"The Miraculous is Close, but It’s Forbidden!" — these words by Vladimir Vysotsky can well serve as an epigraph for this book. It tells of events that are inexplicable from the standpoint of militant materialism, recorded by the author from the words of former employees of Soviet special services. Yes, our brave Chekists repeatedly encountered paranormal phenomena in their practice. And sometimes they performed feats that would make Scully and Fox Mulder from “The X-Files” green with envy! But they were bound—and are bound to this day—by the "law of silence"! Alexander Bushkov managed to get around it, collecting materials connected with the "devilry" in war and during secret special operations of the NKVD for thirty years.