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Rustess is an abandoned village on the banks of the Kirya River in Sverdlovsk region. It’s been over 60 years since here no living souls left, human houses are strong dilapidated, and the yards hopelessly overgrown with weeds. Wherein Travelers and hunters today are trying to get around Rustess. side.
Gateway to Siberia
This village arose at the beginning of the 17th century, when Siberia was paved Babinovsky tract. Settlements appeared along it, playing the role of transshipment points, and the village of Rustess became one of the most important among them. After it was built Siberian-Moscow highway, the old road began to lose its value, and in 1763 it was officially closed.
Despite this, Rustess not only did not empty, but even survived in the XIX century a new heyday: found deposits in the vicinity of the village platinum and gold. The locals have become quite wealthy, some even got rich.
The village retained its industrial significance in Soviet times – until it is mysteriously empty in the middle last century.
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Where did the people go?
What happened then, in the 50s, is still unknown. Neither witnesses who can tell what happened, no matter what no trace was left.
… Residents of Kytlym (the nearest settlement, located in twenty kilometers from Rustess) once thought about the fact that For a long time no one was seen from a neighboring village. Men Having gathered, we went to find out what happened.
The sighted picture amazed them. At first glance, everything in Rustess it was, as before: houses stood intact, home cattle and poultry were in place – except that they looked some animals are clearly starving.
But as soon as the Kytlym inhabitants approached closer, it became clear: something extremely strange happened. The village is completely there were no people. Moreover, it seemed that they were all just disappeared at once. The doors of the houses were not locked, the windows were open. On the the tables were half-eaten lunch or dinner. On the bench lay open book with a bookmark, as if the reader was distracted for a minute – and more didn’t come back.
Continuing to search the village and its surroundings, people still faced with one riddle: the graves in the local cemetery were open. However, there wasn’t the slightest clue to the question of where residents of Rustess could have gone.
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Anomalous phenomena around the village
When the discouraged men returned to Kytlym, they remembered in hindsight that once laughed at their eccentric neighbors who talked about mermaids, then about a strange light in heaven, then about the evil spirits wandering in the forest …
Such recollections not only reinforced the halo of mystery over Rustess, but secured him a notoriety. Now wishing for Goodwill to be in a fantastic village days less and less – even with all the temptation to appropriate the abandoned property owners.
The opinion that a curse weighs on Rustess, subsequently repeatedly supported by various anomalous phenomena. By according to rare daredevils, who nevertheless reached the deserted villages, they saw strange lights among the trees and going up pillars of light. Sometimes, especially in the dark, it’s not clear where there was a whisper, chilling blood …
American twin
The unexplained incident in the Trans-Ural village is very reminiscent of what once happened in the English colony of Roanoke, which The first was founded in North America (1585). In only 15 years, this colony was found to be completely deserted, and exactly the same “symptoms” were observed: the houses looked as if the tenants wanted to leave for a moment, but could not return.
Abandoned North American settlement and deserted village Rustess is also related by the fact that the mystery of human disappearance has not found a clue. Truly twin settlements! ..
The last time Rustess visited a group in July this year ATVs. According to people, on the site of a former village an overgrown field extends into which the remains of three are barely visible last houses and one old burial place …
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