In every city there are places where you should not appear alone. St. Petersburg is no exception: its topography is rich in mysticism and a variety of tales from the crypt, terrible secrets, incomprehensible phenomena and places whose ghosts are absolutely invented in the bud. Especially for you, we have prepared a selection of urban legends of St. Petersburg. If we missed something, feel free to note in the comments!
Bypass canal
The largest artificial water structure of the city at the same time a landmark and a source of terrible legends. In 1923-1924, when the digging of trenches had just begun, hard workers excavated an incomprehensible structure of ancient plates with incomprehensible symbols, and under one of them human remains were discovered.
Archaeologists who arrived at the site recommended stopping the work, but who listens to these pathetic intellectuals? The bones were taken to the landfill, and the plates were allowed on the curb stone. The dead did not forget the meanness committed - behind the embankments of the canal the glory of the place of attraction of numerous suicides was fixed.
However, skeptics believe that the legend was completely invented by the screenwriter of the TV show, with a light hand and there was an ancient burial. Archaeologists confirm: at the construction stage, no excavations at that time were possible. And part of the city places became late.
Rasputin's Apartment
Killed the favorite of the Empress in the Yusupov Palace, but the spirit after death decided to move to his native apartment on Gorokhovaya, 64. After the revolution, she became a communal apartment, although the portrait of a dark man is still in the apartment. Such a neighborhood gave rise to a number of rumors: they say that something rustled there every now and then, and at night the ghost of an old man appeared and walked around the rooms, muttering infernally.
In the mailbox sometimes find letters of people: people write from all over the country, asking for help in the hope that what is written in some miraculous way will be delivered directly to Hell.
Not so long ago, an admirer of the elder from St. Petersburg bought an apartment from all its owners and turned it into a private museum so that everyone could look at the fateful address and testify to the dangerous deceased his respect.
Plant "Red Triangle"
The factory, which produced rubber products for more than a hundred years, did not survive the 90s. Special secrets and mystical horror stories are not listed behind it, but the exterior is scary. A number of premises are now equipped for trade, office buildings or entertainment centers, but everything else is suitable only for filming films about the war.
Hospital for the Crazy
Such places have long been loved by the creators of horror and thrillers. The institution in St. Petersburg may well become a platform for shooting our masterpieces of this genre, but the direction has not yet reached the building.
In the middle of the century before last, there was a thriving noble estate of the Myatlev family, and after the revolution - a mental hospital, the inhabitants of which were burned alive by the Germans. In fact, it is a ready-made plot for a high-ranking thriller or horror.
Shelter of the watch factory in Petrodvorets
It turns out that in Peterhof not only watch the fountains and sights of the famous park, but also feel the freezing breath of post-apocalyptic events. Bude you will get courage, you can find in front of the entrance factory "Rocket" a small hill, and on it - a building of brick.
It is not guarded, although there is something to look at inside. In one of the rooms there is even a library, equipped with a large amount of useful literature on the account of civil defense, global thermonuclear conflicts and similar joy. In the other - gas masks and protective equipment. However, to get to them, you will need a wetsuit and scuba gear - the shelter is flooded. According to legend - together with a dozen soldiers who guarded it. They simply forgot to change, and those led by a lieutenant sat in the bunker, ate stew until the water blocked the exit to the outside.
St. Nicholas Cemetery
Here lives the ghost of a black cat. According to legend, this is the soul of the warlock and sorcerer Prokop who entered into a deal with the Devil. The subject of bargaining was the recipe for a potion that gives eternal life. Having received the cherished recipe, the witcher immediately rushed to cook it: he nailed a sinner to the cross, cut out his eyes and began to drain blood into a cup, but he did not have time to finish the procedure - and melted with the first sunlight.
When his corpse was discovered, his mouth was full of worms and one leg turned into a cat's paw. About the further history is silent, but, judging by the ghost of the cat, the transformation was completed in full.
Field of Mars
In the reign of Catherine the Great, it was believed that this place at night falls under the power of the mermaid tribe and drowned, and the memories of the townspeople talk about the disappearance of the townspeople on Marsovka, from which horns and legs and a uniform saber remained.
The legend is based on the epic legends of the Karelians: they believe that at night the banks of the rivers serve as a promenade for all sorts of evil spirits, bringing death and fear to the counter. And in the 20s, a gang of "jumpers" had fun with robbery: wearing white hoodies and springy shoes, they robbed and maimed passers-by, simultaneously imagining themselves as ghosts.
Victory Park
A very wild legend is associated with this place: allegedly during the Great Patriotic War, the corpses of people who died of hunger were burned in the local crematorium. The load was huge, and often in the stove did not get the dead, but just deeply asleep or unconscious people. And now they take revenge - and people near this place have migraines, weakness and a tense state.
Griffin Tower
The courtyard of the famous pharmacy of Wilhelm Pel on the seventh line of Thea is famous thanks to the eleven-meter tower, in the numbers on the wall of which the code of the universe is sewn - the secret of immortality, which will be revealed to anyone who came here at midnight on a certain day.
You need to find the key, and then survive the battle with the griffins - because at night the pharmacist practiced alchemy and called demons. Many people come to the tower with excursions during the day or at night. The locals got tired of this order, and they knocked down the ill-fated magic figures from the walls of the structure.
Rotunda on Gorokhovaya
Occultists believe that the rotunda is nothing but an entrance to another dimension. At night they walk here in search of a meeting with Satan. Previously, the building was the property of one of the Counts Zubov, who held meetings of the Masonic lodge here.
Night guests are waiting for a terrible punishment: instant aging, madness or painful death. In addition, there is extraordinary acoustic data. In former times, informal youth hung out here, Grebenshchikov, Choi, Shevchuk often visited. Perhaps this is how the musicians frightened the Komsomol activists?
Courtyard of spirits on fontanka
A secret place on the backs of the fourth line of Vasilyevsky. According to legends, there is a "collapsed space": it is not easy to find it, and the permanent address changes depending on the author of the rumors. If you make a wish here, and then look to the sky - even the most intimate will come true.
Sphinxes in front of the Artist
A set of these sphinxes was taken from Thebes - the capital of one of the ancient Egyptian kingdoms. According to legend, the pedestal inscribed magical formulas of Pharaoh Amenhotep, the founder of the mysterious cult of necromancers.
Cats were brought here in 1833. According to legend, they cannot look into the eyes, otherwise your soul will be cursed until the end of time. Less impressionable tourists go to them to make wishes and good luck. By a strange coincidence, they are very attracted to those who want to take their own lives in the Neva.
