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Karelia. The majesty of mountain ranges, the beauty of virgin forests, rushing high into the sky, the crystal clearness of countless lakes. But you don't even know what's behind it. A land full of mysteries and mysteries. We set off in search of an entrance to a parallel world through strange places shrouded in many legends.

MYSTERIES OF KARELIA

Pudozhsky district, Shalsky settlement (390 km from the capital)
A ledge on the banks of the Onega. A place with a frightening name "Demons Nose", dotted with drawings of ancient people. Petroglyphs are rock carvings that we inherited from our ancestors. They are located under the feet of visitors, and not on a vertical sheet of rock. The deep meaning of these messages of ancient people, both on the eastern coast of Lake Onega and in the Belomorsky region, cannot be fully interpreted by scientists to this day.
There are more than 500 petroglyphs on the Besovy Nos, among them the central figure is the Onega Bes, remotely resembling a man, only with a square head, a barrel-shaped body, and five fingers on his hands. The figure of the demon is divided exactly in the middle by a gap, which, according to scientists, indicates a connection with other world. Both locals and visitors regularly disappear here. In the place where people disappear, only their things remain. Who is behind these mysterious and traceless disappearances? According to one version, which has been considered by scientists for more than half a century, the Bes depicted on the cape is a real creature representing Bigfoot.Due to the fact that the object is difficult to reach, it is visited only by fishermen and hunters who appease the owner by throwing coins into the slot so that he deigns to fish with them.
What about in the direction where all the drawings depicted on the cape are looking? It turns out that there is a kind of little Mars - Raspberry quartzite quarry. The stone of power was widely used in the construction of the Mausoleum and St. Isaac's Cathedral, the most famous tombs around the world were made from it, including Napoleon's Sarcophagus. It is mined only in Karelia, 60 kilometers from its capital, on the western bank of the Onega, in the ancient village of Shoksha.Strange, but true: rain always bypasses the quarry.
Quartzite is not the only alien from another reality. Thanks to shungite, the Russians defeated the Swedes near Poltava: because of the intense heat, the water in the rivers bloomed. And our soldiers drank it, first dropping shungite into it. The Swedes, on the other hand, suffered from dysentery.There is another property of this mysterious stone that surprises scientists: shungite is the only mineral on earth that conducts electric current. In production, shungite is processed manually, this process is quite traumatic. Surprisingly, wounds from cuts during its treatment do not fester and heal very quickly.
More accessible, compared to Besovy Nos, for tourists has become Zalavrugas complex with 29 groups of rock carvings, making up 1.5 thousand petroglyphs, most of them illustrate the life of that time (2-3 millennium BC). But among this variety of birds and animals there is the most outstanding image that attracts the attention of tourists and scientists - "Dancing Shaman". According to legend, one has only to rub it, the spirit will come out and will certainly fulfill the cherished desire.
Prionezhsky district, Kosalma village (half an hour from Petrozavodsk)
Literally two kilometers from it rises Mount Sampo. Translated from Finnish, "Sampo" means a magical object, a source of happiness and well-being. A visit to this place is included by some tour operators in sightseeing tours. Having overcome the path to the top of the mountain along the stairs, trees full of different colors will appear before your eyes. Ribbons tied to them are a sign of wishes made.
White Sea. Body islands ("kuusen" - spruce)
Looks like from a distance stone balls, overgrown with spruce and only slightly protruding from the water.
Russian Body Island, Bald Mountain. At its top there was a large sanctuary with a deity in the center of the "Stone Woman", to whom sacrifices were made, and next to which the elders of the Sami tribe were buried.
But the central temple of the ancient Sami with a large concentration of idols and seids is located at the highest point German Body, here the shamans performed their main religious rites. According to legend, in the 17th century, a detachment of Swedes took refuge here from a storm in order to attack the Solovetsky Monastery, which angered the Gods, whose forces protected the holy monastery from the enemy, turning it into stones.
The gate to a parallel world is worth looking for on Mount Vottovaara - the most terrible and legendary place in Karelia (200 km from capital Cities). Dead trees and a realm of ritual stones that emit the sound of emptiness. The ridge of mountain hills stretches for 7 kilometers in length. The road here is already filled with many obstacles, and sometimes it even seems that they are simply insurmountable. Having reached the goal, you can notice surfaces so smooth that it looks like someone has polished them.Many are convinced that the mountain has a powerful energy, because rituals and worship of the gods were performed here. This is evidenced by the silent one and a half thousand seids arranged in a mysterious order. The question immediately arises: how did huge boulders, among which there are multi-ton boulders standing on smaller ones, ended up on top of a mountain 417 meters high? Who put them here?Perhaps the souls of dead shamans are imprisoned in the stones, people with extrasensory abilities come here to communicate with them, and also ask the stones for part of their strength and move to parallel worlds. It also remains a mystery who carved the thirteen steps of the Heavenly Stairs and the “Bathroom” in the form of a depression filled with water into the rock?
Vottovaara is shrouded in many mysterious phenomena: animals do not live here, lakes are dead, devices fail, equipment fails, and trees are especially striking like in a fairy tale about Baba Yaga, twisted and even tied in a knot, which only enhances the already creepy feeling. from staying in this place. Here you can also fall into a deep sleep, if you lie down on a boulder.
One of the unsolved mysteries of Karelia is labyrinths - encoded knowledge in the form of spiral-shaped stone symbols, reaching up to 30 meters in diameter and indicating the connection of man with cosmic forces. The spiral is a kind of code that has been passed down from generation to generation. In many legends, labyrinths indicate the entrances and exits of a parallel world, the doors of which open to those who know the key to them. So far, no scientist has deciphered its meaning.
Mysteries of Klimetsky
40 km north of Petrozavodsk is one of the largest islands of Lake Onega - Klimetsky, 30 km long. In the next journey of the Novgorod merchant in this place in the 15th century, a storm was so strong that his ship was thrown ashore. The merchant liked the picturesque surroundings. Here he decided to found a monastery. In the 19th century, local storytellers glorified these places with epics about heroes. To date, the popularity of the island has not stopped due to such phenomena as: ghosts wandering between the trees, garlands of running lights in forest glades, UFOs. It does not do without cases of disappearances of people. Some first wander through the forest for a long time, although in fact they find themselves near their tent. Others do not remember at all how they ended up in one place or another. One way or another, there is no scientific explanation for these phenomena.
The small and rocky island of Radkolye is spread among the Onega, not far from the island of Kizhi. Those who worshiped the gods living in trees gathered here. The island has its owner - an idol in the form of a rock, with features similar to a human face and with such a stone look that it inspires fear, causes apathy and humility. Those who anger him, he "bestows" misfortunes and illnesses.
Belomorsky district, Okhta River, Ushkovo village (380 km from Petrozavodsk)
In the middle of the swamps on the top of the rock, a singing boulder became a godsend. From a strong wind, the stone on the props sways and makes melodic sounds, similar to an orchestra, or a flute. But even in a calm, these sounds do not stop. Is the wind able to shake such a huge monolith?
Trinity Island, the same Okhta River and the same Belomosrsky district. Sacred spruce grows here, planted in the 14th century. Its trunk in diameter reaches 4 meters. From this tree, with the help of numerous seids, it was as if someone had marked a mysterious path to an unexplored lake surrounded by impenetrable swamps with no less mysterious name"Karma". It certainly holds more than one secret from the past.
Alder wilderness, surroundings of the village of Leppasyurya (highway A131 Pitkyaranta - Suojärvi)
The fire destroyed the sacred grove that used to grow here. And now the winds always blow, because earlier the sorceress and mistress of the winds lived in the house on the mountain. Moreover, this place attracts lightning, so in the area you can see trees with burnt tops from its strikes.
Divny Island (250 km from the capital) is part of the Valaam archipelago
Judging by the name, something inexplicable is really happening on the island: the sudden appearance of UFOs and "wonderful" people: old men, dwarfs. At the same time, some argue that they suddenly have an unreasonable fear, turning into horror and a desire to run somewhere. Others, on the contrary, experience a surge of strength. But still, guests try not to linger on Divnoye for a long time. The main attraction of the island - cromlech, laid out millennia ago, is a row of small stones. In the 15th century, the Valaam monks put a cross here. It was believed that our ancestors surrounded some very important place with these buildings.
Loukhsky district (600 km from Petrozavodsk), Paanajärvi National Park, Mount Kivakka
On its top, they repeatedly tried to install an Orthodox cross, but because of the wind, these attempts were in vain. Local residents are confident in the superiority of mystical forces. Yes, and frequent glows from the mountain only reinforce such guesses.
Here, on the territory of Paanajärvi, is the highest point, the roof of Karelia - Mount Nuorunen, 577 meters high. At the very top of the mountain, despite universal gravity, a multi-ton seid balances on three small boulders.
At the tip of Sapen-mountain (165 km from Petrozavodsk) in the Medvezhyegorsk region, lightning strikes fall more often than all other heights, as evidenced by trees with burnt tops. According to legend, iron rain fell on it so that people learned how to mine and process iron. Maybe that's why there are a lot of iron ore deposits here.
In the same area in the village of Pegrema, in the north of Lake Onega, there is a complex of the same name with an area of ​​20 thousand square meters. In its northern part there is an object of worship "Duck", symbolizing the feminine principle, in the southern part - "Frog". Thanks to her, the whole object was discovered. The dense vegetation hiding the ancient idols was destroyed by a forest fire. It was as if someone had deliberately opened this place to the public. Our ancestors considered the frog a symbol of evil. That is why rituals were held around her in order to appease her and noble representatives of the tribe were buried. Esotericists come here for various rituals.
West of the Ladoga Skerries. Kilpola
On the opposite coast of the northern part of the island there is an abandoned village, shrouded in stories that tell about mysterious events that began here back in the 19th century: sharp objects suddenly became dull overnight, thick fog suddenly descending, then dissipating, burdocks grew twice as tall as human height, a sudden unreasonable feeling of anxiety among local residents, the absence of night, mirages in the form of cities and palaces, red flying balls. The locals also bypassed the thicket of the forest: an unknown force forced them to wander there for several days, after which no one else saw the missing person. People also hid from meeting with strange creatures, because otherwise anyone who was touched by someone was struck by an unknown disease and he died in agony. From time to time, three nine-meter-wide tubs appeared and disappeared near the water, remaining warm even in winter.But it is worth noting that there were also positive phenomena. For example, when a person was cured of an illness.
Residents to one left the "wonderful" place, moving from here as far as possible.

Places of power in Karelia

The secrets in Karelia do not end there. Not only islands and mountains keep them in themselves. Here, for example, Pitkyarantsky district (200 km from Petrozavodsk), Janisyarvi lake has a beneficial effect on human energy. At the same time, fireballs also appear here, a glow appears in the depths of the lake, accompanied by a hum and vibration.
long abandoned Kochkomozero village with several rickety and blackened houses, the doors of which open and close by some unknown force. Many esotericists testify to it. Visitors to these places will not leave the feeling that someone is watching them.
Segezhsky district, Segozero (270 km from Petrozavodsk)- cursed place.According to the testimony of old-timers, at the beginning of the 20th century, all the water suddenly left Lysa Guba of the lake, and after a very short time it rushed back sharply, but already warm. Such terrible waves on the pond are very common. And such anomalies began with the fact that in the 17th century an unidentified object descended into it, which remains in the local waters to this day.
Urozero (Svetloe) (25 km from the capital) filled with underground water transparent - bluish color, through which you can see the bottom. Water taken from this source can be stored for quite a long time, presumably due to the fact that the springs that feed it pass through silver mines.
Famous for strange phenomena and Vedlozero in the Pryazhinsky district (50 km from the capital). This place is simply teeming with flying saucers and luminous balls, a short merman lives here, with a large head and thin limbs, and often precipitates in the form of jelly, healing any wounds.
Olonetsky district, the village of Eroila (150 km from Petrozavodsk).Two crosses sailed here from Novgorod in the 12th century along the Olonka River. One stopped at the entrance to the village, the other at its exit. A sign from above? Later, chapels were founded here, which were destroyed at the beginning of the 20th century, and the shrines disappeared. Almost a century has passed since then, and one of the local residents found one of those disappeared crosses in the bushes in his yard after rain. It is difficult not to call this phenomenon a miracle, since the loss was found on the 780th anniversary of the baptism of Karelia.
Keeps a mystery and Ladoga lake. Between the islands of Konevets and Valaam, sounds similar to the roar of a jet aircraft come from under its waters and they last about a minute and a half. Not only local residents talk about barrantids, but also in their writings the monks of the Valaam Monastery, as well as Alexander Dumas, testified to this phenomenon.
On the shore Impilahti Bay (180 km from the capital) stands the village of the same name. Once there lived two lovers. The girl's parents were against her chosen one and tried their best to separate them. And so it happened: they locked their daughter in the house, and the young man disappeared without a trace. The girl could not endure such torment and, having run away from home, threw herself off a cliff. Turning into the mermaid Impi, every night she went ashore and made heartbreaking sounds that resounded throughout the neighborhood. Hence the name of the bay.

Hurry up to discover the mystical and amazing Karelia! Perhaps then, you will be able to make sure that many secrets are not at all the fruit of the fantasies of local residents!

There is an amazing place in Karelia, namely Mount Vottovaara, which is not included in the tourist routes.

This place is full of secrets, bizarre trees grow here, there is a stone pool, dead silence and a special atmosphere.

Since the discovery (more than 30 years ago) S.M. Simonyan, the mountain managed to acquire all sorts of legends, most of them related to UFOs that the locals saw. Superstitious people consider it a place of concentration dark forces and a bridge to other worlds. And it attracts ordinary tourists with fabulous landscapes and unusual landscape.

Vottovaara is not so accessible - on the way there are difficult sections of the road, flooded bridges, and sometimes the rivers themselves block the way. To overcome some of the obstacles on the way to the mountain, you will need a four-wheel drive vehicle.

But to visit this amazing mystical place to overcome all these difficulties is worth it.

At the foot of the mountain there is a small lake:

Already at the entrance to the top, we are met by numerous boulders, as if cut into pieces with a sword - the cut is absolutely even:

The higher we climb, the less vegetation we see - only dry twisted trees and mosses. There is a feeling of a "dead" place.

At the top, you begin to feel the mystical atmosphere. The view of the landscape is mesmerizing.

One of the most important secrets of this mountain is the Seids, which are structures made of stones, sacred objects of the North European peoples. At the top of the mountain, an area of ​​​​about 6 square meters. km, according to various sources there are about 1500 of them.

The size of the stones is different - from small cobblestones to huge boulders, the weight of which, according to estimates, is several tons. But the most interesting thing is that these boulders are placed on a kind of "stands" consisting of 3-4 small stones.

It is not known who, when and for what purposes created numerous stone structures. It is possible that this is a creation of the ancient inhabitants of Karelia - the Saami, who knew about the unusual properties of the mountain, and used this place for religious rites.

At the top of the plateau is a swamp. Large stones next to the swamp are called an amphitheater:

Here you can also find a stone pool of regular rectangular shape nearby:

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As soon as you cross the border of Karelia, you will find yourself in a completely different dimension, in an enchanted region, where mysterious traces of the past await at every step. In our time, many parts of Karelia, where no one was allowed before, have become accessible to tourists, who find here a lot of interesting, and sometimes even mysterious.

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Nature here seems to be a backdrop for the shooting of a historical or science fiction film - huge boulders, granite rocks, fast rivers, clear lakes, virgin forests.

On the vast territory of Karelia there are many completely unexplored places where it seems as if no human foot has set foot. Armed with GPS and detailed map terrain, you can get to places that are not described in the literature. And to find amazing traces of ancient inhabitants there - ruins, pits lined with millennial boulders, elevations with chains of stones.

And what is it, there is no one to ask - there is not a single village around for many kilometers, only swamps and forests. After all, Karelia has such a low population density per square kilometer that you can not see anyone for a whole day.

Meanwhile, in this quiet and deserted region there is all the very best: the largest lake in Europe - Ladoga, the highest flat waterfall in Europe - Kivach, the largest in Europe national park- "Vodlozersky" and the largest and oldest accumulation of petroglyphs in Europe.

Devil drawings

Petroglyphs (from the Greek. petros - stone and glyphe - carving) - ancient, carved on stone, images of animals, birds, fish, boats, people, and sometimes completely mysterious and fantastic characters and creatures.

Archaeologists claim that some Karelian petroglyphs were made as early as the 4th millennium BC! That is, on the territory of our country there was a certain ancient civilization - long before the Sumerian and Egyptian ...

Various traces of this civilization remained in many places in Karelia, but some of them, the same petroglyphs, were found quite recently - in contrast to the long-studied and described rock paintings on the territory of other countries.

In Karelia, petroglyphs were found in two places: on the shores of Lake Onega and in the lower reaches of the Vyg River. The "official" history of Karelian petroglyphs began only in the last century - in the 20-30s. But wars and various social upheavals prevented a more thorough study - and the petroglyphs of Karelia are still almost not studied.

Meanwhile, they are a truly unique historical monument. The territory on the shore of Lake Onega, where you can see petroglyphs, takes about 20 kilometers! Basically, the drawings are applied to the rocks located on the coastal islands and capes.

A distinctive feature of all Karelian petroglyphs is the abundance of completely incomprehensible images and plots. Of course, the bulk is occupied by quite realistic pictures - scenes of hunting, fishing, battles; animals, birds, people. But researchers puzzle over some pictures - unknown signs, people with two balls instead of a head, man-beasts. What do these strange images mean, scientists cannot explain ...

Archaeologist Nadezhda Lobanova claims that the places where the petroglyphs are located were of particular importance. “Here, in areas of active hunting and fishing, on developed waterways, people could gather at certain intervals both for collective hunting and for joint festivities.

An analysis of the rock paintings gave us reason to believe that mysterious initiation rites, the initiation of young people into adulthood, as well as ritual defloration could take place in these places.”

For a long time, local residents do not like places where petroglyphs are located, and they try to bypass them. It is no coincidence that their names carry a negative assessment: Besovy Nos, Besovy Sledki…

There are numerous legends about the disappearance of people in these places, and there is even modern folklore associated with the scientific study of petroglyphs - how entire expeditions disappear, relatives of researchers die ... And one conclusion suggests itself - ancient shrines do not reveal their secrets just like that.

Seid - stone on legs

No less interesting is another mystery of Karelia - a huge number of seids. Seid (or "seide", "sow", "saivo") is translated from Sami as "sacred stone". Seids are huge boulders arranged in a certain order and in a certain configuration. Sometimes seid is a huge heavy boulder placed on several small stones.

Sometimes there are seids in the form of a rough sculptural image of the upper part of the human body, on which lie stones shaped like the heads of dogs, birds or people. The main part of the seids are boulders, on which small pebbles are placed on top.

There are whole pantheons of seids, for example, in the Kemsky region, on the White Sea islands German and Russian body. There are also seid complexes on the Votovaara and Kivakka mountains.

Seidas, as a rule, are installed on gentle slopes, from which the sea, straits, the most fishy or animal-rich places are perfectly visible.

This gives reason to believe that the seids were cult places of hunters and fishermen. Seids were worshiped, sacrifices were made to them for a rich catch, successful hunting, good weather. Hunters sacrificed the legs (wings) and head of their prey. The fishermen smeared the seids with fish oil, and when it dried up under the rays of the sun, it was believed that the sacrifice was accepted.

But these are just versions, and the study of seids has practically reached a dead end - it is not known exactly at what time they were installed - after all, there are no remains of human habitation nearby. So it is not known for certain who, when and why installed these mysterious structures.

The most attractive object for travelers is the Kuzov archipelago, where the Russian and German Kuzov islands are located. Interestingly, the name of the archipelago has nothing to do with the Russian word "body". It comes from the Finnish word kuusi - spruce.

The islands of the archipelago are located between the mouth of the Kem River and the Solovetsky Islands. Cult complexes are located on the flat tops of the two largest islands - Russian and German Kuzov, having a height of 82 and 118 m above sea level. 360 seids were found on the Russian Body, and 339 on the German Body.

An interesting legend is connected with seids of the German Body. In ancient times, the "German people" - as the Pomors called the Swedes - decided to capture Solovki. On the way they were caught by a storm, and the "Germans" took refuge on the Body. From the top of the mountain, they even saw the Solovetsky Monastery, but continuous storms did not allow them to move on. And one day, when they were sitting around the fire, God punished the invaders by turning them into stones. And the "petrified Germans" have been sitting on top of the mountain ever since. And the island began to be called the German Body.

It is curious that this legend has a historical basis: at the beginning of the 17th century, a Swedish detachment tried to attack the Solovetsky Monastery, but failed.

Labyrinth to another world

An even greater mystery is stone labyrinths Karelia. There are many places on our planet where such structures are found. They are located only in the north of Europe (in Estonia, Sweden, England, Norway, Finland) and are complex spirals from 5 to 30 meters in diameter, made up of small natural stones.

Karelia also has its own labyrinths. Most scientists date their construction to the III-II millennium BC. It is still unknown who built them and why, and disputes about the purpose of the labyrinths have not subsided among archaeologists for more than a hundred years.

In folklore, many legends dedicated to labyrinths have been preserved. According to the legends of Ireland and England, fairies danced on the spirals of labyrinths in the moonlight; in Norway, stone ridges were laid out by ice giants - “jotuns”; in Sweden, labyrinths were the entrance to the underground palaces of dwarfs - dwarves who owned precious stones. The Dwergi made magic swords, shields and spears for the heroes of the sagas.

The Sami legends say that labyrinths were created in honor of deities, and some mythical personalities built them.

Scientists are skeptical about these legends and see the connection of labyrinths with fishing magic and funeral rites. In their opinion, labyrinths symbolize the difficult and winding transition from life to death. Interestingly, some ethnographic rites confirm this version.

Some believe that labyrinths are grave signs over burial places. But this version has a number of contradictions. Under some of the labyrinths, bones of people are indeed found, but others are completely empty. Researchers of the Karelian labyrinths believe that they served to confuse the souls of the dead in order to prevent them from returning to earth. To do this, sometimes another labyrinth was built next to one - if the soul of the deceased nevertheless gets out of one labyrinth, then it will immediately fall into the next.

This is only a small part of the Karelian wonders. Some difficulty for their study is the weather. Karelia has a very severe and long winter, damp spring and rainy autumn. Only in the short northern summer can one try to penetrate, for example, Votovaara, but if the summer is rainy, then it is very difficult to do so. Creates an obstacle and difficult terrain. Some of the Karelian treasures can be reached only with a specially equipped winch and snorkel, or by boat or helicopter. But if you overcome all these difficulties, you will find yourself in places where the undiscovered secrets of ancient civilizations lie untouched ...

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It's definitely time for Agents Mulder and Scully to pack up and go to work in Karelia. For some reason, aliens, flying saucers and meteorites do not bypass our lands and periodically excite Russian ufologists. The so-called "Onega or Petrozavodsk wonder" gave impetus to talk about UFOs in the Soviet Union.
On Ufologist's Day, our portal has collected the five most striking anomalous incidents that have occurred in the territory of Karelia. What were they looking for and what did they find in the area of ​​the mysterious in the northern land?

1. UFO over the embankment
A bright flash of light approaching Petrozavodsk gave impetus to start a discussion about unidentified flying objects in the Soviet Union. According to eyewitnesses, at 4:00 am on September 20, 1977, a huge star appeared in the sky and began to send "sheaves of light" to the earth, similar to heavy rain. If in those days people had the necessary gadgets in their pockets, then the newspapers would have been full of pictures of the traces of a mysterious phenomenon: for 10-12 minutes something was approaching Onega and suddenly disappeared, leaving in the gray clouds "a gullet of bright red color in the middle and a white one along the edges".
Even in the absence of any photos (the image above is either a copy of the photograph, the original of which has been lost, or a drawing - opinions differ) or video evidence, this story got into the Leninskaya Pravda and Izvestia newspapers.
Today we can only find numerous verbal testimonies of Petrozavodsk residents who convince that during the strange phenomenon they were overtaken by a feeling of "discomfort and dissatisfaction", and after the glass of the houses they were found to be dotted with through holes 50-70 centimeters in diameter. This story was called "Petrozavodsk Miracle". What was it? There are those who explain everything by the laws of nature. But someone is sure that the "jellyfish" over the Karelian sky is nothing more than an alien greeting to humanity.
2. Mysterious Vygozero
This lake has attracted and attracted ufologists and sympathizers more than once. A few years ago, one of the Internet portals added it to the list of anomalous lakes in Russia. Local residents claim that back in 1928 a UFO fell into the waters of Vygozero, after which a creature "with a large head and thin legs" periodically looks out of the reservoir. True, according to ufologist Vyacheslav Kiselev, the 1989 expedition did not confirm the version of the plate that fell to the bottom. But according to a resident of the village of Shchuknavolok, when he was 9 years old, he clearly saw how a huge cylinder appeared from behind the forest, which fell into the lake and broke through the ice, scattering fragments in a circle.
It is interesting that in 2014 similar consequences agitated Karelia. On December 1, an unknown object fell into Vygozero. It was reported that the object at an angle cut off part of the coast of the island. A group of rescuers worked at the scene, and both the explosion of an aerial bomb and the consequences of fishing were put forward as versions.
Within a week, a group of ufologists from the Kosmopoisk association arrived at Vygozero, which, together with divers, was able to sink to the bottom and take measurements. They managed to fix a certain dense body at a depth of 7 meters and the distortion of the magnetic field in the area of ​​​​the funnel, which was formed from the fall. The main version then announced the fall of a meteorite. Ufologists even suggested that the icy body in Vygozero could become one of the heaviest in the world.
True, both representatives of the Karelian Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and their colleagues in the laboratory of meteoritics at the Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry did not find any extraterrestrial particles in sand samples brought from the bottom of Vygozero.
Nevertheless, no one could explain what exactly happened at the beginning of winter on the Karelian lake.
3. UFO, Karelia and Yuri Gagarin
Immediately before the first manned flight into space, Karelia was distinguished by another anomalous phenomenon on the water. In the Korbozero area, local residents talked about an incomprehensible celestial body. A huge mass of frozen earth with a volume of about a thousand cubic meters turned out to be hidden. A giant crater arose, 27 meters long, 15 meters wide and 3 meters deep. A black scorched polynya appeared on the ice. Witnesses said that the picture left the impression that something had hit the shore and bounced into the lake.
There were local residents who claimed to have seen an unidentified object hit the ground, after which it rapidly took off and disappeared over the horizon. Someone tried to find traces of another life, but only a "strange greenish powder" was found.
Scuba divers were on site. After diving, they assumed that the object that fell into the lake broke through the ice, dragged tons of frozen soil across the ground, and then took off into the sky again. Nothing more is known about this incident.
4. Ice circles on the water
It seems that aliens like to fly to Karelia in winter. In 2011, a local resident saw a flying saucer through the window. While he ran home for the camera, of course, she flew away.

Flying saucer! The real one!! And some two capsules go down from it ... Thank God, not on the head, but a little to the side, above the river, - the eyewitness said.
The next morning, at a local reservoir, a man discovered such an interesting natural phenomenon.
5. Racing with foreign forces
For a change, let's take a case that happened not on the water. In 1985, the drivers of train No. 1702 traveled along the usual route from Petrozavodsk to Kostomuksha. At half past eight in the evening, the railroad workers noticed that their train overtook a translucent body that looked like a soccer ball. Sphere led the train, consisting of a two-section diesel locomotive and 70 wagons, and took control of the train.
Unknown to the drivers, the force began to either accelerate or slow down the train. Moreover, the mysterious forces, apparently, were good-natured to humanity that day: when the drivers had to let another train pass, the ball gave control of the mechanisms back into the hands of people. As reported by the media, this incident is one of the most likely encounters with extraterrestrial life. The indicators of the instruments also made up the fog, according to which, during the “game of catch-up”, the diesel locomotive did not waste fuel and overcame climbs that it could not previously pass even due to inertia after acceleration. By the end station, the drivers saved about 300 kilograms of fuel. What it was, science, again, could not explain.

Everyone has a different attitude to the mysteries of the Russian north. The opinions of the religiously minded differ especially: for some believers, this is a place of connection with the energy of the cosmos, for others, it is the source of Russian spirituality, and for others, it is a gathering of witches and devils.

One thing is for sure: there are a lot of anomalous places in Karelia and all of them are full of semi-historical, semi-mythical facts. I asked the director of the Karelian National Museum, Mikhail Leonidovich Goldenberg, who devoted several decades to studying the history of the region, to choose the most interesting ones.

No. 1. Mount Vootovaara - stone magic

The highest point of Karelia (417 meters), on which, probably, all the mysticism of the region is concentrated.

Mysteries of the place:

Why neither animals nor birds like the mountain, and why trees have such twisted trunks, as if someone, in a fit of shamanic dances, uprooted them and stuck them in the ground with the back side?

How did giant stone slabs of geometrically regular shape appear, as if they were cut by a laser?

Why do we need a stone staircase with 13 steps breaking off in the sky? Moreover, with such mystical coordinates: 63 04.999 32 38.666.

How were seids formed - huge boulders standing on smaller stones?

Perhaps the last riddle is the key to all the other oddities of the mountain. Some historians believe who the seids are the work of the Saami (or their spirits) - an ancient tribe with Noid shamans. Until now, it is believed that they are able to subordinate groups of people to their field. All in all seriousness - both the NKVD and the Ahnenerbe hunted for the noids.

Seids on Vootovaara

But there are also pragmatists who assure that all stone formations were created by the glacier: it was he who “heaped” large stones onto small ones, then the ice melted, tiny pebbles washed out, and remained stuck. And clear stone cuts are the consequences of earthquakes. But when you see all this live, it is difficult to keep a pragmatic view of things. Esotericists call Votoovaara an energy accumulator and an “acupuncture” point of the planet, where you can receive information from the cosmos.

Absolutely even cut of stones

How to get to Vootavaara?

By train: from St. Petersburg or Petrozavodsk to the station. Gimoly is the village closest to the mountain. Further on foot or by transport, having agreed with the locals - 15-18 km.

By car: from St. Petersburg there are 2 ways - to the left of Ladoga (closer and more picturesque) and to the right (the road is a little better). In any case, get ready for the need to leave the car, because after 5 km from Gimola, when the main road goes to the left, and you have to go straight to the mountain, an unbearable dirt road will begin.

№2. Kizhi Island - Christianity or paganism?

Who does not remember from school the legend of a wooden church without a single nail? Kizhi has become the hallmark of the Russian North, protected by UNESCO, and receives several hundred thousand pilgrims a year. But the history of the island is not limited to Christianity; according to some archaeological finds, it is obvious that the place was sacred for the ancient pagans.

View of the Kizhi churchyard

Mysteries of the place:

• Church of the Transfiguration, erected in 1714 by an unknown craftsman, still with nails. Mystics claim that this place used to be an ancient pagan temple.


• Kizhi churchyard famous again for unconfirmed, but persistent rumors about UFOs and space-time distortions at the site of the Old Believer cemetery.


• Church of the Resurrection of Lazarus- According to legend, it was built by the Monk Lazar of Murom already at the beginning of the XIV century. People believed that the church was "miraculous", before the revolution, strings of pilgrims were drawn here. But during the time of the Bolsheviks, the building was ruined and abandoned, restoration began only in 1954. Now the church is part of the Russian Zaonezhie exposition.

Church of the Resurrection of Lazarus

In a word, esotericists of all stripes consider the island a place of intense geoactive radiation, in simple terms - a place of heroic strength, where upper worlds spirits, humans and the demon world.

Seagulls attacked me on Kizhi, when I was hunting for a beautiful shot, in the center of which there was a nest.

But the birds must have thought that the nest was on my head.

How to get to Kizhi Island:

• If you have time to spare, but no money, then you can take a bus from Petrozavodsk to the village of Velkaya Guba (about 250 km along the highway), from there it is only 1 km to the island, we find locals and agree on a boat.


• The fastest and most comfortable way: water transfer from Petrozovodsk, the Russian North company takes it there in two ways:

No. 3. Labyrinths - a spiral to another world

Another riddle is spiral-shaped stone symbols, labyrinths with a diameter of up to 30 meters.

There is only one question: what was the purpose of ancient people folding cobblestones into such bizarre shapes?

Labyrinth on Oleshin Island (Kuzova archipelago, White Sea).

There are two popular versions:

Industrial magic. All labyrinths are located in fishing areas and are connected to the coast and islands. Maybe that's how they marked fishing spots? Or is it a scheme of global maritime navigation?

Cult of the Dead. Perhaps the labyrinths symbolize the difficult and winding passage from life to death? Or is it a receptacle for the souls of the dead? A confusing path so that spirits cannot return to the world of the living. But not all labyrinths are accompanied by burials...

Some researchers believe that the image of the spiral is a code for knowledge that was passed down from generation to generation, from people to people, regardless of cultural and religious differences.

How to get to the labyrinths of Karelia?

Two labyrinths are located on the Kuzova archipelago, Oleshin Island, White Sea. You can reach them water transport from Kem - 30 km. By the way, in addition to the labyrinths on the archipelago, there are still a lot of mysterious objects.

Body archipelago

There is no regular communication with the islands of the archipelago, they are uninhabited, so you can get to Kuzovy either with an excursion or a savage, having agreed with carriers from the village of Rabocheozersk. Please note that Kuzova is a specially protected natural area and camping is possible only on three islands: German Kuzov, Russian Kuzov and Chernetsky.

The third labyrinth is located near the Krasnaya Luda peninsula in the northern part of the Chupinsky Bay. But according to these coordinates, Google does not give anything, it is necessary to lay a route to the working settlement of Keret, the labyrinth is 20 km to the north.

№4. Onega petroglyphs - northern Kama Sutra

There are petroglyphs (ancient rock paintings) in many places: from dank Norway to scorching Ethiopia. In most cases, there is no mysticism in them, ancient people conveyed information with drawings: how to hunt, build, collect herbs. But with the Karelian petroglyphs, everything is not so simple, most of the drawings have not yet been unraveled. Particularly interesting are the erotic motifs in the Onega petroglyphs, created about 6,500 years ago.

Petroglyph at Cape Besov Nos.

Mysteries of the place:

What is the purpose of drawings? There is no information load as such, maybe a hint to the best poses or the first illustrations to kindle your imagination?

Why were individual men depicted with a huge phallus, a huge leg and a huge hand? An expression of superiority?

Why in different places all women are depicted in the same way: with raised arms and wheel-shaped legs. The process of knocking out on the basalt lasted a thousand years, did they agree? -Erotic scenes are depicted in 7 places, why exactly there? A kind of sign "a place for .." because of the special energy?

Whatever the versions, we must come to terms with the idea that we will never be able to unravel some of the petroglyphs. Though it's very interesting to think about it.