Paranormal Russia: The Seven Giants

 

Have you ever heard of the Seven Giants?

It a famous rock formation in Russia, the colossal rocks are also tied to a legend about a wizard.....

All seven stand between 98 and 138 feet tall...

There are a few different ways to get to them, you can go by road from the Komi Republic, hiking or skiing over the Dyatlov Pass from the Sverdlovsk region, or helicopter. 

Up until 2004, a car route from the Sverdlovsk Region was also available, with a visit to the Dyatlov Pass, the Otorten Mountain and the source of the Pechora River. It was officially banned to preserve two protected areas.

 All seven stone pillars are located west of the Ural Mountains in the Troitsko-Pechorsky District of the Komi Republic in the Pechoro-Ilychski Reserve on the mountain Man-Pupu-nyor, between the Ilych and Pechora rivers.

 They are also known as the Seven Strong Men Rock Formations and the Poles of the Komi Republic. 

These massive stones are a popular tourist destination and have  been given the title of one of the Seven Wonders of Russia.

They were even commemorated on a stamp.

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...The Legend...

The legend comes from folklore of the Mansi people.

According to myth,  the pillars were once a group of giant Samoyeds marching through the mountains to conquer the Mansi people. When the giant warriors reached the holy Mansi mountains and laid eyes upon them, a powerful shaman (sometimes called Yallingner) confronted the group.

The shaman used his ceremonial drum and magical powers to stop the invading giants in their tracks and turning them into stone. However, the shaman himself was unfortunately also affected by his own magic and turned to stone as well. Now they all stand as giant pillers of stone forever.

 This myth explains why six of the stone's stand close together in a line, while the seventh stands slightly separated from the rest, representing the petrified shaman.

In the Mansi language, Manpupuner (or Man-Pupu-Nyor) translates literally to "Little Mountain of the Gods".

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Also, in case you're wondering, these are the Seven Wonders of Russia..

1. Lake Baikal, in Irkutsk Oblast, Buryatia.

2. Klyuchevskaya Sopka and the Valley of Geysers located in Kamchatka Krai. Is a massive active volcano and  the second-largest collection of geysers in the world, right after Yellowstone in the United States.

3. Mamayev Kurgan, in Volgograd, Oblast.

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4. Peterhof in Saint Petersburg.

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5. Saint Basil's Cathedral, in Moscow.

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6. Manpupuner Roc Formation (The Seven Giants), in Komi Republic. 

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7.Mount Elbrus, in Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia, Caucasus Mountains just north of the Georgian border.

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🎃Spooky Season 🎃

 Hello, wanted to give a quick update and also a big thank you too everyone that reads and shares these post's.

Starting next week there will be new post's weekly until the end of October!!

Thanks again for stopping by and have a great Spooky Season🤩

Happy early Halloween!!!!!

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Paranormal Folklore, Gomuls..

In Scandinavia Folklore Gömul refers to a river that originally comes from a spring called  Hvergelmir ( bubbling cauldron)  in Niflheim the river flowers into the land of the gods( Asgard ) and also has ties to the world tree.

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In Korea the would Gömul refers to a variety  of  decorative powders fillings toppings or dips......some common  food filling are mashed red beans, crushed sesame seeds or soybean powder..

 (konggomul), mashed red beans (patgomul), mung bean powder, and crushed sesame seeds

Also used on Rice Cake to coat the outer layers or fill spaces in injeolmi, gyeongdan, and danja.

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And in Russia's Far East the word  Gomul / Gomuls is the name of  a race of mythic giants that live in the numerus volcanoes found in the Kamchatka region.

Folklore from the Itelmen tribe,  describes a race of giants or large mountain spirits that live at the top of the volcanoes, the giants are so massive they hunt whales on a regular basis.

According to the legend, they leave they're mountain tops and fly out at night to spear whale  ( some versions of the story claim they spear whales with their finger tips)....  then carry them back home and roast them over an open fire .. in this case, the active volcano/ lava. 

The Itelmen people believed the fiery glow, smoke and occasional volcanic eruption where the results of  these  giants enjoying a feasts or bonfire atop their mountain home.

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Paranormal Folklore and Mythology, Lughnasadh / Lammas.

 

According to Irish Mythology and the pagan wheel of the year Lughnasadh was a Celtic  holiday founded by the god Lugh as  a  funeral feast and athletic competition and Funeral games to commemorate the death of an earth goddess.

On the Celtic/ pagan calendar  Lughnasadh is a holiday that coincides with Lammas celebrating the first harvest.

Both ancient celebrations are traditionally  held on August 1st...

Lammas often overlaps with or is used interchangeably with Lughnasadh. It's one of the eight major Sabbats on the Pagan Wheel of the Year, honoring the importance of the grain harvest and Mother Earth's bounty. Early Irish Christians celebrated the first bountiful grain  harvest of the year by consecrating freshly baked loaves of bread during a church service.🥐🥖🍞

Other variations of the word are Lunasa, Luᵹ̇nasaḋ, Lughnasadh and Lughnasa.

In Modern Irish, the spelling is Lúnasa  which is also the name for August, Mí Lúnasa (Month of August) and Lá Lúnasa (Day of Lúnasa).  In Modern Scottish Gaelic (Gàidhlig), the festival and the month are both called Lùnastal  In Manx (Gaelg), the festival and the month are both called Luanistyn

The competition usually consist of multiple events  including matchmaking, horse racing, hurling, trading and of course a large feast.

Originally religious rites included an offering of the First Fruit of the grain harvest, a feast of the new food,  sacrificing a bull, ( no longer practiced) followed by a ritual dance.

Original festivals where held on top of hills, this tradition of climbing hills and mountains at Lughnasadh is still practiced in some areas and is recast as a Christian pilgrimage. The best known is the Reek Sunday pilgrimage to the top of Croagh Patrick on the last Sunday in July. 

One custom Lughnasadh had in common with Imbolc and Beltane was visiting holy wells,  specifically clootie wells. Visitors  would pray for health while walking sunwise around the well; they would then leave offerings, usually coins or clooties. Although bonfires were lit at some of the open-air gatherings in Ireland, they were rare and not important to the celebrations itself.

Traditionally, the holiday was celebrated on  the first day of August.  Though after the christianization of Ireland  most of the  festivities where changed to the nearest Sundays – either the last Sunday in July or first Sunday in August.

Since the late 20th century, Celtic neopagans have observed Lughnasadh as a religious holiday. Other names for the festival are Mountain Sunday, Garland Sunday and Bilberry Sunday.

A common theme in the story of  is the tragic fate of a woman who is carried off or held against her will, and later dies out of shame, exhaustion grief , or an unspecified natural cause.

Another version regarding the  Lughnasadh site of Tailtin says the festival was founded by Lugh as funeral games in memory of his foster-mother tailtiu. 

Folklore  says she died of exhaustion after clearing the plains of Ireland for agriculture.  Tailtiu may have been an earth goddess who represented the dying vegetation that fed mankind.  Another tale, about the assembly site of Nass,, says that Lugh founded the festival in memory of his two wives, the sisters Nas and Bói.  One theory is that it was a mourning (or wake) for the end of summer. There are several different versions of it's origins. 

Another goddess associated with  Lughnasadh is Áine ..

She is an Irish Goddess of the Summer Solstice and of Lughnasadh who brings love, protection, fertility, wealth and sovereignty. 

As a Moon Goddess she is the guardian of  livestock, crops, and cattle and as a Sun Goddess, she takes the form of ‘Lair Derg’, The Red Mare so fast that no one can outrun. In  this form she travels the country bringing blessings to everyone.

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That's Not Human !!!!

 

On the night of July 13th 2021 a man driving down a dark country road in North Carolina had a terrifying encounter with an unknown creature...

The driver originally called 911about what he thought was a bloody man on the side of the road, only to scream "That's not human" moments later  when a creature leaped into the back of his moving truck.

The full account is as follows....

The witness called 911 and said he’d just seen a man covered in  blood on the side of a country road, staring back blankly in the dark.

As the dispatcher in Pender County tried to pin down the man’s location — somewhere on NC 210, just over the Black River — a loud thump came over the line.

“What the fuck!” the caller screamed. “That’s not human! That’s not human!

Sir, are you OK, sir?” the dispatcher asked over the driver’s yelling.

“There’s something in the bed of my truck!”

The creature began trying to get into the truck, clawing at the roof. The driver stepped on his breaks and sent it over the roof, he then drove off in a panic.

The dispatch operator seemed almost disinterested and kept asking about the creatures appearance almost trying to play it off as something else...

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She ask, What was it?” “I don’t know.”“Like a turkey?” she asks. “A deer? He replied, Turkeys are pretty big.”“That wasn’t a turkey because I was driving 50 miles an hour. A turkey doesn’t hit that hard, and it was not covered in feathers at all.

Deputies later responded to the scene and flew a drone to scout the area, but they did not write an incident report. The NC Highway Patrol took over the investigation, but the paperwork shown in a YouTube video has troopers describing the scratch marks on the truck as being consistent with tree branches. Downplaying the entire event..

The full 11 minute call was released by law enforcement and the sheriff was even on the local news talking about the incident.

The sheriff statement...

Sheriff Alan W. Cutler.

“I don’t know for sure what he saw or what he experienced that night, but it was obvious that he was distraught,” said the sheriff, interviewed for Carolina Case Files. “I’m afraid it’s just one of those things in this world that we may not ever know the answer to.

If you listen to the dispatch recording you can hear the immediate panic in his voice when it's in his truck!

911 Recording....

https://youtube.com/shorts/ldzxyNgdt0w?is=_pP16vdqlwo95cwu

Paranormal: Strange News: ShipGoo001 🛢️⛴️👀

 

In the summer of 2024, the research vessel Blue Heron was studying algal blooms in Lake Erie, one of the Great Lakes spanning the Canada–United States border.

 It went to a shipyard at the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland, to be inspected for what turned out to be damaged propeller shaft bearings. 

While examining the ship, the captain, Rual Lee, observed a black slimy substance oozing from near the rudder, and was concerned that a potential pollutant might have been coming out of the ship. He found that it did not leave a sheen on the surface of water, unlike hydrocarbons, and did not ignite when lit with a blowtorch, indicating that it was not flammable. Because the rudder is lubricated only by circulating lake water, it seemed unlikely that the material could have been some chemical leaking from the ship.

Personnel at the Large Lakes Observatory, which operates the research vessel, gave the material the temporary placeholder name "ShipGoo001". They took samples of the material to scientists at the University of Minnesota Duluth, to determine what the material might be. The scientists found that the goo contained DNA. 

Through DNA sequencing and comparison against DNA databases, they were surprised to find that some of the DNA did not match any currently known organism, and appeared to be from entirely new species. The discovery was announced in 2025

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Texas Zombie Pamphlet.

 

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Dose the government think 2026 will be the year we see a real Zombie apocalypse????

Everyone knows  what a zombie is, we've all seen these ever hungry  undead abominations on tv,movies and horror.

But what would happen if there was an real zombie apocalypse, who many would be likly to actually survive at least until help arrives?  

Mane people in the lone stare state may have found the answer to that, since March of 2026 a Zombie attack pamphlet has been free for guests in a Texas tax office.

It starts out with.... A "Zombie Attack! Are you prepared?" This  pamphlet was also in several videos on TikTok after being displayed at the Johnson County Tax Office in Burleson, Texas. Provided by Texas Constable Adam S. Crawford, the bright yellow brochure uses a fictional zombie apocalypse as a way to promote real-life emergency preparedness in citizens. Because if you are prepared for a possible zombie attack you likely have enough supplies and abilities to survive most natural disasters.

The pamphlet outlines practical survival steps and   advice on how to handle a  natural disasters like floods, tornadoes, hurricanes and pandemics.

Emergency Kit: Gather necessary supplies, non-perishable food, and water to survive the first few days before locating a safe evacuees camp or survivor shelter. You should also have a way to protect yourself bear mace, guns and ammo or bladed weapons self defense is often necessary especially when times are tight and resource's are scarce .

So stay safe be prepared for any situation and if you see a zombie aim for the head or hope you can out run it lol. 🧟‍♂️🧟‍♀️🧟👻 

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Have a fun and safe summer and happy 4th of July Weekend

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