of going to university in the future, getting a good job and eating not only some already hated dragees.

5The Musician Who Hiccups Constantly

Exactly! You can imagine how funny this is, but still unfortunate. Chris Sands is 25 years old, he is a successful young musician who, leading an active lifestyle, did not even suspect that such an unusual fate awaited him.

It started in 2006 when he had hiccups for about a week, but soon stopped. But in February next year, she returned almost forever! Since then, every two seconds the guy hiccups.

Doctors say that it looks like a violation of the gastric valve, which is not yet possible to restore.

6The woman allergic to hi-tech

And this is just a brilliant solution for parents if their children can not tear themselves away from computers, phones and TVs. But no matter how funny it is, the Englishwoman Debbie Bird is not at all laughing. The fact is that she has a pronounced allergy to all kinds of electromagnetic fields (any close contact with technology causes the girl to instantly develop a rash and swelling of her eyelids).

Having got used to such an illness, Debbie and her husband find some advantages: for example, they will save their health from the harmful effects of electronics, and they will be able to devote the time saved on all kinds of watching movies, TV shows, games on the phone, chatting, etc. each other.

Source 7The Girl Who Passes Out When She Laughs

Here's the problem: you can't tell her a joke, and noisy companies are not for her. Kay Underwood passes out even when angry, frightened or surprised. She jokingly says that people, having learned about such a feature of her, immediately try to make her laugh, and then, for a long time not believing that the lifeless girl lying in front of them, fainted. Kay says that somehow she whole Passed out 40 times a day!

In addition, the girl is a narcoleptic, which is no longer a rarity in the same UK, where more than 30 thousand people suffer from this disease. This means that a person can fall asleep any second of your life. In general, Kay has a hard time, so enjoy every opportunity to laugh at a good joke without consequences.

8. The woman who never forgets

How would we need such an ability at school or university - a truly brilliant anomaly!

Jill Price, an American, is endowed with an extraordinary ability - she remembers everything, absolutely everything that happened in her life, all her events. The woman is 42 years old, and if you ask her what happened to her on this very day twenty years ago, she will tell everything in such detail as if it were five minutes ago.
A scientist from the University of California even gave a special name to this phenomenon - hyperthymestic syndrome, which in Greek means "supermemory".

Previously, only one example of such a manifestation of abilities was known, but soon there were five more people with a similar memory in the world. Scientists have not established the cause of such a violation, but they were able to see some similarities between all patients: they are all left-handed and collect television programs.

Jill Price herself took up writing books, where she mentions long days in depression due to the fact that she cannot forget what bad things happened to her.
But she also admits that she could not refuse such an ability.

People often experience amazing inexplicable incidents that make survivors believe in some kind of supernatural power.

Twice in one place

In 2013, Texas rodeo attendee Casey Wagner was out of luck. A thunderstorm was approaching the city, so Casey and his friends hurried to the nearest tree, despite the danger of the situation. According to Casey, he first saw sparks flying all along the tree, and he realized that he was about to be hit. The last thing he noticed before losing consciousness was a huge white flash. Before he had time to wake up, he was hit by the 2nd blow, and the discharge went through the whole body, piercing the man through and through.

The probability of being struck by a thunderstorm twice at a time is practically 0; the probability of survival in this case is not considered at all. Casey managed to get off with a slight fright, a little soreness and a temporary loss of sensation.

Man without half

In 2006, Texas railroad worker Truman Duncan was riding on the end of a train car when he accidentally slipped down. Having fallen on the rails, he tried to crawl to the side as quickly as possible, but the train turned out to be faster, and the wheels began to grind his lower limbs. The train stopped after 23 m, and Truman's lower body remained on wheels. One leg was still connected to the torso by a single muscle, but that was it.

The most surprising thing in this incident is that he did not die this very minute, and the arrival of paramedics waited another 45 minutes. It's unbelievable that Truman survived, undergoing over 20 surgeries in just a few months.

Flight from the bridge

In 2013, college student Morgan Lake was on her way to visit when she saw a horrific image behind her car in the mirror. An 18-wheeled large platform was moving towards it, which did not slow down. Gabor Lovasz, who first came from Canada to America on his own, failed to notice the Chrysler Morgan and the 2nd car in front of him. Subsequent events were complicated by the fact that Morgan's car was on the Chesapeake Bay bridge. The large platform first pushed the car against the concrete embankment before falling onto it and then flipping over it.

Morgan's car, with its windshield and driver's window shattered, fell off the bridge into the bay. Since some of the glass was missing, the car immediately went under water, and Morgan was even more frightened. She later admitted that at that moment she made a decision for herself that she would survive at all costs. Unfastening, she was lucky to get out through the broken glass and rise to the surface of the water. Morgan reached the stones around the bulls of the bridge. She remained there until rescuers arrived. Doctors found only bruises and no other injuries. The Canadian pleaded guilty to all charges.

lumberjack's luck

An amazing incident happened to 74-year-old lumberjack Fortman Murff. Once he cut down trees alone, which is no longer safe. The freshly cut trunk hit a hanging branch as it fell, which pushed Fortman into a ditch. At the same time, the falling trunk pushed another tree. All this fell on the lumberjack's leg, ensuring its fracture and finally immobilizing the man. But the worst was yet to come. Most likely, he was stunned; waking up, Fortman saw that he was lying on a chainsaw, which was still turned on and cut off his head. The distraught lumberjack gathered his strength and tossed the saw aside. Since the blood did not flow in a stream, he decided that he had a chance to survive.

Fortman began making his way to his car, making frequent stops for fear of choking on blood. His whole body was damaged, except for the spine. The man independently drove to the nearest neighbors. From there, the victim was taken to a clinic 27 km away and treated about 60 minutes after the head was actually cut off. The only thing that tormented him was infections from sawdust getting into the wounds. For some time, the vital activity of the organism was supported by a tracheotomy, but then he finally recovered, without losing his love for chainsaws.

When it comes to strange, at first glance, inexplicable things, ghostly anomalies that do not have a scientific or other sound explanation, we attribute mysterious and even magical qualities to these things. I want to present you a list of 10 strange, unsolved cases from life, the explanation of which no one has found.

10th place. Poltergeist made of coal

January 1921

Purchasing coal for his hearth in winter, Mr. Frost from Hornsey (London) had no idea how dangerous this purchase was and how much trouble coal could bring at first glance. After the first portion of solid fuel was sent to the fireplace, it immediately became obvious that it was somehow "wrong". Hot coal pebbles exploded in the furnace, destroyed the protective grill and rolled out onto the floor, after which they disappeared from view and appeared only in the form of bright sparks in another room. This did not end the matter. The Frost family began to notice strange things in their house, knives and forks floated through the air, as if they were in open space. The Reverend Al Gardiner and Dr. Herbert Lemerle witnessed an unusual and frightening phenomenon.

There were several versions regarding the devilry taking place in the Frost house. Skeptics put all the blame on the sons, who allegedly decided to play a prank on their parents. Others were sure that these were the tricks of miners who mixed dynamite with coal (later this version was tested and refuted). Still others believed that the raging spirit of the dead miners, resting in a corner and disturbed by the Frosts, was to blame.

The latest news that has been preserved about the Frosts is disappointing. On April 1 of the same year, five-year-old Muriel Frost died, allegedly from fright when she saw a poltergeist. Her brother Gordon was so shocked by the death of his sister that he was hospitalized with a nervous breakdown in the hospital. The further fate of the family is shrouded in mystery ...

9th place. rain of seeds

February 1979

The coal incident is not the only curiosity in England. For example, in 1979 it rained seeds in Southampton. Seeds of watercress, mustard, corn, peas and beans rained down from the sky, covered in an incomprehensible jelly-like shell. Amazed by what he saw, Roland Moody, who was in a home mini-conservatory with a glass roof, ran outside to get a better look at what was happening. There he met his neighbor, Mrs. Stockley, who said that this was not the first time that this had happened the previous year. As a result of the seed rain, Moody's entire garden, as well as the gardens of three of his neighbors, were covered with seeds. What was the cause of the strange atmospheric phenomenon, the police failed to find out.

Unusual rain repeated several more times, after which it did not happen again. Mr. Moody alone collected 8 buckets of watercress on his territory, not counting the seeds of other plants. He later grew them into watercress and claimed it tasted great.

One of the episodes of the series "The Mysterious World" by Arthur C. Clarke, aired in 1980, is dedicated to this incident. Until now, an adequate opinion regarding the strange rain does not exist.

8th place. The mysterious death of Netta Fornario

November 1929

The main character of the following strange story is Nora Emily Edita "Netta" Fornario, a writer who considered herself a healer, a resident of London. In August or September 1929, she left London for Iona, an island off the west coast of Scotland, where she died under unclear circumstances. Among the versions of her death are psychic murder, heart failure, the action of hostile spirits.

Arriving on Iona, Netta set about exploring the island. During the day she traveled, and at night she searched for traces of the spirits of the island, with whom she tried in every possible way to contact. Her search dragged on for several weeks, after which, on November 17, her behavior changed dramatically. Netta hastily packed up her things and intended to head back to London. She told her friend, Mrs. McRae, that she was telepathically wounded after receiving messages from other worlds. It happened at night, so Mrs. McRae, apparently looking at the chic silver jewelry of the healer and fearing for her health, persuaded her to go on the road in the morning.

The next day, Netta went missing. Her body was later found on a "fairy mound" near Loch Staonaig. The corpse lay on a cross made of turf, completely naked under a black cloak, covered with scratches and abrasions. There was a knife nearby. The legs were beaten to the blood, as a result of jogging over rough terrain. Was Netta killed by a maniac, died of hypothermia, or by an absurd accident, is unknown. Discussions on this issue have not yet ended.

7th place. fire poltergeist

April 1941

After finishing breakfast, farmer William Hackler, a resident of Indiana (USA), went outside to get some fresh air. After leaving the house, he felt that his clothes smelled of smoke. Without paying much attention to it, he went to the barn. A few minutes later he returned back to the house, where we found a fire in the bedroom (the house was without electricity) - the walls were burning. The local fire brigade quickly arrived at the scene and extinguished the fire. But that was only the beginning of a hard day for the Hacklers...

Immediately after the fire engine left, a mattress caught fire in the guest room. The fire was located directly inside the mattress. Fires broke out in various places (including under the cover of the book) and rooms throughout the day. By evening, the number of extinguished fires reached 28. Having played enough, the fiery poltergeist no longer disturbed Mr. Hackler and his family. The same, in turn, demolished the old wooden house and built a new one in its place, from non-combustible lumber.

6th place. Third Eye

November 1949

Students of one of the universities of South Carolina in the city of Columbia (USA) returned late at night from the theater on Longstreet. At one point, they froze in place, confronted by a strange man in a silver suit, who then moved the cover of a nearby manhole and disappeared into the sewers. From that moment on, the strange man was nicknamed "the sewer man". A little later, this "character" again made it known about its existence, but in a more terrible case. In April 1950, in one of the lanes, a policeman noticed a man near a pile of mutilated chicken carcasses. It happened in the dark, the policeman sent a flashlight in the direction of an incomprehensible object, and was stunned when he saw a man with three eyes. The third eye showed off right in the center of the forehead. While the policeman came to his senses and called for reinforcements on the radio, the mysterious creature disappeared from view.

The third meeting with the "sewer man" took place in the 60s in the tunnels under one of the universities. After the tunnels were carefully examined, but no clear evidence of the existence of a three-eyed man was found. Who or what is he? Man? Ghost? Alien? No one knows, but random meetings continued until the early 90s.

5th place. Connecticut stylet

February 1925

For several months, women from Bridgeport (Connecticut, USA) were intimidated by a "phantom stiletto" that strikes the chest and buttocks and then hides in an unknown direction. The victims of an unknown, but very real criminal, were 26 persons, whose bodies felt all the pain and anguish from powerful blows of sharp weapons.

The attacker did not adhere to a specific type of victim, women were chosen spontaneously and randomly. While the victim screamed in pain and came to his senses, the perpetrator quickly ran away, not allowing himself to be identified. Police investigations led nowhere, the identity of the "stylet tormentor" was never identified. In the summer of 1928, the attacks changed dramatically and were never repeated. Who knows, maybe the maniac got old and artosis began to torment him ...

4th place. electric girl

January 1846

Do you think "X" people are fiction? Wrong, some of the characters are quite real. At least one. A fourteen-year-old resident of La Perriere in Normandy began to frighten her comrades with unusual abilities: approaching her, people received electric shocks, chairs moved away when she tried to sit down, some objects soared into the air as if they were light and weightless floats. Later, Angelina received the nickname "electric girl".

Not only those around, but also the girl herself suffered from the unusual abilities of the body. She often suffered from convulsions. In addition, by attracting various objects to herself, Angelina received painful injuries. Parents considered their daughter possessed by the devil and took her to church, but the priest convinced the unfortunate that the reason for their child's abnormality lies not in spirituality, but in physical features.

After listening to the rector, the parents took their daughter to the scientists in Paris. After examination, the famous physicist Francois Arago concluded that the unusual qualities of the girl are associated with electromagnetism. Scientists invited Angie to participate in research and testing that were supposed to make her normal. In April 1846, a few months after the start of the program, the "electric girl" forever said goodbye to her amazing abilities.

3rd place. Another fire poltergeist

January 1932

Housewife Mrs. Charlie Williamson from Blundenboro (North Carolina, USA) was wildly horrified when her chintz dress broke into a bright flame for inexplicable reasons. At this point, she was not standing near a fireplace, stove or other heat source, she was not smoking or using any flammable products. Luckily, her husband and teenage daughter were at home, ripping off her flaming dress before it burned the unfortunate woman.

The adventures of Mrs. Williamson did not end there. On the same day, the pants in her closet burned to the ground. The trials by fire continued the next day, when, in the presence of witnesses, for unknown reasons, a bed and curtains in another room caught fire. Spontaneous combustion continued for three days, after which the Williamsons surrendered to an unknown element and left the house. The housing was examined by firefighters and police, no reasons for what was happening were identified. On the fifth day, the fires stopped by themselves and no longer disturbed the owners of the house. Thankfully, no one was hurt by the fire.

2nd place. blind reading

January 1960

We note right away that we are not talking about blind people who have learned to read special books by moving their fingers along the bulges on paper, but about a completely ordinary girl, sighted and healthy. The originality of Margaret Foos was that she could read ordinary books blindfolded. Her father called this phenomenon psychic vision through the skin. He himself taught his daughter this incredible skill and hurried to prove the uniqueness of the method to scientists.

In 1960, Mr. Foos arrived with his daughter in Washington DC to participate in a scientific study. For the duration of the experiment, psychiatrists put on Margaret's eyes "fool protection" - a tight bandage. For the purity of the experience, the father was taken to the next room. Blindfolded, using only her fingers, the girl was able to read the pages of the Bible, kindly provided by scientists. After that, she was offered to play checkers, recognize different pictures, with which Margaret successfully coped.

Despite the fact that the girl managed to pass all the tests, psychiatrists could not explain how she managed to do this. They insisted on their own, arguing that it was impossible to see without eyes, that what was happening was a deception.

1st place. sniper ghost

1927-1928 years

For two years, a mysterious "ghost sniper" terrorized the residents of Camden, New Jersey. The first incident occurred in November 1927, when Albert Woodruff's car was shot at with a gun. The windows of the car were riddled with bullets, but the investigation did not yield any results - not a single cartridge case was found at the scene. Later, two city buses, windows of houses and shop windows were damaged by mysterious shelling. As in the first case, the perpetrators and shell casings were not found. The good news is that no one was hurt by the actions of a ghost or a real criminal.

The mysterious sniper hunted not only in Camden, residents of the cities of Lindenwood and Collingswood, New Jersey, as well as Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, suffered from his tricks. Most often, the victims were private cars and urban transport (buses, trolleybuses), residential buildings. Only in one of many cases did the witness hear the shots, but did not see anything or anyone.

The attacks stopped abruptly in 1928. Later, people suffered only from abnormal imitators who wanted to act as the famous "ghost sniper".

The sheep slid down the electric cable, catching it with its horn. This unfortunate sheep actually turned out to be a complete sheep. Well, that's how it was possible to catch the horn on the power cable? The animal was noticed when it began to bleat, hanging five meters above the ground. Fortunately, the sheep was not grounded, so it was not electrocuted. The incident took place in the small Norwegian town of Helgoisind. Tourists filmed the whole process of saving the animal. The sheep was lassoed with a rope and dragged back to ground level. It took the vacationers about an hour to save the negligent sheep, but, in the end, the animal remained safe and sound. Apparently, the sheep was grazing on the hill and tried to reach the grass growing on the cliff, but instead it caught on the wire with its horn and slid down to the place where the distance from the wire to the ground was already more than five meters.

A tiny chihuahua was blown away by a strong gust of wind. Mr. Utlis from Missouri was just setting up a booth at a flea market, when suddenly his little four-legged friend, who was standing on top of the frame, was blown away. A dog weighing only 2.7 kg was lifted into the air like an autumn leaf and carried away. But this story has a happy ending: with the help of a veterinarian, Dorothy and Larven Utlis found their Tinker Bell dirty and hungry in a nearby forest, which was located a kilometer from the market.

The puppy miraculously survived after swallowing a toy arrow 25 cm long. Everyone knows that puppies try on the tooth everything that is badly lying. But here's a bull terrier named Betty greatly regretted her curiosity and greed after she swallowed a plastic arrow 25 cm long, which was hardly less than the size of the puppy itself. Fortunately, the Staffordshire Bull Terrier was saved by urgent surgery. The arrow was lodged midway between the animal's esophagus and small intestine. The owner of the dog, thirty-eight-year-old Emma Watson, believes that Bella found the arrow in her seven-year-old daughter's playhouse, where the dog was not allowed, but the door to the house was accidentally opened by the wind, and the dog immediately scurried inside. Bella got better, but she never learned anything: as soon as she was discharged from the hospital home, she immediately tried to taste the TV remote control.

A bird with a cigarette started a fire that caused £250,000 in damage. Cigarette-loving Sparrow is accused of setting fire to a Lincolnshire store, resulting in £250,000 worth of property damage. The store owner, forty-eight-year-old Paul Sheriff, puzzled over why the fire had started. But six weeks after the accident, insurance agency investigators told him they found 35 cigarette butts on the roof. According to their version, the sparrow collected these cigarette butts to equip its nest, and one of the cigarettes was not extinguished, which caused the fire. Mr Sheriff, who is a non-smoker himself, says: “There is almost nothing left of the store. The basements collapsed, the electrical wiring burned out, all the refrigerators were out of order, it was just awful. And the representative of the insurance company told me that even they first encountered such a case. I myself had never heard of such a thing before. It is inconceivable that such a small bird, with the help of such a small object as a cigarette butt, could cause such a mess.”

A cat locked in a metal container for 34 days survived by licking the walls. A cat named Sox miraculously survived. He spent more than a month locked in a metal storage container for industrial materials, licking condensation off the walls. An 11-year-old cat returned to his owners after electrician Murray Ruxton accidentally found him inside a container. Surprisingly, the animal lived for 34 days without food and water, on only condensate from the metal walls of the container. When Sox went missing, his owner Michelle Maher filed a missing persons notice with a cat charity. Michelle ran around the streets and plastered all the poles with advertisements while volunteers from the animal rights organization searched for the missing cat. But no one knew that the cat was actually languishing in a metal container that was used by the local electric company to store equipment and supplies. Of course, the animal was emaciated and weighed only half of the norm, but now his mistress is making every effort to fatten the poor cat.

The mouse is to blame for the fire, which killed more than a hundred cats. This sad case is full of malicious irony and can be called "mouse revenge." A mouse set fire to a cat shelter near the Canadian city of Toronto, resulting in the death of more than a hundred cats. In addition, the shelter, which belonged to a charitable society, contained three dogs and several rats that were waiting for new owners. According to the report of the fire inspector, the cause of the fire was an electrical spark that passed through the ceiling. Most likely, mice or rats gnawed at the insulation. The total damage from the fire is 240 thousand US dollars.

Skunk stuck his head in a peanut butter can. Teresa Wick witnessed an unusual event - a skunk with a tin can on his head ran around the center of Bixby. “I'm delivering magazines in the area and I was dropping mail outside the Community Center when I saw a skunk with its head stuck in a peanut butter can. It was only 5:30 in the morning,” Teresa says. A hungry skunk was looking for something to eat, and stuck his head in a jar without a lid. Teresa called several places before she found Ned Bruh, the skunk specialist. All this time the girl had to hold the animal in her arms. As Ned says, wild animals are always looking for food, water and shelter. No skunk can resist peanut butter. They are real gluttons and will not miss a single piece of anything edible. Ned gently euthanized the skunk with a cloth soaked in chloroform to calmly remove the jar from its head. The skunk was so grateful to his savior that he didn't even splash his stinking liquid. He was always happy that he was free again, and ran away.

A pig swallowed a £1,500 engagement ring diamond. A pig named Ginger ate a diamond from a woman's engagement ring. The voracious pig clapped its jaws as Anna Moore of North Yorkshire laid her hand on its snout. When the woman withdrew her hand, the diamond was gone. Now farmer Paul Caigill, who owns the animal, has to dig through, you know, in order to find the gem. Mr. Caigill claims that his pigs don't bite, and he is very surprised that Ginger ate the diamond.

The orangutan turned off the electric fence while trying to escape the zoo. The entire Australian zoo was turned on its ears when a "brilliant" orangutan escaped from his paddock by turning off the power to the fence, which was running electricity. Adelaide Zoo officials say the monkey, named Karta, used a stick to reach the switch and then placed more sticks against the fence to climb over it. But the twenty-seven-year-old monkey was separated from the city by the outer fence of the zoo. So Karta walked in the wild for only half an hour. Zoo curator Peter Whitehead says apparently the monkey realized it was in some other place it shouldn't be and returned to its pen. The map was seen by some visitors, and although she voluntarily returned to her cage, zoo officials decided to evacuate visitors for safety. Whitehead says the orangutan showed no signs of aggression and did not approach any of the visitors. But, nevertheless, the veterinarians were at the ready, armed with pistols with tranquilizers. Zookeepers say that Karta made such an attempt to escape from grief, because she recently lost her partner, with whom she lived for many years.

Lost cat found on TV show. A cat that went missing from his home in Cornwall was found safe and sound on the set of Question Time. A cat named Tango broke into the filming room, where there was a recording of a political discussion program for the BBC-1 channel. With the hall full of guests, the cat crawled out from under the table, at which the presenter David Dimbleby was sitting. Cat owner Jackie Ellery found out about the whereabouts of her pet from a friend who called her and said that she had just seen Tango on TV. But she was not the only one who noticed the missing cat - the whole studio laughed to tears when Tango jumped out from under the table during a serious discussion. And although Jackie at that moment was sitting in her living room watching the TV screen, she missed her pet's television debut. But this scene will go down in the history of the show "Question Time" as the most memorable episode.