Skeleton Cave is a legendary semi-mystical cave in the jungle northwest of the mouth of the River Kwai in Thailand, about the reality of which there is much debate.
In Russia, this cave first became known from the words of the famous explorer Nikolai Nepomniachtchi, while abroad they started talking about it in 1992 after the disappearance of the famous scientist David Woddle in these places.
The National Association of Anthropologists of the United States sent a special expedition under the command of Perry Winston and Roy Clive, who had already spent more than one year in the area of the proposed search. Following the Woddle route, they quickly reached the densely wooded hills where the search area was described.
Beyond the hills lay a lowland, bounded on one side by a river and on the other by swamps teeming with snakes. These places were notorious among the surrounding residents; according to their legends, a tribe of cannibal sorcerers lived here in the past. The belief in ancient legends turned out to be so great that the local guides flatly refused to accompany the search expedition …
The diary entries of the missing anthropologist Woddle, made by him shortly before his last trip, contained references to this plain and to some cave that was there and very interesting to him, where cannibals performed magical rites. Winston and Clive made it their task to find this cave, assuming that Woddle with two companions died somewhere nearby …
And on the very first night, having set up camp on the plain, people heard strange sounds, similar to the sound of a large number of hammers and coming from the southwest. Experiencing involuntary fear, the search engines did not dare to go there in the middle of the night, and in the morning, after walking several miles to the southwest, they found a cave, the main "suspect" as a place of death.
It was about her that the missing Waddle wrote. It is possible that the night sounds were coming from here. However, a human foot had not set foot here in many years, there were no footprints on the soft swampy soil. Indeed, the almost completely decomposed bodies of all three members of the missing expedition were soon found in the nearby jungle. They were easily identified by scraps of clothing and equipment.
This is where the worst begins. According to the description of Nepomniachtchi, anthropologists died a violent death: their chests and skulls were broken by some blunt object. At the same time, no one stole anything from valuable property, which made us assume that people may have been killed by some powerful beast …
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Upon entering the cave, the researchers found many human skeletons lying on the floor, leaning against the walls, even suspended from the walls and ceiling. All skeletons are very old, if not ancient. But … the chests and skulls of the dead were fractured just like the "fresh" corpses of Woddle and his companions. What was completely incomprehensible …
The camp was set up at some distance from the cave of skeletons. And again, in the middle of the night, there was a fractional clang, now much closer. Now, no one had any doubts about where he was coming from. The search engines, people generally awkward, and besides, quite well armed, spent a sleepless night. Only in the afternoon did Winston and a few others go to the cave. Everything here remained the same, there was no trace of anyone's stay at night.
But in the cave itself … A superficial glance at the skeletons was enough to make sure that most of them, if not all of them, changed their position, the day before they sat or lay in a different way! Did someone drag the dead at night? Why, for what purpose? Winston and another member of the expedition decided to hide near the entrance to the cave. Supplied with stocks of coffee and whiskey, armed with pistols, and a movie camera that allowed them to film in the dark, they hoped not to oversleep and fix the cause of the strange noise.
The rest returned to the camp. The next night, from the side of the cave, the same crunching sound was heard. No one doubted that only bones can knock. Nobody heard any other sounds - no shots, no shouts. And the next morning, Clive found the corpses of Winston and his companion, lying in a puddle of blood, their bodies crushed in the most savage way, and their skulls pierced by some blunt object.
This made such a terrible impression on the people that they hurriedly took the corpses and immediately left the plain. No one dared to look into the cave again, although one of the expedition members said that passing by its entrance, he shone a flashlight there. A beam of light snatched part of one of the cave skeletons out of the darkness. This man claims that he saw on the blackened bones of an ancient skeleton … fresh caked blood!
Of course, the people who met Clive's expedition did not rush to believe everything that was told, few people believe in the story of fresh blood on the skeletons "rising at night" … The report of the expedition was never made public, which, apparently, was done under pressure investigative bodies. It is planned that in the future another expedition is to go to the mysterious cave …
