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Mysterious boiler and fatal polite literatures The strange rumours are afloat about thehidden place in the source of Viluy! A certain entrance in the infernalsubterranean vault, where the unknown creatures inhabit, the set of theunderground metal rooms, in which it s warm even in the strongest frosts aretalked about. There were fearless men, that spent the night in these rooms, butthereafter they began to be ill. And those people, who ventured to sleep somenights in succession there, died.

The name of the district - Eluu Cherkechekh that means the Valley of the death intranslation from Yakut language, is namely issued from the stated above tenses.Boilers of the Hell There is also the mysterious hugeboiler of red colour there. Famous Viluy s researcher R.Maakwrote about it On the bank of Alguy timirnit s river what means the largeboiler has sunk , really there is a huge boiler made from

copper. Its size isunknown, as only the edge of the boiler is seen above the ground, but there aresome trees growing in it . Michael Petrovich Korecky fromVladivostok has visited the Valley of death three times first in 33-d being aboy with father, second in 39-th already without the father, and, at last, in49-th with the group of the young guys. There, in the thicket, it was possibleto wash secretly the gold, not being afraid of robbery and of

bullet in thenape. For three seasons Michael Petrovichsaw seven boilers by the diameter from six up to nine meters. Even theperfected chisel couldn t injure the metal, from which they were made. The guys,young, healthy, tried more than once. Beat by the large hammer. Evenappreciable deepenings have remained on the steel but there were no scratches on the boiler .Besides the layer of the unknown material, similar to sandpaper covered thismetal.

It was neither similar on the result of oxidation process, nor on thescale. It also could not be chopped off, even scratched.Michael Petrovich has noticed also, that the vegetation around the boilers is anomalous bigleafed bur, very long twigs, strange grass by 1,5 -two times above the human growth. Once their group consisting of six men evenhas spent the night in one of the boilers .

The special troubles haven thappened, unless that one of them has become absolutely bald in three monthsand three small scabs each by the size about the match head have appeared onthe left, on which he has slept, side of the Michael Petrovich s head. Hetreats the scabs till the present time, but unsuccessfully.Spirits in the red clothes Tuobuya is the village consistedof hundred - hundred fifty courtyards, located in three hundred kilometers fromVerkhneviluysk. If we will from here go down 150 kms on

Markha River we willcome to Suruktaakh Khaya that means the rock with the polite literatures intranslation from Yakut language. Let me tell you about this mysterious rock. Imagine the steep rock on the river s coast,in the middle of the deaf taiga, away from any roads, and on it, at the height,inaccessible to the man, the mysterious marks carved on the stone, remindingraker, different animals, etc. Under the stories of the eyewitnesses, thecolour of these figures is perceived

differently by the different people. Theone, who saw the figures in black colour, soon died. But the most surprisingwas the fact, that the things put in the niche, chiseled in the rock, do notgive in to the process of aging, rotting, etc. So, gunpowder, products, matchesalways remain ready to use. With years many such things was collected.Prokopy Savvich Michaelov, honourable old man in the Ulus, heard thestories that sometimes two in the red clothes

appeared at the top of the rock.The hunters do not wear bright clothes. Especially they didn t in times ofyore. The Yakuts name them itcci - the spirits. Maybe it was the newcomers? Performed by Moskalenko Anthony,Student of the group И-3-4.1998 year.