A city built on bones; the city where suicides most often occur; the city the sun is afraid of ... As soon as they do not call the Northern Capital of our Motherland.
Indeed, when Peter the Great built St. Petersburg, a lot of gloomy stories constantly appeared about people walled up in the walls of the city, about terrible ghosts in the swamps in the area and even about the mysterious mermaids that can be seen right in the Neva.
Mysterious and gloomy rumors still flow around the city. There are several places in St. Petersburg that are considered the most mystical and attractive for lovers of everything mysterious.
10. Damn wasteland in Yekaterinhof
Damn wasteland is named so for a reason. Once upon a time in the place of an ennobled park, there was a gloomy-looking wasteland, about which the most terrible rumors circulated.
People claimed that they saw strange transparent silhouettes at night and now and then heard otherworldly sounds. Many because of these rumors did not dare to approach the wasteland.
But there were people whom the mystical mysteries of this place did not repel, but attracted. It was such a curious hunter of mystery that turned out to be the manufacturer Shakanidi.
The man was known for his craving for occultism, mysticism and seances. Therefore, at the very beginning of the twentieth century, Shakanidi decided to build a promo mansion in the center of the wasteland.
During the Revolution, he was shot dead in this mansion, and his body bag was thrown into a pond in a wasteland. The new inhabitants of the house complained that they were afraid of a ghost. Some still claim to see the spirit of Shakanidi in the park.
9. Nikolskoye cemetery
They say that at the Nikolsky cemetery it is most dangerous to meet a black cat at night. They say that he can attack people, because this is actually a sorcerer in the guise of a black cat.
Rumors are connected with a terrible tradition that has been spreading among Petersburgers for more than a century. Referring to it, once near the Nikolsky cemetery lived a warlock, a medicine man and a sorcerer named Prokopy. He was preparing a potion to treat people based on crushed bones, which he obtained by digging up corpses in a cemetery.
Procopius dreamed of inventing the elixir of immortality and for the sake of this made a deal with the devil himself. He said that Procopius should find a sinful woman, deprive her of her eyes and tongue, and collect and drink the blood of the sinner before dawn.
Procopius did not have time to drink blood and began to weaken, and then died right in the cemetery. One leg of the corpse Procopius became a cat's paw. Since then, they started talking about the black cat, who is guarding people who are late at Nikolsky cemetery until late.
8. The rotunda
Peter is truly the city of rotunda. There are a lot of them, each has its own unique history. The rotundas in St. Petersburg are beautiful, they are loved by tourists and citizens. But there is one very special rotunda on Gorokhovaya street. It was built so that masons could gather in the walls of the round building.
Secret meetings were to be held in a top secret environment. Inside the rotunda it looks beautiful and at the same time gloomy. People who go inside claim later that while they are inside, they do not leave the feeling of someone's invisible, but very sinister presence.
7. Rasputin’s apartment
On Gorokhovaya Street in the heart of St. Petersburg is the famous apartment of Rasputin, which is associated with a lot of rumors, legends and secrets. The healer of the royal son lived here with his daughters.
It was in this house that all the creams of society came to Rasputin for treatment for a variety of diseases. On the night of his death, Rasputin left the house and went to the Yusupov Palace, where he was killed.
However, many argue that the ghost of Rasputin after death returned to his house and still lives in it. The elder’s apartment has now become communal, and its residents claim that at night they hear voice and the sounds of footsteps.
6. Bypass channel
The mystical Obvodny Canal in the city of St. Petersburg has a reputation for a place where people have been killing themselves since ancient times. Suicides were thrown from the bridge directly to the bottom of Obvodnoye since pre-revolutionary times. The sad tradition is still preserved.
Those who decide to settle accounts with life very often choose this particular channel. One of the city's legends says that it was at the bottom of the Obvodny Canal at the beginning of the 20th century that a strange altar made of granite was discovered.
Unknown symbols and signs were carved on granite. A dead body was found under the altar itself. What was the meaning of the altar and symbols, it has not been possible to unravel until now.
5. Sphinxes in front of the Academy of Arts
The majestic sphinxes are located near the Academy and look like they are protecting buildings in the district. These decorations were brought from Thebes.
Many people talk, supposedly on the statues you can find the carved spells that Pharaoh Amenhotep used. This cruel Egyptian ruler established a cruel cult in his country and he used corpses for rituals.
The sphinxes were brought to Peter in the middle of the 19th century. A terrible fact, which is not related to rumors and is reliable information: for some reason, all drowned people from all over the Neva are attracted by precisely these sphinxes.
4. Field of Mars
The gloomy atmosphere of the Field of Mars is largely due to the history of this place. Since the time of the Karelian-Finnish epic, mystical notes in the tales of the Field of Mars can be traced.
When Petersburg did not exist yet, and instead of the city there were continuous swamps and islets, mermaids and other vermin were living in the mouths of the rivers, judging by the tales.
In the place where the Field of Mars is now located, they arranged festivities. If during such holidays people happened to get on the field, then they died at the hands of mermaids.
And only one person managed to save his life, because he had a musical instrument with him.
And if we are not talking about fairy tales, but about real history, then there were mass graves near the Field of Mars during the October Revolution, which also speaks of the heavy energy of this place.
3. Malookhtinsky cemetery
A small cemetery is located right in the residential area. This is the first Old Believer burial place in St. Petersburg. In the 2nd quarter of the 18th century, people began to bury their loved ones on Malaya Okhta and gradually populate it.
There are many mystical stories associated with this Old Believer cemetery. They say that sorcerers, witches and suicides were buried on it. Indeed, in this cemetery it was very often possible to see how people who call themselves magicians perform rituals.
Until now, the inhabitants of Malaya Okhta claim that they hear strange sounds at night and see figures in the cemetery.
2. Elagin Island
On Elagin Island lived one of the most mysterious residents of St. Petersburg - Count Cagliostro. It is said that this man lived during the Great Flood and was personally acquainted with Noah and even escaped on his Ark.
Cagliostro himself denied the rumors and said that he was born of an ordinary princess. Cagliostro performed experiments on dead people in St. Petersburg, trying to resurrect them. They say that he is still alive and hiding in different countries under different names.
Several years ago, when the restoration of the Elagin Palace was carried out, under the small rotunda they found the bottles and vessels of Cagliostro, but nobody succeeded in establishing their purpose.
1. Mansion of Princess Golitsyna
Residents of the Malaya Morskaya are sure that the spirit of the princess still lives in her former mansion, where the clinic is now located.
It was Golitsyna who served as the prototype of the heroine of Pushkin - the famous Queen of Spades. Many say that the princess’s nephew revealed to Alexander Sergeyevich the secret of her three cards, described later in the story.
Tchaikovsky was also inspired by Golitsyna when writing one of her works.
It is noteworthy that both Pushkin and Tchaikovsky lived at one time next to the princess’s mansion and died 3 years after writing their creations about Golitsyna.