4 Haunted Places in Russia
Every case file on record in Russia — each with the full legend, the documented sightings spine and the skeptic’s file. Browse the archive below, or open the world map.
Dyatlov Pass — Dead Mountain
A · Northern Urals, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia — The pass where nine experienced Soviet hikers cut out of their tent and died in the snow in 1959 — the world's most investigated wilderness mystery, now essentially solved.…
Yekaterinburg — The Ipatiev House and the Blood on the Stones
B · Church on the Blood, Voznesenskaya Hill, Yekaterinburg, Russia — The site of the century's most consequential regicide: in the basement of the engineer Ipatiev's house, in the early hours of 17 July 1918, Nicholas II, Alexandra, their four daughters, their son and …
Mikhailovsky Castle
B · St Petersburg, Russia — The engineered palace where Emperor Paul I lived just forty days before being murdered in his own bedroom — and where St Petersburg's sentries still claim to see him walking.…
Vanavara — Tunguska, the Morning the Sky Split
A · Vanavara, Evenkia, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia — The largest impact event in recorded history: at about 7:17 on the morning of 30 June 1908, something entered the atmosphere over the Siberian taiga and exploded above the Stony Tunguska river basin w…