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June 14, 2001 under very mysterious circumstances the life of the Minister of Railways of Turkmenistan was cut short. It happened in Ashgabat itself, near the locomotive depot, during inspections. According to the official version, the minister did not see the approaching locomotive and died under the wheels. It’s strange, isn’t it: how can you not to see, much less not to hear the approaching line-up?
The driver of the downed locomotive official saw some a powerful blow knocked the minister out of the way before he even passed shunting. Of course, then no one took these testimonies into account. accepted. What remained unnoticed is that any traces There were no collisions on the shunting diesel locomotive. But character damage testified that the death of a person is uniquely came due to a strong blow.
Every year, hundreds of people die on the railway, and some of them in very mysterious circumstances. So on light appears stories that the railroad workers themselves do not like remember.
As one engineer admitted, for thirty years of his work more all were shocked by the inexplicable tragedies seen by their own eyes. For example, once, when his train approached the station, the driver saw a young girl standing at the edge of the platform, fell under the wheels of the train. From the outside, everything looked as if some force pushed her onto the rails. Then at different times had place some more similar cases. Specialists investigating them each time concludes suicide, however experienced the driver is sure: this is by no means suicide.
But then what? Mystic? May be. There is a version that sometimes 70 meters in front of the train appears some invisible wave. Like a ghost train, it rushes “ahead steam locomotive, “sweeping away everything and everything in its path.
According to various sources, the Sapsan express train, making flights from Moscow to St. Petersburg, regularly collects a bloody tribute from the inhabitants of the Novgorod and Tver regions. Data 2010 indicate that the number of victims of “Sapsan” is calculated dozens of people. Tragedies happen where express travels at a speed of 200 kilometers per hour. is he is a creepy sight, locals say, who at this time were on the platform or on the route “Peregrine Falcon.”
A white flash appears on the horizon, resembling some kind of “eye”, and is approaching at an incredible speed. People standing on platform, automatically grab the railing and numb from the animal horror. Many of the eyewitnesses have already experienced these feelings. peregrine falconer.
It also happens that people in fear jump from the platform at the moment the approach of the Peregrine Falcon. The train creates a vortex flow of such force that he carries people and things from the platform, and an air wave lifts gravel out of the way and swings electric trains.
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