Medveditsky ridge (Slope of mad lightnings)

The most mysterious site of the Medveditsky ridge still there is a place under the name "Slope of Mad Lightnings". Eyewitnesses claim that unimaginable things for the normal person - the Medveditsky ridge there are created as though attracts to itself fireballs. Hundreds facts when fireballs appeared not only in a thunder-storm, but also in quiet weather, at any time, without any reasons seen on that are recorded. Fireballs here tens hours fly on one route and burn out holes or freakish spirals on the trees which have got on the way.

According to observers, lightnings move with a speed of the pedestrian in a half a meter meter from the earth. On trees they determined by burns that the biggest fireball - in the diameter about two meters. Lightnings can fly against a wind and hang over subjects. As it is interesting that the same fireball burned trees on the way, however people or bypassed, or, passing through them, didn't do any harm to health. One of such cases was recorded: long time the woman through whom the fireball when it protected from this fireball of the child flew by was observed. It turned out so that the lightning several times passed through it and the boy. Them in a state of shock took to hospital, but as it appeared, to their health it wasn't done any harm.

All burned trees were recognized as "abnormal" vegetation, carefully studied and measured during one of expeditions. Having searched up and down a ridge, researchers counted more than three hundred fifty trunks burned in whole or in part. In certain cases from a multimeter tree remained only charred пенек height to a knee.

At first there was an assumption that trees burn usual "linear" lightnings. Experts decided to check this hypothesis, the benefit of storm fronts was enough but when on the made research records constructed the chart, scientists were surprised: it appeared that places of hit of linear lightnings don't correspond to the region of the wood with the burned trees.

But it was only the first stage of work. Daily the crews armed with compasses, notebooks, roulettes, went to the wood and measured the areas, forms, an arrangement and the direction of burns on trees. The analysis of burns on trunks of trees showed that 95% from them are located at the height no more than a meter. At considerable part of trees were as if roots and after that the power category burned from within a tree along a trunk through from below up are burned purposefully out. It was similar to that lightnings or something unknown struck a tree not from air, and from under the earth.

The scientific USA and Europe, and no wonder became interested in a phenomenon of fireballs: by number of emergence of fireballs in a year the Medveditsky ridge – on the second place in the world (the first place in Malaysia).