The author recalls five strange childhood incidents: a vanishing vision of his sister, a creaking couch with no cat present, blue flashes over a forest, a female voice from the hallway, and voices in the woods that his grandfather attributed to spirits of the dead.
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An account of paranormal phenomena in a rented apartment: footsteps, clinking dishes, a bathroom door handle being yanked, a hit on the back, and clicking sounds near the ceiling. Later it was discovered that a woman had died in the apartment. Also mentions an incident where an invisible force pulled the narrator away from an open manhole.
A guy moved into a cheap rented apartment after the army and encountered a poltergeist: falling objects, a lock that blocks itself, nighttime awakenings. Neighbors said an old woman used to live here who didn't want new tenants, and recently someone photographed the author's girlfriend while she slept.
A man renovating a private house, while hanging on a pull-up bar, sees in the window reflection a black cat climbing the stairs behind him. When he turns around, the cat is gone, and later he finds all his cats asleep in the other half of the house.
While skipping school, the narrator sees a nun in a habit by the river running in panic, looking back, wailing and waving her hands as if shooing someone away, though no one is behind her.
A construction worker recounts how guards at a Kazan building site heard footsteps on an empty floor, and after a human bone was found, a string of accidents and injuries followed. The bone was eventually thrown out, and the ghost, according to the narrator, never found peace.
Night Visitor in a Shroud After a Pulled Nail
Second-hand accountA tenant pulled a nail out of the floor despite the landlord's warning, and that night someone in a white shroud with a candle knocked on his door, complaining that it made his chandelier fall.
Ghosts of Deceased Patients in the ICU
Second-hand accountThe narrator's mother's friend describes ghosts of recently deceased patients appearing in the ICU only during night shifts. The department head, who used to laugh at these stories, encountered the ghost of a woman himself when he stayed overnight.
A man born in 1987 recounts poltergeist phenomena in his apartment in the 1990s: creaking chairs, a falling curtain, a door opening by itself, and nighttime sounds. His sister also heard knocking and saw a ghost of a woman with a candle.
After the uncle's death, strange phenomena began in the grandmother's private house: a feeling of presence, shadows, smoke, conversations with the deceased, and mysterious messages. Everything stopped after the 40th-day ritual, when the narrator's mother saw a silhouette of a man walking into the forest.
Night Visitor at a Logging Site
Second-hand accountIn the late nineties, two brothers working in logging spent the night in the forest, where a stranger walked up to their campfire, fixed their broken chainsaw, and asked them to light a candle for him in church. Later they learned that a feller named Yegor had died at that very plot a couple of years earlier.
In 2020, the author moved into a rented room in Moscow, where two months later poltergeist phenomena began: sounds of rolling jars, a feeling of presence, cold, a whisper of his name behind the door, and a lightbulb exploding. Later, a roommate artist had a panic attack during which an icon flew off his nightstand, after which the phenomena stopped.
A student courier on his last workday encounters an anomaly in a brezhnevka elevator: a stranger vanishes into a shaft with no cabin, and then the elevator nearly kills the narrator. Later he finds local sources about a major who died in the same elevator in the 1970s.
A story about friendship with the granddaughter of a village witch, their joint rituals with grave soil and herbs, and the girl's fear that her grandma wants to take over her body.
A depot worker sleeps in a former barracks where a man allegedly hanged himself. At night a radio turns on by itself, a presence is felt, and after a rude response mattresses fall from the top bunk. Later the narrator looks for an obelisk with a photo of a murdered woman but finds only his drunk coworker.