There is an ancient Slavic legend, according to which the earth is surrounded by a snake biting its own tail. The place where she bites herself is located in the Kiev region, which gives the city far-reaching mystical opportunities, and the place itself is called Bald Mountain …
“The scientist said that after the resettlement of the military unit stationed on Lysaya Gora, one of the department heads of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine privately asked him to walk with him along Lysaya Gora. The fact is that strange things were happening to the soldiers who served in this unit. They felt especially bad at midnight and noon, and a special commission decided to remove the military from there."
“And here we, a few people, climbed the mountain, - said V. Stetsenko. - I held the dowsing frame with both hands. Suddenly I feel that my fingers are cramping, I just started to shake violently, I cannot unclench my hands! I shout to them: knock the frame out of your hands immediately!
In a few minutes I came to my senses. We went on. And there in the ground bunkers were dug and concreted, their hatches were open. Suddenly the frame starts spinning furiously, spasms in my hands, I, like a whirligig, rotate around its axis and carry me straight into the open hatch. I don't remember further … I woke up on the ground, my trousers were torn - both for me and my companion, who had to knock me down so that I would not be carried into this pit."
“In addition to the scientific one, there is also a mystical theory why Bald Mountain is a cursed place. During the Mongol-Tatar invasion, the Kitaevskaya and Goloseevskaya deserts existed. According to the hypothesis of the scientist Dmitry Lavrov, many Kievites took refuge in them from enemies. Khan Batu, in order not to leave opponents in the rear, ordered the caves to be walled up. A lot of people died, and it is their terrible death and restless souls that strongly influence the energy of the surroundings of Bald Mountain …"
In search of places of Power
“Since ancient times, any elevations have been a place of worship for their gods for the Slavs. Usually, trees growing on the tops of mountains or hills were cut down and burned down, and subsequently temples were set up in open areas. Hence the name Bald."
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This place is full of bad energy. It is no coincidence that women try to commit suicide on Bald Mountain, rushing from the top. There are more than seventy such cases in the Soviet period alone. However, no one succeeds in getting the job done because the mountain is not steep enough. And it all ends with severe injuries.
Until now, Bald Mountain has retained its original appearance, that is, it completely lacks any signs of civilization, including lighting lanterns.
On May Eve, Bald Mountain becomes a gathering place for Satanists, pagans, lovers of Celtic culture and various mystic magicians, wandering around the neighborhood in search of the so-called places of Power.
The local police do not like these gatherings very much - a third of all suicide attempts on Lysaya Gora take place on May Eve.
According to legends, not only witches, but also long-dead depraved women, took part in the Sabbath on Bald Mountain. Each witch came to the holiday with her devil lover. There Satan was already waiting for them, sitting solemnly on a high chair or on a large stone table. Everyone bowed their knees with emphatic respectful greetings to the Master. After that, witches from different countries and regions reported that they had done evil for the entire past year, and conspired for new intrigues. If Satan was unhappy with the report, he would hit the perpetrators on the back with a stick and kick with his hooves.
“Nobody doubts that on Bald Mountain for many centuries really filthy things have been going on. Archaeologists have discovered an ancient pit at the top with burned church books, and nearby are several decapitated cock skeletons called dead beer houses."
To meet a carriage with a suicide bomber - for worse
At the beginning of the 19th century, Lysaya Gora, which is located in Kiev between Nauki Avenue, Naddnipryanskoye Highway and Telichka, belonged to the Pechersky Monastery. In the 60s, the city authorities bought these lands, deciding to build a fort here. Kiev was to become a fortress city.
“The construction was completed in the second half of the 19th century, and already at the beginning of the 20th century, Kiev defensive structures were used as prisons. In the oblique caponier of the Hospital fortification of the Novopecherskaya fortress, political prisoners were sitting, and in the Lysogorsk fort, which was far from residential areas, in 1906 a gallows was installed - here they executed state criminals. Three executioners have killed more than 200 people in 11 years."
“From the gates of the Oblique Caponier in the summer at four in the morning, and in the winter at seven in the evening, a black carriage departed. Hearing the ominous clatter of horse hooves, the townspeople hid the children: to meet a carriage with a suicide bomber is a bad omen!"
The guards also avoided meeting with the townspeople, and each time to Lysaya Gora the crew moved along a new route, maximally excluding the possibility of recapturing the prisoner from the guards. Those delivered to the place of execution were met by the executioner with his henchman and the priest. The executed were deprived of the right to Christian burial, so the executioner buried the bodies of the hanged near the gallows.
In 1911, Dmitry Bagrov, the killer of Prime Minister Pyotr Stolypin, was executed in the Lysogorsky Fort. At the place where Bagrov was buried, they drove out a company of soldiers.
Since many soldiers were superstitious, and Bald Mountain has long been considered a gathering place of evil spirits, the head of the fortress issued an interesting instruction, which read: before going on guard, the officer must warn the soldier not to be embarrassed by incomprehensible noises - it is just gusts of wind and cries of night birds …
“In the 1930s, an underground military plant was built on Lysaya Gora. And during the German occupation, a Tiger tank base was located here. Researchers say they have repeatedly come across reports from German soldiers in which they described their encounters on the mountain with unusual paranormal phenomena."
After the end of the war, a military missile unit settled on Lysaya Gora and stayed there until 1985, when the mountain was turned into a Nature Park.
The people of Bald Mountain are divided into three parts. The first is the Mermaid Yar. It is named so because of the lake located in it, in which, according to legends, mermaids live. The second is the Witch's Yar. There, allegedly in the old days, worshipers of the devil cult began to gather for their black masses. However, according to some information, they still do it.
And finally, the largest part of the mountain is the Dead Grove. In this part, unknown burials of past centuries have been discovered.
Exit to the astral world
Before the introduction of Christianity, Kievan Rus professed the ancient Slavic religion, the secrets of which have not been revealed to this day. The followers of this religion performed rituals of worshiping the Gods just at the site of Bald Mountain.
In the caves of the mountain, the priests of the Slavs kept books, secret signs, gold. After the official prohibition of the Slavic religion, the priests moved to live in the caves of Lysaya Gora, where they tried to synthesize the Slavic and Christian faiths and write a New Gospel for the followers of both religions. This New Gospel was spread orally among the people, and echoes of its cosmogonic myths were preserved in the elements of fairy tales.
The Church calls such non-canonical books the word Apocrypha. Thus, in the dungeons of Bald Mountain are the ancient Apocrypha. Stones with the hieroglyphs of the apocryphal writing engraved on them have been and are being found.
Over the centuries, the apocryphalists left the Mountain, carefully masking the underground passages. Then Christian monks came to the Mountain, who performed austerities and prayers in the bosom of nature. The monks created their underground city-monastery, connecting the Mountain with the Pechersk Lavra by underground passages.
During the time of Peter I, Lysaya Gora became very profitable for the construction of the Fort of the outer ring of Kiev's defense. The Lysogorsk Fortress was tricky. Engineers created underground reservoirs here, where water from the Dnieper was pumped. In case of capture of the dungeons of the fortress by the enemy, the fortress had to be flooded together with the enemy.
Well, so that the serfs would not betray the secret to the enemy, they were left alive in the same tanks, just in case - about three thousand people.
Today, under Lysaya Gora there is a whole underground city, which consists of a whole complex of dungeons - from the preserved cells of ancient Slavic priests to abandoned modern military bases.
The length of this city underground is estimated at one and a half kilometers in depth. And this city contains the most incomprehensible secrets. There are treasures and books, and parapsychological secrets and exits to other worlds, and skeletons of ancient adventurers and much, much more. Since the astral world is almost constantly open over Bald Mountain, the spirits of good and evil spirits from other worlds can easily materialize in the dungeons and produce occult phenomena.
The mountain where wishes come true
In Soviet times, leaders of other countries were brought to Bald Mountain, where they made wishes, which were often fulfilled. In the 90s, when the armed confrontation between Tibet and China reached its climax, the Dalai Lama of Tibet sent Buddhist monks to the mountain to pray to the Higher Forces here to end the war. The monks prayed for three days, and on the third day Deng Xiao Ping died!
Geophysicist, former head of a specialized dowsing party under the Ministry of Geology Vasily Stetsenko claims that the most powerful geopathogenic zone in Kiev is located in the Lysaya Gora region. It stretches from the mountain along the edge of the Central Botanical Garden, along the hills where the Museum of the Great Patriotic War is located, and through the Dnieper goes to the Left Bank.
“The scientist said that after the resettlement of the military unit stationed on Lysaya Gora, one of the department heads of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine privately asked him to walk with him along Lysaya Gora. The fact is that strange things were happening to the soldiers who served in this unit. They felt especially bad at midnight and noon, and a special commission decided to remove the military from there."
“And here we, a few people, climbed the mountain, - said V. Stetsenko. - I held the dowsing frame with both hands. Suddenly I feel that my fingers are cramping, I just started to shake violently, I cannot unclench my hands! I shout to them: knock the frame out of your hands immediately!
In a few minutes I came to my senses. We went on. And there in the ground bunkers were dug and concreted, their hatches were open. Suddenly the frame starts spinning furiously, spasms in my hands, I, like a whirligig, rotate around its axis and carry me straight into the open hatch. I don't remember further … I woke up on the ground, my trousers were torn - both for me and my companion, who had to knock me down so that I would not be carried into this pit."
“In addition to the scientific, there is also a mystical theory why Bald Mountain is a cursed place. During the Mongol-Tatar invasion, the Kitaevskaya and Goloseevskaya deserts existed. According to the hypothesis of the scientist Dmitry Lavrov, many people of Kiev took refuge in them from enemies. Khan Batu, in order not to leave opponents in the rear, ordered the caves to be walled up. Many people died, and it is their terrible death and restless souls that strongly influence the energy of the surroundings of Bald Mountain …"
