There are many legends about the mysterious places and buildings of the Dnieper. These stories do not open the veil of secrecy, but make it even more dense, causing many questions and perplexities.
You can explore the mysterious places of the Dnieper for weeks or even months. Many keen tourists devote more than one trip to this. Moreover, daily rent of apartments in Dnipro is affordable, regardless of the season and location.
Potemkin's pit-killer (in the courtyard of the house No. 5 on Gagarin Avenue), according to the idea of Prince Potemkin, was to become a huge pool. The sudden death of the prince was the reason for stopping work on the construction of the reservoir. And the uncovered pit began counting the victims of negligence, the number of which remained unknown.
Potemkin Palace, and now the Palace of Culture for students of the Oles Honchar Dnipro National University, is the oldest building in the Dnieper. But his mysticism lies not in age, but in the labyrinths of unexplored underground passages leading to the banks of the Dnieper.
Dnieper Atlantis - ghost islands, which were the most common before the construction of the Dnieper HPP. Now they are hidden under water and can only be seen on maps of the 18th-19th centuries. Rumor has it that in the 1920s and 1930s a glow could be seen near one of them.
The house of the sorcerer at 6 Orlovskaya Street is a gloomy and ominous building. For known reasons, it has another, no less mystical name - a haunted house. They say that a sorcerer lived in this building, who magically seduced a 16-year-old beauty and soon received death at her hand.
The Kingdom of the Dead is an abandoned hospital on Korolenko Street where hopeless patients were placed. Numerous legends are associated with underground passages intertwining under the building. It is rumored that during the Second World War, the Nazis carried out terrible experiments on people in the basements of this hospital, trying to create an insensitive and immortal zombie soldier.
The ghost of the Holy Trinity Cathedral is one of the few that brings good luck to meet. He appears in the form of an old woman dressed in white clothes. They say that candles and icons move by themselves in the cathedral. And local sorcerers come to the cathedral built on a bald mountain to discard the negative.
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