The book by Samara researchers is the third in the ongoing series “Modern Myths of the Volga Region” and is devoted to the analysis of the role of “stories about the unusual” in the everyday life of a large industrial city, the history of the development of modern ideas about the possibility of interference by “others” in the development of human civilization. An analysis is provided. the results of the search and study of such mythogenic objects as the “Ausin stone”, the “Round Trap”, the “legacies” of the House of O’Rook and Komnenov, as well as a number of scattered city stories about the unusual. The book contains “forgotten names” of various historical figures who took participation in the study of various secrets of the Earth and History. The component includes fragments of research by A. Mukhin “Information animals or how sensations are born” and Yu.V. Markina “Unknown Samara”, memories of O. Ratnik about one of his visits to the “Ausin stone”.