Travelers see Moscow with endless historical sites, fashionable shops, luxurious restaurants and modern high-rises. However, behind the bright and glossy gloss of the capital, there is another darker and darker side. Over the many centuries of its existence, the Russian capital, which has gone through both glorious and woeful times, could not help but acquire legends and urban legends telling about a collision with a mysterious other world and mystical phenomena.
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One of the scariest places in the Russian capital is the Khovrinskaya Hospital, an unfinished abandoned building in the city district of the same name. For more than three decades, this structure has been surrounded by a gloomy halo of terrible legends. The Khovrinskaya hospital was once conceived as one of the most ultra-modern medical complexes in the world, but the ambitions of the city's leadership were not destined to come true. The mistake of geological prospecting specialists led to the fact that the entire complex of buildings of the future medical center, washed away by groundwater, began to sag and sink into the ground. Construction, which began in 1981, was halted three years later. To date, the first floor has been completely flooded, and the building itself is gradually falling into decay. The Khovrinskaya hospital is notorious. Representatives of odious subcultures and urban homeless who have chosen the building often become victims of this cursed place. Thrill seekers who have visited the walls of Khovrino vying with each other tell about the ghosts they saw and strange phenomena that cannot be explained.
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The former mansion of Lavrenty Beria on Malaya Nikitskaya also keeps many secrets. According to one of the urban legends, it was here that the cruel tyrant brought young girls for his vicious pleasures. Having outraged the innocent victims at night, in the morning he simply shot the unfortunate in the garden. Currently, the embassy of Tunisia is located within the walls of the mansion. According to eyewitnesses, employees of the diplomatic mission experience emotional discomfort, and documentation, for unknown reasons, is often scattered around the rooms. It is said that strange footsteps and knocks are often heard in the building at night.
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The Monastery of John the Baptist is another terrifying place in the Russian capital. The dungeon of the monastery for more than three decades became a prison for one of the most cruel women in world history - the boyar Daria Nikolaevna Saltykova, better known to the people as Saltychikha. On the personal order of Saltykova, dozens of serfs were tortured and put to death. In total, 74 episodes of terrible violence were proven, but according to some reports, more than 130 people became Saltykova's victims. As contemporaries noted, even after her imprisonment, Saltychikha did not lose her cruel disposition, insulting and cursing people in every possible way. Rumor has it that the restless spirit of the landowner still wanders around the monastery, foreshadowing imminent misfortune for everyone who meets him.
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The forest near Moscow near the Peredelkino metro station is widely known among adventure seekers as an anomalous zone. For some unknown reason, people who find themselves in this territory experience severe ailments, accompanied by an oppressive feeling of fear and impending danger. According to the so far unconfirmed information of researchers, there are numerous graves of French soldiers who died during the Patriotic War of 1812 in the forest.
