Every day, thousands of people go down the subway. Today, this type of transport is the most convenient in order to get to work, to study, to visit, to the library or on a date. And it doesn’t occur to any of the passengers that he might expect an unusual meeting with rats in the subway.
Bloodthirsty Mutants Eating People
It was such rumors that circulated around Moscow in Soviet times. They said that huge rats in the subway live in abandoned tunnels. At night, these monsters become completely uncontrollable. Giant rodents attack the yawning late passengers and workers, and attack them, sparing no one.
One of the most popular tales of the Soviet era said that bloodthirsty mutant rats about a meter long roamed the abandoned tunnels of the Moscow metro (and at night - and all). Nobody saw the living giant rodents, but the tipsy citizens, who risked moving further than the terminal station, were very afraid of meeting them.
Even newspapers wrote about how mutant rats in the subway are rampaging. The photo, however, was not attached to the articles.
A rebuttal was later given: they say it was an April Fool’s joke. Funny, right? Only the people for some reason did not laugh, but took everything at face value.
According to another version, someone still roamed the subway at night. And this someone was very much like a big rat. At that time, a bull terrier was lost in the metro, which for some time was hiding in the tunnels, picking up the leftover food leftovers from people. Naturally, sometimes he caught the eye of late passengers, scaring them in the dark, sparkling eyes and champing.
Witnesses will not lie: big rats in the subway really exist!
Or maybe all these versions of the bull terrier and the April Fools' joke were weak attempts to calm the people? Although no victims were recorded. But this must be because they are hiding the truth, hiding!
And now a new wave of speculation and eyewitness accounts about how rats in the Moscow metro attack people, bite and bite their noses went and swept the people. Only now everything is written not in newspapers, but on the Internet. And photos are attached.
Only it was not clear from them in which exact place the picture was taken: in the subway or on the farm. And it’s not even clear whether it’s London or Moscow, a rat or some other rodent.
Photos wander from one public to another, only the signatures under them and terrible plots change, from which the blood freezes.
From an interview with an eyewitness
The excitement about the underground monsters was warmed by the leader of the metropolitan diggers Vadim Mikhailov. The story told him by the media writes: “Once we met rats in a tunnel. Rodents were huge in size - at the withers almost 30, and their length reached 70 cm. At first it was thought that they were nutria, but when they looked carefully, they realized that it was rats.
Tunnel rodents have their own underground route leading to the zoo, passing under the White House and reaching for the American Embassy."
About what rats exist in the subway today, the underground gentleman of fortune allegedly owns a lot of information obtained independently during his activities. However, reliable evidence was not presented to them.
Huge rats - where did they come from?
The epic of stories about monsters of allegedly monstrous proportions attacking people took its beginning in the eighties. In the capital, on every corner, there were all kinds of rumors about the atrocities of wild creatures.
People tend to believe such stories. Craving for "horror stories" are explained by their desire to experience a sense of horror, oddly enough. Thanks to this phenomenon of human psychology, cinemas where new “horror films” are being shown are filled to capacity with spectators. This is what lovers use to create excitement from scratch.
And after the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant due to radiation, mutants of various kinds really began to come into the world: two-headed calves, huge mushrooms, intergrown chickens. Why not appear huge rats?
So, stories about rodents with a meter length and a height of almost 60 cm were born in Moscow. It was rumored that most often monsters were allegedly found in landfills in the area of the city meat processing plant. Even healthy watchdogs panic in their cages and booths. So these bloodthirsty creatures cost nothing to cross into the subway, where dogs are not allowed to enter.
But there is no evidence for this, we repeat. The photographs contain the most ordinary animals, frightened, hungry, who are trying to survive in conditions that are not quite comfortable for themselves.
Platform Rodent Video
When asked if there are rats in the subway, one still needs to answer in the affirmative. There is too much evidence for this. They are obvious so that it can be denied. For example, here is a video filmed in the New York subway.
The animal eats up leftovers left on the platform by one of the passengers. The conclusion suggests itself: human sloppiness, negligence is one of the reasons for the unpleasant neighborhood with rodents.
Case in new york city
In the fall of 2018, a video was broadcast on the news. It quickly became viral, excited the inhabitants of the entire planet. Indeed, how can one be calm if frames clearly capture a rat in the subway.
The animal runs into the car! Passengers get scared, start screaming, stomp their feet. The natural behavior of many people in an unexpected meeting with a rat in the subway, especially in a carriage.
The frightened animal itself is horrified. This rodent in nature leads a nocturnal lifestyle and the reasons for its appearance in the carriage are not clear. But one thing is clear: the rat did not plan to catch the eye of a large number of people, and even in bright light. Probably the animal accidentally ran here.
He starts to rush about with fright. The rat jumped onto the shoulder of a sleeping man in a subway car, probably not to feast on his nose, but in an attempt to hide from people, because he was calm. The animal simply mistook it for an inanimate object.
But after watching the video, the doubt creeps in that it is not staged. It is unlikely that such a careful rodent in a short period of time was able to slip inside the train. Moreover, he needs to overcome the “gap” between the platform and the footboard of the car. Even stranger is the fact that the rat voluntarily jumped out into the lighted place, where there are a lot of people. It seems that someone brought in and released the animal to shoot this video.
Metro - the kingdom of rats
I would not like to believe that rodents, which to many people seem disgusting and even frightening, live in close proximity to us. However, videos exist. And they are evidence that rats exist in the subway. Photos with rodents, which also regularly appear on the network, also testify to this.
In the pictures taken in different parts of the world, rats are really captured. Only their size is quite normal. Photos in the subway of mutant rats, which grandmothers tell about at the porches, bloggers with wild imagination and some media, have never been presented anywhere.
Catastrophic increase in the number of rodents
However, one should ask whether all is well in the world regarding the coexistence of humans and rats. Information, frankly, does not reassure. On the contrary, the media of the whole world is sounding the alarm today: there are more rats on the planet than there are people. In Rome, for example, there are 15 million individuals, while there are only about 4 million inhabitants in total.
In New York, there are 9 rodents per person. In 1969, they arranged a "nightmare night" in the city: they gnawed through the main power cable, disconnecting the megalopolis.
In Finland, hordes of angry rats in huge columns went on the attack of private houses due to the closure of the landfill. Residents of the village-commune of Valkeala had to shoot back from them, protecting their homes. It was like real military action.
In England, rats with immunity against all currently known pesticides appeared. In Kyrgyzstan, one amateur breeder managed to cross this surviving animal with a muskrat. The new animal, the “Ondocrys”, is immune to poisons, perfectly climbs trees and attacks large birds, rabbits, cats and dogs.
In Uzbekistan, in the late 90s, rats took a fancy for living near the maternity hospital. According to rumors, one infant suffered - rodents bit the baby, although he survived.
There are many such facts. Although there have been no reliable facts about meetings with monster rats in the metro yet, what prevents them from seizing a new bridgehead?
Interviews from responsible people
The head of the Moscow metro noted that during his tenure he did not meet a single rodent there. In the Moscow subway, he says, there is a significant sanitary control program. The cleaning companies responsible for epidemiological safety take serious measures to control rodents in the subway. Therefore, nothing threatens city residents and guests of the capital, and they can move freely in the subway on their own business.
But where do these photos come from, in which animals in broad daylight eat, run, breed and generally feel completely at ease?
It is believed that wild predators never attack humans for fun. They even try to avoid such meetings. The appearance of a rodent during the day in a crowded place means that the population exceeds the norm, and you need to be alert.
Rat Control
There are many different ways to forget about rodents as a nightmare. To counteract a small number of rats, means from the category of physical impact are successfully used. These include traps, traps, as well as a natural creature fighter of such a detachment - a cat. Chemicals are suitable for controlling large groups of rodents. In small utility rooms of the metro, where rats and mice are seen, they can be successfully used.
The most popular method in large-scale rodent control activities is an ultrasonic repeller. It is a device that emits electromagnetic and ultrasonic waves propagating around the entire perimeter of a building. The device connected to the network fulfills its purpose within a week. The advantage of the device is the absence of any effect on the person and his pets. Also, after its use, it is not necessary to remove the corpses of dead animals.
