Not far from the Russian city of Cherepovets, Vologda Oblast, a little north of Lake Ivachevskoye, there is a "Living" swamp, popularly called so because for several centuries in this truly perilous place many people disappear without a trace, as if a mysterious quagmire deliberately entices and then sucks in (devours) its many victims.
At first glance, this may seem quite natural: for that it is a swamp to be bypassed, since any quagmire for someone (frivolous and careless) still becomes a grave. But here's the catch: 3-4 times more people die in the Living Swamp than in other similar bogs in Russia. Moreover, over the course of several centuries, hundreds of people have disappeared without a trace, and at the same time not a single dead body has been found, although corpses are found quite often in other swampy places …
To this it is worth adding the stories of those lucky ones who fell under the influence of the local "swamp spirit", and somehow, with prayers and God's help, managed to escape from this trap. So they say that a traveler who finds himself next to this cursed place is suddenly attacked by an unreasonable fear, and so strong and all-consuming that it literally muddies the mind and forces a person to do the most incredible acts, for example, go straight into the quagmire, with the overwhelmed desire to end life as quickly as possible.
As a rule, such people later bypassed the Living Swamp, as they say in Russia, on the tenth side, or even left the local places altogether, feeling the influence of the "swamp spirit" even at a distance. And what do scientists say about this? They argue that algae are likely to grow at the bottom of the swamp, which secrete hallucinogens when they rot. Once in the air, these toxic substances affect the human body, causing panic and causing him to commit manic acts. It is quite possible, this is the only way it remains a secret behind seven seals, why for several centuries of mentioning the terrible Vologda quagmire, not a single person who died in this ruinous place was ever found. As a rule, people then find empty carts, now cars or other equipment, but there is no man (sometimes even several) - as if he had evaporated …