Cape Ryty on the northwestern coast of Lake Baikal in the Irkutsk region was included in the list of the five most inaccessible and mysterious sights of the country, which was compiled by the Association of Russian Tour Operators
In addition, the list includes Nukan - the ancient capital of the Eskimos on Cape Dezhnev, on the Chukotka Peninsula, Averkina Yama - a cave, according to legend, hiding Pugachev's treasure, in the Satka district of the Chelyabinsk region. And also Porzhensky churchyard - a wooden castle on the site of a pagan temple, which is a well-preserved wooden pre-Petrine skete in the Kargopol region; Arkhangelsk region. The list is completed by the Uchar waterfall, which was discovered only 35 years ago in the Ulagan region of the Altai Republic, the height of the waterfall is 160 m.
The Association of Tour Operators reports that Cape Ryty is famous for its "shaman pyramids" and there "in the village there is the only steam locomotive in Russia that has survived since the Second World War, converted into a power plant." However, the researchers of Lake Baikal do not confirm the presence of a village and a steam locomotive on the cape; the remains of the latter are in the village of Onguren, Olkhon District. The promontory is known as the anomalous zone. For example, as the famous traveler Sergei Volkov writes: “On Baikal, such a forbidden zone for people to visit is the sacred Cape Ryty, especially revered by both Buryats, Evenks and Tungus … The Rita River valley leaves a depressing impression. It is difficult to pass because of the placers of large stones. Here, lightning often strikes the ground, and in the winter opposite the cape every year there is a cracking in the ice. " Preserved here is a stone wall 33 m long,Similar to those on Olkhon Island, the steppe surface of the cape is lined with stone rounds, representing a larch pillar lined with stones.
According to the "Encyclopedia of Miracles" by Igor Tsarev, there are more than 500 quite powerful geoactive zones in the world - anomalous areas in which an active specific effect of forces of unknown nature on humans is noted. These include Cape Ryty. It is said that after visiting him, many are in poor health, and a number of premature deaths are also associated with it. People hardly come to the cape. There are several versions of the anomaly of the cape: shamanic, radiation, even ufological.