Portals on Earth - old press Review 

In the northwestern part of the Aral Sea is the island of
Barsakelmes, which means "if you go - you won't return",
which has always been notorious among the local population.
The main mystery of this island is the inexplicable
disappearances of people, which were noted here until the
90s of the last century. In addition, there are cases when
mysterious strangers from other eras and unknown cultures
appeared on the island. So in 1934, an employee of the local
department of the NKVD detained a man who was trying to
sail from the island in a local fisherman's boat. During
interrogation, the Japanese claimed that he was born in 1718.
He said that with a caravan of ships followed to one of the
islands, but the ship got into a storm and crashed on the rocks.
The waves threw him ashore, where he was arrested in the
USSR. In 1978, a pilot flying an AN-24 aircraft with
geologists on board, breaking through a zone of strong clouds
instead of taiga, saw under him a bright green savannah with
giant animals grazing on it. A couple of minutes later, the
plane burst into a strong thunderstorm, after which again flew
over the familiar Soviet taiga.
On the road leading to medieval Dresden, there was a large
boulder with a huge hole in the middle. It looked like a stone
gate. The Dresden Chronicles assert that any traveler who
intended to pass through the "hellish stone" disappeared
without a trace. In 1546, by decision of the city magistrate,
a huge pit was dug next to the stone, into which it was piled,
covered with earth. However, if you believe the rumors, and
after that, travelers disappeared at the site of the mysterious
boulder. In the Sicilian chronicles of 1753, it is mentioned
that in the town of Tacona, in the courtyard of an abandoned
castle, in front of numerous witnesses, the artisan Alberto
Gordoni literally disappeared into thin air. Exactly 29 years
later, he appeared in the same place. Surprised by the
questioning of people who knew him, the artisan claimed that
he was in a white tunnel with a bright light in front and that
he moved towards this light. In the old monastery of the small
German town of Lunen, there is a document dated to the end
of the 17th century, which mentions a certain alchemist named
Albrecht, who allegedly managed to visit the times of the great
Frederick Barbarossa with the help of the philosopher's stone
and then compiled a detailed treatise about that era.
In the first half of the 20th century in Stalingrad, which was
called Tsaritsyn before the revolution, there were legends
about the rich merchant Evgraf Goldobin, who lived in a large
mansion. It was built at the end of the 19th century on the site
of an old cemetery. It was rumored that Goldobin was
conducting experiments aimed at finding a time portal. It is
interesting that the merchant sometimes showed old things to
his acquaintances, about the origin of which he preferred to
remain silent. When the Bolsheviks seized power in Tsaritsyn
during the Civil War, Goldobin, along with his family and family
jewels, disappeared without a trace. They said that he left along
a secret underground passage at another time. And in his
mansion in 1918 the provincial Cheka was located. Most often,
portals open under the influence of powerful forces of nature -
earthquakes, thunderstorms, tsunamis, storms. One of the first
written records of such a phenomenon dates back to the 12th
century and is contained in the Pantheon manuscript. It was
compiled by the Italian bishop Gottfried Viterbsky. In his work,
the priest describes the story of the monks of the Abbey of
Saint-Mathieu, who, heading on a ship in the direction of
the so-called Pillars of Hercules, fell into a terrible storm. 
After the storm was over, the crew and passengers saw that
their ship was nailed to an island. A fortress of pure gold towered
on it, and all the pavements were lined with gold slabs. Towards
evening, the sailors-monks met two elders, who, having heard the
guests' story about their misadventures, ordered them to
immediately go back, since one day spent on the island was equal
to three hundred years on Earth. The monks immediately boarded
the ship and set off home with a favorable wind.
A number of modern physicists adhere to the hypothesis that the
reason for the amazing displacements in time, in all likelihood,
is not yet fully understood magnetic radiation, the sources of
which are large objects in space. It is possible that the
unprecedented increase in the magnetic activity of the Sun and
anomalous fluctuations in the Earth's magnetic field predicted
in the coming years may lead to the fact that the "gates of time"
will increasingly open before amazed eyewitnesses.