On the island of Barsa-Kelmes, strange and inexplicable things happened. What great secret does the thick fog surrounding this island hide?
Of the more than 1,000 large and small islands in the Aral Sea of Central Asia, none is as mysterious and unusual as the island of Barsa-Kelmes.
In the Kazakh language of the indigenous people, the island of Barsa-Kelmes means the island of “one gone, no return”. What makes this 133-square-kilometer island (as of 1980) become one of the most mysterious areas in the world, although the Soviet Union used to send troops, planes and tanks to decode it, but everyone All efforts go to a dead end?
Unexplainable phenomena
Legend has it that, in the 13th century, the people of the island of Barsa-Kelmes were forced to flee the island to avoid the slaughter of the Mongols. After a short time, they returned to the island to be surprised to see a strange change, the scene appeared as if decades had passed. In the end, the people on the island only stayed on the strange island for a few months and then moved to another place to settle.
Up to now, Barsa-Kelmes has become an abandoned place. The island’s last inhabitants left decades ago.
In Barsa-Kelmes, one sees only a strange land shrouded in dense fog, where strange, inexplicable things are said to happen. Strange things appear so often that the inhabitants living near the island have called it “the door to another dimension”.
Map of the island of Barsa-Kelmes in 1853. Source: Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London.
Let’s see what strange things happened on this one-and-a-half island
First, Barsa-Kelmes is said to be inhabited by strange creatures, as if they have never come from Earth but come from another dimension. Locals claim that they have seen creatures resembling giant birds hovering around the island, or seeing large sea snakes swimming in the waters around the island, and sometimes seeing giant “water monsters”. long necks glimmering in the dense fog.
Even everyone who has ever ventured into exploring the island has mysteriously disappeared. They never returned once they entered that “forbidden land”.
Not only is it said to be the home of giant creatures to anomaly, not only “swallow” people behind the dense fog, the island of Barsa-Kelmes also renders all modern human devices disabled. chemical.
When approaching the island, the clock suddenly stopped working, the compass was disabled, the compass needle could not be oriented. Even more amazing, people also feel that time is sometimes very slow, sometimes very fast.
Expedition tent on the island of Barsa-Kelmes, 1848.
One of the strange events leading to the intervention of the Soviet government must be mentioned in 1959.
After years of experiencing warmer seasons than the islands and surrounding area, in 1959 the island of Barsa-Kelmes experienced a particularly harsh winter. Some Kazakh natives who live near the island, thinking that Barsa-Kelmes might be an ideal freezing point for the fish they caught earlier, entered the area despite the village chief’s objections. .
However, the harsh winter has passed, and the warm spring has come and they have not returned home. Relatives organized a large-scale search, however, days passed without finding any sign of missing people, they reported to the authorities.
The Soviet Union entered the decoding: Maneuvering planes and tanks, but the mystery is still complete
The Soviet government then sent a helicopter to scan the area, looking for missing people on the island of Barsa-Kelmes. However, when the plane flew into the dense fog, the equipment on the cockpit was disturbed and gradually failed one by one. The two pilots were forced to make an emergency landing.
The last words that came to their radios when reporting the emergency situation was that, they saw elliptical objects appearing vaguely in the dense fog. Immediately afterwards, the radio signal between the command base and the helicopter went completely silent.
After the helicopter “disappeared” completely in the dense fog of the strange island, the Soviet Union continued to deploy a tank with a long cable, entering the area of the strange island.
The reconnaissance team on the tank was ordered to keep in touch as it entered the thick fog. However, the terrifyingly bizarre thing happened again. The radio signal went silent again after the tank entered the fog.
Illustrating images.
The suspected specimens were all taken to a modern laboratory in Moscow for examination, however, the scientists also did not find anything unusual, such as foreign substances, foreign objects or important clues. for investigation.
When strange phenomena cannot be explained in the dense fog on the island of Barsa-Kelmes, that is when people speculate about mysteries related to UFOs and alien bases.
Russian UFO researcher Vadim Chernobrov, after studying old documents related to unexplained phenomena at Barsa-Kelmes, thinks that the fog is the shield protecting a secret base somewhere inside the island.
This layer of fog has the ability to disable electronic devices, to prevent unwanted intrusion from the outside.
Illustration.
What is the fate of those who have gone to the island and never returned? What great secret lies within the dense fog? Is the island of Barsa-Kelmes an underground alien base, or is it a man-made work to hide some huge secret?… All these questions are unanswered. satisfactorily liked.
