Anomalous zone

The Devil's Cemetery

added30 August 2026

A clearing in the taiga of Krasnoyarsk Krai, about which the same thing has been said since the 1930s: a round burnt patch where cattle die, machinery fails and people feel ill. The site is linked to the Tunguska explosion, which happened four hundred kilometres to the north. Expeditions have gone out since the 1970s, and the central difficulty is that nobody finds the clearing twice: the descriptions agree, the coordinates do not. Some researchers think the zone existed and has grown over; others think it never existed.

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Чёртово кладбище — Википедия

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Tunguska Event

In June 1908 an explosion over the Siberian taiga flattened some 80 million trees across more than 2,000 km². No crater was ever found, and the cause has been argued over for more than a century.

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Folklore

The Krasnoyarsk Pillars

Syenite rocks up to a hundred metres high outside Krasnoyarsk, around which a local culture of free climbing without equipment grew up from the nineteenth century, with its own language and rules. The rocks have names: the Grandfather, the Feathers, the Lion's Gate. The climbers keep their own roll of the dead — dozens over a century and a half, and almost every rock is tied to someone's death.

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