Do psychics help solve crimes. The use of psychics in solving crimes. Forensic psychiatrist, head of the Center for Legal and Psychological Assistance in Extreme Situations Mikhail Vinogradov

It would not be an exaggeration to say that for fans of the "Battle of Psychics" one of the most authoritative figures associated with the show is Mikhail Vinogradov. If disputes about the participants in the battles do not subside both regarding the level of their abilities, and regarding their moral and other characteristics, then at the mention of Vinogradov, the disputes subside and everyone says in unison - oh, yes, this is a serious man.

Mikhail recently gave an interesting interview to the mors.sibnet.ru portal, in which questions were raised about the honesty of trials in battle, the fairness of prices for practicing psychics, as well as the Lombroso method, the philosophical categories of good and evil, and much more. We will give the interview in full, accompanying the most interesting points with our comments in italics.

- Mikhail Viktorovich, you are familiar to a wide audience as an expert on the "Battle of Psychics" program on TNT. Now filming another season. Did you manage to form an opinion about the new members?

Not yet. I didn't talk to anyone personally. For the first test, people with paranormal abilities were gathered in the theater hall. There were more than 1500 thousand of them. Who will you define here? Let's see who shows up next.

- More than one and a half thousand people? Are there really so many gifted people in Russia?

There are as many gifted people in Russia as in the whole world. In the interests of special services on real cases, we have 19 people working in Japan - 21, in the USA - 20.

(The logic here is not entirely clear, because the population of the United States is twice the population of Russia)

- The number is about the same ... Strange.

Nothing strange. So much is given by nature itself. Someone comes, someone leaves. Various specialists work in my Center for Legal and Psychological Assistance, but psychics still form the core. Among them are people known throughout the country, including as winners, finalists and participants in the "Battle of Psychics", and young talented talents, whose names are only gaining fame. I recruit employees personally, taking into account not only the professional, but also the human qualities of each candidate.

- You began to deal with the topic of psychics in those years when it was not customary to talk about it.

In fact, Stalin called psychics to serve in the Kremlin. It was in the 30s of the last century. And six months later, Hitler created the same special unit. Until now, I see this (by the way, operating!) Laboratory from the window of my office.

- How many psychics really work with you?

The needs of the FSB, the police, the Investigative Committee, the prosecutor's office are now served by 4 experienced psychics and two successfully probationers. Some we hire, others we leave. The main reason for leaving is money. The center has clear tariffs for all services, and they cannot be overstated.

- That is, the figures for 50-70 thousand rubles for a consultation are wildness?

Certainly! At the request of law enforcement agencies, we generally work for free. If the applicants do not require a personal reception, the same money is not taken. In general, prices vary from 4 to 10 thousand rubles, half of which goes to pay for the services of a psychic, and half for rent, utilities, and so on. The highest rates for finding a person. And if psychics do not agree with such a salary and try to cash in on someone else's grief, we say goodbye to them.

(Yes! 70 thousand is savagery, but 10 thousand is a completely different matter, no profit on someone else's grief)

- Speaking of disappearances. In May, Tomsk discussed the gruesome story of the murder of Anna Apatchenko. Volunteers and well-known psychics searched for her for a month. In particular, Dmitry Volkhov and Anika came. And in the end, the remains were discovered only when the water subsided. Here's your paranormal powers...

For each such disappearance, we give a detailed certificate addressed to the chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia, Alexander Bastrykin. They also knew about this. But we can always help only when either relatives or police officers turn to us. Anika and Dmitry are good psychics, they sincerely wanted to help. But they are not search engines. And you can't blame them for bad results. It's like going to the optometrist with a bad heart and then complaining that this doctor didn't help. When choosing a psychic, be sure to consider its specifics.

(Good psychics, but did not know that they were not search engines? The most interesting thing is that almost all psychics deny search specialization. The question is why? And the answer is very simple: because the search results are too easy to check - either found or not. Removing damage and adjusting the biofield is much calmer, you can always convince the client that the work has been done with high quality)

"In fact, such people do not want to die..."

- Let's move on from psychics to psychos. Aggressive people became active in Siberia this summer. There are many cases of mental breakdowns - for example, naked men and women run around Novosibirsk, people cut their veins right in minibuses. It is said to be related to the heat. But when the heat subsided, this "madhouse" did not stop.

Without clothes, people with an unstable psyche run because of the overexcitation that occurs due to unstable weather: sometimes hot, sometimes cool. We raise the level of hormones, and pulls on various sexual experiments. The tendency to nudity is called exhibitionism. In the world there are beaches, vacation spots and even hotels for such people. Their behavior is fueled by the reaction and interest of the public, because the main task of such people is to attract attention. By the way, the opening of the veins in the route transport is also nothing but demonstrative behavior, blackmail. In fact, these people do not want to die.

- Do you support the idea of ​​chemical castration for pedophiles?

I am reserved about chemical castration, but I advocate at least some effective effective in the fight against pedophiles. But all this must be done under the strict control of the police.

(What exactly, Mikhail told in another interview, where it turned out that he is a supporter of the death penalty for pedophiles)

- Does the Lombroso method have a future? Now his knowledge is being put into practice?

Why the future? His methods are actively used in the present. Everything that he wrote in his writings, we observe constantly. The only thing that Lambroso could not take into account was the modern social orientation, when social factors are planted on pure biology. For example, a person with external signs of a Neanderthal may first become a bouncer in a club, then a boxer, and later a deputy. But its main feature is a certain aggressiveness, when you want to attack and fight, it will not go anywhere.

(Thank God, Lombroso's methods are not and cannot be used by the police. What Mikhail is talking about here is known only to him. Although, perhaps, Valuev simply does not like)

Evil always triumphs over good

- In the last seasons of the "Battle of Psychics" phenomenal results in literally all areas of work were shown only by "black magicians": Natalya Banteeva, Elena Yasevich, Elena Golunova. Does it mean that evil triumphs over good?

Evil always wins over good. However, if you sum up the energy of good and evil, good will outweigh. Each of us is a transmitting device and carries a certain energy. If you direct this energy to another person, it can be harmful. By the way, Elena Golunova is not a search engine.

(It turns out that the cute innocent healer Volodya Muranov is also evil?)

But she showed results! Having made contact with the dead, she found a treasure hidden in the lake.

Don't forget that she found him under the cameras, as part of a popular TV show...

(We have arrived. At the battle, the tests are staged, one of the experts of the program openly declares this)

- Good! Agree. Here you can adjust the result. But there are real cases in which fraud is impossible. Why, for example, was it not to instruct psychics to search for the An-2 aircraft that disappeared a year ago?

I can’t say about the TV show, but our psychics worked on this case. They indicated the exact coordinates of the location of the crashed plane, sent them to the investigating authorities, they were supposed to go to the place, but then the hunters found the plane (by the way, at the place where we indicated), and the trip was canceled.

(And did it ever happen that the indicated coordinates could be checked before someone found the object?)

- The plane was looking for a year! Why was it impossible to organize psychics earlier?

We can work only at the request of the Ministry of Internal Affairs or the Investigative Committee. It happens that they do not apply immediately or use our data for their own purposes. For example, once the mother of a missing girl came to the Center. She said that her daughter left by car and disappeared. Psychics looked at the situation, briefly outlined it in an official letter, which, in order to avoid lynching, was asked to be transferred to the police. The head of the department shook his head, saying: "Oh, these psychics always come up with something" and sent the unfortunate woman home. Then he called the operatives and ordered to examine all the objects named by psychics. The girl's body was found. The case was solved, but the result seemed to be not from us, but from the police.

(It is clear that there can be at least a thousand such cases. Much more interesting would be just one in which the police would admit that psychics solved the case)

- It turns out that the police and psychics cannot work together. Officials don't trust you?

Why? We have a lot of thanks from police officers from all over the world (USA, Canada, United Arab Emirates, Estonia, etc.). There are letters signed by Alexander Bastrykin and his deputies. Work is ongoing. Recently, once again, an investigator from Primorye flew to us for clarifications on the investigation of a high-profile criminal case.

(These thank you letters look something like this: "Thank you for your research in the field of unconventional methods of solving crimes")

- Aren't psychics afraid of reprisals from the criminal world for their truth?

All letters with expert opinions are signed by me personally, without specifying who specifically investigated the case. And if the work is carried out directly (as with an investigator from Primorye), we ask him not to disclose information about assistants.

(And I myself walk around without security and I’m not afraid of anyone, because I know the non-contact technique of hand-to-hand combat. Or I simply didn’t solve a single case and didn’t make enemies)

- But if you constantly investigate crimes and see someone's suffering, you can go crazy. Do you help your employees as a psychotherapist?

Certainly! (smiles). Psychics have a special schedule. Usually they work every other day and try to disconnect from the situation as much as possible. And everyone leads their own direction. For example, the winner of the 8th "Battle of Psychics" Vladimir Muranov is a good healer, but when he once tried to take part in the search for a person, he could not recover for a week. And vice versa. Irik Sadykov (by the way, also a participant in the "Battle of...") supervised the search for a young guy for two days. He got in touch from home by phone and virtually followed the trail of the lost. The guy was found 20 kilometers from the place of disappearance.

(This seems to be true - Irik was looking for, but other people found it. And Muranov is also not a search engine, why shouldn’t search engines give such a job? Apparently, search engines simply did not come into battle. As, however, other psychics, but more obvious all this is in the field of search)

- Mikhail Viktorovich, be honest. Have you contacted psychics?

Never. I know everything myself (smiles).

- In "Battle..." you mercilessly criticize psychics, in life you part with them without pity. Are you afraid of revenge? Suddenly they will cause damage.

Tried. But there is such a thing as a boomerang. Everything that you send out from yourself, then comes back to you. I have good defense. And these are not amulets or amulets, but a common rule. If you help other people and do it sincerely, you are protected. As soon as you try to profit, you cross a certain line and immediately become defenseless.

(Recall, if anyone has forgotten, the prices of the Vinogradov center are from 4 to 10 thousand per visit)

Not a TV show, not an invented plot from a movie: the story that took place in Krasnoyarsk is absolutely real. Psychics helped solve the murder, and the killers were put in jail. The uniqueness of the story is also in the fact that the role of people with superpowers was confirmed in an exclusive interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda in the Sledkom.

Successful lawyer

Only an hour drive from Krasnoyarsk, but like another planet, the small town of Divnogorsk. "Wooden" streets, among which rise rare high-rise buildings. The doors are wide open. And people easily go out into the street in slippers, as in another room. An ordinary family lives here: Viktor Vasilchenko (he works as a security guard at the plant) and his wife Lyudmila. And also psychic Natalya Sannikova, who helped find the killers of their son, Alexander Samoilov *.

...At 27, Alexander Samoilov was a successful lawyer. Competent, tenacious, took on hopeless cases, and ... won. Things went uphill: he got married, had a son. To earn more, he became a realtor. He was spinning, but he did not forget his own. Constantly visited Divnogorsk. But not with his mother - with his stepfather and his new wife Lyudmila.

I raised him from a year and a half, as my own. When he married his mother Elena, the 63-year-old man awkwardly wets his eyes. - Mathematician, chess player, clever. I haven't spoken to my mother in two years. He took care of all his notebooks, from grade 1 to the end of the institute. And Elena threw them away, in the basement they sneezed from dampness. Sasha dreamed of showing them to his children, so he was offended. As a sin, family life also did not work out. Divorced his wife. He was in touch with us every day. And suddenly Sasha disappeared - no call, no sms, nothing. As it was not...

Helped everyone

Seeing how her husband was being harassed, Lyudmila advised: “Vitya, would you go to Natalya Andreevna?” The whole city went to this woman with their troubles. The psychic helped everyone she could.

How did I come to this, - Natalia explained. - I had big losses: in one year my mother died, followed by my father, then my daughter. Later, I was diagnosed with a massive brain tumor. And I turned to healers for help. Six months later, the doctors said: you don’t have any tumor, we were wrong! And I decided I needed to get trained. Started at 53, studied for 5 years. People went...

Viktor Vasilchenko also somehow knocked on a neighbor's door: "Natalya Andreevna, would you like to see what happened to your son?" I sat down, tuned in, looked. And then - like a butt on the head: "Go to the police, he is dead!".

One of the few children's photos of Sasha, left by his stepfather A photo: from the family archive

Killed best friend

After meeting with the "seeing" there was no doubt, Victor rushed to the police. At first, they laughed at him there: “The guy is young, he went on a spree, he will return. Who did you believe? For the sake of money, they will tell you this."

She didn’t take a penny from me,” Viktor Ivanovich argued. Help, we need to find it!

We checked a variety of versions, ”recalls Ivan Soprun, head of the second investigative department of the first department for the investigation of especially important cases. - Made telephone detailing. And the first suspects appeared in the case - Andrei Zharov and Vladimir Bronnikov. Samoilov was the last to call them.

Zharov was taken at home, Bronnikov - in Moscow. They didn't budge.

Sentenced in correspondence

During interrogations, a friend of the missing Alexander, Vladimir Bronnikov, explained: he knew that Samoilov had money, says Ivan Soprun. - Saved up on legal cases. Then he suggested to his friend, Zharov, to kill Samoilov, take everything (money, car) and divide it into two.

Zharov is an orphan: there is no family, he was interrupted by odd jobs. Before that, there had been no crime behind them, but here ... They shook hands, sketched out a plan. Bronnikov convinced Samoilov to go with him to another city, allegedly to earn extra money by reselling timber. On the way, a representative of the seller was taken away - Zharov played his role.

We left in the evening, in the dark. Soon Sasha asked to change him at the wheel, he stretched himself in the back seat, and immediately fell asleep.

...Then, having slowed down, the friends took up the phones. They stuffed messages, showed each other on the screens and erased them. They were terribly afraid to wake up Samoilov - he had an air pistol with him.

“Come on, we can’t wait any longer,” Bronnikov insisted. “I would have tried it myself first!” - snarled accomplice. Then Zharov pulled out a hammer - he kept it under his jacket from Krasnoyarsk itself.

Hidden in a rock over the Yenisei

After the first blow, the guy jumped: “What are you doing?” The psychic said even before the killers were interrogated. - And they killed him - sleepy.

Surprisingly: when Bronnikov and Zharov testified, everything came together, almost verbatim.

In a rocky place near the river along the highway, where the Yenisei makes a sharp turn, they found a deep crevice. They put a corpse there and threw stones at it.

They raked money out of Samoilov's bag - 305 thousand. Taking most of the money, Bronnikov fled to Moscow. And Zharov got the car. It quickly found a buyer.

Body in an ice sarcophagus

In conversations with the investigator, the suspects laid out everything, but they themselves could not find the place where Sasha was “buried”. And this is just one of the most important evidence, without which it is impossible to prove guilt in court.

Well, somewhere around here it seems, - they hesitated, pointing to a section of several hundred meters. - Everything was covered with snow, you won’t remember!

And here again came to the aid of a psychic Natalya Sannikova.

I immediately said: you will not find your son soon, when the ice melts, she explains. - Now you can not look, it's useless. I got a picture: some mountains, a tree on a hillock. Beneath him is a body, squeezed by stones, in ice.

“You will not find it soon,” Viktor Ivanovich did not want to put up with this. Together with his wife, he personally traveled around familiar rivers - Manu, Yenisei, Kacha, looking for a similar place. Nothing!

The “seeing one” herself could not go in search. The years are not the same, she was 60. She suggested a friend of a psychic - Elena. She just turned 25. A young, productive girl simply amazed the investigators.

Only she was able to point out the place where the criminals hid the corpse, Ivan Soprun explains.

Once in a roughly indicated place, she confidently said where to go. Never made a mistake.

Alas: the rocks are too icy. It was impossible to get to the crevice where the body lay.

The psychic indicated the exact coordinates, and the SOBR group blew up a block of ice with a TNT charge. But it has not yet been possible to remove it all, Sasha remained in the ice sarcophagus.

Every word came true

He was found in May, when everything melted, in the very place that the psychics described. The fisherman was fishing there and suddenly noticed: between the rock and the gorge there was a mound of stones. And from there sticks out the nose and forehead. A few hours later, the relatives identified the body - it was Alexander Samoilov.

The court sentenced Bronnikov to 12 years in a strict regime colony, Zharov to 11. The first was the instigator, and he beat more. This is a friend!

When all the traditional methods and possibilities of the investigation have been exhausted, we turn to non-traditional ones, Ivan Soprun sums up. – This time the psychics helped us a lot. We admit: these people were extremely effective!

P. S. As for psychics, Natalya Andreevna no longer practices. He says it's time to rest. Lena also retired. She got married and dedicated herself to her family. Now she works as a teacher and brings up children. It is impossible to combine the life of a psychic with ordinary female happiness, her relatives explained to us. So Elena made her choice.

Since the end of the twentieth century. in the Russian literature on forensic science and operational-search activities, calls to use the abilities of psychics to detect and investigate crimes began to appear more and more often. Before evaluating these sources in terms of "forensic extrasensory perception", it is necessary to define the relevant concepts. Extrasensory (supersensory) perception is now commonly called telepathy and clairvoyance. World-class specialist in the field of parapsychology, Professor C. Hanzel gives the following definitions:

1. Telepathy - the perception by one person of the thoughts of another person without any transmission through sensory channels.

2. Clairvoyance - information about any object or event obtained without the participation of the senses.

3. Proscopia - recognition of the future thoughts of another person (proscopic telepathy) or future events (proscopic clairvoyance). According to C. Hanzel, telepathy is a new name for reading thoughts, clairvoyance for second sight, proscopia for divination or prophecy. Citing a lot of facts in his research, C. Hanzel skeptically remarks: "Although a lot of time, effort and money have been spent, not a single acceptable evidence of the real existence of extrasensory perception has yet been received." A similar conclusion follows from the analysis of the works of contemporary parapsychologists in various countries. In the practice of specialists in Soviet criminology and operational-search activities (the system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs), the appearance of an officially permitted interest in the help of psychics dates back to the end of the 80s of the last century. A working group created on behalf of the leadership of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs, which studied the possibilities of using non-traditional means and methods in the fight against crime, noted that “on the ground such work is carried out at your own peril and risk, unsystematic, its results are not documented, their analysis and generalization are absent. Moreover, employees are often afraid of publicizing the facts of turning to such methods and methods of obtaining the information necessary for the case, carefully hiding its sources. Not without reason, a laudatory article in the newspaper Trud, dedicated to clairvoyants helping the police, began with an intriguing introduction: “To reveal the real names of these people means to put them at risk: there will be hunters to silence them. After all, they put their rare gift of clairvoyance at the service of the dangerous, but necessary craft of criminal investigation ... ". Persistent propaganda in the media of extrasensory abilities of a person (mainly clairvoyance) to resolve emerging criminal situations led to the fact that in 1993 the Main Directorate of Criminal Investigation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation sent requests to all subordinate units of the subjects of the Federation with a proposal to report specific positive examples attracting psychics to solve crimes. Answers were received from 73 regions. “The generalization of the results obtained showed that in 45 regions of Russia, police officers turned to psychics to obtain information of an operational nature (systematically in 20 regions). In addition, in 8 regions, relatives of the victims turned to psychics to restore the picture of incidents in which their loved ones went missing, with subsequent informing law enforcement agencies about this. The author of the cited publication, P. Skorchenko, used the information given in the report of A.A. Lazebny at a scientific-practical seminar held in Moscow on May 25-26, 1994. The speaker, exploring "practical attempts to apply parapsychological methods for their use in the fight against crime", argued that with the help of psychics in the Stavropol Territory "in 1991 there were revealed two murders and theft of funds from the collective farm cash desk. In the Sverdlovsk region, with the help of psychic M in 1993, 16 crimes were solved. In the Smolensk region, psychic R correctly indicated the place where the dismembered corpse was hidden.

If one scrupulously checks these optimistic statements, then the picture of true events looks quite different. The above-mentioned publication by P. Skorchenko was, for example, in the course of a journalistic investigation sent to the Central Internal Affairs Directorate and the prosecutor's office of the Stavropol Territory, from where the editors of the weekly "Native Land" received official answers that psychics in the Stavropol Territory did not solve any crimes. The author of these lines also received a written response from the prosecutor of the Stavropol Territory that "there were no facts of the help of psychics in the disclosure and investigation of crimes in the Stavropol Territory."

According to the episode named above in the report of A.A. Lazebnoe help psychic R. in the search for a dismembered corpse (Smolensk region), I received a response from the head of the CID of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Smolensk region: “During the operational-search activities in the Glinkovsky district of the Smolensk region, a criminal was detained on suspicion of committing a murder, who at the initial stage denied his involvement to this act. The body of the person allegedly killed by him was not found at that time. When leaving for Moscow for a meeting, the employees of the Glinkovsky District Department of Internal Affairs, on their own initiative, turned to a woman with extrasensory abilities, who explained to them only that the corpse was located on the territory of the district and covered with grass. However, even before receiving this information, in the Glinkovsky District Department of Internal Affairs, the detained citizen confessed to the murder and dismemberment of a man, whose remains he then hid in a haystack, where they were found.

As follows from the foregoing, in fact, no help was provided by the psychic for this crime, and the information she gave was only of a general nature and could not contribute to the unambiguous discovery of the corpse.

Meanwhile, in special publications of the All-Russian Research Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, this case continues to be presented as unambiguously effective: “The Internal Affairs Directorate of the Smolensk Region informed that, in connection with the disappearance of a resident of the city of Smolensk, a well-known Moscow psychic R. was involved in the search, which correctly indicated the place where the dismembered corpse of the missing woman was hidden.” Here, as we see, there is a manipulation of information, a juggling of facts in the right direction, but all this is very far from the principles of scientific research.

Now let's return to the above-mentioned psychic M., who miraculously "revealed" as many as 16 crimes in the city of Yekaterinburg. If we take this message for granted, then we are talking about a global phenomenon. Here is what an employee of the All-Russian Research Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, Professor L.P. Grimak: “... In February 1993, one of the psychics (by the way, a senior police sergeant) managed to solve 16 crimes in a row. He came to the Yekaterinburg pre-trial detention center, and people under investigation were called to him. He looked at everyone and almost immediately began to describe the circumstances of the crime. These were mostly burglaries - and he described in detail the situation and the interior of the robbed houses. This case is documented... But when we brought the psychic to Moscow three months later to involve him in solving more intricate crimes, he could no longer do anything. Apparently, from time to time he fell into some borderline states. It was no longer possible to repeat the success - moreover, he went crazy ... ".

At the same time as this interview was given, L.P. Grimak, in another source, mentions M.'s psychic activities, which, in fact, did not take place in a pre-trial detention center, but in an unnamed police department in Yekaterinburg. At the same time, he quotes "a certificate from the deputy head of one of the district departments of Yekaterinburg dated June 9, 1993, signed by three more employees of the same department." This information is published in a special edition with a tiny circulation (150 copies), and there is almost no specific information that is so necessary for researchers of "forensic parapsychology". Here is what is reported about the actions of M.: “From February 1 to February 28, 1993, in ... the police department of Yekaterinburg, working interaction was carried out with ... art. militia sergeant M., possessing extraordinary properties of the psyche. The information that he reported contributed to the disclosure of 16 crimes (the numbers of criminal cases are listed. - N.K.) on burglaries and robbery.

... Reported by M., very important for the cases, the information was accurate, but the method of obtaining them cannot be explained from the standpoint of generally recognized physical laws. So, he was able to reproduce the real course of the conversation of the accused, describe in detail the situation in the apartment, which he had never been to, however, as well as in the city where it is located (in Yekaterinburg). He also correctly indicated the transport used by the criminals, their route, stops, the persons they met, the content of their conversations, appearance, etc.” .

Much here is bewildering - the strange concealment of the name of the police department (such a fantastic positive experience deserves propaganda, not classification), the absence of names and positions of the persons who signed this sensational document; unwillingness to mention the numbers of criminal cases on which M. worked (this deprives researchers of the opportunity to verify the accuracy of the information reported). The erudition of the compilers of the certificate, who are versed in “generally recognized physical laws”, is admirable, but somewhat confusing - how did they establish that M. “could reproduce the real course of conversations” of the criminals that they had before they were caught ?!

To clarify the complex of questions that had arisen, I had to contact the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Perm Region and the OMON at the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Perm Region. It turned out that in February 1993, during the operation "Signal", employees of the Perm OMON were seconded to Yekaterinburg, among whom was police sergeant Viktor Mikhailovich M., born in 1960. His tasks included escorting arrested persons from the pre-trial detention center to the police department. Being present at the interrogations of the arrested, conducted by operatives of the Oktyabrsky District Department of Internal Affairs of Yekaterinburg, Sergeant M. stated that he could “read the minds” of the detainees and “see the picture” of the crimes committed. Employees of the Oktyabrsky District Department of Internal Affairs allowed M. to participate in the interrogations of the arrested, ask them questions and correct their testimony, urging them to tell the truth about all the crimes committed. Upon his return from this business trip, M., at the initiative of his leadership, was sent to the medical commission, as he began to show “signs of an acute mental disorder. He was hospitalized and then dismissed from the internal affairs bodies due to illness (schizophrenia).

I established contact with M., who, after his dismissal, has a second disability group. Here is how he describes his assistance to the employees of the Oktyabrsky District Department of Internal Affairs: “In Yekaterinburg, I put some people into hypnosis, received information ... The operative was talking, I sat behind the suspect from behind and also joined the conversation. I closed my eyes, tried to tune in to the object, and mentally drew up a picture of what had happened ... At the moment when I was working, there was no photography or recording on a tape recorder ... ".

Textbooks and manuals on psychiatry indicate that people suffering from schizophrenia often believe that they have the ability to hypnotize people, read their minds, and predict the future. At the same time, such patients behave confidently (with schizophrenia, intelligence is preserved), they can influence others. No wonder prof. L.P. Grimak, the link to which is given above, believed that M. "fell into some borderline states." But the success of Sergeant M. here can be explained by quite prosaic reasons: there were no lawyers at these interrogations, hence there was no proper control over the actions of operatives. And M. describes the situation of such cross-examination as follows: “They sat people (the arrested. - N.K.) straight, legs - how comfortable it is to sit, hands - on their knees. In such a position, it is more difficult to lie, that is, they deprived the interrogated person of non-verbal communication (gestures) ... ".

M. does not say how the militia officers achieved obedience from the arrested, who were forced to take such a position in which the accused, sitting motionless, had to answer the questions of several (!) operational officers. At the same time, M. himself was out of sight of the interviewee (behind his back), from where he asked his questions. But any experienced operative will confirm that at the initial stage of work with arrested persons, it is precisely such a “team method” of interrogation that, as a rule, gives effective results, without any “supersensory perception”. I will not comment on the legality of such events.

Obviously, after it became known that "parapsychological" surveys in the Oktyabrsky District Department of Internal Affairs were conducted by a person suffering from schizophrenia, the militiamen of the Sverdlovsk region try not to mention these fantastic episodes. To my request, the head of the Oktyabrsky District Department of Internal Affairs of Yekaterinburg replied: “According to your request for information about the crimes solved with psychic help in the Oktyabrsky District Department of Internal Affairs in 1993, we inform you that we do not have this information, there are no materials on these facts in the District Department of Internal Affairs. The employees of the police department who worked during the specified period of time do not have the information you are interested in.” It is interesting to note that even enthusiastic researchers themselves are forced to admit the attraction of persons with mental anomalies to proclaim themselves psychics. At a seminar at the Institute of Psychology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, where the topic “Psychology and Psychophysiology of Extrasensory Phenomena” was discussed, the reports of scientists contained observations that discredited the idea of ​​supersensory perception. So, V.M. Zvonnikov reported that "many individuals with psychic abilities have character accentuations and psychopathological symptoms." L.G. Wild stated that "at the heart of the disclosure of the ability to extrasensory perception are such qualities as internal dissatisfaction, a pronounced desire for self-realization, a tendency to mystification, deviations in the emotional sphere." Report by A.B. Strelchenko "Features of interhemispheric relationships in persons with extrasensory abilities" contained "the results of a neuropsychological study of patients with various brain disorders (consequences of traumatic brain injuries, neuroinfection, etc.)" . And such a well-known researcher in the history of parapsychology as V.E. Lvov, back in the 70s of the last century, summarized: "... Parapsychic research is outside of science, is entirely in the field of magic, focus, or pathological delirium of mentally ill people ...".

A group of Moscow psychologists in the mid-90s of the last century conducted a survey of 800 people who considered themselves "healers", "psychics". A quarter of them suffered from psychosis or were in a borderline state, 50% were mentally healthy, but 18% of them admitted that they were driven by mercenary or ambitious aspirations. And only one percent of those participating in the study showed a complex of all the necessary qualities. We are talking about the ability to treat people, and not the demonstration of the phenomena of telepathy or clairvoyance, such "phenomena" were not found. No wonder P. Skorchenko pointed out that "psychic healers" cannot act as "psychic detectives".

President of the Moscow Psychotherapeutic Academy M.I. Buyanov claims: "The vast majority of current astrologers, sorcerers, psychics are vicious people, with a mental wormhole, most psychiatrists consider them unhealthy." In another book by M.I. Buyanov speaks about psychics as follows: “Attributing unusual abilities to themselves, playing the simple-minded, they self-aggrandize themselves, attach importance to their empty natures. And those who believe them are ultimately spit in the soul, turn them into their slaves. A scientist with great experience, M.I. Buyanov conducted experiments on well-known "clairvoyants" practicing in Moscow. The object of the study were 56 psychics - and all of them turned out to be insolvent, without the advertised "supernatural abilities". Obviously, this inconsistency of the capital's "psychics" is understood by the leaders of the Moscow police. Here is what the head of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Main Department of Internal Affairs of Moscow reports: “In the practice of the criminal investigation units of the Main Department of Internal Affairs of Moscow, cases of solving crimes with the help of psychics have not been identified.” This statement completely debunks the advertising assurances of psychics, of which there were several thousand in the capital back in 1998. Obviously, no less number of soothsayers earn their living in another metropolis of Russia - St. Petersburg. The head of the CID of the KM of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region officially states: "There are no facts of solving crimes through the UR with the help of psychics in the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region."

This could complete the consideration of the topic “Psychics and the Ministry of Internal Affairs”, returning to the opinion of prof. L.P. Grimak, who worked at the All-Russian Research Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation: “... It turned out to be impossible to put on stream the process of solving crimes with the help of psychics, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs stopped working with them.” The head of the department in which L.P. Grimak, Candidate of Medical Sciences A.I. Skrypnikov said: “If some Sidor Sidorovich is advertised in the press as a specialist in the search for missing persons, then this is pure self-promotion.”

The author of these lines in the period 2003-2005. requests were made to all 89 Internal Affairs Directorates of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation with a request - to provide information on contacts with psychics in the detection and investigation of crimes. Answers were received from 63 regions. It turned out that in 16 regions, employees of operational services, as well as relatives of killed or missing persons, turned to psychics (sorcerers, shamans) for help, but in no case (!) Was information received that would allow them to be successfully used in operational search and investigative activities.

In the period 2004–2005 similar requests were sent by me to a number of states (former republics of the USSR). Director of the Development Department of the Police Department of the Republic of Estonia P. Myannik replied: “We do not use the practice of attracting the help of psychics in the interests of search and preliminary investigation. In 2004, an appeal to a psychic at the initiative of relatives in search of a missing family member did not produce results. The Secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania, S. Lyutkevicius, said: “In the Republic of Lithuania, there were no facts of using the abilities of psychics in solving crimes. According to the media, there are known facts of the use of the abilities of psychics by individuals in the search for missing persons, but we do not know how reliable these facts are.

Of the 14 regional police departments of the Republic of Uzbekistan, answers were received only in 4 regions - there are no examples of positive help from psychics. Similar responses were received from 7 regional police departments of Kyrgyzstan (9 police departments were requested), of which the message of the head of the police department of the police department of the Chui region is of the greatest interest: “For all the facts of unsolved premeditated murders, the relatives of the victims turn to clairvoyants and other persons capable of predicting or guessing. At the same time, the correct answers were not received for any of the unsolved murders.

According to the head of the investigative department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kazakhstan, "the internal affairs bodies of the Republic of Kazakhstan have not yet turned to the help of psychics when solving and investigating crimes." Of the 14 requested regional police departments of Kazakhstan, answers were received from 7 (50%), while employees of the Almaty and Karaganda police departments noted that the information provided by the relatives of the victims (killed or missing persons), received when they contacted healers, was verified by operational methods, but did not find its confirmation.

All regional Internal Affairs Directorates of the Republic of Belarus and the Main Internal Affairs Directorate of Minsk provided answers that they did not have information about the positive help of psychics. In the Republic of Ukraine, responses were received from 14 regional ATCs (all 27 ATCs of the country were requested). In none of these departments is there information about a positive case of psychics helping to search or investigate.

Interesting are the results of the studies presented by British professors R. Weissman and D. West in the article "The participation of psychics in the investigation: an experimental test of possibilities" . They point out that after solving the crime, the wrong predictions of psychics are forgotten, and the correct ones are considered as evidence of unusual abilities. Let's say the psychic said that you need to look for the murder weapon near (or inside) a large body of water. Let us also assume that the prediction was confirmed. In order to determine the statistical reliability, and not the coincidence of the coincidence of the prediction with reality, it is necessary to know how many more criminals “buried” their evidence in places that can be attributed to “large bodies of water” (rivers, lakes, seas), but it is impossible to establish. The authors refer to an experiment conducted in Holland in the 1950s. Throughout the year, four psychics were presented with various objects and photographs, offering to describe the crimes associated with them. In fact, some of these items had nothing to do with the crimes. As a result, "the benefit for the investigation from the information reported by psychics was negligible." In another study, conducted in the late 70s of the last century, 12 psychics participated, each of them was presented with several sealed envelopes with material evidence from 4 crimes (two of them were solved, and two were not solved). Psychics had to describe these crimes. The envelopes were then allowed to be opened and additional impressions of the objects contained within were described. The peculiarity of this study was that neither the psychics nor the experimenters had any prior knowledge of these crimes. Psychic predictions were coded into several categories (committed crime, victim, suspect, etc.) and compared with known information about crimes. The coincidence of the prediction with the actual information was estimated at one point. The results of psychics were disappointing: for example, 21 circumstances were known about the first crime, psychics correctly identified only 4 (average data); for the second crime - 33 and 1.8, respectively. This study was widely publicized by opponents who recommended that law enforcement stop using the services of psychics.

In 1982, the results of another study were published, which included psychics, students, and homicide detectives. In sealed envelopes, the subjects received data on physical evidence for four crimes (two solved and two unsolved). As in the previous experiment, subjects were asked to describe these crimes. The descriptions obtained in the three groups of subjects differed greatly in their completeness and content. The descriptions given by the psychics were about six times longer than the descriptions of the students, in addition, psychics, in comparison with students and detectives, were more confident in the accuracy of the information they reported, and their descriptions were more dramatic. The intergroup comparison also showed that although the psychics gave a greater number of predictions, the accuracy of their predictions did not differ from the other two groups of subjects.

A. Palladin, who studied in the United States the results of appeals to psychics by representatives of various government bodies, documented the failure of the "soothsayers". In particular, he reports: “The local police services have been experimenting with parapsychology for a long time and widely ... If police parapsychologists had any luck, then against their own will: fear of them sometimes plunged criminals into a panic, and on this basis there was even a case of confession ... ".

It should be noted that superstition, the content of post-criminal dreams of violent criminals, does sometimes lead guilty persons to turn themselves in.

Here it is appropriate to cite the conclusion contained in the fundamental study by V.E. Lvova: "... In the s I have a thousand-year history of telepathic and other similar research, from beginning to end - a monotonous history of deceptions and self-deceptions, delusions and hallucinations, fables and fictions aimed at inciting mystical and religious superstitions" . I fully share the opinion of A.L. Protopopova: "The appeal of investigators to clairvoyants has never led to the disclosure of a crime ...". A.M. Larin, who in the past was a well-known Soviet investigator, rightly noted: “Today, there is a collapse in work, a drop in the professional and moral level of employees of the criminal prosecution authorities. The replacement of legal, scientifically based methods of operational-search, investigative, expert work with mystification, quackery, charlatanism, unfortunately, strengthens this trend.

The well-known German criminologist Hans Schneikert, back in 1924, spoke of “forensic psychics” like this: “All these tricks of fortune-tellers and clairvoyants not only do not help the criminal investigation, but discredit the authority of criminal justice and increase hidden crime due to constant fraud and deceit.”

This statement has enduring relevance, and the facts presented allow us to conclude: "... forensic extrasensory perception" is not a branch of science, but is a resuscitation of ancient beliefs that in one form or another have come down to our time from the Stone Age, when shamanism arose - the oldest spiritual system and healing art of mankind, dating back at least 40 thousand years. Numerous researchers emphasize that the distinguishing feature of shamans on all inhabited continents of the Earth is their claims to possess the ability to clairvoyance and reading the thoughts of fellow tribesmen. However, modern graduate lawyers should be critical of the echoes of ancient superstitions and not classify them as "non-traditional methods" of detecting and investigating crimes.

The topic of using "supernatural" (psychic) ​​abilities of a person in the field of forensic science and investigative activities is far from new in the literature on jurisprudence. According to a number of authors, one of these non-traditional areas is parapsychology, which studies the "mysterious" phenomena of the human psyche - telepathy (the perception by one person of the thoughts of another person without the participation of known sense organs), clairvoyance (obtaining information about an object or event by "supersensory" way) etc. . Employees of the Omsk Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation P.G. Marfitsin and O.O. Klimov in a special study on psychics note: “Is it possible to put ‘folk superstitions’ at the service of the law, and if so, how? “This question is asked by employees of the police, the prosecutor’s office, the federal security service, and the court.”

One of these ancient superstitions is shamanism, dating back tens of thousands of years. Shamanism arose in the Paleolithic era and was known to all the peoples of the Earth in the early stages of their history. As shown in the first major generalizing work by V.M. Mikhailovsky "Shamanism (Comparative Ethnographic Essays)" (1892), which was translated into English and is still used by scientists from different countries, for many millennia it was the main, central cult, which included almost all the religious activity of the human collective . The main sign of shamanism is the belief in the need for special intermediaries between the human collective and the spirits, who are allegedly chosen for this purpose and trained by the spirits themselves. The well-known researcher of shamanism V.M. Kulemzin writes: “We are forced to admit that the main convenience of the term“ spirit ”is precisely in the breadth and uncertainty that allow us to cover and simultaneously explain all those phenomena that are in any way connected with the action of supernatural forces” . The duty of intermediary shamans is to serve the spirits and, with their help, protect their fellow tribesmen from troubles. Shamans enter into direct communication with spirits in a state of ecstasy (trance), similar to self-hypnosis.

The literature on shamanism is enormous. Only one bibliographic collection by T.M. Mikhailov and P.P. Good contains information about more than 500 sources. However, we are only interested in the possibility of participation of shamans in law enforcement activities. Some researchers point out that a distinctive feature of shamans on all inhabited continents of the Earth is their assertion that they possess the ability to clairvoyance and read the thoughts of fellow tribesmen, i.e. extrasensory abilities. But the study of serious scientific sources shows that the activity of shamans in finding disappeared people, animals and things, in identifying killers is not due to "supernatural" abilities, but to a good knowledge of the psychology of fellow tribesmen and the use of various types of mantika (fortune-telling), which is typical in archaic human societies, when magic preceded religion. For example, back in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. among the Khanty, a shaman could, before the burial of the deceased, predict the fate of living relatives according to the signs that were on the body of the deceased, and even determine the cause of death.

In the Soviet period, as is known, the struggle against religious beliefs in the USSR led to mass repressions against clergy, among whom were shamans. I made inquiries to the departments of the federal security service of those regions of Russia where the activity of shamans was most clearly manifested earlier. We were interested in the number of repressed ministers of the most ancient cults, as well as documented psychic abilities of the repressed. The responses received contain information about the number of clergy who suffered during the period of the cult of personality, but there is no evidence that they have extrasensory abilities.

So, the head of the department of the FSB of the Russian Federation in the Republic of Buryatia V.F. Sukhorukov reported that there were criminal cases in the archive, “in which 1709 clergymen are involved, including 1708 lamas and 1 shaman. On 1632 persons, decisions were made on the application of penalties, in respect of 59 persons, criminal cases were discontinued, and no legal decision was made on 18 persons. As a result of the review of cases, the rehabilitation of 1 person was denied, 1591 were rehabilitated. In relation to the rest, the cases are being reviewed. Documents confirming that the defendants have unusual mental (psychic) ​​abilities were not found in criminal cases.

V. I. Kondoba, head of the department of the regional department of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation for the Krasnoyarsk Territory, pointed out: “From the available database, 10 people were identified who were unjustifiably convicted during the years of repression, in which the “occupation” section of the questionnaire indicates shaman; and 32 people whose “social status” column indicates a former shaman (at the time of arrest they were listed as hunters or reindeer herders). There is no information regarding the psychic abilities of these people in archival criminal cases.

Head of the Department of the FSB of the Russian Federation for the Republic of Tyva (officially part of the USSR only in 1944) A.S. Dirchin replied: “There is information in the archive of the department that for the period 1920-1950. 18 shamans were repressed in the Tyva Republic. The archive does not have any documentary materials confirming that some of these shamans actually possessed unusual psychic (psychic) ​​abilities.

V.N. Basilov, who has studied a large number of literary sources, convincingly rejects the supernatural reasons for the "forensic" abilities of shamans. He writes: “The state of ecstasy must allow the shaman to focus his attention on those signals of the senses that usually pass by consciousness. Such an explanation makes understandable the seemingly strange ability of shamans to find people and animals lost somewhere far from their homes. This ability of shamans was reported by many authors, but briefly, in passing... This ability of a shaman to find things and recognize thieves amazed both the shaman's fellow tribesmen and outside observers... - some features in the state of another person. For this, apparently, ecstasy is not necessary, but ecstasy helps to focus on sensations.

However, it should be taken into account that such keenness of feelings could have taken place among the shamans of the past, who had undergone the appropriate cult training, adopted the secrets of medicine and rituals from their senior colleagues. Today, after several decades of repressions and militant atheism in Russia, there is no such continuity of shamanic skill for a long time: the secret methods of psychophysiological training have been lost. There is only external bright paraphernalia (a shaman's costume, a tambourine, dance improvisation) that attracts the attention of superstitious and curious people.

Today, for example, in the Republic of Tyva, shamanism is a good business. “During elections, many shamans are happy to take on the role of political technologists. It was in Tuva that symposiums of shamans and shamanologists from all over the world were held twice. A fee-paying school has been opened in Kyzyl for several years now, where future shamans learn the intricacies of their craft.” In the same way, back in the 90s of the last century, a fashionable hobby passed throughout Russia - for a fee, you could get a diploma of a “psychic”. At the same time, fraudulent instructors received money, and gullible and conceited "students" received a document on extrasensory education.

The chief shaman of Tuva is now a former teacher of the Russian and Tuvan languages, a senior researcher at the local history museum of Tuva, Doctor of Historical Sciences M.B. Kenin-Lopsan born in 1925. In response to my inquiry, he said: “After August 26, 1991, democratic freedom began for Tuvan shamans. In 1991, I founded the shamanic society "Dungur" (tambourine), and now I am the life president of the shamans of the Republic of Tyva. I think comments are unnecessary here.

The well-known native of this republic, candidate of philological sciences, deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation K.A. Bicheldey: “I really seriously studied and continue to deal with the issues of Buddhism and shamanism in Tuva. I am not aware of a single reliable case when a psychic shaman would help the investigating authorities to solve any crimes. On the contrary, I have personal experience. When one of the relatives went missing, the shamans assured my relatives for a long time that he was alive, healthy, and soon either he would come himself, or you yourself would find him in good health, but they have not found him for 5 years now.

First Vice-President of the Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East of the Russian Federation, editor-in-chief of the almanac "The World of Indigenous Peoples - the Living Arctic" P.V. Sulyandziga informed the author that "he has no information about cases when the shamans of the North, with the help of psychic abilities, would help solve crimes" .

me in the period 2003–2004. requests were made to the heads of the prosecution and internal affairs bodies of those subjects of the Russian Federation where shamanism had been cultivated for a long time (Republics: Sakha-Yakutia, Buryatia, Altai, Kalmykia, Komi, Tyva, Khakassia; autonomous districts: Aginsky Buryat, Ust-Ordynsky Buryat, Komi - Permyatsky, Koryaksky, Nenets, Khanty-Mansiysk, Chukotsky, Evenki; regions: Krasnoyarsk, Primorsky, Khabarovsk; regions: Arkhangelsk, Irkutsk, Kamchatka, Magadan, Chita). The responses received showed that law enforcement agencies in these regions generally did not resort to the psychic help of shamans, and when such treatment took place, there were no positive results.

From the answer of the head of the forensic center under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Komi A.V. Zubkova: “Psychic shamans were used on the initiative of the victims in the search for the missing, however, these cases were not officially registered and did not give positive results.”

Deputy Head of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug V.N. Ryapolov replied: “In police practice on the territory of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) and in a number of other regions, there were cases of requests for assistance in solving crimes and establishing the whereabouts of missing persons from psychics (shamans). As a rule, such appeals are initiated by the victims themselves or their relatives. There is no reliable information about obtaining positive results in the disclosure and investigation of crimes in the process of carrying out such activities.

Head of the Investigation Department of the Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) A.M. Efimov said: “There are no precedents in the investigative practice of law enforcement agencies of the Republic for the procedural registration of the participation of shamans (psychics) in the production of investigative actions. At the same time, from an interview with a number of prosecutors and investigators, it follows that in some criminal cases of the disappearance of citizens, according to representatives of the injured party, they really turned to people who consider themselves “shamans” for help. They brought the information obtained in this case to the employees of the criminal investigation department or investigators. However, no positive results were obtained during its verification.”