Top 5 is really the most horrible places

Petersburg diverse city. Here is where the fun from the heart, is where to enjoy the romance, which has to look at the beauty of the architecture. And the city is full of mysterious places, which involves a lot of different horror stories and mysterious events.

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1. War Goddess Sekhmet.
His contribution to the mystical component of St. Petersburg made and "Egyptian guests." The Egyptian Hall Hermitage statue of the goddess of war Sekhmet - seated woman with the head of a lioness. Museum staff regularly once a year, watching as the full moon on her knees the stone appears and disappears puddle of blood.



2.Peterburgskie sphinxes.
Amenhotep left a bad name in Egypt. He created in this country a terrible voodoo cult, which was used in the rites of the dead body embalmed. His macabre rites Amenhotep spent in the catacombs of Thebes, and in the vicinity of the city began to attack the mummies of people who continued after the death of the Pharaoh until the mid XX century.

To popularize its cult of Amenhotep magical incantations inscribed on the pedestal of stone sphinxes that were in Thebes. And how on earth could it be that these two sphinxes with magical spells brought in 1833 in St. Petersburg, and installed on the Neva River in front of the Academy of Arts. Since then drowned with all of Neva upstream some unmistakable floating rate is the Sphinx.



3.Marsovo field.
In the Karelian-Finnish epic "Kalevala" describes how the water scum satisfied with their covens on the banks of rivers. And one such Sabbath was a living person, who was able to save his life only because playing the kantele enchanted mermaids and drowned. One place where the vermin water held its Sabbath, was the site of the current Mars Field in St. Petersburg. And not a good aura of this place exacerbated in the XX century more and disposal of dead Bolsheviks.



4.Park Ekateringof near metro Narva.
In place of the present park Yekaterinhof before the revolution was a wasteland, popularly nicknamed the Devil's wasteland because of what's going on there some strange things. At night there came the eerie sounds and lights flashed wandering. At the beginning of the XX century industrialist I bought a wasteland Shakanidi who erected her house with a large park. Shakanidi was fascinated by mysticism and spiritualism.

Because of this, the manufacturer in the area had a reputation as a sorcerer. In 1918, with a search warrant to Shakanidi Bolsheviks showed up to find out what he's casts. Fabrikant opposed this and was shot on location. His body was stuffed in a sack and drowned in one of the ponds of the park. A mansion was soon placed the pension for the old Bolsheviks and political prisoners. Convicts who are not afraid of the king's casemates and the satraps, asked Strekachev out of the park when faced while walking there with eerie ghost of the murdered Shakanidi. And it appears the manufacturer restless ghost is still there.



5.Nikolskoe cemetery
Curiously, the most dangerous ghost ghost Petersburg is not human, but animal. Attraction Nikolsky cemetery became a ghost of a black cat. According to legend, the cat turned healer and warlock Procopius, who lived next to the cemetery. He was fond of black magic and patients treated powder from the bones of the dead.

This attracted the attention of the devil, who once visited Procopius night and bought his soul, handing Witch as payment recipe elixir of immortality. To make this elixir, Procopius on Easter night in the cemetery sinner dragged, tied her to the cross, gouged out her eyes, cut off the tongue and began to fill with blood ritual cup, which he had to drain before dawn. But keeping all the details of the ritual, he hesitated and did not have time to drink blood. With the first rays of the sun, he lost strength and fell to the ground and died. And when they found him, the sorcerer mouth was packed with worms, and one leg turned into a cat. Since then, erring on the cemetery at night were attacked cat.
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