Retro photo studio opened on Khoper River

When the girl was folding the camping tent, Genrikh Mikhailovich brought the lens into focus. But he did not have time to release the shutter: she got up and approached him. Already touching her shoulder, he pressed the button by inertia - the shutter clicked.

When the film was developed, the frame showed a girl hunched over a tent, exactly in the same position in which she sat down a few seconds before shooting.

It could mean one thing: Genrikh Mikhailovich Silanov photographed not the girl herself, but the information trail left by her in space. It sounds anti-scientific - the most experienced geologist, a specialist in geophysical instruments, is fully aware of this. And I would not have believed anyone if I heard that the camera recorded the situation of the moment that had elapsed before the shooting. I would not have believed it - if I had not taken such photographs with my own hands dozens of times.

And for the first time such a picture was accidentally obtained in the Hermitage by Leonid Semenovich Pritzker. He photographed the throne of Russian tsars displayed in one of the halls, and when developing the film ... the face of Peter I surfaced, who had actually once sat on this throne.

In principle, this incident could not be paid attention to, considered as a mechanical superposition of two frames or even deliberate photomontage. But the authority of L.Pritsker, a well-known Alma-Ata scientist, Doctor of Physics and Mathematics, whose impeccable scientific conscientiousness did not allow one to assume trickery, was too great.

So the Voronezh researcher Silanov quite consciously experimented with photographing the past. And after many failures, he began to succeed.

Here Genrikh Mikhailovich shows me a thermos taken on the grass, the image of which is overlapped by a slightly blurred outline of a flask, in which milk has been transported for many years. Probably a flask, older than a thermos, once stood in this place. Her image is invisible to the eye, but somehow present at a given point in space and hit the negative.

In another picture, a powerful old tree, broken off by a storm, leaned over a bend in the river. But above the place of breakage, the upper part of the trunk rises like a pale shadow.

How to make a time machine

Here is the time to say what kind of technique allows you to photograph the past. Of course, it's not exactly normal. The lenses of mass objectives are coated for enlightenment with a thin film of magnesium fluoride, which delays the ultraviolet part of the spectrum. But it is precisely at these frequencies, according to Silanov's assumption, that the film fixes the “field memory”.

Heinrich Mikhailovich uses this term for lack of a more precise one. About what field there is a speech - he precisely does not know. It only assumes that images of the past emerge due to special excited states of electromagnetic, gravitational, microwave or other fields, when certain frequencies are in resonance with the exciting frequency. Space, the scientist believes, is a large hologram that stores information about everything that has ever crossed it or was placed in it. Under certain conditions, any point in space is able to “turn on” the memory, which materializes in light quanta, resurrecting the image of the past.

The hypothesis would seem too fantastic if it were not confirmed by many photographs. All of them were made by Silanov in the ultraviolet range using a special lens, filter and film.

Head of the spectrographic laboratory of the Voronezhgeology association, he has been manufacturing special photographic equipment for many years. This experience was useful in his new hobby.

Ordinary optics do not transmit ultraviolet through itself. For a lens capable of “seeing through” time, Silanov seeks out grains of natural quartz that transmit UV rays, subjecting them to analysis on a spectrometer. Then he melts these grains of sand in a crucible that has the required curvature for the lens, after which he manually polishes the resulting lens for a long time, using the method described by Isaac Newton.

Heinrich Mikhailovich uses a film that is also unusual: it is devoid of a gelatin layer that does not transmit ultraviolet light.

Finally, wanting to choose a suitable light filter, the researcher took pair photographs for a long time on a Sputnik stereo camera: he took pictures simultaneously with two lenses, one of which was covered with a K-12 light filter, which expanded the range of penetrating rays towards short waves. For a long time ordinary photographs were released, but from a certain moment the frames became unpaired ...

Czechs and Mongols - neighbors of dinosaurs

It so happened that most of the photographs were taken in the summer months, on annual expeditions to the Khoper anomalous zone. Genrikh Mikhailovich - the permanent leader of the Khoper public research expedition - every summer leads a team of enthusiastic researchers. Much has been written about the frequent appearances of UFOs over the Khopra river bed. But the memory of the past is no less interesting and mysterious phenomenon than luminous objects in the sky.

Well, for example, here is this picture of a bush, from which the profiles of soldiers in helmets “sprout”. When they later began to analyze the attributes of the photograph, it turned out that the fighters of the Czechoslovak regiment under the command of Ludwig Svoboda, which was formed just in this area, had such helmets. What comes out? The quartz lens captured soldiers who probably actually visited the banks of Khopra in 1943.

And on another Khoper landscape, the face of a man in ancient clothes looms - presumably a Scythian, an ancient inhabitant of these places.

Soldiers in pointed helmets immediately evoke the memory of the Golden Horde warriors. Next to them you can see the ropes thrown across the river - probably, such was the crossing over the Khoper. And in another picture of the same southern Russian natural zone, a dinosaur is vaguely distinguishable, probably once trampling the emerald mosses of the Chernozem region with three-toed paws.

Here, try to figure it out, by pressing the shutter release button, in what era the whimsical fields of the anomalous zone will throw you ... Heinrich Mikhailovich himself does not yet know how to control his time machine - he still does not have a “time switch” in his hands. We tried to shoot the same place with five devices at the same time. Instead of five identical frames, various layers were obtained - from the previous minute illuminated by the same sun to the dense twilight of past geological epochs.

And this happened in my house

Silanov believes that soon the possibilities of transtemporal imaging will expand by attracting the infrared part of the spectrum - he has already begun to manufacture the appropriate equipment. But the usual photographic technique of the new generation - digital - can, he believes, give miracles of paradoxical photography.

For this, two conditions must be met. The “memory of the past” is more likely to emerge when working with a telephoto lens, which “presses” the space, collecting together the images smeared in it. And rather, you can expect the appearance of "outside" images, if you shoot at dawn or before sunset, when the proportion of ultraviolet rays in the spectrum is especially large.

Moreover, while talking with many professional photographers, who, by the way, carried out an examination of Silanov's unusual photographs, certifying the absence of editing and technical marriage, he learned that many of them also received something strange on the negatives more than once.

Personally, I am ready to testify that it is so. As a guest in a Shaivite ashram in the village of Okunevo, Omsk region (another characteristically anomalous zone), I leafed through albums with photographs and saw hundreds of photographs in which another, transparent, usually sacred content was superimposed on top of the visible image. Shaivites swore: they did not adjust any intentional tricks when developing and printing.

My son recently returned from Stockholm, where he has been shooting a lot with a digital camera. The urban landscape captured the water mirror of one of the many straits, in the center an orange buoy is clearly visible. For some reason, Daniel took two pictures in a row from the same place. But on the second - what the hell! - this buoy is not visible. Maybe in a moment he sank into the water? But this is not the sea with its waves, and there are no passing motor boats nearby.

Why refer to others! Last spring, I personally took some photos in Egypt inside and next to the large pyramids, in which there are transparent spheres - a kind of large soap bubbles. Their origin is completely unclear. According to a professional photographer, to whom I showed the pictures and negatives, this is hardly a technical defect ...

Photo hunting for ghosts

The most striking - for me personally - of Silanov's strange photographs are those in which the faces of strangers appear.

This phenomenon has its own history.

Shortly after the invention of photography, the American William Mammler, shooting a self-portrait on a glass photographic plate from a tripod, discovered next to his own image ... the translucent face of his cousin Sarah, who died in the same house twelve years ago. The girl in white clothes stood with a detached face, her cheek pressed against William and her transparent right hand resting on his shoulder. Obsessed with mystical fear, Mammler turned to the police, where they conducted an examination and established the authenticity of the photograph.

Almost a century after the death of the unfamous Greek writer Dimitrokopulo, no one would have remembered for sure if he had not published new, previously unknown novels by Victor Hugo. Moreover, in French, which - for a more dashing twist of the plot - the Greek did not have a chance to own. Then where are the texts from? From Hugo himself, Dimitrokopulo assured. Personally, he did not compose them, but only wrote them down, being in a state of trance. They tried to expose the rogue Greek for a long time, especially his lack of knowledge of French. But first, the “Hyugists” fell into confusion: the methods of constructing the plot, the literary style, even the linguistic nuances - everything is genuine. The skeptics finally fell silent when, during one of the mediumistic sessions, a Greek in a trance was photographed. The translucent figure of Victor Hugo was clearly visible on the print next to the writing Dimitrokopoulos.

It is not uncommon for the dead to “fit” into the frame, as if in this way they are trying not only to remind themselves, but to assure their living relatives: we have not disappeared, we exist in parallel with you, we follow you, we love and protect you.

Heinrich Silanov, a practical scientist, himself a skeptic and little believer by nature, is well aware of the vulnerability of his information. No one is required to take a word. Especially in such a flexible art form as photography, where any man-made illusions are possible. Official science, with its inherent fanabery, fundamentally does not want to notice Silanov's paradoxes. And he does not want to scratch at her high threshold with the sole purpose of proving that he is not a camel.

When a phenomenon is ignored by the generals of science, any attempt to prove anything to them will be rejected by all means. This is memorable from the history of genetics in our country, or from closer examples related to parapsychology. Therefore, there is no need to break into a closed door, Genrikh Mikhailovich believes. It is only necessary to check single facts on a massive scale. Everyone has cameras now. If there are not 80 images with images that have wandered to us from the past, as in the Silanov collection, but an order of magnitude more, physicists will have nowhere to go and will simply have to study the memory of the field.

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The insidiousness of geopathogenic zones

On the centuries-old path of his development, a person often encounters phenomena for which he cannot find an explanation, and therefore envelops them in a veil of mystery and supernaturalness. From generation to generation, stories about observed phenomena are transmitted, which, as a rule, are associated with certain places and identified with "otherworldly forces." This is how myths about “dead places”, “evil spirits” and other miracles are born ...

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Heinrich Silanov
Head of the spectral laboratory of the State Unitary Geological Enterprise "Voronezhgeologia", Head of the public research expedition "KHOPER". He invented equipment that is capable of photographing past events.

Silanov believes that he discovered a hitherto unknown physical effect, which he called the "field memory phenomenon". The well-known Kirlian effect is similar to the "field memory phenomenon". Remember? A fragment of a green leaf is placed in a high-frequency electric field, photographed ... and in the picture we see a luminous scheme of the whole leaf. Silanov discovered this effect by chance, in 1992, when he was trying to improve his equipment for shooting UFOs.

From the little that Silanov told about his retro shootings, one can understand the following. Photographic film is "sharper" than the human eye in the ultraviolet and infrared spectral ranges.

A lot of information inaccessible to us can be found in a narrow band of the ultraviolet region of the spectrum, near the lower limit of the visible range ...

The most important parts of a retro camera are a special lens and a plate, or film, where there is practically no gelatin layer that delays the passage of ultraviolet waves.

That's why the question about the lens arose. Everyone knows that window glass does not transmit ultraviolet light, so it is impossible to sunbathe in an apartment with ordinary glass in the windows. To purchase a tan at home, you need quartz glass.

An ordinary camera lens plays the role of a banal window pane; in the first, random "pictures of the past", only a small fraction of ultraviolet penetrated into the camera ... Realizing this, Silanov took up unusually painstaking work.

In coarse sand, he selected tiny crystals of quartz, then melted them and cast them into the shape of a very thin lens; finally, for a long time and carefully, according to the Newton method, manually polished it. As a result of this, truly ascetic work, a year later the “lens of time” was ready.

Genrikh Mikhailovich inserted it into the camera and took test shots from the threshold of his laboratory. It was then that a stunning shot appeared with a long-departed car ...

On the left - a real image of the car, on the right - phantom outlines.

Bringing his equipment to the desired "condition", Silanov gathered enthusiasts and went on an expedition to the Khoper River, where he continued the experiments.

In the right corner of the picture, a tree with a broken crown is clearly visible; a faint shadow on the picture shows what was once its top.

A young girl was packing a sleeping bag. After she left the area, photographs of the area were taken. But in the "Memory of the Field" she remained. All phases of her movements are even captured. Therefore, the back and head are so vague: the girl bent over many times for about ten minutes, and the camera clearly recorded a relatively motionless part of the body.

A tent with a net hung out to dry. Manifested "memory" on the river sand. The time of the event that occurred can be determined very conditionally. Given the design of the tent, this could have happened in the seventies of our century.

Camera figure. "Memory of the Field", manifested against the background of trees. positive form. The image looks like a ghost.

A man in a boat (kayak). Memory manifested on the water. Judging by the clothes and hairstyle of the man, the event took place in the recent past.

Patterns of anomalies

Recently, the question has been raised more and more often, what will humanity do when it exhausts all the resources of gas and oil. Genrikh Silanov, a Voronezh researcher of anomalous phenomena well-known in the country and the world, believes that there is an alternative to current energy sources. He was led to this by many years of studying rare phenomena.

Journeys into the past - Genrikh Mikhailovich, you are a geophysicist by profession. How did you get involved in unexplained phenomena?

Actually, my main profession is a ship radio operator, it was after the army that I acquired the specialties of a geophysicist and a spectroscopist. And the desire to study rare inexplicable phenomena originated in early childhood, when I had to face one of them, which left an indelible mark on my life.

Having come to the conclusion that many anomalous phenomena occur outside of human visual perception, in 1991 I built a camera that allowed photographing in a wide spectral range. The first pictures taken by her brought a sensational result. It turned out that you can photograph the past. Thus, Voronezh researchers have a new direction. I assigned the conditional name “field memory” to the discovered phenomenon, later changing it, as a result of the accumulation of material, to “Space Memory”.

- And how to determine the time of the event in the picture?

In this case, the time of the event is determined very conditionally - by appearance, clothing and paraphernalia, but if serious science studies the discovered phenomenon, then I have no doubt that it will find algorithms for recording and reproducing the events that took place. The time will come when a person will be able to reproduce the plot of a certain period of time that interests him, and we will watch documentaries from the Past.

In the meantime, science pretends that there is nothing and there is no subject of study, and the discovered phenomenon is nothing more than a marriage during photography or an elementary fake.

After the appearance on the photographic film of the image of a woman carrying a child in her arms, and given the name of the Novokhopyorsk Madonna, an idea appeared that I expressed at a meeting with the head of the administration of the Novokhopyorsky district, Viktor Petrov. The conversation concerned the organization of an international tourist route in the Novokhopyorsky district with a visit to the local history museum, which will exhibit a huge photographic material of the Khoper expedition’s many years of work, a trip to the Khopersky State Reserve, which has already created all the conditions for organizing tourism. And its director, Alexander Zobov, also supported my idea regarding the organization of an international tourist route. Gennady Molodtsov, representative of the President of the Russian Federation for culture of the Voronezh region, was acquainted with the materials of the Khoper expedition and also supported the idea of ​​organizing an international tourist route that would create new jobs for residents and bring new financial resources to the budget of the region and district. But so far my letters to the regional administration have remained unanswered.

The earth is a generator of energy. - You are working on the topic of alternative energy. What are you offering?

Earth telluric currents can be used as alternative energy sources. The presence of special "energy channels" - a set of rocks with a higher electrical conductivity than their host rocks - is confirmed by the works of Vasily Palamarchuk, a prominent Russian geophysicist from St. Petersburg working in the field of earthquake prediction. Having learned the methods of accumulation and transformation of the "currents" of the earth, using "energy channels", a person will solve all the problems associated with the need for electrical energy of all inhabitants of the earth.

The nature of the natural electromagnetic field of the Earth is due to thunderstorm activity and variations in the geomagnetic field. Each lightning discharge, being a powerful electromagnetic impulse, creates an electromagnetic field in the earth's crust of a wide frequency spectrum (from units to tens of kilohertz). Since such discharges occur continuously on the Earth, an electromagnetic field of a pulse-noise nature always exists in the earth's crust. Watching the flights of alien ships, I noticed that in almost all cases they hover over the "energy channels" we discovered and, obviously, this is not an accident, but a pattern. Perhaps, in this way, alien ships have been using the energy resources of our planet for a long time, and if this is so, then it is time for earthlings to learn how to use its inexhaustible resources.

- The scope of your work borders on fantasy. How do you feel about science fiction?

As for the future reality.

- What are your plans?

Now I am working on the book "Alone with Aliens", which will contain detailed information about the work of Voronezh researchers. However, I can't find the funds to publish it yet.

Dossier Genrikh Silanov - spectroscopist, head of the Voronezh Committee for the Study of Anomalous Phenomena. In 1964 he moved to Voronezh at the invitation of the Geological Administration of the Central Regions in order to organize a spectral laboratory at the Voronezh geological exploration expedition and became its leader. In the 70s, he was invited as a cameraman and analyst to the section on the study of anomalous phenomena, organized by a group of Voronezh enthusiasts, headed by B.P. Kudryavtsev and A.V. Mosolov. Since the mid-1980s, Genrikh Mikhailovich, together with a group of researchers, organized a systematic observation of anomalous manifestations in the tectonically active Novokhopyor deep fault zone (Khopyor expedition).

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