Thanks to thousands of rock paintings, Khakassia is called an "art gallery" in the open air. And the huge number of menhirs - stones dug into the ground - makes us talk about it as a giant anomalous zone.
Supporters of occult beliefs believe that a form of energy unknown to science is transmitted through the menhirs, as if through antennas. And the Khakass themselves believe that spirits live in these stones.
UFO over Chests
Spirits, however, are everywhere in Khakassia. Every mountain, river, lake has them … Spirits are free to dispose of animals and people in their zone of influence at their discretion. They can protect a person passing by, or they can punish if they didn't please with something. Locals talk about the encounters of hunters with spirits in the form of black people riding on a horse. And even in the form of a naked woman, "mistress of the mountain", luring a tired traveler to visit, right into the opening rocks.
Khakassia rock paintings depict strange creatures
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Spirits also live in the valley, where the Chests mountain range stretches. For centuries only shamans and initiates were allowed to come here. Lovers of mysticism are regulars of these places today. On another summer day, dozens of people can be found meditating at the Chests, and a few years ago the World Olympiad of Human Psychophysical Reserves was held here. They say that in this valley, almost everyone has the gift of a psychic. Of course, not just like that. For this to happen, you need to appease the local spirits by tying a strip of cloth - "chalama" to the sacrificial tree.
They say that sometimes exactly at midnight the wind stops blowing over the Chests and silence sets in. In this silence, the moon turns red and begins to rotate. There are eyewitnesses who watched UFOs land on the summits of the Chests (by the way, the name of the mountain was due to the similarity with this object). And it is not clear that this is due to long-term meditations or scientific research carried out by scientists. Indeed, according to their hypothesis, Chests is an ancient (and the oldest in Eurasia!) Astronomical observatory.
This sensational conclusion was reached by Vitaly Larichev, an archaeologist, doctor of historical sciences, who studied literally every square centimeter of relief here. He compared the nuances of this relief with a map of the starry sky and realized: there is a connection between them. Mountain ledges and niches can be used to observe certain space objects that were important to ancient people. So, at a certain time, through a barely perceptible through window in the mountain, Arcturus is visible, the brightest star in the Northern Hemisphere.
Arcturus helped our distant ancestors to navigate the terrain and make calendar calculations. Vitaly Larichev is sure that the Chests, which are 40 thousand years old, were used as an ancient astronomical observatory, like the famous Stonehenge.
It is not for nothing that this mountain complex has observation platforms, a "sundial", and a calendar. And in Soviet times, when plowing a field in the valley, a tractor accidentally opened the shaman's grave. And in it a stone was found with carved constellations, which in the sky can only be seen through a telescope.
Grotto of the Ghost
By the way, about the shaman. In the same region of Khakassia, there is another archeological monument, not deprived of the attention of sorcerers. This is the Kashkulak cave. Kamlania and magic rituals are carried out there to this day. But not everyone dares to enter the cave. There is a notoriety about her: people there are seized by fear and nervousness, which sometimes develop into panic.
Hallucinations also happen: visitors dream that some ominous ghost is trying to take them to the grotto, which is called the Ghost's grotto. There is a legend that the spirit of a shaman dwells in it, who takes revenge on the people who disturbed his peace after death (isn't it the one whose grave was opened by the tractor?). However, scientists are skeptical about this story, considering it a "remake". According to them, the unpleasant sensations inside the cave are caused by fluctuations in the magnetic field, the source of which has not yet been established.
And this, of course, does not change the mysteriousness of the Kashkulak cave. As well as the whole of Khakassia as a whole.