The Yakut Death Valley is over 100 thousand square kilometers of bogs, moss and low trees in the upper reaches of the Vilyui River. Locals say that metal structures created by aliens from outer space are hidden among the endless expanses.
From legends to testimonies
The topographic expedition, which worked on Vilyui from April to September 1794, was assigned, among other tasks, to find a place revered by local residents "a place on which a cauldron stands on the ground with a height of considerable height, supposedly from it comes a considerable sound at times." Nearby "on the bank, near the river there is a crevice and in its interior it becomes very bright with stones." The head of the expedition, Stepan Popov, could not fulfill the order.
During the expedition of 1854, the geographer Richard Maack learned that the Algy Timirbit River flows in the upper reaches of the Vilyui. Its name translates as "the big cauldron drowned". According to the Evenki, there in the forest “there is a huge cauldron made of copper in the ground; only one edge of it protrudes from the ground, so that the actual size of the boiler is unknown, although they say that there are whole trees in it. " Maak considered what he heard a legend not worthy of attention.
In 1936, near Olguidakh, a geologist saw a metal hemisphere sticking out of the ground with a smooth, sharp edge. The sloping edge was so high that you could ride a deer underneath.
Yakut geographical names are a real chronicle of past events: Kisi okhtubut ("a man fell"), Kuba saar-byt ("there was a molting of swans"), Elersubut ("they killed each other" or "fought") and so on. Something real was also hidden behind the name of the river Olguidakh ("boiler room", or "place with a boiler").
An ancient nomadic route passed through Death Valley. Until 1936, the merchant Savinov drove along it. When he retired, the Evenks left without supplies began to leave the taiga. The aged merchant and his granddaughter Zina also decided to move to Sul-Ducart. Somewhere in the area between the Heldue ("iron house") rivers, her grandfather led her to a slightly flattened reddish arch. They spent the night inside, in one of the rooms with metal walls. My grandfather assured that in the most severe frosts it is warm here, as in summer. It is impossible to sit in the "house" for a long time: the person will get sick and die.
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Deadly vents
In 1971, an old Evenk hunter said that in the Ata interfluve ("a very large three-sided prison") a large three-sided prison really sticks out of the ground, and there is an iron hole in the Khelyugir ("iron people") interfluve. It contains "thin black one-eyed people in iron clothes."
According to local residents, the Ottoamokh stream ("holes in the ground") has "laughing abysses" - vents of great depth, spitting fire. They are inhabited by a fiery giant, capable of turning everything around into a scorched desert.
Legends can be treated in different ways, but in any case it is worth listening. Sometimes only they keep the experience of their ancestors, helping a person to survive. We do not know when the “laughing abysses” will fire the next discharge, and in an inactive state they can emit something deadly.
In the 1950s, Death Valley was intended to be adapted for nuclear testing. The group of geologists who studied the area did not return back. Then they found five corpses and an inscription carved with a knife on a tree trunk at the winter quarters: “Here is an anomaly. Sergey Ilchenko.
In the summer of 1972 or 1973, in the upper reaches of the Ala Kita, another group of geologists died, this time of four. Rescuers found an empty tent, ripped open from the inside with a knife, and 2-3 kilometers from it, bodies with no signs of violent death. People ran away in whatever they could, some even without shoes. What scared them and why no one returned to the tent for warm clothes remained a mystery.
Sunken domes
Expeditions that went to Death Valley in search of "cauldrons" returned empty-handed. The Czech explorer Ivan Mackerle interrupted the streak of bad luck. He realized that it was pointless to look for "cauldrons" by combing the taiga blindly. The only chance to find anything is to conduct an aerial reconnaissance when the snow has already melted, but the trees have not yet covered with leaves.
Mackerle and his team arrived in Yakutia in May 2006. Instead of a helicopter, they used a paraglider - a parachute with a motor. Only he could land and take off in a densely overgrown marshland.
Finally, the pilot returned with good news: to the east of the river, he saw on the ground an unusual, absolutely correct circle, powdered with snow. The snow has already melted almost everywhere, but for some reason it has survived there.
- Nature did not favor us, - said Matskerle. - At night, snow fell and covered a mysterious place. Pavel with the co-pilot Jiří, having gone to reconnaissance, reported that under the snow and a thin layer of silt there is something solid, smooth, slightly rounded. Perhaps the edge of a sunken cauldron.
They found the second place when the snow melted. An inverted hemisphere was located in a regular round lake at a depth of half a meter.
In the morning after visiting the place where the "cauldron" was drowned, Mackerle became ill. He felt weakness, nausea, severe chills, and began to lose consciousness. The fears of local residents were confirmed. When Ivan began to lose his sight, friends wrapped him in a sleeping bag and put him in the boat. They rowed all night and all day, in order to leave the inhospitable place as soon as possible.
When the stalkers left the valley, Ivan felt better. The doctors could not say anything intelligible: upon his return, his health returned to normal.
The location of the "boilers" was marked using a satellite navigator, but no one wanted to carry out expensive work there. To get to the metal, it is necessary to lower the water level by a meter - a task that is impossible without a caisson (construction for formation under water or in a water-saturated soil of a working chamber, free from water). It's easier to wait for winter and cut a hole in the ice, but this is not an easy task either.
In the summer of 2008, Evgeny Troshin and Sergei Ananov flew around Death Valley in a two-seater Robinson-22 helicopter. They visited the places indicated by Ivan Mackerle, but did not dare to get into the water. At 200 kilometers northwest of Olguydakh, they saw round rubble hills among the trees. According to the vegetation, they are over 100 years old. There are gaps between the trees and hills, as if someone first cleared the area, and then built "kurgans". They may have been piled in by the locals to hide something sacred or dangerous.
The zone is awakening
In the Udachny - Alakit - Aikhal triangle, where the Olguydakh river originates, people have repeatedly encountered mysterious phenomena. Aleksey Vinogradov, Vladimir Ushakov and Aleksey Martynov came in July 1992 to hunt at the winter hut about 35 km of the Aikhal - Udachny route. The house was at the edge of the clearing.
At two o'clock in the afternoon, in a matter of seconds, a sharply outlined cloud of dense "fog" thickened, blocking people out. It took the form of a wall about five meters high and began to move towards the winter quarters. The hunters grabbed axes, trying to cut through the "wall". Under the blows of axes, she sagged, not allowing herself to be hurt, and steadily advanced. Shots from the gun only accelerated her movement. People hid in the hut and looked out of the window as the "wall", not reaching them five meters, stopped and began to turn into a foggy disk that filled the clearing. It lasted four hours, and then suddenly dissipated. Where the fog stood, all metal objects disappeared.
Hunter Vasily Trofimov in October 2000 saw something strange at a winter hut 80 kilometers from Olguydakh. Something was walking along the tops of the trees. At the same time, the branches did not bend, but frost crumbled from them. Something, approaching the winter quarters, covered the stars. In the morning, the hunter found a strip devoid of snow. She walked throughout the forest as far as the eye could see.
On the night of June 6-7, 2008, worker Alexander Pavlovtsev, his 14-year-old son and another hunter sailed along the Oyguldakh River. 10 kilometers before the parking lot, a low-frequency, monotonous sound drew people's attention. It hummed three times with interruptions for a second. After a few seconds, the fourth beep sounded. There was silence for 3-4 minutes. Then the sounds were repeated. This went on for over an hour.
When they reached the shore, they saw a yellow-orange ball about fifty meters away. A burst of blue light emanated from him. The travelers, spellbound, wandered back to the boat. There was "a man in orange clothes." The hunter decided that he had stolen the life jacket and rushed to the stranger. The "man" instantly found himself on the other side. The vests were in place, nobody touched them.
As soon as they sailed away, a second balloon flashed in front of the boat. Those sitting on the oars compared its brightness to the brilliance of electric welding. After 30-40 seconds, the third ball flashed. Alexander saw only its top protruding from the cliff. Then a dome with a diameter of a kilometer and a half rose over the taiga. Many shining balls were moving inside him.
The next morning, another, blue-lilac ball with a diameter of forty centimeters appeared. Then from somewhere strange sounds were heard for a long time, as if someone was rolling an empty barrel on the ground. The shocked people could hardly believe that they had made it out alive.
Anything can be expected from the zone, up to the next burst of flame from the "laughing abysses". If the ejected discharge is as deadly as in the old days, the residents of Yakutia have something to worry about.