Marina quietly went crazy with fear.

A neighbor's story. In 1986, she lost her baby at the middle term of pregnancy. Our neighbor Marina, who was already quite bloated, did not do anything, did not carry heavy things, did not go to the store, and did not wash the floors, among other things, she took care of herself. Her mother cleaned the floors. All over the apartment, and in the front room by her door, by the mat. And here's a neighbor standing next to her, her mom mopping the floors at their front door, in the stairwell, having a nice conversation "about nothing." Their attention was caught by a strange pile lying quite close to the side of their door, as they analyzed later - it was probably ash, stacked in the shape of a cross-like figure. Mom decided not to smear the dirt on the floor, put it in a dustpan, and threw it in the trash can at home.

That same evening my mother left for the night shift, leaving pregnant Marina alone at home. No one even thought anything bad at the time. The strangeness began the same night, according to Marina, someone walked all night on four paws down the corridor in their apartment and rushed to the door of the room in which Marina quietly went crazy with fear.

Who was it? Our neighbor said that it was something that ran around and rushed to the door, walked and walked, then purposely went to the very end of the corridor and from there ran, increasing speed, with force rushed to the door of Marina's room. Naturally, her roommate did not leave the room until morning, when it was light.

And the next trip to the antenatal clinic was fatal for our neighbor, there she learned that the fetus had frozen. According to the approximate conclusions of doctors, it happened just those days, when in the corridor ran and rushed to the door something. But this is an approximation. The exact date of fetal death has not been established. But Marina believes it happened that night.

The dust her mother had found under the door before was very much like ash, and it was very easy to get up in the air and fly around. What was it? A death-trap? A spell?