Different View

Part 1. Pipes of the same diameter and cross-section were found in the lake itself. One part of it protrudes above the surface, the other is hidden in the depths. According to experts' estimates, the age of the discovery ranges from 30,000 to 20 million years. Alien area. Between the small indigenous population of the area was known and has long been called a mystical expression of "ruins of alien structures". But for the first time, this zone was reported to the local authorities in 1998 by American scientists from the expedition, looking for fossilized remains of dinosaurs...

How long do you think humanity has learned how to produce metal, create mechanisms, build communications, and write scientific papers? According to the majority of historians, a reasonable person (Homo sapiens) appeared in Africa about 200 thousand years ago, and the first technically developed civilizations and cities "with conveniences" appeared on Earth no earlier than VII millennium BC. However, studies of numerous artifacts that fall into the field of vision of archaeologists and anthropologists,...

Part 1. And then the committee calls started. Oleg's name and the name of the chatty colonel were extracted from him and he was recommended to write a joking sequel to the article so that no one would take the discovery seriously. And after the rejection of his career as a journalist, he was put on the cross. After the story about the Tisulskaya Princess was shown on one of the Russian channels in 2013, it turned out that in the same area were found two more similar, absolutely identical burials aged 200 million years...

In 1969, the quiet and quiet life of the village of Rzhavchik in the Tisul district of the Kemerovo region was disturbed by an unusual find. In the depth of the coal mine, miners found a sarcophagus in which there was a very beautiful woman of European appearance, who was later called a Tisul princess. Top secretly. This story has received wide publicity after the article of Oleg Kulishkin published in the newspaper "Arkaim" in 2002. The author met a former KGB colonel on the train, who told him about the unusual discovery...

Bali. Beautiful and incomparable corner of the planet. But in spite of the developed tourism, the island contains a lot of mysteries. Read about the mysterious places that can only be called sacred. Bali is called the Island of the Gods. According to the legend, the higher beings created it for themselves, and people are allowed to use its gifts - provided that they will bring some wealth as a gift to the heavenly masters. Maybe that's why Bali attracts people from all over the world, like a magnet? Uluwatu Temple...

part 1. Suspected even Pablo Picasso, who hated museums where "art is hidden from life", so he stole the picture in collusion with his friend Guillaume Apollinaire for avant-garde motives. Silent only the French police, who had nothing to say. The famous detectives, the best in the world at the time, came to a standstill. They found only a frame from the picture, which was very easy because it was quietly lying on one of the service stairs of the Louvre. The amateur's confession. From the first...

If you ask, say, a hundred people, taken at random, of any age, education, profession at once, without hesitation, to name the most famous picture of all times and peoples, the answer in 99 cases will surely be so: "The Mona Lisa. So why is this "Gioconda" so famous, what is it so famous for? Do the outstanding artists, but the same Leonardo, not find canvases no worse? Of course, there will be. But "Gioconda" has a special fate. Has it always been like this? Stunning fame fell on this picture is not suddenly and not immediately...

He is known as Yevgeny Petrov - co-author of Ilya Ilf, the creator of all favorite novels about the cute cheater Ostap Bender and brother of another, no less famous writer - Valentin Kataev. Eugene Petrov lived a short life, but full of strange coincidences and mysterious coincidences, many of which are still not fully explained. A SERIES OF DRAMATIC EVENTS. According to his brother's memoirs, Yevgeniya constantly pursued dramatic events that almost cost him his life. Here is the shortlist of "feats" of the writer-satirist...

We're used to giving things their character. For the important exam, we can put on our favorite sweater, which has established itself as a "happy" in the responsible moments. Someone takes with them on a trip favorite from childhood toy. Such subjects are called amulets or talismans, bringing good luck to their owner. If the talisman is clear, the word "Jinks" sounds not quite familiar. Jinks are things (people) that bring failure. That's what they call things (people) with strange energy disharmony in America and some countries...

Part 1. The first incident. It all started probably in September 1985, when the British newspaper The Sun was approached by Ron's and May Halley's spouses from Rotherham. The British decided to tell the journalists the story that had happened to them. According to the couple, her house had recently been burned down for an unknown reason, but a black charred wall left a reproduction of "Crying Boy" almost untouched by fire. The brother of the head of the family worked as a firefighter and not only...

Sometimes works of art disappear without a trace. Most often such a fate comprehends the canvases of artists. They fall victim to kidnappers, natural disasters, burned in fires, and are often simply lost, and there is little chance of finding them again. Let's describe those cases when the paintings were waiting for a different fate, although in the minds of people they were considered missing forever. "The electric cord". This is the name of the painting by the American artist Roy Lichtenstein, painted by him in 1961...

part 1. It was impossible to ignore, and we rushed there. What we saw there made me question the reality of what was happening. Bottles flew in all directions in the hall, and whoever could throw them was not visible. Suddenly, they flew through the air with a whistle and then crashed against the walls... In the evening, falling asleep in his room, L'Estrange suddenly felt cold. It was strange to see a furnace drowned here for the night. L'Estrange stood up to see if the window was well locked...