In social networks and on entertainment sites, the story is popular: one girl prayed so that God sent her a hamster, and soon the animal literally fell on her head. We checked the reliability of such publications.
In viral posts it is said: “Once in Sweden, such a case occurred during a reality show on television. One person told me why he was tormented by conscience: “When I was little, my friend and I decided to launch a hamster on a parachute from the balcony of a high-rise building. We made a basket, parachute, put a hamster in a basket and let go. But it happened unforeseen. The gust of wind picked up our parachute and took off somewhere far away. I couldn’t forget about it. a living creature? " And then suddenly a telephone rang in the studio. The caller asked: "Did this happen in such a year?" The man answered in the affirmative. "In the summer, when was the holiday of the city of Stockholm?" “Yes, yes, yes,” the man hurried. "I know what happened to your hamster." "What happened to him?" - The surprised guest of the studio could not believe. “My daughter asked me a hamster for a long time,” the woman continued. “I once answered her:“ Do not even ask. We will have a hamster only if the Lord God himself gives you. "The daughter childishly raised his hands to the sky and said:" Lord God, give me a hamster! "After we went to the city for the holiday. Suddenly my daughter says:" Mommy, it seems to me that God answered prayer! Look! "At this time, right from the sky, a hamster in a basket fell into her hands." Such publications can be found in Telegram, Facebook And "VKontakte", On entertainment sites and in collections jokes.
In Russian, this story began to spread with 2014, and the first time she was published only Christian sites And blogs. With its help, their authors tried to prove that God responds to the prayers of believers and that even in everyday life miracles can occur.
The search for keywords in English did not bring significant results, but in Swedish he turned out to be much more effective. The earliest mention of this story, found “verified”, is dated to October 2007. Swedish Internet user with the nickname Enigma then wrote In my blog: “The other day I listened to the program at [public radio station] P3, and there somehow came a conversation about strange stories with animals-people called and told them. I almost died with laughter when one guy with a slight repentance spoke about the hamster whom he or his friend sent a parachute - they wanted to see if he could fly like that. Only now the wind grabbed a hamster and took away far, far through the square, and he landed right in front of some mother with a little daughter. Imagine: such a hammer with a parachute flies! A-ha ha ha. "
The author of another blog in the record from December 29, 2008 She told an almost identical story, only in it was not a hamster, but a guinea pig. In addition, the name of the program was indicated there, in which her friend on Christmas Eve heard the story - KarLavagnen ("Big Dipper"). This is a popular evening talk show, which has been entering the Swedish public radio since 1993-however, at the P4 station, and not P3, as was mentioned on the Enigma blog.
On the website of the radio station there is a fragment of the broadcast with the heading "Guinea pig that flew by parachute". On the recording, a man called Anders Emmerstrand who called in the studio says:
“It happened somewhere in the late 50s in Stockholm. My friend Einar and me - we were about ten years old. Ainar finally received a guinea pig as a gift, which he dreamed about for so long. We rolled her on a toy train. She felt great. We were very fun with a guinea pig. It was the most expensive thing for Einar. Then we designed a parachute for a guinea pig. They took a plastic bag, a ball of yarn and so on. Ainar went down to the street on the sidewalk, and I went up on the elevator to the tenth floor of the house and went to such a balcony platform. I stand there, leaning over the railing, screaming down, ask if everything is clean. Einar shouts below that everything is in order, and I let go of the guinea pig into the air, the parachute is beautifully revealed. But the guinea pig does not fall down - a gust of wind flies. A gust of wind takes the guinea pig through the roofs towards the center of Stockholm. ”
According to Anders, he and his friend were not able to find the animal and he still does not know what happened to him next. At this moment, the presenter says: “You believe or not, but we have a person who knows” - and takes on the air of the student of the listener Elsa Parment from the city of Umo. She said:
“We lived in Stockholm, in Farm. I, my husband and daughter were in the square. My daughter looks at the sky and says: "Dad, look, my guinea pig flows there, God sent me a guinea pig." She prayed every evening to give her a guinea pig. Here you have an explanation, Anders. The guinea pig got the girl who wanted her so much. She spoke every evening after an evening prayer: "God, do not forget, I want a guinea pig." And it is strange that you did not hear anything, because there was a whole commotion on the squeak. The guinea pig was stuck on a tree along the way down after the flight. My husband wanted to get into the construction forests. The police called a fire engine, we found a guy who climbed onto the fire station. He took my cane and hooked a plastic thing with this stick. ”
The file was uploaded to the radio station on August 22, 2011, however, it is noted in the commentary: the audience liked this story so much that it was repeated. The date of the live broadcast was not indicated, but at one of the Swedish forums with the discussion of this story, we found the memories of those who heard it back in 2003. At the time of the publication of this analysis, “verified” failed to get information from the P4 station about when this conversation sounded on the air for the first time.
In 2012, this story (in the version with a hamster) published in her magazine One of the large parish communities of the Lutheran Church of Sweden. The article said: “When they told me this story, I immediately remembered the words of Jesus from the Nagorny sermon:“ Ask, and it will be given to you ”(Matt. 7: 7). The story is understandable, but there is something amazing in it, which indicates God's fishing and the presence of God in our life. It was a wonderful coincidence that these two people were able to contact each other so many years later and solve a riddle. Unusual greeting from heaven! "
Russian Union of Evangelical Lutheran Churches Supported Close connection With the Church of Sweden. Probably, thanks to this, the touching story migrated to Russian -speaking Protestant sites, and from there to blogs and social networks.
Thus, in viral publications, apparently, a real story was stated, which occurred in Stockholm in the 1950s. Only in fact, instead of a hamster, a guinea pig appeared in it instead of a hamster, and its participants talked about what happened to them on the air of a popular talk show on the Swedish radio, and not on Swedish television.
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