The Devil's Cemetery (another name is Devil's Glade) is a zone that is believed to have appeared immediately after the fall of the Tunguska meteorite at the confluence of the Kova and Angara rivers. The anomalous zone is located near the border Krasnoyarsk Territory and Irkutsk region.
Many researchers who tried to study this place disappeared, others were stopped by the appearance of very unpleasant symptoms. According to the recollections of old-timers, the Devil's Cemetery appeared in 1908 immediately after the fall Tunguska meteorite. They said that at first a hole in the ground simply appeared in this anomalous zone.
After some time, this hole was filled with dead wood and animal corpses.
The round clearing, approximately 200 - 250 meters in diameter, inspired horror, since bones and carcasses of taiga animals and even birds could be seen here and there on the bare ground. And the tree branches hanging over the clearing were charred, as if from a nearby fire.
It is noteworthy that the release of gases, typical in swampy areas, was not felt here.
One of the messages about the existence of a “black spot” in the Kova River valley was conveyed in 1960 by S. Kurochkin, a radiologist at the Tomsk local oncology clinic.
In 1941, he worked as the head of a medical district in the village of Kosoy Byk on the Angara. About 25 km from the confluence of the Kova and the Angara there was a village, the name of which S. Kulyukin, unfortunately, could not remember.
In July 1941, he, together with the surgeon of the Kezhem hospital V. Prikhodko, came to the village in connection with mobilization. A local hunter said that upstream the Kova there is a “disastrous place”: animals die there, for example, cattle that accidentally get there. And even birds. The dead cows are dragged out of the clearing - and not even grass grows on it - with hooks on ropes: everyone is afraid that you will step on the place where they died. Dead cows have unusually red meat - the hunter claimed he had never seen anything like it. He was ready to take the doctors to the disastrous clearing - it was located only 7...8 kilometers from the village. However, the military situation did not allow the doctors to visit there; they were overloaded with work.
In 1984, I. N. Bryukhanov, who worked in Bratsk, recalled that in 1952, when he was the representative for grain supplies in Karamyshev, he often went to the taiga with one grandfather-hunter. Once, having gone very close from the village, to the north-west, they came out into a clearing of an extraordinary appearance. The old man declared that this was the “Devil’s Cemetery.”
In 1984, an expedition visited those places with the goal of finding and studying the “Devil’s Cemetery.” They questioned Bryukhanov in detail, identifying a number of points that confirmed the objectivity of his testimony. Here is his story: “We crossed a dry stream, then the stream on which the mill stands. Immediately behind it the ascent to the ridge begins. Having crossed it, we went downhill (we walked about a kilometer), the path was blocked by a rubble. Before the blockage there is a detour path. From the bypass trail, a well-worn trail branches off to the left. Having walked along it for about a kilometer, on the right side we saw a gap similar to the gap from a clearing. This is the “Devil's Cemetery”. Around the clearing are thickets of cuckoo... The clearing itself is about 100 meters, not round, but rather L-shaped. Rare multi-colored moss, very rare and small, grows on the golden-colored surface of the earth. Immediately behind the clearing one can discern some kind of stream - obviously a tributary of the Kamkambora River... The place itself is located on a small hill. From the “Devil's Cemetery to Karamyshev” the walk is no more than an hour and a half.
Unfortunately, the 1984 expedition failed to reach its goal. Whether the expedition took place the next year, what it brought, materials about this have not yet appeared in the press. By at least, all participants in the first expedition had a firm belief that the “Devil’s Cemetery” existed at least in 1952. Does it exist now - judging by the above story, its activity is fading away - grass is already growing on the previously empty land, and its size has become half as large as in the twenties...
The most successful can be considered the 1991 expedition, which was organized by ufologists from Vladivostok. Its direct participant, Alexander Rempel, said that the compass needle froze in the pointing position north side, and did not want to move. In the evening, group members felt tingling sensations in their bodies, some began toothache. All this led to increased excitement. In the evening, when the group approached the clearing, communication with the outside world, which was carried out through a transistor, was interrupted. This fact forced the members of the Vladivostok expedition to abandon attempts at further research and quickly retreat to a safe place.
According to researcher F. Perfilov, the study of this place should be carried out using good equipment and always remotely, using a robot, in order to avoid new victims.
There are many legends about this ominous place.
Many scientists and simply lovers of mysticism came to Devil's Glade. But not all the researchers were able to return home - in about ten years, seventy-five people got lost in the anomalous zone. Three groups of tourists have disappeared in the taiga. Another tour group later disappeared. It was not possible to find out the fate of at least one missing person.
An editorial assignment brought me to the taiga region of Angara - to check reports about the existence of a mysterious clearing, which journalists dubbed a “lost place” and a “damn cemetery”, and a mysterious lake with living water... What we knew did not at all resemble the truth. It’s as if the spaceship that crashed into the ground on June 30, 1908, managed to throw out the rescue module before the inevitable disaster. It was, as some claimed, a kind of “black box” that contained information about aliens. Others believed that the aliens managed to escape, but... ended up in the Earth's mantle and from there they sent signals to the surface. Of course, the reader immediately guessed that we were talking about the Tunguska meteorite, the search for which is still ongoing. And, going on a business trip, I had no doubt that the messages about the “lost place” and the mystery of the space alien were connected. This is how it turned out, as I was convinced of after reviewing the facts. There is no shortage of hypotheses, but I would like to offer one more, quite earthly one...
Mysterious glade
“The round clearing, about 200 - 250 meters, evoked horror: on the bare ground here and there bones and carcasses of taiga animals and even birds could be seen. And the branches of the trees hanging over the clearing were charred, as if from a nearby fire. The clearing was completely clean, devoid of any vegetation. The dogs that visited the “devil’s cemetery” stopped eating, became lethargic and soon died” - this is an excerpt from a letter from Mikhail Panov from the village of Ust-Kova, Kezhemsky district, Krasnoyarsk Territory. The author conveyed what he heard before the war from one experienced hunter.
The “Devil's Cemetery” seems to be deliberately located relatively close to the place where the Tunguska disaster occurred...
And here I am in Kezhma, an ancient Russian village on the banks of the Angara. I’m walking and for some reason I’m embarrassed to ask passers-by about the “devilry” here - this whole story looks too far-fetched.
The main village street stretched along the shore for about three kilometers. Behind the church-club - empty book Shop, and even further there is a wooden bridge across Kezhemka, which immediately flows into the Angara. Then the road goes into the taiga. Well, it turns out that I cannot escape the local authorities, who are obliged to know everything. A few minutes later I was knocking on the door with a sign: “Chairman of the Executive Committee Nikolai Nikolaevich Vereshchagin.”
The owner of the office shakes my hand and invites me to settle down. I start right away:
“Perhaps the topic that interests us may seem frivolous to you, but it worries a lot of people. Somewhere in your area, they say, there is a place called the “damn cemetery”... Do you know about this?
Vereshchagin stood up, went to the window and looked thoughtfully at the Angara, at the green island lying in the middle of the river, where God knows how the cows that had moved there grazed.
“I was born in these places,” Nikolai Nikolaevich said after a pause. “And, of course, I know this story.” There is such a place in the taiga. Somewhere in the area of the Kova River, which flows into the Angara...
According to Vereshchagin, they first learned about the “lost place” in Kezhma in the late 30s. An old hunter - the grandfather of Nikolai Nikolaevich's neighbor, a certain Tamara Sergeevna Simutina, once told his relatives about a mysterious incident that happened in the taiga on the Kova River or its tributary Kakambara... At the winter hut, in a remote, inaccessible place, many miles from the latter on Cove of the village of Karamyshevo, a bull disappeared. Local people in the past they were not afraid to walk through the taiga and even managed to drive cattle along the paths they knew. The so-called Chervyansky tract ran in those places - a forest road along which one could get north to the Angara and further to the upper reaches of the Lena. Siberians often drove their cattle along this difficult route to sell them in the mines.
The summer of 1938 turned out to be unusually dry. The beds of many taiga rivers had dried up, and shepherds, taking a shortcut, drove their cattle straight over the stones. Having reached the winter hut, the shepherds stopped for the night and let the cattle go to graze. A pet will not go far from its home - it is afraid. And when the next morning the shepherds began to round up the herd, one bull was missing. We searched the coastal thickets and went a little deeper into the wild taiga. And suddenly they saw something terrible - a black clearing, as if scorched in a circle, and on it a dead bull. His skin was singed. The dogs growled at the sight of the carrion, but did not go into the clearing.
The eyewitnesses did not tell the grandfather whether they themselves decided to step into the cursed circle. Most likely they ran away... Then, according to the stories of the old hunter, the spot was small, only about twelve to fifteen meters...
“Only one person became interested in the old man’s fables at that time—the local agronomist,” Vereshchagin continued. “He was the first to go to the “damn cemetery.” But it’s better to ask my friend, a correspondent for the regional newspaper, about this. He looked for this agronomist and even found his story in some old files.
Having remembered the address of journalist Shakhov, I asked before leaving:
- Do you, Nikolai Nikolaevich, believe in the “damn cemetery”? Wasn't this story made up from the very beginning?
- Why not believe? But I really never found it. When I was hunting in those parts, it was difficult to find the way to the winter quarters.
I didn’t find Shakhov at home; he himself soon found me in the wooden hotel where I was staying. Boris Vasilyevich, as befits a journalist, was aware of everything. He has lived in the Kezhemsky district for more than fifteen years, and he himself comes from St. Petersburg. He wrote about the “damn cemetery” more than once in the “Soviet Priangarye”, a regional newspaper, and was one of the organizers of expeditions to this area.
“We didn’t find the clearing,” Boris Vasilyevich said sadly. “Probably we weren’t looking in the right place.” The old people who saw the “damn cemetery” all died. If you want, I will tell you everything that was known about the mystery before our search...
— First there was my grandfather’s story from the winter hut.
- Maybe. But a message about this appeared in the local press in 1940. I have been looking for this publication for a long time. The file of the local newspaper, then called “Kolkhoznik”, was, of course, not preserved in Kezhma. I had to go to Moscow and rummage through the storage rooms of the Lenin Library. And so I found it, you know, reprinted it in “Soviet Priangarye”. The old article talked about agronomist Valentin Semenovich Salyagin. This man, due to the nature of his work, often visited the most remote corners of the taiga region. He also had to get to Karamyshev, which is about forty kilometers from the mysterious clearing, and it was there that he heard about the “damn cemetery.” Probably, this story was told by the owner of the winter hut himself, who called the clearing “the clearing.”
“A dark bald spot appeared near a small mountain,” a pre-war reporter from Kezhma reported from Salyagin. “The ground underneath is really black and loose.” There is no vegetation. Grouse and green fresh branches were carefully placed on the bare ground. After some time they took it back. At the slightest touch, the needles of the branches fell off. The hazel grouse have not changed externally. But the insides had a reddish tint and were burned by something. When people stayed near this place for a short time, some strange pain appeared in the body.”
There was also a message that Salyagin once again had a chance to visit that mysterious place. The picture was the same, the compass needle began to oscillate violently...
“Unfortunately, we were unable to find traces of Salyagin himself,” said Shakhov. “The old-timers remember him and say that before the war he disappeared somewhere.”
The preparation of modern expeditions to the “lost place” began with the analysis of eyewitness accounts. Soon, search groups set off along Salyagin’s path. At first they consisted mainly of local hydraulic builders. The organizer of the expeditions was Pavel Smirnov, deputy chief surveyor of the Boguchangesstroy trust. It was perhaps for the first time that he walked along the Kova on skis in winter, but he never found the “damn cemetery.” Later he met a researcher who gave his explanation of the agronomist’s testimony. This is Alexander Simonov, an employee of the Research Institute of Applied Physics of Tashkent University. Knowing nothing, as he claimed, about the mystery of the burnt meadow that worried the Siberians, he came to the Angara region to test his hypothesis about the crash site of the never found Tunguska meteorite. Simonov was seriously interested in astronomy and independently made calculations according to which the cosmic body that fell on the Tunguska plateau was and continues to be searched for in the wrong place.
The epicenter of the explosion was the area of the Podkamennaya Tunguska River, not far from the village of Vanavara, which is now the center of the Vanavara district neighboring Kezhemsky. Simonov believed that the meteorite exploded not on the ground, but in the atmosphere. The shock wave threw the cosmic body hundreds of kilometers to the side. According to the scientist’s calculations, it turned out that the meteorite fell into the taiga somewhere near the Angara, in the Kezhemsky region. A logging site had formed there, but due to the remoteness of the housing, no one paid attention to it. Simonov was looking for a meteorite near Kezhma, four hundred kilometers from the place of work of most expeditions. And it is clear that he connected the story about the “burnt meadow” with the Tunguska disaster and suggested that this was the trace of a fallen meteorite that went deep into the ground. The hypothesis and the inexplicable phenomenon coincided, and the latter acquired an unexpected and tempting interpretation.
Simonov and Smirnov organized several expeditions to the Kova River. The 1988 expedition was well equipped. Simonov brought with him instruments for high-frequency magnetic measurements. Smirnov formed several search groups, transported deep into the taiga by helicopter. Such a scale would not have been possible without the help of the Kezmales plant. Its management made its helicopter available to search engines.
When flying over a large area over Kova, the greenish screens of electronic detectors did not record any bursts of electromagnetic radiation. The search for ground groups also did not bring anything encouraging. But during the last flight, as expedition member Oleg Nekhaev later wrote in the newspaper, the instruments suddenly responded and recorded a long-awaited surge in magnetic activity, just above the Kova tributary - the Kakambara River...
Immediately, the group closest to that place was contacted by radio. In fact, we didn’t notice anything strange here: the usual hilly terrain with tall pine trees and babbling streams. Only the mountain stood out. However, the compass was “naughty”: when moving several steps, the magnetic meridian “floated” 30 - 40 degrees to the side. Geologists confirmed that a pronounced magnetic anomaly had been found. But, as physicists later said, it was a magnetostatic, ordinary manifestation magnetic field, and not magnetodynamic, which would confirm Simonov’s original hypothesis. True, the background radiation here was somewhat higher.
“In a word, we haven’t been able to find the “lost place” yet,” Shakhov threw up his hands. “But the mystery remains.” Although, I think, the mystery can be explained more simply... But it’s still interesting to go on a search again.
I really wanted to get to the “black spot”. But how to get to Kovu? Walk hundreds of kilometers through the taiga, without suitable equipment, experience of such travel, without a supply of food and without a guide?
“You know,” Boris Vasilyevich noted as he left, “American scientists are now at the mouth of the Kova, and, it seems, Canadians and Koreans are with them.”
- And then we’re late?
“Well, no,” Shakhov grinned. “The “lost place” has nothing to do with it. Archaeologists are conducting excavations at the mouth of the Kova.
This is how I learned about an ancient settlement on the Angara - Ust-Kov, where for many years there has been a field camp for the history department of the Krasnoyarsk Pedagogical Institute. These days, by coincidence, foreign guests came to Krasnoyarsk - participants of the event held in Novosibirsk International Symposium archaeologists.
- How can I get there? — I asked with despair in my voice.
Shakhov stood thoughtfully in the doorway.
“So be it,” he finally decided. “Let’s turn to the head of the Kezhem correctional institutions, General Rakitsky...”
I will not dwell on the vicissitudes of the negotiations, the result is important: I got to Ust-Kova on a small military boat. And then the general helped me out again, but more on that later.
Striving to Ust-Kova, I did not imagine that a new and unexpected mystery was associated with this land...
Shaman's grave
The coastal mountain did not seem very high to me. But they explained to me that the second gentle ledge is not visible from the water, and therefore it does not seem to stand out among the other mountains. And if you look from afar, the peak, called Sedlo, can be seen almost from Kezhma itself. The mountain is no more than 600 meters high and is densely covered with forest. In front of her is a wide flat place, almost completely open, with a young birch grove on the edge of the cliff. At a distance from the cliff there were several rows of tents and a wooden canopy over long tables.
Towards evening, he led me towards the Angara, to the blackened dumps in the distance. Drozdov walked with a strong limp, leaning heavily on a stick. Nevertheless, he deftly descended to the bottom of the deep excavation - a flat sandy area.
— You have probably already become familiar with our findings. With those that are laid out under the canopy, on the table,” the professor began. “So... A jagged scraper, cores - pointed stones, bifaces - laurel-shaped tips... In a word, man lived at the mouth of the Kova for at least 15 thousand years .back when, according to our guests - the American scientist Davis and the Canadian Saint-Marsh, ancient man made the first attempt to move from Asia to America. We believe that this happened several thousand years earlier; We were supported by the German professor Müller-Beck, also our guest, but we have not yet come to an agreement with the Americans. We need to obtain new evidence. This is the essence of the symposium of archaeologists held in Novosibirsk.
We slowly walked to the distant excavation, which is on the very cape formed by the Kova River flowing into the Angara. What happened next resembled an episode staged for filming. But it was, and I vouch for it, a happy accident, luck that a journalist rarely gets...
Looking for a place to sit, the tired Drozdov led me to a low row of tightly packed stones protruding from the cleared wall of the excavation. This incomprehensible-looking structure resembled a stone bench, or rather a couch. About a quarter of it has already been dismantled. Where a few stones were missing, I saw a skull and jaw with a row of strong white teeth. The professor's attention was drawn to a small piece of dried bark lying next to the skull. Drozdov mechanically took it and saw under it a blackened flap of skin covering something placed on top of the buried person. The skeleton protruded from the wall of the excavation only up to the chest - the torso and legs were hidden behind the stonework.
- What is this? - Drozdov exclaimed, immediately forgetting about me.
On chest buried, I saw over the shoulder of the bending professor a small green circle with some kind of sign inscribed in it. Upon closer inspection, the object turned out to be bronze, covered, as if with moss, with a layer of patina. The sign was an image of a person, of course, quite conventional.
The professor touched the object and swept away the grains of sand that had fallen on it. The man moved, and underneath him was another one, of a completely different shape.
- Well, you know, nothing like this has ever been found on the Angara! — Drozdov said enthusiastically, examining the incomprehensible object. “We need to call our colleagues now, maybe they can explain what?!”
Soon scientists crowded around the edge of the excavation. Drozdov looked around the crowd and triumphantly, like a fakir, removed the bark from the bronze object. In tense silence, specialists from various archaeological fields looked at the unexpected find.
“This is the grave of a shaman,” Nikolai Ivanovich announced with pride. - Take a closer look at the man depicted in the circle: it looks like he has a hat with horns on his head. And this, as you know, is a distinctive shamanic sign...
“According to custom, shamans were buried in tree hollows,” objected Anatoly Kuznetsov, Doctor of Historical Sciences from Ussuriysk. “They tried to hide the deceased away from the eyes of their fellow tribesmen.”
“That’s right,” Drozdov agreed. - But this custom is typical for a time relatively close to us, as well as for modern indigenous peoples of Siberia. In the past, they could also have secret burial complexes, where mere mortals were forbidden to come. It seems to me that we are now in such a mysterious place - at the grave of a shaman.
“Look at the image of the face of one of the figures,” said one of those holding the talisman. - Looks like it's a mask. But look nearby, there are piercings, arrowheads, and decorations. It is necessary, Nikolai Ivanovich, to dig up the burial better so that the picture is completely clear.
“Look around,” said the voice of Ruslan Vasilievsky, a Novosibirsk archaeologist, “there may be unknown writings on the surrounding rocks.” The place is truly mysterious. The drawings may well be at least on that slope over there.” And he pointed to Mount Sedlo, covered with pine trees, the highest in the entire course of the Angara. “One must think that the shamans did not choose a random place for their sanctuary...
“Wait,” Drozdov recalled. — The drawing in the circle reminds me very much of the famous Manzinskaya pisanitsa - a large rock composition located on the banks of the Angara about a hundred kilometers downstream. There is something in common in the principle of a schematic representation of a person. I have no doubt that those rock paintings were created during the life of this young shaman.
— When were the Manzin writings created? - I asked the archaeologists. - And when was this burial made, in what century?
And almost each of them, holding the bronze men in their hands, was in no hurry to answer.
“Without analysis, this is how we can speak only approximately,” they answered me. “From the fifth century BC to the seventh century AD.” But no later than thousands of years ago. Not later.
This is truly a sensation. Even at the time when the first pits were being made in Ust-Kov, archaeologists discovered a cultural layer of the Iron Age. The most successful season for Iron Age researchers was 1979. Then, in a nearby excavation site that had already been filled up before my arrival, they found the burial of a young woman with a child. Both skeletons - large and small - were wrapped in a birch bark cocoon. When they removed the dried bark, among the bones they saw scattered beads of a bracelet, a comb with the image of a bird, a bronze diadem, and an iron chain of large links.
“An unusual burial,” recalled Drozdov. “We were all tormented by a mystery - what happened here more than a thousand years ago?” The child's age was determined from his teeth - he was not even four years old when they wrapped him in a cocoon. Mother was about thirty. How did it happen that they died at the same time? Or maybe a ritual sacrifice was performed here? We consulted with ethnographers, compared the funeral rites of modern Siberian peoples and could not give a convincing explanation. Perhaps there was a cruel custom, which is noted in the historical traditions of some indigenous peoples of the North. When, for example, the mother of a young child died and there was no one to take care of him, the child was killed and buried with the mother.
Wasn’t such a gloomy scene taking place here at the mouth of the Kova?
While they were examining the shamanic sign, the head of the archaeological team working at the excavation site, Viktor Leontyev, went to the log house and returned with a large cardboard box.
“Here are more finds from this era,” he said, going down into the excavation.
We surrounded the box on all sides.
“Eight years ago we found a pot here,” Leontyev began to tell. “There was an ornament on its walls: a tree, or, as I think, a symbolic image of a person.” Along the rim of the pot there was a rim with something like a bronze clasp in the form of a loop. Consequently, the vessel was closed with a lid and most likely served for ritual purposes. Then in the excavation we came across cremated bones mixed with iron objects. So, in the traditions of that time it was customary to place his belongings near the deceased and set the body on fire? But they found another burial nearby, where the deceased was apparently first laid in the snow, and after some time, say in the spring, they buried the body. Various types The burials belonged to the same time, which seemed extremely strange.
Victor pulled out a bronze object that looked like a bracelet from the box.
“In the same excavation we suddenly discovered thirteen burials at once. Cremated remains, an assortment of various objects - all of this was in small recesses. In the adjacent excavation there are five more burials. There were graves... without bones. How to explain this? Ritual burial to deceive evil spirits?
- What was in the pot? - asked Kuznetsov, an expert in shamanic life.
“And here,” and Victor pulled out a short chain from his huge box, the bronze rings of which interlocked with each other in such a way that, at a certain position of the hands holding the chain, the links formed a figure very similar to a ram. A massive iron knife with a forked handle resembling a ram's horn was attached to one of the links.
“Of course, this is an image of a shaman in a hat with horns,” Drozdov intervened. “And a sacrificial ram was obviously slaughtered with a knife.” The animal's blood flowed down the blade onto the handle in the form of horns and stained the links of the chain that made up the ritual figure. Thus, according to ancient beliefs, the iron object acquired a soul and became a sacred amulet. The shaman wore it sewn to his clothes. Perhaps this is a talisman - an object designed to ward off evil spirits.
Adzes, which were found in burials, were also considered sacred objects of shamans. When the shaman performed rituals, he placed an adze or an ax nearby and thereby drove away the evil spirit.
Meanwhile, the bronze circle with the bronze horned man returned to Drozdov’s hands.
“I’m standing and thinking,” he said thoughtfully, “maybe there’s a model of the Universe in this circle?” The circle means life in all religions of the world. Among shamans, this role was usually played by a tambourine. But what is the purpose of the bronze symbol? The skeleton, by the way, is laid with its head along the river flow. According to the beliefs of many Siberian and eastern peoples, it was on the water that the souls of the dead floated away...
“We need to look for an answer,” Kuznetsov noted. “I often encounter similar problems in my Far Eastern region.” We know how ancient people managed their households, but their spiritual life is not yet understood...
So, a lot has become clearer for me. It must be for a long time the site under Mount Sedlo served as a ritual place for the inhabitants of the vast Angara region. A place where only shamans could come. Here they were buried - either by burning their mortal bodies, or by burying them in stones along with the signs of spiritual power over their fellow tribesmen that belonged to them. Hunters and shepherds of that time avoided the cape - spirits lived here.
Yes, this place was not chosen by shamans by chance. A wide flood of the Angara, the highest mountain in the vicinity and... perhaps a “devil’s cemetery”, the path to which ran up the Kova. And there is also a way to a mysterious lake lying somewhere there, in the taiga, which, as they say, has healing properties. The shamans, of course, knew about him and, perhaps, unnoticed by those around him, they drew strength and health from him, surprising their fellow tribesmen, forcing them to treat them as deities.
The dead shaman at the mouth of the Kova connected two worlds - the real and the unknown, the otherworldly...
“Damn cemetery” or underground fire?
In complete darkness, we sat by the dying fire over the river, and I told the curious archaeologists about everything that we had learned about the “damn cemetery” and the Tunguska meteorite. Among those listening were geologists, who now and then exchanged short remarks with each other.
The first to speak was Vitaly Petrovich Chekha, a candidate of geological and mineralogical sciences, who was walking around the surrounding area with a backpack on his back.
— Could a “hot” clearing, something like a large frying pan, form in the taiga? - he began, not addressing anyone. - She could. In case of underground fire.
I remembered the picture of a fire on the peat bogs. This has happened more than once, for example, in the area of the Rybinsk Reservoir. The fire is not visible, it burns deep underground, and smoke spreads over it, the grass withers before our eyes, the trees dry out and fall, and then everyone is enveloped in acrid black clouds escaping from the depths. More than once I heard how tractors fell into the ground where a fire was raging; animals and even risky people died. And in these taiga places there are many swamps. And in a dry summer, such places may well catch fire from the inside. Remember what the eyewitness said: a scorched clearing, and the hanging branches are scorched! This means that the effect of the “hot” clearing arose shortly before the arrival of the observers - after all, the branch needs to grow before it was burned...
“An underground fire in the taiga is quite possible,” Chekha continued. “Only it was most likely stone or coal that was burning here.” Its outcrops are marked on the geological map of the area. In general, countless fuel resources have been discovered on the Tunguska Plateau, which have not yet been developed.
- You don’t believe at all that this is a trace of the Tunguska meteorite? Or “damn cemetery”? I'm not even talking about the landing site of an alien ship.
Vitaly Petrovich shrugged:
“I don’t presume to say categorically, but all these guesses, in my opinion, do not have serious grounds. But the geological origin of the described phenomenon is very possible. After all, when the heat subsided and the rains came, the fire died out on its own, and in the spring the clearing was overgrown with grass. And now this clearing, no matter how you look, cannot be found. It is possible, of course, that a new warming of coal seams will occur, and where this process occurs, new burnt-out spots may form, but not “damn cemeteries.” However, this requires a confluence of, so to speak, many circumstances, which does not happen often.
- Like a dry summer, like today? Is this why last year’s expedition, which examined the local taiga from a helicopter, did not note anything similar? After all, it rained endlessly then.
“You only confirm the geological explanation of the unusual phenomenon.”
“But they write,” I didn’t give up, “that strange things happened to people in the area of the “cemetery.” They say headaches begin, and a feeling of fear gradually overcomes...
“The burning of coal can be accompanied by the release of gas and other compounds,” Vitaly Petrovich finished me off. “If, for example, you lie near such a place, you can easily get burned, and the health of those who are in the zone of a large underground fire will probably not be good.” , and naturally there will be fear...
- But there is nothing mysterious in your reasoning. Who would believe such an explanation?
- Anything mysterious? I wouldn't say that. Many geological phenomena are still not well understood by science. Everything that happens under the Earth's mantle is completely unknown. Have you heard anything about intrusions?
Chekha patiently explained that an intrusion is a magmatic substance that hardens in the craters of volcanoes. But most of the magma, and this is well known to geologists, does not pour out in the form of eruptions, but slowly reaches the surface through cracks in earth's crust, often, before reaching the surface, it freezes in them, forming plugs. Vertical cracks filled with frozen magma are called “dykes”, horizontal cracks between layers are called “laccoliths”. Solidifying in laccoliths, magma bends the surface, forming hills and elevations like domes. On the surface, we may not even suspect the reasons for the emergence of such a landscape.
“The Tunguska plateau, as they write in all the books, is considered an area of intense magmatic activity,” someone sitting by the fire remarked.
“That’s right,” Chekha was inspired. “In the past, when the earth’s crust was just forming, molten intrusions burst upward with associated gases, which exploded in the open air and quickly burned out - like torches.” Concentric bumps and cracks remained on the surface from such explosions. different sizes, depending on the power of the magma flow. These traces are also on modern geological maps, but only a very experienced geologist can recognize them from the ground.
— Is it impossible to imagine eruptions of such a volcanic pipe these days? - I asked. — Or the breakthrough of some laccolith or dike? Have there been cases anywhere in the world where lava flowed not from a crater, but from a crack on the flat surface of the earth?
- No, It is Immpossible. But the release of gases from the rock is a common phenomenon. At night, these gases can even glow. For example, in the swamps. The so-called “witch’s lights” are well known to the inhabitants of the taiga and tundra.
Chekha advised me to contact geologists in Krasnoyarsk or Irkutsk, who could analyze the geological processes in the area of the Kova River. Perhaps then the phenomenon of the “devil’s cemetery” will receive a final explanation.
Climbing into the tent, I was ready to completely agree with the geologist. In this area of the Angara region there really are powerful faults in the earth's crust. A clear example of this is the rocky cliff near the Aplinsky Shivers and the Shivers themselves - a raised rocky bottom, where ships navigate with great caution. All this together with Mount Sedlo - as if raised by an unknown force, a gigantic layer of the solid surface of the earth. All these gentle hills around, the picturesque cliffs on the Angara are the result of the rapid formation of the Central Tunguska Plateau, where, according to the sensation, a mysterious alien from outer space fell in 1908 - a meteorite or a ship in distress.
Was there a Tunguska meteorite?
It may very well be that the structural features of the earth’s crust explain many of the mysterious phenomena in the region. For some reason, few people tried to analyze the famous Tunguska disaster from this point of view. But a few years ago, Novosibirsk geologist Rasstegni expressed a new and unexpected version of what happened.
The geologist noticed that the disaster occurred not just anywhere, but in an area of intense magmatic activity on the Earth, on the Tunguska Plateau, where large deposits of hydrocarbons were noted. The release of gas from the crater of an underground volcano could, according to Rasstegin, cause the Tunguska disaster, which was described many times later. Apparently, the debate about whether the explosion was on Earth or on approach to it, and if on Earth, then as a result of a meteorite impact or an alien ship, distracted researchers from a more prosaic explanation.
On June 30, 1908, an earthquake occurred. Its epicenter coincided with a hydrocarbon deposit, and the shell of the lithosphere, drilled by intrusions, split into blocks. A powerful stream of gases rushed through the cracks, which exploded when combined with air. This is Rasstegin’s version.
“Suddenly there was a very strong thunderclap. This was the first blow. The earth began to twitch and sway, a strong wind hit our tent and knocked it down” - this story of the Evenk Chuchanchi made the rounds of all the newspapers. Supporters of the version of a meteorite fall usually cite his story to confirm that they are right. But this corresponds to the consequences of an earthquake accompanied by the release of gases! “Then I saw a terrible miracle,” continued Chuchancha, “the forests were falling, the pine needles were burning on them. Hot. It's very hot - you can get burned. Suddenly, over the mountain, where the forest had already fallen, it became very light, as if a second sun had appeared.”
The first person to explain the explosion in the taiga as a meteorite fall was not a scientist, but a district police officer from Kezhma. He wrote in a report to the provincial city of Yeniseisk:
“A huge aerolite flew over the village of Kezhemsky from the south towards the north, which produced a series of sounds similar to cannon shots, then disappeared.”
Why and how did the aerolite fire shots at Kezhma? Phantasmagoria, and nothing more! What if we assume that in fact everything was the other way around? The phenomenon happened so quickly that frightened eyewitnesses were unable to correctly understand the causes and effects?
Let's imagine a picture of a catastrophic earthquake. So, a release of gas, an explosion when it reaches the surface, exceeding the force of the explosion of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. A fire tornado arose, which was witnessed by the Evenk Chuchancha, who was about forty kilometers from the epicenter of the explosion... This picture allows us to explain why eyewitnesses described the shape of the fiery body differently. During the explosion it looked like a ball - a second sun, and during a tornado - a spindle. And people saw this from different distances and different points. It also becomes clear why a section of forest with unfallen trees remained: in the center of the tornado an area low pressure, and there the taiga survived.
But what about the route of the “meteorite” fall? This also has its own explanation. Along the route of the fire tornado there is a fault in the earth's crust. It is visible in the image taken from space. The release of gas could have occurred along the entire length of the fault, where they fell and fell into different sides trees...
Such gas emissions are not uncommon. Shortly before the Tunguska disaster, in 1902, there was a terrible explosion and gas release on the island of Martinique in the Caribbean Sea. True, the emission here did not come through cracks, but from the crater of the volcano. But the consequences are similar to what happened on the Tunguska Plateau.
This is the earthly explanation of the Tunguska disaster. And if you follow this version, it makes no sense to look for the Tunguska meteorite in both the Vanavara and Kova areas, trying to connect the “damn cemetery” - a burnt clearing and a trace of a meteorite fall. Because the latter simply did not exist.
Miracle Lake
As soon as the sun rose, I got up and went to wash myself cold water Hangars. Having gone knee-deep into the river, he turned to Mount Sedlo, remembered the bronze circle with a man found yesterday and the white-toothed skull of a shaman and ceased to doubt that the undiscovered “devil’s cemetery”, and the rock paintings, and the unknown healing Lake Deshembinskoye, which lies three days away the paths up the Cove are all one chain.
While I was wondering how I could get to this lake, I heard the rumble of a motor over the river. It was an army helicopter. It turned out that they were looking for me: the chief of Kezmales, General Rakitsky, whom Shakhov called yesterday, knew everything about my movements around the Angara and decided to pick me up from Ust-Kova along the road... to Lake Deshembinskoye, where one of the logging teams was working.
This was my only chance to visit the lake, where no archaeologist who worked in Ust-Kov for many seasons in a row had ever been.
- Well, shall we take everyone? - the general turned to the pilot, looking at the group of tanned guys and girls, among whom I managed to become one of my own. The pilot nodded in agreement. The last to arrive was Viktor Leontyev. Armed with a camera, he certainly wanted to photograph his excavations from above. Until now, archaeologists have not had such an opportunity.
We flew for at least an hour, maybe two. Without looking up from the porthole, I forgot about time. And suddenly I saw water. A saucer filled to the top, bordered by deep taiga...
The pilot landed the car on a small concrete patch among the centuries-old thicket.
The general led us along a barely noticeable path, avoiding wetlands along inconspicuous hummocks. The midge immediately covered his face and hands. About ten minutes later the trees parted and a smooth, milky surface flashed...
The archaeological guys threw their T-shirts into the bushes and rushed to the water. The throw, however, did not work. The first step into the water and my legs got stuck up to the knees. So we walked, gradually going deeper and deeper.
“Be brave, be brave,” the general encouraged, sitting down in a punt abandoned on the shore.
I didn’t feel any solid ground under my feet, and it seemed like everything was about to be sucked in. Then he fell into the mud almost up to his neck, almost choking on the mud, and decided that it was better to flounder on the surface rather than walk. I swam, slowly pushing apart the cold mud with my chest.
They climbed out of the water with great difficulty, clutching at the coastal bushes. There was nowhere to wash off the dirt. And we, without dressing, exposing ourselves to the voracious midge, trotted back to the helicopter.
The archaeologists were silent the entire way back. When they flew there, there was a lot of fun, they were waiting to meet something unusual, and when they returned, everyone was quiet, everyone was probably thinking about their own things.
Soon the orange tents of Ust-Kova appeared through the porthole. Without stopping the propellers, they landed the young archaeologists and soared over the Angara again. Finally, the concrete strip of the airfield flashed below us.
-Where did we fly to? — the man with encephalitis asked me, looking around absurdly.
He sat down with us on the shore of the lake and asked us to take him out of the taiga. We mistook him for a geologist - a backpack, encephalitis...
“Actually, I’m from Salekhard,” he said. “I work as a driller on the Gydan expedition.”
I whistled - I had climbed far from the banks of the Ob!
“I heard about a healing lake and decided to find it,” the stranger justified himself. “I have psoriasis, an incurable disease...”
— And the lake helped? — I asked with interest.
The driller rolled up his sleeve:
“Look, ten days ago the skin on this hand was covered with scales.”
Now there are barely noticeable scars. Don't believe me?
As it turned out, Pyotr Stepanovich Novikov—that was the traveler’s name—lived in the taiga without food and didn’t even have a tent. But, according to him, he can live on pine cones for a whole month if necessary. Going to the lake, I relied only on my own strength. Oil workers from Vanavara dropped him onto the lake by helicopter. And back he was about to raft along the Kova to the mouth, when suddenly, out of the blue, our helicopter arrived.
— Will you come to the lake again?
He nodded, and was it worth asking when a person returns healthier? I was interested in whether Pyotr Stepanovich had noticed something unusual, mysterious in the taiga. The glow of a lake, for example, or scorched meadows?
“No, I didn’t notice,” he admitted innocently. “I was surprised by only one thing—the unusual surge of strength.”
And what they said was true - a miraculous lake. Medicine will, of course, provide a plausible explanation for the phenomenon of living water. But it, obviously, will not be complete without an answer to the question of the origin of the forest lake. Are its unusual properties related to magmatic activity in the depths of the Tunguska Plateau, like many other mysterious and so far inexplicable phenomena in this area?
How little we still know about the Earth, which feeds, clothes and heals us...
Devil's Cemetery (Devil's Polyana) is an anomalous zone in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. This name is often confused with “Devil's Glade” or even separate these concepts, although we are talking about the same thing.
It is located approximately 400 km south of the site of the Tunguska explosion and is probably associated with this phenomenon. Radiation of unknown nature in the clearing depresses the trees growing around it, causes headaches, a feeling of fear in people and scares away animals.
Eyewitnesses noted that in the T-shaped or round clearing itself there were only rotting corpses of cows who had carelessly entered here. Here are their stories.
“On the bare ground one could see the bones and carcasses of taiga animals and even birds. And the tree branches hanging over the clearing were charred, as if from a nearby fire... The dogs, who had been in the “Devil’s Cemetery” for just a minute, stopped eating, became lethargic and soon died ".
"In that year (probably the end of the twenties - the beginning of the thirties) when the described events took place, there was little water in the Angara, and it became necessary to drive the collective farm herd through the taiga to Bratsk. Usually the delivery of meat to the state was carried out by water, in that year it was impossible In order to shorten the distance, a path was chosen from the village of Kova along the river of the same name through the villages of Uyar and Karamyshevo - so it is twice as close to Bratsk as along the banks of the Angara. The main task of the guides was to protect the herd from the most dangerous creature of the taiga - from the midge. If mosquitoes are afraid of smoke , then midges in pre-war times could only be driven away with tar, which, if used frequently, eats away the skin of animals into the blood. Therefore, the stops were long, always near the water. In the evenings, until dark, the herd stood in the water, in the morning, in the dew, until The midge did not wake up and wandered off in search of food.
One day, when the drivers were about to turn east, towards the Angara, when checking the herd, two cows were missing. The assumption that they were killed by a bear disappeared - the dogs behaved calmly. But there were no wolves in those parts. Two of the team of drivers, including the narrator, went in search. After a while, they heard the alarming barking of dogs running ahead, and, loading their guns as they went, hurried in the same direction. Imagine their surprise when a clean, round clearing, completely devoid of any vegetation, opened in front of them. The dogs, which had already run out onto the black ground with a frightened squeal, turned their tails between their legs and turned back. And at a distance of 15-20 meters from the last trees, on the bare, as if scorched earth, lay the corpses of missing animals.
The incident stunned the drivers. And the older, experienced hunter, who knew the local taiga very well, it turns out, had already heard about this place. “This is probably the “Devil’s Cemetery,” he said. “You can’t get close to the bare ground - there’s death there.”
Indeed, the round clearing, about 200...250 meters in diameter, inspired horror: here and there on the bare ground one could see the bones and carcasses of taiga animals and even birds. And the tree branches hanging over the clearing were charred, as if from a nearby fire. The elder hurried to leave the ruined place. So they left without finding out why all living things were dying on this strange land. The release of gases, typical in swampy areas, was not felt here. The dogs, who were in the “Devil’s Cemetery” for just one minute, stopped eating, became lethargic and soon died.”
There is another message about the existence of a “black spot” in the Kova River valley.
Upstream of the Kova there is a “lost place”: animals die there, for example, cattle that accidentally got there. And even birds. The dead cows are dragged out of the clearing - and not even grass grows on it - with hooks on ropes: everyone is afraid that you will step on the place where they died. Dead cows have unusually red meat - the hunter claimed he had never seen anything like it. He was ready to take the doctors to the disastrous clearing - it was located only 7-8 kilometers from the village. However, the military situation did not allow doctors to visit there; they were overloaded with work.
In 1984, an expedition visited those places with the goal of finding and studying the “Devil’s Cemetery.” “We crossed a dry stream, then the stream on which the mill stands. Immediately behind it the ascent to the ridge begins. Having crossed it, we went downhill (we walked about a kilometer), the path was blocked by a rubble. Before the blockage there is a detour path. From the bypass trail, a well-worn trail branches off to the left. Having walked along it for about a kilometer, on the right side we saw a gap similar to the gap from a clearing. This is the “Devil's Cemetery”. Around the clearing are thickets of cuckoo... The clearing itself is about 100 meters, not round, but rather L-shaped. Rare multi-colored moss, very rare and small, grows on the golden-colored surface of the earth. Immediately behind the clearing one can discern a stream - obviously a tributary of the Kamkambora River... The place itself is located on a small hill. From the “Devil's Cemetery to Karamyshev” the walk is no more than an hour and a half.
Unfortunately, the 1984 expedition failed to reach its goal. Whether the expedition took place the next year, what it brought, materials about this have not yet appeared in the press. At least, all participants in the first expedition had a firm belief that the “Devil’s Cemetery” existed at least in 1952. Does it exist now - judging by the above story, its activity is fading away - grass is already growing on the previously empty land, and its size has become half as large as in the twenties...
Vitaly Petrovich Chekha, a candidate of geological and mineralogical sciences, suggested that in the event of an underground fire in the taiga, a “hot” clearing could have formed, something like a large frying pan. An underground fire in the taiga is quite possible. Only coal was most likely burning here. Its outcrops are marked on the geological map of the area. In general, countless fuel resources have been discovered on the Tunguska Plateau, which have not yet been developed. After all, when the heat subsided and the rains came, the fire died out on its own, and in the spring the clearing was overgrown with grass. And now this clearing, no matter how you look, cannot be found. It is possible, of course, that a new warming of coal seams will occur, and where this process occurs, new burnt-out spots may form, but not “damn cemeteries.” However, this requires a confluence of, so to speak, many circumstances, which does not happen often.
But why did strange things happen to people in the area of the “cemetery”: headaches begin, a feeling of fear gradually overcomes... Burning coal can be accompanied by the release of gas and other compounds, continued Vitaly Petrovich. “If, for example, you lie down near such a place, you can It’s easy to get burned out, and the health of those who are in the zone of a large underground fire will probably be unimportant, and fear, naturally, will be...
A. and S. Simonov explained the features of the “clearing of death” this way. Any animal is exposed to an alternating magnetic field on it. It is known from biology that there is a limit to the values of the electric current passing through the blood, above which it clots - “electrocoagulation” occurs. The animals that died in the “clearing” had red insides, which indicates increased capillary blood circulation before death. And death occurred as a result of massive thrombus formation. The concept of an alternating magnetic field in a “clearing” explains a lot: the instantaneous impact, the effect even on shot birds, etc.
So, the mysterious clearing has not yet been found. Researchers carefully process the data received and dream of new expeditions.
Damn cemetery. Anomalous zone of Russia.
4.6 (92%) 15 vote[s]A perfectly round clearing in the middle of a forest, almost no grass grows on it. Some scientists associate the appearance of this “bald spot” with the fall Tunguska meteorite, but no evidence of this version was found. Locals think it's a damn cemetery "bad place."
The remains of a large number of animals were discovered in the clearing, and people who were near damn cemetery begin to experience physical discomfort.
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Damn cemetery — an anomalous zone known in narrow circles, lost in the Angara taiga of the Kezhemsky district of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. The location of the anomaly is presumably the Kova River basin (a tributary of the Angara).
Other names: Devil's Glade, Lost Place, Devil's Cemetery.
At the time of the formation of the anomaly, witnesses observed a hole in the ground in the taiga from which black smoke was coming, as well as strong, unbearable heat. Since the formation of the hole, created according to eyewitnesses by the fall of some object from the sky, the place has acquired anomalous properties.
Subsequently, the place burned out, creating a round black bald spot, and began to have an extremely negative impact on all living things falling within its zone of influence - the earth, irradiated by unknown currents, began to kill!
In the near future, the clearing burned to the ground. The trees surrounding the anomalous place were burned and their branches bent towards the center.
The black clearing was slowly becoming covered with the corpses of animals that accidentally fell on it. Birds flying low over the dead place also died. And over time, the anomaly created a scorched area of taiga with a diameter of 15-20 meters or an area of 200-250 square meters. meters, the ominous decoration of which was loose earth burnt to ashes and bones bleached by time. In winter, snow never fell on the black spot.
The configuration of this clearing (at the time of its appearance) was round. In subsequent years, eyewitnesses noted its L-shaped and oval shape.
The formation of the phenomenon dates back to a maximum of 1916, but there is an assumption about the connection of the Kovinsky phenomenon with the event of June 1908 on Podkamennaya Tunguska.
Under the influence of unknown factors, the meat of an animal that died in a clearing takes on a bright red hue after a few minutes, but the skin and feathers are not damaged. There is evidence that dogs that ran into a clearing for a moment stopped eating and soon died. There is also another effect on living things, only this time apparently oriented towards intelligent beings, i.e. of people.
It is psychotropic in nature, since it is noted that when approaching a “lost place,” people are overcome by an irrational, causeless feeling of fear and horror. Many researchers and old-timers noticed either smoke or fog ghostly creeping across the clearing, very strange, unlike anything natural.
The area of action of the “Devil’s Glade” is strictly localized within the boundaries of the black earth. As you approach the edge, you feel increasing pain in your body.
The old-timers left the memory that on the bare trunk of a two-hundred-year-old larch, the face of a devil was burned with an arrow pointing in the direction of the exit to the clearing.
In more late times The clearing began to be partially overgrown with grass. Witnesses note small orange moss in large quantities covering the anomalous place.
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1920-1930. Damn Cemetery. The first eyewitness testimony.
People first started talking about the damn clearing in the early 1920s. And the first eyewitnesses of the phenomenon were residents of the nearby village of Karamyshevo.
Semyon Polyakov, a resident of Karamyshevo, recalled:
“My grandfather chased the elk and came out into the clearing. Sokhaty jumped out onto the flat top of the ridge, then into a clearing, and before our eyes, he fell through and burned. Was high fever»
I.F. Ermakov, also from Karamyshev:
“My father took me to the clearing in 1926 or 1927. He did not allow me to come close to the place, but through the trees it was clear that the trees near the clearing were charred, the clearing itself was covered with bones and skulls.
Father said that something fell from the sky here, it is underground and there used to be a hole here.
Then the hole was covered with branches and grass... This happened about ten years ago, but for several more years the cattle and animals fell through, and then they remained in the clearing and did not disappear anywhere.”
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1938 The village of Rozhkovo on the Angara. M. Panov
In the summer of 1938, a thirteen-year-old boy Misha Panov, While visiting my school friend in the village of Rozhkovo, I heard from an elderly collective farmer a story about a damn cemetery. He himself saw this place and witnessed the disastrous effect of the clearing on all living things.
This story happened in the late 20s and early 30s. It was a dry summer, the rivers became shallow, and shipping on the Angara was almost stopped.
Peasants of local villages were forced to move herds of large cattle straight through the taiga to the Zagotskot fraternal office for delivery to the state. Animals for regional deliveries were driven along the Kova through the villages of Sizaya, Kostino and Karamyshevo.
After the next stop, the drivers, when counting the herd, did not find two cows. This happened behind the last village of Karamyshevo, when they decided to turn east to the Angara. Having loaded their guns, the narrator and his friend went in search.
Hearing the alarming barking of the dogs, they hurried in that direction. Imagine their surprise when a clean, round clearing, devoid of any vegetation, opened in front of them. The dogs, which had already run out onto the black ground, squealing, with their tails between their legs, rushed back.
And at a distance of 15-20 meters from the edge of the clearing lay the corpses of the missing animals. The driver, who knew the local taiga well, stopped his comrade, saying:
- This must be a damn cemetery. You can’t get close to the bare ground - there’s death there!
The empty clearing was truly terrifying. Here and there the carcasses of taiga animals and birds could be seen on the bare ground.
The elder hurried to leave the ruinous place. So they left without finding out why the animals died here. And the dogs, who had been in the clearing for just a minute, stopped eating, became lethargic, and soon died.
The story of the old collective farmer was remembered by the boy Misha for the rest of his life. And in the future, having become an adult, he returned to this topic more than once.
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1939-1940. Research of the phenomenon by agronomist Salyagin. First publication in the press.
In March 1938, after serving 9 months in exile in Minusinsk, the repressed Valentin Salyagin came to his family in Kezhma. There it is like good specialist in land management, appointed as a district agronomist.
In Kezhma, Salyagin meets an old hunter who tells him a story about a damn cemetery, and after that he also agrees to show it to an agronomist. From the hunter’s story it follows that this is a black, scorched clearing where all living things die. In summer nothing grows on it, and in winter there is no snow.
Valentin Salyagin made his first trip to the lost place with this guide back in 1939. And already in April 1940, an article was published in the Kezhem newspaper “Collective Farmer” "Damn Cemetery" about this trip. Here's the story:
During the spring thaw, the district agronomist, while on a business trip to the Angarostroy collective farm in the village of Pashino, decided to continue his journey to another remote collective farm in the village of Karamygaeva on Kove. The way there lay only along a narrow forest path, which the agronomist was not familiar with. An experienced hunter who knew those parts well volunteered to show the way to the village.
Taking with him horses with food tied to the saddles, a shotgun and hunting dog The guide and the agronomist set off along the taiga trail.
Having moved fifty kilometers away from the village, the travelers made a lunch break near a cool stream. They let the horses go to graze, lit a fire, hanging a kettle and a pot over the fire, which soon began to make a friendly noise.
“It will be pleasant to have lunch near a blazing fire amid the fragrant smell of a pine forest,” thought the agronomist. Having had his fill, the guide threw some dry branches into the fire, took a pouch of tobacco and a homemade pipe from his trouser pocket and lit a cigarette. The agronomist, reclining on a raincoat, drank tea. The dog looked pleadingly at the laid out food. The agronomist threw a piece of bread and turned to the conductor:
- Do you know the road well, grandfather? The old man slowly took a sip from his pipe, blew out a puff of blue-gray smoke and said: “I’ll get it, comrade agronomist.” Don't hesitate. These places are familiar to me. I've been whitewashing on these bridges for years. Everything went up and down, but there was no need to fornicate.
And we have nowhere to get lost: there are no other roads, but the path is noticeable. Behind the bottom there will be a turn to the left to Prokopyevo, and this one goes through to Karamysheva. There's a damn cemetery not far from here. The conductor lit his pipe again and continued:
“Many years ago, even my grandfather, he somehow had the opportunity to drive cattle along this path for hire to the village of Banchikovo in the Nizhne-Ilimoky district.
I was young then. Then they drove off together with a friend. Before reaching Karamyshevo, we were late and spent the night.
We counted the cows after dinner. Everything is orderly. They lie right down, chewing gum. The drivers piled the logs on the fire, made a bed of pine branches, and even put them on the side themselves. The night passed peacefully. In the morning we got up at first light and began to gather the cows; there are no two.
Here and there, and they, dear ones, lie motionless in the clearing not far away. They're numb, that is. Why this one? They can't understand. We examined the clearing, and the earth on it was black and soft, as if someone had deliberately plowed and harrowed it. Not a blade of grass or a bush grows on it.
And all around it there is knee-deep grass and a normal forest, like in other places. We went up to the cows and examined them. The carcasses are whole.
And immediately the wallpaper felt some kind of pain in its body. We retreated to the grass and caught our breath. Well, they were immediately taken aback. Like, this place is not good, it’s unclean. Which means, if you stay on it, you might die. The fighter comes again. Somehow they dragged the cows onto the grass, ripped open the abysses and saw that their entire insides were somehow scorched and turned red. Well, here the old people completely got cold feet.
They interpret it as nothing other than devilry burned the cows with fire. It is clear that there was darkness among the people, there were a lot of superstitions, and the priests were completely confused and muddied the illiterate people. My grandfather and I visited that place and no one knows him anywhere near me...
The guide came to his senses and hastily began to saddle the horses. We collected our things and hit the road again. The agronomist rode in silence. Reviewing his knowledge in his memory, he believed that "damn cemetery" Some toxic gases must be released from the soil. This was the only way to kill the cows, he thought, and decided to go there and check everything himself. The guide willingly agreed to take him to the mysterious place.
Evening twilight imperceptibly approached. We never reached the “damn cemetery”. I had to spend the night. Only the next day, when it was dawn, we moved on. On the way, noticing hazel grouse in the bushes, the guide stopped his horse, hastily took off his gun and took aim. A shot sounded, then another, and the dog rushed into the spruce forest, waking up the surrounding taiga with a ringing bark.
Having placed the prey brought by the dog into a reindeer pack, the guide mounted the horse and set off at a slow trot. Soon a small hill appeared from behind the thick tree trunks.
“Well, here we are,” he said cheerfully, jumping off his horse. — I haven’t been here for a long time. But it happened again.
He unsaddled the horses and let them graze. The agronomist took freshly killed hazel grouse from the old man's tursuk and, together with the guide, headed towards "damn cemetery."
There are forests all around, a convict. The grass emerges with greenish stalks from under last year's grass. A dark bald spot appeared near a small mountain. The soil on it is really black and loose. There was no vegetation on it. Grouse and green pine branches were carefully placed on the bare ground. After some time they took it back. The agronomist began to carefully examine them. The green branches faded, as if they had been scorched by something. At the slightest touch, the needles of the branches fell off.
The hazel grouse have not changed externally. When opened, the insides had a reddish tint and were also burned by something. After a short stay near that place, some strange pain appeared in the people’s bodies.
For several years, the agronomist corresponded with regional authorities about this phenomenal meadow. He visited it several more times and conducted the same experiments. Their results were repeated again. When approaching the clearing, the compass needle fluctuated greatly.
It is also important that the location of the clearing was marked on the edge plan with great accuracy. Carrying out solo research, Salyagin observed in the center of the clearing there was still some hole remaining, a failure, from which faint smoke appeared from time to time.
Not risking entering the clearing itself, Salyagin threw a spool of thread and a sinker at the end into the hole from its edge, trying to measure its depth. The length of the thread was not enough to measure the depth of the hole. On his advice, hunters burned a warning sign in an open place near a clearing - an image of a devil with a pointer towards the clearing.
The first comprehensive Kraiplan expedition to the damn cemetery was planned for 1940 for the purpose of preliminary study. But for some reason this did not happen. The secret remained unsolved.
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1941 Local history trip of Kezhem teacher A.F. Kulikova.
The publication of Salyagin’s story in the Kezhem newspaper in the pre-war years interested another person. He became the geography teacher of the Kezhem school Arkady Filippovich Kulikov.
After analyzing all the information received and personally talking with Salyagin, Kulikov came to the conclusion that the cause of the formation of the black spot in the taiga was a meteorite.
In order to check this version and study the place in more detail, Kulikov planned his second research trip to the damn cemetery after the Kraiplan.
The hike was to be organized by graduates of the Kezhem school. And Kulikov clearly did not hide it, nor did he hide the fact that they were going after the meteorite.
Having agreed on the route with Salyagin, Kulikov carried out reconnaissance in the spring and planned a full-scale expedition for June 23, 1941.
But the war interfered with these plans. Kulikov volunteered to go to the front, where he died. This was the second failed expedition to study the damn cemetery. Strange, isn't it?
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June 1941. Testimony of doctor S. Kulyukin.
In 1941, a certain Kulyukin S. worked as the head of the medical district in the village of Kosoy Byk on the Angara. In connection with the outbreak of the war, he was sent to the Angara villages with the aim of mobilizing the population liable for military service.
In June 1941, having arrived in the village of Uyar, together with the Kezhem surgeon V. Prikhodko, to examine men of military age, in a conversation with them, one of the local hunters said that up the river there was a bad place: animals died there - for example, someone who accidentally went there livestock and even birds. Dead cows are dragged out of the clearing - and no grass grows on it - with hooks on ropes.
Eyewitnesses who saw this are afraid to step into the clearing and call it a damn cemetery. The dead cows have unusually red meat, and according to the hunter, he had never seen anything like it.
The narrator was ready to take the doctors to the place so that they could at least somehow explain the phenomenon. According to his testimony, the clearing was located 7-8 kilometers from the village. However, the military situation did not allow the doctors to visit there, although this story interested them - both were overloaded with work. This story became known only in 1960, when Kulyukin worked as a radiologist at the Tomsk Oncology Center.
It should be noted that Kulyukin’s testimony gives very accurate coordinates of the black spot. But they differ from the testimony of Mikhail Panov, who points to the Karamyshevo region, which is 120 kilometers from Uyar along the river. But still, in fairness, it should be noted that neither Panov nor Kulyukin were direct witnesses to the location anomalous place and its disastrous impact on all living things, and accordingly they only retold what they heard.
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Liquidation of Kovin villages 50-60s. Witness testimony of I.N. Bryukhanov.
Due to the consolidation settlements and the destruction of unpromising villages in the 50s, residents of Kovin villages began to be resettled from these places. A trend has emerged in the concentration of residents in the largest industrial settlements and in regional centers along the Angara, where the threads of political-administrative, economic, and cultural activities began to be concentrated. Some left their homes on their own, while some of the old-timers remained.
If in 1958 there were still 8 villages and one exile settlement on the Kova River, then by the beginning of the first wave of search activity in 1986, a few people remained only in the village of Kostino.
By this time, the river was completely empty, not even rare witnesses remained. They began to forget about the “Devil's Glade”. Here and there in the Angara settlements the stories of individual, sometimes even mythical hunters who sometimes risked approaching the clearing were retold. It was rumored that there were more and more bones in the clearing, but the edges seemed to be overgrown.
The movement of cattle drivers through the taiga also stopped, and the old hidden paths were forgotten and began to become overgrown. Now the clearing could only be found by chance. Well, a rare acquaintance with a direct eyewitness who could show the place could be a complete gift of fate. But the people at that time were busy with completely different matters, and therefore did not express any desire to explore the strange place, being content only with rumors.
The last witness capable of showing the place and it is no longer a fact that it was the one that was lost was I.N Bryukhanov. In 1952, I. N. Bryukhanov, being the representative for grain supplies in Karamyshevo, saw, most likely, the same clearing (only significantly weakened and smaller) - in any case, the old hunter accompanying him said that this was the “damn cemetery". Here is his story:
“We crossed a dry stream, then the stream on which the mill stands. Immediately behind it the ascent to the ridge begins. Having crossed it, we went downhill (we walked about a kilometer), the path was blocked by a rubble. Before the blockage there is a detour path.
From the bypass trail, a well-worn trail branches off to the left. Having walked along it for about a kilometer, on the right side we saw a gap similar to the gap from a clearing. This is the “Devil's Cemetery”. Around the clearing are thickets of cuckoo...
The clearing itself is about 100 m, not round, but rather L-shaped. Rare multi-colored moss grows on the golden-colored surface of the earth... very rare and small. Immediately behind the clearing one can discern some kind of stream - obviously a tributary of the Kamkambora River... The place itself is located on a small hill. From the “Devil’s Cemetery” to Karamyshev it’s no more than an hour and a half walk.”
From Bryukhanov’s description, the first thing that catches your eye is the absence of any anomaly in the place indicated by the conductor. By 1952, there was no hole left in the ground, albeit covered with branches and leaves, no charred trees, no animal bones, and contact with the clearing was not accompanied by strange sensations in body.
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1983 Second publication in the magazine “Technology of Youth”.
Quite by accident, a journalist from the publication “Technology for Youth”, while in Bratsk, met Mikhail Panov, head. department of a design bureau near Moscow, who once lived on the Karamyshevo estate. And he tells the journalist a story about the “Devil’s Cemetery”, which he heard from an elderly collective farmer in childhood. Based on this story, in the fall of 1983, the first publication appeared in the magazine entitled “Bad Place” about unusual properties glades.
Panov’s story in that article was supplemented by comments from Viktor Zhuravlev, one of the founders of the movement of CSE researchers to search for the Tunguska object and a member of the Commission on Meteorites of the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences. It was not difficult to guess that journalists would turn to the police officers, who had been “digging” the Tunguska fallout for many years, for clarification on the rationale for the Kovina phenomenon. But there was no sensation, since Zhuravlev avoided the topic of a possible connection between the devil’s cemetery and the Tunguska meteorite.
In the article, he gave a simple explanation for the Kovinsky phenomenon, suggesting that the scorched clearing was created by burning underground layers of coal. And the crimson color of the meat of dead animals occurs due to carbon monoxide poisoning, when “carbon monoxide easily combines with muscle protein– myoglobin, causing the tissues to become bright red.”
In general, how could a candidate of physical and mathematical sciences have such comprehensive knowledge in the field of medicine? This remained behind the scenes, as well as the fact that carbon monoxide could not accumulate in lethal quantities on the rise of the hill.
But, as it turned out later, the article did not include everything that Mikhail Panov, who had been researching on this topic for a long time, knew. In subsequent years, some of his work ended up on the Internet. Here are their contents:
(c) The material is registered in the State Press Committee of the USSR and the departments that provided the data.
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AVAILABLE MATERIALS ON THE ANOMALOUS ZONE THE DEvil's CEMETERY. (1908-1979 Sib.AEN USSR)
Declassified on June 15, 1984. Authorized for publication on January 9, 1985.
1. DEvil's Glade (“Devil's Cemetery”)- a geopathogenic anomalous zone located approximately 400 km south of the site of the explosion of the Tunguska body and probably associated with this phenomenon, because attention is drawn to the fact that the first information about the presence of the zone appeared in 1923 - 1928, t .e. 15 - 20 years after the Tunguska events.
This can be explained both by the sparse population of the area at that time, and by the fact that anomalous zones, like infections, have a certain “incubation period.”
2. Geographical region of Eastern Siberia.
60 – 100 km at azimuth 35 from the confluence of the Kova and Angara rivers (when determining the azimuth, it is necessary to take into account the declination of the magnetic meridian and the compass correction to the true stellar meridian, from which the azimuth is given.) Movement to the place of this anomaly is possible by water with the latter moving over land 45 km at azimuth 43.5 from the true stellar meridian.
These last kilometers are the most difficult, since most of the area contains vast forested mosslands, which are so difficult to navigate that a local guide is required, who will, however, stop a couple of kilometers from the clearing and leave you to walk the remaining distance on your own.
Local residents call this place “the clearing of death”, or “the devil’s cemetery” and do not agree to specifically approach it for any money, and when they find themselves near it by chance, immediately from there, without going home, they take a trip to the nearest church, since they believe that even seeing this place is a great sin.
3. General geometric and geological indicators.
Eyewitnesses noted that the “Devil's Cemetery” clearing has an approximately L-shaped or round shape. According to some data, it is approximately a regular circle with a diameter of 110 m; according to other data, the shape of the clearing resembles the letter G and dimensions are 730x235 meters.
The elongated part of the clearing is directed to the southwest, just like the fall of the forest in this sector, during the fall of the Tunguska meteorite. By the way, the distance from the “clearing” to the famous fall does not exceed 75 kilometers. The vegetation in the clearing is dwarf, and during the peak period increased activity and is completely absent.
At the peak of the decline, weak growth of shrubs is possible, which die within 18–22 hours when activity increases. Herbaceous plants, mosses and mushrooms can withstand no more than a day of further increase in activity.
Animal forms, excluding protozoa and viruses, die within 1 to 12 hours, depending on the complexity of the form.
A person withstands 35 minutes - 1 hour 45 minutes, depending on the resistance of the nervous and cardiovascular systems to the desired factor.
According to data obtained by the Research Institute of Pathanatomy and Pathophysiology named after. I. P. Pavlova of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences, violations discovered during autopsies of animals and dead local residents allow us to assume the cause of their death from acoustic vibrations with a frequency of about 0.75 - 25.5 Hz.
According to the Research Institute of Radiological Research named after. Kurchatov, the radiation background in the anomalous zone is: 2.6 μR/hour, in the area surrounding the zone (5 sq. km.) 3.7 μR/hour.
The norm for this region is 4.1 microR/hour.
Data from the Research Institute of Volcanology of the USSR Academy of Sciences indicate seismic activity in this area is within normal limits for the entire period considered in this material (1908–1979)
According to the Expedition for the separation of heavy elements of the Chemical and Geological Faculties of the Moscow Imperial University (led by Prof. M.A. Vernadsky) for September - November 1908, the radiation background in the anomalous zone is: 9 mR/hour, in the area surrounding the zone (5 sq. . km.) is: 11.5 mR/hour (the data is apparently calculated).
The norm for this region is 17mR/hour, Source: Archive of the Russian Imperial Academy of Sciences.
Data from the Research Institute of Volcanology of the USSR Academy of Sciences indicate seismic activity in this area is within normal limits for the entire period considered in this material (1908–1979)
Data analysis.
An extremely mysterious and contradictory collection of facts. The first thing that catches your eye is that some of the materials were declassified only in 1984, so even if Panov was in the know, in August 1983 he could not tell anything in the press except his story, and then in a retelling.
The first section gives general information, apparently drawn from well-known sources. The location of the Cheka on the left bank of the Angara (judging by the indication of a distance of 400 km south of the site of the explosion of the Tunguska body). It is also suggested that the clearing began to gain strength only after 15-20 years.
The second section is interesting in that it gives almost detailed description roads to the site of the anomaly, although a vague distance is indicated from the mouth of the Kova to the north. And this is the right bank of the Angara, namely the basin of the Podkamennaya Tunguska River.
The third section gives a lot useful information according to the features of the clearing, gleaned from the results of several expeditions. One of the first, oddly enough, took place in September-November 1908??? This is despite the fact that the first registered expedition to the dump site was in 1927.
Judging by the well-known facts, the conclusion suggests itself that the phenomenon of the devil’s clearing could not in any way be connected with the Tunguska explosion of June 1908, since three months after the disaster, a prepared scientific expedition could not leave St. Petersburg for the site.
As long as the local authorities accumulated enough information about this phenomenon, then, through correspondence with the center, coordination would take place and later a research expedition would be prepared and sent to the site. And all this would have taken more than three months.
Judging by the fact that there was a research expedition on Podkamennaya Tunguska in the fall, the large-scale disaster of that summer that occurred 75 kilometers to the north could not help but attract their attention.
Hot on the heels, the scientists of the Imperial University would have collected so many materials and evidence that would never have been dreamed of in prophetic dreams Kulik and his comrades, who examined the fall much later. And then we would go to the site of the Tunguska explosion in the near future in 1910-1911 an even more prepared research expedition would have been equipped. But for some reason this did not happen.
But even what Mikhail Panov said in 1983 was enough for a “damn fever” to sweep across the country. His " uncertain"the assumption expressed, among other things, that “Did some unusual space alien fall in this area?
After all, approximately 400 km to the north begins the area where all living things were swept away in 1908 by the famous Tunguska explosion...”, caused in the consciousness of the regional public an explosive effect similar in scale to the Tunguska.
After this article, tourists, scientists, journalists and simply adventurers in life became interested in the phenomenon.
Each of them dreamed of finding an unusual clearing in the taiga and proving its connection with the Tunguska events of 1908. The devil’s clearing itself was not of interest to many, but as a key to solving the Tunguska explosion, it could well have aroused such massive all-Union interest.
To be continued.
Devil's Cemetery (Devil's Polyana) is an anomalous zone in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. This name is often confused with “Devil's Glade” or even separate these concepts, although we are talking about the same thing.
It is located approximately 400 km south of the site of the Tunguska explosion and is probably associated with this phenomenon. Radiation of unknown nature in the clearing depresses the trees growing around it, causes headaches, a feeling of fear in people and scares away animals.
Eyewitnesses noted that in the T-shaped or round clearing itself there were only rotting corpses of cows who had carelessly entered here. Here are their stories.
“On the bare ground one could see the bones and carcasses of taiga animals and even birds. And the tree branches hanging over the clearing were charred, as if from a nearby fire... The dogs, who had been in the “Devil’s Cemetery” for just a minute, stopped eating, became lethargic and soon died ".
"In that year (probably the end of the twenties - the beginning of the thirties) when the described events took place, there was little water in the Angara, and it became necessary to drive the collective farm herd through the taiga to Bratsk. Usually the delivery of meat to the state was carried out by water, in that year it was impossible In order to shorten the distance, a path was chosen from the village of Kova along the river of the same name through the villages of Uyar and Karamyshevo - so it is twice as close to Bratsk as along the banks of the Angara. The main task of the guides was to protect the herd from the most dangerous creature of the taiga - from the midge. If mosquitoes are afraid of smoke , then midges in pre-war times could only be driven away with tar, which, if used often, eats away the skin of animals into the blood. Therefore, the stops were long, always near the water. In the evenings, until dark, the herd stood in the water, the next morning, in the dew, until The midge did not wake up and wandered off in search of food.
One day, when the drivers were about to turn east, towards the Angara, when checking the herd, two cows were missing. The assumption that they were killed by a bear disappeared - the dogs behaved calmly. But there were no wolves in those parts. Two of the team of drivers, including the narrator, went in search. After a while, they heard the alarming barking of dogs running ahead, and, loading their guns as they went, hurried in the same direction. Imagine their surprise when a clean, round clearing, completely devoid of any vegetation, opened in front of them. The dogs, which had already run out onto the black ground with a frightened squeal, turned their tails between their legs and turned back. And at a distance of 15-20 meters from the last trees, on the bare, as if scorched earth, lay the corpses of missing animals.
The incident stunned the drivers. And the older, experienced hunter, who knew the local taiga very well, it turns out, had already heard about this place. “This is probably the “Devil’s Cemetery,” he said. “You can’t get close to the bare ground - there’s death there.”
Indeed, the round clearing, about 200...250 meters in diameter, inspired horror: here and there on the bare ground one could see the bones and carcasses of taiga animals and even birds. And the tree branches hanging over the clearing were charred, as if from a nearby fire. The elder hurried to leave the ruined place. So they left without finding out why all living things were dying on this strange land. The release of gases, typical in swampy areas, was not felt here. The dogs, who were in the “Devil’s Cemetery” for just one minute, stopped eating, became lethargic and soon died.”
There is another message about the existence of a “black spot” in the Kova River valley.
Upstream of the Kova there is a “lost place”: animals die there, for example, cattle that accidentally got there. And even birds. The dead cows are dragged out of the clearing - and not even grass grows on it - with hooks on ropes: everyone is afraid that you will step on the place where they died. Dead cows have unusually red meat - the hunter claimed he had never seen anything like it. He was ready to take the doctors to the disastrous clearing - it was located only 7-8 kilometers from the village. However, the military situation did not allow doctors to visit there; they were overloaded with work.
In 1984, an expedition visited those places with the goal of finding and studying the “Devil’s Cemetery.” “We crossed a dry stream, then the stream on which the mill stands. Immediately behind it the ascent to the ridge begins. Having crossed it, we went downhill (we walked about a kilometer), the path was blocked by a rubble. Before the blockage there is a detour path. From the bypass trail, a well-worn trail branches off to the left. Having walked along it for about a kilometer, on the right side we saw a gap similar to the gap from a clearing. This is the “Devil's Cemetery”. Around the clearing are thickets of cuckoo... The clearing itself is about 100 meters, not round, but rather L-shaped. Rare multi-colored moss, very rare and small, grows on the golden-colored surface of the earth. Immediately behind the clearing one can discern a stream - obviously a tributary of the Kamkambora River... The place itself is located on a small hill. From the “Devil's Cemetery to Karamyshev” the walk is no more than an hour and a half.
Unfortunately, the 1984 expedition failed to reach its goal. Whether the expedition took place the next year, what it brought, materials about this have not yet appeared in the press. At least, all participants in the first expedition had a firm belief that the “Devil’s Cemetery” existed at least in 1952. Does it exist now - judging by the above story, its activity is fading away - grass is already growing on the previously empty land, and its size has become half as large as in the twenties...
Vitaly Petrovich Chekha, a candidate of geological and mineralogical sciences, suggested that in the event of an underground fire in the taiga, a “hot” clearing could have formed, something like a large frying pan. An underground fire in the taiga is quite possible. Only coal was most likely burning here. Its outcrops are marked on the geological map of the area. In general, countless fuel resources have been discovered on the Tunguska Plateau, which have not yet been developed. After all, when the heat subsided and the rains came, the fire died out on its own, and in the spring the clearing was overgrown with grass. And now this clearing, no matter how you look, cannot be found. It is possible, of course, that a new warming of coal seams will occur, and where this process occurs, new burnt-out spots may form, but not “damn cemeteries.” However, this requires a confluence of, so to speak, many circumstances, which does not happen often.
But why did strange things happen to people in the area of the “cemetery”: headaches begin, a feeling of fear gradually overcomes... Burning coal can be accompanied by the release of gas and other compounds, continued Vitaly Petrovich. “If, for example, you lie down near such a place, you can It’s easy to get burned out, and the health of those who are in the zone of a large underground fire will probably be unimportant, and fear, naturally, will be...
A. and S. Simonov explained the features of the “clearing of death” this way. Any animal is exposed to an alternating magnetic field on it. It is known from biology that there is a limit to the values of the electric current passing through the blood, above which it clots - “electrocoagulation” occurs. The animals that died in the “clearing” had red insides, which indicates increased capillary blood circulation before death. And death occurred as a result of massive thrombus formation. The concept of an alternating magnetic field in a “clearing” explains a lot: the instantaneous impact, the effect even on shot birds, etc.
So, the mysterious clearing has not yet been found. Researchers carefully process the data received and dream of new expeditions.
edited news Mrs. Pan - 28-11-2010, 18:55
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