In the early hours of 8 March 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 to Beijing lost contact with the ground after taking off, with 227 passengers and 12 crew members on board. In the years that followed, a series of investigations were launched in many countries, but MH370 disappeared like a mystery. In Russia, there is also one such train, in 1934 the train mysteriously disappeared while crossing the tunnel, the difference is that in the next nearly 90 years, this train appeared many times and mysteriously disappeared, because of the car containing Gogol's skull, this train is also known as the "Gogol Ghost Train"...
Cursed by the skull
On December 23, 2018, just as people were looking forward to the upcoming Christmas, Ivan Patsé, a professor, physicist and mathematician at Moscow University, suddenly received a call from his wife, Kalianda, saying that she had gone to the train station to pick up her daughter Linda, but there was no one to receive.
Patsee said the daughter must have wanted to surprise them, so she deliberately said the wrong train. However, he and his wife did not see their daughter until 8 p.m., and their mobile phones were always turned off.
Unable to wait for Linda, Patsé also began to worry, he contacted the railway department and learned that no accidents had occurred from the city where his daughter worked to Moscow, and Linda's colleagues said that she left the company on the evening of the 22nd.
The daughter disappeared like a mystery, and Patsee and his wife stayed up all night, calling Linda's cell phone countless times, all the while turning it off. Realizing that something might have happened to his daughter, at dawn, Patsee reported the case to the police station, and it was Officer Jacklin who answered the police. After listening to Patsee's narration, Jacklin said quietly, "Did Linda get on the Gogol Ghost Train?" ”
As soon as the words stopped, Patsee gave a shiver, and he looked at Jacklin with a cold face: "You can't say this nonsense!" Jacklin explained: "I just want to make a joke, where in the world is there a Gogol ghost train, Linda may go to play with friends, and she will appear in a few days." ”
That being said, but christmas is such an important holiday, how can a daughter leave her old couple to go out with friends, even if she goes out to play, she must tell them. On the way home, Jacklin's words lingered in Patsé's mind, and the Gogol Ghost Train was no secret in Russia.
After the death of the Russian criticalist writer Gogol in 1852, he was buried in the Donskoy Monastery in Moscow. In 1931, donskoy Monastery was demolished, and the Soviet government decided to relocate Gogol's bones to the current New Virgin Cemetery. After opening Gogol's coffin, officials found no head in the tomb. In 1933, after several twists and turns, Gogol's descendant, the naval officer Yanoskey, found the skull, and he asked an Italian officer to take the skull to Moscow and give it to an acquaintance lawyer.
In the spring of 1934, the Italian officer set out with Gogol's skull casket, accompanied by his brother Tony and several friends. Tony, 8, is a mischievous boy who decides to play pranks to eliminate the boredom of his journey. Tony stole the box containing the skull, intending to put the skull on the table in the darkness when the train passed through the tunnel, and to frighten everyone when the light suddenly appeared. But when the train was still tens of meters away from the tunnel entrance, Tony suddenly felt a palpitation, and he looked up to find that his brother and several friends were ugly and had a look of panic in their eyes. Tony looked at the darkening tunnel like a giant beast opening its blood basin ready to devour itself, "Get out of here!" A voice urged him to leave, and an inexplicable force pushed him to the interface of the carriage, pushing him off the train as it slowed down as it was about to enter the tunnel.
Since it was winter and the clothes were thick, Tony was not injured. He looked up, the locomotive just drove into the mouth of the tunnel, a thick white mist wrapped around the train, a few seconds later he woke up, found that there was a dead silence around him, even the sound of the steam engine train was gone, he had the courage to run to the mouth of the tunnel to look inward, and found that the white fog had dissipated, the tunnel was empty, and the train had long been gone. A terrified Tony walked a hundred meters along the train track and met a young girl who also jumped off the train early because of palpitations, and Tony asked the girl to pinch herself fiercely, until he realized that he was not dreaming. The two took care of each other all the way, and finally came to a village in the dark and reported the case to the local police station.
"I think you must have been playful and jumped off the train!" The officer in charge of the police criticized the two and then asked them to say their parents' contact information, and Tony looked horrified: "I didn't lie, if it wasn't too weird in the car, we wouldn't have risked jumping out of the car." And the girl also defended that this was not a prank, in fact, she did not want to jump out of the car, but was pushed out of the car by an inexplicable force. Seeing that the two did not look like they were lying, the police promised to investigate first, and reminded them that it was best not to leave the place until their parents arrived.
Soon, the police found out the information about the train that Tony was riding. It was a three-car train from St. Petersburg to Moscow, chartered by a tourist from an Italian company with 118 passengers. To the confusion of the police, before crossing the tunnel, multiple railway stations had records of the train stopping, but after passing through the tunnel, the train disappeared as if it had stopped without a record of stopping.
The police confused and took Tony back to the scene, a few kilometers after passing through the tunnel is the next station, the platform staff said they did not receive any notice of the train to pass, the local authorities have carefully inspected and searched the tunnel, and even the soot traces left by the train have not been found.
Soon, Moscow newspapers reported the strange disappearance of the train, and under pressure, the Soviet government set up a special investigation team, but after some investigation, there was no clue. For a time, the train was hit by the "curse of The Skull of Gogol" and the saying was very popular. Some bold people also went to the scene of the incident, "Standing at the mouth of the tunnel, I felt a powerful breath of death. "It must have been cursed by Gogol's skull, and as long as you stand at the mouth of the tunnel, you can feel a strong thrust, and at the same time you can hear a clear voice, like calling us into the tunnel." ...... As more people arrived, the tunnel became more mysterious, but because a bomb blew it up during World War II, the investigation into the train's disappearance was eventually closed.
Trains are like ghosts
"Is there really a Gogol ghost train?" Paxer, a physicist, naturally did not believe this absurd statement, but just when he was confused, his wife Kalianda brought a pile of newspapers. Looking at the news in the newspapers, Patsee was amazed that since the train disappeared in 1934, it had appeared repeatedly in the Moscow region in 1975, 1981 and 1986, especially in 1991.
Vasius Plovich Alexander, president of the Ukrainian Society for the Study of Paranormal Phenomena at the time, was very concerned about the "ghost train" incident, and in order to investigate the truth, he and his assistant Bolt came to the mouth of the tunnel where the "ghost train" appeared the most times. However, for half a month, no abnormalities were found.
At noon on September 25, 1991, Bolt was going to ask Alexander to go back to lunch, he was still thirty or forty meters away from the railway, and saw Alexander sitting on the gravel, carefully remembering something, when suddenly there was a rumbling sound on the tracks, and a very old train suddenly appeared on the tracks. Bolt was stunned for a few seconds before realizing that the "ghost train" had appeared again. Alexander reacted much faster than he did, packed up his notebook, grabbed the armrest, and jumped into the last carriage of the train in two steps.
"Come down, come down!" Bolt's voice disappeared into the noise of the train, and by the time he eased up, Alexander was long gone. A large living man disappeared, Bolt was listed as a key suspect, the police conducted a lie detector investigation on him, and found that Bolt was pulled up by Alexander, there was no contradiction between the two, and he could not poison the teacher.
Because of Alexander's special status, Russia was forced to form a special investigation team, but when the investigation team asked the railway department about the situation, the person in charge of the reception was either silent or vague. After half a year of fruitless investigation, the final conclusion was that Alexander was attacked by an unknown object on the railway and disappeared.
"The 'ghost train' appeared one after another, and there were many witnesses, and it also appeared in the newspapers, and it seems that the 'ghost train' really has a problem." Patsee combed through these events and found many similarities, starting with the fact that they all took place around Moscow, concentrated between 3 and 5 p.m., with thick fog before the train entered the tunnel. It occurred to Patsé that if the "ghost train" was not a supernatural event, then it was likely a physical phenomenon of the distortion of time and space, that the people on the train might not have died, and that traveling through time was an instantaneous sensation for passengers due to the time expansion effect, and that decades had passed in real time and space. The most reliable evidence of this conjecture is that witnesses saw passengers dressed in 1930s costumes on the train.
Based on his own speculations, Patsé combined with previous news reports to recreate the scene of the "ghost train" on January 17, 2009.
On the same day, Officer Schuster was driving around the outskirts of Moscow and found a stolen car that had been reported stolen a day earlier. He chased after the stolen car, and the driver fled the city and drove onto a railway, where the wheeled flat tire truck got stuck on the tracks. So Schuster immediately got out of the car and approached the car thief. The train whistle suddenly sounded on the otherwise empty tracks, and Schuster saw a train suddenly appear on the tracks less than 10 meters away from the stolen car. The train has only three carriages, and it is a steam engine train that has long been obsolete. The antique train knocked the stolen car out of the tracks. Schuster dodged in a hurry, but the thief took the opportunity to climb into the second carriage of the train and waved triumphantly to him. Schuster was furious and ran quickly toward the train. At this time, he saw a middle-aged woman in the window of the third carriage passing in front of him, wearing an old-fashioned floral dress, looking blankly out the window.
The steam engine train wasn't fast, and Schuster chased after it, and when his fingers were about to hit the rear fence, he heard a shout from behind him, "Don't go up!" Frightened, Schuster shivered, and was immediately thrown a few meters away by the train, and he looked back to see an old railroad worker waving not far away, looking anxious. When I looked back again, I saw that the steam engine train seemed to be a rippled pond around it, and the air around it was twisted, and in an instant, the train disappeared. Schuster had not yet returned to His senses. The old railroad worker said to him, "You're so lucky! If you get on that train, you won't be able to get off again. That's the Gogol Ghost Train! Schuster immediately reported to the police station, but the answer from his boss was that he was too tired to hallucinate!
Based on fingerprints left on the stolen car, Shuster identifies the thief named Ida and lives in a slum. Schuster searched all possible places for Ida and asked his companions, but no one knew where he had gone. Schuster went to the railroad department again to inquire, which refused to answer any questions about the "ghost train."
Unsolved mysteries
On February 12, 2019, in an old house in Moscow, Patsee met Schuster, who had retired. After Patsee explained his intentions, Schuster recalled some of the situations at the time: "I saw people dressed in 1930s costumes, they seemed to be chatting, and they didn't look frightened at all. Before the train disappeared, a thick fog suddenly appeared around the body! ”
It's thick fog again! Patsee remembered Tony's experience when a strange sticky white mist engulfed the train as it entered the tunnel. What exactly is this white mist? But Patsee was puzzled that the other trains did not appear from the appearance to the disappearance of the thick fog, is there no direct connection between the thick fog and the appearance of the "ghost train"?
Patsee posted a discussion post online in an attempt to uncover the truth about the "ghost train." Soon, Patsé assembled a professional team of railway experts, philosophers, geologists and meteorologists.
Patsee's team moved into the tunnel entrance where the "Ghost Train" appeared the most often. The tunnel is located 40 km northwest of Moscow, with a small mountain village near the exit. Knowing that Patse was going to investigate the "ghost train", the villagers advised Patsey to leave as soon as possible, otherwise the "ghost train" would take them away, and told them that since the "ghost train" appeared several times at the mouth of the tunnel, the timid villagers had left, and the rest were some old people, and the old people had left one after another in recent years, and now there were only three people left.
After a week of staying, Patsee found it beautiful, the air fresh and nothing unusual. This morning, while Patsei was still asleep, there was a knock on his door: "Thick fog! Thick fog appeared at the mouth of the tunnel! Patsee hurriedly got up and rushed out, but when he looked, he found that it was just ordinary fog. The area is located in a mountainous area, and it is not uncommon for such fog to appear in the morning. Just as Patsy was disappointed, the survey by geologist Wiggins made new progress, and he detected that there was a magnetic field in the area, but sometimes obvious and sometimes weak.
Patsy was confused, there was a magnetic field around, it may be a rich deposit, but how could the magnetic field caused by these deposits be obvious and disappear from time to time? Patsee went to the local villagers to understand the situation, and the villagers explained that the ore had indeed been mined here, but it had not been mined for two years. Patsee found the answer in a mine log, and it turned out that the exploration team had investigated that the deposits were rich enough to be mined for 20 years, but after two years of mining, the production took a sharp turn for the worse and finally had to be closed.
"Fog!" Just when Patsee was fruitless, something suddenly flashed in his mind: in 1943, the U.S. military had conducted the famous "Philadelphia Experiment", when under the guidance of Dr. Jopp, the result of this spatio-temporal experiment was that the ship suddenly disappeared in the thick fog of a strong artificial magnetic field, and also caused the people on the ship to suddenly appear, panic and go crazy.
In connection with to What happened to Tony and Schuster, Patsee patted his thigh, perhaps the "ghost train" was not Gogol's soul at work, but the train was driving into a powerful magnetic field, which may have appeared suddenly, with a sporty nature, and the strength of this magnetic field is far greater than the artificial magnetic field strength of the "Philadelphia Experiment", so many years later the "ghost train" can still appear in various places.
Patsey further speculated that the network of railways crisscrossing Eurasia was the largest global project built by humans on Earth, and that this vast network of railways could have an impact on the passage of time. Any spatial change to a considerable degree will cause instantaneous anomalies, and time and space with electromagnetic properties are inseparable, and there is some connection between them.
Patsee's conjecture was echoed by many scientists, who called for the "Gogol Ghost Train" to reappear, not to board the train out of curiosity. But many experts have objected, because where and how this incredibly powerful, sudden magnetic field came from and how it came about, Patsai and his team have not been able to give a reasonable explanation. Or really, as the railroad department thinks, this is the work of "unknown objects on the railway".
As for Patsy's daughter Linda, the Professors and His Wife finally saw her not long ago. At that time, the young Linda had a boyfriend of 4 years younger than herself, and fearing that her parents would stop her, the two chose to elope on Christmas Day 2018. Now that Linda is a mother and her life is stable, she finally plucks up the courage to take her children home to visit her parents...