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The war is not over until the last is buried soldier. In Myasnoy Bor, in the Novgorod region, where in 1942 the 2nd shock army, not buried soldiers of a thousand. And still surrounding residents and rangers conducting excavations at battlefields, see vague shadows going into a mortal bayonet attack, hear screams in Russian and German, the whistle of bullets and the clang of caterpillars. War goes on.
Anomalous zone
The villagers do not go to this forest for mushrooms. Anyway, here try not to walk alone, even during the day. Somehow scary here uncomfortable. Seems to be constantly watching you from the depths of the thicket someone’s unkind eyes.
But every summer, as soon as the roads dry, the townspeople go to the forest, armed with bayonet shovels and primitive metal detectors. Many of them are black search engines, those who are attracted by profit, who then sells weapons and other items of war time, representing considerable value today. But most still – “white” search engines, people are honest, disinterested and persistent.
They come from Veliky Novgorod, St. Petersburg, Moscow and others places of our Motherland to find anonymous burial places, to find unburied remains in thickets, gully and swamps soldier, if possible identify them and interim with military honors.
In this forest swampy valley 30 kilometers from the Great Novgorod, which has become an anomalous zone, people observe strange phenomena associated with the war. The ancient name of Myasnaya Bor turned out to be symbolic. During the Loban operation of 1942 here in bloody battles the soldiers of the Soviet 2nd shock perished army, parts of the German Wehrmacht, the Spanish Blue Division, and other troops.
About 300 thousand Soviet soldiers remained on the battlefield, which in tens of times greater than the loss of the enemy. Today 11 thousand remains were found. And how many have not yet been interred ?! They say that the souls of missing soldiers cannot retreat to the world. another until they are reburied. And so many of the search engines the consolidated detachment “Valley” saw the ghosts of soldiers, some in general somehow mysteriously for a few seconds we were in past, at the center of the fighting. These are the so-called chrono-mirages.
Search engines say that in crowded places birds do not settle in the remains, all living things avoid them. At night in Butcher Bora heard strange, as if from the other world, voices, and at dusk in in the forest you can meet soldiers in the Red Army uniform, who more than once prompted diggers where to look for unburied bodies. They saw and something worse than ghosts. It’s not for nothing that this place is called Death Valley.
“And here I am lying!”
Andrey Morozov, a search engine for the Sturm squad of the Valley expedition, not He believed in all kinds of ghosts, until one day he saw everything with his eyes.
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– I was just starting to excavate. Once out of stupidity one in the evening went to the excavation. When he returned, it was already night. AND here I go along the road and see what is around me … 1942! People, trenches, cars, dugouts, even another forest. I saw it all! Well before the camp reached normally, but it was still scary. Or here is one the girl was digging up a fighter in the evening. And suddenly a man in her the Red Army uniform comes up, stops and looks. She I didn’t pay much attention right away – there’s a lot of troops here, many guys go around in uniform.
And he says to her: “You, as you dig it out, dig here, here one more lies. And about that aspen too. And here, under Christmas tree, I’m lying! “The girl, of course, falls unconscious. Then, when I came to my senses and told everything, they went, checked this place. In all the places where this man indicated, they found the remains. And under the tree also found a fighter. Among the bones are metal buttons of the Red Army with asterisks. Ours, then, was a Red Army …
Grandfather spoon
Somehow a local resident named Elena, along with her acquaintances accidentally unearthed a funnel from a shell remaining in the forest since the war. She looked into her and sees that a soldier was lying there. Not dead – alive. He is wearing an overcoat, helmet, and a rifle next to him. Soldier spoke to her, asked what was the name of her grandfather.
She answered – Gushchin. Then the soldier handed her a wooden spoon, and on it – the inscription: “Gushchin P.”. Grandfather’s name was Pavel Stepanovich. is he was called to the front from Malaya Vishera and went missing in those very places where, many years later, his granddaughter came across a funnel.
When Elena came to her senses and looked into the funnel again, she didn’t saw nothing but a shapeless bunch of rags of matter, glands and something white like fragments of human bones. But in her hand left a wooden spoon with the name of his grandfather.
Subsequently, after asking other local residents, the woman found that similar incidents happened to other people, whose relatives died or went missing in the area of Myasniy Bor. Supernaturally, they found things in the forest that belonged to deceased loved ones. Together with these people, Elena founded a museum, exhibits of which were finds from the forest.
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Accident on the road
Says Petersburger Alexei Borisov:
– I often wander along this track with a load. Work with us you understand, not from easy – for days at the wheel. Here I go by Meat watch at eight in the evening, and before that I did not sleep almost three days, everything seems to be normal, but it tends to sleep. Myself not noticed falling asleep. I woke up from a loud phrase: “Hey, be careful, brother! “And it seems like someone is knocking on the shoulder. I open my eyes – no one. I look: and the car is already driving along the side of the road. Taxied out. Outside the window flashed a meat-fighting monument to unknown soldiers.
Rumor has it that the spirits of the soldiers did not allow the construction high-speed railway Moscow-St. Petersburg, which was also supposed to go through Death Valley. Military began to dream every day to the project manager and to numerous sponsors. After that, it was decided to postpone construction for an indefinite period.
Shroud over Volkhov
Not so long ago, local guys from the village of Zakharyino (8 kilometers from Myasniy Bor), walking in the evening along the shore of Volkhov, we saw so terrible picture that they rushed into the village and still haven’t go for a walk in those places. Adults who “tortured” them, that happened, the boys said they saw the river itself Death.
Black Luger of the Black Ranger
I had one familiar black tracker Valera. He’s all The Karelian Isthmus climbed out in search of trophies. And in Meat He has been to Bor many times. Gathered a good collection of Soviet and German weapons, sold his finds with considerable profit. He preferred to act alone, sometimes with a cousin Earring. We worked with this guy at the same enterprise. Sergey and told me this story.
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Once, in the Meat Forest, Valera, while searching, came across a skeleton. Fragments of decaying uniforms, buttons, a belt buckle and other surviving accessories determined that before him German Officer. And most importantly, the holster turned out to be well preserved a gun, and not some, but the famous luger. Valera took a gun, a knife, field binoculars, something else – and left, leaving the backbone not buried.
When he returned to Leningrad, that night in a dream appeared to him a tall red-haired guy in the field uniform of lieutenant. He is something sharply and resolutely demanded from Valera. And although our black ranger I didn’t know German, but for some reason I understood everything. The officer ordered Valera return to the forest and put his bones to the ground. The guy promised to fulfill his desire, but days after days passed, and he was in no hurry to restrain your word. Moreover, even being in Myasnoy Bor, he went far side of the ravine where this skeleton was found.
Now the lieutenant appeared in Valerin’s dreams almost nightly. His appearance was harsher and darker, he threatened with all sorts of punishments, up to an imminent painful death.
But – found a scythe on a stone. Now Valera didn’t want to bury the ashes of the enemy in principle. He chuckled at night fears during the day, and covered in cold sweat at night.
Once Valera went to the forest for mushrooms – and disappeared. Through for several days his corpse was found in a forest near Kirillovsky. In the middle the bullet hole blackened his forehead. Forensic-medical examination determined that the shot was fired at close range, almost point blank, from the lugger. Perhaps the very one that Valera found in Butcher and sold to some collector.
Nikolay VALENTINOV
War Mushrooms Moscow
