In the Muromtsevsky district of the Omsk region there is a village with a beautiful name - Okunevo. However, it became famous not because of its "fishing" name - it is practically the center of the anomalous zone, where, as they say in Russia, the devil knows what happens.
In the village itself, a story is passed from mouth to mouth that anomalies were first noticed here immediately after the Great Patriotic War. Just in 1945, the boys playing on the bank of the river suddenly saw three women of enormous height emerge from the water. Children rushed to the village to tell adults about this miracle. But, of course, nobody believed them. However, in 1947, a local teacher once heard bells ringing from the sky. Looking up, the woman was stunned: horses of unprecedented beauty were flying over the ground in the air …
And further in the area of the village of Okunevo, such anomalies began to occur more and more often, for example, multi-colored balloons and UFOs in the sky for local residents became so common that no one pays attention to them, unless the cattle have to be held at this moment, which is why is very worried and scatters.
Maybe the reason is the mysterious lakes surrounding the village? There are four of them, but there is a legend that somewhere (apparently in a parallel dimension) there is a fifth, and a mixture of liquid from all five lakes is supposedly capable of acquiring the property of a real fabulous "living water" - from all ailments and misfortunes.
But while no one has found the fifth mythical reservoir, medicinal properties are attributed to the most mysterious lake named Shaitan. Pilgrims from all over Russia, and even from abroad, constantly come to him for healing water. They say that the water from this lake really helps with many diseases, even just being in this anomalous zone (which is why pilgrims near Okunevo constantly arrange summer camps) harmonizes a person's energy, which contributes to healing, as well as his spiritual enlightenment. But the locals themselves are somehow not distinguished by either good health, or longevity, or some great spirituality - ordinary village people.
Anomalies of Lake Shaitan near the village of Okuneva
Perhaps this is not connected with the lake itself, namely with the village, but pilgrims come here most often for the water and mud of Shaitan. There is even a legend that the Siberian Shaitan Lake hides the city of the giant Hanuman, who once helped the god Rama in his struggle against evil forces (there is supposedly a story about this in the Indian epic Ramayana). That is why people from all over the Earth and especially often from India come to this legendary reservoir.
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A very interesting case happened here not so long ago. Hindu pilgrims came to him. In the morning they took a compass direction to Shaitan Lake and went to themselves. It took about an hour to walk. But our Indians walk for an hour, then two, and there is still no reservoir. And the forest is getting thicker and more unsightly. In general, persistent pilgrims walked like this for seven hours, but still did not reach the lake. Finally, they could not resist (and were already frightened), and again turned back on the compass - after 20 minutes they returned to the village of Okuneva.
But the locals were not very surprised by this adventure: it turns out that sometimes it is better not to go beyond the village limits at all, especially when the sky is covered with strange purple clouds in the morning. It happens that people do not return from such trips, so the Indians are still lucky …
Local hunters are sure that somewhere there is a breakthrough into a parallel world, hence, they say, all the misfortunes. You can leave and wander like that in that looking glass for a long time, sometimes for several days, or you may not return at all. Yes, and "from there" guests often visit our world: fishermen often notice the footprints of a "Bigfoot" in the snow up to a meter long (imagine this giant humanoid!). As a rule, such traces stretch in a chain and suddenly … break off, as if a mysterious creature has disappeared into thin air …
Attempts to scientifically explain the anomalous phenomena of the village of Okuneva
Scientists and independent researchers of paranormal phenomena have repeatedly appeared on Lake Shaitan in order to discover the causes of the above anomalies. Specialist scientists, for example, ultimately determined that specific bacteria are cultivated in wetlands near a reservoir due to decaying marsh grasses and algae, and supposedly all this leads to the accumulation (in calm weather) of a special marsh gas here, which causes hallucinations and fainting. In windy weather, poison gas can spread and cover this entire "anomalous zone".
However, the locals did not believe in this theory of scientists. Everything is too simple and unambiguous. And how to explain the same footprints of the yeti that suddenly appear, suddenly disappear, balls and UFOs in the sky, and all this is quietly filmed in photos and videos today (what kind of glitches are these?). And how to explain the temporal-spatial gaps that people often fall into here (for example, the same Indians). And it's good if they return, many disappear without a trace. So all this cannot be explained by hallucinations - it is too simple, something is completely different here …