Ghosts, giant rats, art on bones and scary stories from Chelyabinsk realtors: where in Chelyabinsk can you encounter mysticism and evil spirits?
An interesting fact: in the American city of Dunmore, a haunted house is up for sale. The announcement states that in the two-story house, built 113 years ago, screams are sometimes heard at night, and a deathly pale face appears in the bathroom mirror. The house was put up for sale for 144 thousand dollars this winter. But so far no one is interested in him.
And in England, according to the law, a realtor who sold a house with a ghost to the buyer and did not warn him about it, in the event of a subsequent conflict, is obliged to reimburse the victim for the value of the property from his own pocket and pay legal costs.
Many European countries boast castles and haunted houses. Moreover, they are usually valued several times more expensive than housing without a poltergeist. In Russia, things are different: everything otherworldly and mystical, as a rule, scares us. Although there are no less ghosts in Russian homes. Where can you find them in Chelyabinsk?
"Witch's Hole" on Pushkin Street
Not far from the Pushkin cinema, one of the houses is popularly nicknamed "The Witch's Hole". According to legends, it is in it that the door to the other world is located. One of the reasons that gave rise to these rumors is the unoccupied riser of one of the entrances of this house. People who buy apartments there either move out after a while, or start to get sick. All this could be attributed to a mere coincidence, but it is known that this house was built on the former Kazan-Mother of God cemetery. Perhaps it is this fact that affects the well-being of the residents. Especially impressionable people claim that they hear voices in the apartment and see shadows. There is a similar "bad house" built in the cemetery in Chelyabinsk along Zakharenko Street in the northwest. The high-rise building is notorious for its numerous suicides.
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Ghosts in the house on Krasnoarmeyskaya
It is not the first year that the old house on Krasnoarmeyskaya Street instills fear in its inhabitants. In their opinion, the ghost of the owner of the mansion still lives in the century-old building. Even in the pre-revolutionary years, the merchant Larintsev (Lorensov) lived in Chelyabinsk. According to one version, the Bolsheviks took away his house, and later the merchant was killed. There are versions that the unfortunate ghost of Larintsev returned to his house on Krasnoarmeyskaya, where he periodically frightens residents today.
In England, according to the law, a realtor who sold a house with a ghost to a buyer and did not warn him about it, in the event of a subsequent conflict, is obliged to reimburse the victim for the value of the property from his own pocket and pay legal costs.
Over the years, there was a communal apartment, then a military registration and enlistment office, a bailiff's office and the House of Journalists. In recent years the premises have been rented by commercial firms. Many of those who have been in this building have noticed strange steps, creaking doors, clinking dishes and similar tricks of evil spirits. Most former tenants believe that the ghost is still good-natured towards them and protects the house. For example, once a ball lightning flew into a room and hung in the air for some time. Several people witnessed this. But she did not hit anyone, but simply flew away, leaving a trace in the wall in memory of herself. Rumor has it that the ghost of the owner of the house took trouble from the house.
Bone theater
Few people know, but the Chelyabinsk Opera House is literally built on bones. At the time when Chelyabinsk was still a fortress, the place, which today is considered the center of the city, was considered the outskirts, and it was here that the deceased residents were buried. During the construction of the opera house, many human remains were dug up. According to rumors, most of them were reburied, but some remained in the ground. The builders complained that something constantly prevented them from working. For example, at night they noticed silhouettes or heard voices. When the theater was fully built, its employees also began to complain about voices, visions and strange sounds. According to their assumptions, these are the souls of the disturbed dead.
Elevator with the Tsar Rat
The most mysterious and mystical sight of Chelyabinsk is located in the city center. This is an abandoned building of an old grain elevator. A few decades ago, it was considered the main architectural symbol and the tallest building in the city. The construction of the building began in 1913, when, after the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway, Chelyabinsk became a point connecting the eastern and western parts of Russia. Cheap bread literally poured from Siberia to Chelyabinsk, and a storage space was required.
The elevator served Chelyabinsk residents for several decades, and only at the end of the nineties the building was completely abandoned. For some ten years, it has turned into a kind of medieval haunted castle. According to the main urban legend about this place, in the undergrounds of the elevator lives the enormous King Rat, who controls the urban rat population. True, what this legend is based on remains a mystery.
Real rats probably stay there, but no one has ever seen the mystical rodent. Nevertheless, the building is considered the most mystical object of the city and a place of pilgrimage for Tolkienists and extreme tourism lovers from all over Russia. The Chelyabinsk elevator is even called the country's only large abandoned building in the very center of a million-plus city.
The dark past of the ZSO building
Earlier on the site of the building of the legislative assembly of the Chelyabinsk region on Kirov street, even before the revolution, there was a transit prison. According to rumors, these walls were seen by Stalin and Chernyshevsky. Only at the beginning of the 20th century, part of the prison buildings were demolished for the construction of a state bank.
They say that over time, the dark aura of the underworld here still occasionally makes itself felt. Some argue that at night in the Legislative Assembly you can hear the clanging of shackles, hoarse laughter and muffled speech.
Black stories from Chelyabinsk realtors
Chelyabinsk realtors shared their real stories about poltergeist with our site. For example, after the sale of one of the apartments in a house on 40 Let Pobeda Street, residents of the odnushka complained that they were often worried about the “barabashka”. They hear strange noises at night that make them wake up. In the mirror, the tenants of this apartment notice shadows, which also scares and makes you believe in otherworldly guests. One of the high-rise buildings on Komsomolsky Prospect is also notorious. There are at least four known cases of suicide in recent years. The first tragedy happened there during the construction of the house. According to rumors, a concrete slab fell and crushed one of the workers.
One realtor had several objects at once that "sinned" with something mystical. “There are apartments that are pleasant to be in, and there are repulsive ones,” says the specialist. - We sold just such a kopeck piece, we wanted to leave as soon as possible. Unsurprisingly, the apartment hasn't sold for over a year. Once I looked closely at what was in the room and found on the windowsill old black-and-white photos from some funeral. We threw them away, the owner made repairs in the apartment, but the object was still not bought for another five years. I always tell my clients that you need to buy an apartment not only with your head, but also with your heart. It should be comfortable and calm in it. " There are cases when an apartment, which could not be sold for a long time, had only to be consecrated, as soon as there was a buyer.
Another story that breaks into a cold sweat happened in the Leninsky district of Chelyabinsk, in the KBS area, several years ago. The woman brought home an unusual statuette that she found on the street. After that, a series of tragedies hit the family. First, under mysterious circumstances, the owner of the apartment herself died, then her sister, she also began to live in this apartment. “The husband of the deceased sister linked these misfortunes with a strange statuette and threw it away,” says the realtor. - As it turned out, it was the figure of the Indian goddess Kali, who is known as the goddess of death. A terrible tragedy awaited the sister's husband too: immediately after the man got rid of the statuette, he died under the wheels of a car.
But sometimes apartments have not only a pleasant aura, but also make unexpected gifts for their new owners. Several years ago, for example, a young family bought an apartment in Khrushchev in the center of Chelyabinsk. During the repair, they found a box with antique jewelry walled up in the wall. They say that intelligence officers used to live in this house, and occasionally new residents find once confiscated values that the old owners did not have time to take away. Another family, and also thanks to the renovation, has increased its living space by a whole room. They bought an apartment in a house near Revolution Square. A surprise awaited them behind one of the walls - a small room for servants walled up many years ago.
Author: Evgeniya Isakova