The Kashkulak cave, hidden in the spurs of the Kuznetsk Alatau in Khakassia, has been passing on a bad glory from generation to generation for several centuries. This is an iconic cave of the ancient Khakass people.
Here they made sacrifices to their gods, including human ones. "Kushkulak" translated into Russian means "the cave of the Black Devil".
Participants of many scientific expeditions, exploring the cave with half-rotted human and animal remains, were mostly experienced and courageous people. But almost without exception, the researchers experienced the same sense of causeless, panic fear and horror that constantly seized them as soon as they descended into this cave.
It happened that suddenly, at some point, people, without saying a word, threw their equipment and rushed as fast as they could, overtaking each other, to the exit. Moreover, these were far from novices, but experienced speleologists who had seen caves and more complicated ones, but had never experienced anything like it anywhere. Later, having come to their senses, the researchers could not explain what had happened.
But, in addition to feelings of psychological discomfort and inexplicable horror, even stranger and more mysterious cases happened to people. One of them happened in 1983 with Konstantin Baulin, a speleologist, an employee of the Novosibirsk Institute of Clinical and Experimental Medicine.
After several hours of work, people began to head for the exit. Konstantin was the last in the bunch. And suddenly he felt someone's gaze on him and felt a panicky, incomparable fear. For a moment, the scientist, as if submitting to someone else's will, turned around and … froze with horror: five meters from him he saw the figure of an elderly man, in fluttering clothes and in a shaggy hat with horns, who was calling him after him.
The distance between them was small, and the researcher was able to clearly see his glowing eyes and smooth inviting movements.
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At the first moment, the scientist wanted to rush to run, but his legs did not obey him, and he even took several steps towards the vision. Suddenly, accidentally pulling the rope that tied him with the other participants, he seemed to be freed from the spell and rushed to the exit. After this incident, the scientist no longer descended into this cave, and the man-vision for a long time dreamed of him in a dream and called for him.
According to rumors, one of the grottoes of the cave is inhabited by its keeper, an ancient Khakass shaman. He punishes uninvited guests who disturb his peace with what appears to him in a dream, or even in reality in the form of a man in outlandish flowing clothes and with gestures beckons daredevils into the depths of the cave. Perhaps it's all about hallucinations …
There is certainly a reason for this assumption. And the hallucinations themselves in the cave could be explained by the unusual situation and the effect on the psyche of the enclosed space under the ground. But it's hard to say why different people who have been in the cave have the same hallucinations.
However, a number of interesting observations that can shed light on this phenomenon have been made. For example, in a cave, devices recorded a constant oscillation of the electromagnetic field.
Moreover, scientists have found that, among other signals, a strictly defined impulse is steadily breaking through. Sometimes he was recorded as a single, and sometimes he walked in whole bunches, say, for an hour at intervals of two minutes. But the signals always came with the same amplitude. And there were days when the impulse did not show itself at all, but then the instruments recorded it again.
Where did these signals come from and what was their source? That they came from the bowels of the earth became clear after a series of studies.
But what served as their source could not be determined even by the most modern equipment. Scientists have suggested that the signals recorded in the cave are not natural and can only come from an artificial emitter. If it is a radio beacon, then who is the target for the signals sent to the sky?
Further research showed that the appearance of nervousness in people, a depression that turned into panic horror, just coincided with the fixation of strange impulses.
Moreover, when there was no one on the upper platform, the magnetometer was silent, but as soon as people appeared on it, it immediately began to react.
Moreover, the more people there were, the greater was the strength of the impulse. As if the cave knew that there was someone to demonstrate its secrets, there was someone to try its magic spell on.
And when they began to compare the facts, it turned out that at the same minutes both the bats and the birds in the cave began to behave uneasily. And when several mollusks were brought there for the experiment, they immediately shrunk.
Trying to explain these facts, scientists suggested that they are based on some external physical factor, the very occurrence of which is associated with the presence of a person. It is the person who becomes the initiator, the catalyst of those very unstable processes, for the implementation of which an external impetus is needed. This is most likely what happens in the Black Devil's cave.