2003, Petrozavodsk
Not very long ago, about twenty years ago, huge numbers of UFO believers roamed the earth. These were special creatures that believed that beings from other planets sometimes came and took people off with them, somewhere. Now you hardly find any believers in UFOs. Apparently they were all carried away somewhere by what they so fervently believed in. It is all so mysterious. Grandpa’s fate held no fewer riddles, Grisha felt. A lot of time had passed now, already many people were no longer among the living, but questions remained, they ached like some metal fragment stuck in his flesh, the rusty hooks of painful memories. First of all, no one knew where his grandfather was originally from. Grandpa had never said anything about it. It seemed that he had come to Karelia fro
