Frequently asked questions
What the site is, whether the stories are true, what the danger colours and the categories mean, and how a place gets added.
What is this site?
A catalogue of places people tell stories about: abandoned buildings, anomalous zones, hauntings, folklore sites and the creatures reported in them. Every entry is pinned to real coordinates and sits on the map, so a legend has an address rather than a vague region. There are 282 published places at the moment.
Is any of it true?
Mostly not, and that is the subject rather than a disclaimer. What is collected here is the account: what is said about a place, who said it and how long ago. Where a story has a plain explanation or has been exposed outright, the entry says so in its own text instead of hiding it. Legends with a known author are filed under the “fictional” category and take the white danger level.
What do the danger colours mean?
A six-step scale — white, green, yellow, orange, red, black — answering what the accounts say happens to somebody who goes there, from “nothing is reported” to “the place is still taking people”. It grades the story, not the ground. Each step has its own page and its own definition.
What do the categories mean?
The category says what kind of place it is: an abandoned building, an anomalous zone, a haunting, a folklore site, a cryptid, an invention. It is the catalogue's other axis and independent of the danger level — an invented creature can have a horrifying story, and a real graveyard none at all.
Is it safe to visit these places?
The danger level is not a safety rating and must never be used as one. It speaks only about how heavy the stories are. The real hazards — rotten floors in a derelict building, altitude, cold, closed ground, somebody else's private property — do not move it at all, and a green place can be far more dangerous to stand in than a red one. Check what you are allowed to enter, and do not enter what you are not.
Who fills the catalogue?
Readers propose places and corrections; a moderator publishes them. Anyone can suggest a new place or an edit to an existing one. Everything submitted is screened before it appears, not after.
What languages is this in?
Russian and English are written by people. Spanish, German and Polish are machine-translated from those two and never edited by hand, which is why an entry that has not been translated yet shows the English text rather than a gap.