City's legends 2024, April

Neil Arnold is a good friend of mine, writes ufologist Nick Redfern, he, like me, spent a lot of time investigating the supernatural cases of the "woman in black" that can be found all over the world, there are also cases of meetings with the "woman in white"

Another grave in Petropavlovka, which is traditionally considered empty, is the burial of Emperor Alexander I.The strange, quick death of the emperor, which occurred in 1825 in Taganrog, caused a lot of rumors and speculations. Many believed that Alexander, all his life feeling guilty for indirect participation in the death of his father Paul I, simply left the throne, simulating his death

Urban legends are mythical stories that are passed off as truth. Sometimes they are tied to one locality, sometimes to some kind of folklore image or a certain person. Some of them sound pretty creepy.- Salik.bizBloody MaryThere are legends about her in England and the USA

Some researchers believe that the graves of the Romanov dynasty in the Peter and Paul Fortress are actually empty. This point of view is shared, for example, by the famous historian Prince Dmitry Shakhovskoy. He claims that the Bolsheviks simply threw out the bones of the emperors they hated, leaving only the sarcophagi

In the history of the Decembrists, unfortunately, there are more mysteries than guesses. The Soviet government, which encouraged the study of this topic, set out not so much to understand what the Decembrists really were, but to proclaim that they had awakened Herzen, and then things gradually came to 1917

The first official, so to speak, the ghost of St. Petersburg is the ghost of an excavator.In the summer of 1708, work was carried out on the construction of the Kronverk - the bastion of the Peter and Paul Fortress. They were already coming to an end when the workers heard cries for help - one of the diggers fell into the Kronverk Strait, which in those years was very wide and deep-water

Bethlem Royal Hospital was opened in the 13th century as an institution for the mentally ill. However, after a few years, the hospital gained fame as one of the most terrible institutions in Britain, where instead of doctors there were real maniacs, and patients became victims of cruel experiments and torture

According to local legends, the ghosts in the house appeared after the visit of the devil himself.Almost any house built 150 years ago is suggestive of ghosts. Of course, if it was not restored beyond recognition. But a special pleasure is to visit, or at least look at photographs of a house in which ghosts are definitely found

Another ghost of the Peter and Paul Fortress is the ghost of Princess Tarakanova. It usually appears at the Trubetskoy bastion. KD Flavitsky's painting "Princess Tarakanova", written in 1864, has little to do with reality: the princess did not drown at all

“It’s empty for St. Petersburg,” prophesied many blessed ones, both from St. Petersburg and from Russia.For the first time, this gloomy spell was uttered by Evdokia Lopukhina, the first wife of Peter I, mother of Tsarevich Alexei. Peter did not live with her for long and quickly moved to the German settlement to Anna Mons. While

The Malokhtinskoye cemetery (Novocherkassky prospect, 8) is one of the oldest necropolises of St. Petersburg: it was founded by the decree of Empress Catherine I. Once the cemetery was called Raskolnichy: people who did not have money for a decent burial, and Old Believers were mainly buried here

Sarah Winchester began building an eerie seven-story mansion in San Jose back in 1884, and construction continued until her death. How the house is connected with the curse of the Winchester family, and why it became an abode for spirits, we tell in our material

Peter I, choosing a place for the foundation of the future city on May 16, 1703, noticed that an eagle was circling over the Yenisaari Island (now the Hare Island).The Tsar himself dug the beginning of the ditch, a stone box with a golden ark was lowered into it, where a particle of the relics of the holy Apostle Andrew the First-Called was located

All people dream and sometimes, being in this or that city as a tourist, they involuntarily look for iconic places where they can make a wish. In Verona, Italy, travelers rub a bust of a bronze statue of Juliet, and in Florence, a Florentine boar is the fulfillment of desires

Queen Elizabeth's crown is adorned with 2,465 diamonds, but the most notable of these is the 105-carat Koh-i-noor, a famous diamond with a long history.Koh-i-noor is translated from Hindi as "Mountain of Light". The history of the diamond has been known for certain since 1300

The world in which we all live so comfortably surprises us every day. Every day something happens that excites the mind and mixes all the branches of consciousness into one inexplicable heap of amazed thoughts.Many corners of our home planet, whose mystical nature has not yet been discovered by researchers, in one way or another change the life of each of us

Perhaps scientists have their own explanations, but the ancient legends and myths of Tajikistan, which real people faced, still stir the imagination

The name of Beverly Hills, a city located near Los Angeles, has become a household name, denoting incredible luxury, home to the rich and famous.In Beverly Hills, as everyone knows, there is only sun, palm trees, beaches, luxury cars, huge mansions and everything else that most of the people aspire to in our times

The history of the Tallinn Battery Prison is full of sadness, horror and violence, writes a Finnish journalist. But what he tells has as much to the story as the Finnish TV series filmed in this prison. His article is just a listing of the "horrors of the Soviet occupation" in their official Russophobic interpretation adopted in modern Estonia

Topkapi is a magnificent and mysterious palace of the Ottoman sultans. For several centuries, the entrance to the main residence of the padishah was not accessible to every mortal. Only at the beginning of the twentieth century, by the decree of Ataturk, Topkapi was turned into a museum, from that day anyone can get acquainted with the luxury of the main palace of Istanbul

Strange things are happening around Bell Hill. Many locals say they saw people disappearing into thin air. And the drivers and motorists allegedly saw a young woman in a bride's dress, who suddenly appeared in the night right in front of the hood

Nowadays, fewer people are subject to all sorts of prejudices, and it is no longer so easy to accept superstitious ideas on faith, without strong confirmation. However, this does not detract from the attractiveness of ancient legends - always mysterious and bizarre, often dark and sinister

Can you see the spirits of dead people? A long-standing statement insists that an ethereal spirit or ghost, as well as entities similar to them, can appear in our world, though always under some exceptional conditions.Often, ghosts or spirits of the deceased move in our world while maintaining invisibility

Strange sounds can be heard in the house number 13 on Lenin Street. Employees of the institution located in this house, in the evenings, hear the sounds of footsteps near empty, closed offices, in the hall, in the attic.After the October events, various institutions were located in this house under mystical number 13, it has never been residential

The history of the Winchester House, built at the end of the 19th century in California by Sarah Winchester, daughter-in-law of the famous gunsmith, is shrouded in secrets and mysteries. They made horror films about him, Stephen King wrote about him

Every year, thousands of tourists come to the Myrtle plantation in the hope of seeing the ghosts of the people who died there. Whose spirit still wanders the neighborhood, and what other secrets are hidden within the walls of this house, we tell in our material

The story in the new Winchester movie is not fiction. The possessed millionaire actually built a mad and damned house. We will tell you how it happened. And will show an exclusive excerpt from the film. Certainly the horror film Winchester

What did they say in Leningrad about the building where the NKVD worked, why were the Ingrian people afraid of the place where Smolny stands, what evil spirits gathered on the future Field of Mars and where in St. Petersburg they worked on the "formula of happiness"?

Although there was no tabloid press and the Internet in the Soviet Union, the genre of so-called urban legends existed at that time. There were real "horror stories" passed from mouth to mouth and sometimes passed off as the truth

People are interested in all sorts of legends. Some of them are based on real events, others are pure fiction, and in some cases the line between reality and fiction may be vague or unclear.Urban legends tend to fall into the latter category, but they can be found in one form or another in every culture and society

Admit it, many of you like to tickle your nerves by reading eerie urban legends. Moreover, Halloween is just around the corner. On the eve of it, we prepared one creepy story from each state

Have you ever wondered why the stories we tell each other while sitting by the fire make us shake with fear? The truth is, they always have a grain of truth

On the shore of Lake Okhta there is a half-abandoned and gloomy Malokhtinskoye cemetery. Since the 18th century, burials of Old Believers who did not accept the church reform of Patriarch Nikon were held here. The Old Believers were considered unkind and unsociable people

There are certain emotions that can be experienced when visiting a loved one's last vacation spot. Loss … Sadness …If you ventured deeper into Maple Hill Cemetery in Huntsville, Alabama, you might hear sounds of joy and happiness. But if you listen carefully, you will understand that the sounds do not come from the living.- S

They say that whoever touches this bronze monument will die very quickly.The monument is located in the old Auckland cemetery, its history goes back to 1891. Since then, scary stories have been told about this place.- Salik.bizIt all started at the beginning of the 20th century

One way or another, the cemetery is a priori shrouded in mysticism from which legends are formed, and even more so on famous necropolises.Today we will tell you some of them, based on the works of Yu.V. Ryabinin "The Mysticism of Moscow Cemeteries"

Legends were made about her, she became the heroine of novels and films

Let's start with the most legendary artifacts - stone women. This, as scientists say, - anthropomorphic menhirs, stone sculptures from one to four meters high

Many tourists, coming to the Northern Capital, tend to visit the Peter and Paul Fortress. But not only tourists are attracted by this mysterious structure. Many scientists-ufologists, as well as researchers of paranormal phenomena, strive to visit here at least once in their lives

The Holy Grail, thanks to the medieval legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, has been sought for centuries. The search does not stop now. And the versions that mystery lovers give out are one more amazing than the other