Over the years, various amateur expeditions have been looking for a kind of "damn cemetery", which is located somewhere in the basin of the Kova River, a tributary of the Angara.
The journal "Technics - Youth" (1983. No. 8) published an official report on the first attempt to find the "damn cemetery" written by M. Panov and V. Zhuravlev. Then there was the publication in the newspaper "Komsomolskaya Pravda" on February 10, 1988: a report on the searches undertaken by the expedition from Uzbekistan; authors - researchers of Tashkent institutes A. Simonov and S. Simonov. Magazine "Light" (1991. No. 12): report on the third expedition, organized and led by engineer A. Rempel from Vladivostok …
Stories about the "damn cemetery" persistently circulate through the Angara villages and towns for decades. The last daredevil, they say, visited the "cemetery" forty years ago and took with him to the grave the secret of the location of the legendary meadow somewhere in the deep taiga. It is only known that this "lost place" is a clearing located on a gentle slope of a hill, hill or mountain in the area of an old abandoned road starting near the village of Karamyshevo on the banks of the Kova River. In ancient times, cattle were driven along the road. It is also known that after the cattle drivers accidentally discovered that clearing, they moved the road three kilometers away from harm. And on the old path, so that no one wandered into the "bad place" by accident, they left a kind of pointer: they carved an image of a devil and an arrow pointing to a clearing on a tree.
According to local legends, the meadow is a piece of scorched earth with a diameter of several tens of meters. The legend of the "pernicious place" speaks both of the bones of dead animals, and of human bones scattered across the clearing. Anyone who accidentally wandered into it, supposedly immediately burned out from "hell fire". The branches laid on the clearing quickly charred by themselves, and the meat of the killed bird thrown on it acquired a red-fiery hue in a few minutes.
Let's say that the cause of the death of creatures in the "murderous clearing" was a certain radiation coming from the ground. Its effect only inside the clearing indicates a very narrow focus. And then the question immediately arises: is the source of extremely narrowly directed radiation natural ?!
The legend about the "damn cemetery" emphasized that a person approaching the edge of the clearing supposedly begins to feel a slowly growing strange pain in his body, along the way he feels melancholy, as if saying goodbye to life …
A. Simonov and S. Simonov, in their article published in Komsomolskaya Pravda, write:
"It is difficult to explain such features of the" damn cemetery "as the strict localization of the border of vegetation and the zone of lethal impact, and most importantly - its instantaneousness …"
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The Kezhemsky regional newspaper "Sovetskoe Priangarye" dated April 24, 1940 says that an experienced hunter, as a guide, accompanied the regional agronomist from Angara to the village of Karamyshevo in the spring thaw through taiga. On the way, he talked about the "damn cemetery" opened not far from the path by his grandfather, and agreed to show the agronomist "glade". Further in an article published sixty years ago in the district newspaper, it is reported: “A dark bald spot appeared near a small mountain. The ground on it is black and loose. There was no vegetation. Green, fresh pine branches were carefully laid on the bare ground. After a while they took them back. The agronomist began a thorough examination. The green branches faded as if they had been scorched by something. At the slightest touch, the needles fell off them … Coming to the edge of the clearing, people immediately felt a strange pain in their bodies.
An amateur search expedition from Uzbekistan searched for a "damn cemetery" for a long time. Its participants have identified old paths in the area of the village of Karamyshevo. Taiga was combed in suspicious places.
Apparently, they wandered, strayed somewhere in the area of the desired clearing, but they never found it. The fact that the desired glade was found somewhere here, somewhere very close, was indicated by the fact that the members of the expedition just here, in the taiga near Karamyshevo, suddenly felt worse, and their pulse dropped to 40 - 45 beats per minute.
Without finding a clearing, the members of the expedition left the vicinity of the village of Karamyshevo. On the way back, they met a group from the local town of Kodinsk. The group consisted of twenty people who, it turns out, were also sent in search of the "damn cemetery" …
The expedition of young people from the Far East was much more successful.
At one time, I maintained close epistolary contacts with its leader, Alexander Rempel. A. Rempel sent me by mail from Vladivostok his "developments" on local anomalous phenomena, and in response I sent him my own … cemetery”, and with a detailed typewritten account of the results of this expedition. The report had an ending that amazed me greatly.
The report stated:
“On May 25, 1991, our search group left Vladivostok for Bratsk, from where they reached the Kova River by passing cars. We set up a base camp near the village of Karamyshevo … Every day we walked about fifty kilometers through the taiga, examined all the “suspicious” places during the week. Only much later, analyzing the results of our searches at home, did we realize in hindsight that we had been in complete isolation for a whole week. We did not see not only people, but also animals and birds. The taiga seemed to have died out in the places where we roamed it …
After walking about five kilometers from the crossing of the Deshemba River, one day we crossed the ridge and suddenly on the gentle slope of the hill we found a tree without a top and without branches, with the bark almost completely removed from the trunk. It was carved with the "face" of a line: round small eyes, a long thin curved nose, thick lips and horns that resemble cat ears. Above the image, like a tan, was an arrow pointing to the right of the path. The identifier sensor detected the presence of strong electromagnetic radiation, and all our compasses were out of order - the arrows froze on them as if soldered. All the signs coincided - we are somewhere near the clearing!"
The young people went where the arrow pointed on the tree. They soon felt a growing irrational excitement and an increasing tingling sensation in the body. There was a slight numbness in the muscles of the body, which lasted for two subsequent days. The knee joints were swollen and slightly painful. There was a slight pain in the roots of the teeth, resembling itching.
Our "homebrew researchers" got scared and hastily retreated away - away from the "accursed place". Finding themselves, perhaps, only a few tens of meters from the "damn cemetery", at the very last moment they decided not to continue their search. Well, at the very last moment, you know!.. Health, you see, is more valuable than scientific results, to which our "researchers" were literally at hand.
Amicably, in a crowd of "researchers" rushed away, whipped up by fear, concern for their own precious health.
The question arises whether it was worth starting an expensive expedition from Vladivostok to the banks of the Angara and its tributaries, wandering there for a week for 50 kilometers a day, so that at the very last second - literally on the verge of a scientific discovery! - to abruptly end the search?..