Magical places of Crimea. Mystical places of Crimea. Yeni-Sala: bloodthirsty gods
In Crimea it is difficult to find something more captivating than beaches, sea and mountains. There are many places on the peninsula that every vacationer should visit: Vorontsov and Livadia palaces, Bakhchisarai, Ai-Petri. The list of attractions is endless. What about mysticism? After all, many vacationers want to see something special, sometimes even creepy.
Meganom: Odysseus' path to the kingdom of Hades
Cape Meganom is located between Sudak and Koktebel. People don't live here - they don't dare. UFOs go astray here, time stops and ghosts walk around. As soon as civilization disappears behind the first ridge of the cape, you feel as if you are in prehistoric times. Tourists often see the ghost of a boy on the rocks, calling for him to follow him into the black waters of the sea. It's dangerous here! Careless tourists from the “goat” mountain trail are then picked up by an ambulance with broken arms and legs. People often say: I fell off a cliff because I saw a ghost...
Once a tourist ran up to me and shouted that he had met a lamb, an instant - and he disappeared. Local residents scared him before this - they told him a story that such a meeting meant imminent death. The whole trip, the tourist walked as if he had lost his head,” says tour guide Nelya Kritskaya.
They also say that through the underground mines of the cape, Odysseus himself once found himself in the kingdom of Hades. Such stories local residents although they are perceived ironically, they still force the tenth road to swim around deep “chasms” in the waters of the cape. Many mines have not yet been explored.
Bear Mountain and Magic Tree
Many legends and stories are associated with the peak, which hangs over the village of Partenit and the famous Artek camp. Some believe that Ayu-Dag is the second name of the mountain, it is a giant bear turned into stone. He wandered around Crimea for a long time, leaving potholes in the ground, which have now turned into valleys, crushing mountains and scattering stones. The bear didn’t like anything, but one day he came across a beautiful shore. The giant liked it so much that he decided to settle in this place. After a long journey, the bear was thirsty. Leaning towards the sea, he began to drink water greedily, so much so that he angered the sea god, who turned the bear into stone. The legend is beautiful, but still looks like a romantic fairy tale. And here is what the old-timers of Partenit themselves say about the current times.
Near the mountain, luminous balls are often seen in the sky; spending the night on Ayu-Dag is dangerous; there have been cases when tourists who spent the night in tents here had nightmares. They got out of bed and jumped down from a steep slope, local historians say. - And according to legend, somewhere on the back of the “bear” there is a magical tree growing. But, since no one has found it yet, no one knows what properties it has.
Our Stonehenge
In the village of Rodnikovo, not far from Balaklava, there are mystical menhirs - huge stones. Who, why and when they were installed is a mystery shrouded in fog. Scientists call them a monument of megalithic culture, and our tourists call them the “Crimean Stonehenge,” but research by dowsers has shown that the menhirs seem to be entwined with an energy ribbon extending into the sky. It is not surprising that some consider the pointed blocks to be the same age as Egyptian pyramids. Local historians of Sevastopol claim that under the place where the stones stand, two mysterious energy coils intersect, which create these energy vortices. The strangest thing is that the stones do not heat up even in the most intense heat. Animals often come to the menhirs, but locals say that they don’t stay there for long, and people have noticed that foxes and hares begin to behave strangely around these blocks.
Tourists, after visiting the “Crimean Stonehenge,” noted a surge of spiritual strength, and some asked for happiness in family relationships and made their deepest wishes. It has come true for many! - says tour guide Nelya Kritskaya.
Alimova Balka - a place of secret power
On the outskirts of the village of Bashtanovka, near Bakhchisarai, there is Alimova Balka - favorite place esotericists, shamans and spiritual practitioners. They say it is endowed with powerful energy. Found by archaeologists cave drawings, whose age exceeds four thousand years, indicate that it was in this place that some of the first settlers in Crimea lived. According to the stories of local residents, the spirit of Alim lives in the caves. Therefore, only a person with a pure heart and a strong spirit can pass through the gorge calmly.
If you follow the path from Bashtanovka, you can come across a large stone under which a cave has been dug, the guides say. - This is Yazly-Tash - a place of worship for pagans. Women who cannot get pregnant ask for blessings to conceive at the walls of this place. People came to us and said that now there is a new addition to the family of every lady who visited this place. Apparently, there is something magical in these walls.
It is enough to walk another 50 meters to taste the unique, unforgettable taste from the Kachnedzhe “lower” spring. Tourists on forums note that they have never tasted such tasty and healing water.
Yeni-Sala - caves of bloodthirsty gods
The Yeni-Sala cave system is located in the village of Perevalnoye, near Simferopol. It was discovered by chance by two schoolchildren and relatively recently - in 1965. While descending into two of them is quite problematic, the third is accessible to visitors without climbing equipment. It turned out that the ancient Tauri used it for sacrifices to their bloodthirsty gods. And although archaeologists and biologists did not find here human bones, but only animal bones, many tourists claim to have seen ghosts in the cave.
Many believe that the souls of innocent victims still walk through the dark labyrinths, the guides say. - Local residents are superstitious and believe that being underground is dangerous. Some people believe that a person’s presence can bring upon himself the curse of the ancient gods. And all because the creatures living there are hungry for victims.
Thirteen strong in Crimea - in search of harmony
Text: Anna Zimina
Photo: Alexey Chugui
Fall in love at first sight!
Into the sky - piercing and deep.
IN wild beaches- where you are absolutely happy.
Architectural monuments of unimaginable beauty.
At sunsets it’s like coming from another dimension.
To the mountains - unconquered and great.
To castles and temples - dazzling and dear.
Into the air - piercing and tasty, like New World champagne.
To the kitchen - with pasties and mussels on the beach.
Crimea is love!
We have compiled the top 13 most famous and popular places of power on the peninsula among esoteric tourists.
There is another Crimea. No stereotypes. Crimea - where there are only deserted steppes scorched by the sun and for kilometers - not a soul. Where the piercing wind blows,
burning face. Crimea is a holiday, and Crimea is loneliness.
Crowded, resort-like reckless - and lonely, abandoned.
Everyone who has been here at least once has their own: unconditional or with reproaches, forever or by calculation.
Crimea also has unique energy.
We have so-called places of power, where people come for mysticism, harmony, and a charge of cosmic energy.
1. Cape Meganom
One of the most favorite places for occultists and esotericists. Located in the southeast of Crimea. The name of the cape is translated from Greek as “big house”, but no ancient settlements have been found here. Desert rocks with a minimum of vegetation are not particularly conducive to this. But they say that UFOs like to visit Meganom. Ghosts have also taken a liking to this place: they say that at night you can see a boy here who calls for him and can lure the gullible into the sea. Another ghostly inhabitant of Meganom is a lamb bleating on the edge of a cliff. (By the way, real pets avoid these places.) Another oddity of Meganom is the yellowish rings on the grass, visible from a height. From time to time they dim, and then people within their radius feel bad. But then the rings gain color again (sometimes they even glow at night) and at this time they become accessible again, people go to them for strength and energy. Meditation practitioners claim that it is on Meganome that one can make transitions to the past or future, and travel to parallel worlds.
2. Mangup
The largest cave city in Crimea. Located in the south of the Bakhchisarai region. People lived here from the 3rd to the 15th centuries. Now there are only stones left here, and also the powerful energy of this place, which for so long served as a haven for generation after generation. They say that in winter you can see glowing neon balls on Mangup. They hover in the air at a height of one and a half meters for about ten minutes, and then simply dissolve and disappear. Mangup also has its own ghosts. Legend has it that on the eve of the Turkish invasion in 1475, a boy lived on Mangup. His family died defending the city. The boy himself, fleeing from his enemies, found himself on the edge of an abyss. The Turks rushed towards him, but the rock parted and swallowed the child. And now, on quiet moonlit nights, you can hear a child’s cry and see a white figure among the trees: this is a boy wandering through the ruins hometown and is looking for parents. They say that if you hold your gaze on him, you won’t be able to look away - you’ll follow him and step into the abyss.
3. Temple of the Sun
This is the name of an unusual stone ensemble on Mount Ilyas-Kaya (not far from Laspi Bay), reminiscent of a giant open flower. The stones are positioned so that the first ray of the sun falls exactly at the core of the “flower”. At first glance, it seems that the Temple is not in such an inaccessible place, but only those who are really ready to visit it and who are allowed by higher powers can get here. If you are one of these lucky ones, find the central stone of the “flower” - this is the main place of power. After climbing on it, mentally ask a question or make a wish. They say the answer will come right away, and your wish will come true very quickly. In gratitude, you can leave some kind of souvenir or small gift in the Sun Temple.
4. Skel menhirs
The village of Rodnikovskoye (Sevastopol), near which they are located, used to bear the name Skelya, hence the name. These are vertically standing stone blocks, covered with moss and centuries-old cracks. At their feet, people performed rituals two to three thousand years ago. Now there are two menhirs: 2.8 m and 1.2 m high. It is believed that these stones have healing powers: they stand at points of accumulation of negative energy and transform it into positive. This energy can literally be felt with your hands: if you touch the menhir, you will feel a slight tingling in your fingers, and a wave of warmth will pass through your body.
5. Karadag (Black Mountain)
This mountain range near Feodosia is considered a powerful place of power. A sleeping volcano releases waves of both positive and negative energy into space. People have long settled at the foot of Karadag, and its mysterious soul, century after century, attracts artists, poets, and musicians who have a keen sense of the world. Strong magnetic anomalies are observed on Karadag - there are places where the compass needle begins to jump like crazy. One of the ridges mountain range That's what it's called - Magnetic. This has a healing effect on some people, and from year to year they come to Karadag to “recharge their batteries.”
6. Kizil-Koba (Red Cave)
The only cave in Crimea through which an underground river flows. Located in the Simferopol region. The valley near the Red Cave is considered an energetically very strong place. At night you can see lights glowing in the air. And four times a year, when one season gives way to another, near the cave some manage to notice a “firebird” - a cloud of luminous energy, shaped like a winged beauty. Not far from the cave, the Su-Uchkhan waterfall gurgles - swimming in its icy water helps preserve youth and strength. Above the waterfall there is a clearing with such a view of the mountains that it will take your breath away. This is a place of special harmony, suitable for meditation.
7. Dolmens on Mount Cat
Dolmens are ancient structures made, as a rule, of four stone slabs placed on edge and covered with a fifth slab. Our ancestors built dolmens in places where positive energy exits and concentrates. In Crimea, such structures are found near cave cities, but most of them are on Mount Koshka, near Simeiz. They say that dolmens are a kind of gateway to other worlds. Next to these huge stone cubes (average 1.5 x 2.0 x 2.0 m). a person feels calm, receives answers to questions that torment him, and can even finally understand his purpose in life.
8. Valley of Ghosts on Mount Demerdzhi
It is believed that here (10 km from Alushta) there is an intersection of energy flows. It is better for unprepared people not to go here - you can see frightening pictures. True, skeptics claim that these are just bizarre rocks that take on strange shapes in the fog. Another feature of Demerdzhi is that on its slopes the sense of time is lost: it seems to a person that he has only been here for five to ten minutes, but in fact half an hour has already passed.
9. Ak-Kaya Rock (White Rock)
Rising above the valley of the Biyuk-Karasu River in the Belogorsk region, reaching in its highest point 325 meters. Concentrated in these places centuries-old history Crimea, and, of course, they have a special energy. People settled here back when their prey was mammoths, cave bears, primitive bulls and hunters drove them to a high cliff. The Sarmatians lived at the foot of the White Rock, and on the plateau there are many Scythian burial mounds. There is a legend that once there was a sea nearby, and Ak-Kaya was a steep shore where ships moored, and iron rings for mooring were supposedly even preserved in the vertical walls of the rock. There are also ancient legends associated with the Altyn-Teshik cave (translated as “golden hole”) located in the White Rock. According to one of them, the cave was the lair of a werewolf snake, who brought here the beauties he had kidnapped in the area.
10. Mount Chatyrdag
Located in the Big Alushta region. Although it is the second highest (after Roman-Kosh), it is still considered the main one for Crimea - it was not without reason that before the revolution it was depicted on the coat of arms of the capital of the peninsula. At the highest point of Chatyrdag, the peak of Eklizi-Burun (height 1527 m), until the 18th century there was a Greek temple of Panagia, dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Orthodox Christians from the surrounding villages still come here year after year on the eve of Easter and serve a prayer service. In this place people feel peace and are filled with strength. And some claim that here he was Holy Mother of God. They also say that you can make a wish on Eklizi: if it is material, then mentally you should turn to the Mother of God; if the desire concerns the spiritual sphere, then to God.
11. Mount Ai-Petri
Protects the southern coast of Crimea from cold northern and western winds. Ai-Petri also separates the energy zones of the South Coast and the Bakhchisarai region, so there are an abundance of anomalous areas here. For example, in the gorge near the Uchan-Su waterfall, many people feel severe dizziness. And the so-called Drunken Grove (the trees here are intricately curved) is actually a geopathogenic zone; it is advised not to go here. But at the very top of Ai-Petri you can stand longer and, turning your face to the sea, make a wish.
12. Stone mushrooms of the Sotera Valley
These are huge, bizarre boulders ranging from three to seven meters high. If ordinary tourists come here to photograph stone sculptures, then fans of esoteric teachings visit this place to recharge their energy and find inner harmony.
13. Bakla
The northernmost of the cave cities of Crimea. Located near the village of Skalistoy, Bakhchisaray district. Exact time its creation is still unknown, but no later than the 4th century. Bakla is a place of silence and solitude. The man-made caves and natural grottoes of this ancient city are ideal for prayer and meditation. Previously, Baklu was guarded by a stone sphinx (a rock very reminiscent of this mythical creature), but at the end of the twentieth century it collapsed, and now the peace of this place is guarded only by the Snake Rock - its huge stone head rises above the surroundings.
Sacred rules
Places of power should not be visited in an angry or irritated state - they subtly sense the mood, and such a visit will do more harm than good. And in places of power, you should not raise your voice, you should not joke or laugh - it is better to remain silent and maintain calm, both external and internal.
The Crimea Peninsula is located on Russian territory. Once it was considered an all-Union health resort and a large number of tourists and vacationers visited this peninsula, but few of them knew about the anomalous places of this peninsula. Mystical places can be found in many corners of this amazing peninsula. This is Cape Meganom, the Valley of the “Ghosts” - Dimerdzhi, Cape Aya, “Bear Mountain” - Ayu-Dag, “Crimean Alantis” - New World, extinct volcano Kara-Dag, Crimean stonehedge, numerous gorges and caves. This list can be continued indefinitely. But let's look at some of the most interesting of them.
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There are already quite a few stories going around about how sometimes people witness something unusual, unearthly, something that cannot be explained by acquired life experience and knowledge. This is how legends about UFOs, spirits and ghosts appear. There are certain places in the world where such cases occur especially often; they are considered to be places of power, anomalous zones. There are such anomalous zones directly and in Crimea. New trend modern tourism Anomalous tourism has become - traveling to places with energetic activity, ancient abandoned houses and castles. It has been proven that in such places a person can feel differently, he can be overwhelmed with energy or, on the contrary, feel a loss of strength and irritability. There is a whole list of places where accidents most often occur or people disappear. Are you ready to go on such a journey and tickle your nerves? If so, then our list of anomalous places in Crimea is for you.
Strange and anomalous places Crimea
Cape Chersonese (Sevastopol)
Mount Zamana (near the village of Perevalnoe
Simferopol district)
Karadag Forest (Karadag)
Cape Meganom (surroundings of Sudak)
Kachi-Kalyon (remains of a medieval settlement near the village of Predushchelnoye, Bakhchisaray district)
Yaman-Dere Gorge (northern slope of Babugan-yayla)
Cave cities
Mangup (above the village of Zalesnoye)
Eski-Kermen
(near the village of Krasny Mak)
Tepe-Kerman
(near Bakhchisaray)
Chufut-Kale
(near Bakhchisaray)
Old quarries
(Kerch Peninsula)
Petrovsky
(near the village of Lenino)
Ak-Monaiskie
(near the village of Kamenka)
Karalarskie
and Bagerovsky
(near the village of Bagerovo),
The mystery of “cold lightning”
In winter, the cave city of Mangup is especially attractive. Remains of walls, steps and graves carved into stone - everything reminds of the people who lived in these dungeons until the middle of the 15th century. A couple of years ago in ancient city A real Tibetan lama wandered in with his disciples, who insisted that he had never heard of Mangup, but was simply going to a powerful energy source.
Former naval officer and now green tourism enthusiast Boris Svidlov lives in the vicinity of Mangup and says that he will not leave here. He often wanders around cave city, arranging excursions for their guests.
I was told more than once, and I myself observed a phenomenon that someone dubbed “cold lightning,” says Boris Ivanovich. - Outwardly, it appears as a luminous spherical object of a soft neon color with a clearly defined internal structure. The balls appear and hover in the air at a height of up to one and a half meters. I tried to contact them, but they did not react and did not hang in the air for a long time - from 3 to 15 minutes. Then they simply disappeared. Balls do neither good nor bad to a person.
Moscow tourists tried to study the phenomenon of “cold lightning” in detail. It turned out that the balls were equally indifferent to both sleeping bags and canned goods laid out from backpacks. They are not afraid of crosses, gravestones, prayers, or spitting over their shoulders. But they are clearly not indifferent to people, especially at moments when they are overwhelmed by some kind of emotion: delight, joy, fear...
By asking his friends, Boris Svidlov found out that “cold lightning” was seen in many places in Crimea.
The conclusion can be drawn as follows: they feed on emotions,” sums up Svidlov. “For them it’s like fish food.” But one person is still not enough, so the larger the company, the more emotional it is, the more attractive it is for “cold lightning”.
Gray-haired and wise Chatyr-Dag
Chatyr-Dag is a mountain of volcanic origin of very respectable age. Perhaps it is the most ancient volcano in Crimea and since its formation it has become almost twice as low. Wind, water erosion and earthquakes have taken their toll. His entire body is literally permeated through and through with cave labyrinths. That's why UFOs are rare here. What else can they take from the "old man"? And there are a lot of people. Extraordinary beauties. The caves attract speleologists. Yes, the spirits of caves are very capricious and capricious, they require a special approach, and do not tolerate frivolous behavior. The denser and taller the yew trees, the more fertile the places.
It is good to be in a yew grove if you have pulmonary-bronchial diseases, and it is always useful for a healthy person to breathe in the healing air. The water in the springs is also healing, and the medicinal herbs are special - they give strength to the body and make the mind clear. But Chatyr-Dag doesn’t like fuss. If you are in a hurry, you will get tired quickly, and then the road back will seem endlessly long.
If you climb to the top, you will feel the strength of the local winds. They blow right through - the body trembles... At night, a different life begins in the forest. Strange sounds are coming from everywhere. And if you understand the language of the forest, you will learn about many things that happen here this night. During the day it is good to sleep on the slopes facing the sea - strength is quickly restored and sunbathing is especially good here. Visit Sugarloaf, they say you can help your eyesight there. Amazing places.
Mount Ai-Petri 
Ai-Petri is a security mountain. It protects the southern coast of Crimea from cold northern and western winds, and not only. According to many geological and energy features, a tectonic fault passes through here.
Ai-Petri separates the energy zones of the Southern Coast and the Bakhchisarai region, so anomalies are found throughout - from the valleys to the top, especially from the sea. On the road from Yalta to the weather station there is a small lake Karagol. It is known for its dark water. This water helps in the treatment of skin ailments: lichens, warts, calluses and others. However, wounds can be sprinkled with it only after boiling.
The water is saturated with iodine, phosphorus, hydrogen sulfide and other active elements. Not far from the lake is the Uchan-Su waterfall, an eagle shelter. There is a strong anomaly in the gorge. You need to be very careful to maintain stability while walking.
Even higher you will come across a “drunken grove”. The tree trunks in it are strongly bent and pressed to the ground. It is undesirable to stay here for a long time - this is a geopathogenic zone. At the very top is a wind rose. Stay there, don't rush to leave. Turning your face to the sea, you can make wishes.
On the descent towards Bakhchisarai, walk slowly; it is best to spend the night here in open clearings. And early in the morning, walk barefoot through the dewy grass in the fog. Inhale the air slowly too and be sure to wash yourself with dew. Your face will become not only fresher, but also younger. The daisies here are especially large, you can make a good collection. Try the fragrant infusion made from local birch bark and buds. Very helpful. The western side of Ai-Petri is very favorable for walking: the paths are smooth, the air is always fresh, the sun is gentle and not scorching. The energy of the earth is soft - calming, calming...
(Ukrainian Emine-Bair-Khosar, Crimean Tatar. Emine Bayır Hasar, Emine Bayyr Khasar) - a karst (washout) cave of a vertical type, located near Marble Cave on the lower plateau of the Chatyr-Dag massif, in Crimea.
The cave was opened in 1927. The main route is about 700 meters and takes about one and a half hours.
The most beautiful, but also inaccessible lower galleries of the cave are the natural mineralogical museum-reserve of Crimea.
The name of the cave is translated from Turkic: Emin - oak, Bair - slope, Khosar - well, all together this means: a well on a slope near an oak tree. The name reflects several features of the cave: geographical location, appearance and legend associated with the cave.
The Emine-Bair-Khosar cave is called one of the most beautiful caves in Europe. It is located at an altitude of about 1000 meters on the territory of the Crimean nature reserve, 11 kilometers from the village of Mramornoe.
The length of the cave is 1460 meters and the depth is more than 120 meters. The name translated from Turkic means “Emine’s well on the mountainside.”
Emine Bair Khosar, also called the Mammoth Cave, was discovered in the 1920s when a group of researchers discovered a huge hall, which was later called the Main Hall. For a long time, the huge underground halls of the cave, stunning in beauty, were tried not to be made public. This was done in order to preserve the cave, because very often vandals operated in other caves.
Only in 1994 the cave began to be equipped for tourist excursions. For a convenient entrance to the cave halls, an inclined 12-meter tunnel was expanded in the rock; previously, only speleologists using special equipment could descend into the cave through a wide 16-meter well.
Emine Bair Khosar is a real underground kingdom more than 10 million years old, with dozens of long galleries, narrow manholes, large and miniature halls.
UFO in Crimea
(Victor Kilyaev)
Good afternoon I live in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea in Ukraine (2011).
We have a fairly diverse terrain - there are mountains and plains, wonderful nature and air. That's why I really like to travel around South Coast. On south coast Crimea, outside the city of Sudak (it is located twenty kilometers away) there is a small village of Mezhdurechye. This summer I was there. This village is located between two big mountains. The area is indescribably beautiful. There are also several ponds there.
One warm summer day I walked through this wonderful area. The time was not very late, so it was not yet dark. At some point, looking at the starry sky, I turned my gaze to the tops of one of the mountains and saw next to the mountain a luminous, incomprehensible object hovering in the air. The height of the mountain is about one hundred to one hundred and fifty meters, and it is quite steep.
A luminous object hung to the right of the top of the mountain. He didn't move. Its shape was triangular. The glow was bluish. I felt somehow scared and uneasy. Almost in the opposite direction there was already a rather bright round moon - it was a full moon. I've never seen anything like this in my life. The size of the object was approximately two times larger than the moon, and it was quite close to me, I think no more than two to three kilometers. And I stood in the middle of the street - not a soul around me. There was also deathly silence on the street, except for the chirping of crickets.
To be honest, when you can’t explain what you see, it’s scary. What do they need near the mountain? Or they are watching this village - it was spinning in my head. Then I remembered about my mobile phone (it has a camera). I thought - at least I’ll take something off. While I was taking out my phone and turning on the camera, the object disappeared without me even noticing how. I didn’t see this object for more than a week of living there, although I looked forward to seeing it every evening...
Overnight at Mount Karagach
I remember this very well...
It was in the spring of 2011, I traditionally went on an expedition to Crimea and the management decided to go to the suburbs of Sudak, they spent the night near Mount Karagach. I had nothing against spending the night, it was fucking beautiful there: the mountains, the sky, there were some megaliths on the mountain, I saw them when I went to get fuel for the fire. We were supposed to be there for a week, after which we left for Sudak.
The first night passed quietly, but now I’ll tell you about the second. It seems like we went to bed, everything is fine. At night I woke up from the cold because I crawled out of my sleeping bag. I was about to climb back in, when suddenly I heard a roar near the tent, well, I thought it was wild boars... I wanted to hit the tent to scare them... Suddenly, it went. I CLEARLY HEARD THAT IT WALKS ON TWO LEGS! I think, damn, what the hell is this?! He lay down and pretended to be asleep. I thought it was my imagination, but no! It was heard that he was not alone. There were several of them walking around the parking lot. Then I heard they began to unzip the tents. What the hell are boars?!
Then they started roaring again, one howled. My knees were shaking and I couldn’t stop them. I've never been so afraid before! Sleep like a dream! Suddenly I heard that our tent had been opened, well at least there was an outer compartment (vestibule for scarves) where things were stored... And between the vestibule and the sleeping compartment there was another barrier with a zipper. I felt it rummaging through things, and they flew. I felt them hitting the barrier, since we were sleeping with our heads towards it... I realized with horror that they were opening the bedroom barriers in other tents and looking at the sleeping people...
I realized that I would die of horror if they looked into our tent... OUR! Exactly! After all, I didn’t sleep alone, but with my friend, Ilya...
I pushed him away. Of course he asked what happened. I told him everything, he, like me, at first decided that these were wild boars, took his machete and told me to move with him to the middle of the tent, because “boars can tear the walls, and this is dangerous.” Then I told him that if this does not stop in 2 minutes, I will scream... He stated that he was not taking part in this, and pretended to go to bed.
After 2 minutes, the hellish performance was in full swing and I, gathering my strength, quietly shouted: “Help!” One of the creatures, hearing me, went to the tent, and, undoing the outer zipper of the vestibule, approached the inner barrier... I realized that the situation was critical, and again shouted, this time very loudly: “Help! Someone is crawling towards us.” to the tent!" A couple of seconds later, the parking lot was illuminated by the light of lanterns, exclamations were heard from the neighboring tents: “Now we’ll help, calm down!”, and the creatures hastily ran away to Karagach. The expedition leader looked into the tent and said that everything was in order.
Many, including us, found their tents unzipped and their things scattered... The management was discussing something on the street. Our guide, who had a gun, was sent to guard the parking lot until the morning. The management blamed everything on either wild boars or drunken tourists, but they never came to a common opinion. The next morning, everything was quickly wrapped up, although the expedition was planned for a week, the order was given to pack all things and equipment and have a quick breakfast. Then we hastily left for Sudak.
This is what happened...
Satanists gather at the Simferopol cemetery, and Stalker is played at the abandoned nuclear power plant in Shchelkino.
Many people, as psychologists say, in order to recharge with adrenaline, need to undergo some kind of psychological test and feel fear. This explains, for example, a passion for horror films or a desire to visit scary, mysterious places. There are a lot of them in Crimea, and they are overgrown with deep secrets and legends. "KT" compiled a rating of the most creepy places peninsula, where an atmosphere of fear and mystery reigns.
No. 1. Abandoned nuclear power plant in Shchelkino
Dark corridors, staircases, a giant rusty crane that was supposed to install a nuclear reactor into the building. The nuclear power plant in Shchelkino (on the Kerch Peninsula) makes an indelible impression. The nuclear power plant in Shchelkino was supposed to be launched in 1989, three years after the accident in Pripyat. But the echo of the tragedy spread throughout the world and sowed seeds of doubt regarding the need to use nuclear energy. Thus, the Crimean Nuclear Power Plant, with the first power unit almost 80% ready, decided not to start up. And we inherited a reactor building, in the turbine section of which enterprising youth began to hold discos at the Kazantip festival. And some airsoft clubs organize shootouts in the dark corridors of nuclear power plants based on the popular computer game “Stalker”.
No. 2. Starorusskoe cemetery in Simferopol
Located in the area Central Market The old cemetery is one of the few that have survived the many reconstructions of the city over the past two centuries. It is recognizable by the Church of All Saints, built and consecrated in 1864. Immediately behind it is the entrance to the cemetery, where many are buried famous people late 19th - early 20th centuries: Archbishop Gury, Crimean artist Nikolai Samokish, commissar of the 51st Army brigade Ivan Gekalo, underground fighters Viktor Efremov, Zoya Rukhadze, Evgenia Deryugina and many others. Some graves have been dug up by grave diggers and treasure hunters. And at the very end of the cemetery there is a Gothic temple, which is covered with black and red paints. They say that satanic inscriptions and pentagrams are left here by occultists during night rituals.
No. 3. Children's room in Adzhimushkay quarries
During the Great Patriotic War, tens of thousands of people died in the dungeons of Kerch. Most of them - 13 thousand - remained forever in the Adzhimushkai quarries (only 48 people survived). In addition to ordinary soldiers of the Soviet army and partisans, among the inhabitants of the quarries were local residents, including women and children. Most of them also died here without waiting for liberation. A rusty crib and charred dolls are all that now remind us of the terrible death of hundreds of boys and girls of all ages who were forced to hide from the Nazis in the dungeons of Kerch.
No. 4. Bunker "Alsu"
Many kilometers of shafts, metal hatches tightly closing the passages, and everywhere on the walls there is an image of a radiation sign. Four floors underground, tunnels going down 200 meters, and a huge room for a nuclear reactor... Even standing at the entrance to the bunker, disguised as a residential building with windows painted for maximum effect, you understand how seriously the Soviet leadership took possible aggression from the side of their enemies - mainly the United States as a nuclear power. It was planned to evacuate the command to the bunker Black Sea Fleet in case of a nuclear strike.
No. 5. Sleepy cemetery
A destroyed stone fence, broken tombstones and holes in the ground at the site of the graves... In fact, the contents of the graves were barbarically plundered by looters, and the bones of soldiers and officers who fell in the Chernorechensky battle of the Crimean War in 1855 lie next to the tombstones. The Crimean authorities have not yet bothered to put in order the Sleepy, or, as it is also called, Gorchakovsky cemetery (after the name of the commander of the battle), so when visiting you should be careful - you can easily fall into graves overgrown with grass and bushes, and therefore not visible everywhere.
No. 6. Bagerovo ditch
In an anti-tank ditch near the village of Bagerovo in 1941, about seven thousand residents of Kerch, including 245 children, were shot. Nowadays there is a monument to those killed in this place. Announcements appeared on the streets of Kerch, according to which Jews registered with the Gestapo were to appear on Sennaya Square on November 28, 1941, from 8 to 12 o’clock. Failure to comply with orders resulted in execution. The bitter irony of fate turned out to be that they were shot just after reporting to the prison commandant’s office. From December 2, the anti-tank ditch began to fill with bloody naked bodies of people. The eerie atmosphere of death still, more than 70 years later, hovers over this place.
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No. 7. Roaring Grotto
The underwater caves of Mount Karadag on the southeastern coast of Crimea, according to geologists, lead into the depths of extinct volcano. The largest grotto, cutting into the body of the rock for almost 70 meters, simply amazes with its gloominess and mystery, and the waves create their own unique ominous roar in it. Many Crimean local historians claim that the entrance to the kingdom of the dead, located in Cimmeria, which Homer mentions, was localized by the Greeks on Karadag, in a place that today is called the Roaring Grotto.
No. 8. Object "Sotka"
Another echo of the Cold War, in addition to the Alsou bunker, is located in the mountains near Balaklava - this is the Coastal stationary missile system "Utes", or, as it is called, object-100 (or simply "Sotka"). It has been abandoned since Soviet times and is being dismantled for scrap. Nevertheless, the scale of the two huge launch mines located right in the rocks still amazes. Next to the rectangular necks, the remains of metal guide rails have been preserved, along which massive gates once slid away, and formidable missiles rose from the shaft on special platforms.
No. 9. Cape Meganom
This place is famous for its mysterious “power rings” (they appear in the grass in ring-shaped strips up to half a meter wide and are clearly visible from a bird’s eye view) and the unhealthy interest in it from UFOs. They say that the cause of the “ring” phenomenon is some kind of magnetic anomaly. Perhaps these are the consequences of an underwater nuclear bomb test that allegedly took place here in 1960. As for flying saucers, they are regularly observed on the Cape. Crimean ufologists believe that one of the plates was shot down just above Meganom. The military found a piece of debris in which cold thermonuclear fusion allegedly occurred before their eyes.
No. 10. Petrovskaya beam
If there is an old civil cemetery in the area of the Central Market, then the largest military cemetery in Simferopol was located in the Petrovskaya Balka area. Soldiers who died from illnesses and wounds received during the battles of the Crimean War were buried there. More than 36 thousand Russian soldiers rested in the cemetery, but in the 30s of the last century the graves were razed to the ground, and on the newly formed hill local residents began to bury their pets, not even suspecting that they could stumble upon the remains of their ancestors.
In Crimea it is difficult to find something more captivating than beaches, sea and mountains. There are places on the peninsula that every vacationer should visit: the Vorontsov and Livadia palaces, Bakhchisarai and Ai-Petri. The list of attractions is endless. What about mysticism? On July 31, Komsomolskaya Pravda published a ranking of the most mystical places of Crimea.
Meganom: Odysseus' path to the kingdom of Hades
Cape Meganom is located between Sudak and Koktebel. People don't live here - they don't dare. UFOs go astray here, time stops and ghosts walk around. As soon as civilization disappears behind the first ridge of the cape, you feel as if you are in prehistoric times. Tourists often see the ghost of a boy on the rocks, calling for him to follow him into the black waters of the sea. It's dangerous here! Careless tourists from the “goat” mountain trail are picked up by an ambulance with broken arms and legs. People often say: I fell off a cliff because I saw a ghost...
Bear Mountain and Magic Tree
Many legends and stories are associated with the peak, which hangs over the village of Partenit and the famous Artek camp. Some believe that Ayu-Dag, the second name of the mountain, is a giant bear turned to stone. He wandered around Crimea for a long time, leaving potholes in the ground, which have now turned into valleys, crushing mountains and scattering stones. The bear didn’t like anything, but one day he came across a beautiful shore.
The giant liked it so much that he decided to settle in this place. After a long journey, the bear was thirsty. Leaning towards the sea, he began to drink water greedily, so much so that he angered the sea god, who turned the bear into stone. The legend is beautiful, but still looks like a romantic fairy tale.
And, according to legend, somewhere on the back of the “bear” there is a magical tree growing. But, since no one has found it yet, no one knows what properties it has.
Our Stonehenge
In the village of Rodnikovo, not far from Balaklava, there are mystical menhirs - huge stones. Who, why and when installed them is a mystery shrouded in darkness. Scientists call them a monument of megalithic culture, and our tourists call them the “Crimean Stonehenge,” but research by dowsers has shown that the menhirs seem to be entwined with an energy ribbon extending into the sky.
It is not surprising that some consider the pointed blocks to be the same age as the Egyptian pyramids. Local historians of Sevastopol claim that under the place where the stones stand, two mysterious energy coils intersect, which create these energy “vortices.”
The strangest thing is that the stones do not heat up even in the most intense heat. Animals often come to the menhirs, but locals say that they don’t stay there for long, and people have noticed that foxes and hares begin to behave strangely around these blocks.
Alimova Balka - a place of secret power
On the outskirts of the village of Bashtanovka, near Bakhchisaray, Alimova Balka is located - a favorite place for esotericists, shamans and spiritual practitioners. They say it is endowed with powerful energy. Rock paintings found by archaeologists, which are more than four thousand years old, indicate that it was in this place that some of the first settlers in Crimea lived.
According to the stories of local residents, the spirit of Alim lives in the caves. Therefore, only a person with a pure heart and a strong spirit can pass through the gorge calmly.
Yeni-Sala - caves of bloodthirsty gods
The Yeni-Sala cave system is located in the village of Perevalnoye, near Simferopol. It was discovered accidentally and relatively recently, in 1965, two schoolchildren. While descending into two of them is quite problematic, the third is accessible to visitors without climbing equipment.
It turned out that the ancient Tauri used it for sacrifices to their bloodthirsty gods. And although archaeologists and biologists have not found human bones here, but only animal bones, many tourists claim to have seen ghosts in the cave.