There are many places in Kaliningrad and its environs surrounded by mysticism and legends. Sometimes mysterious phenomena are observed there, mostly associated with the distant past.
Deceased's scythe
Behind Queen Louise's church (now Kalinin Park) lies the officers' cemetery. In the 60s of the last century, grave diggers operated there, taking valuable things from the graves. Once they opened a grave and saw the skeleton of a young girl with a surprisingly well-preserved thick red braid. The defilers cut off the scythe, washed it, cleaned it and sold it to an actress of one of the theaters touring the city. The actress made a wig out of a braid, and soon she was diagnosed with brain cancer. Interestingly, when she took off her wig, she started having terrible headaches. And when she was in it, her head did not hurt … Later, this actress died of a brain tumor, and the scythe at the time of death was lying next to her on a sheet.
The curse of the old church
In the village of Zapovednoye, Slavsky District, there is a destroyed building of the Lutheran Church built in the 19th century. Locals claim that misfortune haunts anyone who tries to disturb the ruins.
When the village still bore the German name of Seckenburg, the church was used as a granary. Once the school director gave an order to level the cemetery, which was located on the territory of the church. However, soon after that, he suddenly went into a binge and died. It was rumored that it was no accident.
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Several years ago, the territory was acquired by some LLC. Soon there were announcements that the church building was being sold for bricks. After a scandalous report in the newspaper, a new owner appeared, who promised to restore the buildings for a hotel complex. But after a while he was found hanged in one of the warehouses located next to the church.
Another member of the "new owners" team was found dead in a brick gatehouse while demolishing the settlement's retail space. The cause of death was never revealed.
One tractor driver was instructed to dig a pit near the wall of the church opposite from the entrance. They say that during the work, a woman dressed in black suddenly approached the excavator and asked why he was digging a hole at the site of the cemetery. And then she allegedly threatened that this pit could become his own grave.
The tractor driver, of course, did not pay attention to her words. After completing his shift, he got behind the wheel of a tractor and went to his home in the village of Bolshie Berezhki. On the way, a very young man's heart stopped.
And the foreman who supervised the work was burned alive in his car on the way to Slavsk. Before that, his workers had time to dismantle the office building next to the church. But what they were doing in the church itself, no one understood. There were rumors that there was a treasure inside the building.
Stone of Lies
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On the outskirts of the city of Pionerskoye, on the banks of the Pure River, lies a giant boulder split into two parts. There is a belief that a person who lied cannot walk through a crevice in a stone.
According to an ancient Prussian legend, two lovers once lived on the shores of the Baltic Sea. At the stone, they swore eternal fidelity to each other, asking for punishment for the one who breaks the oath. Circumstances developed so that the lovers had to part for a long time. When they met again at the stone, lightning struck the girl and killed her - her love could not stand the test. And the boulder has since remained split into two halves.
Dancing forest
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This pine forest on the Curonian Spit is also called "drunk". The trees here do not stand upright, their trunks seem to be twisted into a ring. They explain this in different ways - some by the impact of UFOs, some by the experiments of the Nazis, who allegedly infected the local soil with some kind of chemistry, and some more prosaic reasons - strong winds, the presence of groundwater and, finally, caterpillars eating lateral buds, which disrupts the growth of the tree and leads to deformation.
And there is also a beautiful legend of pagan times. Like, once there was a sacred grove, which was guarded by Prussians. They did not allow gentiles here, an exception was made only for a young Christian girl Predinia, who taught local girls to play the harp.
Once Predinia saw the Sambian prince Barty and was so struck by her beauty and beautiful playing of a musical instrument that he immediately proposed to the beauty. But she replied that she would only marry a Christian. Then Barty said that he would accept her faith if she proves that her God is stronger than these strong trees that surround them.
Predinia took her harp and began to play. And suddenly the trees began to dance to her music, as if they were living beings! When she finished, they froze in "dancing" poses. The prince was so amazed by this that he presented the girl with a precious bracelet and agreed to convert to Christianity. Subsequently, a settlement arose around the Dancing Forest, which was named after the princess - Predin.
By the way, there is a belief that if you crawl through the tree "ring", making a wish, then it will certainly come true!