Perhaps the Bermuda Triangle is the most famous anomalous zone in the world, but Russia also has something to tickle the nerves of fans of unusual adventures.
Since ancient times, these places have been called in our country as pernicious or damned, and they preferred to bypass them so as not to cause trouble. Today, extreme tourism to such places is only gaining momentum. If you also do not mind testing yourself for strength, and maybe even getting to the bottom of the truth with your own hands, here is a list of places that you simply must visit.
1. Death Valley (Yakutia)
"Elyuyu Cherkecheh", or the Valley of Death - this is how the Yakuts dubbed a strange area in the area of the Vilyui River, where, according to legend, strange metal objects are hidden in the ground, posing a danger to all living things. Local residents bypass this remote area. Rare eyewitnesses say that there is a flattened arch protruding from the ground, under which there are many metal rooms, where even in the most severe frosts it is warm, like in summer. In ancient times, there were daredevils among the local residents who spent the night in these premises. But then they began to get very sick, and the one who slept several times even died.
In 2002, a group of students from Yakutsk made an attempt to find the boilers. On the very first day of their stay there, they felt a slight discomfort - they were dizzy and overwhelmed with weakness. Deciding that this was the manifestation of fatigue caused by the many hours of crossing, the students pitched their tent and went to the river to fetch water, where, according to them, a mysterious structure sticking out of the ground was discovered, really resembling a metal cauldron. The size of the boiler was about 10 meters in diameter. They tried it for strength with a sharp screwdriver, an ax, a hammer, but on the matte surface, as if covered with fine silver crumbs, there was not a scratch or a dent. The guys did not find the underground structure with many rooms, which the old Yakuts spoke about. However, they notedthat around the "cauldrons" are growing not typical for those regions huge burdocks and strange grass, exceeding human height twice. An inviting warmth emanated from the "cauldron" discovered by tourists, and the guys decided to spend the night, putting up a tent next to the strange structure. Throughout the entire time of their stay in the anomalous zone, the guys tried to chop off at least a piece from the edge of the cauldron in order to return to Yakutsk to find out its composition. But all their attempts were unsuccessful: the material turned out to be extremely hard.find out its composition. But all their attempts were unsuccessful: the material turned out to be extremely hard.find out its composition. But all their attempts were unsuccessful: the material turned out to be extremely hard.
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2. Lavozero tundra (Murmansk region)
A small section of the Khibiny on the Kola Peninsula. In addition to the vegetation completely abnormal for the north, there is another attraction here - the Angvundaschorr rock (72 meters), on which, according to legend, the body of the giant Kuiva remained. Many years ago, he bothered the local aborigines very much, for which he was incinerated by their harsh pagan gods. But even now the superstitious fear of local residents of the Lavozero tundra is simply amazing - even experts on mass psychoses go there to study …
In the late 50s, the first mountaineering and tourist groups appeared here, which were attracted like a magnet by the Angvundaschorr peak. Nobody managed to conquer it. Moreover, in some cases, ascents ended in the death of climbers, moreover, experienced climbers. In the summer of 1965, a group of four people left for the Lavozero tundra and did not return. Only the remains of their bodies were found. How and why they died is still a mystery. A few years later, another 11 people died in the same incomprehensible way. To be on the safe side, all mountaineering and tourist routes on the Lavozero tundra were closed. Now this place is again available and beckons crazy extreme lovers … Not all of them come back.
Cave Silicates (Moscow region)
A cave in the suburbs near the Silikatnaya railway platform. According to rumors, during the Great Patriotic War, a bomb shelter was equipped in the cave. During the next bombing, a soldier came there from the front, in search of his family. People were crawling out of the dilapidated entrance one by one, and finally the soldier's wife appeared, but at that moment the huge stone slab began to sag … The soldier threw himself under the slab and stopped its fall, allowing the rest to leave. In front of dozens of people of immeasurable size, a cobblestone buried the brave man beneath it. However, when by joint efforts the people tore open the entrance and raised the slab, they did not find the remains of the hero! The relatives tried for a long time to find the soldier inside the caves. During the next search, somewhere under the ground, a mother, heartbroken, also disappeared. The legend says,that the ghosts of the soldier (in the form of the White Spirit of the Caver) and the mother (in the form of Two-Face) are still found in the far corners of the caves.
4. Mountain of the Dead (Sverdlovsk Region)
Perhaps the most famous anomalous zone in Russia is the Mountain of the Dead. This is exactly how Holat Syakhyl is translated from the Mansi language - the name of the height 1079 in the Northern Urals. On its slope, under mysterious circumstances, 2 groups of tourists died in a row (including the famous Dyatlov group): obviously in panic, the people who fled were found dead near the camp. The deceased had a strange reddish skin tone and a lot of internal injuries and bleeding. Forensic experts could not find the cause of death. In superstitious fear, the locals write off these and other similar deaths to ancient spirits, mystical rituals that often appear here UFOs. What really happened is a mystery.
5. Pleshcheyevo lake (Yaroslavl region)
Lake Pleshcheyevo, on which the town of Pereslavl-Zalessky is located, is, among other things, famous for the nebulae appearing from nowhere in the form of milky-slushy haze. Once in the "nebula", a person finds the only "path" along which it seems that someone is leading him. Moving forward, the traveler begins to see all sorts of fantastically positive glitches. After a while, the "lost" one comes to his senses and realizes that he is 15-20 km from the beginning of his campaign. Sometimes the militia with dogs is looking for a person who has disappeared in the "milky fog" for a whole day, and he, some time later, smiles blissfully from the other side of the forest.
6. Blue-stone (Yaroslavl region)
The legendary boulder, from ancient times located near the village of Gorodishche, near Pereslavl-Zalessky. According to ancient legends, a spirit lives in this stone, fulfilling dreams and desires. At the beginning of the 17th century, the church decided to destroy the pagan relic - the local deacon ordered to dump the Xin-stone into a deep hole and bury it. But a few years later, a boulder mysteriously peeped out of the ground. After 150 years, the people decided to lay a "magic" stone in the foundation of the bell tower. The stone was loaded into a sleigh and driven across the ice of Pleshcheyevo Lake. The ice broke and the Xin-stone sank to the bottom. But soon the fishermen began to notice that the boulder was changing its location in an unknown way, slowly moving along the bottom. Half a century later, he found himself on the shore at the foot of Yarilina Gora, where he still lies.
7. Popov bridge (Kaluga region)
A building on the Pesochnaya river in the southwest of the Kaluga region. According to the stories of local residents, the engines of cars and motorcycles stall on the bridge, horses and dogs often do not want to go to it, and strange ghosts and visions sometimes appear here. Once on the bridge, a strange old man sat down in a passing car, in whom the driver recognized with horror the deceased fellow countryman, and the translucent old man himself disappeared from the moving car, before reaching the village. This message is difficult to verify, since the eyewitness himself died six months later. Local residents from the nearby villages of Uleml and Korenevo believe that what is happening is connected with a curse once imposed by a local witch, or with a nearby cemetery.
8. Nikandrovsky monastery (Pskov region)
The once destroyed, but now restored monastery in the Porkhovsky district of the Pskov region. Local residents said that from time to time they saw on the ruins the figures of ancient ghost monks (real monks were not there for a long time). Someone once tried to capture local exoticism on film, but instead of two monks, only two glowing spots came out on the film. There were also nuns - strange aunts in black, melting in the air right before our eyes.
9. Water from Vedlozero (Karelia)
In 1928, over the village of Shuknavolok near Vedlozero, local residents noticed the flight of a ten-meter cylindrical body. Having broken through the ice, the mysterious object went under the water, after which the inhabitants began to meet on the shore a strange, large-headed creature - a little over a meter tall, with thin arms and legs. At the sight of people, the creature immediately dived into the water, for which it was nicknamed water. Other strange phenomena were observed in those places. So in 1932 a dense black cloud "descended" on the village. After its disappearance, a jelly-like substance remained on the ground, which the peasants collected in bottles and used as a medicine.
10. Meat pine forest (Novgorod region)
A swampy forest in the Novgorod region, where a huge crowd of soldiers died during World War II. The remains of thousands of people still lie in remote places. The very environment of a dead swamp, stuffed with corpses, creates a not particularly pleasant environment. Many search engines have repeatedly drawn attention to the fact that birds and animals do not settle and do not appear in places of mass presence of the killed. The situation improves only after the corpses are properly reburied. Complete chaos is going on in the forest: as soon as one is left alone, voices, steps and even shouts of "hurray" begin to appear, as if the restless souls of the dead are still attacking …