A collection of seven personal stories from the author: a bitten sandwich, a running shower in a burned apartment, laughter in a forest belt, 90s music from a dead street, chanting from church items, a giant dog in a swamp, and a white flash that led to an abandoned house.
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A machine-building plant worker describes two unexplained incidents: the appearance of dirty footprints in a toilet and the anomalous behavior of a lathe that eventually maimed a worker and was mothballed.
DoppelgangerAs a child, the narrator and his friends saw a black horse-like creature standing on its hind legs dancing on a hill near Shipov Forest, which vanished after hearing his voice. Nearby, chanting prayers came from an abandoned street.
The author shares four childhood memories: a constant feeling of being watched in his brother's house and a silhouette of his grandmother, a miraculous rescue from a lake, a falling TV, and red eyes in the window.
Spirit of the deadSpoiled Food and an Eye in the Doorway After a Ritual
Second-hand accountThe narrator's friend, after attempting to summon a spirit, found that all the food in his kitchen had spoiled within a day, and a couple of weeks later noticed someone's eye flickering past in a half-open door.
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.
GhostNight 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.
GhostA first-hand account of two incidents at an old dacha surrounded by dense forest: a steady nighttime light with no visible source, and a horrifying male scream followed by complete silence. The author suspects something is trying to lure people into the forest.
Missing Man Found Dead in Abandoned House with Symbols on Walls
Second-hand accountA 55-year-old man went missing after quarreling with his wife, left with the dog, and didn't return. Two days later his body was found sitting on a chair in an abandoned house, with walls and body covered in strange symbols drawn with charcoal. Cause of death was heart failure.
The narrator sees the wrecked car of a deceased relative move out of the parking lot on its own and block the road, then slowly roll forward in his presence, even though it cannot move due to damage.
Spirit of the deadTwo Incidents: The Blind Old Woman with a Smell of Decay and the House with a Corpse in a Coffin
FiledTwo incidents from the narrator's life: an encounter with a creepy blind old woman whose apartment reeked of corpse, and a nighttime intrusion into a stranger's house where he saw a coffin with a corpse standing upright and people in suits.
Creepy personA resident of a new high-rise notices that sometimes people stand in the dark in the passenger elevator and only exit after someone opens the door for them. The cabin light turns off if the floor button isn't pressed.
Creepy personAn apartment resident periodically feels a soft ball underfoot that vanishes when he looks down. He suggests it might be a domovoi.
DomovoiThe narrator orders a pizza; the courier dies in a car crash on the way to him. Five years later the doorbell rings, and a woman from the management company is at the door.
A short message about a call from a fictional corporation representative who allegedly conducted an experiment on the author.
Family Legend of a Domovoi with Three Heads and Three Beaks
Second-hand accountThe narrator recounts a family legend about a domovoi that supposedly lived with her great-grandparents: it dragged her great-grandfather off the stove at night, lived in a chest, and, according to all relatives, had three heads and three beaks.
DomovoiA 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.
Ghost
DemonCreepy personThe narrator wakes up at night before a trip and feels an invisible heavy entity walking on the bed, stepping on his stomach and placing a hand on his knee; the entity vanishes whenever he opens his eyes and never returns.
Two cases: in the first, the narrator and his acquaintance take photos in an underground bunker of a former military base and discover that shadows in the photos don't match the light source; in the second, the narrator finds skeletal remains and sitting corpses of homeless people on a technical floor of an abandoned factory.
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.
GhostCreepy personAt night the narrator smokes on the stairwell between the eighth and ninth floors when he hears rhythmic claps ascending from below, though no footsteps are audible. The entity stops on the eighth floor and later leaves a wet handprint on his door.
The Crazy Neighbour
FiledEvery night the narrator hears the hysterical laughter of a neighbour who, according to the narrator's grandmother, lost his mind while serving time for murder. One day, returning from the store, the narrator saw the neighbour's door open and then noticed the neighbour staring intently into the narrator's peephole.
Creepy personThe narrator describes a strange neighbor in an apartment building: her complaints about noise, tampering with the shared vestibule, conflicts with neighbors, and increasingly frightening behavior, including a sealed-off balcony and the reaction of pets. A mysterious "mother" is mentioned separately, whom no one has ever seen or heard.
Creepy person