Living underground. Life underground Underground life

The first to report that civilizations had gone deep into the earth was the researcher R. Shaver. Information about contact between him and aliens located in the bowels of the planet began in 1946.

According to history, Shaver spent several weeks underground with brutal mutants whose appearance was similar to the images described in legends. The article published in the magazine received about 50 thousand responses, with many readers confirming Shaver's words and saying that underground cities really exist. Moreover, they shared information that underground there are unique machines that can climb deep into the planet, and aliens are able to control people’s consciousness.

Although the story seems incredible, it had a great influence on the development of the paranormal field. Tales of ancient creatures that went underground are found among all nationalities. It is believed that developed civilizations went deep into the depths as a result of terrible disasters. Outwardly, underground aliens resemble people, but do not want to have contact with humanity. They live on Earth millions of years longer than we do, and sometimes steal human children in order to raise them according to their principles and rules.

Evidence of the existence of underground life.

• In 1977, photographs of a dark hole located at the North Pole were made public. It is believed that this is one of the gates to the world underground. In 1981, similar footage was obtained thanks to satellite.
• Another supposed entrance was found in a cave in Idaho. The assumption is reinforced by the fact that local residents refuse to enter it and consider it the gateway to the underworld. Researchers who visited the cave were able to walk a short distance. Then the smell of gases and sulfur became unbearable. McKenna and his comrades noted that they heard human groans and saw several skeletons.
• A similar incident of encountering an alien habitat occurred in one of the mining towns. R. Kalas said that a group of workers was building an underground tunnel. Under one of the stones they heard the sounds of cars and voices. Moving the boulder aside, the workers saw steps leading to the grotto. Having descended into it, people realized that the sound of the cars had become even louder, so, getting scared, they decided to urgently leave the place.

Life underground is possible.

Scientists come to the conclusion that there may be large hollow spaces underground, but humans cannot live in them - there is little oxygen, high temperatures, and a lot of gases. But if we accept the fact that a UFO is involved here, and life underground is extraterrestrial, this explains a lot.

It is assumed that highly developed alien beings were tired of constant wars and disasters and chose to hide. Thanks to the use of high technology, they feel great in the bowels of the planet and from there they observe what is happening on the surface. Occasionally, underground aliens appear on their flying surfaces in the sky above the Earth, but people's radars do not detect them. Ancient civilizations do not intend to communicate with humanity on the surface of the planet, since for them we are something akin to barbarians, aggressive and unpredictable.

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Since the mid-twentieth century, humanity has successfully studied and developed near-Earth space. It is believed that the Earth has been explored and traveled far and wide by us, so we should not expect new discoveries here.

However, the faster modern civilization develops, the more questions our own planet poses to it. And people cannot yet resolve these issues. The technical equipment of earthly science is not yet so highly developed that it is possible to easily penetrate into all corners of the sky, land and ocean. But, most importantly, our consciousness is not yet ready for a large-scale study of earthly reality. We must understand and calmly accept the fact that next to us on our home planet there are other civilizations that we have already encountered many times.

The 21st century brings with it the rapid improvement of science and technology, thanks to which scientists are already beginning to explore previously inaccessible areas of the globe. These include the ocean depths, the underground world of the planet and the ice kingdom of Antarctica. And the most superficial acquaintance with these regions showed that in each of them a person can meet unfamiliar life forms, and possibly intelligent civilizations, which we learn about from legends and myths created by folk art.

Part 1

Meetings with the unknown

Legends about meetings between people and the inhabitants of the Underworld exist among different nations. In Russia, the first documented reports of contacts with underground civilizations unknown to the Slavs are considered to be the records of the Novgorod Primary Chronicle under 1096 (11th century), which convey the story of the Novgorod governor Gyuryata Rogovich, who collected tribute from the peoples of the North subject to Novgorod. The chronicler narrates: “Now I want to tell you what I heard 4 years ago from Gyuryata Rogovich, a Novgorodian, who said this: “I sent my youth to Pechora, to the people giving tribute to Novgorod. And when my boy came to them, he went from them to the land of Ugra. Ugra, on the other hand, is people who speak an incomprehensible language, and they neighbor Samoyed in the northern regions.”

As it is further reported, the Yugras told the envoy of Gyuryata Rogovich an amazing story. Far in the north, on the shores of the White Ocean, there are mountains that rise with their peaks to the very sky. The path to these mountains is difficult and dangerous due to abysses, snow and dense forests, and the Ugras rarely reach there, to remote and deserted places.

But those who have nevertheless visited these mountains say that inside the stone mountain slopes they can hear people talking and shouting (“in those mountains there is a great shout and talk”). And when the unknown inhabitants living inside the mountains hear the presence of a person, they cut “small windows” in the rocks and call the stranger, and point with their hands at his weapon, and with signs they ask for it. And if a hunter gives them a knife or a spear, then in return he receives sable fur and expensive gemstones.

A large number of legends about underground inhabitants have come to us from medieval Rus'. The famous Russian ethnographer A. Onuchkov, studying the folklore of the Urals at the beginning of the 20th century, recorded messages from local residents about the mysterious people found in the Ural forests and among the rocks. The people of the Urals call them marvelous people. This is what they told the scientist. “Diva people” live in deep underground caves, but sometimes they rise to the surface of the earth and walk among people, but people do not see them. Their culture is high, and the light in their underground cities is no worse than our Sun.”

According to eyewitness descriptions, the Divyas are short people. They are beautiful and speak in a pleasant voice, but few hear them - those who have a clear conscience and who live according to Divine laws. Divya's people warn villagers about upcoming events, and help some in misfortune. Thus, witnesses from the Ural village of Beloslutskoye talk about a gray-haired old man from a wonderful people who, accompanied by the inexplicable ringing of bells at night, comes to the church and, standing on the porch, predicts his fate to everyone who appears here.

In the first decade of the 17th century, Russia experienced the Great Troubles, caused by the suppression of the royal Rurik dynasty and the interregnum that followed. The struggle of boyar groups for the royal throne went beyond the borders of the Russian state, and therefore there was a danger of Russia losing its national independence.

The Polish king, under the pretext of restoring the allegedly escaped Tsarevich Dmitry, son of Ivan the Terrible, to the Russian throne, organized a military intervention against Moscow. Detachments of Polish soldiers led by False Dmitry the First, and then False Dmitry the Second, invaded Russia. At the same time, Swedish mercenaries penetrated Russian territory from the north, trying to cut off the Novgorod and Pskov lands from Moscow.

The treacherous policy of the Russian boyars led to the fact that the Russian army was defeated in battles with the Swedes and Poles. The Poles captured Moscow, and the King of Poland, Sigismund, was already preparing to be crowned on the Russian throne.

During this most difficult time for Russia, the formation of a people’s militia began in Nizhny Novgorod to fight the Polish-Swedish occupiers. It was headed by Kuzma Minin and Dmitry Pozharsky. According to archival chronicles, before this, the Underground Elder appeared at Minin’s house, who told him to start collecting funds for the militia throughout Russia, and to invite Prince Pozharsky as the military commander of the militia.

The elder also handed over to Minin and Pozharsky certain documents containing new laws by which Russia would have to live after the defeat of the intervention. As you know, the people's militia liberated the country from the Polish-Swedish occupiers, but Minin and Pozharsky were pushed out of power and were unable to fulfill the order of the Underground Elder set out in these documents.

Tales of small underground people can be heard in the north of the Urals and Siberia. Here these people are called miracles. The Komi, who live in the Pechora Lowland, tell legends about little men emerging from the ground and also predicting the future for people. According to the legends of local residents, at first the little men did not understand the human language, but then they learned it and showed people how to mine, smelt and forge iron.

The priests of Chud are called “Pana” here. They are keepers of secret knowledge and know about countless treasures hidden underground and protected by powerful spells. Even today, anyone who dares to approach these treasures either dies or goes crazy. Because the treasures are guarded by special servants of the priests - cinders. These cinders, formerly a miracle, were once buried alive along with treasures. Until now, they faithfully serve near ancient treasures.

In 1975, a group of Soviet history students tried to find a treasure of chudi under an ancient stone on which mysterious signs were carved. In one of the northern chronicles of the 15th century, the guys found a spell that supposedly protects a person from cinders. They read this spell three times over an ancient boulder, but found nothing except two ancient silver medallions. And soon the student who was digging up the treasure was killed by a bear. A rumor immediately spread among the local residents that the master’s curse had overtaken the wicked man who dared to encroach on the treasures of the miracle.

Similar legends exist among European peoples. An example is the story recorded by English chroniclers of the 13th century about the appearance from underground of two small children with green skin and an incomprehensible fear of sunlight. That's what this story is about.

In Suffolk, Great Britain, there is a village called Woolpit, which has an unusual and mysterious history. Its name translates as “Wolf Pits”, and the village’s coat of arms depicts a wolf and two children – a girl and a boy. It was here in the 12th century, 112 kilometers from London, that the last wolf of England died, falling into one of the many wolf pits.

Then a strange incident happened here. One day two small children appeared in the village. It happened on a hot August day during the harvest. They crawled out of a deep hole that had been dug to catch wolves, which is how the village got its unusual name. The boy and girl came out of the pit and headed towards the people. What was surprising was that the babies’ skin had a greenish tint, and they were wearing strange clothes, cut from an unknown material. The children were very scared and waved their arms as if they were driving away bees. With their appearance they confused the peasants, however, having come to their senses, the reapers took the children to the village and brought them to the landowner Richard Kane.

Having calmed down a little, the children began to speak in an incomprehensible language, in which hissing and whistling sounds predominated. They spoke in shrill, high voices. The residents did not understand a word, although in those days in England the villagers were familiar with all the languages ​​of neighboring peoples. Here they well remembered the Normans and Danes with Scandinavian dialects, heard the French language of the knights, did not forget the German-Anglo-Saxon dialect, recognized the Celtic dialects of the Scots, Irish and Welsh, and the priests knew Latin. When the children were taken to the village, they began to cry and refused to eat anything, although they were very hungry.

Richard Kane was very surprised by the appearance of the children, but having seen enough of them, he ordered the servants to prepare the best delicacies, but the children refused everything. So, they starved for several days, until one day the villagers brought into the house a harvest of beans, picked straight from the stems. The boy and girl were very interested in beans, but could not find their fruit. They seemed to know what it was and understood that it could be eaten. When one of the servants showed them where the food was, they began to open the pods and greedily eat the beans. For several months the children ate exclusively on them. Richard Kane turned out to be a kind man and allowed the children to stay in his castle.

After several months, the boy died. He was younger than his sister and could not adapt to local life. The child gradually withdrew into himself and refused to eat, so he soon fell ill and died. The girl survived and after baptism received the name Agnes. But religion remained something incomprehensible to her, and religious ones only caused inconvenience. Gradually she learned to eat ordinary food, and her skin lost its greenish tint. Agnes became blonde with blue eyes and fair skin. She adapted to life here relatively easily, grew up, got married, learned English and lived in Norfolk County for many years. Ralph mentioned in his work that she was very willful and capricious, but despite this, her husband and children loved her very much.

Agnes remembered little about her origins. However, she said that she came with her brother from the Land of St. Martin, where all the Christian inhabitants were also green. According to her, there was eternal twilight and the sun never shone. She also said that their house was located “on the other side of a big river.” Agnes said that she and her brother came across the cave while tending a flock of sheep. Bells were ringing outside the cave, the children followed this sound and ended up in some cave. There, according to Agnes, they and their brother got lost and only after some time they found a way out. But when they left the cave, they were blinded by a bright light. The children got scared and wanted to go back, but the entrance to the cave disappeared.

The girl also added that the Land of St. Martin can be seen from a great distance, that it looks like a “luminous country on the other side of the river.” Agnes, with the permission of Richard Kane, tried several times to find a way back to her homeland, but was never able to do so. But this is not surprising, because by order of Richard, the hole from which the children emerged was filled up. He feared that armed people might come for his brother and sister. The girl knew nothing about this.

This story was recounted in two of their chronicles by Ralph of Coggeshall and William of Newburgh, who were authoritative chroniclers and historians of the Middle Ages, worthy of trust. The works were created around 1220. The unusual children of the bishop are also mentioned in the book of Bishop Francis Godwin, who was distrustful of this legend. He included it in his chronicle with reluctance. But Ralph of Coggeshall relied in his chronicle on the words of Richard Kane, in whose house Agnes worked as a maid. Many details indicated that all the facts presented were genuine. Ralph of Coggeshall lived in Essex, which was located near Suffolk. Therefore, he could communicate directly with other participants in the events.

Many people tried to unravel the mystery of the origin of the “green children” and the location of the rather strange Land of St. Martin; many different assumptions were put forward. According to one version, children could have come to Woolpit from copper mines, which used child labor at that time. The skin and hair of children from constant contact with copper could actually acquire a greenish tint. But then what about the material from which the children’s clothes were made, Agnes’s story, and the fact that they could not eat ordinary human food?

Bold versions were also expressed that the children could be from another dimension, the underworld, or even aliens who accidentally came to Earth. Some researchers believed that the cave through which the boy and girl came to our world was something like a path that connected the Earth with another planet. Or the road that was laid between the past, present and future. Paradoxically, such a hypothesis explains everything, because if they came from another dimension, then only minor genetic changes would be enough for hair and skin to acquire a normal human color. “Green children” could well be a product of genetic engineering, which may exist in a parallel world to us.

American mathematician and astrophysicist Jacques Vallee published numerous testimonies from people about encounters with small black hairy men, who in France are called lutens. According to him, many of these little men live in the Poitou region, and local residents know well where the dwellings of these gnomes are located. In his book, Vale cites eyewitness accounts of the meeting with the Lutens.

An interesting event happened here in 1850. One day, returning to their village on the Egre River, several women witnessed a curious sight. Shortly before midnight, having crossed the bridge, they heard a loud noise and saw a picture from which “the blood froze in their veins.” An object that looked like a “chariot with squeaky wheels” was rushing up the hillside at amazing speed. Looking closer, the women saw that the “chariot” was being pulled by numerous black men. Soon the strange chariot “jumped over the vineyards and disappeared into the night.” The frightened peasant women abandoned their things and rushed home.

The belief in the existence of black men is not limited to any one region. Researchers from Europe, Asia, Africa, America and even Australia write about this. In Mexico they are known as Ikalov, which means “black creature” in the language of the Tzeltal Indians. Here they are described as small black hairy gnomes that live in caves, which local residents avoid.

There are legends that the Ikals attack Indians and kidnap their children and women. Sometimes gnomes are seen flying through the air, and on their backs “missiles” are clearly visible, which the little men skillfully control. According to Mexican Indians, people met Icals especially often in the mid-twentieth century.

In modern Russia there is also a lot of evidence of meetings of people with dwarf peoples. In August 1945, Voronezh fighter pilot Vasily Egorov was shot down by Japanese artillery over the territory of Inner Mongolia, two hundred kilometers from the front line.

He managed to leave the burning plane and parachuted down to the ground, finding himself in a small grove. Here he quickly found a stream running out from under a low hill and drank fresh cold water.

As a result of a slight injury, Vasily felt dizzy and nauseous. He lay down on the grass in the bushes and fell asleep unnoticed. He woke up with a strange sensation: his arms and legs did not obey him. Raising his head, Vasily saw that his entire body was wrapped in a strong translucent tape the width of a finger. Incomprehensible sounds were heard around him, reminiscent of birds chirping.

Vasily soon determined that this chirping was coming from... tiny people dressed in strange clothes and armed with knives. Later, having met hundreds of such little men from the Hanyangi tribe (as they called themselves), Vasily made sure that their height did not exceed 45 centimeters.

The Soviet pilot spent many years in the underground labyrinth of these amazing dwarfs. One day, during a severe thunderstorm, he came to the surface of the earth and lost consciousness. He was found by Mongolian herders and taken to the camp of Soviet geologists working in Mongolia at that time. Geologists transported Vasily to the USSR, and his identity was established there.

It turned out that in his homeland Vasily was considered dead. Only after a series of examinations did the Air Force command become convinced that this was indeed Vasily Egorov, a Soviet fighter pilot, holder of the Order of the Red Banner of Battle, who had shot down six enemy aircraft. But even Vasily’s relatives could not immediately identify him, since 14 years had passed since the Soviet-Japanese War! Vasily Egorov returned to his homeland in the spring of 1959!

Of course, no one believed his stories about life among the Lilliputians, but here’s what’s strange: during an X-ray of Vasily’s brain, carried out due to severe headaches, doctors discovered an almost overgrown triangular hole on the back of his skull. It became obvious that about 15 years ago the pilot underwent craniotomy and the trepanation was carried out in a way unknown to science.

Until the end of his life, Vasily Egorov lived on Voronezh soil. For a long time he was the best well builder in the south of the region, because he knew how to find water where others failed after failure.

Meetings with the inhabitants of the underworld do not always end so well for people. The library of the Peruvian University in Cusco preserves a report on the death of a French-American expedition, which in 1952 tried to descend into one of the Andean caves and make contact with its inhabitants. Scientists found an entrance to a cave in the vicinity of Cusco and entered it. They planned to stay underground for several days, so they took with them food and water for only five days.

Of the seven members of the expedition, after two weeks only one person was able to reach the surface - the Frenchman Philippe Lamontiere. He reported that the remaining members of the expedition died in a bottomless underground abyss. The Frenchman was terribly exhausted, suffered from memory loss and was infected with the bubonic plague. A few days later he died, and the doctors found a pure gold corncob tightly clamped in his hand!

The authorities, fearing the spread of bubonic plague in the region, blocked all known cave entrances in the area with stone blocks. But scientists did not want to leave this tragedy without consequences. Inca civilization researcher Professor Raul Rios Centeno tried to repeat the route of the missing expedition.

A group of his supporters found an entrance to the dungeon unknown to the authorities and tried to explore it. At first, people walked along a long, gradually narrowing corridor, reminiscent of a ventilation pipe. They soon noticed that the walls no longer reflected the rays of their flashlights.

Using a spectrograph, scientists determined that the wall cladding contained large amounts of aluminum. All attempts to break off at least one piece of this material ended in failure. The casing turned out to be so strong that not a single tool could take it. Meanwhile, the corridor continued to narrow, and when its diameter decreased to 90 centimeters, the expedition had to turn back.

The discovery of a golden ear of corn in the hands of the deceased Philippe Lamontiere excited adventurers around the world. Rumors began to spread among them that the Incan treasures had been discovered, which they hid from Cortez's soldiers somewhere underground. These rumors were fueled by legends among the Peruvians about underground caves inhabited by snake people guarding the treasures of the Incas.

Over the course of several years, dozens of treasure hunters have disappeared in Peru as they recklessly descended underground in search of gold. Only a few managed to get to the surface, and even those, apparently, were damaged in their minds: they unanimously said that underground they met strange creatures that looked like both a man and a snake at the same time!

Part 2.

Facts confirm

The Flemish cartographer and geographer of the Renaissance, Gerhard Mercator (1512-1594), tells us about the existence of dwarf peoples on Earth in ancient times. In the scientific world, he is known as a competent and trustworthy compiler of several geographical maps of the world and its individual regions. So, in 1544, he compiled a map of Europe on 15 sheets, on which for the first time the outlines of the Mediterranean Sea were correctly shown and all the errors that had been preserved since the times of the ancient Greek geographer Ptolemy were eliminated.

In 1563, Mercator drew a map of Lorraine and then the British Isles. His Chronology, published after these atlases, was a detailed overview of all astronomical and cartographic work of the 16th century. In 1569, Mercator published a navigational Map of the World on 18 sheets, which is still used to compile maritime navigation and aeronautical atlases.

But the most amazing map was drawn by Mercator in 1538. Today it is called the “Mercator Map”. It depicts the Arctic Ocean, in the center of which, on the site of the modern North Pole, there is a continent unknown to us - Daaria. It is an archipelago of four large islands grouped around the Inland Sea, in the center of which rises the island of Arctida with the world's tallest Mount Meru.

According to ancient legends, on the top of Meru there once stood the City of the Gods - Asgard Daari, in the center of which stood a beautiful white marble temple. The inhabitants of Asgard created a highly developed civilization on the mysterious continent. On their spaceships they visited planets of other star systems in the Galaxy, and from there aliens flew to Daaria with return visits.

Mercator's map was accompanied by detailed records depicting all four islands of the archipelago. From the records it followed that the rivers flowing from the Inner Sea divided Daaria into four parts - Rai, Tule, Svarga and Kh. Arra. About 14 thousand years ago, an unknown civilization appeared here, which supposedly existed until the 6th millennium BC, when for some reason Daaria began to sink under water.

A severe cold snap forced the people inhabiting the archipelago to move to the Eurasian continent. About 3 thousand years ago, the contours of Daariya disappeared under the waters of the Arctic Ocean, although the tops of individual mountains rose above the water in the form of separate islands for a long time.

So, from the inscription on one of the islands of the archipelago, closest to the modern Kola Peninsula, it follows that it is inhabited by dwarf people: “pygmies live here, their height is about 4 feet (no higher than 1.2 meters), and the inhabitants of Greenland call their "skerlingers".

Based on the testimony of Mercator, it can be assumed that on the eve of the death of Daariya, part of its population managed to cross the already formed ice cover of the ocean to the coast of Northern Eurasia. Among the fleeing tribes, the Skerlingers also came here, who became aborigines of the then uninhabited coast of the Northern Ocean.

In the 4th-5th centuries AD, during the Great Migration of Peoples, the north of Eurasia began to be populated by Turkic and Slavic tribes, who encountered Skerlingers here and gave them new names - “Sirtya”, “Chud”, “Wonderful People”. Unable to withstand competition with stronger and more numerous alien detachments, the Sirtya-Skerlingers went underground, where they may still live.

It is likely that the distribution area of ​​this dwarf people extended much further than the Arctic coast of Siberia and the Kola coast. This is confirmed by archaeological excavations in 1850, during which a Neolithic Scurlinger settlement, Skara Brae, was discovered in Northern Scotland.

The settlement of Skara Brae was found after a strong hurricane literally tore the earth from the top of one of the coastal hills. For a long time, scientists did not take seriously the stories of local residents about a dwarf village that appeared on a hill after a hurricane. Excavations at Skara Brae only began in the 1920s. They were led by the English archaeologist Professor Gordon Childe.

At first, Child dated the unknown settlement to the 6th-9th centuries, but it soon became clear that we were talking about a much more ancient culture, which modern science practically cannot identify with any people on Earth.

It has been established that the settlement of Skara Brae was founded long before 3100 BC and lasted until approximately 2500 BC. However, this is not the main point. Archaeologists were amazed: everything from the stone walls and miniature beds to low ceilings and narrow doorways was designed for people whose height did not exceed one meter!

In addition, during excavations, scientists came to the conclusion that the settlement was created from the very beginning as an underground structure. First, the builders erected stone walls, then a ceiling made of wood and stones was laid on them, and after that the entire room was covered on top with a thick layer of earth and turf. To exit, a small hole, unnoticeable from the outside, was left in the hillside.

In the middle of each room there was a fireplace, lined with stones for safety. In the corners of the room there were cabinets for dishes and clothes, beds and seats. In one of the corners there was a bin for storing food.

Underground passages were laid between separately located dwellings, the walls of which were also lined with stone blocks. A network of such invisible passages provided reliable communication between individual families of the underground town, as well as the opportunity, in case of danger, to leave the premises and go to the surface of the earth.

By the time the excavations began, the interior of the living quarters of the village was completely preserved: scraps of canopies hung above the stone beds, neatly arranged pottery stood in the stone cabinets, women’s jewelry lay on top, and in one of the dwellings the scientists found a necklace dropped by someone. Each “apartment” necessarily contained weapons and tools.

Interestingly, mysterious inscriptions in an unknown language were discovered in almost every room of Skara Brae. The assumption put forward by experts that the shape of the inscriptions was similar to ancient runic writing was not confirmed: the signs of the unknown writing had nothing in common either with runes or with any other ancient language.

Archaeologists are of the opinion that the settlement was abandoned by its inhabitants unexpectedly and quickly, although no traces of a military invasion or hasty escape remained. Scientists were unable to explain the reason for the departure of the dungeon inhabitants. In addition, they noticed that there were piles of sand on the floors of the rooms and passages. The local population still has beliefs that anyone who invades the home of the little people without permission will turn into sand.

The Scots also believe that dwarfs, trying to preserve their family, can kidnap human children directly from the cradle. Some of the abducted supposedly return to the human world after many years, but cannot get used to human society and remain outcasts forever. Even today, the Scots put pieces of iron in children's cradles, which supposedly protect babies from the invasion of dwarfs.

The mysterious settlement in Skara Brae is not the only evidence of the existence of dwarf peoples in ancient times. In 1985, in the Don steppes in the area of ​​the Second Vlasov burial ground, archaeologists from Voronezh University excavated a low burial mound from the Bronze Age and, when removing the embankment, discovered a mysterious labyrinth of branching, intersecting passages with smooth floors, straight walls and vertical ventilation wells. The total area of ​​the labyrinth is 254 square meters. The passages intersected in such a way that, as a whole, they formed an intricate figure, approaching a square in shape. The maximum height of passages is 1.3 m, the minimum is less than a meter.

All the holes converged towards the center, towards a large rectangular pit, in the middle of which there was a certain stone or wooden object, possibly an idol. To illuminate the room, the ancient residents used torches, as evidenced by the numerous inclusions of burnt coals on the floor of the passages.

The unusual thing about this dungeon was that the underground passages and holes were too small for even a very short person to move around. Scientists reconstructed the premises of the mound and came to the conclusion that only very small creatures could live in such a dungeon - up to 80 centimeters tall and weighing about 25 kilograms.

The central room of the sanctuary was a large underground hall, in the center of which there was a low building with a domed ceiling. It supposedly contained an idol to which sacrifices were made. And these victims were not always bloodless. Near the domed house, a human skeleton was found covered with earth, whose height was 160 cm. On the back of his skull, a triangular hole was found, cut in the same way as that of the Soviet pilot Vasily Egorov, which was described in the first part of the article.

But most often animals were sacrificed here, and above all small horses. Along the perimeter of the sanctuary, many horse heads were found, on which iron bits were even preserved. Dating the metal helped establish that the sanctuary existed in the 8th century AD.

Due to lack of funds, the study of the temple was suspended, and only in 2001 did archaeologists return to the site of the previous excavations. Attempts to hire workers in the nearby village of Bolshiye Sopeltsy, despite unemployment, led nowhere. Local residents flatly refused to work in this forest, claiming that it was “unclean.”

The next morning, Prokhorov discovered a severed horse head next to his pillow. The camp duty officer did not see anything suspicious at night. The canopy and walls of the tent remained intact. At the same time, the batteries in the Niva and the UAZ truck were completely discharged, as were the batteries in the flashlights, transistor radio, cell phone, and also in all electronic watches.

The alarmed members of the expedition quickly broke camp, started the truck with a “crooked starter”, took the Niva in tow and were in Voronezh in the evening. And at night, five of the seven participants in the failed excavations ended up in the toxicology department of the hospital with signs of severe poisoning. Doctors managed to save only two - Prokhorov and Irina Pisareva, the other three died. Two more died at home, because due to the lack of a telephone in the apartments there was no one to call an ambulance.

Doctors considered the cause of death to be mushroom poisoning, although Prokhorov claimed that neither he nor the other members of the expedition ate mushrooms. What happened to the people in the excavation area and what curse was placed on this place is unknown. It was only possible to find out that the village of Vlasovka used to be called Velesovka (named after the Slavic god Veles), and magicians and priests lived here back in the 8th century, whose ritual artifacts have been found and are being studied by scientists.

And another interesting find helped archaeologists finally become convinced that in ancient times our planet was inhabited by numerous tribes of dwarf people. We are talking about hobbits from the Indonesian island of Flores. The discovery of their ancient cave sites, according to English professor Chris Stringer, “rewrites the history of human evolution.”

Excavations in 2003 on Flores brought an unexpected sensation. In the Liang Bua limestone cave, Australian paleontologists under the leadership of Professor M. Morewood unearthed well-preserved bones of several skeletons belonging to a dwarf upright creature. In honor of J. Tolkien's blackbuster "The Lord of the Rings" they were called hobbits.

Scientists have reconstructed the appearance of the female hobbit's skull and obtained an amazing image: it was a dwarf man!

The next year, the International Anthropological Expedition continued excavations on the island. Flores discovered nine more skeletons of similar humanoid creatures here. Their height did not exceed 90 cm, and their brain volume was only 380 cubic centimeters, which was only one-fourth of the brain of a modern person.

But despite their small brain volume, hobbits were quite smart: they made stone weapons and quite complex tools, and also used fire. The age of these miniature people was quite ancient: they lived between 95 and 12 thousand years ago. At this time, modern humans already existed on Earth.

In a cave where hobbits once lived, bones of Komodo dragons and dwarf stegodons, the ancestors of modern elephants, were found next to their remains. This suggests that the hobbit tribes were able to tame some wild animals and kept them in caves as a living food supply, and possibly as transport animals.

Information about the existence of dwarf underground peoples comes these days from all continents of the planet. Since the mid-twentieth century, pygmy tribes living in Burma and China have become known, and the short inhabitants of Equatorial Africa are described in ancient Egyptian and ancient Greek sources. The men of these tribes grow only to 120-140 centimeters; women are even lower. But they all look like giants next to the so-called micropygmies found in the Australian forests. Their average height is approximately 40 centimeters. And a piece of amber found on the Baltic Sea coast became a real sensation!

Unable to explain the discovered artifact, scientists simply hid it from the public for a long time. The tiny skeleton of a man is clearly visible in the stone polished by the sea waves! There is a lot of research work ahead to study all these amazing facts.

But not only dwarf tribes could once inhabit the underground world of our planet. In the mid-twentieth century, the underground Tripoli civilization was discovered on the territory of the Soviet Union. Here's what you can learn about it from reports of Soviet archaeologists.

Back in 1897, archaeologist Vikenty Khvoika conducted excavations near the village of Trypillya near Kiev. His finds turned out to be sensational and very ancient. In the soil layer corresponding to the sixth millennium BC, Khvoyka unearthed amazing things - the remains of stone dwellings and agricultural utensils of a people unknown to science. The boundaries of the appearance of “economic man” moved back at least a millennium into the past, and the found culture was called Trypillian.

But an even more amazing fact was made public in 1966, when archaeologists discovered huge cities buried underground on the territory of Ukraine. The first of these was a cave complex excavated under Tripoli itself.

The population of many of these cities exceeded 15-20 thousand people - a very large figure by the standards of eight thousand years ago. And the scale was amazing: scientists found underground settlements with an area of ​​up to 250 square kilometers!

The architecture of the cave cities turned out to be surprisingly similar to the layout of the ancient Aryan ground fortresses discovered 20 years later in the Southern Urals. Arkaim, Sintashta and more than 20 large and small fortified settlements were excavated by Soviet archaeologists in the South Ural steppes.

Both the Trypillians underground and the Arkaimites on its surface built their villages according to the same plan: on a round compacted platform, stone houses were built close to each other in concentric rings with a blank wall facing outwards. The result was a powerful defensive structure, into which no enemy could penetrate. In the center of such a city there was a round gravel-covered square on which the temple stood.

A still unexplained fact remains the cyclical functioning of such settlements - both in Ukraine and in the Southern Urals. Circular fortified cities existed in one place for no more than 70 years. The residents then set them on fire and left. For the Arkaim people, it was possible to prove that after the destruction of their houses, they all left towards India, where their traces should be looked for. It turned out to be more difficult to find traces of the ancient Trypillians.

According to some estimates, the Trypillian civilization numbered up to two million people. And then one day all these people burned their cities and disappeared overnight! Among the modern population of Tripoli there are legends that their ancestors once descended underground, where they live and live to this day. Scientists, naturally, rejected this version then, in 1897.

The 1966 excavations became a sensation. The ancient legends about the transition of the two million population of Tripoli to underground caves have been confirmed! To date, about five underground cities have already been found in the area of ​​the city of Trypillia, in the south of the Ternopil region, near the Ukrainian village of Biltse-Zoloto and in other places. Excavations are currently underway there. Perhaps they will soon explain what made the Trypillians go to live underground and what their future fate is.

Another cave civilization on the planet—the underground cities of Cappadocia—has already been studied quite well.

Cappadocia is a region in the east of Asia Minor, in the territory of modern Turkey. This is a mostly flat plateau devoid of vegetation, which is located at an altitude of 1000 meters above sea level. Translated from Turkish, the name “Cappadocia” sounds like “The Land of Beautiful Horses.”

Here, among the rocks and steep hills made of volcanic tuff, there is a unique complex of underground cities that were created over several centuries, starting from the 1st millennium BC. Currently it is included in the UNESCO World Heritage List and is protected by the state.

For a long time, the routes of the Great Migration of Peoples passed through the territory of Cappadocia and waves of foreign invaders rolled through. To survive in such extreme conditions, the population of the plateau was forced to go underground.

In the soft Cappadocian tuff, people carved out residential apartments, warehouses for storing utensils and food, as well as premises for keeping livestock. Coming into contact with fresh air, the tuff hardened after some time and became a reliable defense against the enemy.

Long abandoned by the population, these amazing cities were discovered by Europeans only in the 19th century: a French priest, walking along the plateau, came across a ventilation shaft and, having gone down it, found himself in a huge underground city.

Soon European archaeologists arrived here, who established that the city has up to 12 floors descending deep into the earth, which are equipped with special ventilation shafts. Temples, water wells, grain storage facilities, stables and cattle pens, wine presses - all this shocked scientists.

Currently, six underground settlements have been discovered and explored - Kaymakli, Derinkuyu, Ozkonak, Adzhigol, Tatlarin and Mazy. It is possible that in the future other cities of Cappadocia will be found, about which the ancient Greek historian Xenophon wrote back in the 5th century BC. For a long time, his messages were considered fiction.

Today, Derinkuyu is considered the largest underground city in Cappadocia and the whole world. It was built in the 1st millennium BC. The city descends 85 meters deep into the earth and has 20 tiers - floors connected by stone stairs.

On each tier there are living quarters - rooms, bedrooms, kitchens, as well as public facilities - schools, chapels, churches. They are connected by convenient dry tunnels and narrow passages. The total area of ​​the underground city is about 2000 square meters. The exact age has not yet been established, but it is known that Derinkuyu existed during the Hittite kingdom.

Incredibly, Derinkuyu was built according to all the rules of modern engineering. Special ventilation shafts are laid from the surface of the earth through which air flows down. Even on the lowest floors it is fresh and cool. These air ducts are lowered into layers of groundwater, so they also serve as wells and reservoirs.

According to researchers' calculations, the underground city could simultaneously accommodate up to 50 thousand inhabitants, including livestock. Special pens with stalls and feeders were built for the animals. Researchers are confident that Derinkuyu is not just an underground city - it is a real underground fortress, and it was needed to defend against enemy attacks.

Derinkuyu has a fairly well thought out defense system. So, there is a whole network of secret passages through which one could go to the surface. In addition, at the entrance to each floor there were huge stone boulders. Special holes were made in them - loopholes, so that soldiers could shoot at the enemy. But if, nevertheless, the enemy managed to break through to the first tier of the underground city, then the residents could block the entrance to the next floor with these stones.

Even in the event of deep enemy penetration into the city “streets,” the residents of Derinkuyu could always leave their shelter. A 9-kilometer long tunnel was built here specifically for this purpose. It connects Derinkuyu with another equally important city of Cappadocia - Kaymakli.

Kaymakli is an underground city slightly smaller than its counterpart. It has about 13 floors. He was created around the same time as Derinkuyu. During the reign of the Romans and Byzantine emperors, Kaymakli was completed. The number of floors in it increased, and eventually it became a full-fledged underground city.

The city was discovered recently, and archaeologists have so far excavated only 4 of its upper floors. On each of them, along with living rooms, barns, churches, wine cellars and pottery workshops, 2-3 storage rooms were discovered that could hold several tons of food.

This can only mean one thing: the city could feed a large number of people. Therefore, researchers assume that Kaymakli had a high population density. About 15 thousand people could live in a small area, just like in a modern small town.

Excavations in this area will continue for many years, but it is already clear that the underground cities of Cappadocia are the most ambitious cave structures in the world.

In 1972, at the invitation of Salvador Allende, a group of Soviet geologists arrived in Chile to examine some long-abandoned or unprofitable mines and mines. The inspection began with a copper mine that was stopped in 1945, located high in the mountains. He was notorious among the local population.

However, a mine survey was necessary for many reasons. Firstly, the bodies of 100 miners who died under the rubble remained underground and had to be found and buried in accordance with the customs of the Chileans. Secondly, the Chilean government was worried about rumors about strange inhabitants of the dungeons, who allegedly constantly caught the eye of the peasants, causing panic. Eyewitnesses described these underground creatures as giant snakes with human heads.

Soviet specialists immediately dismissed any mysticism and began inspecting the dungeons. And almost immediately the surprises began. It turned out that the powerful gates that blocked the entrance to the mine were broken, not from the outside, but from the inside. A deep, winding trail led from the gate down to the gorge: as if someone had pulled out a thick and heavy rubber hose from the depths of the mountain and was dragging it along the ground.

Moving along the main roadway of the face, the scientists stopped after a few tens of meters in front of a deep oval failure leading down. Having examined it to a depth of 1.5 meters, they found that the side surface has a corrugated, folded surface.

Having gone down this tunnel, geologists after 100 meters found themselves in an underground mine with veins of native copper. Near some of the mined areas there were piles of copper ingots, shaped like ostrich eggs. After taking a few more steps, people discovered a snake-like mechanism left against the wall, which literally “sucked” copper out of the stone.

In the beliefs of almost all peoples there are underground and cave dwellers. European gnomes, Norwegian zettes, Irish sids, Lapland chaklis, Nenets sikhirti... In Altai in the 30s of the last century, members of the Roerich expedition were told about strange people coming out of caves and paying with ancient coins, they were shown littered entrances underground, “where the miracle went " Legends about dwarfs turning to stone under the rays of the sun, inhabitants of the underworld, great wizards and sages are recorded even in Polynesia and Australia! Are these myths or legends about peoples who actually existed but have long since disappeared into oblivion? Or are they aliens from other civilizations? Does this world exist now, nearby - or rather, right below us?..

Underground legends

Often underground people are described as short (one and a half meters), living underground and completely unable to tolerate sunlight. They are skilled artisans or shamans and healers.
However, for example, the Indians talked about strange people of very tall stature who sometimes descended from Mount Shasta in California. They said that there, inside an extinct volcano, there was a secret city. Aztec legends say that the ancestors of the Huichol tribe came from the underground kingdom, the entrance to which is located near the city of Tepic.
There is also information that one of the entrances to Agartha, an underground city, is located at the foot of the Himalayas, right under the Lasha Monastery in Tibet. Others believe that the entrance to the city is also in Ecuador, in the Los Tayos region.

What was the earth hiding?

In 1963, the famous underground city was discovered in Turkey, named after the village located above it - Derinkuyu. This word translated means “deep wells,” and there really are some here. However, local residents had no idea about their purpose until one of them discovered a gap in his basement from which air was drawn. He became interested, and as a result, an underground city with more than 13 floors was found! Numerous cells and galleries are carved into the rock, and the air there is surprisingly fresh thanks to the system of more than a thousand ventilation shafts that is still in operation. All dwellings are connected to each other by passages tens of kilometers long. The entrances to the dungeon are tightly closed with granite doors in the shape of a wheel, behind them are stone tunnels the height of a person, along which three of you can walk 6 kilometers - until the next stone gate. The surprising thing is that there are no signs of excavated soil dumps around! According to scientists, this city was built around the 18th-9th centuries BC. It is estimated that between ten and twenty thousand people could live here at any one time. It is still unknown exactly what kind of people built it. It is believed that the Hittites were the first, and in the early Middle Ages Christians, hiding from the Muslim occupiers, took over the baton from them. Traces of underground civilization can be traced back to the Middle Ages. Where did people go then?..
There is information that on the territory of Ancient Rus' there were similar underground galleries hundreds of kilometers long, connecting the largest cities of the country. Having entered them, for example, in Kyiv, you could get out in Chernigov (120 km), Lyubech (130 km) and even Smolensk (over 450 km)!

Killed by the sun

Does intelligent life now exist in the depths of our earth?..
In 1963, two American miners, David Fellin and Henry Thorne, while digging a tunnel, saw a huge door behind which marble steps went down.
Other miners - already in England - who were digging an underground tunnel, heard the sounds of working mechanisms coming from below. When the rock mass was broken through, a staircase leading to an underground well was also discovered. The sounds of running machines intensified. The workers got scared and ran away, and when they returned after some time to this place, they could no longer find either the entrance to the well or the stairs.
The testimony of anthropologist James McKenna, who examined a cave in Idaho that is notorious among the indigenous population, is also interesting. McKenna and his companions, after several hundred meters of careful progress along a wide stone corridor, suddenly clearly heard screams and moans, and soon terrible finds in the form of human skeletons appeared before them. Unfortunately, further exploration of the cave, which in these parts was considered the entrance to the underworld, had to be stopped: the smell of sulfur was unbearable...
However, if an underground civilization still exists, why do its representatives still avoid contacts with upper humanity? Perhaps due to religious or ideological prohibitions, or perhaps the ancient legends are true that the inhabitants of caves and dungeons die from sunlight. Of course, they are unlikely to turn to stone, but it is quite possible that they suffer from a genetic anomaly that causes high sensitivity to light. People susceptible to this disease, in order not to die, are forced to spend their entire lives in the dark. This defect is very rare, but can be inherited. It could well have spread among those who lived in darkness - in conditions where natural selection did not cull carriers of photosensitivity genes.
Or perhaps a secret people have been trying to get in touch with us for a long time - if it is not aliens, but intraplanetary beings who are associated with the appearance of UFOs! Intelligent beings who have been watching us for a long time...

Planet inside a planet

In 1947, US Navy Rear Admiral Richard Byrd went on an exploratory flight over the North Pole. Near the pole, he noticed a strange spot that shimmered in different colors. As the pilot approached, he saw something similar to a mountain range, and having flown over it, he saw forests, rivers, and meadows on which mammoth-like animals grazed. And also strange devices that resemble flying saucers, and cities with buildings that seem to be carved from crystal. The external thermometer began to warm up sharply until it froze at +23°C. And this is at the North Pole! Radio communication with the ground did not work.
And in the 1970s, curious photographs were received from an American satellite, which then circulated in many Western scientific journals: in the place where the North Pole should be located, the satellite discovered a dark spot of a regular shape, similar to a huge hole. One could attribute these pictures to malfunctions in the equipment, if not for exactly the same photos taken several years later...
Russian Fedor Nedelin became famous for creating a theory that in his own way explains the origin of the Earth. He believes that at first our planet was a huge cold block. Under the influence of the Sun and the energy of the Universe, it heated up to the state of lava, and then began to cool. The crust formed on the Earth. But under this crust the matter continued to boil, gradually turning into gas. Gases expand when heated. A hollow space formed in the center of our planet, and some of the gas escaped out. A deep ejection occurred at the North and South Poles. Huge holes appeared there.
According to Nedelin, the Earth is completely empty inside, and solar energy enters through holes in the poles, accumulating in the center. If we assume that the Earth is hollow inside and has a light source, there may be life there.
True, geologists say that the presence of cavities in the earth’s crust can only be assumed at very shallow depths. And starting from three to five kilometers, high pressure will close even accidentally formed cavities. As for the photographed “hole” over the North Pole, this can be explained by the polar night, when the Sun, due to the tilt of the earth’s axis, is simply not able to illuminate it.
American researcher Steve Curry decided to find out about underground life from his own experience. He equips an expedition to go to the center of the Earth. The participant must pay between $18,950 and $20,950. True, it was planned to start the journey back in June 2005. Then they postponed it to 2006, and now to 2007. Curry says he receives 3-4 phone calls a day from people wanting to join the expedition. By the way, the chartered nuclear icebreaker can accommodate only 108 people. Will this journey take place and what answers can it give - the question is still the same...

J. Michell and R. Rickard point to a vast, extensive system of tunnels, partly artificial, partly natural, under the surface of a large part of the Earth. Throughout Britain and Ireland there are legends, messages and relics associated with underground pathways connecting ancient sacred sites in each region of these countries. Baring-Gould provides amazing information about the branched structure of caves and tunnels under the surface of France and a number of other countries in his book.
The original mystical purpose of these shelters was in some way connected with the spell of the creatures that lived in the so-called "lower world." Harold Bailey's book contains information obtained from early travelers through the great tunnels that pass under much of Africa, including the Kaoma River Tunnel. The underground travelers said about this last one: “It is so long that the caravan took time from sunrise to noon to pass through it entirely.”
In July 1976, it was reported that a military-funded expedition was heading to South America's Andes Mountains with a dual purpose: on the one hand, to explore the mystery of "technically impossible" ancient stone cities high in the mountains and, on the other, to explore a vast network of mysterious tunnels, which are said to run under the entire Andes mountain range. If we wanted to prove the existence of an animal world located under our own, it would not be the slightest difficulty for us to point out the “entrances” to the underground kingdom, and at the same time we would not lack evidence of past contacts between people and underground inhabitants.
According to V. Shemshuk, in Russia, thousand-kilometer tunnels were discovered in Altai, the Urals, Tien Shan and the Caucasus.
This is how the English traveler John Wellard describes the tunnel systems under the Sahara: “This system consists of many parallel and intersecting shafts, called here “fogtaras” ... Despite the fact that in appearance they are similar to the irrigation tunnels in Persia (which are still in use today) ), the design of the African system is different... From the inside, the main tunnels measure at least 4.5 m in height and 5 m in width. There are side shafts on both sides of the main tunnels that connect them to the main underground highway. Many of these remains. ancient structures are unknown, although hundreds of tunnels are still visible. Traces of more than 230 tunnels have been discovered, with a total length of about 2000 km."
In the Peruvian Andes, the Spanish captain Francisco Pizarro (1475-1541) discovered underground galleries on the Inca mountain Huascaran, at an altitude of 6768 m. The entrance to them was blocked by huge stone slabs. The Spaniards assumed that there was a food warehouse behind them. Only in 1971 did speleologists descend into the Inca grottoes (the descent underground took place not far from the Peruvian town of Otutsko). At a depth of 62 meters, a discouraging discovery awaited them: their path was blocked by a sealed door consisting of two giant stone doors 8 m high, 5 m wide and 2.5 m thick. However, the efforts of four people were enough to open them. The giant doors rested on spherical stones, constantly irrigated with water from a nearby spring, and therefore rotated easily. On the other side of the “doors” a deep tunnel opens, capable of making modern builders of underground communications turn pale with envy. The underground gallery goes down steeply - the angle of inclination reaches 140 - parallel to the slope. The floor is covered with stone slabs, often damp, but completely non-slip. At the end of the underground galleries of Guanape - this is the name of the island not far from the Peruvian coast, where the tunnel is said to lead - the ocean roars. The tunnel ends under the coastline. Experts are arguing in vain: no traces of an exit from the tunnel were found on Guanape Island. It is unknown where this underground path, laid by the Incas or their predecessors, leads.
In 1570, the Spanish historiographer Father Cristobal de Molina became interested in the underground galleries and their treasures. In his work, published in 1572, Molina says that the “Father of Humanity” hid in the dungeons after he completed the Creation of the World. Numerous peoples who emerged from a kind of “eternal night” owe their birth to this mysterious refuge. For centuries, underground galleries and halls served as a storehouse for treasures and a refuge from possible attacks. A cruel law punished with death anyone who inadvertently spoke about dungeons among the uninitiated.
Closely related to the facts mentioned above is the mysterious case of J. S. Brown, an American gold prospector who claimed to have discovered an artificial tunnel in a mountain range in California in 1904. He said that he walked along this tunnel until he found himself in an underground cave, the walls of which were lined with copper. The cave was full of human skeletons, he also discovered gold placers, and on the walls there were hieroglyphs that he could not decipher. Brown decided to first get rich, and only then tell about his discovery. It took 30 years, but in 1934 he went to Stocktown, California, the city closest to the tunnel, and assembled an expedition. He recruited 24 people when, on the evening of June 19, 1934, he suddenly disappeared: no one saw him again. The police conducted an investigation to find out whether he had accidentally borrowed money from someone for the treasure he expected to find. Their guesses were not confirmed - Brown did not owe anyone. That is, there were no apparent reasons for his disappearance... Unless he came too close to certain secrets and was eliminated for fear that humanity would learn about something that, from someone else's point of view, it should not know at all. The topic of the existence of hidden underground communications is also reflected in the famous book by E.P. Blavatsky "From the Caves and Wilds of Hindustan."

A. Komogortsev PANDORA'S MALACHITE BOX

Since ancient times, the North has been shrouded in mystery. Adventurers, scientists, adventurers rushed there - in search of the “world tree”, located, according to legend, in the Far North, the unexplored “Sannikov land”, unknown islands.

According to many legends and tales, in the North there was an entrance to the underground kingdoms, where the legendary tribes of the ancient inhabitants of the earth went. Mystics believe that it is near the North Pole that the entrance to the legendary Hyperborea, Shambhala and even Plutonia is hidden from the uninitiated. And recently, one authoritative publication reported that “flying saucers” visit us not from space, but from underground, flying out of huge holes at the North Pole. Facts are given to support the version of life underground: when approaching the poles, the air becomes warmer, wood floats in the water, and the compass behaves strangely.

BEAUTIFUL MYTH

People have been thinking about possible life inside the Earth since the time of Plato, who believed that the Earth was riddled with tunnels and cavities. And the scientist Edmond Halley, studying the Earth's magnetic field, came to the conclusion that it varies slightly and, therefore, there must be several of them. It followed that inside the Earth there is another sphere with its own magnetic field. Then the idea of ​​a “hollow Earth” was exploited by science fiction writers for a long time. In the Wachowski brothers' film "The Matrix", the remnants of humanity, after civilization on Earth was destroyed during the war, built the city of Zion inside the planet, which they then defended from the attack of the Machine Army. And many scientists tried to prove the validity of the “hollow Earth” idea with the help of various calculations and experiments.

But we should not forget that the idea of ​​voids inside the Earth came to us from ancient times. And 75 years ago, the map of the “mysterious” North consisted of one third of blank spots and one could make any assumptions.

“We, in the North, do not have any holes that could be entrances or exits to underground spaces,” says Mark Sadikov, Academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences. — There is a deep-sea part of the Arctic Ocean, where there are separate rises - ridges, between which there are deep basins.

“The only thing I can say,” continues Marina Tavrilo, researcher at the Department of Geography of Polar Countries in DENMARK, “is that I myself was at the point of the geographic North Pole. And I didn’t see any holes there. Even hints of holes! The North Pole is an ocean covered with ice, and that's absolutely true. For a long time they were looking for land there, and in connection with this there were beautiful myths. But now, in the 21st century, this area has been very well studied using modern methods, although 75 years ago people did not really know whether there was land there or not.

WHY IS THE ARROW GOING CRAZY?

Proponents of the “hollow Earth theory” believe that it is confirmed not only by the existence of several magnetic fields (E. Halley). They say the aurora is gas seeping through the thin crust at the planet's poles. In addition, supporters of this theory point out that the compass needle simply goes crazy in the area of ​​the poles. Finally, many researchers have noted that warm winds blow from the north, which confirms the existence of significant voids.

— Indeed, there are many magnetic fields. There are even magnetic fields that reflect areas of old platforms, says Mark Sadikov. “As for the winds, they can change depending” on local conditions, and, of course, there are differences in temperatures.

“There are two magnetic poles - south and north, and they move widely,” reminds Marina Tavrilo. “They were thoroughly studied and came to the conclusion that each pole is not constant and migrates quite actively. As for the northern lights, this is an amazing phenomenon. It arises due to the glow of excited atoms in the upper layers of our atmosphere, concentrated in certain areas, in an oval-shaped belt located at a certain distance from the magnetic poles, where we see it. The astronauts observed that our entire Earth, like an aura, was enveloped in a glow, the same radiance that we see on earth only at the poles. The power of the aurora has an amazing effect not only on the human psyche, it even causes interference in radio communications, which has led to its close study.

It is normal for the compass needle to go crazy near the poles. I was at the south magnetic pole, and we watched as the compass literally didn't know what to do. After all, the greatest intensity of the Earth’s magnetic field is INSIDE the pole, where the arrow tends to point.

According to M. Tavrilo, warm winds blow from the North, if there is open water in front of the ship, naturally it is warmer, and the wind can also be warm. There is also a certain zonality associated with the local weather situation. In the Northern Hemisphere, the pole of cold is located in Yakutia, and in the Southern Hemisphere - at the Vostok station, where the lowest temperature is recorded - almost 90 degrees.

DEEPER - ONLY RIDDLES

Most assumptions about the “hollow Earth theory” are based not on scientific facts, but on guesswork. Therefore, serious modern scientists do not even want to comment on such theories. Which, in general, is quite understandable due to the high level of development of modern science. The North, about which there are various hypotheses, has been studied, if not thoroughly, then extremely thoroughly. What can we say if, in addition to monthly scientific expeditions, even foreign tourists systematically go there on icebreakers.

According to scientists, cavities inside the Earth can only exist in the form of karst caves. Although supporters of the theory claim that when comparing the area of ​​the earth's surface and the weight of the planet, the conclusion arises that if the earth were a solid ball, it would weigh much more...

Marina Tavrilo also has an answer to this: “In this situation, it is necessary to use accurate calculations on various factors. At least take into account that inside the Earth there is not a mass at rest, but a moving one. A rough calculation can easily produce such a result.

Life inside the Earth is impossible not only because there are no spaces there, but also because at certain depths the pressure rapidly increases and the temperature rises. For example, in Africa a mine was founded just one kilometer deep. And people can only stay there with refrigeration units - due to the extremely high temperature.

So, the “hollow Earth theory” was extremely relevant, especially in those days when science was not yet as developed as it is now. But life goes on, and knowledge, supported by proven facts, becomes more and more. However, people don’t have enough mysteries on the surface of the Earth, and they are looking for them inside our planet. After all, the earth’s interior has not been studied very well, especially after a two-kilometer depth.

The deeper layers of the lithosphere present a complete mystery. Nobody really knows what is hidden in the great depths of the Earth. There may be plenty of surprises there. And dreaming and looking for something new is inherent in human nature.