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Everybody knows that in the world there is a great variety of surprising, mysterious and anomalous places. Such places are often named places of force. In ancient times in such places there were sanctuaries, later people built temples there.

These mysterious places are distinguished by one - there is a strong energy felt both people and animals in them. But this energy is not always positive and good.

In Russia there are many such places. I would like to tell you about one of them. It’s an anomalous place with a negative energy. And it is near to Kozelsk (Козельск). I deliberately won’t mention where it’s location exactly is, because things that happen there are really dangerous. What things? You’ll know it from my story.

The place that I speak about named The Devil’s City and represents the woody hill combined from quartz sandstone. In a northwest part of a hill sandstone forms the rocks covered by a moss.

On slopes of this hill stones of the different sizes and forms are scattered. Some of them are processed by ancient people. For example, in one stone (it is named The Devil's Fingers) there are drilled holes, having, as they say, some calendar meaning.

In other stone, (it is named The Devil's Well) there is a hole in which the water is gathering, and where mosquitoes and other insects live. People say, that if you would take the water out from that hole, even during a drought, it will gather again for a night.

There are many other surprising stones on a hill, but nobody knows what is their meaning and destination. Archeologists say that there was an ancient sanctuary in The Devil’s City.

Also about The Devil's City there is a legend which says that many centuries ago there lived a peasant in these places. He had a beautiful daughter. And Devil had fallen in love with her.

So, Devil demanded her for himself. The peasant agreed to give him his daughter, but only provided that Devil would build for him a palace within one night. As a legend says, Devil hadn’t enough stones for it, and that’s why he could not construct a palace in time.

And The Devil's City, as a legend says, is that uncompleted palace, a heap of the stones scattered by the Devil.

In spite of its bad glory, The Devil's City possesses such attractive force that a lot of people come there, and then tell many strange stories about things occurred with them. The majority are saying that in The Devil's City people are lost, and time behaves unusual.

There were cases when people came to the Devil's City searching for adventures, and then did not come back. Or they came back only many days later and then, when they were asked why they were absent for so long, they were surprised, because it seemed to them, that they were absent only a few hours.