The Watcher in the Exclusion Zone

Chernobyl liquidators saw things they remained silent about for years. In the exclusion

zone, instruments failed in the same places again and again. Luminous objects

hovered above reactor 4, pulsing with a strange green light. Shadows moved against

the direction of the light source, as if alive. One worker entered a contaminated room

and saw a human silhouette standing with its back turned. When he called out, the figure turned

around. There was no face, only emptiness. The instruments went off the scale.

The lights went out. When they found him, he was sitting in

a corner repeating one word, "Watching." These cases were recorded in classified