Village of the Damned Hit with Demonic Illness in The Gasp Menagerie

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This one has about every aspect of what we cover here at the Gasp Menagerie. Potential paranormal events, conspiracy theories, nature gone amok… it’s all here.

According to the Daily Mail the small village of Kalachi in Kazakhstan has been plagued with a “sleeping sickness” that has some nasty side effects.

It strikes victims of all ages and genders, beginning with a coma-like sleep that lasts 12 hours to several days. This is bad enough, but it’s what happens when they wake that has everyone alarmed.

Upon waking, citizens are reporting bizarre behavior similar to madness or demonic possession. Men are said to sometimes wake craving sex, insatiable. Some come out of the sickness abusive and ranting, calling their caretakers horrible names or, in one case, giving Nazi salutes and shouting “Heil Hitler!

Children report seeing monsters or even their parents transforming, growing extra eyes or elephant trunks. Other patients seem to go briefly insane, believing they’ve become livestock or being compelled to play pranks on their doctors.

Some of the less bizarre symptoms include headaches, lethargy, and bladder incontinence.

Here’s where it gets weird.

Citizens aren’t blaming this on the paranormal. Rather, they seem to be blaming it on a new virus that has erupted… or on Moscow. Yes, the theory is that because the village is in the way of a new gold mine that Russian interests wish to exploit, the town has been poisoned by a chemical or biological agent to drive them away. The town is down to 381 people so that seems to be working.

So, what is causing this so-called “Village of the Damned” to experience wholesale madness? Is it demons of the past? Or rather, demons of the present, in the form of a government previously known to engage in poisoning to get their way? Worse yet, is this a new disease that could spread and infect the world?


Have a weird story? Potential evidence of the supernatural, or at least something hard to explain? Spot any creepy critters out there roaming the wilds? LET ME KNOW! I’d love to talk about it and possibly write it up right here in the Gasp Menagerie. You’ll get appropriate credit, of course, and everyone else will get fresh creepy (as opposed to fresh Creepy, which, trust me… nobody wants that) to enjoy. As always, I can be found at mrdark@dreadcentral.com. Now get out there, find some weird, and let’s get this party started.

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