Bermuda Triangle Romania mystical forest Hoya Baciu. — Hoia Baciu Forest in Romania is one of the creepiest places on planet Earth
The Hoia Baciu forest, located near the Romanian city of Cluj-Napoca, rightfully bears the title of one of the most mysterious places in Europe. It is called the "Bermuda Triangle of Transylvania."
This analogy suggests itself: people disappear here without a trace, encounters with UFOs are common... Residents of the surrounding villages prefer not to go to Hoya Bacha, so as not to incur the wrath of powerful forces that, in their opinion, live in the forest.
The forest was changing before our eyes...
The main tourist attraction in Transylvania is Bran Castle, built in the 14th century. It was once owned by the legendary Vlad the Impaler, better known to us as Count Dracula.
However, in recent years, more and more tourists have sought to visit not only and not so much Dracula’s castle, but the surrounding forest of Hoia Baciu, in which paranormal phenomena have become almost commonplace.
But a little more than 100 years ago it was a forest like a forest. Local residents hunted there, picked mushrooms and berries. A well-worn path ran through the forest, along which travelers were not afraid to travel even at night. Now this road is almost overgrown, and only extreme sports enthusiasts will risk going to Hoya Bacha at night. Or obsessive paranormal investigators. Which, however, is enough.
At the beginning of the last century, the forest (then it was simply called Hoya) began to change literally before our eyes. Straight tree trunks gradually bent at monstrous angles. The soil was overgrown with thick moss. The animals gradually disappeared from the forest, followed by almost all the birds. Local residents whispered that they saw Vlad the Impaler in Khoya, who at one time loved to hunt in these places. It was rumored that the devil himself had chosen the forest thicket.
The Missing Shepherd
The Hoya forest began to justify its sinister reputation immediately after the end of the First World War. In one of the local villages there lived a shepherd nicknamed Baciu (translated from Romanian as “leader”, “chief”). The local residents were engaged in cattle breeding, and therefore Bacha, who raised and sold hundreds of sheep, was respected. One day in June, a shepherd drove a flock of 200 head to a fair in the town of Cluj-Napoca. His path ran through the forest. Bachu went there early in the morning and... disappeared without a trace.
When he did not appear at the fair at the appointed time, the merchants, who were waiting for the flock for which they had already paid a deposit, became alarmed. Residents of the city and surrounding villages (several thousand people took part in the search) literally combed the forest, whose area is 35 hectares, literally one meter at a time. But no traces of either the shepherd or the sheep could be found.
There have been no robbers in these places for a long time, but even if they appeared from somewhere and killed Bacha, hiding his body, taking such a large flock away without being noticed in the surrounding villages is an unrealistic task. The respected man and the sheep disappeared without a trace. And from then on the forest began to be called Hoya-Baciu.
Time loop
The forest, like a predator that had tasted the taste of human blood, demanded more and more victims. Over the course of several years, several more people disappeared in Hoia Baciu. Their bodies were also not found. But these tragedies can be attributed to an accident, an attack by wild animals, that is, at least somehow explained. Other stories smack of outright devilry.
Here, for example, are two cases that occurred after the Second World War. A young teacher who did not believe in God or the devil went to Hoya Bacha to pick mushrooms. Soon local residents found her sitting on the edge of the forest.
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The unfortunate woman completely lost her memory - she didn’t even remember her name. And, of course, she could not answer the question of what happened to her in the forest. Another time, a five-year-old girl, chasing a beautiful butterfly, ran into the forest and disappeared. A search was organized, but the baby was never found. Only five years later, the missing girl - wearing the same clothes and absolutely unchanged in appearance - came out of the forest, holding a caught butterfly by the wings.
The little girl was never able to tell where she had been: for her, only a few minutes had passed from the moment she entered the thicket.
Educated people, like the teacher discussed above, despise superstition. Therefore, although the majority of local residents avoided going to Hoya Bacha, some still went there for berries and mushrooms. Not everyone, but some soon fell ill - people complained of skin rashes, migraines, dizziness, and causeless vomiting. Doctors were unable to establish the cause of ailments in absolutely healthy people. After some time, the patients recovered, but Hoya-Bacha finally gained a bad reputation.
World fame
In the 1960s, Romanian biologist Alexander Sift became interested in the Hoya-Baciu phenomenon. He became the first scientist to seriously take up the study of the paranormal zone. For a number of years, Alexander, despite the danger, crossed the forest far and wide, spent the night in the thicket, and conducted photo sessions there.
Surprisingly, Hoya-Baciu did not cause him any harm. Alexander Sift noted that in the depths of the forest there is a strange round clearing with no vegetation. When comparing soil samples from this clearing and from a regular forest one, no difference in composition was found. This means that there are no biological reasons for the disappearance of vegetation within the round clearing.
Alexander Sift noted: UFOs (most often round in shape) can be found anywhere in the forest. But in the area of the “bald” meadow their activity is greatest. When developing films after night photo sessions, the researcher noticed another strange feature. Many photographs show round luminous objects that are not perceived by the naked eye.
By the way, such balls still often appear in photographs taken with digital cameras. Scientists cannot give a reasonable explanation for this, but local residents have one. In their opinion, the balls are the souls of dead people. The fact is that the lands of Transylvania are abundantly watered with blood - this region constantly passed from hand to hand in the Middle Ages. All this, of course, was accompanied by violence. The unfortunate peasants were robbed and mercilessly killed by local princes, Hungarians, Romanians, and Turks.
...In 1968, Sift’s work was continued by the Romanian military engineer Emil Barni. Soon after the observations began, he managed to photograph a UFO above the treetops. Experts have established that we are indeed talking about some kind of flying object, the nature of which they cannot explain. It is believed that this is the clearest and most reliable photograph of a UFO taken in Romania.
A portal to another world?
Nowadays, numerous ufologists from different countries of the world come to Hoya Baciu - Germany, France, Great Britain, Hungary. However, paranormal activity in these places has decreased somewhat in recent years. Not all visitors manage to encounter mystical phenomena.
However, many of them observe luminous balls in the forest (most often near a “bald” clearing in the depths of the forest). Sometimes researchers hear strange sounds or see flickering shadows and lights. In winter, strange footprints often appear in the snow that do not belong to any creature known on Earth.
In photographs you can still often see strange silhouettes and glowing orbs that are invisible to the naked eye.
Prestigious publications dedicated to ufology, as well as the BBC channel, call Hoya Bacha one of the most interesting paranormal zones on the planet. Even Nicolas Cage came here, intrigued by programs about the mysterious forest. The famous Hollywood actor spent several days filming a documentary about Hoya Baciu, which he now shows to his friends at private parties. Cage is sure that the trees in the forest changed their shape under the influence of the powerful energy inherent in these places. After this statement by the actor, yoga lovers began to come to Hoya Baciu. They meditate in the forest and try to draw energy from a mystical source.
In recent years, residents of the surrounding villages have found their own explanation for all the devilry that is happening in Hoya Baciu. They are sure that the “bald” clearing in the thicket is a portal to another world. The disappeared people simply fell through there. And luminous balls, strange shadows and UFOs are inhabitants of a parallel universe that accidentally ended up in our world.
But there is another version that explains the mysterious phenomena in Hoya Baciu. Dracula's Castle, which was somehow forgotten among all the hype around the mystical forest, may well influence the surrounding area with its negative energy and even be a kind of portal connecting our world with parallel worlds.
Andrey Leshukonsky
The sights of Europe are the center of attraction for tourists and travelers from all over the world. In the heart of Eastern Europe, in Romania, there is one unusual place - the mysterious forest of Hoia Baciu, notorious for numerous visits by UFOs, screams coming from the thicket and strange burns that appear on people who have visited this ominous place.
Mysterious forest of Hoia Baciu in Romania
In Romania, a country known for its eerie stories and dark stone castles, lies a forest that holds terrible secrets. Khoya Bachu Forest can be found in the heart of Transylvania, near the ancient city of Cluj-Napoca. Often referred to as Romania's "Bermuda Triangle", the dense forested area is famous for its paranormal activity, including UFOs, strange noises and spectral entities caught on camera.
Local residents are convinced that the devil himself roams the forest. Those who visit Hoya Bacha experience feelings of anxiety, as well as attacks of nausea or migraines. Often people develop unexplained rashes, scratches and burns on their skin. However, the mysterious nature of the forest does not end only with its harmful effects on humans. Some deformed trees grow in an interesting way, and in the place of some of them you can see, for unknown reasons, charred trunks. Despite the creepy stories and stories, this kind of thing continues to attract the attention of tourists, especially fans of everything supernatural and mysterious.
An ideal place for a UFO to land
The forest was named after a shepherd who disappeared in the area with a flock of two hundred sheep. Most people who live nearby are afraid to go there because of the many scary stories and legends that have been passed down by word of mouth over the years. They believe that those who go far into the ominous forest will never return home. Fairy tales are fairy tales, but how to explain the fact that some electronic devices break down in the forest? Paranormal researchers attribute such problems to the supernatural activity of this place.
Deep in the forest there is an almost perfect circular clearing with no plants or trees, it is likely that this place serves as a landing strip for alien spaceships. Numerous photographs taken in these areas show strange, disc-shaped lights hovering above the treetops. Rumors about time travel and doors to other dimensions are certainly exaggerated, however, it is clear that there is something in this forest that makes you flinch at the slightest creak, especially in the evening.
Holidays in Europe can become unforgettable for those who have planned their trip to Romania, the land of vampires and ghosts, where the spirit of mysticism hovers everywhere. In the vicinity of the city of Cluj-Napoca there is the most mystical and strange forest, legends and myths about which have long been passed down from generation to generation. Proof that this is not another terrible tale about Dracula is that signs of magnetic anomalies, electromagnetic and unusual infrasonic vibrations were actually recorded in the forest.
Where else would all sorts of devilry be found, if not in the forests of Transylvania. Only here can you expect a constant trick, and when walking under the moon, it is better to grab a bunch of fragrant, fragrant wild garlic, which, by the way, grows everywhere here. The unforgettable Bram Stoker immortalized everything connected with Transylvania for centuries by writing his “Dracula”.
However, whatever one may say, it was not by chance that Stoker settled the ancient vampire here, the fact is that since ancient times in this mountainous Romanian area the paranormal has been “wondering” with constant frequency, frightening the inhabitants and horrifying the superstitious. One of the unique places where ghosts can literally be met in crowds, where hundreds of people have seen flying saucers, and in the dark thickets of an impenetrable thicket they have heard children’s and women’s bubbling and silvery laughter, is the forest called Khoya-Bachu.
There is an old forest with a strange name near the town of Cluj-Napoca. Surprisingly, all the names of Romania, for some reason, in a strange way, remind us of the very vampires about whom the amazing writer told us the story, or maybe it just clicks, triggering a long-established stereotype in the head.
The Hoya-Baciu forest is called the “Bermuda Triangle” of Transylvania, and this can be called true; something is going on here that is completely beyond the understanding of rational consciousness. Since ancient times, local residents have avoided the Khoya-Bachu forest, and once they find themselves in its thicket, they try to escape as quickly as possible, but not everyone succeeds.
It is interesting that the forest received its name in honor of the shepherd, who grazed his flock of sheep here, consisting of more than two hundred heads. One day, Khoya-Bachu simply walked with the animals to the edge of the forest, which they did not notice due to the thick fog. No one else, anywhere, has ever seen either the shepherd himself or his animals. Moreover, there are no traces of the massacre of wild animals, no remains, bones, the site of the massacre - nothing remains! They simply were there and disappeared, leaving behind only a yellowish-gray haze of fog, like drifting snow creeping close to the ground.
And this is not an isolated case; people continue to disappear here to this day. Young people, high school students from Cluj-Napoca, in love and therefore completely fearless, set out to test beliefs and legends just recently. The girl returned in the morning, she did not remember anything at all, she could not clearly tell what happened and where her lover had gone. Local newspapers literally exploded with hundreds of strange hypotheses and assumptions.
Among other things, ufologists believe that it is in this same forest that one can detect the presence of alien creatures, very intelligent, and not at all friendly, and in 68 of the last century, military technician Emil Barnya even took a photograph of an unknown object flying among the thickets and in the sky, over Hoya Bachu. The photographs were found to have no traces of forgery.
Another enthusiast, but already a biologist, whose name is Alexander Swift, spent more than ten years in this amazing foggy forest, studying the vegetation and animals living here. It is interesting that he periodically experienced fear, panic, heard strange sounds, rustling sounds, voices where they simply could not be. But he was never able to leave, bringing the matter to an end, as if the forest itself gave him food for thought and allowed him to study itself.
He saw a strange greenish-blue glow in the depths of the forest and a flowing green fog more than once crawled towards him like a snake, but none of this brought any physical harm to the biologist. Maybe thanks to his scientific approach, but the ghosts and aliens did not touch the scientist, and after developing the photographs, it was discovered that every single film contained strange and surprising images, which were immediately selected by Romanian intelligence officers. Why? And Dracula knows them...
Hoia Baciu forest, which is located in Romania. It is often called the Bermuda Triangle of Transylvania and it will make you feel uneasy and make the hair on your head stand out. Modern science cannot deny paranormal phenomena. What happens in the mysterious forest of Hoya Baciu is proof that there are forces that have been completely unknown to humanity until now. Hoya Baciu is the Bermuda Triangle of Transylvania.
The stories and legends of Hoya Bachu are chilling. Few returned alive from the forest. A five-year-old girl who got lost in the Hoya Baciu forest was lucky enough to survive. Exactly five years later, she emerges from the forest on her own, wearing the same clothes and not remembering anything that happened to her in the last sixty months. The child looks absolutely as if not a day has passed in her life.
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Many did not return from Hoya Baciu. The area is named after an old shepherd who, along with his two hundred sheep, disappears into the depths of the forest and never appears again. There is no trace of him left. After this event, the place begins to be called Hoya Baciu - the Bermuda Triangle of Transylvania.
The forest is located in close proximity to the Romanian city of Cluj-Napoca, in the region famous for Count Dracula.
Everyone knows that ghosts have settled in Hoya Bachu, paranormal phenomena occur and trees of strange shape and size grow. In addition, aliens appear from time to time.
Strange images appear between the leaves, inexplicable lights glow and women's screams are heard. The few who managed to get out of the forest say that they all felt that someone was watching them.
Flying objects are not uncommon in Hoya Baciu. In 1960, biologist Alexander Sift was abducted by a disc-shaped flying object. Only eight years later, a military technician also observes and films a strange light in the sky above the forest.
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The legends and stories about the Hoya Baciu forest are not just another hoax. They are described in a number of world media and are accepted as truth. One of the most fraudulent stories, taken at face value, is the murder of Romanian peasants in the forest. They were exposed to mysterious energy, and their souls were trapped and left in the forest.