The residents of the village of Kalachi suddenly fell asleep... So what is the story of the sleeping village?

Arabia Weather - In ancient legend, sleep achieved victory over the forces of wind, rain and sun, and gained the title of “Sultan” that no one could surpass.

The Sleeping Sultan rules in the village of Kalachi, located 300 miles from the Kazakh city of Astana. In this village, residents suddenly indulge in continuous bouts of sleep for days, finding themselves unable to wake up or get up, which is why it is nicknamed the “sleeping village.” What is her story?

Residents of Kalachi village suddenly fell asleep

In the spring of 2013, eight different people in Kalachi, a village of 640 people, fell ill for the first time during a single weekend. When they woke up days later, they didn't remember anything at all, according to Mentalfloss.

Residents began to fall asleep one by one, regardless of their location or activity, and then suddenly fall into a deep sleep.

Viktor Kazachenko was driving out of the village to the nearest town to run errands, but he never arrived.

After 4 days of sleep, he woke up to find himself in the hospital, where he fell into a sudden sleep attack while driving a car. Although this was not his first event, he was not surprised by it, as he had previously slept for 3 consecutive days on a previous occasion.

Kazachenko, like the other 152 cases of the mysterious illness, suffered from debilitating symptoms such as dizziness, nausea, severe headaches, memory loss, and high blood pressure that persisted for 6 weeks after the accident.

Why are the people of Kalachi village suddenly asleep?

For two years, scientists, doctors and officials wondered to explain a strange phenomenon, as they examined increasing levels of radiation, carbon oxide, radon, and the buildup of potentially toxic heavy metal salts.

They conducted more than 20,000 tests in laboratories and clinical settings, examining air, soil, water, and food, as well as animals and building materials, and even examined the residents themselves, believing they had developed a case of mass psychosis.

Since there are no conclusive scientific facts available, many residents guess that the source of the problem is an abandoned Soviet-era uranium mine located near the village.

Once upon a time, the Krasnogorsky mine, linked to the village of Kalachi, was home to miners sent from Russia and the USSR to extract uranium used to power Soviet nuclear weapons and power plants, but it became an abandoned area after it was closed in the 1990s.

The mysterious sleep epidemic has affected children and adults

With speculation rife, no truth, and sleeplessness continuing, officials had no choice but to relocate the Kalachi residents and resettle them in other nearby villages, where they were offered new homes and new job opportunities. More than half of the village's population moved to these new villages, while others resisted and refused to leave their homes and village.

The disease, which was called the “Sleepy Hollow Epidemic,” affected all age groups, including children and adults, and caused children to have nightmarish hallucinations in which they saw winged horses and snakes in their beds, and worms eating their hands. As a result of continuing to sleep, many of them dropped out of school, and their families were the first to move out of the village out of fear for their children.

The scientific reason behind the sudden sleep of the residents of Kalachi village

After more than 700 days of research and investigation to find out the causes of sleeping cases in the sleeping village, the Kazakh government came out and announced a solution to the mysterious mystery.

According to the Guardian report, after analyzing the results of medical examinations of the entire population, researchers concluded that the cause of sudden sleep was high levels of carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons in the air.

The government explained that despite the closure of the uranium mines, the level of carbon monoxide in the village's air remains high and there is a lack of oxygen, which is the real reason behind the sudden sleep attacks in that village, as its residents had already predicted.

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