Hello and welcome back to the Most Amazing Channel on the Internet!
I am your host, Rebecca Felgate and today we are talking about the Top 10 Scary Moscow
Urban Legends – let me know what urban legends you’d like to hear next.
Comments etc.
10 - The Mummified Man of Moscow.
Moscow, like many big cities, can be a lonely place to be.
In a city so vast, it is surprisingly easy to feel alone and anonymous.
Urban Legend has it that a man died in his Moscow apartment and wasn’t found for 6
years after his death.
One day the police finally went to his home after a disturbing call, and they found the
man dead but perfectly preserved and sitting at his table clutching an empty bottle of
Vodka.
Always that Vodka with the Russians!
This story sounds so cliché that is seems like an urban legend, but actually, it is
around 80 percent true.
Vladimir Ledenev went missing in the year 2000.
Despite his neighbours noting his absence, it took 6 years for Police to look in the
most obvious place for him – his house.
It seems over time, people forgot about him…the only reason he was found was when his bills
went unpaid for so long that bailiffs went to his home, only to be confronted with the
grisly scene.
Like in the urban legend, he was sitting up, and there was indeed a bottle of vodka and
a glass in front of him.
His body, however, had partially decomposed.
The Bailiffs alerted the police.
It seems Mr Ledenev was a heavy drinker and had Tuberculosis.
9 - Black Volga Ah, the legend of the Black Volga.
This is a popular legend in Poland as well as Russia.
Where ever it is being told, it is pretty terrifying.
In the 1930s, high ranking members of the Soviet would allegedly drive a Black Volga,
a high end limo, around the city of Moscow looking for people to Kidnap.
Reports vary on who the targets were.
Some say the car would pluck pretty young girls off the street in order to deliver them
to high ranking Soviet Officials who would rape them then drug them, delivering them
back to quite spots around the city.
Others said they would abduct children to test medical treatments for Leukemia on them.
Others say the black limo was driven by the devil himself!
What he was doing in Moscow, we don’t know!
On top of that, those telling the story of Black Volga often said that if a person failed
to believe in the legend, they’d be dead in 24 hours.
Errr.
Alright belief police.
8 - The Moscow Corpse Collector In 2011, a popular Urban Legend was proven
to be true.
In Russian Folk Lore there was a scary figure thought to kidnap and kill people, mummify
their bodies and then display them in a hideous murderous lair.
Spooky, sure, but probably not true.
Or so everyone thought…until 44 year old Anatoly Moskvin was convicted of grave robbing
young girls, which he then took back to his home, which he shared with his parents.
Once he got them back, he mummified the girls, dressed them up and placed them around his
room.
He told his parents they were large dolls.
Eerr…..?
Moskvin would film the corpse dolls and zoom close up into their faces.
Eventually the police raided his home, where they found the robbed corpses of 26 females
aged between three and fifteen.
Moskvin’s crimes actually took place to the East of Moscow in Nizhny Novgorod, but
the urban legends his deeds have both spawned and solidified are often appropriated to Moscow.
7 - The Ghosts of the Kremlin Stalin, is that you?
The Kremlin was built between 1482 and 1495, soooo it’s seen a lot lot lot of action.
So much action that the political building in the heart of Moscow is rumoured to be haunted
by a whole bunch of ghosts.
One is the ghost of an Italian Architect who helped build part of the Kremlin but was then
held prisoner by Tsar Ivan the third.
The Tsar had kept Fioravanti in his Tainitskaya Tower because he knew too much about the secret
tunnels and passages of the building.
He is said to still haunt the building, showing up just before bad things happen.
It is said both Lenin and Stalin saw him before the Great Patriotic war.
Speaking of Lenin, he is supposed to haunt the Kremlin, too, so to is imprisoner Ivan
The Terrible and Tsar Nicholas the second.
Where are the gal ghosts?
6 - The Lost Soul of the Gorky Highway Once called Vladimir Road, the Gorky Highway
was a road that led out of Moscow and was used by officers sending criminals to Siberian
Penal Colonies.
When I say send, these convicts were mainly made to walk.
A lot of the criminals would die on the way, unsurprisingly.
Well, one day, a convicted murderer who was about to be sent off to the colony simply
couldn’t handle the walk.
He dropped dead and died right there on the road side.
There was no time to stop and bury him, and in any case, criminals were treated as the
lowest of the low.
His body was simply left there to rot.
These days, the same road still exists but is now part of the Gorky Highway.
People who drive along the road claim to see a strange, bearded man dressed in rags waving
at cars.
Some people stop, only to notice his feet are shackled.
If you do stop and wind your window down for the man – beware.
The ghost of the killer is said to say Forgive me.
If you say only God will forgive you and drive away quickly, you’ll be fine… but if you
say anything else, the lost soul will haunt you until you die.
5 - The Bankrupt Phantom of Mayasnitskaya (Mayah – snits – kaya) street
Between the 1840s and 1870s, an eccentric couple lived at 17 Myasnitskaya street.
The house was decorated with masonic cult symbols and were the subject of a lot of whispering
by their neighbours.
It seems the couple were obsessed with money and wanted to live among their riches, barely
ever leaving the house.
On one occasion, the family had to leave amid an emergency, leaving just one caretaker in
their house and hiding all their riches in their fireplace.
When they returned, they found all their wealth had been burned in the fireplace – the caretaker
didn’t know what was hidden and had started a fire to keep warm.
On realising their money had been burned, the woman died on the spot and the old man
went man.
To this day, residents of that area of Moscow have reported seeing a gray haired old man
approaching passersby and asking them where his money is.
Legend has it – if the man approaches you, you too will soon lose all of your money.
Not got any to take, mate!
4 - The Ostankino Tower Radiation The Ostankino Tower is one of the tallest
towers in the world – and the tallest free standing structure in Europe.
My mate, Toronto’s CN Tower surpassed it as the tallest tower , which in turn was surpassed
by Chinese and Japanese towers.
Anyway, I digress.
This Tower has long been accused of being a Mutant maker because of the electromagnetic
radiation it gives out.
In reality, electromagnetic radiation can make a person feel fatigued, disturb their
sleep, give them tingly skin and possible aches and pains in the body.
This is pretty awful, but it doesn’t mean that it’s a mutant maker.
None the less, urban legend has it that the tower has encouraged a race of mutant animals
in the city, especially giant rats in the sewer and down in the metro.
3 - The Sleeping Ghost of the Moscow Metro Legend has it that if you ride the Moscow
Metro on the 9th September you may be in danger of being knocked out by a mysterious female
ghost.
The story seemingly first emerged in 1999 when five passengers on the Metro suddenly
lost consciousness.
The young ladies were seated in car 26498, but a few of the other people in the car managed
to stay awake.
One reportedly filmed the group sleep, incredulous as to what has caused the sudden loss of consciousness.
It seems the footage caught a female apparition outside of the train carriage window.
When they looked into it, it seems that on the 9th September 1998, a young woman fainted
and fell on to the tracks, where she was crushed under car 26498.
Each year on the anniversary of her death, she haunts the carriage, making people fall
unconscious with her ghostly presence.
2 - Metro 2 The Moscow Metro system lovely by the sounds
of it!
I have never been but I heave heard that it is filled with art, chandeliers and classical
music and unlike most subway system, the Russian Metro is very clean.
Legend has it that beneath the public subway system lays a secret lair, dubbed Metro 2.
The urban legends goes that during the Cold War, Stalin built a whole system of secret
trains connecting secret bunkers beneath the city, extending below the Moscow Metro and
Beyond.
It is said Stalin codenamed it D-6, a code used by the KGB until 1991 and Ministry of
Defence to this day.
The legend also says that the underground bunker connects to the Kremlin, the Federal
Security Service headquarters and the government airport.
Some say there is an underground town near Ramenki primed and prepped for the nuclear
apocalypse.
In 1994, so nearly 25 years ago, a group of Urban explorers claimed to have found the
entrance to Metro 2.
USA declassified government documents seem to show an awareness of a vast underground
bunker in Moscow, too.
They seemed to think the space could accommodate 10,000 people.
With a population of 11.92 million, Moscow Citizens had better hope they’re on the
invite list if D day ever comes.
Finally, we have the Russian version of Outlander’s Craig na Dune….a mystery indeed….. we
are talking about the Golosov Ravine Time Portal.
The Golosov Ravine is a deep ravine in Moscow, Russia, between the Kolo-mens-koe Hill and
Dya-kovo Hill.
Weirdly, the popular hiking spot is at the centre of a strange time travelling urban
legend.
Like in Outlander, there are supposed to be sacred Stone in the area, called the Sacred
Stones of Kolomenskoe.
They are made of sandstone and are weird shapes.
Anyway, the time travelling story became popular in the early 19th century when two Russian
peasants returned to their village after a twenty year absence, despite having seemingly
not aged themselves.
Further back than that, in the year 1621, a party of Tartars were captured in the grounds
of the Ravine.
The men were deeply confused and said they came from the year 1571.
As well as strange appearances, there have been many weird disappearances near the Ravine,
with many now treating the area like a kind of Bermuda triangle.
So there you have it, that was the Top 10 Scary Moscow Urban Legends.
Comments from the Top 10 Scary Chicago Urban Legends
Captain Nightmare said: YES THIS IS MY CITY LOVE YOU GUYS?
Deysi Macedo said: Can you do urban legends from El Salvador please.?
Hallow Ghost said: Like the scary music in the background.
You rule Rebecca?
– thaaanks…what do I rule?
The world?
The School?
The Slytherin Dungeons.