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This story was told to me by a friend on the landing let’s say his name is Alexei, because they say the true names and the place of the event in this case is somehow inconvenient. In any case, not this. the main thing, and the most amazing event that happened to a man, proving that our world is arranged somewhat differently than we are about it we think. And there are miracles truly inexplicable in this world. However, let’s better listen to Alexey himself, that’s what he tells:
“In my life there was a period when two years had to live on cottage. And then my neighbor was a middle-aged but still strong man named after Nikolai Ivanovich.
In Ivanitch’s estate there was a good cellar under a pitched roof. However, due to the fact that our sites were located in a lowland, the neighboring cellar in the spring was constantly flooded with water. Level her how as a rule, did not exceed half a meter. With this in mind, Ivanovitch built shelves so that water does not reach them. Also above the zone flooding, he installed two rods of thick reinforcement and over them, as if on rails, went for vegetables. It was more convenient than any wear wagons once. In the summer, Ivanitch pumped out the water, and until the next the spring in his cellar was dry.
But in that unfortunate year, heavy rains began in August and not stopped for several days. As a result, the neighbor’s basement again filled with water. Ivanovitch saw this when he climbed to hide underground harvested on a rainy day a potato crop. Here is what I learned from him then …
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… In the cellar, Nikolai Ivanovich was dark, because the light bulb burned out the day before, but he did not have time to buy a new one. But he had a flashlight dressing on his head. Having fastened it, Ivanovich climbed with a bag potatoes into the pit and found that rainwater ran under the his “rails”. Under the weight of the man the armature caved in and he scooped up galoshes of water.
That’s it, my neighbor thought, now I’ll abandon the potatoes, and tomorrow I pump out the water and at the same time replace the light bulb.
And then one of his legs slid off the “rail” – and Ivanovich flopped into the water. Of course, he dropped the potato, but he managed to grab the shelf and literally hung on it. And when he started pulling his legs out of the water, felt that for one of his someone holds. Or she fell into some kind of “trap.” Man jerked his leg stronger – capture, respectively, increased. Then this “trap” and at all she began to suck in her leg hard, like a pipe. From Ivanovich cried out fear and hid so desperately that he managed to break free. He flew out of the cellar like a cork, and his galosh went to this “something” who was sitting in the water. The last thing my neighbor heard in the dungeon is strange squabbling sounds, as if someone was beating palms on the surface of the water. Closing the hatch, Ivanovich crushed him next bags of potatoes and ran into the house.
A few days after that, he was afraid to even go into the basement. A then he told me what happened and asked me to go there with him together. Opening the hatch, we shone a flashlight in the cellar. The water is already there was not, however, the dampness remained. I went down first and replaced a light bulb, only after that Ivanitch followed me.
We did not find a bag of potatoes that fell into the water, as well as a galosh. There wasn’t anything in the cellar that looked like a suction pipe, which seemed to Ivanovich. All this coupled with implausible my neighbor’s story made me seriously doubt the veracity of his words.
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A couple of days later, in the evening, Nikolai’s wife called me Ivanovich. She said that in the morning she asked him to get into the cellar, and after that, the husband disappeared. The woman herself was ill, with difficulty moved on crutches, practically did not leave the house. Of course same, I hastened to the site to the neighbors.
Going under a pitched canopy, I saw that the cellar was open. Called Ivanovitch – silence. However, no, not quite silence: I clearly heard how water splashes nearby.
Really again? But where from? “- I thought and clicked switch. The light in the cellar did not light up. – And when she managed to burn out? ..
Having found the neighbor’s lantern, I shone down. Indeed, water, and a lot: Ivanitch’s “rails” completely disappeared beneath it. But the most the amazing thing was that the water splashed as if her drove the wind … or worried something from the inside. I remembered the story his neighbor and felt real horror. Slamming the hatch, he rushed in house.
When Ivanovich’s wife found out about everything, she immediately called the police (then it was still the police). However law enforcement arrived only the next morning. I brought them to the cellar, they opened hatch, turned on the light (!) and saw the most ordinary, dry basement. No trace of water. On the shelves are neatly folded vegetables. Nikolay Ivanovich was not in the cellar. He was not found anywhere: he was man – and disappeared.
… A week later, I left for the city and immediately began to look for their buyers cottages. To live on it after the story with Ivanovich began impossible for me … ”
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