Shikhan Mountain in the Pokhvistnevsky district of the Samara region, near the village of Bolshaya Yega (Yaga!) Is undoubtedly an anomalous object and the place around it is also not without "devilry"!
The first oddity that catches the eye of a first-time visitor here is that there is no paved road to the Big Yaga. What is it like? But like that, no, that's it. There are smaller houses and fewer people nearby, but not here. Several dirt roads, passable after the rain only for trucks or four-wheel drive (and even then not all!) Cars, lead along the fields through small ravines to this strange settlement.
It is unclear why neither the Soviet nor the current Russian authorities ever reached this settlement, or rather the roads to it …
The second oddity is that the locals are very unfriendly and wary of visiting strangers and are very reluctant to talk about the mysterious "mountain". Perhaps this is due to the fact that in recent years the number of people wishing to visit this object has increased significantly, and the locals are afraid of unauthorized excavations (the object was relatively recently used to perform pagan rituals of the Mordovians).
The third oddity is the bizarrely twisted trunks of trees growing on the slopes of Shikhan Mountain, which clearly indicates some local (the trees grow straight around!) Magnetic or geological anomalies.
The fourth oddity is that the “body” of Shikhan Mountain is not only made of loam covered with a layer of black soil. A mixture of quartzite (!) Rubble and boulders begins under a not thick layer of both! And there are no layers of quartzite anywhere nearby, the nearest place where quartzite is in abundance is the Skripinsky Kuchury tract (the area near the villages of Skripino and Mikhailovka) in the Ulyanovsk region (almost 250 km in a straight line!).
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Old-timers even say that there are places on the mountain where if you hit with a club or hammer on a quartzite boulder protruding to the surface, the mountain will hum like a huge bell! Like, all this is because inside it is empty, and in its artificial caves, for the time being, “children of Rakhs”, descendants of flying “snake-people”, powerful sorcerers who lost the battle with the ghostly elders of the Zhiguli mountains!
And they also say that some fifty or sixty years ago, in some places on the slopes of the mountain, small entrances to these same caves were still visible, lined with strange gray-black hexagonal rough (very old?) Tiles. But after, presumably, several local young children disappeared in them (they climbed in and got lost inside or got to the "children of Rakhs"!), These passages were filled with stones and covered with earth from above!
The fifth strangeness of Shikhan Mountain is that on its top there are two small swampy lakes that do not dry up even in the summer heat (springs at the bottom?). Around there are several flat boulders of the "alatyr-altar" type overgrown with moss. Perhaps this is the ancient temple, where in the last century the local Mordovians performed rituals of causing or stopping rain (each near its own lake!).
And on the slopes of the Shikhan Mountain, many small and not quite streams flow down from above! It is unclear where the water comes from on this hill in the forest-steppe area!
In short, all these oddities and anomalies of the Shikhan Mountain make it possible to draw, although not entirely unambiguous, the conclusion that it may be an object of artificial origin and of unknown purpose. So to speak, the legacy of other eras, other civilizations …
What do you think about this?