Hoya bachu forest. Hoya Baci - the most terrible forest in Romania
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Hoya Baci - the most terrible forest in Romania
Transylvania is a region filled with wild, unspoiled nature and weathered medieval castles. The world's most famous vampire, Count Dracula, lived in one of them. There is hardly another place in Europe as mystical and legendary as this. In addition to the castle of the tough count, there is another creepy attraction - the Hoia Baciu forest, which is located near the city of Cluj-Napoca and is considered one of the most terrible in the world.
On the Internet you can find reports that there are ghosts in the Romanian forest. People are disappearing there, and there may even be a portal to another dimension. There are quite a few strange stories, and some of them involve UFOs. One conclusion suggests itself: what is happening here cannot be explained by earthly phenomena.
According to legend, it all started with the disappearance without a trace of a shepherd and his herd of 200 animals, who one day entered the forest and did not return.
True, no one can say exactly when this European Bermuda Triangle swallowed up the shepherd and his sheep. According to documented evidence, inexplicable things began to happen there in the 60s at the latest. It was during this time that UFOs were repeatedly sighted, several of which were captured in photographs.
People who visited Khoya Bachi told how they felt like someone was watching or following them. Many also reported panic attacks, nausea and dizziness. Traces of fire were visible on the trees, although there were no fires there. Many visitors to the forest complained of strange scratches and even burns.
Many people tried to explain what was happening in the forest. Some believe that the spooky stories are just made up to attract more tourists.
Incredible facts
Walking in the forest at night brings fear to many people, and if you also know that some strange phenomena are happening in the forest, a person may even develop a phobia.
Some forests are indeed famous for their rich history. Places of battles, buried treasure, burials, crimes, suicides and sacrifices - all this suggests that the forest is enchanted or that some mysterious and strange forces are at work there.
Here are 10 forests that might give you goosebumps if you visit them.
1. Aokigahara Forest, Japan
This dense forest, also known as the "Sea of Trees", is located in the northwestern foothills of Mount Fuji in Japan and is one of the most eerie places in the world.
There are rumors that there are huge deposits of iron ore underground, which leads to compasses not working here and people often losing their way. However, what this forest is most famous for is that it is second most popular suicide spot in the world.
Since the 1950s, more than 500 suicides have occurred here, and several dozen bodies are found here every year. Local residents claim that they hear their souls starting to scream at night.
2. Wychwood Forest, England
People who have visited Wychwood Forest often tell stories that they felt someone's hand touching their shoulder, or they heard the noise of invisible horses running nearby.
But the most famous incident is that of Emmy Robsart- wife of the 1st Earl of Leicester. She died under mysterious circumstances due to a broken neck, and then her spirit met the Earl while hunting in Wychwood Forest. According to legend, she predicted that he would join her in 10 days, which happened after he fell ill and died. Local residents say that everyone who meets her ghost will meet the same fate.
3. Land of the Stomping Devil, USA
Deep in the forest 16 km from the town of Siler in the state of North Carolina in the USA there is a mysterious ring with a diameter of 12 meters. Nothing grows inside the ring, and dogs and other animals do not enter there..
The place is called Devil's Tramping Ground and it was first discovered back in the 1700s. Since then, people have tried to plant grass and vegetable seeds there, but have not gotten any results. Many people left various items there, which disappeared the next morning.
According to legend, the devil walks around here every night, plotting his “dark deeds.” Even local authorities decided to take soil samples to find out why nothing was growing on this piece of land.
4. Hoia Baciu Forest, Romania
The Hoya Baciu Forest, also called the “Bermuda Triangle of Transylvania,” is one of the most mysterious places that has attracted attention for more than half a century. Local residents say that the forest, in the center of which there is a cleared circular area, is a portal and those who pass through it do not return.
Those who find themselves in the forest often begin to experience anxiety and nausea. And even trees that were once straight and tall now look crooked.
Biologist Alexander Sift, who studied the phenomena occurring in the Hoya Baciu forest, even captured strange silhouettes and shapes in photographs.
5. Island of the Dolls, Mexico
The Island of the Dolls is one of the creepiest tourist attractions in Mexico. The trees of the island, located south of Mexico City, are decorated with hundreds of old, sinister dolls. The history of the Island of Dolls began when its only inhabitant, a hermit, settled in this place. Don Julian Santana.
According to stories, about 50 years ago he witnessed a girl drown here. In memory of her, he hung a doll on a tree, which he found in the water with the poor man. Since then he hung thousands of dolls around the island until he himself drowned in the same canal. Many people who visit this island believe that the dolls are evil spirits, while others believe that the dolls guard the island.
6. Freetown Forest - Fall River, Massachusetts, USA
This forest is part of the Bridgewater Triangle, an area of 520 square meters. km in southeastern Massachusetts, which famous for its paranormal activity, including sightings of UFOs, mysterious and mutilated animals, and ghosts.
It is believed that satanic rituals took place in this place, during which many murders and sacrifices were committed.
7. Forest Randolph, USA
Located in one of the smallest towns in Maine in the United States, Randolph Forest has a reputation for strange things happening.
Against the backdrop of abandoned cars and grassy railroad tracks, people now often see flashes of light, the appearance of unknown balls, and hear suspicious ambient noises. During the day, the forest seems quite harmless, but at night strange phenomena begin.
8. Epping Forest, England
Epping Forest is known for its association with crime. A famous English robber hid here for a long time. Dick Turpin, who with his friend Tom King robbed everyone who passed by.
Due to its proximity to London, the forest is also a favorite burial place for murder victims. People also often claim to see ghosts here, including various apparitions and lights.
9. Old House Woods, Virginia, USA
Matthews is a small county in the state of Virginia in the USA, a former important port, which now, according to many people, is haunted by the ghosts of British soldiers and pirates who once passed through here and buried treasure here.
In the center of the forest is a lonely and dilapidated colonial manor house, burned to the ground, after which the forest was named. Stories of paranormal sightings here include visions of skeletons, ghost ships, floating lights, headless dogs and many others.
10. Screaming Forest, England
The village of Puckley in Kent, England is famous for its nearby "screaming forest" which is considered the site with the most hauntings in the UK(according to the Guinness Book of Records 1989). It is believed that around 12-14 ghosts live here.
The village was called “screaming”, as there were many cases when people here heard the heart-rending screams of people allegedly lost and dead here. Also among its disembodied inhabitants you can find the ghost of a soldier walking along a forest path, the ghost of a hanged colonel, the ghost of a gypsy woman, a monk and many others. Visions are reported not only by the village residents themselves, but also by random passers-by.
The Hoia Baciu forest, located in Transylvania (northwest Romania), was called the most terrible place in the world. The so-called Bermuda Triangle of Romania topped the list of “18 Most Nightmare Places That Will Keep You Up at Night.” The list, as reported by TASS, was published on the entertainment website 9gag.com.
There are many legends associated with the Hoia Baciu forest about people disappearing without a trace and electronics failing.
The Irish castle Leap also appeared in this ranking. According to legend, its owners, the O'Carrolls, invited their enemies to the castle under the pretext of reconciliation. However, then the O’Carrolls killed their enemies right at the table or in the bedroom after the feast. Legend has it that under the dining table in the castle there was a dungeon where the guests of the owners fell through. At the bottom of the dungeon there were sharp stakes that inflicted fatal wounds on guests of the castle. If someone “missed,” he was left to die in prison among the rotting corpses.
The list of the most terrible places includes the city of Yatinga in India, where hundreds of birds commit suicide every year in September-October, an abandoned Disneyland in China, an unfinished subway in Cincinnati (USA) and a gas crater in Turkmenistan, which is called the “Gateway to Hell.”
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.
In 1989, the Screaming Forest, located in Kent near the village of Pluckley, entered the Guinness Book of Records. It has seen the highest number of ghosts in the UK, with at least 12 “apparitions” per year.
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 Hoia Baciu forest in Romania is one of the creepiest places on planet Earth. UFOs are often seen here, people disappear, ghostly figures are seen, etc. Along with Draukula Castle, this place is one of the most popular places for paranormal investigators to visit in Transylvania.
KHOYA-BACHU FOREST
Deep in Romania lies the city of Cluj-Napoca, the second most populous city in the country. Surrounded by forests and meadows, it is considered the capital of the historical province of Transylvania.
Locals enjoy walking in the picturesque areas around the city, with the exception of the Hoia Baciu forest.
From the very first chronicles it is known that local residents fear this forest, believing that it is a gateway to another world. Mystical lights are visible at night among the trees, and there is a lot of evidence of this from people watching it outside the forest.
Another phenomenon in the forest is the “Time Loop”. To many people who entered the forest, it seemed that very little time had passed, but upon exiting the forest they encountered search parties that had been raised to look for them. To the missing people, it seemed that they had spent only a few hours in the forest, when in fact they could not be found for several days.
One five-year-old girl ran after a butterfly and did not notice how she ran into the forest. She disappeared without a trace. Five years later, the girl, wearing the same clothes and completely unchanged, came out of the forest, holding a caught butterfly in her hands. It seemed to her that only a few minutes had passed.
One story claims the opposite phenomenon of “time.” One girl went into the forest, spent only a few hours there, but when she came out, she gained several years in age.
In August 1968, one of the most famous events took place in the forest. The 45-year-old military technician ignored warnings from local residents and went into the forest to spend the weekend with his girlfriend and friends.
In the afternoon he was collecting wood to light a fire at night, but he heard the screams of his friends. He returned to them and saw a low-flying, bright object moving silently in the air just above the trees.
The object then performed several quick maneuvers before shooting up into the sky like an arrow and disappearing from view.
This was not the first or last UFO sighting in this forest, and throughout the 1970s, Hoya Baciu became a site visited by many UFO researchers. One famous photograph of an unidentified object hovering above the trees was taken here.
Various sources claim that the photograph was taken either by Emil Barnea or Alexandru Sift. However, most sources say that this photograph was taken by Sift.
Currently, in connection with all these legends, the forest has begun to attract a huge number of paranormal researchers and other people who are attracted to everything unknown. Although the locals warn them not to venture into the forest, entire research groups are sent into it, hoping to stumble upon something interesting or experience the influence of the forest for themselves.
Although many have felt unwell and found themselves burned in the forest, their overall experience is a little different from that of the locals.
Be careful if you happen to get into this forest, do not stray from the well-trodden paths. You can see humanoid shadows in the tree branches, hear disembodied voices, some rustling sounds and the most eerie thing - girlish laughter. For some reason, local residents did not report such incidents.
Perhaps this happens because the intentions of the researchers are different from the intentions of the local residents, who quickly want to leave the forest, and the forest itself and its inhabitants understand this. Perhaps this happens thanks to the researchers themselves, who strive to establish contact with the otherworldly and even use electronic equipment for this.
Paranormal activity intensifies as we approach a place known as “The Circle.” Here, deep inside Khoya-Bachu, there is a place, in the form of a circle, where no trees grow. Local residents believe that spirits live here. It is believed that in this clearing there was once a peasant settlement long ago, but, according to legend, it was destroyed when enemies came here and carried out a real massacre.
There is a version that it is the ghosts of the destroyed settlement that now live in Khoya-Bachu, and it is in this “circle” that researchers encounter the most unusual anomalies. These are mainly attacks from invisible entities.
As a portal for ghosts and spirits, as well as a UFO site, Hoya Bachu is a paranormal investigator's dream. Perhaps someone lives in the forest or there is something that causes all these phenomena. Or maybe all these oddities are caused by one phenomenon that is not yet known to science. Who knows?
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