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added26 August 20261950

Заброшенный алмазный посёлок в пустыне Намиб, основанный немцами в начале XX века и покинутый к 1950-м. Дома по самые окна занесены песком — пустыня медленно поглощает город.

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Lake Fundudzi

The sacred lake of the Venda people in northern South Africa, one of the country's few natural freshwater lakes, formed by an ancient landslide. Nobody approaches the water without the chief's permission, and the lake is properly viewed with one's back to it, through the legs. Tradition places a guardian white crocodile in it, and a drowned village on the bottom whose people refused hospitality to a leper.

1581 km away

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Ruwa and the School Yard

On 16 September 1994, during break at the private Ariel School in this Zimbabwean town, some sixty-two children between six and twelve said they had seen a silver object down beyond the fence and, beside it, a figure in a tight black suit with large eyes. No teacher was in the yard at the time. A few days later the Harvard psychiatrist John Mack, who studied such accounts, spoke to the children individually. The recordings and the drawings survive. Mack did not claim the event had happened; he claimed the children described it as something they had lived through. It remains the best-known case in Africa and one of the most argued-over anywhere.

1915 km away

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Lake Natron

An alkaline lake in Tanzania with rust-coloured water reaching 60 °C. Its chemistry preserves the bodies of dead birds under a calcified crust — the source of those photographs of "petrified" animals.

3493 km away

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