There is in Loknya district of the Pskov region, the place, the existence of which the locals prefer to remain silent: the people over many decades has developed a belief that one who talks a lot about him, certainly will soon die. And these fears are not groundless: over the last 50 years the village, just 16 kilometers from the district center, practically extinct. And the worst thing is that many died with their boots.

Then suddenly in the local river, even the stream, whose name no, drowned 13-year-old son Brigadier of collective farm, then, Podkova horse, was fatally shot a hoof in the head of a village blacksmith, died from wounds inflicted humble before the bull, milkmaid-Udarnitsa, fell, patching up the roof, and received fatal injuries cutters houses, umlrole from unknown disease' strong before men and women...

Ominous rumors of a local phenomenon born fifty years ago. Once two teenagers, who helped shepherd to find out from a corral and lost in the woods cows, was deep in the thicket where they, however, had known, it seems, every Bush). Hearing cow's roar, adolescents quickened my pace and found a huge, with charred land clearing. Their eyes had already reached the middle of the glade cows suddenly burst into flames and fell to the ground.

In the fear of teenagers came to the village and told the parents about the unusual glade-killer. The grandfather of one of the boys remembered that when he was a teenager, his father was told that in those places in the forest there was a huge hole-funnel, bringing terror to the local people. Legends that, of course, was surrounded this place were one worse than the other. Told that from the hopper to the side are moves which, in turn, transformed into a Suite of rooms, that at night they graduate strange creatures and kidnap little children. Even on a Sunny day over the clearing fog and flashed some strange shadows - whether people with dwarfism, or animals. That the one who steps into this clearing, disappears without a trace (however, some go back, but several years after a walk in the forest are as if under hypnosis: slow speech, memory loss, and so on).

They also said that once, many centuries ago, there was a huge castle, where he lived the family of one of the Russian princes, but once in a heavy storm dozens of lightning suddenly struck this place, and the castle in a few moments fell to the ground...With time around 'bad' glades formed as the ring of dried bushes and trees, tightly interwoven branches: so, to get to the clearing only cutting axe this natural "fence". Funnel on a glade like 'dragged', there anymore no one had failed, but the long being in this zone was worth another life. Especially rich 'tribute' collected glade among animals. Vegetation on it was very thick and juicy, and had, perhaps, some special effects to them: having caught 'prey', Polyana would never let go of its prey. Animals and birds have died here, but not decomposed years, and the meat they had acquired a special bright red shade...

Villagers hooks pulled from the glade of the dead cows and sheep, zahoranova them nearby and birds and other wild animals and lay there until their bodies over the years not only the bones. Anomalous field that established in the area godforsaken place, would be extended from time to time, grasping in his 'network' poor village and acting, apparently, on mentality of its inhabitants. Suddenly, for no reason between neighbors broke out fighting, certainly southern someone's death, without apparent reason, killed the cattle, flashed fire.

Many have tried to leave, but that was gathered in the street and even moving a few tens of kilometers, he turned back: some unknown force drove them back, Domaines the glade-killer consistently took their annual tribute: it seems every resident of this and other villages in the area knew about it and tried to avoid, but still fell into the trap. Other and disappeared in the forest, others remained to lie on the lawn...About those, who managed from the glade to pull out and bury, told that they died not from physical injury (visible sores on the body. Rather, they killed some inexplicable horror that the moment of death left a stamp on their faces.

However, during the Second world war, local phenomenon, as did local people, saved many lives: for unexplained reasons, the village was not occupied by the Germans. After going through it by March, the German troops were stationed in other villages, and about this village command seemed to have forgotten... In the 1960-ies in this region, Nalychevskie on local miracles, came several expeditions, but to return back only managed one. There happened to them, adventurers were silent, but all of them for unexplained reasons hair dropped, they were tortured severe headaches, and one girl from head to foot was covered with small, a match stem, sores, and eventually died at a local hospital from an unknown disease...

The same years owned and new flurry of activity of the anomalous zone: some nights over the forest in the sky flashed rays beating exactly in the place where the glade, and the day above the village arose bizarre mirages, bringing terror to the local people.

Sometimes at night the guard, that kept the collective herd, noticed that the sky moving points of light-stars, of which from time to time rained " silver rain' - sparks that were dissolved in the night sky, and did not reach the earth.

After a couple of years shoaled, and then has gone underground the local river. The riverbed quickly overgrown with high grass, which had an unusual green tint. Insects have avoided these strange thickets, and only the wind lazily over the grass, Yes, the sun was trying to burn out this unearthly vegetation.

And yet another shock awaited villagers, after which many of them left their homes and were built on a new place, away from all those 'miracles'that was presented to them all these years their homeland. Somehow after several days of heavy rains the water had washed away the ancient local cemetery, which was located on the hill at the edge of the forest. And it turned out that the dead were buried nobody even remembers what time, for all time spent in the land... not decomposed. Perfectly preserved and clothes, which were dressed dead.

Time passed, and the zone has released their victims. Most of the villagers moved to other villages, young people would rather not go to the town, away from godforsaken place. The village is empty, and only abandoned house now remind about those who lived here. The fame of the clearing-killer still lives among Lorenzi, but only the most desperate 'outsiders' - usually visitors shooting in the neighboring villages for the summer at home, are desperate to go in search of her. Alas, many of them still find the destruction of local forests: an adventure of this kind without special training, as you know, dangerous.