The devil. Ukraine

In 1979, Alice Nikolaevna Korolkova, a math teacher at a secondary school in the city of K.., in the Donbas, was obliged to work as a teacher at a pioneer camp, thirteen kilometers from the city. There was a deserted steppe, characterized by inconveniences, cut through by frequent beams with here and there remaining ulcers of workings. It was said, however, that there had been escapes from a far-away prison in this direction. Therefore, the camp was naively surrounded by a wooden fence, only in one place leaky - somewhere between the kitchen and the chucks with food waste.

One day we noticed that the contents of these containers were sort of sorted out... And here in the "quiet hour" Alice Nikolaevna was looking for a thing lost by a pioneer leader in the grass here. At some point there came a moment when she felt someone's gaze on her. There was a "man" standing quietly behind the fence. He turned out to be completely naked, completely covered with hair, even his face. Looking at him, she thought:

"Deserter!" (At that time, a wave of stories about the Japanese, discovered on foreign islands since the Second World War and not even suspecting that it was over, had just swept through the press.)

There was no fear. She didn't know that under any extreme conditions a person can't completely grow hair from the feet to the back of the head. Everything was ruined by a car purring nearby. The "man" squinted his eyes in that direction — and Alice Nikolaevna immediately felt an incredible fear. She saw that he had no proteins at all. This part of the eye was scarlet-scarlet. A thought immediately flashed through my mind:

"Not a man- a beast!"

Taking advantage of the fact that he was distracted, she turned with difficulty on stiff legs. And, already running away, she looked back to make sure once again that she had not dreamed of "him". He obviously also immediately came up with the idea of escaping. She saw his figure in profile, slightly bent. His arms hung below his knees.

Running into the ward, she called all the staff. Seeing her incredible agitation, worried by the words repeated all the time:

"He can come here and scare the kids!" - everyone headed to the scene.

Behind the path, on a well-loosened patch of corn, there were clear traces of large bare human feet. Everyone understood the reality of what had happened:

"We believe you, Alice, but try to forget!"

Here, in the same autumn, a student of the same school, being on a forbidden fishing trip in rainy weather (the reservoir is protected as a source of drinking water), looked back at the barely perceptible sounds of someone moving behind him. And I saw a "man" bouncing to the beat of a drop. Without clothes, covered from head to toe with hair.

And the servant of the reservoir at night heard and felt how someone approached him from behind, on two limbs, and breathed into the back of his neck. He didn't give in to fright. The creature stood for a while and went into the reeds. Residents of the nearest village also met a humanoid...