Almost every region of our country has its own rumors and legends about places where strange and inexplicable things happen: roads, along which you can go for hours and never get anywhere; mountains where local tribes made sacrifices and where the spirits of the dead still roam and lakes where people disappear without a trace.
Indeed, there are quite a few such anomalies scattered across the territory of Russia from the Baltic to Vladivostok. Many of them are notorious, but this does not stop those who want to experience personally what it means to meet the unknown. We decided to study the most famous of the mysterious places on the map of Russia, and try to give a scientific explanation of the mystery of origin as far as possible, based on their nature and observation history.
Moleb Triangle
This natural anomaly is located in the area of the village of Molebka; its size is about 70 square kilometers. According to the villagers, a meteorite fell here in 1980. An expedition sent in 2003, which included scientists from the Russian Academy of Sciences, did not find anything, but declared: "there is something there." Unusual natural phenomena do not stop in the Moleb Triangle: tourists and researchers observe multicolored flashes, luminous objects and sound hallucinations. People who are there often develop health problems: headaches and temperature fluctuations.
Rastess village
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When through this village in the Sverdlovsk region passed the Babinovsky tract, connecting the European and Asian parts of Russia. The village in which the gold miners lived with their families was notorious: they saw mysterious glowing here and said that evil spirits lived here.
One fine (or rather terrible) day, all the villagers simply disappeared. And the local cemetery is frightening with an abundance of dug graves. Locals bypass the extinct village, and travelers try not to stay here for a long time.
Mountain of the Dead (Dyatlov Pass)
Between Mount Kholatchakhl (from the Mansi "mountain of the dead") and another nameless peak is the notorious Dyatlov pass. It was here in February 1959 that a group of tourists under the leadership of Igor Dyatlov, after whom the pass was named, perished under hitherto unclear circumstances. For some time, the reason for their death was called the local Mansi who guarded the sacred mountain, and the accident during the testing of new weapons and even UFOs. The real reason remained unknown, but the fact is that since then people have died more than once in the area of the Dyatlov Pass, sometimes in whole groups.
Lovozero
On the Kola Peninsula there are also anomalous zones - this is the so-called Lovozero. Many expeditions that have been here have noted the mysterious curvatures of time and space and changes in the Earth's gravitational field. And locals share stories about numerous evidences of the famous Bigfoot's habitation here.
Death Valley (Vilyui)
Another bad place on the map of Russia is the area called Yelyuyu Cherkechekh, which in Yakut means “Valley of Death”. The appearance of this anomaly is associated with the fall of the Tunguska meteorite. In the 1950s, Yakut gold seekers claimed that near the river Algy Timirnit (“The Big Cauldron Drowned”) they really saw 7 huge cauldrons, as if made of copper, and from which trees even grow. Those daredevils who dared to spend the night in such boilers (supposedly, the air in them is warmer than in the environment) in the morning showed signs of radioactive exposure.
There is a rational explanation for the appearance of boilers. For example, in favor of the version of a fallen meteorite that disintegrated into 7 fragments, the presence of residual heat and radiation speaks.
Medveditskaya ridge
It is a chain of hills about 250 meters high, located not far from the town of Zhirnovsk in the Volgograd region. Attention to this ridge is attracted by tunnels inside the hills, made by someone unknown. Local residents claimed that fireballs flew through the tunnels. At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, the entrances to the tunnels were blown up, leaving in folklore legends about UFOs buried in their depths and countless treasures of the Volga robbers.
Devil's Cemetery
At the junction of the Krasnoyarsk Territory and the Irkutsk Region, a little north of Lake Deshembskoye, there is the Devil's Glade. For the first time, the Devil's Cemetery was mentioned in the 1920s, when local residents discovered that the herded cattle that entered its territory mysteriously died, and the health condition of people deteriorated. Expeditions sent to these places either mysteriously disappeared, or returned in an incomplete composition, none of the participants of which was willing to talk about what happened. The cause of the anomaly is called a fallen space body or a crashed UFO.
Lake Shaitan
The oval lake in the south of the Kirov region is amazingly beautiful, but local residents try to bypass it. The thing is that sometimes columns of water rise from the lake, like geysers. According to an ancient legend, a demon lives at the bottom of the lake, and when he gets angry, the water boils and splashes out in fountains.
The unusual behavior of the lake is easily explained rationally by its origin: the reservoir is a karst well. In its depths there are pressurized artesian waters. Lumps of peat accidentally caught in the cracks of faults form plugs that fly out under high pressures, and fountains of water break out to the surface without any regularity. Today, Lake Shaitan attracts many tourists and fishermen.
Arkaim
In the south of the Chelyabinsk region, in the steppes, there is an ancient settlement, abandoned about 4 thousand years ago. The city of Arkaim, which was apparently burned down by its own citizens, had a ring structure and was oriented by the stars. Many of those who wandered into the Arkaim valley saw mysterious lights, fireballs and flashes of light in the sky at night. As stated, Arkaim himself has a powerful energy that influences the consciousness of tourists who decided to visit this place.
Sasovskaya funnel
On April 12, 1991, not far from the town of Sasovo (Ryazan region), a strong explosion thundered, as a result of which windows and doors were knocked out near half of the city's buildings. No traces of explosives were found. The diameter of the crater formed was 28 meters, and the depth was 4 meters. Eyewitnesses on the night of the incident in the area of the explosion saw huge flying glowing balls, and an hour before the explosion, a strange glow spread over the place of the future crater.
Experts associate an explosion of extraordinary force (according to estimates, to cause such damage, at least 30 tons of TNT is needed) associated with a breakthrough in this place of a gas jet, consisting mainly of hydrogen. Once in the atmosphere, hydrogen mixed with oxygen, forming a cloud of detonating gas, which exploded.