Ninel Kulagina predictions. Parapsychologist Ninel Kulagina and her amazing gift

In the Soviet Union, extrasensory perception and similar phenomena were treated quite skeptically. Nevertheless, these phenomena have been studied. One of the objects of research by specialists was Leningrad resident Ninel Kulagina.

Nineli Sergeevna Kulagina (maiden name Mikhailova) has a heroic biography. In April 1942, a young girl volunteered to go to the front. She served as a radio operator in tank forces. She received combat wounds and earned the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree, and numerous medals.

Even in her early youth, Nelya (that was her name in the family) showed amazing abilities. For example, she “moved” various objects with her gaze—slices of bread on the table, a decanter of water. She also managed to control a clock pendulum from a distance. True, only a narrow family circle knew about this. Ninel Sergeevna herself did not attach much importance to her abilities for quite a long time.

She got married, gave birth to a son, and lived like everyone else. Once, already in the early 1960s, she had a heart attack. In the hospital, Kulagina relieved boredom by knitting. And one day the nurse noticed that the patient was taking balls of wool from the basket without looking. She didn't have to look to pick up a ball of a certain color.

Experiments under KGB supervision

Later, someone introduced Kulagina to Professor L.L. Vasiliev, who studied the mysterious phenomena of the human psyche.

Vasiliev conducted a series of experiments with her, during which it became clear that she could not only move objects with her gaze, but also read other people’s thoughts, “see with the back of her head,” and also influence the operation of technical devices and even change the chemical composition of water. The maximum distance of its influence was two meters.

Since then, Kulagina has constantly taken part in various scientific experiments. Some sources testify that she was allegedly summoned to the KGB, where she was given a condition: either she cooperates with the office, or she will go to trial on a fabricated case. Of course, Ninel Sergeevna agreed to everything. She was given the pseudonym Nelly Mikhailova.

In particular, Kulagina was studied by employees of the Leningrad Institute of Precision Mechanics and Optics. For several years, they conducted experiments during which she “extinguished” a laser beam, moved various objects and burned holes in them with her gaze, exposed photographic film and made a magnetic needle rotate, separated egg whites from yolks in water, and even stopped a frog’s heart. Its capabilities were studied using instruments that recorded the magnetic field emanating from Kulagina’s hands. By the way, during the experiments, sparks with a diameter of up to 10 centimeters sometimes flew from Nineli Sergeevna’s palms!

In 1977, Kulagina was invited to take part in the research program of the Institute of Chemical Physics of the USSR Academy of Sciences. This time they tested her healing abilities. At the first stage, the researchers took a dozen white mice and inoculated them with a subcutaneous hematoma. Then five of them were transplanted into a glass vessel, which Kulagina “irradiated” with the biofield for several seconds. A quarter of an hour later the experiment was repeated. The rodents exposed to Kulagina lived for more than 10 days, while the rest died just half an hour after they were inoculated.

At the second stage, the mice received a dose of radioactive radiation - 700 roentgens. After which Kulagina began working with some of the rodents. And again, the mice “irradiated” with it were able to live for about 10 days, and the rodents from the control group, having “grabbed” the dose, lasted no more than 15 minutes.

Subsequently, Kulagina was entrusted with the treatment of people. It turned out that through its field it can promote the rapid healing of wounds and cuts in patients, improve the condition of those suffering from various types of inflammation, certain diseases of internal organs, migraines, and radiculitis.

However, the experiments had a negative impact on Nineli Sergeevna’s health. Long and intense experiments led to a sharp deterioration in her health. She experienced symptoms such as fatigue, dizziness, increased heart rate up to 240 beats per minute, pain in the back of her head and spine, and a metallic taste in her mouth. Sometimes she experienced bouts of nausea that progressed to vomiting. Medical examinations after the experiments recorded an increase in her blood sugar levels and weight loss, reaching up to 700 grams per day.

Phenomenon or charlatan?

The research was not advertised. Basically, only specialists knew about Kulagina. It was only during Perestroika that a black-and-white documentary filmed back in 1968 was released, in which the psychic demonstrated how she was able to use passes to move small objects and rotate the hands of magnetic instruments.

The press began to write about Kulagina, and television programs were made about her. But many did not believe in her abilities and considered her a clever swindler. For example, academician Alexey Ivanitsky argued that Kulagina moves objects using nylon threads, and instrument needles - using a magnet attached to her finger. In 1988, the magazine “Man and Law” called Ninel Sergeevna a charlatan. She sued and won the case, since her gift was witnessed by the scientists who worked with her.

In 1990, Ninel Sergeevna Kulagina died. Apparently, her health was seriously undermined by frequent experiments. Today they continue to write and argue about Kulagina, but the phenomenon of this woman remains unsolved.

30 years ago, on February 17, 1988, the brightest representative of Russian rock, musician and poet Alexander Bashlachev passed away. The circumstances of his death were so strange that they still cause a lot of controversy about the reasons for his premature death.

They say that he was also overtaken by the “curse of Club 27” - many rock stars could not cross this age limit. Is 27 really a critical period for those who devote their lives to rock music?

Musician Alexander Bashlachev

Musician Alexander Bashlachev

That day, Alexander Bashlachev was not alone in his apartment on Kuznetsov Avenue in Leningrad - he had friends with him. The night before there had been a wild party with lots of wine. However, Bashlachev did not drink - in the morning he was going to go to the bathhouse with his friends. At night he called his common-law wife Nastya Rakhlina, who was then in Moscow, to find out about her health - she was pregnant. And in the morning he fell out of a window on the ninth floor and died. No one could believe that he did it voluntarily. There were rumors that Bashlachev suffered from schizophrenia or alcohol or drug addiction. N. Rakhlina states: “All this is not true. Sashka actually smoked marijuana several times, but never bought it himself. And he got drunk from one glass of wine... Sashka’s decision to die was not sudden. We did not integrate into everyday life. We couldn’t… have an apartment and a store nearby. I couldn't make money. He could no longer live on the street. It was a vicious circle that we were unable to break through...”

Robert Johnson - first member of *Club 27*

Alexander Bashlachev was indeed one of many famous rock musicians who died at the age of 27 under mysterious circumstances. The history of Club 27 began in 1938, when 27-year-old musician Robert Johnson died - he was poisoned by the jealous husband of his mistress. Over time, many began to pay attention to a pattern: rock musicians often die at this age. At the moment, there are 48 musicians on this list, conventionally called “Club 27”. Six of them were world famous. Thus, the founder of The Rolling Stones, Brian Jones, drowned in his own swimming pool in July 1969, a month after breaking up with the group. The musician suffered from alcohol and drug addiction. Doctors declared “death due to negligence.”

Brian Jones | Photo: topnews.ru and cosmo.ru

In September 1970, Jimi Hendrix died, choking on vomit after overdosing on sleeping pills mixed with amphetamine he had previously taken. Later, a version appeared that he was killed “by order” of his manager, with whom he was going to terminate the contract, but this was not confirmed.

Jimi Hendrix | Photo: cosmo.ru

Less than a month after Hendrix, the queen of rock and roll, Janis Joplin, died. The cause of her death was a drug overdose. However, no illegal drugs were found either in the hotel room or in personal belongings, which led many to talk about deliberate murder or suicide. However, these versions were not confirmed.

Janis Joplin | Photo: topnews.ru

The following summer, The Doors leader Jim Morrison passed away. According to the official version, he died of a heart attack, but speculation included a heroin overdose, suicide, and even a staged murder by the FBI during the fight against the hippie movement.

Jim Morrison | Photo: topnews.ru

In April 1994, Nirvana leader Kurt Cobain committed suicide under the influence of heroin. For a long time he suffered from drug addiction and manic-depressive mental disorder, which led to a tragic ending - the musician shot himself in the mouth with a gun. The version of a contract killing has not been confirmed.

Kurt Cobain | Photo: kinodir.ru

Musician who died at 27 | Photo: kinodir.ru

A new wave of interest in Club 27 arose after the death of Amy Winehouse in 2011. The singer did not live 2 months before her 28th birthday. She suffered from severe alcohol and drug addiction for a long time; repeated rehabilitation courses had no effect. One of the leading British performers of the 2000s, winner of 5 Grammy awards, was found dead in her apartment in London. The cause of death was a heart attack caused by alcohol poisoning.

Amy Winehouse

In addition to these 6 world famous rock stars, there were 42 more not so popular musicians who also died at the age of 27. This gave rise to rumors about a curse allegedly haunting rock musicians. They intensified when world-famous musicians died within just 2 years: Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison. In the early 2000s. a woman appeared who claimed that she was a member of the secret “Club 27”, whose representatives allegedly engaged in Satanism and made a pact with the devil in order to gain fame, wealth and talent. Of course, no one took her words seriously, but they continued to talk about the curse.

Many researchers were interested in this pattern. Charles R. Cross wrote: “The number of musicians killed at the age of 27 is remarkable from any point of view. People die all the time, at any age. But statistics show a surge in deaths of musicians precisely at the age of 27.”

Psychologists are sure: there is no curse. Most of the dead musicians abused drugs and alcohol. In addition, people of creative professions have a flexible psyche and are prone to depression. Sociologists studied the biographies of 1,046 musicians who topped the British charts between 1956 and 2007 and found that death occurs no more often at 27 than at any other age. But rock musicians really often don’t live to see the age of 40 due to bad habits.

There is a separate article about the moral side of the attitude of atheist-skeptics to the phenomenon of Ninel Kulagina (“K-phenomenon”), about vile lies about her and about her struggle for the truth here http://levhudoi.blogspot.ru/2013/03/blog-post .html. Be sure to read it if you haven't. Otherwise, there is no point in reading the current article.

And here I will collect and analyze research by scientists and eyewitness accounts. Because I want to figure out what it was.

Some points from that article and from this one will be the same. Because they are useful both for stating a scientific fact and for refuting the false statements of miracle-haters.

Science begins where measurements begin (Mendeleev).

Therefore, I immediately answer the question about the magnitude of the force of influence on objects.

According to what I managed to dig up on the Internet, in one of the experiments she pressed with a force of 30 grams. Measured using scales. Kulagina acted on an empty scale. More on this later.

Ninel Kulagina ensured that her phenomenon was studied by the highest scientists from the Soviet Academy of Sciences.

Yuri Borisovich Kobzarev handed over to Kulagina a written document certified by the seal of the institute where he worked.

Quote from the document:

I confirm that Ninel Sergeevna Kulagina has an extraordinary ability to cause the movement of light objects without touching them and that she does this exclusively by tensing her body. ... This cannot be explained by the occurrenceelectric and magnetic fields .

However, Academician Gulyaev contradicts Kobzarev’s opinion and explains the movement of objects by an electric static field. But I personally disagree with his conclusions. On this occasion, I had to open a separate topic http://levhudoi.blogspot.co.il/2014/02/blog-post.html.

In any case, two equal academicians Gulyaev and Kobazarev have opposite explanations.

FROM THE TESTIMONY OF ACADEMICIAN YU.B. KOBZAREV in court http://www.alterall.ru/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=99

One day I had a cervical radiculitis flare up. She laid her hands on it, and some kind of terribly strong feeling arose. sensation, like a burning sensation.

Now I understand why this happens.Specific organic substances are released from her hands, which have an irritating, nervous effect on the patient’s skin.

Experiments show that the discharge from her hand is electromagnetic, that is, completely material.

I don’t know if I was the first or not, but I noticed that when Kulagina “warms” someone’s hand with her palms, then with proper lighting it is clear that the hand seems to be covered with tiny crystals. The fact that these are crystals can be judged by their characteristic shine.

The next non-trivial phenomenon... If you look at Kulagina’s hand through a light filter, you can register a powerful light flux that comes from her hand. It can also be observed with the naked eye. Typically, a person does not glow as brightly as, say, her hand under volitional tension.

It is also interesting that in experiments using a light filter, a precipitate also falls on it, the glass becomes cloudy. Means, something flies out of Kulagina's hand and settles on it. Others correlate very well with this phenomenon...

Isn't the sediment, say, the “mustard plaster” that causes the burning sensation?

... we actually noted corpuscles that, flying out of the hand, ionized the medium. She began to conduct electricity, which was recorded by instruments.

As we see, Kobzarev does not exclude the electrical component of the phenomenon, but does not agree that this component affects the movement of objects.

The propagation speed of Kulagina's forces is below the speed of sound. Here's how Kobzarev describes it:

Yu. V. Gulyaev told me that in one of these experiments, two laser beams passed along the axis of the can with different distances to the side hole. The screen was replaced with photo-recording devices, and the light pulses were recorded on two tape tracks. Knowing the time shift of the pulse signals on the tracks, it was possible to determine the speed of propagation of the impact. It turned out that the impact on a more distant beam was delayed much more than if we were talking about sound http://www.bibliotekar.ru/znak/1089-11.htm;

It is a pity that Kobzarev did not indicate a specific speed of spread.

One of the substances released from her palms is histamine, http://www.lib.ru/ZHURNAL/istoria.txt

And here I sit at the table, next to with a woman, watching how, without touching light objects with her hands, she moves them to different sides... Non-magnetic objects also moved.

FROM THE TESTIMONY OF SHOSHINA I.F., editor of joint filming of the Main Directorate of External Relations of the State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company: They took an ordinary wooden table without any accessories, and put a compass on it. And then Kulagin with his own hands - but not immediately, but with some effort, - she began to rotate its arrow

I want to tell about the history of this phenomenon.

..After another intestinal operation - the fifth in a row! - the doctors announced to my confidant that due to adhesions in the gastric area that developed after a serious injury, they had no right to cut her. Everything is covered in scars... As an alternative measure, Kulagina was offered to go to Dr. Belyaev, who was engaged in auto-training at the neurological clinic. During a session in which, in addition to Kulagina, 10 other patients with similar diseases made appropriate suggestions to themselves, Ninel Sergeevna suddenly felt a strong burning sensation in the stomach and groaned.

“Well, show me,” Belyaev approached. The entire skin on her stomach was glowing, as if hot metal had just been applied. " First degree burn", he stated in amazement. I invited Candidate of Medical Sciences Fainberg, and he showed it to the famous Leningrad professor Vasiliev. He began to conduct the first experiments with Kulagina.

Rotation of the compass needle;
- touching the hand of another person can cause severe burns;
- scattering of the laser beam with hands;
- change in acidity (pH) of water;
- exposure to photographic film placed in a closed bag (exposure).

“Science begins where measurements begin” (D.I. Mendeleev).

The healing abilities of Ninel Sergeevna are confirmed by the outstanding surgeon Felix Vladimirovich Balluzek, starting at 21:24. Before you listen to what he said, you need to understand who he is for those who don’t know.

One of the pioneers in the development of methods:

General and regional perfusion
- lung transplants,
- hyperthermia in oncology,
- efferent and laser medicine.

Under his leadership, the first pacemaker implantation was performed.

Member of the editorial boards of a number of medical journals, problem commissions, and the Committee on New Medical Equipment of the USSR Ministry of Health.

Gold medal named after. V. I. Burakovsky.
- Gold medal of B.V. Petrovsky “Outstanding Surgeon of the World”,
- Badge "Excellence in Health Care".
- 1953 graduated from the Military Medical Academy in Leningrad.
- 1955 defended his candidate's thesis "Aortic resection. Experimental study."
- 1959 headed the research laboratory for the study of artificial blood circulation.
- 1963 defended his doctoral dissertation “Extracorporeal circulation in surgery of the heart and large vessels.”
- 1967 Deputy Director for Science of the All-Union Research Institute of Pulmonology
- 1976 Head of the Department of Hospital Surgery at the Leningrad Sanitary and Hygienic Medical Institute
- 1986 returned to the Military Medical Academy
- 1986-1991 Head of the Department of Angiosurgery of the Central Research Laboratory of the 1st Leningrad Medical Institute.
- 1991 headed the newly created Department of Angiosurgery of the St. Petersburg Medical Academy and Center for Innovative Technologies "LIM".

Here are Ballyuzek's words:

Her abilities relate to inflammatory, vascular and tumor diseases. We turned to her in the most desperate cases, when there was a question of amputating a leg, since it had already died, but, nevertheless, in some way incomprehensible to us, she has the ability to restore vascular patency and then everything works out

During the experiments, Kulagina herself experienced increased blood pressure higher than our instruments can measure, and her pulse and sugar levels increased extremely.

Chapter IV
BURNING EFFECT

Ninel Sergeevna, as a result of the same tension, influencing other people, causes them to burn. She usually does this using the palms of her hands - which is simpler and more familiar for her. Burning can be carried out either contact or non-contact. The greatest distance at which this effect was recorded in our experiments is measured within two meters.

We paid much attention to this effect due to the fact that it reproducible in almost any conditions, does not require special physical effort, like telekinesis. At the same time, it was possible to obtain a variety of information about changes in the external environment, observe the visible results of the impact on various objects, and also study the tension in the body of Ninel Sergeevna herself during a burning sensation. ...

Research in the clinic, carried out by a group of doctors under the guidance of Professor, Doctor of Medical Sciences F.V. Balluzek, who also experienced the burning effect, briefly characterizes the phenomenon as follows:

After a few seconds, all subjects felt a feeling of heat, reminiscent of a local burn with a corresponding objective equivalent (redness of the skin, swelling, etc.)

The intensity of the reaction was easily regulated by N. S. Kulagina, up to the formation of blisters and other clear signs of a II-III degree burn. In most cases, such burns resembled the configuration of the palm and fingers of her hand, and even then the skin was not in any contact with the patient's skin.

Repeated sessions produced similar changes. Subsequently, typical crusts and areas of hyperpigmentation formed at the site of the burns. No infection was observed in these areas, although in some cases they were in close proximity to purulent wounds or ulcers.

Direct thermometry and thermography were able to show that the noted changes are not associated with an adequate increase in skin temperature at the impact site: burns cannot be considered thermal.

At the same time, their direct connection with changes in tissue chemistry, in particular with a rapid shift to the acidic side (to pH values ​​​​less than 3 in the fluid of bubbles), has been proven.

Blood flow increased significantly in those suffering from obliterating diseases of the arteries of the extremities; they showed signs of restoration of the patency of the arteries (after 10-15 treatment sessions).

This phenomenon has been deciphered to a certain extent by studying the influence of N. S. Kulagina on the state of a fresh and formed blood clot both in a “test tube” and in the lumen of a vessel (with thrombophlebitis of the superficial veins of the leg). In all cases, rapid thrombus lysis was obtained within 3-5 minutes.

Clinically in all cases There were certainly positive consequences of treatment, both in vascular and inflammatory-trophic changes and diseases (wound healing, obliteration of abscess cavities, elimination of infiltrates, etc.). The treatment did not complicate traditional therapy if it was continued in parallel."

Dulnev Gennady Nikolaevich (1927 - 2012) talks about the healing of gangrene - professor, doctor of technical sciences.

In 1974-86, rector of LITMO, professor of the department of computer thermal physics and energy-physical monitoring. Full member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences.

He headed the North-Western branch of the Scientific Council of the Russian Academy of Sciences on the problem of “Thermophysics and Thermal Power Engineering” of OEMMP RAS, and headed the Center for Energy Information Technologies.

Candidate for Master of Sports in mountaineering (first ascent - 1949).

G. Dulnev talks about Nineli Kulagina (2005) http://www.leonidkonovalov.ru/extrasensory/telekinesis/?ELEMENT_ID=328 .

I quote selectively:

Leningrad apartment. They introduced me to Ninel Sergeevna Kulagina, she came with her husband, and there were some other guests.

And with her came an elderly man whom she cured, and he tells the story himself. He was convicted and sat in the Gulag for many years. And then, when he left the Gulag, he began to develop spontaneous gangrene, and this is a very serious and complex disease. Spontaneous gangrene occurs suddenly, out of nowhere. That is, your blood vessels become blocked, the blood does not flow through, and your fingers begin to turn black, there is terrible pain, etc.

He was admitted to the Mechnikov clinic. The doctors came to see him, pulled off the sheet, saw his black fingers, and decided to amputate his toes and even his feet. The patient begins to say that he does not want, he does not agree, but the consent of the patient and his relatives must be there. The doctors persuade him, but he refuses. Finally he remembers that he was told about a woman who could save him from this disease. He finds a mutual friend who turned out to be a mathematician, Ladyzhenskaya, there was such a professor at the university, she taught mathematics for us at one time. Through her he reached Kulagina. Kulagina came, looked at the patient, put her hands on certain places on his legs, held him a little, and his pain went away. But she has no medical education. And in a Soviet clinic it is impossible to treat without a medical diploma; this is generally prohibited even now. And in all clinics in the world this is prohibited. Doctors say we can't afford it. The patient screams. Kulagina says that she cannot, she needs permission, whatever the doctors would give, the doctors cannot give permission. In a word, a commission was created, as a result of which the doctors wrote her a certificate stating that they did not object to treatment using the Kulagina method. What is the method? They don’t know themselves, they just had to write something. This is already quite a high courage of doctors to write this very act.

They wrote this paper, Kulagina put it in her pocket and began to visit the patient for a week, fiddling with the patient for ten minutes every day. She put her hands first to one place and then to another. Ten days later he got up and left the clinic on his own feet. That is, she cured a person.

Well, he tells this, everyone oohs and ahs. Then Kulagina says: “Stop chatting, let me show you.” She asks the hostess to give her an empty wine glass. She turns it upside down, makes an antenna out of her hands, and at a distance of half a meter begins to work very hard on this wine glass, but to no avail. She gets angry, nervous, more and more upset, and suddenly we see that the wine glass jumped up and crawled along the table in small steps... We caught him at the other end of the table. The wine glass crawled about half a meter, bouncing.

We need to make a special point here. " caught at the other end of the table" - this means the glass was moving away from Kulagina in the opposite direction from her. It was not she who caught the glass, but other people. And any magnetic strings can only attract to her. A primitive magnetic thread explanation can only relate to movement towards her, and not away from her Unfortunately, in the few fragments of Kulagina’s video that I know of, she only attracts attention.

Therefore, any evidence of movement away from oneself is important.

Then Kulagina separated, took the wedding ring off her hand and began to drive it around the table. I sit and think, “what could it be”?

Then she takes the school compass, puts it on the table, begins to turn her hand at a distance and the compass needle begins to run, she turns her hand in the other direction, the arrow also begins to rotate in the other direction. I thought that I could do the same, I would place a small magnet under the nail, and I would do the same, the arrow would move. But then she began to move her hand away, repeating the same movements, and the compass jumped behind her hand.

Laser experiment

I called optical physicists, an electrical physicist, a quantum electronics physicist, and a chemical physicist, that is, I assembled a group of five fairly strong professors. I worked with them, very serious people, professionals in their field

We worked for seven years they gathered in the evenings, because in the evenings only Kulagina could come. The experiments were very difficult. I have never conducted more complex experiments in my life.

Well, let's say a person is sitting. A sensor for measuring heat flow was attached to his back, so it stands there and warms his back at some distance. The sensor shows us that there is a large heat flow, etc.We immediately attached a thermocouple so that it could measure the temperature.

Ninel Kulagina

But, of course, the most famous owner of the gift of psychokinesis in the world (if you don’t take into account various showmen, about whom there are a number of questions) was a native of Leningrad, Ninel Kulagina. In April 1942, sixteen-year-old Ninel volunteered for the front, where she was wounded in the stomach, underwent five operations and was awarded an order and medals. Ninel had known about her abilities for a long time, but she decided to publish such “obscurantism”, which ran counter to the materialistic line of the party, only in the thaw years of the sixties and turned to the Leningrad Institute of Metrology.

There she demonstrated that she could move matches across a table without using her hands, suspend a ping-pong ball in the air, swing a pendulum under a glass cover, and the like.

After several experiments, delighted scientists took Kulagina to Moscow to continue her research. There, after a series of experiments, it was decided that “the experiments were carried out incorrectly” and their results could not be trusted. Kulagina was declared a fraud. It is unknown who prevented Moscow academicians from conducting “correct” experiments. Apparently, the result frightened them so much that, contrary to all scientific practices, they simply decided to “forget” about the phenomenon.

A number of articles appeared in the press accusing Kulagina of fraud, which in Soviet times was tantamount to a court verdict. But a few years later, fate brought Kulagina together with academician Yuri Borisovich Kobzarev, Hero of Socialist Labor, laureate of the Stalin Prize. Having carefully studied her phenomenon, he demonstrated the woman’s unusual abilities to several academicians and Professor Yuri Gulyaev, deputy director of the Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics of the USSR Academy of Sciences. The result of this meeting was a form from the institute with a summary: “The phenomenon demonstrated by N. S. Kulagina is of enormous interest for science. Its study can lead to fundamental discoveries that are not inferior in importance to the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics.” It was a kind of safe conduct.

Kulagina died in 1990, but controversy surrounding her phenomenon still rages. For example, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences A. M. Ivanitsky believes that during the demonstration of moving objects, Ninel Kulagina in some cases used thin threads. The famous Soviet illusionist Yuri Gorny echoes him: “...she (Kulagina) used strong magnets and thin threads, invisible to the observer. Sometimes she did it in a sophisticated way. For example, she asked to cover the matches with a glass, but they still moved, changing the direction she asked. Thin steel needles were previously driven into the matches, which were influenced by magnets located in her shoes and in the abdomen.”

It is clear that the use of magnets and threads has never been proven by anyone, and moreover, it is even more difficult to believe in this than in the amazing phenomenon itself.

Kulagina demonstrated her abilities not only to many Soviet and foreign scientists, but also to a number of Western journalists who “ate the dog” at such tricks and could hardly fail to notice them. Moreover, much of what Kulagina demonstrated cannot be explained by the simplest fraudulent techniques. For example, the movement of a plastic ball in a closed vessel, or the movement of a glass glass under a glass cover. The same matches, before Kulagina began to influence them, underwent a thorough examination. It is also difficult to explain how Kulagina “exposed” photographic paper from a distance or stopped and then started the heart of an experimental frog. Moreover, the illusionist Hmayak Hakobyan, who was invited as an expert, said that he could not imagine how some of Kulagina’s “tricks” could be repeated, for example, scattering a laser beam.

Kulagina, most likely, indeed, had unique abilities, but party ideology and the rigidity of scientific thinking did not allow a full study of this phenomenon. Scientists were too frightened by the results that they managed to obtain by studying Kulagina’s abilities. Kulagina influenced objects using ultrasound and electric fields. How her body could produce these energies, it seems, we will never know.

When Ninel Sergeevna Kulagina (1926-1990) unexpectedly discovered amazing abilities in herself, she could not even imagine what consequences this would cause, what kind of torment she would experience. Some called her a miracle of nature, talked about a phenomenon that lies beyond our knowledge, others called her a fraud and a charlatan.

Ninel Sergeevna recalled how it all began. It happened in the hospital. Lying in bed after a major operation, she suddenly discovered that she could, by touch, without looking, accurately determine the color of the threads she was holding in her hands.

However, to be more precise, the beginning should be considered December 1963, when news spread throughout our country about the extraordinary abilities of a previously unknown young woman, a resident of the Urals, Roza Kuleshova, who, blindfolded, could read text with her fingers, distinguish colors and “ see" drawings.

That’s when Ninel Kulagina announced to her loved ones that she could do this too. Home experiments began. Wearing a tight blindfold, she easily identified the color of sheets of paper painted with watercolors. The same thing happened with a set of colored pencils. After such experiments, there was not a shadow of doubt left that “seeing” with fingers exists, and Ninel Kulagina possesses this gift to the fullest.

Of course, experiments were also conducted with reading texts blindly. First they took texts with large font, then with smaller ones. Not right away, but Ninel Sergeevna mastered this skill quite quickly. Further more. It turned out that she can determine color and read printed text not only with her fingers, but also with her toes, as well as with her elbow, chin and even the sole of her foot! They tried to put multi-colored scraps of paper into black, completely opaque envelopes and conducted experiments in complete darkness. The result was also positive.

Event in science

Ninel Kulagina could not explain her abilities with any physical or physiological theories. At that time, she was undergoing treatment from Candidate of Medical Sciences S. G. Fainberg. Ninel Kulagina decided to tell him about her strange abilities. From Fainberg, Leningrad State University professor Leonid Leonidovich Vasiliev, the founder of telepathic research in our country, learned about Ninel Kulagina and her wonderful gift. Back in the 20s of the last century, under the leadership of Academician V. M. Bekhterev himself at the Brain Institute, he began to explore the mysterious phenomena of the human psyche.

In January 1964, a conference of doctors and scientists (neuropathologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, physicists) was held in Leningrad, at which the first message about the paranormal abilities of Ninel Kulagina was made. That day, the small hall in which the conference was held was filled to capacity with people wanting to see the wonderful woman.

Professor Vasiliev spoke and opened the meeting. And then Ninel Sergeevna Kulagina, in front of the audience, demonstrated experiments in “skin vision” and her other mysterious abilities.

Needless to say about the enormous impression these experiments made. It is no coincidence that Professor Vasiliev said then: “We were present at a real scientific event.” And he added that in his long research work he had never encountered such paranormal abilities as Kulagina’s.

Telekinetic power of Ninel Kulagina

This conference dramatically changed the life of Ninel Sergeevna Kulagina. She was invited to the parapsychological laboratory of Professor Vasiliev. She was invited to participate in scientific experiments and was even included in the laboratory staff. It seemed that for Ninel Kulagina everything was going as well as possible.

“Skin vision,” as it soon became clear, was not yet the most striking example of Kulagina’s mysterious gift. It turned out that she has the ability to perform a more amazing phenomenon - telekinesis, that is, the non-contact movement of objects!

At first, Ninel Kulagina herself did not know about this, but one day Professor Vasiliev suggested that she may well have such an ability. And Kulagina decided to secretly move the envelope lying on the table without touching it.

The first experiments were unsuccessful. She later wrote that at that time she simply did not yet know how to induce in herself the state necessary for the manifestation of telekinesis. But at one fine moment the envelope trembled, turned, slowly crawled forward and, reaching the edge of the table, fell to the floor! Later, Kulagina managed to move matches, cigarettes, a wedding ring, a wristwatch and other small objects across the table.
Having learned about this, Professor Vasiliev immediately called Ninel Kulagina to the laboratory. This was in the spring of 1964. That day, Kulagina demonstrated telekinesis for the first time in front of the laboratory staff. Vasiliev then warned Ninel Sergeevna not to tell anyone about the telekinesis experiments. And there was every reason for this - attacks began on research into parapsychological phenomena.

Mysterious burn

Even in Vasiliev’s laboratory there were people who doubted the reliability of Ninel Kulagina’s experiments. Rumors spread that she was simply fooling the gullible scientist, that objects moved with the help of the thinnest invisible threads. Suspicions did not disappear even after Ninel Kulagina successfully demonstrated telekinesis with objects covered with a transparent plexiglass cap.

The attacks became especially fierce after Professor Vasiliev died in 1967 and his laboratory was closed. Meanwhile, Ninel Kulagina’s abilities continued to develop. She could already rotate the compass needle without touching it with her hands. And again - distrust. Scientists from the Institute of Metrology named after D.I. Mendeleev, where Kulagina conducted this experiment, refused to sign the official act! We decided to play it safe - what if this is a scam?

Meanwhile, Ninel Sergeevna discovered another amazing ability in herself. She discovered that with the help of self-hypnosis she could cause a burn on her skin! Moreover, Kulagina could demonstrate a similar effect on the skin of another person, and at a distance of up to two meters!

The variety of parapsychological abilities of this woman amazed people. Another gift of hers manifested itself in the illumination of photographic materials packed in light-proof envelopes!

An effect unknown to science

Ninel Sergeevna heard that this could be from the Czechoslovak scientist, Dr. Zdenek Reidak, who came to Leningrad in 1968. But Kulagina wanted not just to expose the photographic film, but to cause some geometric shapes to appear on it. She also managed to capture a cross, a circle, a stripe and even some letters on film. Ninel Kulagina demonstrated experiments on “psi-photography” at the A. L. Polenov Institute of Neurosurgery. The experiments were carefully controlled - she even took off all her home clothes and put on hospital clothes.

“This experience,” recalled Kulagina’s husband, “required a lot of strength and health from Nineli.” And although there were skeptics, the scientific commission had no choice but to sign a protocol on the existence of an “effect unknown to science.”

All these demonstrations and experiments were accompanied in those years by a noisy coven of obscurantists in newspapers and magazines, who did not hesitate to insult the wonderful woman. In 1987, Ninel Kulagina even had to sue one of these slanderers and insulters.

She won the case, but at too high a cost. Her health was seriously compromised. The reason for this was not only the enormous nervous overload during the experiments, but also the persecution that constantly accompanied the unique woman. Ninel Kulagina suffered a heart attack and did not live long after that. On April 11, 1990, at the age of just 65, she died, left unsolved and completely unappreciated.

Gennady Chernenko