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    Heard about this while watching an episode of Ancient Aliens and thought I'ld share with you some lovely copy & pasting about the subject for which I expect plenty of thanks.


    The Siberian taiga is a vast stretch of mainly barren coniferous forest as unspoiled and unexplored as the Amazon jungle, and more than 100,000 sq km in western Yakutia are completely uninhabited. Devoid of any sort of trails, the terrain is mostly thick forest, full of uprooted trees, sprawling swamps and swarms of mosquitoes. In short, it's an ancient wildwood - an ideal setting for myths and legends about strange creatures and anomalous zones where bizarre things happen. Even the local wild man - Chuchuna - is far from exceptional here, and the most fascinating mystery of all is a strange legend about a terrible 'Valley of Death' filled with unnatural, dome-shaped structures.

    Local traditions record that lone hunters from the nomadic Evenks and other Yakutians who wander into these weird valleys - there could be more than one - have described odd hemispherical 'iron houses' (kheldyu) that proturude from the perpetually frozen ground. These smooth, reddish formations often have an opening at the top, with a winding stairwell leading down to a circular gallery with numerous 'metal' rooms. Despite temperatures of 40 below outside, the interiors are said to be pleasantly warm. The old Yakutians do not know the origin of these 'houses' or to whom they belong. They vaguely associate them with the ancient demons of the taiga, Niurgun Bootur and Tong Duurai.

    These mysterious structures - the locals also refer to them as olguis, or upturned 'cauldrons' - are said to be forged out of an unknown metal, copper-like in colour, incredibly hard and with razor-sharp edges. No one has ever been able to cut off even a fragment. Over time, the Yakutians have noticed that some 'cauldrons' are gradually sinking into the frozen ground and disappearing, leaving behind large circular stains of odd vegetation. These places are dangerous to all living things. Stay too long and your head will spin; you'll be struck by an unknown fatal illness. For this reason, tribal elders long since proscribed such areas, declaring them cursed. The region is called Uliuiu Cherkechekh - the Valley of Death.

    TRAVELLERS? TALES
    There are modern tales of travellers who stumbled upon the taiga cauldrons. Some sound plausible, others more outrageous. Mikhail Korecky from Vladivostok wrote to the newspaper Trud that he?d been to the Valley of Death three times. The first was in 1933, when he was 10 years old; the second in 1937; and finally in 1947 with some friends. He saw a total of seven ?cauldrons?; all looked mysterious and measured 6?9m in diameter. The vegetation around them was peculiar, more lush than the surrounding plants, with giant burdock leaves, long stalks and weird grass twice as tall as a man. On the last visit, Korecky and his companions spent the night in one ?cauldron?; although nothing dramatic occurred that night, one friend lost all his hair within a month and Korecky developed two small pustules on his cheek which never healed.


    In 1936, a geologist visiting the Olguidakh River (the "place with a cauldron"), found a ?cauldron? that was not completely submerged. A smooth hemisphere of metal 2cm thick and with razor-sharp edges, it was reddish in colour. Barely a fifth of it was above ground and the opening in its vault was accessible to a person sitting on a reindeer. The geologist sent its description to the capital city Yakutsk, but no one paid any attention.
    A dis covery by an old Evenki hunter met with similar lack of interest. In 1971, he claimed to have found an "iron burrow" in the ground in which he saw the bodies of skinny, black, one-eyed beings in "iron costumes". No one believed him, despite his willingness to show them to anyone who was interested. Unfortunately, he has since died.
    Not until 1979 did a serious archaeological expedition set out from Yakutsk. Despite the fact that it had a guide - an old settler who had seen the 'cauldrons' in his youth - the expedition failed to locate them. The area where they were said to be had changed dramatically in the intervening years. The vegetation had grown so thick that one couldn?t see more than 10 steps ahead, making discovery a matter of luck.

    Russian ufologists have proposed that these ?cauldrons? are the remains of UFOs, wrecked in an accident or an ancient aerial battle. Russian researcher Dr Valerey Uvarov argues that they are connected to a power plant located deep inside the Earth, a weapon to protect our planet from dangers in outer space. Extraterrestrials built them in ancient times, he says, and now they operate automatically, having shot down the Tunguska meteorite in 1908, the Chulym meteorite in 1984, and most recently, the Vitim meteorite in 2002. Today, he alleges, the radiation levels in the area are rising again and wildlife is leaving the woods as if in preparation for some imminent event.


    INTO THE VALLEY
    The little-known and still unsolved mystery of Yakutia?s Valley of Death and its ?cauldrons? mesmerised me. Were they natural formations? If they were artificial, who built them and for what purpose? The strange illnesses of those who linger near the ?cauldrons? suggested heightened levels of radioactivity. It was little wonder that so few ventured in search of them; the shortage of real information and the remoteness of the region added expense to the danger. But, to explore the dreaded Valley and find the mysterious metal hemispheres before they all disappeared deep beneath the earth would surely be a worldwide sensa ion. My team didn?t believe in the UFOs or the black, one-eyed beings: our first concern was to discover wheth er the ?cauldrons? truly existed, and if so, what they were.

    Our biggest problem was figuring out how to locate the ?cauldrons? in the vast, impenetrable taiga. The best information we had about the location was a vague notion that they lie somewhere along the Olguidakh River, a tributary of the Viliuy, deep in the taiga. Eye witnesses who could lead us there were suddenly nowhere to be found. Blindly wandering on foot was bound to be a failure. The only viable solution was a birds-eye exploration at a time of year when the snow had melted and the trees were with out obscuring leaves. A pilot could explore in an hour what would take a month on foot. He could fly over a selected area and videotape the landscape below him for any anomalies.

    But we couldn?t afford a helicopter; just one hour would cost USD 1,500. Jirka Zitka, our pilot, had access to a powered hang-glider, but after much deliberat ion, we rejected this option. It would be too difficult to take off in such a thickly wooded region, or to land the craft in an emergency. In the end, we opted for a motor paraglider ? in practice, a motor-propelled parachute ? which could take off and land in a small area.

    Our transport abandoned us under a bridge over the Olguidakh and took off down the dusty road towards the town of Mirnyj. I sat on a stuffed field-rucksack, wondering how we were to penetrate the taiga while probing both sides of the river. We couldn?t carry the immense load of equipment and 14 days? worth of provisions on our backs. Even the best equipped ?off-road? could not traverse this pathless jungle. Instead, we chose a well-tested mode of wildwood transportation ? the river. We blew up an inflatable raft, which was soon to become our most irreplaceable companion, and put all our gear and supplies on a second smaller inflatable boat.

    Our guide was Sl?va Pastuchov, a materialist who did not believe in legends and who came with us to fish, hunt and, most importantly, help us survive. An experienced hunter, even he felt uneasy as we sailed through an eerie, dead land of bare and broken trees. He soon left us, hurrying away.

    They say that the Valley of Death is really a whole chain of valleys around the riverbanks. In order to explore the entire 200km stretch of the river, we split it up into several parts. In each of them we stopped for a few days and, if the overgrown, swampy banks permitted it, set up camps from which we would embark on expeditions.

    Launching a parachute in the taiga was no easy feat. Breaking into a sprint while trying not to trip on uneven marshland full of giant roots and hidden holes with 30kg on your back required strong legs. We had no previous experience of flying a motor-operated parachute, and for Pavel Step?n, our other pilot, success was a unique athletic achievement.

    "I found some thing!" Pavel yelled to us seconds after landing his parachute. "I saw a strange circle," he said, pointing eastwards of the river. We clustered around the camera and replayed the recording. He was right! In the middle of a monotonous landscape was a strange annulus. With the help of a computer, the taiga image and our Google Earth satellite images, we determined the exact coordinates of the strange circle. Overjoyed at the prospect of finding our first ?cauldron?, we opened a bottle of vodka.


    SUNKEN CAULDRONS
    Despite it being June, we were surprised by a night of snowfall. When the snow didn?t recede by the second day, we lost patience and set out, searching for the mysterious spot. We climbed up a low hill, GPS in hand, through snowy thickets to a clearing at the top and stopped in surprise. We?d never seen anything like this. It wasn?t the long-sought, smooth, protruding hemisphere, but a circular pond about 50m in diameter. At its centre was a circular patch of land approximately 30m in diameter. It didn?t look like a natural formation; it was a ring with an opening at its centre, also flooded with water.

    Using two long branches to test the earth below him to make sure it wasn?t a treacherous quagmire, Pavel braved the half-frozen water in his fisherman?s waders working towards the snowy annulus. Beneath the snow and a thin layer of mud, a pole hit something solid. Was it just ice? Carefully, he continued to the centre of the circle, halting in front of the opening. The almost 3m-long pole disappeared beneath the surface. What could he have been standing on? If the hemisphere were made of ice, the current would have melted it. Could it be a giant ?cauldron?, by now almost completely submerged in the frozen earth?

    The snow melted and we were once again fortunate. A few kilometres downriver, we found a similar spot. In a perfectly circular pond, this time only 10m in diameter, was a smooth, solid, gigantic and slightly curved dome, covered in a layer of mud. With the help of a pole, we probed its shape, but unfortunately lacked the equipment to expose it. We would have had to drain the water and remove the mud ? and for that we?d need a better equipped and funded expedition.

    Then, unexpectedly, we were hit by odd health problems which manifested after we spent a night near a sunken ?cauldron?. The next day, I was suddenly overcome by dizziness leading to fainting, a complete loss of balance, choking and chills? just as the old Yakutian legends warned. I couldn?t stand, my vision went and I was unable to eat or drink anything. The crisis lasted all day as our tents were buried by another snowstorm. After more frost and a northerly gale, we were all soaked. It was as if the evil demons of the taiga conspired against us trespassers. But, as I was the only one affected, we didn?t blame it on some ancient radiation residue. When my condition didn?t improve by the following day, we boarded the raft and spent all night and the next day drifting down the river, fleeing the Valley of Death as fast as we could.


    A GEOLOGICAL TREASURE TROVE
    While we didn?t find any proof of the legendary metallic ?cauldrons?, we didn?t flee quite empty-handed. We had discovered something else, something just as significant ? a pocket of titanium ore.

    While conducting our aerial search for the ?cauldrons,? we had found yet another peculiar place ? a perfectly circular field of rusty brown boulders where the compass needle went wild. A magnetic mountain? Probably. From a geological standpoint, the entire region is peculiar. We trod on sturdy, igneous Siberian peaks which had originated in the Archean Era. In places, the peaks are pierced by vents filled with diamond-bearing mineral deposits. The largest diamond mine lies in the town of Mirnyj, the regional centre from which we had embarked on our mission into the taiga.

    When we got back to Prague, we showed a rock sample to a geologist. He confirmed that it was magnetite and ilmenite, an iron and titanium ore. I?m told that we could sell the coordinates of that magnetically anomalous patch to the Russians for a very favourable price. Accounts of our expedition caused quite a stir in the Russian media. It was even said that we were frightened off by the Valley of Death, but the truth is that lack of finance is the real obstacle to returning to hunt for the ?cauldrons?. We?ve already advised two different exploration teams based in Mirnyj. One of them, led by Andrey Yevteyev, will take along a water pump to drain the central pool and then dig out the rest. The other group, led by Yury Krivoruczko, will probably set out next spring.

    We know of unusual geological formations such as iron caps, gossans, lava balls, giant spherical concretions, and geodes. What if the legend-shrouded ?cauld rons? are an unknown geological formation? While the descriptions of interior stairwells, galleries and rooms might have been imagined by superstitious hunters and embellished by fantasists and ufologists, it seems clear that the Siberian taiga conceals great wealth as well as many secrets, including the nature of the ?cauldrons? ? a disquieting mystery that still remains unsolved.

    [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PnfIL6WmGM"]Mysterious domes in Siberia - radioactive UFO weapons? - YouTube[/ame]
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    Addendum

    A team of Russian scientists and researchers have just returned from the "Valley of Death" region in Siberia with startling claims. Lead scientist Michale Visok had this to say in an interview with a Russian newspaper on what they had found:
    "We went out into the Valley of Death to really see and investigate the metal cauldrons that people claim exist there and we actually found five metallic objects buried in marsh like swamps"
    Michale gave the following details about these metal objects:

    1. They are each submerged in small pools of swamp like water that is anywhere from 2-3 feet deep.

    2. They are definitely metallic. The scientists entered each swamp and walked on top of the objects and heard metallic sounds when striking the objects.

    3. The tops of the objects are very smooth to the touch but there are sharp points along the outer edges.

    4. Two of the team members got ill during the investigation.

    5. The team consisted of 3 geologists, 1 astrophysicist, 1 mechanical engineer and 3 research assistants.

    Asked what does the team think they have discovered? Could it be something built by ancient aliens like so many people believe? Michale declined to comment other than "there is definitely something weird out there, we have no idea what they are or what they were used for".

    Michale and his team are planning another expedition in the coming weeks before colder weather will make the trip impossible for the rest of the year. He hopes to actually retrieve a piece of the metal objects by using a diamond drill bit but said he is very cautious about possibly damaging whatever they are.
    So could these objects really be ancient alien artifacts? According to many believers, these cauldrons are actually defense weapons built by ancient aliens to defend our planet against all space based threats whether by hostile aliens, asteroids or comet strikes. Many people site the numerous meteorites that have crashed or exploded in the area as evidence of this including the famous Tunguska meteorite in 1908, the Chulym meteorite in 1984 and the Vitim meteorite in 2002.
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    rib hurt too much to post!

    but i've got a machine that turns water into the same weight in gold. do you want to buy it?

    can you provide evidence that Michale Visok, is in any way a scientist?
    coz nobody else will. well so far.

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    It must be true. I saw it on the internet.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Snowy79 View Post
    It must be true. I saw it on the internet.
    indeed, the OP does post some dross. he's a armature (very) Van Daniken.

    anyway, our Lizard overlords, would never allow us to find these things. Tee Hee.

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    Quote Originally Posted by firemouth View Post
    indeed, the OP does post some dross. he's a armature (very) Van Daniken.

    anyway, our Lizard overlords, would never allow us to find these things. Tee Hee.
    You telling me the Lizard overlords are fake now?
    Its a shame there are so many closed naive minds in this world, open your eyes mortal and bow before the lizard king.
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    How can you argue with that, a bet you cant..
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hoppy01 View Post
    You telling me the Lizard overlords are fake now?
    now now, Hoppy, I didn't say that. (stop it, you'll get me in trouble). nice to talk, after so long!!!!!

    seriously though. if were going to post this stuff.
    surly its got to be obvious that the OP rubbed, at least, two neurons together. making the decision !!!!!!

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    no. 1.. its amateur.. your spelling is very armature

    no. 2 WHERE does he say he believes it?

    and its called the ufo, paranormal, conspiracies section for a reason
    Fave replies from various threads

    1: What the fff is all that about??? All that crap below your reply I mean, get a life mate
    2: no info on google abt the pace sv5 rang asda they have no idea what i was talking about,
    3: Your total contribution to this forum, bordering on trolling, seems to have been a collection of snipes, one liners & asterisked expletives






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    he does seem to pay a lot of attention to this section for someone who finds it difficult to extend his imagination past that which he was taught in school.

    this sort of stuff, at worst, is a form of entertainment.
    there's a lot of interesting reads in this section regardless of whether it's true or not.
    i just find it all very interesting.
    in the same way i find john mcclane and the a-team interesting.
    frankly believing it all is for the sad nutters of this world.

    but i have to ask myself who is sadder.

    those who believe it all or those who have little better to do than to condemn anyone who shows the slightest interest in it?

    it is to the latter to whom i would say 'get a life, you d**k!'
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    Quote Originally Posted by RedSpider View Post

    it is to the latter to whom i would say 'get a life, you d**k!'
    very grown up, i must say. but no surprise there.

    its a story, with no evidence.

    as for me spending a lot of time in this section?

    you manual gratification artist. (answer in kind)
    its close to 12 months since i last posted, anywhere here.
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