There is an interesting, but extremely ominous place in Khakassia, located just two dozen kilometers from the Shira regional center - the Kashkulak cave covered with mystical legends.
Residents of the nearby village of Topanovo try to bypass the karst cavity, awarding it with an unkind name - the Black Devil's Cave. Gloomy stories are laid about the undergrounds hidden inside the Kashkulak mountain, like honey, attracting connoisseurs of mysticism, which is why the number of visitors to the Kashkulak cave only increases.
The most terrible legend, which originated in the 60s, is associated with the death of a large group of students who decided to find traces of the treasures of Ataman Solovyov in the depths of Mount Kashkulak. Two dozen people descended into the karst cavity, and only two frightened and lost their minds got out, who suddenly died within a month after a terrible adventure. They say that they constantly carried strange stone figurines with them and muttered incomprehensible words, but it was not possible to get the exact details of the incident from the victims.
The following horror stories tell of massive psychosis, from which the excursion group suffered when visiting the Skeleton Grotto. After several normal descents, the schoolchildren, enveloped in unknown horror, rushed out with screams, talking about monsters with bear bodies and bared skulls instead of heads. After the endured horror, one boy commits suicide, leaving a mysterious note about a terrible demon hidden inside the Kashkulak dungeon.
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Scientists from Novosibirsk, who visited the karst cavity in the 80s, remembered about the mysterious shaman. According to the story of Konstantin Bakulin, already at the exit from the cave, he saw a strange man in fox skins, beckoning him back deep into the labyrinth. The man was saved by a strong twine that binds all members of the group together. The comrades realized that something was wrong, and quickly pulled the already losing his mind out of the scientist.
The mystical dungeon over 80 m long consists of 4 tiers, the depth of which reaches 50 m. Amateurs can get here together with experienced guides, but it is not recommended to wander inside on their own due to the presence of dangerous wells inside.
For a couple of years, the Kashkulak cave in the 2000s was held by a Hindu sect, creating a semblance of an unofficial monastery inside, but they managed to expel it. At the depths there were bones of animals and humans, traces of sacrifices. Alas, due to the uncontrolled visits to the tunnels by various adventurers and uneducated tourists, mummies and other finds related to prehistoric times have been lost.