Old cemeteries, abandoned buildings, houses of dark glory are the places where ghosts are usually found. Chisinau is also rich in these sights.
Chisinau, which turns 580 this year, is famous not only for its multifaceted history, culture and world-famous people, but also for ghosts and spirits, about which incredible rumors and legends still circulate.
Here are just a few of the ghosts of the Moldovan capital that excite the imagination of the townspeople. To believe or not to believe their stories is up to the readers. But there is something to think about …
1. Woman and girl in Jumbo
Security guards at the Jumbo Mall say that at night, a ghost of a middle-aged woman in national dress appears in the corridors of the building. One day, a ghost came so close to the night watchman that he could even make out his face.
Another ghost of that place is a girl running across the road at night. One of the guards told Sputnik that in the window he saw a child with long dark hair in a nightgown on the midnight road along which cars were rushing at full speed. He immediately rushed out of the building to save the child. But there was no one on the road.
Perhaps these are the ghosts of patients at the Tuberculosis Research Institute, which in the late 50s - early 60s was built on the site of the cemetery of World War I soldiers, which is now called the "Cemetery of Heroes." Ten years ago, this building was demolished and the land was sold to a private person. And the ghosts of those who died in the hospital of this research institute still wander restless, catching the eyes of people in nearby buildings, including the Jumbo shopping center.
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2. A round dance of ghosts at the Armenian cemetery
It is believed that old cemeteries have good energy, since their relatives come to the dead for a long time, bring flowers, remember them during their lifetime. One of these necropolises is the Central Orthodox or, popularly, the Armenian Cemetery. But due to the fact that the city authorities reserve the right to arbitrarily dig up and move the remains of the deceased anywhere, this place is rapidly losing its former fame.
The most egregious case is the desecration of the skeleton of a young girl who was buried before the revolution. It is said that this young woman's afterlife was tragic. In the 80s, her crypt was demolished, and the girl's skeleton was first thrown out, and then the drunken cemetery workers threw it into the crypt of the nobleman Purchela.
Bones from all the old graves began to be dumped there. They were dug up for the sake of a new custom burial of some regular nouveau riche.
The dead, as they say, endure for a long time. But recently rumors spread around Chisinau that after midnight the ghosts of those whose bones were thrown out of their coffins lead their gloomy round dance between the graves and disappear only with the cries of the first roosters.
3. Lady of the Red Mill
In the old Wallachian ballad "Master Manole", the builders of the monastery walled up the wife of one of them in the wall of the building, in order, according to ancient belief, to facilitate the process of work.
There is a similar legend in Chisinau. It is associated with a mill built at the foot of Pushkinskaya Gorka in the middle of the 19th century. In 1901, there was a strong fire here, and the mill had to be rebuilt almost completely. The two upper floors were laid with red bricks - hence the name "Red Mill".
Others believe that the Red Mill got its name after its owner killed his family in the building, and then set it on fire. The red color in the title symbolizes the allegedly shed blood.
Another legend says that during the reconstruction, the builders walled up a girl in one of the walls. This, in their opinion, should have made the building more robust. Whether this is true or not is unknown, but after that the mill worked for about 100 years.
In our days, there are those who claim that in the windows of the now abandoned mill one can observe and even photograph a white silhouette of a female figure. Whose ghost it is, one of the family members of the owner-murderer or the girl walled up by the builders, is still a mystery.