1 Haunted Places in Turkmenistan

Every case file on record in Turkmenistan — each with the full legend, the documented sightings spine and the skeptic’s file. Browse the archive below, or open the world map.

1. Darvaza — The Gate That Will Not Close

   A · Derweze, Karakum Desert, Turkmenistan — The burning gas crater of the Karakum — a Soviet drilling camp that punched into a cavern in 1971, swallowed its rig, and was set alight to burn off the methane; the geologists expected days and the f…