The first mentions of the Kola Peninsula appeared in written sources in Western Europe in the 9th century. They belonged to the king of the Anglo-Saxons Alfred, who described the inhabitants of the peninsula - the terfinn - as skilled fishermen and hunters, and called the protected land itself a place of terrible mysteries and the possession of terrible pagan gods.
Ancient legends
For many centuries, the indigenous population of the Kola Peninsula, the Sami, or Lapps (or Loppi), have happily coexisted with Christian beliefs and pagan rituals of worshiping the ancient gods, the once powerful rulers of their land.
A number of legends are associated with ancient beliefs that still exist today. So, the legend about the terrible giant Kuiva, who in time immemorial attacked the inhabitants of the peninsula, seems to be very curious. The Sami, desperate to defeat the enemy on their own, turned to the gods for help, who, throwing a beam of lightning at Kuiva, incinerated the giant. From Kuiva to Angvundaschorr - the highest peak of the Lovozero tundra - only an imprint remained, which, despite the weathering and crumbling of the rock, has survived to this day in excellent condition. According to local residents, the spirit of a formidable giant sometimes descends into the valley, and then Kuiva's imprint begins to glow ominously. For this reason, the valley at the Angvundaschorr peak is considered by the Sami to be a bad place, where hunters do not wander and where animals do not even live.
Another unusual legend is associated with the underground inhabitants of this region, who are called Saivok by the Sami. This mysterious people once lived on the surface of the earth, but after a strong natural cataclysm, the memories of which have been preserved in Lapland legends, they went into underground caves, leaving behind granite megalithic structures in the north of the peninsula.
Oral folk epic describes saivok as small creatures living deep underground. They understand human language, and their witchcraft has a terrible power that can stop the sun and moon, as well as kill a person who was always afraid of meeting them. However, even nowadays, information appears from time to time about meetings of local residents, scientists and travelers with mysterious saivoks.
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Mysterious encounters and unexplained deaths
In 1996, Yegor Andreev (surname changed) had a chance to visit the Kola Peninsula, who, as part of a group of "black meteorites" in the Khibiny valley, was illegally searching for fragments of a meteorite that fell in those parts during the Ice Age. According to Yegor's recollections, on one of the summer nights, he heard strange sounds near the tent, similar to magpie chirping. Andreev looked out of the tent and suddenly saw three furry creatures that vaguely resembled beavers. And after a moment Egor was seized by horror - the creatures he took for animals had human faces with pointed noses, small lipless mouths, from which two long fangs protruded, and eyes burning in the dark with a greenish light. Andreev took a step towards them and suddenly realized that he could not move …
Only in the evening of the next day did the comrades find Yegor lying unconscious three kilometers from the camp. What happened to Andreev after he left the tent, the young man could not explain.
The circumstances of Yegor's meeting with mysterious creatures were erased from his memory …
And in 1999, a real tragedy occurred on the Kola Peninsula. Then, on one of the passes near Seydozero, four tourists were killed.
There were no signs of violent death on their bodies, but horror was captured on the faces of the unfortunate. Near the bodies, local residents noticed strange footprints that vaguely resembled human ones, but very large in size. Immediately after this tragedy, they recalled a similar incident that happened in the summer of 1965, when three geologists died for some inexplicable reason in the Lovozero tundra and mysteriously disappeared from the camp. Their bodies, gnawed by foxes, were found two months later. Then an official version was put forward, according to which geologists
poisoned by poisonous mushrooms …
Kola superdeep
Drilling of an ultra-deep well, which began in the seventies of the last century on the Kola Peninsula, caused strong discontent among the local population. Its main reason was that the elders of the Lapps feared the wrath of the disturbed underground inhabitants, rumors of whose existence constantly reached the drillers who arrived from the mainland.
However, the first kilometers were surprisingly easy for the tunnellers. And only when the depth of the well reached ten kilometers, serious problems began. Oil rig accidents followed one after another. Several times the cable broke, as if some incredible force pulled it down, dragging it into the seething and unknown depths.
Twice a highly durable drill, which was able to withstand temperatures comparable to the temperature on the surface of the Sun, was pulled out to the surface with a melted one.
At times, the sounds escaping from the mouth of the well sounded like the groans and howls of thousands of people, forcing the drillers habitual to everything to experience an almost mystical fear.
And soon misfortunes began to occur on the rig. In 1982, one of the workers was crushed by a suddenly falling metal structure. In 1984, the head of the drilling shift was blown off by a loose mechanism. Three years later, a team of ten people was sent by helicopter to Murmansk with symptoms of a mysterious illness: the workers' bodies suddenly became swollen, and blood began to ooze from its pores. But as soon as the drillers were in the hospital, the strange disease disappeared without any treatment.
When one of the workers, who was a local resident, found out about the incident, he immediately stated that it was the saivok who had punished the people who had invaded their property in this way, and then wrote a letter of resignation …
Nowadays, every year dozens of people eager for sensations come to the Kola Peninsula: some for fragments of the famous meteorite, some in search of the bones of fossil animals, and some with the goal of getting to know the mystical mysteries that abound in this ancient land.