Andrey Efremov from Yakutsk devoted his whole life to anomalous phenomena. For many years he has been collecting and analyzing testimonies and stories of eyewitnesses who had to deal with unexplained phenomena. The researcher says that people themselves go to him and share their memories. Moreover, literally every second such eyewitness, talking about strange cases, necessarily notes that he does not believe in either God or the Devil.
Unknown monsters
Anton Serdyukov, truck driver, avid fisherman and mushroom picker, says:
My childhood was spent in Tuloma on the Kola Peninsula. Now I live in Yakutsk, but sometimes I come to my native village, often when we meet with friends we recall strange incidents from our childhood.
That incident happened in 1978 when I was only seven years old. My friends and I loved to play in one rocky ravine, where at the same time we were picking berries. Once we once again went down into the ravine, when suddenly we noticed a hole on its slope, which looked like a freshly dug hole. We were surprised because we knew these places very well. When we got closer, we saw: some small furry creatures with tails were swarming around the hole. They had light gray hair, knees bent in the opposite direction, height - no more than twenty centimeters. Devils - there is no other word for it!
We hid and watched these little monsters. The impression was that the little devils were preoccupied with something, they wanted to find something. We tried to get closer to examine the creatures. They noticed us and ran straight at us, and we ran away from them, screeching with horror. The monsters did not pursue us, it seemed that they simply wanted to drive away random observers from the hole. I am sure: if they wanted to catch up, they would catch up - the devils ran very quickly.
We returned to that hole several more times - it’s curious. Only the little monsters chased us away again and again. It seemed as if they were showing us: don't meddle in our affairs, don't interfere, they say, it's not up to you!
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We then told the adults about the "evil" in the ravine, and they made fun of us. Nobody believed it, of course. But the adults themselves, on long evenings, told different stories and legends about that ravine.
Of course, it all looks fantastic. I wouldn't have believed that myself. But there were five of us. I saw my friends too. We still, when we meet, remember those demons in great detail. And recently, when I went to my native village once again, the nephew of one of my friends said that he also saw these creatures in the ravine. The friend, of course, forbade the boy to go there.
Legends about Chakhkli
Saami legends about a stunted people who live underground have been preserved. From Nenets, the word orphan is translated as "making a hole." By the way, from the Yakut language the word "sire" is translated into Russian as land.
The writer of the late 19th century, Vasily Danchenko, in his memoirs about the Kola regions, mentioned chahkli - this is how the Sami mythology called underground inhabitants. They were described as small, human-like monsters, small in stature, gray in color, living underground or under rocks, fast and fussy. In his memoirs, Danchenko wrote that Chakhkli, by their tricks, often harm people, but not from evil. And the Sami call too fussy people chahkli, they say: "Well, what are you running around like?" Perhaps it was them that Anton met in his childhood?