Paranormal Russia: The Kamchatka time traveler.

Kamchatka Paranormal event / Time Travel .

On November 8th 1997 a navel officer disappeared in Kamchatka, the last time he was seen was two hours before the end of his watch and he was listed as AWL with a weapon

The officer was found in the mountains two months later and was just a skeleton but there was no sighs of bite marks on the bone's from wild animals.. and the uniform

he was wearing just looked old but was not damaged or torn the remains were taken to Petropavlovsk Kamchatsky for an autopsy / examination....

Apparently Radio Carbon dating said the bone's and the uniform belonged to a 30 year old man but that he had died at least 160 years ago....

The case is still unsolved and unexplained, and is one of the more well know cases of possible Time Travel...

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..Yeti DNA..

There's a lot of Yeti sightings in Russia, and one famous possible attack took place in the 1950's called the Dyatlov Pass incident all the hiker's/ skiers

were found dead ...killed in a brutal fashion but no one knows what actually killed them..

In 2012 lab's in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Idaho analyzed DNA from a clump of fur that had been found in the Azass Cave in Mount Shoriya and confirmed that

the hair samples from the cave belonged an unknown spices neither ape or man. Possible Yeti dna...

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The Valley of Death on the western slope of Kikhpinych volcano in Kamchatka where the volcano releases carbon dioxide and cyanide.

There are a lot of UFO sightings in Russia, and the Siberian Explosion in 1916, (One of the largest explosions in history comparable to a nuclear blast )

and it's still unknown what cased it...

Also there are large tunnels in the Medveditskaya Ridge  and in Zhirnovsk District of Volgograd Region.

Another interesting place is Bolshoy Zayatski Island it has series of ancient Labyrinths that are believed to date back as far as 30,000 B.C. or roughly 32, 000 years ago the island is on the far North west region of Russian not too far from Scandinavia...

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Russian Folktales:The Two Corpses 🧟🧟‍♂️

 

🙂Bonus post for this week 🎃

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The Two Corpses

A soldier had obtained leave to go home on furlough -- to pray to the holy images, and to bow down before his parents. And as he was going his way, at a time when the sun had long set, and all was dark around, it chanced that he had to pass by a graveyard. Just then he heard that some one was running after him, and crying:

"Stop! You can't escape!"

He looked back and there was a corpse running and gnashing its teeth. The soldier sprang on one side with all his might to get away from it, caught sight of a little chapel, and bolted straight into it.

There wasn't a soul in the chapel, but stretched out on a table there lay another corpse, with tapers burning in front of it. The soldier hid himself in a corner, and remained there hardly knowing whether he was alive or dead, but waiting to see what would happen. Presently up ran the first corpse -- the one that had chased the soldier -- and dashed into the chapel. Thereupon one that was lying on the table jumped up, and cried to it:

"What hast thou come here for?"

"I've chased a soldier in here, so I'm going to eat him."

Come now, brother! He's run into my house. I shall eat him myself."

"No, I shall!"

"No, I shall!"

And they set to work fighting; the dust flew like anything. They'd have gone on fighting ever so much longer, only the cocks (Rooster's) began to crow. Then both the corpses fell lifeless to the ground, and the soldier went on his way homeward in peace, saying:

"Glory be to Thee. O Lord! I am saved from the wizards!"

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By W. R. S. Ralston, Russian Folk-Tales (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1873), p. 312.

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Monsters, Cryptids and Yokai, Russian folklor, Alkonost, Gamayun and Shishiga

 

 ......................Today's post is mostly Russian based siren and harpy like cryptids.................

 

pic is by Viktor Vasnetsov's Sirin (left) and Alkonost (right) Birds of Joy and Sorrow (1896)

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Russian myths..

The Alkonost, Gamayun and Shishiga..

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In  Russian folklore the Alkonost is a woman-headed bird similar to the Greek Sirens
dangerous creatures, who lured nearby sailors with their enchanting music and singing voices
to shipwreck on the rocky coast of their island..

Like the sirens the Alkonost is said to have a beautiful voice and those who hear these sounds
forget everything they know and want nothing more ever again.

The Alkonost lays her eggs on a beach and then rolls them into the sea. When the  eggs hatch, a thunderstorm
sets in and the sea becomes so rough that it's impossible to traverse.
She is also related to other birds like beings in Slavic mythology, namely the Rarog and Stratim.

The name Alkonost is derived from a Greek demigoddess named Alcyone.

In Greek mythology, Alcyone was transformed by the gods into a kingfisher....
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The Gamayun...

the Gamayun is usually depicted as a large bird with a woman's head, again simiar to the sirens.

Like the Alkonost, the gamayun is believed to originate from the Greek folklore and siren mythology.

However unlike the dangerous and often malevolent sirens, the Gamayun is a being of prophecy in Russian folklore. She  is a symbol of wisdom and knowledge.

She is said to live on an island in the mythical east, close to paradise.

According to legends she spread divine messages and prophecies, and she knows everything of all creation,  gods, heroes, and man.

 

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 and our third cryptid is the Shishiga..

Shishiga are  sometimes called leshenka .

 

She is a female swamp (or forest) creature similar to the wood-goblin.

She  is often  described as, white, nude, and has tousled  hair.

She is known to harass people and bring misfortune to the drunkards.

She is also an  important figure in the mythology of the Komi people.

The Shishiga supposedly lives in the Kama River and often goes to the shore to comb her hair.

Seeing her is considered a very bad omen, as those who do sees her will soon drown or die by another cause.


The Shishiga also shares some similarity to the story of Artemis and Actaeon from  Greek mythology..


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